Keyword quiz #1

Here is the first in a series of themed quizzes that are conveniently recycled from another location (basically, I can put these together in 10 minutes). I'm not sure it works, but it's definitely... something.

1 Formed in 1968, which English rock band is named after a 1934 song by the pianist Peter De Rose? 

2 Named after a purple flower, which floral-flavoured sweets were created in 1946 by Swizzels Matlow? 

3 Which online estate agent was founded in 2012 by brothers Michael and Kenny Bruce?  

4 Which tabletop game originally named its title characters Harry (yellow), Henry (orange), Homer (green) and Lizzie (purple)? 

5 The purple cow Lila is the mascot of which Swiss-founded chocolate brand?  

6 “Acting funny, but I don't know why / 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky” - which Jimi Hendrix song? 

7 Native to south-east Asia, which purple-skinned “queen of fruit” has white wedge-like segments? 

8 Which chocolate maker lost its long-standing trademark for the purple colour “Pantone 2685C”? 

9 The carnivorous purple pitcher plant is the floral emblem of which Canadian province?  

10 The swallowtail and purple emperor are Britain’s two largest species of which insect?  

11 Which 1984 album by Prince and the Revolution features the tracks Let’s Go Crazy, Darling Nikki and I Would Die 4 U? 

12 The purple-crested turaco (Tauraco porphyreolophus) is the national bird of which kingdom? 

13 Purple Mountain or Zijin Shan is located on the eastern side of which city in China’s Jiangsu province? 

14 Together with retinene (retinal), the protein opsin forms which purple visual pigment?  

15 Which Nigerian author wrote the novels Purple Hibiscus (2003) and Americanah (2013)?  

16 In a poem by Amy Lowell, which flowers are repeatedly described as "False blue, / White, / Purple"?

17 Accidentally discovered by William Henry Perkin, what was the first synthetic organic dye?   

18 What type of dinosaur is the purple TV star of Barney & Friends? 

19 The Purple Rain protest took place in which country on September 2, 1989? 

20 Celie is the heroine of which 1982 novel by Alice Walker?  

21 Which type of fruit cordial features in a Purple Guinness cocktail?  

22 Credited as the voice actor who provided the Wilhelm Scream, who had a 1958 US No 1 hit with the novelty song The Purple People Eater?   

23 Black jacobin, Crimson topaz, Green hermit, Purple-crowned fairy and Red-tailed comet are types of what?  

24 Susie Dent hosted the podcast Something Rhymes with Purple with which former Tory MP? 

25 Porphyrin is a class of pigments that derives its name from the Greek for which colour? 

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1 Deep Purple 2 Parma Violets 3 Purplebricks 4 Hungry Hungry Hippos 5 Milka 6 Purple Haze 7 Mangosteen 8 Cadbury’s 9 Newfoundland and Labrador 10 Butterfly 11 Purple Rain 12 Eswatini 13 Nanjing 14 Rhodopsin 15 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 16 Lilacs 17 Mauveine or aniline purple 18 Tyrannosaurus rex 19 South Africa 20 The Color Purple 21 Blackcurrant 22 Sheb Wooley 23 Hummingbird 24 Gyles Brandreth 25 Purple