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Season 1 - Week 4 Flashcards

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The GNU GPL (often simply called GPL) is a widely-used free software license that guarantees end users the freedom to run, study, share, and modify software. If the letter L in GPL stands for Licence, what do the letters GP stand for?

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General Public

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Julian Cope was the lead singer of which British band, best known for their early 80s hit singles Reward and Treason (It’s Just a Story) ?

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The Teardrop Explodes

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Located in the south Dublin suburb of the same name, Tallaght Stadium [pronounced “Tallah”] is the home ground of which League of Ireland football team?

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Shamrock Rovers

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Founded in 1862, what British confectionery company introduced such popular chocolate brands as KitKat, Aero and Smarties? Despite being taken over by Nestlé in 1988, its name is still used as branding on the front of certain products such as Fruit Pastilles and Jelly Tots.

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Rowntree’s

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Since the UK left the European Union, what is now the largest EU country by population not to use the euro as its currency? This country’s population is 38 million and the five-letter name of its currency translates as “golden”.

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Poland

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What basketball legend and winner of six NBA championships starred in the 1996 movie Space Jam ?

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Michael Jordan

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With a name taken from a French word for “wild beasts”, what early 20th-century art movement emphasised broad brushstrokes and strong colours when compared to impressionism? Henri Matisse was arguably the most prominent member of this movement.

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Fauvism

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A timpani is a musical instrument that would be found in what section of an orchestra?

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Percussion (a timpani is a type of kettle drum)

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The TV shows Ally McBeal , Dawson’s Creek and St. Elsewhere are all set in towns or cities in which US state?

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Massachusetts

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Danny O’Reilly, lead singer of Irish rock band The Coronas, is the son of what highly successful female Irish singer, born in Dublin in 1955?

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Mary Black

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In French cuisine, what sauce, commonly served with fish, is made by adding grated cheese to a basic béchamel sauce?

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Mornay sauce

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Of the 77 performers to have won the Oscar for Best Actress to date, whose surname comes last alphabetically? In addition to her Best Actress win in 2020, she had previously won Best Supporting Actress in 2004 for a film set during the US Civil War.

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Renée Zellweger (the movies were Judy and Cold Mountain )

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Having sold over a quarter of a million copies since first published in 1971, what book by Jack Fitzsimons has been described as “the book that changed the face of rural Ireland”? The book contained dozens of blueprints for affordable house designs, inspiring many Irish couples to build their own homes in the countryside during the 70s, 80s and 90s.

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Bungalow Bliss

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One of the longest rivers in Ireland, what river passes through the Leinster towns of Athy [pronounced “a thigh”], Portarlington and New Ross before meeting the river Suir [pronounced “sure”] at Waterford Harbour?

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Barrow

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A total of 19 Irish counties have won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship since its inception in 1887. The 2 most recent counties to be added to this list are both Ulster counties and won their first title in consecutive years (2002 and 2003). Name both counties?

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Armagh & Tyrone (need both)

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Opened in 1988, the 23km-long Seikan tunnel is the world’s longest undersea rail tunnel. It connects Honshu to which other of Japan’s major islands?

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Hokkaido

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In French cuisine, a base ingredient in many sauces is a mixture of sautéed carrots, onions, and celery known by what name?

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Mirepoix [pronounced “meerpwah”]

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Irish actress Eve Hewson, known for TV shows such as Behind Her Eyes and the 2020 mini-series The Luminaries, is the daughter of what highly successful male Irish singer, born in Dublin in 1960?

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Bono (or Paul Hewson) - prompt if “Hewson” given by itself

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The TV shows Twin Peaks, Rick and Morty and Grey’s Anatomy are all set in towns or cities in which US state?

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Washington

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Located in the Dublin suburb of Inchicore, Richmond Park is the home ground of which League of Ireland football team?

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St. Patrick’s Athletic (accept St. Pat’s)

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Exactly 10 years prior to Armagh & Tyrone, the previous 2 Irish counties to become All-Ireland Senior Football Champions for the first time also did so in consecutive years (1992 and 1993) and by coincidence, were both also Ulster counties. Name both counties?

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Donegal & Derry (need both)

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With a name taken from a French nickname for a hobby horse, what early 20th-century avant-garde art movement focused on deliberate irrationality and negation of traditional artistic values? Marcel Duchamps was arguably the most prominent member of this movement.

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Dada / Dadaism

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Clare Grogan was the lead singer of which British band, best known for their early 80s hit singles such as I Could be Happy and Don’t Talk To Me About Love ?

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Altered Images

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One of the longest rivers in Ireland, what river passes through Lough Neagh [pronounced “nay”] and the Ulster towns of Portadown and Coleraine before reaching the sea near Portstewart, County Derry?

