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WIN! Studio gear worth £3500!

To celebrate our 300th issue, Q has teamed up with leading music technology brand Avid to offer one lucky reader studio gear worth over £3500. This top-notch prize includes Pro Tools 9 recording software, Eleven Rack guitar effects and audio interface, M-Audio Venom synthesizer, a pair of DSM1 monitor speakers, Nova condenser microphone and Studiophile Q40 headphones.

Plus, Avid product demonstrator James Ivey, of Location Recordings, will spend the day installing the equipment and training the winner (UK only). In addition three runners-up will each receive an Avid Recording Studio package. Avid create the digital and audio technology used to make the most listened-to, watched and loved media in the world. Pro Tools is the industry standard music software brand used by recording studios and musicians worldwide. For more information visit www.avid.com.

For a chance to win, pit your wits against the Q300 Quiz. The three winners of the first 100 questions, printed in the magazine, win the Avid Recording Studio package, while the winner of the full 300 quiz (all 300 questions are below) gets the gear pictured. You can also send your answers by post for the 100 or full 300 questions - including your name, address, mobile number and email address - to The Q Quiz (Q300), Q, Endeavour House, 189 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8JG.

The closing date is 24 June 2011. The entrant with the most correct answers (revealed in Q302, on sale 26 July) wins. The editor's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. For Ts&Cs click here.

And so. Take a deep breath and do your best. Good luck!

ROUND 1: BORN IN 1986
Can you name these 10 musicians, born in the same year as Q?

 
 
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ROUND 2: COVER STARS


1. Which of these four Madonna films scores the lowest average user rating on the IMDB website?
A Shanghai Surprise
B Desperately Seeking Susan
C Body Of Evidence
D Evita

 
 

2. Who were Paul Weller's bandmates in The Jam?
 
 


3. Where was Nirvana's final UK live appearance?

 
 

4. Name three of the songs Queen performed at Live Aid.
 
 


5. What role did Phil Collins play in a '60s stage version of Oliver!?

 
 


6. What was Simply Red's only UK Number 1 single?

 
 


7. What is the surname of the brothers in INXS?

 
 


8. What nationality was Eric Clapton's father?

 
 


9. What was the name of Kula Shaker's ill-fated second LP, released in 1999?

 
 


10. What was the name of Lou Reed and John Cale's 1990 tribute album to Andy Warhol?

 
 

 

ROUND 3: FIVE-STAR ALBUMS


1. How many people are sitting around then table on the cover of Muse's Black Holes & Revelations?

 
 

2. To the nearest minute, what was the average length of the songs on Oasis' Be Here Now?
A 5 minutes
B 6 minutes
C 7 minutes
D 13 minutes

 
 


3. Who took the cover photograph on U2's The Joshua Tree?

 
 

4. What was the working title of Coldplay's X&Y?
 
 


5. Under what name did Curt Smith and Roland Orzebal earn five stars for their album The Seeds Of Love?

 
 


6. Which track opened Razorlight's second album?

 
 


7. Three Neil Young albums have been awarded the ultimate accolade by Q's reviewers. Name one of them.

 
 


8. The singer on Big Black's Atomizer went on to produce Nirvana, PJ Harvey and the Pixies, among others. His name, please.

 
 


9. Which was the only Smiths album to get five stars on its first release?

 
 


10. Which R.E.M. album most recently scored full marks?

 
 

 

ROUND 4: CASH FOR QUESTIONS
Match the stars below with the Cash For Questions enquiries you've posed for them...
A - Bill Oddie
B - Mike Skinner
C - Sugababes
D - Girls Aloud
E - Tom Chaplin
F - Keith Flint
G - Katy Perry
H - Jools Holland
I - Ray Davies
J - Bernard Sumner

1. What do you do in the Priory all day?

 
 

2. Why are you such a cunt?
 
 


3. Have you ever sung, "Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body" to the tune of Madonna's Erotica?

 
 

4. Is it true Daniel Day Lewis used to bully you?
 
 


5. Is it true that you are Frank Skinner's cousin?

 
 


6. Is it true your mum shagged Jimi Hendrix?

 
 


7. Why in the mid-'80s did you ad lib numerous lyric changes to refer to the size of your penis?

 
 


8. Will I ever see your pants in a lads' mag?

 
 


9. Have you ever farted onstage?

 
 


10. You write a lot of sexually ambiguous songs. How come?

 
 

 

ROUND 5: LIAM AND NOEL HAVE THEIR SAY
Who or what did the brothers Gallagher describe as...

