Bend Your Brain - The Answers

Recently I posted a little quiz, and now i think sufficient time has passed to reveal the answers. Here we go. Answers are in red.

GREEN SONGS

I give you the artist name, and the year. You give me the song titles, all of which contain the word 'green'.

1. Tom Jones, 1966 Green Green Grass Of Home

2. The Kinks, 1968  Village Green Preservation Society

3. Kermit The Frog, 1978  Bein' Green

4. The Lemon Pipers, 1968  Green Tambourine

5. Shakin' Stevens, 1981  Green Door

6. Booker T. & The M.G.'s, 1962  Green Onions

7. Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler, 1966  Ballad Of The Green Berets

8. New Order, 1981  Everything's Gone Green

9. Green Day, 1990  Green Day

10. Fleetwood Mac, 1970 Green Manalishi With The Two-Pronged Crown


IT'S ALL FOR CHARITY

Questions related to charities and charitable causes

1. Which concert starring Eric Clapton, Ravi Shankar, George Harrison and Ringo Starr took place in Madison Square Garden in 1971 and was subsequently released as a concert film?

The Concert For Bangladesh

2. The Comic Relief single "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" was credited to Mel & Kim - but WHICH Mel and WHICH Kim?

Mel Smith and Kim Wilde

3. Which organisation hosted the Secret Policeman's Ball?  Amnesty International

4. During 1981's The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, to whom did an audience member shout, "I thought you were dead!"?  Donovan. His response was "Not yet!"

5. The 1987 version of 'Let It Be' was recorded by Ferry Aid. What was it in aid of, exactly? 
Zeebrugge Disaster Fund

6.  Which Comic Relief single exhorted you to "put on your dancing trousers and get down to the total utter king of rock'n'roll"?  "Livin' Doll" by Cliff Richard and The Young Ones

7. Which charitable organisation held a series of concerts in the American Midwest, organised largely by country legend Willie Nelson?  Farm Aid

8. What percentage of all new cars sold in the UK are bought by Motability?
Is it: a) 2 percent, b) 6 percent, c) 8 percent or d) 10 percent

b) 6 percent


GREEN FILMS

Movies with an environmental theme or sub-plot.

1) A metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.  Silkwood

2) The families of children who died sue two companies for dumping toxic waste: a case so expensive to prove, it could bankrupt their lawyer, played by John Travolta. 

A Civil Action

3) A young man moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.   Hoot

4) Documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of three years on all seven continents.  Winged Migration

5) An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.  Erin Brockovich

6) When the man he was hired to follow is found dead, a hard-boiled detective in 1937 L.A. is plunged into a complex web of deceit involving murder, incest and municipal corruption all related to the city's water supply.  Chinatown

7) The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.  Gorillas In The Mist

8) An animated story in which the inhabitants of a rainforest fight to save their home that is threatened by logging and a polluting force of destruction called Hexxus.  FernGully, The Last Rainforest

9) A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.  An Inconvenient Truth

10) A paleoclimatologist for NORAD must make a daring trek across America to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.  The Day After Tomorrow