The answers to a popcorn quiz. If you’ve not done it yet, and want to, head over to that page before reading on.
The answers to a who didn’t sing it quiz. If you’ve not done it yet, and want to, head over to that page before reading on.
1. Which Queen song was not scheduled to be released as a single until DJ Kenny Everett obtained an early pressing and played it 14 times in two days, generating a massive demand for the song?
Bohemian Rhapsody
2. Artist and Song?
Dexys Midnight Runners – There There My Dear
3. Which song did former astronaut Chris Hadfield sing when aboard the International Space Station in 2013?
Space Oddity
4. Artist and Song?
Green Day – Basket Case
5. Which song did John Denver write in 1973 as an ode to his then wife in ten-and-a-half minutes one day on a ski lift?
Annie’s Song
6. Artist and Song?
New Order – Ceremony
7. Which war novel, by American author Stephen Crane, takes place during the American Civil War and is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle?
Red Badge Of Courage
8. Artist and Song?
Coldplay – Viva La Vida
9. Which Sheffield drinking establishment can be found at 23 Trippet Lane and, when open, hosts Saturday afternoon Northern Soul days.
Maggie May’s
10. Artist and Song?
Radiohead – Street Spirit
11. What is the colloquial name of the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge in New York City, due to where its Manhattan end is located?
The 59th Street Bridge
12. Artist and Song?
The Who – Baba O’Riley
13. Which film starred Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy Galore and Gert Fröbe as the title character?
Goldfinger
14. Artist and Song?
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
15. Who was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1483 until his death in 1485, being the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty?
Richard III
16. Artist and Song?
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
17. Which American actor, film director, composer, and producer first achieved success in a TV Western and rose to international fame with his role as the “Man with No Name”?
Clint Eastwood
18. Artist and Song?
Cat Stevens – Father and Son
19. Which character in Lewis Carroll’s 1865 book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland appears at the very beginning of the book wearing a waistcoat, and muttering “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!?
White Rabbit
20. Artist and Song?
Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues
Bonus: What links the answers?
They are all songs whose title does not appear in the lyrics.
For odd numbered questions, the songs are:
The answers to a who are we quiz. If you’ve not done it yet, and want to, head over to that page before reading on.
1. Who am I – Big Cigar, Born at Blenheim, wrote a History of the English Speaking Peoples?
Winston Churchill
2. Who am I – Big Hat, Big Cigar, Big Bridges?
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
3. Who am I – Part alter ego of Wonder Woman, part the place your mum buys her pants?
Diana Spencer
4. Who am I – I had a Beagle, a big beard and my final book was the Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Actions of Worms 1881?
Charles Darwin
5. Who am I – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford or Sir Francis Bacon or Christopher Marlowe or William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby?
William Shakespeare
6. Who am I – 1643 to 1727?
Isaac Newton
7. Who am I – “I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king”?
Queen Elizabeth I
8. Who am I – Middle name Winston and was the Walrus?
John Lennon
9. Who am I – It has been suggested that a 19th Century wrestling move is named after him due to navel strategies he used to surround the opponent to win the Battle of the Nile?
Horatio Nelson
10. Who am I – My body was exhumed from Westminster Abbey on 30 January 1661 and was subjected to a posthumous execution, as were the remains of John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton?
Oliver Cromwell
11. Who am I – I was born in 1874 in County Kildare, Ireland and I am most famous for my expedition in 1914 that crushed my Endurance and failed despite which, no lives were lost?
Sir Ernest Shackleton
12. Who am I – I lead three incredible voyages, the first of which I was appointed leader due to my skill and knowledge of astronomy and the last of which saw my demise at Kealakekua Bay in1779, in a confrontation with the Indigenous people of Hawaii?
Captain James Cook
13. Who am I – A British Army officer, writer and founder of a world-wide youth movement which he wrote a book about that was published in 1908 and is the 4th best selling book of the 20th century?
Robert Baden-Powell
14. Who am I – A learned and merciful man of a gracious and level-headed nature who encouraged education, proposing that primary education be taught in English and who successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by the time of his death had become the dominant ruler in England?