1."He's angry, like a man with a fork in a world of soup." (Noel)

 
 

2."He's a mental, full-of-beans sponge. He's mad for it." (Liam)
 
 


3. "Plant pot!" (Liam)

 
 

4."I'm totally having it until the little fella starts singing." (Noel)
 
 


5. Four Didos with willies." (Liam)

 
 


6. "I don't need his guidance. He'd talk a glass eye to sleep." (Liam)

 
 


7. "Fucking smackheads aren't poets." (Liam)

 
 


8. "I've laid down better shits on the toilet." (Noel)

 
 


9."Right Said Fred in a suit." (Liam)

 
 


10. "A cunt who looks like my plumber." (Liam)

 
 

 

ROUND 6: A ROUND WITH
Match the stars below with their chosen drink from A Round With
A - Keisha Buchanan
B - James Blunt
C - Lars Ulrich
D - Miles Kane
E - Eugene Hutz
F - Kelly Jones
G - Dave Gahan
H - Mark Ronson
I - Simon Le Bon
J - Neil Tennant


1. "A glass of red wine, perhaps, maybe some champagne."

 
 

2. "A coffee. It's too early to be interrogated without some kind of assistance."
 
 


3. "A filter coffe."

 
 

4.A gimlet, please. It's a vodka with ice and lime cordial."
 
 


5. "Nothing. I've just got up."

 
 


6. "A bottle of Lapin Kulta beer and a whisky chaser."

 
 


7. "A pint of beer, please. Whatever the pub recommends."

 
 


8. "I'll have a pint of Guinness, please. It's quite autumnal, isn't it?"

 
 


9. "I'll have a Bellini cocktail."

 
 


10. "A chilled cocktail with Patron Silver tequila, which is the cleanest drink there is."

 
 

 

ROUND 7: SEX
Even members of The Bees do it.

1. "Listen, if it wasn't for tantric sex, you wouldn't be here." Which rock star to his son, reported in Q in 1999?

 
 

2. Which star revealed to Q that he had been a virgin until the age of 22?

 
 


3. Q asked Marianne Faithfull: who was better in the sack - Jagger, Richards or Jones? She replied:
A)Jagger
B)Richards
C)Jones
D)None of your fucking business
E)I can't remember

 
 

4."Sex with long hair is shit." Said who?
A)Liam Gallagher
B)Al Murray
C)Tom Meighan
D)Crystal Gales
 
 


5. From which fellow member of Guns N' Roses did Slash catch crabs?

 
 


6. In 2002, which chart-topping singer admitted to receiving a blow job while listening to one of his own records?

 
 


7. A member of which all-female outfit told Q: "We would take pictures of our crotches and slip them underneath our road manager's hotel door and write: "Guess whose is whose"?
A)Girls Aloud
B)The Runaways
C)L7
D)The Go-Gos

 
 


8. Which star calls his penis "The Emperor", "Your Highness", "My Weakness" and "You Fool"?

 
 


9. Which British frontman admitted to having had sex in the toilet of a bullet train?

 
 


10. Which singer revealed to Q that he had had sex on the set of Star Wars Episode 1?

 
 

 

ROUND 8: Q IN PICTURES
Can you recognise the stars in these famous Q photoshoots?

 
 
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ROUND 9: DRUGS
They're not just for Keith Richards, it'd seem...

1. Which former "profession" links (or so they've claimed) Jay-Z, Bez and Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine?

