Astronomical Pop Quiz - Answers
 

Round 1:
1. Holst
2. Mozart
3. Beethoven
4. Debussy
5. Nielsen
6. Pluto (not discovered when the Suite was written) - and Earth!

Round 2:
1. The Police - "King of Pain"
2. Abba - "Fernando"
3. U2 - "The Fly"
4. Crowded House - "Distant Sun"
5. Don Maclean - "Vincent"
6. David Bowie - "Let's Dance"
7. The Jacksons - "Blame it on the Boogie"

Round 3:
1. Enya
2. Midnight Oil
3. Jamiroquai
4. Jamiroquai
5. Jeff Wayne
6. Mike Oldfield

Round 4:
1. Paul McCartney and Wings
2. Mike Oldfield
3. Benjamin Britten
4. They are palindromic - the music can be read back to front.
5. Leo Sayer
6. Madonna
7. The Moody Blues
8. Germany
9. ABC
10. The Rolling Stones
11. Fifth Dimension
12. Marillion. Fish is Derek William Dick

Round 5:
1 (a) Lee Marvin
  (b) Paint Your Wagon
  (c) "Wandering Star" is the literal translation of the greek "planetes" from which we derive the word "planet".
  (d) Clint Eastwood (as in "Make my day, punk!", NOT the Jamaican reggae singer)
2.(a) Hair!
  (b) I might be wrong, but I think it's to do with the precession of the equinox into a different sign of the zodiac.
  (c) I was hoping you'd tell me! I think there was an arts program on ITV called "Aquarius", presented by Russell Harty.
3 (a) The wonderful "Return to the Forbidden Planet"
  (b) Surprisingly enough, "The Forbidden Planet"
  (c) The Tempest

Round 6:
1. Carl Sagan's "Cosmos"
2. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
3. 2001 - A Space Odyssey
4. The Sky at Night