Alfred the Great
15. Who am I – Better known by his title than his name, a leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, served twice as prime minister and responsible for ending the Napoleonic Wars?
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
16. Who am I – The longest serving Prime Minister of the 20th Century, educated in school sin Lincolnshire at and graduated from Oxford with Second-Class Honours, in the four-year Chemistry Bachelor of Science degree?
Margaret Thatcher
17. Who am I – Born Michael Patrick Smith, made famous by playing Frank alongside Betty and Jessica on TV in 1973 and 1975 and has performed in various productions on the West End and on Broadway?
Michael Crawford
18. Who am I – First name Alexandrina, named after her godfather, Tsar Alexander I, proposed to her husband, had nine children, survived at least six attempts on her life and became queen at the age of 18?
Queen Victoria
19. Who am I – Said to have “died” on 9 November, 1966 and replaced by a look-a-like, just for not wearing shoes?
Sir Paul McCartney
20. Who am I – Born in Ayrshire, Scotland in 1881, accepted with a scholarship into St Mary’s Hospital Medical School at the age of 25, earned a gold medal in 1908 for being the University’s highest ranked medical student, discovered one of the most widely used medications and named it after the Latin name for mould?
Sir Alexander Fleming
Bonus: Who are they?
They are the top 20 Greatest Britons as voted for by the British public in a poll for BBC’s 100 Greatest Britons in 2002.
The answers to a just can’t get enough quiz. If you’ve not done it yet, and want to, head over to that page before reading on.
1. Name the artist and song?
Petula Clark – Downtown
2. Which Beach Boys songs was covered for the BBC launch of the BBC Music brand in 2014, featured an assortment of artist including Elton John, Kylie Minogue, Stevie Wonder, Brian May as well as Brian Wilson and was released as a charity single for Children In Need?
God Only Knows
3. Name the artist and song?
The Kinks – Waterloo Sunset
4. What is a sucrose sugar product with a distinctive brown colour due to the presence of molasses or a slang term for heroin?
Brown sugar
5. Name the artist and song?
T.Rex – Ride A White Swan
6. In which 1999 comedy movie do four high school friends try every trick in the book to ensure that they lose their virginity before prom night?
American Pie
7. Name the artist and song?
The Osmonds – Crazy Horses
8. Which song is played at traditional events such as Wimbledon and The Proms, is one of New Zealand’s two national anthems and whose author is unknown, although attribution to the composer John Bull is sometimes made?
God Save the Queen
9. Name the artist and song?
Sparks – This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us
10. Who was the Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia?
Rasputin
11. Name the artist and song?
Squeeze – Up The Junction
12. Which one of the nine Austrian states is also a city that, until the beginning of the 20th century, was the largest German speaking city in the world?
Vienna
13. Name the artist and song?
Heaven 17 – Temptation
14. Which 1974 movie starring Roger Moore as a manager of a South African mine shares its name with both a UK radio station and a UK TV station?
Gold
15. Name the artist and song?
Pet Shop Boys/Dusty Springfield – What Have I Done To Deserve This
16. Romanian Nadia Comăneci is generally recognized as the first person to score what at the Olympic Games?
A perfect 10
17. Name the artist and song?
The B-52’s – Love Shack
18. In 1687 Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia included a computation for what, the answer to the computation being “979 feet per second in air”?
Speed of sound
19. Name the artist and song?
Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life
20. Which English television and radio presenter is best known as a presenter of the popular children’s series Blue Peter from 1962 to 1972 and also also presented the BBC Radio 4 PM programme?
Valerie Singleton
Bonus: What connects all the answers?
They are all songs that peaked at number 2 in the UK singles charts, literally, they just couldn’t get enough sales. The full list is:
The answers to a foodies quiz. If you’ve not done it yet, and want to, head over to that page before reading on.
1. Which English actress, born in 1932, is best known for her role as Sybil, Basil’s wife, in Fawlty Towers and her BAFTA award-nominated role as Queen Elizabeth II in A Question of Attribution by Alan Bennett.