 
 

2. According to Noel Gallagher, taking drugs is like what?
A)
Drinking Ribena
B)Getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning
C)Taking a driving test
D)Experiencing an intense sense of oneness with all of God's creation

 
 


3. Who told Q in 2001: "If I could get hold of all these people who are doing cocaine right now, I'd say, Let's just put this pen through my nose and we'll see how much you like that"?
A)Liam Gallagher
B)Brian Harvey
C)Daniella Westbrook
D)Stevie Nicks

 
 

4. Pete Doherty went to Thamkrabok in Thailand to clean up, after advice from which EastEnders actress?
 
 


5. Who told Q: "I got into dope very fast. Then I discovered ecstasy, coke, acid and drinking loads"?

 
 


6. And who claimed: "Crack isn't bad in conjunction with heroin"?

 
 


7. Which US rocker told Q that he had once fed baboons in a Florida zoo while on ecstasy?

 
 


8. To whom did Bobby Gilles claim to have offered a combination of E, speed, cocaine, methadone and Valium?

 
 


9. Which country legend was let off drugs charges earlier this year, on the proviso that he performed a song in court?

 
 


10. Who told Q that he was unlikely to ever be confused with Keith Richards, and that if he ever tried cocaine, he'd "have a heart attack and die"?

 
 

 

ROUND 10: RIP
Can you identify these stars who have died since Q started in 1986?

 
 
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ROUND 11: 25 YEARS OF U2 COVERS
In which years did the following Q covers feature U2?

 
 
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ROUND 12: ONE-STAR ALBUMS

1. Whose 2010 posthumous stinker featured guest appearances from Akon, 50 Cent and Lenny Kravitz?

 
 

2. Which Britpop-era frontman released a self-titled one-star album in early 2007?

 
 


3. Which Spice Girl released Reason, a "car-crash" of an album?

 
 

4. Which portly action hero released the critically panned Mojo Priest in 2006?
A Arnold Schwarzenegger
B Steven Seagal
C Dolph Lundgren
D Sly Stallone

 
 


5. Whose atrocious 2006 album of duets featured, among many others, Elton John, Celine Dion and Paul McCartney?

 
 


6. "The lyrics would make Adrian Mole blush": the self-titled 2005 debut from which mates of Pete Doherty?

 
 


7. With which band did the frontman of Fantomas - authors of the "wretched" Delirium Cordia - find fame in the late '80s/early '90s?

 
 


8. Who plays bass on The Breeders' Last Splash?

 
 


9. Which (normally) acclaimed electronica duo were behind 2008's Quaristice?

 
 


10. Which punk singer, who died last year, was responsible for 2005's Dread More Dan Dead?

 
 

 

ROUND 13: NEW TO Q PT 1
Can you name these acts, none of whom ever quite reached the heights.

 
 
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ROUND 14: FOOD AND DRINK
It's mainly drink, to be fair

1. Which member of Pink Floyd cooked the world's biggest crumpet in 2000?

 
 

2. Which singer once admitted to scavenging cakes from George Michael's dustbin?
 
 


3. Which singer was fired from his band after he drunkenly fell off a Bullet Train in Japan?

 
 

4. Before his pancreas burst, how much vodka was Guns N'Roses' Duff McKagan drinking each day?
A Two pints
B Four pints
C A gallon
D Two gallons

 
 


5. What did Q declare to be the ultimate booze anthem in 2005?

 
 


6. Which Scottish three-piece performed a gig in late 2006 fortified by skunk and IrnBru?

 
 


7. Which hip hop hero quit music in 2003 to set up a South Carolina ostrich farm?

 
 


8. What happened to Ash's Rick McMurray the last time he went onstage pissed?

 
 


9. Which singer told Q that once he'd been so drunk he'd tried to kiss Ray Davies?

 
 


10. Until recently, the bassist of which 80s band ran a restaurant in Red Wing, Minnesota?

 
 

 

ROUND 15: SPINE MESSAGES
To which of these four characters mentioned do the following Q spine messages relate?


