Quiz: Test your knowledge of the city in the Big Derry Quiz

ENTERTAINMENT

1. Name the five members of the Undertones and the instruments they played.

2. What was their first LP and when was it released?

3. What LPs did they released in 1980 and 1981?

4. Who produced these LPs?

5. On which song did they sing about Kevin?

6. When they entered the British charts at No.31 in 1978 with ‘Teenage Kicks’ they became the first group to do what?

7. What record released in 1979 gave the Undertones their highest chart position – No.14?

8. Name the Belfast-based band which included Derryman Jim McDermott (on saxophone) and Johnny Anderson (trombone).

9. Who, in the mid ‘70s, did a ‘guest’ mime, complete with costume, of Leo Sayer’s ‘The Show Must Go On’ while Seamus Bonner of The Coaster’s sang?

10. Who performed the lead role in T C Doherty’s first production of ‘Ebenezer’?

11. With what completely different show did T C Doherty then follow up ‘Ebenezer’?

12. When musical composer T C Doherty took his musical based on Joan of Arc to Dublin, there was a name change for the show. What did it become?

13. Which duo celebrated Derry City’s return to senior soccer with their second release called ‘Football’s Back in Derry’?

14. Name the local singer who had the lead role of Danny Zucco in the 1988 production of ‘Grease’.

15. With what question did Dana follow up her No.1 hit, ‘All Kinds of Everything’?

16. Radio Foyle’s ‘Orchard Quiz’ takes its name from the Art Gallery in which the recordings were first made. Since then, two other venues have been used even though the name did not change. What were they?

17. What is the name of the annual ‘lying’ contest run by the Colmcille Debating Society?

18. The Radio Foyle Mastermind title, eventually a radio show in its own right, began life as a part of which presenter’s longer show?

19. Name the Derry band that released the single ‘In Search of Orgazmus’ in 2005.

20. ‘Political People’, ‘Bombscare’ and ‘Asleep’ are all singles by which Derry band?

ANSWERS . . . ENTERTAINMENT

1. John O’Neill – Rhythm Guitar. Damien O’Neill – Lead Guitar. Michael Bradley – Bass Guitar. Billy Doherty – Drums. Fergal Sharkey – Vocals.

2. The Undertones, 1979.

3. 1980 – ‘Hypnotised’. 1981 – ‘Positive Touch’.

4. Roger Bechiron.

5. ‘My Perfect Cousin’.

6. To have their debut chart entry with an EP.

7. ‘Jimmy Jimmy’.

8. Dave Glover Band.

9. Thomas McGowan.

10. Hugh Farren.

11. ‘Starchild’.

12. ‘Voices’.

13. Tony and Dan.

14. Niall Coyle.

15. ‘Who Put The Lights Out?’ It went to No. 11.

16. Union Hall and Post Office Social Club.

17. Baron Von Munchausen Trophy.

18. Libby Hunter’s Afternoon Show.

19. Red Organ Serpent Sound.

20. TOUTS.