Prunella Scales
2. Who was the only surviving legitimate child of King James V who acceded to the throne in 1542, aged 6?
Mary Queen of Scots
3. What name was given to the 1960s subculture that included art, music, clothes and use of hallucinogenic drugs?
Psychadelia
4. Who did Julie jilt John for?
Gordon
5. Which member of comedy trio The Goodies opened the pilot episode of the BBC radio comedy panel game I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue with Jo Kendall singing the words of Three Blind Mice to the tune of Ol’ Man River?
Graeme Garden
6. What was originally a two or three-wheeled passenger cart which is generally pulled by one man carrying one passenger?
Rickshaw
7. Which ventriloquist’s act included the puppets Orville the Duck and Cuddles the Monkey?
Keith Harris
8. In the TV programme and film The Magic Roundabout, who is the operator of the roundabout – the only character to be voiced by the same actor in both the TV show and film?
Mr. Rusty
9. Which ex-Sheffield Wednesday and Stocksbridge park Steels footballer holds record for the most scoring in consecutive matches (11)?
Jamie Vardy
10. Which building has been a residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century, and is currently the official London residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and other lesser royals?
Kensington Palace
11. Name this Scottish duo and the song they are singing?
The Proclaimers, Sunshine On Leith
12. In the children’s nursery rhyme, what did we go round on a cold and frosty morning?
Mulberry Bush
13. What’s the name of the band singing this 1986 song that reach number 26 in the UK charts?
The Smiths (Bigmoth Strikes Again)
14. Which British politician was the first Labour Party member to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and then from 1929–1931?
Ramsey MacDonald
15. Who is the lead singer of this 1985 hit that also featured in the film The Breakfast Club, helping it to the number 1 spot in the US?
Jim Kerr (from Simple Minds)
16. What Gothic novel was first published in 1818 and was written by the daughter of proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft?
Frankenstein
17. Name the band and song in this early video which is somewhat less polished than their later works?
Pink Floyd, See Emily Play
18. Which County Durham new town was founded in 1948 and named after a celebrated Durham miners’ leader and, as such, is one of the few places in the British Isles to be directly named after an individual?
Peterlee (named after Peter Lee)
19. Name the artist and song?
Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Oliver’s Army
20. On the internet, what is the introductory page of a website, typically serving as a table of contents for the site, commonly called?
Homepage
Putting together answers from questions 1-10 with 11-20, we get 10 famous chefs:
The answers to a dickens of a quiz. If you’ve not done it yet, and want to, head over to that page before reading on.
1. Which English television and radio presenter, and model is best known for co-hosting Let’s Do Lunch with Gino D’Acampo and a program with Des O’Conner that features the pair’s first names?
Melanie Sykes
2. Who is missing from this 80s TV line up. Matthew Kelly, Sarah Kennedy, Henry Kelly and…?
Jeremy Beadle
3. What was Scottish popular beat combo The Shamen’s biggest hit, released in August 1992 it was one of the most controversial UK number-one hits of the 1990s due to its perceived oblique endorsement of recreational drug use, and it was initially banned by the BBC?
Ebeneezer Goode
4. What is the name of the motor vehicles that NASA landed on Mars in 2012 for a two-year mission that was extended indefinitely and is still operational today?
Curiosity
5. In TV’s Midsomer Murders, what is the surname of both the original Detective Chief Inspector and his replacement, who, in the programme was the original’s younger cousin?
Barnaby
6. What are the names of the two major baseball teams in Los Angeles?
Dodgers and Angels
7. What is the name of the small bird with glossy blue-black upper parts, a pure white under parts, a distinctive white rump with a forked tail that spends much of its time on the wing collecting insect prey and lives in mud nests, usually sited below the eaves of buildings?
House Martin
8. 2008 American comedy-drama film stars Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as the owners of a Labrador retriever which set a record for the largest Christmas Day box office ever upon its release?
Marley and Me
9. In 1983, who performed “the illusion of the century” in front of a live audience on Liberty Island, making the Statue of Liberty disappear, which holds the Guinness World Record for the largest illusion ever performed by an illusionist?
