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Win tickets to The Hot 100 party with this 40th birthday List quiz

Want a bit of fun? Want to win two tickets to our Hot 100 party? Want both things? Then have a gander at the below questions and either attempt the online version or send a carrier-pigeon stamped-addressed postcard with your answers to ‘The List in Scotland Edinburgh’

At the 2018 Edinburgh Comedy Awards, whose speech included this quip: ‘I remember being reviewed back then by The List… are they still going?’

  1. Johnny Vegas
  2. Steve Coogan
  3. Doug Stanhope
  4. Daniel Kitson

Who won the Spirit Of The Fringe prize at this year’s List Festival Awards?

  1. Cat Power
  2. Sacred Paws
  3. Pussy Riot
  4. Edinburgh’s landlording community 

Which member of the core Sopranos cast have we not interviewed? 

  1. Vincent Pastore (Sal ‘Big Pussy’ Bonpensiero)
  2. Steven R Schirripa (Robert ‘Bobby Bacala’ Baccalieri Jr)
  3. Vincent Curatola (John ‘Johnny Sack’ Sacrimoni)
  4. Michael Imperioli (Christopher ‘No Middle Nickname’ Moltisanti)

In an early Student Guide, the Health section featured a picture of a golden-age Hollywood actress accompanied by this caption: ‘A picture of health. Dead now unfortunately…’ Who was said late star?

  1. Ingrid Bergman
  2. Marilyn Monroe
  3. Ginger Rogers
  4. Rita Hayworth

The List CEO Sheri Friers is life partner of which iconic drummer?

  1. Idles' Jon Beavis
  2. Idlewild's Colin Newton  
  3. Billy Idol's 1990s sticks man Mark Schulman
  4. Animal

In the first issue of a year during the 2000s, the mag wondered whether its cover star was ‘The new Ewan McGregor?’ Who was being handed this passport to glory/poisoned chalice?

  1. Conor McGregor
  2. Ewan McGregor
  3. Callum McGregor
  4. James McAvoy

Which one of these is our most regrettable coverline?

  1. Why won’t Angelina Jolie keep a man? 
  2. Would you date this man? Win a one-to-one with Russell Brand!
  3. Sharon Stone: did she open her legs for Bill Murray?
  4. All of the above, and equally

Who is the only person to have topped our Hot 100 twice?

  1. Peter Capaldi
  2. Anna Meredith 
  3. Richard Gadd
  4. Armando Iannucci

During 2003, our letters page (yes, we once had such a thing), featured this complaint: ‘On opening this edition of The List, I was shocked and appalled by the image that l was first greeted with’. A picture of whom had caused such consternation?

  1. George Bush
  2. The List deputy editor
  3. Billy Connolly
  4. Morrissey

Which behemoth-like cultural figure once appeared on our cover alongside the line: 

‘Dickheid or deity?’

  1. Dick Francis
  2. Moby Dick
  3. Dick Van Dyke
  4. Irvine Welsh 

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Competition closes: Friday, 31 October 2025 at 23:59

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