magpie in the 80's wrote:1 Who played the mother of Elvis Presley in the film Blue Hawaii?
ANGELA LANSBURY
2 Whose album True Blue topped the charts in 28 different countries?
MADONNA
3 In which 1983 film did Roy Scheider play the pilot of a hi tech helicopter?
BLUE THUNDER
4 Which group recorded the album Blue is the Colour?
BEAUTIFUL SOUTH
5 In which TV drama did Griff Rhys Jones play the character of Cornelius Carrington?
PORTERHOUSE BLUE
6 In 1866 who painted Man in a Blue Cap?
PAUL CEZANNE
7 In what year was the children’s TV show Blue Peter first screened?
1958
8 Pupils at which English public school are known as Bluecoats?
CHARTERHOUSE
9 What is the heraldic term for blue?
AZURE
10 Which film saw Brooke Shields on a remote island with Christopher Atkins?
THE BLUE LAGOON
11 The bluebird is recognised as the international symbol for what?
HAPPINESS
12 Don’t Fear the Reaper was the biggest hit single for which rock band?
BLUE OYSTER CULT
13 Which Star Wars movie had a working title of Blue Harvest?
RETURN OF THE JEDI
14 Who played Joyce Davenport in Hill Street Blues?
VERONICA HAMILL
15 Who stayed in a Blue Hotel in the 1991 pop charts?
CHRIS ISAAK
16 What did Eddie Cochran believe “there ain’t no cure for”?
SUMMERTIME BLUES
17 Which film provided the inspiration for the TV series Dixon of Dock Green?
THE BLUE LAMP
18 Madeline Bell and Roger Cook provided vocals for which pop group?
BLUE MINK
19 Which glam rockers recorded the album Old New Borrowed and Blue?
SLADE
20 Which city is home to the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, known in the west as the Blue Mosque?
ISTANBUL
21 Which singer was backed in the 60s by the Blue Flames?
GEORGE FAME
22 Which song opens with the line, “How does it feel to treat me like you do”?
BLUE MONDAY BY NEW ORDER
23 Which group’s Out of the Blue album included the track Wild West Hero?
ELO
24 What was the first chart topping single for the boy band blue?
TOO CLOSE
25 How did the expression blue movies derive?
FILM CENSORS USED PENS WERE BLUE
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