David Copperfield
10. Which social insect comprises of over 250 species in the genus Bombus, part of Apidae family?
Bumblebee
11. Which English rock band was formed in 1969, have released 24 studio albums with Demons and Wizards being the most successful and are still producing music today, albeit with rhythm guitarist Mick Box being the only original member?
Uriah Heep
12. Who is the fictional sleuth in an American mystery novel series created by publisher Edward Stratemeyer as the female counterpart to his Hardy Boys series?
Nancy Drew
13. Which British Writer, Broadcaster and former politician caused a sensation when publishing her diaries as they revealed a four-year affair with future Prime Minister John Major?
Edwina Currie
14. One of the signatories of King Charles I’s death warrant in 1649, who later became Lord Protector of the British Isles from 1653 until his death in 1658?
Oliver Cromwell
15. Who played the younger brother of Derek “Del Boy” Trotter in the BBC TV comedy Only Fools and Horses, which first aired in 1981and ran until 1991 as a series and 2003 as sporadic Christmas Specials?
Nicholas Lyndhurst
16. What do Hamlet’s father and Banquo have in common as they appear in Hamlet and Macbeth?
They are both ghosts
17. Which Australian external territory is an island in the Indian Ocean 960 miles from Australia and was named by Captain William Mynors of the Royal Mary, an English East India Company vessel, when he sailed past it?
Christmas Island
18. What part of an apple contains Cyanide and would kill you if even in sufficient quantities?
Pip
19. Which poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti, commonly performed as a Christmas carol, was published under it’s original name – A Christmas Carol – in 1872?
In the Bleak Midwinter
20. Which ex-footballer followed Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley as manager of Liverpool football club?
Joe Fagan
In keeping with the them, all answers relate to Charles Dickens books and characters:
The answers to a feathered friend quiz. If you’ve not done it yet, and want to, head over to that page before reading on.
1. Wata – an abbreviation from the German WasserTanzen – is a type of aquatic therapy which was developed in Switzerland where a person is gently guided underwater, pulled, swayed, and “flown” while being regularly brought to the surface for breath. How is this known in English?
Water dance
2. A crossbow bolt is also know as what?
A quarrel
3. What began as a collection by Sir Hans Sloane, is now housed in a building designed by Alfred Waterhouse, used to be the home of Dippy and has been called “A Cathedral to Science”?
Natural History Museum
4. Which song was a number one hit for popular beat combo Adam & The Ants, in September 1981?
Prince Charming
5. Unemployment Benefit is commonly referred to as what, in the UK?
Dole
6. What is the name of a large hemispherical brass percussion instrument (one of the timpani) with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting its tension?
Kettle Drum
7. What is the title of the American crime drama television series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher?
Murder She Wrote
8. What word means to assemble troops, especially for inspection or in preparation for battle?
Muster
9. What do the Americans (incorrectly) call Autumn?
Fall
10. What are the parallel sloping beams that support a roof called?
Rafters
11. What, in the UK, has two Houses that work on behalf of UK citizens to check and challenge the work of Government, make and shape effective laws, and debate/make decisions on the big issues of the day?
Parliament
12. Originally on May Day, but now usually on the 30th October, what is the name associated with this day, on which children and teenagers engage in pranks and vandalism?
Mischief Night
13. Which British television sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb was broadcast on Channel 4 from 2003 until 2015 and in 2010, became the longest-running comedy in Channel 4 history in terms of years on air?
Peep Show
14. In which town do the TV characters Barney Gumble, Chief Clancy Wiggum, Edna Krabappel, Reverend Timothy Lovejoy and Waylon Smithers live?
Springfield (The Simpsons)
15. Which 2002 British biographical comedy-drama film about Manchester’s popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records, was named after a Happy Mondays single?
24 Hour Party People
16. George Blake, Ian Brady, Charles Bronson, Pete Doherty and Leslie Grantham have all been detained at Her Majesty’s please at which prison?
Wormwood Scrubs
17. Which large instrumental ensemble is based in Manchester, England and supports a choir, youth choir, youth training choir, children’s choir and a youth orchestra?