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Bann

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Of the 77 performers to have won the Oscar for Best Actress to date, whose surname comes first alphabetically? When this actress won her only Academy Award in 1965, she became the first person to win an acting Oscar for appearing in a Disney film.

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Julie Andrews (the film was Mary
Poppins)

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Founded in 1761, what British confectionery company launched the Chocolate Cream, the world’s first mass-produced chocolate bar, in 1866? Despite being taken over by Cadbury’s in 1919, its name is still used as branding on the front of certain products such as the Chocolate Cream (still produced today), Peppermint Cream and Turkish Delight.

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Fry’s

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Since the UK left the European Union, what is now the second-largest EU country by population not to use the euro as its currency? This country’s population is 19 million and the three-letter name of its currency translates as “lion”.

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Romania

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What basketball legend and winner of four NBA championships starred in the 2021 movie sequel Space Jam: A New Legacy ?

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LeBron James

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Opened in 2019, the 14km-long Ryfast tunnel is the world’s deepest undersea road tunnel, which at its lowest lies 290 metres below sea level. It connects the district of Ryfylke [pronounced “Ri-fill-ka”] with the city of Stavanger, in which Northern European country?

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Norway

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Differing by only one letter in their spelling, what name is shared between two annually-published astrological books, containing predictions about the year ahead? One was first published in England in 1697 and the other in Ireland in 1764, and both continue to be published yearly to this day. Both books
were founded by men with the same surname – although they were not related – hence the similarity in the names of the books.

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Old Moore’s Almanac (the English version spells “Almanack” with a K)

31
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In computing, JSON [pronounced “jay-sonn”] is a widely-used data interchange format allowing data to be shared between web applications, while also keeping the data human-readable. If the JS in JSON stands for “JavaScript”, what does the ON stand for?

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Object Notation

32
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A cor anglais is a musical instrument that would be found in what section of an orchestra?

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Woodwind (cor anglais is also known as the “English horn” - similar to an oboe)

33
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It is generally advised that people should avoid eating apple pips since they contain amygdalin, a substance which the human body metabolises into what poison? (Though an average person would have to eat roughly 200 pips to be at risk of poisoning)

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Cyanide (accept prussic acid)

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It’s not the potato, but which other widely-eaten starchy tuber native to the Americas is poisonous in its raw form? Traditionally the tubers are soaked, cooked or fermented in order to reduce the poison to safe levels before being eaten or processed into foods such as tapioca

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Cassava (accept manioc or yuca)

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One of the most celebrated dishes in Japanese cuisine, what is the four-letter name for the flesh of the Japanese pufferfish? Famously, chefs must train for 3 years to prepare this dish, since most parts of the fish are highly toxic.

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Fugu (accept bogeo, bok or hétún)

36
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Name the English author of The Horse Whisperer, who was hospitalised in 2008 after he and his family accidentally ate poisonous mushrooms while on holiday in Scotland? He survived the experience but subsequently required a kidney transplant.

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Nicholas Evans

37
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The record for most consecutive wins at the same Formula 1 Grand Prix is five, jointly held by Lewis Hamilton and what other driver? This latter driver won 5 Monaco GPs in a row from 1989 to 1993 - tragically, he never got to try for six-in-arow as he died in a crash at Imola, two weeks before the 1994 Monaco GP.

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Ayrton Senna

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Three different circuits have held the British Grand Prix since the F1 World Championship was established in 1950. Silverstone and Brands Hatch are two: what is the third? Holding 5 GPs in the 1950s and 60s, this racecourse in the north of England is much better known as the venue for one of the world’s most famous horse races.

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Aintree

39
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Hosting its country’s namesake F1 Grand Prix from 1967 to 1993, in what country is Kyalami motor racing circuit? No Grands Prix have been held in this country since 1993.

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South Africa

40
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Due to COVID, the 2020 F1 calendar saw several countries hosting two Grands Prix in the same season for the first time. These “duplicate” GPs were given new names to avoid confusion, for example the second race held in Italy was named the “Tuscan Grand Prix”. Held in December 2020 as the
penultimate race of the season, in what Asian country was the Sakhir Grand Prix held?

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Bahrain

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Built in the 1980s, Moneypoint in County Clare has been described as “Ireland’s single largest emitter of greenhouse gases” since it is not only the country’s largest power station (generating 25% of Ireland’s electricity) but also the only active Irish power station to use what “dirty” fuel source?

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Coal

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The most ambitious project undertaken by the Irish Free State government in the decade after Irish independence - what power station located on the Shannon river was the world’s largest hydroelectric plant when it opened in 1929?

