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a animal stars quiz answers

The answers to a animal stars quiz. If you’ve not done it yet, and want to, head over to that page before reading on.

1. Knighted in 1975, which former West Indian cricketer, who played between 1954 and 1974, is widely considered to be cricket’s greatest ever all-rounder?

Sir Garfield Sobers

2. Which 1979 British comedy movie tells the story of a young Jewish man who is born on the same day as — and next door to — Jesus Christ?

Monty Python’s Life of Brian

3. Which Canadian software company was one of the most prominent smartphone vendors in the world, specializing in secure communications and mobile productivity, and well known for the keyboards on most of its devices?

Blackberry

4. What was added to pinball machines in 1947 to allow players to keep the ball in play longer?

Flippers
5. Which chemical element has the symbol Ag and atomic number 47?

Silver

6. Which American actor started his career in TV sitcom Cheers as a bartender and has since gone on to star in films such as White Men Can’t Jump and The People vs Larry Flint?

Woody Harrelson

7. Who was the Indian guru who achieved fame as the guru to The Beatles, The Beach Boys and other celebrities In the late 1960s and early 1970s?

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

8. Which comic opera was composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart tells how two servants succeed in getting married, foiling the seduction efforts of their philandering employer and teaching him a lesson in fidelity?

The Marriage of Figaro

9. Which popular American new wave beat combo was founded in 1981 by husband-and-wife Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz – both also members of Talking Heads – their biggest UK hit being Wordy Rappinghood?

Tom Tom Club

10. What has five known moons and is the ninth largest known object directly orbiting the Sun?

Pluto

11. Who became the Seventh Doctor after taking over the lead role in Doctor Who in 1987 from Colin Baker and remained on the series until it ended in 1989?

Sylvester McCoy

12. What is a colloquial term for an alcoholic distilled beverage that also became a brand name of an alcopop that was most popular during the mid-1990s?

Hooch

13. Who was known as the Nine Days’ Queen – an English noblewoman and Queen of England and Ireland from 10 July until 19 July 1553?

Lady Jane Grey

14. Which popular American beat combo formed in 1977 in Los Angeles are widely known for their top 5 hits Hold the Line, Rosanna, and Africa?

Toto

15. In volleyball, how is the third contact a team makes with the ball that involves jumping, raising one arm above the head and hitting the ball so it will move quickly down to the ground on the opponent’s court commonly known?

Spike

16. Native to the Arctic regions of both North America and the Palearctic, what is the name of the bird that is sometimes referred to as the polar owl, the white owl and the Arctic owl?

Snowy Owl

17. Actor Brian Murphy is best known for which role in TV’s Man About the House and it’s spin off?

George Roper

18. What was the Allied nickname for Germans, originally from World War I but widely used in World War II?

Jerry

19. What is the popular traditional dahi (yogurt)-based drink that originated in the Indian subcontinent, can be found on the menus of many Indian restaurants and is usually consumed during or after a meal?

Lassi

20. In the TV series Fawlty Towers, what starter did hotel guests The Hamiltons order that was not on the menu, the item also being the name of the episode?

Waldof Salad

In case you didn’t spot it, all answers include the name of a TV or movie animal:

  • Garfield the cat
  • Brian the snail in Magic Roundabout or the dog in Family guy
  • Blackberry, a rabbit in Watership Down
  • Flipper the dolphin
  • Silver, the Lone Rangers horse
  • Woody Woodpecker
  • Yogi bear
  • Figaro, the pet cat of Geppetto and Pinocchio
  • Tom, the cat half of Tom & Jerry
  • Pluto, Mickey Mouse’s dog
  • Sylvester the cat
  • Hooch, the dog in the film Turner & Hooch
  • Lady, from the film Lady & the Tramp
  • Toto, the dog in The Wizard of Oz
  • Spike, the dog in Tom & Jerry
  • Snowy, Tin Tin’s dog
  • George, the monkey in the film and TV series Curious George
  • Jerry, the mouse half of Tom & Jerry
  • Lassie, the dog
  • Waldorf, half of the muppet hecklers Waldorf & Statler
    sorry about this one – not an animal. Was formulating a muppet question and lost sight of the theme
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a tooth rotting quiz answers

The answers to a tooth rotting quiz. If you’ve not done it yet, and want to, head over to that page before reading on.