The Hallé Orchestra
18. What phrase commonly refers to the two possible physiological reactions to highly stressful or threatening situations: to defend oneself or to run away?
Flight or fight
19. Which 1981 BBC cartoon series was narrated by Kenneth Williams and became popular with children and adults, as it bridged the gap between the end of weekday children’s programming and the early evening news, the principal character being a blue, floating creature drawn as a caricature of Williams?
Willo the Wisp
20. What is the name of a species of woodboring beetle that sometimes infests the structural timbers of old buildings, named after the tapping or ticking sound made by the adult insects?
Deathwatch beetle
All answers contain a collective noun for a type of bird:
The answers to a guess the themes quiz. If you’ve not done it yet, and want to, head over to that page before reading on.
1. The number of minutes in a quarter in Gridiron (American) Football or the age, in the UK, a minor can be sent to prison to await trial?
15
2. The minimum age in most US states at which a person may gamble or the number of spots on a standard cubical die?
21
3. Only nine Bank of England notes of a certain value were issued in connection with the Marshall Plan on 30 August 1948. Nicknamed Giant, how much was each note worth?
One Million Pounds
4. Which British television sitcom, first shown on Channel 4 between 1990 and 1998, is set in the offices of GlobeLink News, a fictional TV news company, was recorded close to transmission and made use of contemporary news events to give the programme a greater sense of realism?
Drop the Dead Donkey
5. Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a visual-effects and post-production technique for compositing (layering) two images or video streams together based on colour hues, how is this technique commonly described?
Green screen/blue screen
6. How did Bruce Forsythe introduce Anthia Redfern in TVs The Generation Game?
The hostess with the mostest
7. Which American actor has been one of The Dirty Dozen, a James Bond villain, one of Kelly’s Heroes in movies but is probably best known as a New York City Detective Lieutenant who was fond of using the catchphrases, “Who loves ya, baby?” and “Cootchie-coo!”?
Telly Savalas
8. People who are strongly inclined to do, use, or indulge in something repeatedly are know as what?
Addicts
9. In the UK TV series Dr. Who, who is the renegade alien Time Lord and the archenemy of the title character the Doctor?
The Master
10. Which song, sung by Noel Harrison, was introduced in the film The Thomas Crown Affair in 1968 and has been covered by many artists including Dusty Springfield, Johnny Mathis, Neil Diamond and, for the movie remake in 1999, Sting?
Windmills of Your Mind
11. “A teenage, Italian gang in the Bronx, NYC, 1963. They have their confrontations with other gangs. Drugs and weapons are uncool. Adult life awaits them.” – was the description of which a 1979 film which was nominated for the “Worst Fake Accent – Female” at the Stinkers Bad Movie Awards?
The Wanderers
12. What is a thin pieces of impervious material installed to prevent the passage of water into a structure from a joint or as part of a weather resistant barrier system?
Flashing
13. Who is the fairy tale stock character who comes to the rescue of a damsel in distress and must engage in a quest to liberate her from an evil spell or enemy?
Prince Charming
14. What three word phrase is an alternate phrase for the principle of causality, establishing one event or action as the direct result of another?
Cause and effect
15. As an adjective it means “having a slim or delicate build” or as verb it means “to treat as unimportant : make light of”.
Slight
16. At the end of Sunset Boulevard, delusional crackpot Norma Desmond stalks toward a camera, thinking it’s a movie camera (in reality, it’s a news camera and everyone is there because she’s about to be arrested for murder), saying, “All right, Mr. DeMille”. Complete that sentence.
I’m ready for my close-up
17. Which 1982 song by British trio Imagination, was a major European hit that peaked at number 2 in the UK?
Illusion
18. What is a heavy cotton cloth pressure-sensitive tape with strong adhesive and tensile properties that is widely used in theatre, photography, film, radio and television production, and industrial staging work?
Gaff or gaffer tape
19. Which independent production company produced programmes such as Derry Girls, Have I Got News for You, Drop the Dead Donkey and Father Ted?
Hat trick
20. Which American drama television series (2008-2015) the follows former “psychic” Patrick Jane, a consultant to the California Bureau of Investigation and his boss, using the highly developed observational skills he previously employed to “read” people’s minds?