1. Is this the Movimento Para Libertacao De Angola? (Q66)
A Amanda de Cadenet
B Simply Red
C Sex Pistols
D The Smiths


 
 

2. File Under Water (Q97)
A The Cranberries
B R.E.M.
C The Smiths
D Brian Ferry

 
 


3. It's back to work A.G.A.I.N (Q102)
A Blur
B The Stone Roses
C Jeff Buckley
D Portishead

 
 

4. Tony Hadley's Obsession (Q192)
A Coldplay
B Red Hot Chili Peppers
C Korn
D The Vines

 
 


5. Summer Of Sam (Q205)
A Robbie Williams
B Lisa Marie Presley
C The Sopranos
D Stereophonics

 
 


6. Bjergen Kjergen (Q208)
A The Strokes
B The Darkness
C OutKast
D Foo Fighters

 
 


7. All Quiet On The Western Avenue (Q222)
A Brian Wilson
B Little Britain
C Keane
D Pete Doherty

 
 


8. The Lovely Bones By Alice Sebold (Q231)
A Franz Ferdinand
B The Rolling Stones
C Richard & Judy
D Guns N'Roses

 
 


9. Rogan Gregory (Q248)
A The Killers
B Lily Allen
C U2
D The View

 
 


10. MUYA (Q266)
A Radiohead
B The Raconteurs
C Boy George
D Metallica

 
 

 

ROUND 16: THE Q AWARDS

1. Which "eccentric" producer described the Spice Girls as "porno" and the Antichrist in 1997?
A George Martin
B Phil Spector
C John Leckie
D Steve Albini


 
 

2.Which Irish reveller set fire to Bono's hair in 2004? (Presumably by mistake)
A Brian Cowen
B Larry Mullen
C Shane MacGowan
D Roy Keane

 
 


3. Who did Elton John accuse of lip-synching in 2004?
A Prince
B Madonna
C Kylie
D Ian Brown

 
 

4. Which punk firebrand described Phill Jupitus and Johnny Vegas as "Teletubbies" in 2001?
A Siouxsie Sioux
B Malcolm McClaren
C Rat Scabies
D John Lydon

 
 


5. On to whose head did Liam Gallagher flick ash in 1996?
A Mick Jagger
B Michael Jackson
C Noel Gallagher
D Kylie

 
 


6. Which future prime minister made an appearance at the 1994 awards?
A Tony Blair
B Gordon Brown
C Stanley Baldwin
D David Cameron

 
 


7. Who accused Coldplay of stealing his image in 2008?
A Tom Chaplin
B Kevin Rowland
C Adam Ant
D Osama bin Laden

 
 


8. Who won the Best New Act award in 2010?
A Tinie Tempah
B Florence & The Machine
C Plan B
D Mumford & Sons

 
 


9. Which famous rock couple helped lay the tables before the very first awards in 1990?
A Paul and Linda McCartney
B Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon
C Sting and Trudie
D Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown

 
 


10. Which portly singer had to leave early in 2008, due to "vertigo"?

A Gary Barlow
B Aretha Franklin
C Meat Loaf
D Tiny from Ultrasound

 
 

 

ROUND 17: NEW TO Q PT 2
Can you identify these artists from their first appearances in Q?


1. "They sport an impressive collection of beards": which Seattle five-piece, introduced in 2008?

 
 

2. On his first appearance in Q, in 2002, the singer from which London-based four-piece claimed: "Until I was nine years old, I thought 'cunt' was a term of endearment"?

 
 


3. Which British five-piece admitted to having once supported a juggler on tour when they made their Q bow in 1995?

 
 

4. Which band were described by Q in 1994 as blending sultry hip-hop, Stax soul and urban blues with 60s film soundtrack atmospherics?

 
 


5. Which three-piece were described as "polite, if faintly plummy, West Londoners" in 2008?

 
 


6. Which future Mercury Prize winner was described as "a shy, sensitive figure, living in a tiny one-room New York apartment with no bathroom and a picture of Kurt Cobain on the wall"?

 
 


7. Which three-piece blended "early-'80s post-punk guitars with the druggy pagan idealism of the late-'80s rave scene"?

 
 


8. Whose then current single was described in early 2005 as sounding like The Fall remixed by Felix Da Housecat?

 
 


9. Which New Jersey five-piece told Q in 2006: "We always wanted to be a classic, timeless rock band"?

 
 


10. The singer of which hotly tipped London four-piece told Q in 2005: "You hear more in the last Destiny's Child single than in any guitar song?

 
 

 

ROUND 18: UNDER THE COVERS
Which band or artist appeared on the cover of Q...


1. ...Heavily pregnant, in a bikini (2006)?

