Entertainment in the Black Trivia Quiz

Answer: Blackboard Jungle

Evan Hunter (who also wrote as Ed McBain) had a hit with his book about a teacher in a tough New York school, 'The Blackboard Jungle', in 1954.
The following year it was filmed as 'Blackboard Jungle' with Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier.
The use at several stages in the movie of 'Rock Around the Clock' performed by Bill Haley and His Comets, had a big impact.

Answer: Captain Scarlet

'Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons' was a Gerry Anderson TV series filmed in 'Supermarionation', no less. Francis Matthews voiced Captain Scarlet, the 'indestructible' hero, in his battles with the evil Martian race called the Mysterons. Captain Black was a former colleague who had been taken over by the Mysterons.

Answer: Crow

Ted Hughes's collection of poetry from 1970, 'Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow', features powerful imagery, savage language, and not a little humour.

Answer: Black Sabbath

In 1969 Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward were performing as 'Earth'. There was another English band with that name. The 1963 movie 'Black Sabbath' starring Karloff was showing at a cinema over the road from where they were rehearsing. Impressed that so many people were into horror, Osbourne and Butler used the movie's name for a song. The band decided to go for a name change to 'Black Sabbath' in August 1969 and the rest is history.

'Black Rebel Motorcycle Club' also watched movies. Their name came from Brando's biker gang in 'The Wild One'.

Answer: Powell and Pressburger

'Black Narcissus' was made in 1947 by the creative team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Filmed in Technicolor by the Academy Award winning Jack Cardiff and starring Deborah Kerr and Jean Simmons, it was chosen in 1999 by the British Film Institute as one of the 100 best British movies.

Answer: Sonic

'Sonic and the Black Knight' was a game on the Wii platform in which Sonic had to free King Arthur's realm from the grip of the evil Black Knight.

Answer: Under Milk Wood

'Under Milk Wood', a play for voices, features a day in the life of a fictional Welsh seaside town called Llareggub. Thomas participated in an initial read-through in New York in May 1953 and finished writing it in the October. By the time the BBC staged the piece on radio in January 1954, he had been dead for two months.

Answer: Glenn Miller

This popular standard, whose lyrics Mercer wrote for Judy Garland, has been recorded by many great interpreters, but Glenn Miller got there first. It reached number one on the Billboard charts in May 1943 - the last number one of his amazing career.

Answer: England and Wales

Chatwin's novel follow the lives of twin brothers from a farm on the Herefordshire-Powys border. His second novel, it somehow won the Whitbread First Novel of the Year award in 1982.
The movie starred Mike and Robert Gwilym as the Jones brothers.

Answer: Black Friday

'Black Friday' was track one and the first single released from the album 'Katy Lied'. The band had stopped performing live and was basically Walter Becker and Donald Fagen with an array of session musicians. The lyrics are typically oblique, with reference to feeding kangaroos in Muswellbrook in New South Wales. The single didn't do well, but the album went gold in the USA.