The Mentalist
Bonus:
First theme is Quiz Shows, combine two answers to get:
Second theme is Terms used in magic:
The answers to a barking quiz. If you’ve not done it yet, and want to, head over to that page before reading on.
1. Which large island off the east coast of the North American is separated from the mainland by the Strait of Belle Isle and blocks the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River, creating the world’s largest estuary – the Gulf of Saint Lawrence?
Newfoundland
2. Who is the English cricketer who kept wicket for his country between 1987 and 1998, broke the world record for dismissals in a test match in 1995 and now known for his abilities as an artist, as a cricket wicketkeeping coach, and a football goalkeeping coach?
Jack Russell
3. Which TV service was launched in 1961, broadcasting to most of Cumbria, southern Scotland and parts of Northumberland and continued until 2002 following a takeover?
Border Television
4. One of several vegetables in the species Brassica oleracea in the genus Brassica, what is this annual plant that reproduces by seed and, typically, only the head is eaten – the edible white flesh sometimes called “curd”?
Cauliflower
5. Which sea area, as used by the BBC’s Shipping Forecast, is bordered by Fisher, Dogger and Humber sea areas and, up to 1956, was named as Heligoland?
German Bight
6. Who is the English television presenter and journalist who was a main presenter on the now defunct breakfast programme GMTV and since April 2014 has worked on ITV’s breakfast show Good Morning Britain and hosted game shows such as The Krypton Factor, Tipping Point and Ninja Warrior UK?
Ben Shephard
7. Which children’s comic strips and books were adapted into a TV series, using cardboard cut-outs filmed in live-action, that was first shown on the BBC in 1957, ran until 1966, was revamped in colour from 1974 to 1975 and re-appeared a 2nd time in 1998 as a traditional animation series?
Captain Pugwash
8. Which is the biggest UK county, home of legendary bad guys Guy Fawkes and Dick Turpin and if it was a country, would have come 12th in the 2012 Olympic games, having scooped 7 Gold, 2 Silver and 3 Bronze medals?
Yorkshire
9. What is the nickname of the English football team Huddersfield Town A.F.C.?
The Terriers
10. Which song by the popular American beat combo Simon & Garfunkel from their album Bridge Over Troubled Water became one of their biggest hits in 1969 and opens with the lines “I am just a poor boy, Though my story’s seldom told”?
The Boxer
11. British transportation company FirstGroup acquired a controlling stake in which North American intercity bus company as part of their agreement to buy the US firm Laidlaw for £1.9 billion?
Greyhound (Lines)
12. Which ship, launched on May 11, 1820 at the Royal Navy’s dockyards on the River Thames, was the British naval vessel aboard which Charles Darwin served as naturalist on a voyage to South America and around the world between 1831 an 1836?
HMS Beagle
13. Which company’s 1990s TV adverts featured Joan Collins, Larry Hagman, Harry Enfield, Burt Reynolds and others flicking up their flaming thumbs and asking the viewer “Don’t you just love being in control?”?
British Gas
15. Originally created by H. C. McNeile and published under his pen name Sapper and continued by Gerard Fairlie who is the fictional First World War veteran who, fed up with his sedate lifestyle, advertises looking for excitement, and becomes a gentleman adventurer? The character has appeared in novels, short stories, on the stage, in films, on radio and television, and in graphic novels?
(Hugh) “Bulldog” Drummond
15. The Sheffield Directory of 1842 records which company as being a “wholesale confectioner, lozenge maker and British wine trader”? Possibly their best-known product was created by accident in 1899 when a sales representative supposedly tripped over and dropped a tray of samples he was showing a client, mixing them up. After he scrambled to re-arrange them, the client was intrigued by the new creation.
Bassett’s
16. Which is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes, is set largely on Dartmoor and was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in The Final Problem? The success of this book led to the character’s eventual revival.
Hound of the Baskervilles
17. Which beverage brand from Gaymer’s Cider Company was apparently designed for the American market in 1939 but never shipped out due to the outbreak of the Second World War: it was sold in the UK as a special offer during the war and until 1950, and then became a standard product of the company?
