Today’s answers
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Today’s questions follow a theme.
One
The narrator and protagonist of the Booker Prize-winning novel in 1981 is Saleem Sinai, who is born in 1947 at midnight as India becomes independent. Saleem and children born in India between 12 a.m. and 1 a.m. on that date are found to have special powers. What is the novel and who wrote it?
Answer: Midnight’s Children; Salman Rushdie.
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie’s second novel, narrates India’s transition from British rule to independence and partition through Saleem Sinai’s magical realist tale. Blending history with fiction, it echoes The Tin Drum and preserves history via fictional accounts. The novel sold over one million copies in the UK, winning the Booker Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981. It later received the Booker of Bookers (1993), Best of the Booker (2008), and ranked 100th in the BBC’s The Big Read (2003).
Two
The song Everybody’s Talkin’ won the 1970 Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. Who was the singer awarded, and in what 1969 film did the song feature?
Answer: Harry Nilsson: Midnight Cowboy.
Fred Neil’s 1966 song Everybody’s Talkin’ was re-recorded by Harry Nilsson in 1969 for Midnight Cowboy, reaching No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and winning a Grammy. The original, recorded in 1967, was re-released by RCA, achieving similar Billboard success.
Three
It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind.
The above quote is from which of the Harry Potter novels?
Answer: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
It is the opening sentence of ‘The Other Minister’, the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince which is the sixth book in the series. Harry Potter enters his sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As Voldemort’s dark forces gather and a mood of dread spreads across the country, Harry recognises that he must soon face his destiny. Can he prevail in the perilous trials ahead?
Four
Come On Eileen was a hit single for which English band?
Answer: Dexy’s Midnight Runners.
Come On Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners, released in June 1982, topped charts in the UK and the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. Produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, it won Best British Single at the 1983 Brit Awards. Ranked No. 18 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Songs of the ‘80s, it was Britain’s best-selling single of 1982.
Five
The Midnight Star was a casino owned by Kevin Costner. It opened in the spring of 1991, after Costner had, the previous year, directed and starred in an Academy Award-winning film which was filmed nearby. In what city and state was the casino sited, and what was the 1990 Oscar-winning film?
Answer: Deadwood, South Dakota; Dances With Wolves.
The Midnight Star was a casino in Deadwood owned by American film actor Kevin Costner. After directing and starring in the Academy Award-winning film Dances With Wolves (1990), which was filmed largely in South Dakota, Costner opened the venue in spring 1991. The casino operated as a saloon that had appeared prominently in Silverado (1985), one of his early major roles. International posters from many of his films lined the walls. The casino closed in 2017.
We’re Going To Shake Your Tambourine
The post title is taken from Eric Clapton’s After Midnight, and midnight was the theme running through today’s quiz, with it being in either the question or the answer.
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