If you missed The Argus Christmas quiz published on Wednesday, December 19 here is a second opportunity to answer the questions for the chance of winning a family ticket to see Goodnight Mister Tom at the Theatre Royal, Brighton plus £50 towards an authentic Italian meal at Donatello restaurant.
Next Thursday, December 27, we will feature the third final round of the quiz – sport with the chance to win a family ticket for a Brighton and Hove Albion football match and a Sussex County Cricket Club match.
Entrants can either enter all three categories to be in with a chance to win the star prize, of a Southern Railway family-of-four weekend rail ticket for a fun-packed trip visiting the incredible attractions EDF Energy London Eye, the SEA LIFE London Aquarium, London Dungeon and Madame Tussauds.
To enter email your answers along with your name, address and a daytime contact telephone number to competitions@theargus.co.uk.
Please confirm if you plan to enter all three categories or just one (news was published on December 12 and closed on December 19).
The Questions
1. Which Brighton band was nominated for this year’s Mercury Music Prize?
2. Which theatre marked its 50th anniversary by winning an Evening Standard theatre award?
3. What is the name of the new Roman museum in Chichester?
4. Which Brighton artist who died in June was commemorated with an exhibition at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery?
5. Who was this year’s guest artistic director at Brighton Festival?
6. This year was the first Brighton Fringe under new director Julian Caddy. Which film role did he turn to take up the post in Brighton?
7. Which record shop closed in July after 46 years of serving Brighton’s music needs?
8. How many Argus Angels were given to outstanding Brighton Festival and Brighton Fringe shows?
9. Which part did Brighton pop sensation Conor Maynard play in the Theatre Royal Brighton production of Peter Pan in 2001?
10. What inaugural comedy award did Ingrid Dahle win at Brighton Comedy Festival this year?
11. What was placed precariously on the roof of Bexhill’s De La Warr Pavilion this summer?
12. How many Victorian bathing machines were dotted around the city as part of Dip Your Toe during Brighton Fringe?
13. Where did Fatboy Slim host his fifth Big Beach Bootique?
14. Which grime star headlined this year’s Shakedown Festival?
15. Which Brighton dance duo performed at the opening of the Paralympic Games?
16. Which Brighton community publishers celebrated its 40th anniversary in November?
17. The city-wide reading group City Reads chose a Brightonbased novelist and novel as its book of the year. What was the name of it and who wrote it?
18. Name the first film shown at Duke’s@Komedia.
19. Brighton Museum splashed out £225,000 on a watercolour by which 19th Century artist?
20. Sightseers was the third feature film by which Brighton director?
21. Which X-Factor reject released his debut single, She’s GotAMotorcycle, in November?
22. Which 1960s fashion designer was honoured with her own exhibition at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery?
23. The life of which animal did Matthew Herbert’s performance piece in Brighton Festival recreate on stage, sparking protests from PETA?
24. 30 years ago this month a legendary new wave band played their last ever gig at Brighton Centre. Name them?
25. Sheffield Park Station featured in which film starring Daniel Radcliffe?
26. Who did Hollywood star Rupert Everett play in The Judas Kiss at Theatre Royal Brighton last month?
27. Which multi Brit Awardwinning singer moved Portslade this year?
28. Which British pop artist was celebrated at Chichester’s Pallant House this summer?
29. What was the name of the new art gallery in Hastings which opened in March?
30. What piece of public art by David Batchelor was mistaken for rubbish by Brightonians and ended up splashed across the national tabloids?
31. Which Brighton venue did Charlotte Church perform at in August?
32. Which comic actor starred in the video for Rizzle Kicks’ Mama Do The Hump single?
33. Which Brighton landmark was gangster Richie Beckett trying to restore in Channel 4’s The Fear?
34. Which former British Prime Minister visited BHASVIC to discuss music hall?
35. Which celebrity chef failed in his attempt to tempt the Cooksbridge locals with posh nosh?
36. Which Turner Prize-winning artist delved into the University of Sussex photographic archives to mark its 50th anniversary?
37. Which Lewes-based hellraiser and genuine one-hit wonder celebrated his 70th birthday this year?
38. Brighton Swimming Club celebrated the 50th anniversary of which fictional spy in its Brighton Fringe synchronised swimming display, Eau Eau 7?
39. Which cult music festival returned to its original home in Camber Sands this year?
40.Name the former University of Brighton student who returned as an A-list fashion designer in March?
41. What was the theme of this year’s Pride?
42. Name the writer commemorated in February with a blue plaque on the site of one of his favourite haunts, the former Bedford hotel?
43. Which versatile singer songwriter and character comic said “I wouldn’t live in Brighton because on the pier you have that wooden flooring, it gives me vertigo and puts me off my fish and chips”?
44. Which former Oasis member launched his new band Parlour Flames at Brighton’s Pav Tav in October?
45. Which comic sold out every ticket for his show in March at the Old Market in Hove in under four minutes?
46. What was the name of the film starring Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce and Shia La Beouf that Hove musician Nick Cave penned?
47. Ron Freeman, winner of this year’s Worthing Birdman, made it how far in his modified handglider?
48. Which Pinero comedy starring Patricia Hodge launched Theatre Royal Brighton Productions in June?
49. Which Sussex-based comedian took to the De La Warr Pavilion roof to perform a set entirely in French in September?
50. Which film starring Dakota Fanning as a terminally ill teenager was set in Brighton?
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