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Q has teamed up with the good folk at the Barclaycard Mercury Prize to give you the chance to win a top-notch prize. Not only can you get your mitts on a Bose® home entertainment system, but you could also win all 12 of this year's Barclaycard Mercury Prize-shortlisted albums, including those by Florence & The Machine, Kasabian, La Roux, Glasvegas and Bat For Lashes.

The Bose® system delivers a convincing home-cinema experience from just two visible speakers, a hideaway Acoustimass® module and an elegant media centre, making it ideal for appreciating the quality of the 2009 Barclaycard Mercury Prize Albums Of The Year.

For a chance to win this superb prize, pit your wits against the Q Quiz below.

NB: Sorry, entrants must be over 18.

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Question 1:
Which city is home to Def Leppard, The Human league and Arctic Monkeys?

 
 
Question 2:
Which football team does Noel Gallagher support?
 
 

Question 3:
What was The Beatles' first UK Number 1 single?
 
 

Question 4:
Dookie, Nimrod and American Idiot: all albums by which band?
 
 
Question 5:
Which member of U2 once dated Naomi Campbell?
 
 

Question 6:
...And which Michael Jackson video featured Ms Campbell?

 
 
Question 7:
What is Ozzy Osbourne's real first name?
 
 
Question 8:
With whom did David Bowie appear on the cover of Q in 2003?
 
 
Question 9:
With which then Radio 1 DJ did preposterously haired Kajagoogoo frontman Limahl live in the early '80s?
 
 

Question 10:
... And which current Radio 1 DJ is behind Bestival?

 
 
Question 11: What Happened Next?
... When grunge women L7 ended their performance of Pretend We're Dead on The Word in 1992?
 
 
 
Question 12:
Which author is sampled on the Manic Street Preachers' Mausoleum, saying: "I wanted to rub the human face in its own vomit and force it to look in the mirror"?
 
 
Question 13:
Which British band, whose first album was released in 1977, have had their songs covered by R.E.M., Big Black, Lemonheads and Fischerspooner, among others?
 
 
Question 14:
Kevin Kelley, Clarence White, Skip Battin, and John Geurin were all members of which U.S. band?
 
 
Question 15:
Robin Horry and Jason Hamel were early bandmates of which future solo star?
 

16:
The track titles of whose 1989 debut are the names of the Band's parents, plus the drummer's dog ?

17 - 21: Sprog Rock: Can you identify the album covers that featured these infants?  
 
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Question 22: Insert your own rib-tickling caption to this photograph of The Horrors' Faris badwan.  
 
 
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3:29 PM | 25/08/2009

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