Who are the Band on the Run? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jane Asher

Jane Asher first met Paul McCartney in April 1963 following a concert that The Beatles played at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The pair soon began a relationship, which saw McCartney move in with Asher's family for more than two years until they moved to his own house in 1966.

The pair got engaged at Christmas 1967, after which she accompanied McCartney to visit the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to study Transcendental Meditation. However, later the same year Asher caught McCartney with another woman and broke off their engagement. Asher was the inspiration for a number of sings written by McCartney, including "And I Love Her", "You Won't See Me", "I'm Looking Through You", "We Can Work It Out", and "Here, There and Everywhere".

Answer: Rolling Stone

In 1968, Linda Eastman became the first woman photographer to have a photograph appear on the cover of "Rolling Stone", when her picture of guitarist Eric Clapton was featured as the cover of the edition published on 11 May. Six years later, following her marriage to Paul McCartney, she and her husband were the subjects featured on the cover of the edition of "Rolling Stone" published on 31 January 1974, with the photograph taken by Francesco Scavullo.

Answer: The Moody Blues

In 1964, Denny Laine, having left his first professional band, The Diplomats, got a call from Ray Thomas and Mike Pinder suggesting that they collaborate to form a new group. Initially called The M&B 5, this name was later changed to The Moody Blues. In December the same year, the group's first single, "Go Now!", a cover of a song released by Bessie Banks the previous January, was released, climbing the UK chart until it reached Number 1 at the start of February 1965. An album, "The Magnificent Moodies", followed in July 1965, but the group's poor chart performance following the initial success of "Go Now!" eventually led to Laine departing the group in 1966.

Answer: Good Morning Britain

In 1980, the Independent Broadcasting Authority announced that it would issue a licence for a breakfast television franchise in its upcoming franchise competition. The winner of the competition for the new franchise, named TV-am, was spearheaded by a group of presenters, nicknamed "The Famous Five", who were also shareholders. Of the five, Michael Parkinson was named as presenter of the weekend edition of the company's flagship programme, "Good Morning Britain".

This was the only one of the company's production that proved successful on launch; at the time, the BBC had a competing breakfast programme called "Breakfast Time", which had significantly higher ratings than TV-am, except at the weekend when it was not broadcast. Parkinson remained as a main presenter until late 1983, after which he became the host of the ITV game show "Give Us A Clue".

Answer: Derek Flint

James Coburn made his film debut in the 1959 western "Ride Lonesome", and began building a career as a supporting player, most notably in "The Magnificent Seven" and "Charade", when he was cast as superspy Derek Flint in the 1966 parody film "Our Man Flint".

The film was a major success at the box office, earning $16m and turning Coburn into a star. He returned to the role of Flint the following year in "In Like Flint", but decided not to continue as the character afterwards.

Answer: Misery

Kenny Lynch had had a number of UK hit singles in the early 1960s when, at the beginning of 1963, he was one of the artists on the bill of a UK pop tour headlined by teenage singer Helen Shapiro, alongside the up and coming band from Liverpool called The Beatles. John Lennon and Paul McCartney had written a song called "Misery" with the intention of Helen Shapiro recording it.

Her producer turned it down, but Kenny Lynch took it and gave it a pop-oriented feel for his release of the song that was different from The Beatles when they recorded it for their album "Please, Please Me". Also during the tour, Lynch offered to help Lennon and McCartney with some of their songwriting - at the time they were in the process of writing "From Me To You" - but reportedly became frustrated with the pair, criticising their ability to write music.

Answer: Just A Minute

A grandson of Sigmund Freud, Clement Freud had a number of varied roles: he was a chef, opening his own restaurant in London's Sloane Square; he was a journalist, first working as a sports reporter, before subsequently becoming a food critic; he was a Liberal MP between 1973 and 1987.

However, it was his career in the media that made him most well known, particularly his long run as a regular panelist on "Just A Minute", on which he began with the first episode in 1967 and continued until a few months before his death in 2009. Freud was seen as particularly suited to "Just A Minute", in which contestants are expected to talk about a random subject without hesitation, repetition or deviation for sixty seconds, thanks to his slow and lugubrious delivery.

Answer: Ian Fleming

Christopher Lee was in London in 1922 to Lt Colonel Geoffrey Trollope Lee and his wife, Countess Marie Carandini di Sarzano. At the age of four, Lee's parents separated, divorcing in 1928. During this period, Lee and his family lived with his aunt in Switzerland, before returning to London where his mother married Harcourt George St-Croix Rose, the maternal uncle of Ian Fleming. Fleming became famous as the author of a series of novels featuring the character of James Bond.

In 1961, during pre-production of the film version of Fleming's novel "Dr No", Fleming considered that Lee would be a good choice to play the eponymous villain of the piece, although by the time he suggested this to producers 'Cubby' Broccoli and Harry Saltzman they had already cast Joseph Wiseman. Lee eventually appeared as the Bond villain Scaramanga in 1974's "The Man With The Golden Gun".

Answer: Light-Heavyweight

John Conteh began boxing at the age of ten at Kirkby Amateur Boxing Club. When aged 19, he won the ABA Senior Middleweight title, before going on to win the Middleweight gold medal for England at the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. The following year, he moved up to Light-Heavyweight and won the ABA title again.

Although he considered remaining as an amateur to compete at the 1972 Olympics, he instead elected to turn pro, with his first professional fight in October 1971 against Okacha Boubekeur.

In March 1973, he won the European Light-Heavyweight title, before adding the British and Commonwealth titles two months later. In October 1974, he won the vacant WBC World Light-Heavyweight title in a fight against Jorge Ahumada, which he defended successfully three times before being stripped due to not undertaking a mandatory defence. Twice attempting to regain the title unsuccessfully, he eventually retired after winning his last fight in May 1980 with a record of 34 wins, four defeats and a single draw.

Answer: Clive Arrowsmith

The "Band on the Run" cover was shot on 28 October 1973 at Osterley Park in London. The level of the spotlight that the group are in meant that they had to hold their individual poses for two seconds to ensure the correct exposure for the image. Arrowsmith stated that they were all in a "haze" during the photoshoot following a party that Paul McCartney had held, which made both giving the group clear instructions, and having them stand still for long enough to capture the exposure, difficult. Arrowsmith took a total of 24 shots during the shoot, with the one eventually chosen one of four that the photographer found acceptable.