 
 

2. ... Flanked by two cheerleaders (2001)?

 
 


3. ... Flanked by two black panthers (2009)?

 
 

4. ... in school uniform (2008)?

 
 


5. ... in a cartoon boat (2010)?

 
 


6. ... with the singer's head painted gold (2008)?

 
 


7. ... in a bikini and a trenchcoat (2004)?

 
 


8. ... with a snake wrapped around him and on fire (2004)?

 
 


9. ... with Kate Moss wrapped around him (2003)?

 
 


10. ... naked with a star protecting his "modesty" (1993)?

 
 

 

ROUND 19: ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
1. What was the first single lifted from Kings Of Leon's Only By The Night?

 
 

2. Which album of the year opens with Underdog and Where Did All The Love Go?

 
 


3. Which band topped the list in both 2007 and 2010?

 
 

4. Which band topped the list in 2005, having previously featured in the Top 50 in both 2000 and 2002?

 
 


5. Who is the cover star of Arctic Monkeys' Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not?

 
 


6. What is Jack White holding on the cover of Elephant?

 
 


7. In which year were Nirvana's In Utero, Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell IV and Sting's Ten Summoner's Tales included in Q's top 10 albums of the year?

 
 


8. And which year's top 10 included Bon Jovi's These Days, Radiohead's The Bends and Del Amitri's Twisted?

 
 


9. Which Muse album gave them their highest ever position in Q's albums of the year?

 
 


10. Which album was voted number one readers' choice in 1999?

 
 

 

ROUND 20: THOSE Q LISTS

1. Which Oasis LP was named best British album ever in 2004?

 
 

2. And which Oasis single was voted best track of all time in 2006?

 
 


3. Purple Haze - the greatest guitar track ever - was originally recorded by whom?

 
 

4. OK Computer was voted best album ever by Q readers in 1998 and 2006. But what topped the chart in 2003?

 
 


5. Who produced Bat Out Of Hell, Q's ultimate guilty pleasure album?

 
 


6. Who topped Q's 2007 list of the greatest singers of all time?
AElvis Presley
B Aretha Franklin
C Otis Redding
D Ian Brown

 
 


7. Which 1991 song was voted best single ever by Q's readers in 1999?

 
 


8. ... And which 1967 double A-side was runner-up?

 
 


9. Which Happy Mondays album was named "Most Insane Ever" in Q251?

 
 


10. Which Lou Reed song do Duran Duran butcher on Thank You, Q's worst album of all time?

 
 

 

ROUND 21: UNUSUAL GIG VENUES
Which artists played the following unusual venues ...


1. On the roof of Buckingham Palace, 2002?

 
 

2. Beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, November 2004?

 
 


3. On the Berlin Wall, December 1989?

 
 

4. In a Q reader's kitchen in Tooting, South London, late 2002?

 
 


5. 303 metres below the sea on the Statoil Troll A gas rig in the North Sea, October 2006?

 
 


6. By the Pyramids at Giza, 31 December 1999?

 
 


7. Colchester sixth-form college, 1995?

 
 


8. Magnet Chip Shop, Bristol, 17 February 2007?

 
 


9. Atop the CN Tower, Toronto, November 1997?

 
 


10. In the Devil's Arse (a cave), Derbyshire, 5 December 2008?

 
 

 

ROUND 22: HEADLINES
Fill the blanks in these Q headlines...


1. The ----- de Milo (Cynthia Plastercaster)

 
 

2. Why Kurt Cobain Had To ---

 
 


3. The ------ Foremen of the Apocalypse (Led Zeppelin)

 
 

4. The ------ Speech (Communards)

 
 


5. The Irish -------" (Hothouse Flowers)

 
 


6. The Right -------- (Bon Jovi)

 
 


7. Lock up your ------ (The Gogos)

 
 


8. Crouching Tiger Hidden ------ (Fred Durst)

 
 


9. ---------- Now! (The Chemical Brothers)

 
 


10. My name's Jeff and I'm a ---------- (Wilco)

 
 

 

ROUND 23: FIRST COVERS
In which year did the following acts first appear on Q's cover?


