The Brentwood Gazette’s Weekly Teaser — 14-8-2013: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Hmmm … 

Looks like today’s headline in the Brentwood Gazette’s caught people’s eye: about how one councillor thinks young women in short skirts should get subsidised taxis out of town.

ESPECIALLY on those oh so drunken weekends.

Hmmm … 

You know, I might just have to send in a letter: we’ll see.

~≈|≈~

At ANY rate … ?

At ANY rate, today is Wednesday.

Which means, of course, that it’s the day for the Brentwood Gazette’s Weekly Teaser, covered by the usual Creative Commons License*: by contrast to last week’s Teaser, this week’s has a slightly lighter tone …

Q1) 14th August saw the initial release of ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show.’   In which year of the 1970s … ?

Q2) More to the point, what was the name of the stage musical that the film’s based on … ?

Q3) Which stroke survivor played ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’’s cross-dressing villain … ?

Q4) More to the point, what’s the name of that villain … ?

Q5) The film’s writer, Richard O’Brien, played which character in the film … ?

Q6) More to the point, O’Brien was the original presenter of which TV game show … ?

Q7) In the original stage version, two characters are traditionally played by the same actor: one in the first act, the other in the second.   Name either of those characters.

Q8) Which of those characters — in the film — was played by singer, and actor, Meatloaf … ?

Q9) The film’s narrator — played by the late Charles Grey — is technically a what … ?

Q10) Finally … the film’s signature dance, ‘The Time Warp’, starts with a jump, where: left or right … ?

Talking of last week’s: here it is, along with the answers …

Questions.

Q1) 7th August saw construction begin on the Mauthausen Concentration Camp: in which year of the 1930s … ?

Q2) In which European country was Mauthausen … ?

Q3) Mauthausen was intended as one of the toughest camps possible, and labelled what: Grade One, Two or Three … ?

Q4) The camp was physically built by inmates from which camp: Dachau, Buchenwald or Belsen … ?

Q5) Which famous Nazi hunter was a survivor of Mauthausen … ?

Q6) Brian Stonehouse was one of the few British prisoners of the camp: captured on a mission for which wartime organisation … ?

Q7) Jewish people were famously persecuted in camps like Mauthausen.   Along with members of which nomadic ethnic group … ?

Q8) Mauthausen was notoriously used as a source of slave labour for German companies, making over how many Reichsmarks: ten million, eleven million or twelve million … ?

Q9) Which German pharmaceutical company had a factory in the Mauthausen camp … ?

Q10) Finally … what’s the legal term for the sort of mass murder practiced at German concentration camps … ?

Answers.

A1) 1938.

A2) Austria.

A3) Grade Three.

A4) Dachau.

A5) Simon Wiesenthal.

A6) The SOE: or Special Operations Executive.

A7) The Roma, or Gypsies.

A8) Eleven million.

A9) Bayer.

A10) Genocide.

Enjoy those: I hope they’re fun.

Or, at least, as fun as this … 

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