1. October’s official Birthstone, what gemstone are these?

Opal

2. I am in an Italian town famous for Prosciutto and Reggiano, where am I?

Parma

3. What popular form of anti tank weapon is being displayed here?

Bazooka

4. Priscilla Maria Veronica White, born in 1943 is better known as who?

Cilla Black

5. What is the title of the 1967 British drama film that deals with social and racial issues in an inner city school starring Sidney Poitier and featuring the singer Lulu, who also sang the film’s title song?

To Sir, with Love

6. Errol Brown was lead singer for which popular beat combo who had at least one hit every year from 1970 to 1984?

Hot Chocolate

7. What is the name of the pub on Carter Knowle Avenue, Sheffield?

The Cherry Tree

8. What started out as a 1954 radio drama by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, was later adapted for the stage and became a film in 1972?

Under Milk Wood

9. What is the prefix used to indicate a relation to, or descent from, the Angles, England, English culture, the English people or the English language?

Anglo

10. Which 1995 James Bond film, the seventeenth in the series, was the first to star Pierce Brosnan in the title role?

GoldenEye

11. What is a sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant that contains seed and can be eaten as food?

Fruit

12. Which color of light is at the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum, between blue and invisible ultraviolet and is one of the seven colors that Isaac Newton labeled when dividing the spectrum of visible light in 1672?

Violet

13. Who is the Hungarian-born British-Australian former heavyweight boxer twice held the British and British Commonwealth heavyweight titles and was a three-time European heavyweight champion and, as an actor, appeared in the 1994 action film Street Fighter?

Joe Bugner

14. Which actor played the role of PC George Dixon in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp and later in the television series Dixon of Dock Green from 1955 until 1976?

Jack Warner

15. What is divided in to four chambers named atria and ventricles?

Heart

16. In the childrens TV series Bagpus, which animals were the menders of the broken object, the focus of each story?

The mice

17. Designed in part to represent the band’s anti-authoritarian attitude, what does The Rolling Stones logo consist of?

Lips and tongue

18. What is the eruption through the gums of the primary teeth, often causing babies to cry, called?

Teething

19. How is Champagne and other sparkling wines informally referred to and can alos refer to someone who is full of energy and enthusiasm?

Bubbly

20. Name country of origin of the main characters from this 1993 sporting movie?

Jamaica (Cool Runnings)

Joining answers 1-10 with 11-12 gives you 10 sweets from the 1970s:

  • Opal Fruits
  • Parma Violets
  • Bazooka Joe
  • Black Jacks
  • Love Hearts
  • Chocolate Mice
  • Cherry Lips
  • Milk Teeth
  • Anglo Bubbly
  • Old Jamaica (chocolate_
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a comic strip quiz answers

The answers to a comic strip quiz. If you’ve not done it yet, and want to, head over to that page before reading on.

1. Which comedian was the Joan Collins Fanclub, an act that often included his pet Fanny the Wonder Dog?

Julian Clarey

2. What was the name of the fictional robot that appeared first in the 1956 film Forbidden Planet and subsequently in other science fiction movies and television programs, usually without specific reference to the original film character?

Robby the Robot

3. The English theologian and historian Thomas Fuller said that “the darkest hour of the night” is when?

Just before the dawn

4. Who was the pioneering Russian cosmonaut who was the first person to conduct a space walk?

Alexei Leonov

5. Which famous guitarist is this?

Rick Parfitt

6. In Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights who is the daughter of Catherine and Edgar Linton who falls in love with and marries Linton Heathcliff?

Cathy Linton

7. Who were XTC making plans for in 1979?

Nigel

8. Which British children’s television programme that was first broadcast in 1958 has had continuous seasons since it was first aired and is now the longest-running children’s TV show in the world?

Blue Peter

9. Who, besides the ubiquitous Noel Edmonds, was a male presenter on Saturday Swap Shop?

Keith Chegwin

10. Who did popular beat combo The Hollies “love” in their 1968 hit?

Jennifer Eccles

11. What is the name of the oldest and largest railway station in Bristol?

Temple Meads

12. Who was the American jazz saxophonist who was at the forefront of free jazz?

John Coltrane

13. Which wood finishing technique results in a very high gloss surface, with a deep colour and chatoyancy?

French polishing

14. What is the traditional big annual event on the high street when shoppers queue outside for opening?

Boxing Day sale

15. Which English blues singer, guitarist, organist and songwriter, whose musical career spans over sixty years had the Bluesbreakers as his backing band in the 1960s?

