.....let it snow......

Didn't blip last night...absolutely knackered....no quiz....we have a bye through the first round of the Cup.....we did play a practice match ....so your weekly fix of difficult questions will follow shortly.

Full on day at work....a blizzard of paper work....a full day teaching....a potentially tricky problem solved....hopefully.

I escaped as soon as I could.......home....made a coffee and went outside for a fag...my nose twitched......I looked at the sky in the west....I breathed in.....I could smell it....snow.

Came back inside....sent hebs a text....and the FLASH! a massive bolt of lightning.....BOOM! a huge clap of thunder.....and then it hit....howling, swirling wind and huge amounts of snow....a blizzard.

10 minutes later it was all but over....the wind dropped......by the time I got my camera most of the snow had begun to melt...and then the sky cleared....the temperature plummeted.....everything froze.....should make for an interesting morning!

So here's your weekly posers.

1. Who wrote the theme music for the film "The Dambusters"....and yes I know you're all humming it now!
2. Which Berkshire village was the site of several protests against nuclear weapons in the 1950's and 60's?
3. Near which Berkshire air base was a Women's Peace Camp set upin the 1980's?
4. Who played the role of Alexander the Great in the Oliver Stone film "Alexander"?
5. Who played King Arthur in the 2004 film of the same name?
6. Which South African singer and political activist was known as "Mama Africa"?
7. Which South African singing group came to fame on the Paul Simon Graceland album?
8. Which US President said "Read my lips...no new taxes"?
9. Which US President said "There will be no white wash in the White House"?
10. In which film did Humphrey Bogart play the tyrannical Captain Queeg?

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Answers.
1. Eric Coates
2. Adermaston
3. Greenham common
4. Colin Farrell
5. Clive Owen
6. Miriam Makeba
7. Ladysmith Black Mambazo
8. George Bush Snr
9. Richard M. Nixon
10 The Caine Mutiny.