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1. A song written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, and recorded by Led Zeppelin in late 1970, has since enjoyed enormous success after a relatively slow beginning mainly due to the fact that it was not released as a single. Can you name this hit that the band and its management refused to let be edited so as to fit into a single disc?
2. The first musician to gain the number one position in 1961 was vying with two other artists with the same song, and all three managed to break into Billboard's top twenty. The version taking the top position for three weeks was an instrumental by the actual composer, and the first of four entries that this artist put into the Billboard Top 40.
3. English singer Cliff Richard has been on the singles charts in the UK during every decade from the 1950's to the 2000's inclusive. However the pickings have always been slim for him on the American charts, and he failed to show any progress during the "British Invasion" during the 1960's. Can you name his first top ten on the Billboard charts that finally occured in 1976?
4. In 2002, acclaimed film director Ken Loach put out a hard hitting movie, shot mainly in Scotland, centreing on the trials and tribulations of a young man finding his way in the depressing township of Greenock. Among a host of nominations, the lead character played by newcomer Martin Compston won three major European film awards and was nominated for another two. What was the name of this powerful movie?
5. Soft rock group Bread released it's fourth album entitled "Baby I'm-A Want You" in 1972, with four tracks reaching the Billboard's top forty. The third of these songs reached number fifteen and was highlighted by the sound of a guitar run through a synthesizer. Can you pick it?
6. A song written by Chuck Berry, and reached number eighteen on the Billboard charts in 1958, was included in the Rolling Stones' debut self-titled album in 1964. It has since been covered by Tommy Roe and also included in the 1987 documentary fim "Hail Hail Rock 'n' Roll" by Taylor Hackford which involved a who's-who of recording stars celebrating Chuck Berry's sixtieth birthday. Can you tell me what it is?
7. What was the first city installed as the capital of West Virginia following the secession from the state of Virginia during the American Civil War?
8. In 1981, top ranking film director Mike Newell whose credits include "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral", presided over a movie set in New Zealand and involved the factual manhunt of a serial killer around a small west coast town in 1941. The movie stars Australia's Jack Thompson as murderer Stanley Graham. Can you name it?
9. A single released by Led Zeppelin off the "Led Zeppelin III album in 1970, reached number sixteen on the American charts. It has since been covered by Nirvana and Vanilla Fudge, and was included in Queen's 1986 "Magic Tour".
10. One extra clue I can give is that several years into a great career, this artist underwent a hiatus of more than a decade and then reemerged with a number one hit on the Billboard charts immediately - the song that was to become this person's autobiographic title.
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