John Mayall

16. Who were responsible for a series of 16 killings committed over a period of about ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland?

Burke & Hare

17. What tool is used to flatten and smooth a wood surface, skimming the top to remove thin layers until the desired thicknes or finish has been reached?

Planer

18. Which South London crime gang included George Cornell and “Mad” Frankie Fraser?

The Richardson Gang

19. A hex key, a simple tool used to drive bolts and screws with hexagonal sockets in their heads, is also known as a what?

Allen key

20. Who is this fictional character from Newcastle’s Viz comic who reads dirty double meanings into innocuous conversations?

Finbarr Saunders

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a pony and trap quiz answers

The answers to a pony and trap quiz. If you’ve not done it yet, and want to, head over to that page before reading on.

1. Which American actor played the somewhat camp Batman in the 1960s TV series and movie and was also considered for the part of James Bond in the film Diamonds Are Forever?

Adam West

2. What is a brown deposit resembling soil, formed by the partial decomposition of vegetable matter in the wet acidic conditions of bogs and fens, and often cut out and dried for use as fuel and in gardening?

Peat

3. Which game uses custom asymmetrical throwing dice, shaped like an animal, where each turn involves one player throwing two dice – each of which has a dot on one side – to gain or lose points based on the way they land?

Pass the Pigs

4. Well over double its nearest competitor in monetary terms, China is the larget exporter in the world of what commodity?

Tea

5. What is a pink to blood-red coloured gemstone, the most valuable variety of the corundum mineral species, which also includes sapphire?

Ruby

6. Formed in 1965, which North London borough is the largest by population and was formed from parts of the counties of Middlesex and Hertfordshire?

Barnet

7. What is a potentially fatal medical condition that occurs when sepsis, which is organ injury or damage in response to infection, leads to dangerously low blood pressure?

Septic Shock

8. Who is the retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel who was a National Security Council staff member during the Iran–Contra affair, a political scandal of the late 1980s and formulated the plan to divert proceeds from arms sales to support the Contra rebel groups in Nicaragua?

Oliver North

9. Released in 1979, which song by popular beat combo Elvis Costello & The Attractions reached number 2 in the UK charts, was their most successful single and lyrically is a comment on The Troubles in Northern Ireland during the 1970s?

Oliver’s Army

10. Born in 1923 who was the musician who is regarded as one of the most significant and influential American singer-songwriter of the 20th century, having recorded 35 singles that reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Country & Western Best Sellers chart, including 11 that ranked number one?

Hank Williams

11. What name is given to the annual travelling funfair held at the Forest Recreation Ground in Nottingham during the first week of October?

Goose Fair

12. Usually made of silver or pewter, what is the name of the drinkware that consists of a large, roughly cylindrical, drinking cup with a single handle?

Tankard

13. What term is used for a person who is left-handed, usually in a sporting context such as a player who throws with the left hand or a boxer who leads with the right hand using the left hand for the most powerful blows?

Southpaw

14. What is the title of the 1996 American disaster adventure film that focuses on a group of storm chasers trying to deploy a tornado research device during a severe outbreak in Oklahoma?

Twister

15. What is the name of the “Paranoid Android” from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams, who is afflicted with severe depression and boredom, in part because he has a “brain the size of a planet” which he is seldom, if ever, given the chance to use?

Marvin

16. Which 1950 American film starring Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a highly regarded but aging Broadway star, received a record 14 Academy Award nominations and won 6 of them?

All About Eve

17. What is a type of tool used to grip and lift objects instead of holding them directly with hands?

Tongs

18. In the TV drama Shoestring, what informal title is given to Trevor Eve’s character Eddie Shoestring when he is hired by the fictional Radio West as an investigator?

Private Ear

19. What expression is widely used figuratively to convey the covering up of something that is embarrassing or distasteful with something of innocuous appearance, a metaphorical reference to a passage in the Biblical Book of Genesis?

Fig leaf

20. Who is the TV and radio sports commentator known for his animated enthusiasm, authoritative voice and comical blunders during live races?