1. Paul McCartney

 
 

2. Lady Gaga

 
 


3. Blur

 
 

4. Michael Jackson

 
 


5. Nirvana

 
 


6. The Rolling Stones

 
 


7. Eric Clapton

 
 


8. Red Hot Chili Peppers

 
 


9. Muse

 
 


10. Metallica

 
 

 

ROUND 24: MOST COVERED
Put these in descending order of most Q covers (10 - 1)


1. Paul McCartney (solo)

 
 

2. David Bowie

 
 


3. U2

 
 

4. Simply Red

 
 


5. R.E.M.

 
 


6. Queen

 
 


7. Madonna

 
 


8. Terence Trent D'Arby

 
 


9. Oasis

 
 


10. Sinéad O'Connor

 
 

 

ROUND 25: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Name these bands who appeared in Where Are They Now?


1. Erik Schrody aka Everlast (solo star); Daniel O'Connor, aka Danny Boy (owns T-shirt company); Leor Dimant, aka DJ Lethal (owns record company) - 2008

 
 

2. Joey Tempest (solo star); Ian Haugland (radio DJ); Mic Michaeli (working for DVD company); John Leven (studying at university); John Norum (solo artist); Kee Marcello (solo artist) - 2003

 
 


3. Rick Witter (still a singer); Paul Banks (film-maker); Tom Gladwin ("between jobs"); Alan Leach (drum tutor/pub quizmaster) - 2006

 
 

4. Michael Mertens (studio specialising in commercials); Claudia Brucken (working with Paul Humphries, ex-OMD); Ralf Dorper (banker); Susanne Freytag (diamond dealer) - 2002

 
 


5. Jez Willis (club promoter); Tim Garbutt (club promoter) - 2004

 
 


6. Mark McEntee (helps wife with clothing label); Chrissie Amphlett (theatre/writing a book) - 2004

 
 


7. Jan Kuehnemund (trying to revive band); Share Ross (nee Pedersen, in a band with her husband); Roxy Petrucci (in a band with her sister); Janet Gardner ("happily married") - 2003

 
 


8. Peter Thoms (trombone player on Lurpak ad); Richard James Burgess (marketing director of record label); Christopher Heaton (undertaking research into jazz and classical music); John Walters (journalist); Andy Pask (Des O'Connor's backing band) - 2002

 
 


9. Pat Collier (studio owner); John Ellis (solo artist/website designer); Ian "Knox" Carnochan (still in the band/painter); Jonathan "Eddie" Edwards (still in the band) - 2002

 
 


10. Andrew "Tiny" Wood (working on a book); Vanessa Best (music teacher); Matt Jones (session musician); Richard Green (producer); Andy Peace (carpenter) - 2008

 
 

 

ROUND 26: WHO THE HELL?
Ten of these 30 celebrities featured in Q's long-running Who the Hell... feature. Which ones?


1. Noel Edmonds
2. Simon Cowell
3. Margaret Thatcher
4. Jeremy Clarkson
5. Simon Le Bon
6. John Major
7. Mark E Smith
8. Paddy Ashdown
9 Jimmy Savile
10. Uri Geller
11. Mohamed al-Fayed
12. Richard Littlejohn
13. Jonathan King
14. Piers Morgan
15. Alex Ferguson
16. Edward Heath
17. John Peel
18. Morrissey
19. Mick Hucknall
20. Slash
21. Bono
22. Liam Gallagher
23. Tony Blair
24. Tom Hanks
25. Paul McCartney
26. Jim Kerr
27. Mick Jagger
28. Tony Hadley
29. Edwina Currie
30. Axl Rose

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ROUND 27: RIDERS
Match the artist with their unusual request on their rider...
A Graham Coxon
B Mogwai
C Nerina Pallot
D Arctic Monkeys
E Yo La Tengo
F The Ordinary Boys
G Corinne Bailey Rae
H Scritti Politti
I Lordi
J The Killers

1. Knitting needles and assorted wool

 
 

2. "3 x large bottles of still mineral water at room temperature. No Dasani (Coca-Cola water) please!"

