Topic Title

[JUS]

UK??????????

[Rob_Bob]

Germany, France, Italy?

[wildrover]

No, although Germany and the UK are forecast to have virtually identical populations of around 71 million, France and Italy both in the 60-70 million range.

[JUS]

Greece? Holland?

[wildrover]

No - only one of the seven is European, four in Africa and two in Asia...

[Rob_Bob]

Thailand, Vietnam, South Africa, Kenya

[wildrover]

Vietnam is correct, growing from 90 million today to 110 million by 2050. Kenya and Thailand are near misses but both will be around 70 million by 2050. South Africa is predicted to have the lowest population growth in Africa so even though it's got 52 million people today, it's only predicted to rise to 60 million.

[wildrover]

OK, too tough. The list is

Ethiopia predicted to be 228 million by 2050
DR Congo 144 million
Egypt 137 million
Tanzania 119 million
Vietnam 111 million
Turkey 101 million
Iran 101 million

The Ethiopia figure is scary - the population is 90 million today compared with 40 million in 1985 when Live Aid took place. If we can't feed 90 million every time their crops fail how on earth are we going to feed 228 million?

Anyway I don't have a good question so feel free...

[Buzzie]

Because every time their crops fail, massive amounts of aid are despatched and more people survive, and the cycle starts again

[wildrover]

There are 17 movie soundtrack albums that have sold over 5 million copies worldwide. Some are easy, some are hard and there are two where I've never heard of the film - see how many the QZ faithful can get...

[JUS]

Dirty Dancing
Pulp Fiction
Grease
Rocky Horror?
Trainspotting?

[Buzzie]

Saturday Night Fever
Sound of Music
Top Gun
Ghost
Mamma Mia
Flashdance
Fame!
The Bodyguard
Pretty Woman
Buster

[feey]

Purple rain
The lion king
Footloose
Titanic
Waiting to exhale

[wildrover]

Excellent opening salvo and all of the Top 10 nailed.

1. The Bodyguard
2. Saturday Night Fever
3. Purple Rain
4. Dirty Dancing
5.Titanic
6. The Lion King
7. Footloose
8. Top Gun
9. Grease
10. Waiting to Exhale (never heard of this one)
13. Flashdance

the other six are more difficult as 4 out of 6 I would describe as films with good soundtracks rather than musicals; in fact two of them I wouldn't describe as having good soundtracks but there's no accounting for taste...

[JUS]

U2 Rattle and Hum :evil: