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Celebrating ten years of phenomenal success, Trivial Pursuit is Britain’s best-selling board game, having sold one game every six seconds forthe
past decade (now there’s trivia for you). Manufacturers Parker are now producing an annual edition of the game with questions based entirely on topical trivia of the past twelve months.
With one eye towards Christmas, The List has got its hands on a copy of
the Genius Third Edition of Trivial Pursuit, and a runner-up prize ofthe
1992 Annual Edition (questions only). Just answerthe speciallytrivial
question and return the form by Thursday 26 November when the draw will take pace.
What animal mates with a yak to make a dzo (orzho)?
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. Morris (Cumbria), Morna Reekie, H.
The Naked Lunch comp attracted a plethora of entrants desperate to get their mitts on a natty suede jacket. Hazel Carr of Edinburgh was the lucky one with runners-up Ian Peaston, Kate McDonald (Glasgow), Michael Fantom, lsla Wilson (Edinburgh) and Glen Thomson (Strathaven) each getting a video, a novel and a baseball cap.
Lastly, The Angela Carter buffs who
3 won a set of live novels were L. Norris ' (Edinburgh),Chris Rogers(East
Kilbride), Sandra Macaskill, Carol
' Emslie (Glasgow) and J. Taylor ; (Cumbernauld).
John Sparkes is the creator of characters including Frank Hovis and Siadwell and is a regular on
Absolutely. S. Ramsay and P.
McDonald (both Edinburgh) won a
: groovy Absolutely T-shirt and a copy of Absolutely—The Vido for knowing as 5 much, while the following readers
landed themselves a T-shirt each:
? Aileen O'Haliday, Alan Marsden, J.
Day (all Glasgow), S. Gilchrist (Cumbernauld), Jane Stewart (Renfrew), James Milne (File), Laura Hird and N. McGill (both Edinburgh). All good students know that Coors Extra Gold is brewed In Golden, Colorado, and there’ll be a few parties in the halls of residence when the following people receive their Coors six-packs after winning the competition in The List's Student Guide: Colin Wilson, Andrew Robb, R. M. Henry, X. Li (all Glasgow), Nick Beare, M. Royles, R. Hare, Leon Harding,
Richard Pottinger (all Edinburgh), T.
' Johnson (both Stirling). K. Murray
(Falkirk) and Steve Harrison (East Lothian). Fred Palmer(Edinburgh) was the First Prize-winner of all-American Coors baseball jacket.
The best-travelled student in
, Glasgow will soon be Paul Haughton y who won a pair of Eurotrain Rome
Explorer passes to take him and a friend through many of the key cultural centres of Europe. The prize, courtesy of Campus Travel, was awarded for knowing that Campus Travel‘s new Edinburgh shop is in Forrest Road and that the Pantheon and the Colosseum are in Rome. Happy travels!
Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop was made into a movie in 1987 and Sandra MacAskill, Carol Emslie (both Glasgow), Chris Rogers (East Kilbride), Sandie Hope and L. Norris (both Edinburgh) each won a set of live Angela Carter novels that have recently been republished by Virago.
Fact freaks will know that there are roughly 568cc in a pint. And it‘s a pint of Theakstons Best Bitter, an engraved pint glass and a brass bottle opener, all neatly packaged in a presentation box, that the following twenty readers will soon be getting good use out of: James Mackie, Max Hall, R. Hunter, Andrew Jacobs, Nigel Ettles, Donna Tombs, Louise Vickerman (all Glasgow), N. Douglas, Jim Darroch, Neill Mitchell, Colin Tate, Stephanie Geiges, Roy Parker, R. Jones (all Edinburgh), Kathryn Ross, Jean Russell (both Portobello), Norman Inglis, Gordon Pryde (both File), Malcolm Renville (Haddington), James Mabon (Stirling).
BUNUEL ON VIDEO! t
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On 9 November, three movie masterpieces by Spanish surrealist Luis I
Buhuel are released on video forthe firsttime afterthe successful !
cinema revival of Belle de Jourwhich earned more than £100,000 atthe UK box office. Electric Pictures is bringing out the elegant and erotic
Belle de Jour (1967) starring Catherine Deneuve, the hilarious Academy
Award-winning satire The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), and ,
the director’s last picture, That Obscure Object of Desire (1977). !
Selling at £15.99 each, the films mark three key moments in the career 1 of the founder of surrealist cinema. The List has three sets of all the videos to give away and all you have to do is answer the question and return the form by Wednesday 25 November when the draw will take I place. i
Bur‘iuel's career began in 1929 with Un Chien Andalou — with which famous Spanish surrealist painter did he collaborate? ‘
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Send to BUNUEL VIDEO COMPETITION, The List, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH11TE.
BUMPER PACK OF SCOTTISH VIDEO COMEDY!
The BBC Scottish Comedy Unit has been responsible for some of the best TV comedy in recent years, pulling huge audiences for Rab C. Nesbitt, Scotch and Wry, Naked Video and City Lights, and achieving similar success with its BBC Video releases. Household names like Dave Anderson, Eric Cullen, Gregor Fisher, Gerard Kelly, Tony Roper and Elaine C. Smith have all made their mark thanks to the Comedy Unit.
The List has teamed up with BBC Video to give away an assorted collection of 25 videos featuring highlights, whole episodes and live performances from Scotland’s best-loved entertainers. The first prize winnerwill receive five videos, and ten runners-up will win two videos each! Just answer the question and return the form by Tuesday 24 November when the draw will take place.
Who plays Rab C. Nesbitt’s wife? r ,g '
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Send to SCOTTISH COMEDY COMPETITION, The List, 14 High Street, ‘ Edinburgh EH1 1TE.
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