Friday, October 19, 2007

This week's challenging Secret Theme rounds

Each group of 10 otherwise unrelated questions has a theme running through their answers. Can you answer the questions and figure out the theme? Answers will be posted in a few days.

Ray's:

1) What NBA franchise changed its name over fear of promoting urban violence?
2) What catchphrase of Warner Brothers cartoon character Pepe le Pew was a spoof of a line spoken by the character Pepe le Moko in trailers for the 1938 film Algiers?
3) As regards international politics, what is the group FSLN better known as?
4) What trio of films from the late 1930s/early 1940s featured Roland Young as a solver of mysteries with the help of ghosts?
5) What 1970 film starred Peter Boyle as a bigoted hardhat?
6) What's the most populous city in the European Union (within city bounds as opposed to metro area)?
7) What character did Keisha Knight Pulliam portray on The Cosby Show?
8) Which US Army division is known as the Screaming Eagles?
9) What British singer, who had a minor hit with "Witches' Brew" in the '60s, is better known for her 1973 arrest as a madam?
10) What guitarist, songwriter and sought-after rock producer co-founded Foreigner in 1976?

... and what theme links the 10 answers?

Frank's:

1) "Electric Avenue" was a #2 hit on the pop charts in 1983 for what singer?
2) Which one of the 13 original colonies was administrated as two separate British colonies, East ____ and West _________, 1674-1702?
3) What novel was serialized in the American literary journal The Little Review 1918-1920 and wasn't published in book form until 1922, in Paris?
4) What British pub/punk rock band was active from 1977-80, featured members of Ducks Deluxe and Bram Tchaikovsky, and is best remembered for the songs "Airport" and "Dancing the Night Away"?
5) What series of medium range ballistic missiles, built by Martin Marietta, did the US station in Western Europe 1960-1988?
6) Who played the character Colt Seavers on TV 1981-86?
7) What 1978 disco hit for Donna Summer was a cover of a 1968 pop hit for Richard Harris?
8) In which US state will you find the Palouse grasslands region?
9) Who played TV's George Jefferson?
10) What band formed in 1983 with members of The (English) Beat, Dexy's Midnight Runners and, a least for their debut album, a founding member of The Clash?

... and what theme links the 10 answers?

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