Olde English
18. Which competitive sport was featured in BBC One Man and His Dog from 1976 to 2013, when it become part of the rural affairs show Countryfile?
Sheepdog Trials
19. Simon Templar, featured in a series of novels and short stories by Leslie Charteris published between 1928 and 1963 and later, other authors collaborated with Charteris on books until 1983 – what is the characters nickname?
The Saint
20. Yosser Hughes, the troubled “hard man” whose life is falling apart in Alan Bleasdale’s groundbreaking 1980s TV drama Boys from the Blackstuff was played by which English actor?
Bernard Hill
The answers to a quiz quiz. If you’ve not done it yet, and want to, head over to that page before reading on.
1. What eating establishment can be found at 8/10 Cambridge Street in Sheffield’s city centre and features Butterfly King Prawns, Verdure, Slow Cooked Beef in Chianti Sauce and chips on it’s menu?
Ask Italian
2. What is a large single building or part of a complex subdivided into separate prison cells?
Cellblock
3. What is an audio or video recording of a performance not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority?
Bootleg
4. The number of minutes in a quarter in Gridiron (American) Football or the age, in the UK, a minor can be sent to prison to await trial?
15
5. A song by Bob Dylan, a “High stakes” board game or a phrase you might hear an auctioneer say to close the bidding?
Going, going, gone!
6. In the UK TV series Dr. Who, who is the renegade alien Time Lord and the archenemy of the title character the Doctor?
The Master
7. Only nine Bank of England notes of a certain value were issued in connection with the Marshall Plan on 30 August 1948. Nicknamed Giant, how much was each note worth?
One Million Ponds
8. In many cultures, doing what at other people is considered rude because it’s associated with blame allocation and, without their consent, makes them an object of scrutiny?
Point or Pointing
9. Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a visual-effects and post-production technique for compositing (layering) two images or video streams together based on colour hues, how is this technique commonly referred?
Green screen/blue screen
10. Which American actor has been one of The Dirty Dozen, a James Bond villain and one of Kelly’s Heroes in movies but is probably best known as a TV New York City Detective Lieutenant who was fond of using the catchphrases, “Who loves ya, baby?” and “Cootchie-coo!”?
Telly Savalas
11. How might jewellers or pawnbrokers advertise the fact that they will pay you money for one of the most widely accepted precious metals?
Cash for gold
12. The minimum age in most US states at which a person may gamble or the number of spots on a standard cubical die?
21
13. In the TV series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – adapted from the books by Douglas Adams – what, unusually, did the character Zaphod Beeblebrox have two of?
Heads
14. Operation Chastise was an attack on Germany carried out on 16–17 May 1943 by the Royal Air Force’s 617 Squadron, how is it better known?
Dam Busters
15. Which novel – and in 1960 a film – by Johann David Wyss was published in 1812 and featured a family of immigrants whose ship en route to Port Jackson, Australia, goes off course and is shipwrecked in the East Indies?
The Swiss Family Robinson
16. People who are strongly inclined to do, use, or indulge in something repeatedly are know as what?
Addicts
17. How did Bruce Forsythe introduce Anthia Turner in TVs The Generation Game?
The hostess with the mostest
18. Which 1976 single by popular beat combo Level 42, from their album Running in the Family, was the band’s biggest hit reaching number 3 in the UK?
Lessons in Love
19. Which British television sitcom, first shown on Channel 4 between 1990 and 1998, is set in the offices of GlobeLink News, a fictional TV news company, was recorded close to transmission and made use of contemporary news events to give the programme a greater sense of realism?
Drop the Dead Donkey
20. Which song, sung by Noel Harrison, was introduced in the film The Thomas Crown Affair in 1968 and has been covered by many artists including Dusty Springfield, Johnny Mathis, Neil Diamond and, for the movie remake in 1999, Sting?
Windmills of Your Mind
If you combine answers 1 with 15, 2 with 14, 3 with 13, 4 with 12 and 5 with 11 then follow the same pattern for the rest of the questions you will get 10 popular UK TV quiz shows: