The Lyrics of Noel Coward

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1. What creatures, besides mad dogs, go out in the midday sun? Englishmen hogs and frogs crazy cats cricketers

2. Where, according to the title of a song, did love come to Mrs Wentworth-Brewster? on the Staten Island ferry in a bar on the Piccola Marina by the banks of the Seine in the shade of the Great Wall of China

3. “Past Forgetting” was the title of a memoir by a lady called Kay Morgan (née Summersby), telling of an alleged affair with Dwight D Eisenhower. From which musical work by Coward did she borrow her title? This Year Of Grace Private Lives Bitter Sweet On With The Dance

4. There’s a song by Coward that has the same title as a novel by E. M. Forster. What is it? A Room With A View Maurice Where Angels Fear To Tread The Longest Journey

5. What was Mrs Worthington advised not to do? tap her feet at the opera go to Paris in the spring put her daughter on the stage wear a bikini

6. Who “refused to begin the beguine when they besought her to”? Carrie Josephine Madame Salvador Nina from Argentina

7. Lord Elderley, Lord Borrowmere, Lord Sickert and Lord Camp sing the praises of which of the pleasures of English upper-class life? the stately homes of England the House of Lords the clubs of St James’s the Gaiety chorus

8. In Coward’s play “Private Lives,” Amanda and Elyot, a divorced couple, meet again when they’re on honeymoon with their second spouses. As they chat on a hotel balcony, they hear the strains of “Some Day I’ll Find You.” What is Amanda’s comment? They’re playing our tune. Don’t shoot the pianist; he’s doing his best. Strange how potent cheap music is! Very flat!

9. In which Coward song do a society woman, a streetwalker, a schoolgirl and a Cockney maid sing of their infatuation with a movie star? What Love Means To Girls Like Me If Love Were All Mad About The Boy Something Very Strange

10. In a song that Coward wrote during World War Two, which flower symbolized British defiance? The English Rose London Pride The Snapdragon The Forget-me-not