The Challenge

[spursfan]

Yet again I have to admit failure and ask for help
Q18 What connects (specifically) the football stadium and nuclear reactor at Berkeley Oakland university and the Palmdale Pimple?
Q36 During the 1990's at one of the University Boat Races,the Oxford president was accused of making an obscene gesture to the Cambridge crew and the Cambridge crew failed to give three cheers to the victors.Which year was it ?
Q53 Which was the next act after the Beatles to have a US hit with I Want to Hold Your Hand?
Thanks

[shammydodger]

"I Want To Hold Your Hand" was not subject to numerous cover versions like other Beatles' songs such as "Yesterday" or "Something", although Arthur Fiedler & the Boston Pops Orchestra did attempt an instrumental version in 1964, which actually rose as high as number 55 in the American charts. Another notable cover was by The Moving Sidewalks who did a psychedelic version in the late 1960s. French parodic band Odeurs covered the song as a military march sung with a strong German accent. The American band Sparks also delivered an unusual Philadelphia Sound-style cover of the song in the mid-1970s. It was also covered by R&B band Lakeside. The Beatles/Metallica fusion group Beatallica performed an homage to the song, titled "I Want to Choke Your Band," on their 2004 eponymous second album. Neil Innes' The Rutles also memorably pastiched the song with laser-like accuracy as "Hold My Hand" in 1978.

From Wikipedia. Is No. 55 considered a "hit"?

[campbellking]

Q.36. Was 1991 when Rupert Obholzer decided to make his obscene gesture. Don't think it had anything to do with absence of cheering as Cambridge were only just crossing the line.

[spursfan]

Thanks shammydodger and campbellking for your answers/suggestions