 
 


3. "20 lint-free clean black stage towels"

 
 

4. "A few sandwiches without butter"

 
 


5. "A novel of your choice (used or new, it's up to you)"

 
 


6. "Dressing room walls covered in previous bands' graffiti and drawings of penises (minimum 4)"

 
 


7. "48 bottles/cans of good-quality lager bee (at least 5%, at least 330ml), preferably Peroni, Tiger, Red Stripe, Becks, Staropramen or Asahi. NO American beer, NO Stella"

 
 


8. "Various soft drinks (very important to have a few cans of Dr Pepper and Pepsi Max)"

 
 


9. "Derby County Subbuteo team"

 
 


10. "Large picture of Stevie Wonder, circa 1970-76"

 
 

 

ROUND 28: TEN COMMANDMENTS
Who told Q they...


1.Can't play piano because their childhood lessons clashed with Thunderbirds on TV?

 
 

2. Have been trying to conjure up the ghost of composer Vincenzo Bellini?

 
 


3. Had stagedived on their 60th birthday?

 
 

4. Had once been mistaken for Bob Marley... in 1990, nine years after Marley's death?

 
 


5. Had turned down a voice-over for incontinence pants?

 
 


6. Have two alter egos: Richard Knight and Lenny Day?

 
 


7. Think they like people better than cows?

 
 


8. Once stole a £900 Marc Jacobs handbag?

 
 


9. Had a piercing called a "guiche" between "my arsehole and my balls"?

 
 


10. Regretted buying Elton John's old Bentley?

 
 

 

ROUND 29: VERY DIFFICULT!


1. Which singer appeared on an early cover of Q beneath the headline Torrid Shocking Wild!?

 
 

2. Who told Q: "[As a child] I was dying to be molested, dying for someone to have a fiddle around"?

 
 


3. Who told Q he had studied at the "Twat Institute"?

 
 

4. What was the first album to be reviewed in Q?

 
 


5. Why was Kevin Eckenrod arrested by Florida police in 2003?

 
 


6. Which singer appeared completely starkers leaning over a bathtub in Q in 1994?

 
 


7. And who was snapped wearing nothing but a pair of gold Y-fronts in 2005?

 
 


8. When Q celebrated turning 15 in 2001, who said that when Q was born she was "probably masturbating, discovering my genitalia"?

 
 


9. "They were destined to be together, if only because, as artists currently without solo deals, they had nowhere else to go." The first sentence of a 2002 review of which artist's album?

 
 


10. Q once interviewed Madonna's dog trainer. His name, please?

 
 

 

ROUND 30: LAST REQUESTS

1. Which footballer was the last total stranger that Sheryl Crow fancied?
A Frank Lampard
B Cesc Fabregas
C Peter Crouch
D Bobby Charlton


 
 

2. When was the last time somebody called Jerry Lee Lewis "The Killer"?
A "A couple of days ago"
B "Today"
C 1958
D In court

 
 


3. What sort of animal was the last to attack Richard "The Hamster" Hammond?
A A hamster
B A crocodile
C A big terrier
D An Alsatian

 
 

4. What does Bette Midler spit out as the last thing she does before she performs?
A Cough drops
B Her teeth
C Her gum
D Phlegm

 
 


5. Who was the last person Yusuf Islam asked for his autograph?
A Tony Blair
B Eminem
C Bob Dylan
D Muhammad Ali

 
 


6. How long ago did Kenny Rogers have his last shave?
A 14 years
B 4 years
C 24 years
D 34 years

 
 


7. Whose last fight was with Bear Grylls?
A Will Ferrell
B Jeremy Clarkson
C Ricky Gervais
D Chris Martin

 
 


8. What is the last thing Russell Brand would do if the world was ending? A Cry
B Sing I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
C Heroin
D Ring his mother

 
 


9. His wife's Alfa Romeo was the last car which '80s star crashed?

A Limahl
B Simon Le Bon
C Tony Hadley
D Phil Oakey

 
 


10.Who threw up in a bin after his last anal examination?

A Russell Brand
B Ozzy Osbourne
C Paul Daniels
D Russell Howard

 
 
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  • ok, this really is too difficult for the prize. Don't get me wrong, the prize is fantastic and I LOVE the Q quizes each month and I love the challenge BUT that being said, this is a headache and a half! I give up lol

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