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Ardnacrusha

43
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Sharing its name with the second-largest lake on the River Shannon, what peat-fired power station near Lanesborough on the Roscommon/Longford border was shut down in December 2020 as part of the shift towards renewable energy?

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Lough Ree

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Of the 10 currently active hydroelectric power stations in the Republic of Ireland, three of them are in County Donegal: Clady, Cliff, and Cathaleen’s Fall – the latter two of which are located on what major Ulster river?

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Erne

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What weather condition, caused by tiny water droplets suspended in the air, is defined by the Met Office as “cloud at ground level that causes a reduction in visibility to less than 1,000 metres”?

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Fog (do not accept mist - this is similar but with visibility over 1,000 metres)

46
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What stone fruit has a purplish-black variety named after the city of Kalamata in southern Greece?

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Olive

47
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What stage musical features the duet I Know Him So Well ? The song was a UK number one single in 1985 for Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson.

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Chess

48
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Which Austrian tennis player won his first Grand Slam title in the men’s singles tournament at the 2020 US Open?

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Dominic Thiem [pronounced “teem”]

49
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In 2006, the year after his death, Belfast City Airport was renamed in honour of what legendary Belfast-born footballer? He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1968, the same year he won the European Cup while playing for Manchester United

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George Best

50
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The Belfast-born 19th century scientist and mathematician William Thomson is better known by what name? Particularly noted for his work in the field of thermodynamics, he is the only Irish-born person to have an SI unit named after him.

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Lord Kelvin

51
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What Belfast-born actor and filmmaker was the first person to be nominated for Academy Awards in 5 different categories? The first two of these nominations (Best Actor and Best Director) came for his 1989 adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V .

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Kenneth Branagh

52
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To date, there have been two Nobel Prize winners born in Belfast - please name both? These two women were the joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for their efforts towards finding a peaceful resolution to the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

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Betty Williams (accept Smyth) & Mairead Corrigan (accept Maguire) - need both

53
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What famous battle of 490 BC saw the Athenians deal a crushing defeat to a much larger army of invading Persians? It shares its name with a modern Olympic event, based on an apocryphal story that a Greek messenger ran over 40km back to Athens to carry news of the victory, before dropping dead from exhaustion.

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Battle of Marathon

54
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What English king died at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, making him the last English monarch (to date!) to be killed in battle? Name and regnal number required.

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Richard III (the third)

55
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Taking place in County Galway on 12th July 1691, what was the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland? The annual Twelfth of July celebrations in Ulster originally commemorated this battle, rather than the Battle of the Boyne.

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Battle of Aughrim

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With over 60,000 casualties, one of the deadliest non-World War battles of the 20th century was the 1921 Battle of the Sakarya, which took place on the banks of the namesake Asian river. It was a pivotal victory in the path to independence of what modern-day country?

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Turkey

57
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In a move that caused worldwide controversy and led to Russia being expelled from the G8, in 2014 Vladimir Putin ordered the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, which at the time was territory belonging to which neighbouring country?

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Ukraine

58
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Someone in a “prone” position is lying flat and facing downwards. What six-letter word refers to the opposite, in other words a position in which a person lies horizontally on their back, facing upwards?

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Supine

59
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From the Latin for “sparrow-shaped”, what is the generic term for a “perching bird” or “songbird”? This term encompasses roughly 60% of bird species and refers to any bird with three toes pointing forward and one pointing backwards on each foot, to facilitate perching.

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Passerine

60
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Since the boundaries of France’s administrative regions were redrawn in 2016, what has been the largest region in France
by area? It comprises roughly one-eighth of the country’s area, and contains the cities Bordeaux, Limoges and Poitiers.

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Nouvelle-Aquitaine [prompt on “Aquitaine”]

61
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Released in 2000, Breathless was the only UK number one single to date by which internationally-successful Irish band, consisting of four siblings?

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The Corrs

62
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Madonna’s 1990 album I’m Breathless consists of songs from (or inspired by) what movie released the same year, starring Warren Beatty? The album was named after Breathless Mahoney, the supporting character played by Madonna in this film.

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Dick Tracey

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Reaching number 2 in the UK album charts in 2007, Breathless was the second studio album by which English singer? He was the winner of the second UK series of The X Factor in 2005, and more recently played the role of Aidan Connor in Coronation Street from 2015 to 2018.

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Shayne Ward

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Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo as a petty criminal and Jean Seberg as his American girlfriend, the 1960 film Breathless (known in French as À bout de souffle ) was the debut feature film of what influential French New Wave film director?

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Jean-Luc Godard

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