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Railway Music and Films etc.Quiz

1) Who had a 1961 hit record with “The railroad comes through the middle of the house”?
a)Kathy Kirby
b)Cilla Black
c) Alma Cogan
d)Sandie Shaw

2) Who wrote the poem “Night Mail” for a GPO films in 1936?
a) Lord Tennyson
b) W.H. Auden
c) John Betjeman
d) R.L.Stevenson

3) Who wrote the short story, “The Signalman”?
a) C.S. Lewis
b) John Galsworthy
c) Thomas Hardy
d) Charles Dickens

4)Who was the star of the 1964 film “The Train”?
a) Bert Lancaster
b) Frank Sinatra
c) Kirk Douglas
d) Alan Ladd

5) Which band leader “took the ‘A’ Train” in 1961?
a) Duke Ellington
b) Joe Loss
c) Count Basie
d)Ted Heath

6) Who starred in the film “Runaway Train” in 1985?
a) Clint Eastwood
b) Dustin Hoffman
c) Jon Voight
d) Charles Bronson

7) Which loco was used in the 1953 film “Titfield Thunderbolt”?
a) Locomotion
b) John Bull
c) Lion
d) Gazelle

8) Who wrote and sang the Ballad of John Axon, the heroic train driver?
a) Roger Whitaker
b) Ewan MacColl
c) Donovan
d) Lonnie Donegon

9) Who wrote the 1885 poem “From a Railway Carriage”?
a) R. L. Stevenson
b) John Betjeman
c) W.H.Auden
d) Philip Larkin

10) Complete the title of the train thriller movie, TAKING OF --------- 123
a) Phoenixain
b) Pelham
c) Pullman
d) Pelican