Ten Celebrities Who Shook the Wirral Quiz

Answer: The Scaffold

The Scaffold had two other Top 10 hits, 'Thank U Very Much' and 'Liverpool Lou'. They evolved into Grimms, which also contained members of the Bonzo Dog Band.

After the Scaffold, John Gorman regularly appeared on the Saturday morning children's programme 'Tiswas' as Albert the Janitor, berating the presenters for making so much mess with their liberal throwing around of flans and water. Other British household names appearing on the show were Chris Tarrant and Lenny Henry. At the end of Series 7, Gorman, Tarrant, Henry and ventriloquist Bob Carolgees left the show. Its more adult successor, 'OTT' was less successful.

Answer: True

Believe it or not, this is a real album! At the time, T. Rex were a duo known as Tyrannosaurus Rex, and 'My People Were Fair...' was their debut, before they moved into glam rock. He appears on the final track, 'Frowning Atahuallpa (My Inca Love)'. The album was mainly acoustic, with Bolan on guitar and Steve Took on percussion.

One of Radio 1's longest-serving DJs, Peel's late night show covered all kinds of genres, from psychedelica and jazz to indie, metal and poetry, such as Ivor Cutler. He also presented the 'Home Truths' series on Radio 4, and appeared on the original series of 'Grumpy Old Men'.

Peel died of a heart attack in Peru in 2004; at his funeral, his favourite song, 'Teenage Kicks' by the Undertones, was played.

Answer: Spitting Image

Jan Ravens grew up in Hoylake, and went to school in West Kirby. An alumni of Cambridge's Footlights club, which also produced the likes of Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson, she was its first female president. As well as 'Spitting Image', she was one of the main performers in the Radio 4 comedy impressions series 'Dead Ringers'. Her impersonations included the Queen, Anne Widdecombe, Norah Jones, and Nigella Lawson. The series made a short-lived transition to television.

Outside Radio 4, Ravens appeared on the 2006 series of 'Strictly Come Dancing'. In 2009, she did a series of solo shows around the UK entitled 'Jan Ravens: A Funny Look at Impressions', in which she discussed the art of comedy impressions, as well as doing some of her most famous celebrity impersonations.

Answer: Elvis Costello

Whilst living in Birkenhead with his mother, Declan McManus formed his first band, Rusty. His father Ross, a jazz trumpeter, performed under the stage name 'Day Costello'. McManus subsequently adopted the stage name of 'DP Costello', and later 'Elvis Costello', as a tribute to both his father and Elvis Presley.

Elvis Costello went on to release several albums, both solo and with the Attractions and the Impostors. He also collaborated with the Brodsky Quartet on 'The Juliet Letters', Burt Bacharach on 'Painted from Memory', and Allen Toussaint on 'The River in Reverse'. He had cameo appearances in 'Spiceworld', the Spice Girls' movie, and 'Austin Powers 2: The Spy who Shagged Me'. He married the jazz pianist Diana Krall in 2003.

Answer: Jenny Frost

Precious came twelfth in the 1999 Eurovision Song Contest with 'Say It Again'. Although the song had some success in the British charts, the follow-ups were unsuccessful and the band split up. Jenny Frost then joined Atomic Kitten to replace Kerry Katona, who had left shortly before the release of 'Whole Again' in 2001, due to her pregnancy. The band re-recorded parts of their debut album 'Right Now' with Frost's vocals. After two more albums, 'Feels So Good' and 'Ladies' Night', they split in 2004.

After Atomic Kitten split, Frost released a solo single, 'Crash Landing', and appeared on 'I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!' in 2005. She also branched out into TV presenting. Katona, meanwhile, rejoined the band for 'The Big Reunion', a TV show featuring various '90s and '00s pop acts such as the Honeyz and B*witched.

Answer: Paul Heaton

Paul Heaton's family moved to Sheffield when he was four, and he also spent periods living in Surrey, Germany and Hull. While living in Hull, he formed the Housemartins with guitarist Stan Cullimore. The line-up also included Hugh Whittaker on drums (later replaced by Dave Hemingway) and Norman Cook - who would go on to have a solo DJ-ing career as Fatboy Slim - on bass. One of the band's support acts was Phill Jupitus, then touring under the name of Porky the Poet.

Heaton went on to form the Beautiful South with Hemingway, who switched to vocals, and roadie Dave Stead, who played drums. The band split in 2007 and Heaton went on to record solo albums, including 'What Have We Become?' with former Beautiful South singer Jacqui Abbott in 2014. In 2012, he did a tour of British pubs, travelling by bicycle the whole way.

Answer: Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson trained at RADA after receiving a scholarship in 1954, and started out in theatre before moving on to film. In 1969, she played Gudrun in Ken Russell's adaptation of DH Lawrence's 'Women in Love', for which she won an Oscar for Best Actress. She won the same award again four years later for her role as Vicky in the comedy film 'A Touch of Class'.

In 1992, Jackson retired from acting and went into politics with the Labour party. She was voted in as MP for Hampstead and Highgate (later Hampstead and Kilburn). She was a junior minister in Tony Blair's government, and a vocal critic of the war in Iraq. In 2011, she announced that she was not planning to stand again as an MP.

Answer: Patricia Routledge

Patricia Routledge made her acting debut at the Playhouse in Liverpool, and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. She received two BAFTA nominations for playing the aspirational Hyacinth Bucket in 'Keeping Up Appearances', which ran from 1990 to 1995. She later went on to star in 'Hetty Wainthropp Investigates' as the titular detective, and the radio series 'Ladies of Letters' with Prunella Scales. This itself was based on an Alan Bennett monologue, in which Routledge played Irene, a woman whose obsession with writing letters of complaint eventually lands her in prison.

Routledge was awarded an OBE in 1993, and a CBE in 2004.

Answer: Paul O'Grady

Paul O'Grady honed his drag act as Lily Savage in a London gay pub, the Elephant & Castle, where he would compete on Ladies' Nights. He then went on to present 'Blankety Blank', as well as the 'On the Bed' segments of 'The Big Breakfast' in the early '90s, and appeared in pantomime.

In 2000, O'Grady began to move away from the Lily Savage persona; he presented two travelogue shows as himself. He hung up his blonde wig and leopard-print coats for good in 2004. Later that year, O'Grady got his own celebrity chat show on ITV. In 2012, he presented 'For the Love of Dogs', focusing on the rehousing of animals from Battersea Dogs and Cats Home. It was not the first time O'Grady had worked with animals; his pet cairn terrier Olga often accompanied him on 'The Paul O'Grady Show'.

Answer: Daniel Craig

Daniel Craig was born in Chester in 1968, but was brought up in Hoylake, where he went to primary school. In 2008, he backed an RNLI campaign for a new lifeboat station in Hoylake, which has since been built, and a new all-weather lifeboat. He sailed with a lifeboat crew in order to publicise the campaign.

As well as the 'Bond' movies, Craig's other films include 'Munich' and 'The Golden Compass'. He starred in the 2011 English-language version of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo', as the journalist Mikael Blomqvist (played by Michael Nyqvist in the original Swedish version).