Murray Walker

Putting together answers from questions 1-5 with 16-20 and 6-10 with 11-15 gives you 10 phrases from Cockney Rhyming Slang:

  • Adam and Eve = believe
    as in “Would you Adam and Eve it?”
  • Pete Tong = wrong
    as in “It’s all gone a bit Pete Tong!”
  • Pig’s Ear = beer
    as in “Fancy a pig’s ear?”
  • Tea Leaf = thief
    as in “He’s a wrong ‘in, a right little tea leaf!”
  • Ruby Murray = curry
    as in “Fancy a ruby after that pig’s ear?”
  • Barnet Fair = hair
    as in “You can’t get your barnet cut in lockdown!”
  • Septic Tank = Yank
    as in “Them septics are always late for a war!”
  • North and South = mouth
    as in “It must be true, I ‘eard it from his north and south!”
  • Oliver Twist = pissed
    as in “He was right Olivered after 10 pig’s ears!”
  • Hank Marvin = starving
    as in “I’ve not eaten since yeterday, I’m right Hank Marvin I am!”

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a cummings and going quiz answers

The answers to a cummings and going quiz. If you’ve not done it yet, and want to, head over to that page before reading on.

1. Last seen in 1986, what returns to Earth’s vicinity about every 75 years?

Halley’s comet

2. What is a game of chance played with cards having numbered squares corresponding to numbered balls drawn at random and won by covering five such squares in a row and also a social gathering where this game is played?

Bingo

3. Which TV series ran from 1971 to 1974, with return shows in 1979-80, 1984-85 and 1992 gave a stage to nightclub an working men’s clubs of the time such as Russ Abbot, Bernard Manning and Jim Bowen?

The Comedians

4. What is is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition? It may be of an abstract or figurative design or include the text of the name it represents as in a wordmark.

Logo

5. Which song by popular beat combo Slade, reached number 1 the week of its release in the UK charts in 1973 and was voted the Nation’s 15th favourite 70s number on in 2015?

Come on Feel the Noize

6. What word means “to slap another person around the ears with both hands” and was derived from a notorious advert for a 90s soft-drink which featured a fat orange man dressed only in a nappy?

Tangoed (from the phrase “You’ve been tangoed”

7. What name is given to clouds that are detached, individual, cauliflower-shaped clouds usually spotted in fair weather conditions? The tops of these clouds are mostly brilliant white tufts when lit by the Sun, although their base is usually relatively dark.

Cumulus clouds

8. The English TV cooking personality Graham Kerr is better known by what name, which also gave name to his most famous TV show?

The Galloping Gourmet

9. What is an orange-like fruit related to the citruses, with an edible sweet rind and acid pulp?

Kumquat

10. Smaug is the name of which creature in J. R. R. Tolkien’s 1937 novel The Hobbit?

The dragon

11. What is is a broad waist sash that originally was worn with double-breasted tail coats but is now more often worn with single-breasted dinner jackets or tuxedos?

Cumerband

12. Which progressive rock band that incorporates elements of jazz and space rock was formed in Paris in 1967 by an Australian and an Englishman, their best known work being the allegorical Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy?

Gong

13. What is money that an individual or business receives, usually in exchange for providing a good or service, for individuals, it is most often received in the form of wages or salary?

Income

14. Which 1958 American film noir psychological thriller film was directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock and stars James Stewart as former police detective John “Scottie” Ferguson?

Vertigo

15. The Liverpool band Frankie Goes to Hollywood released which song in 1985, which was also the title of their number 1 album the year before?

Welcome to the Pleasuredome

16. How are the goods carried by a ship, aircraft, or other large vehicle commonly known?

Cargo

17. Which 1977 British television play, set in a borstal and written by Roy Minto and directed by Alan Clarke, was intended to be screened as part of the Play for Today series but was banned by the BBC and not aired until Channel 4 showed it on 27 July 1991?

Scum

18. Who is the English performing arts promoter best known as a promoter of rock concerts, charity concerts and television broadcasts, one of the biggest being 1985’s Live Aid concert?

Harvey Goldsmith

19. Born in 1975, which British actor played Sherlock Holmes in the series Sherlock between 2010 and 2017?

Benedict Cumberbatch

20. Which popular Indian holiday destination is famous for its beaches, cheap alcohol shopping and seafood?

Goa

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a pennsylvania avenue quiz answers

The answers to a pennsylvania-avenue quiz. If you’ve not done it yet, and want to, head over to that page before reading on.

1. Which new town is based in the City of Sunderland?

Washington

2. Who wrote the 1972 survival and adventure novel set in southern England, the story features a small group of anthropomorphised rabbits including Fiver, Hazel, Bigwig and Silver?

Richard Adams

3. Located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, which multi-purpose indoor arena is the fourth venue to bear this name and is used for ice hockey, basketball, boxing, concerts, ice shows, circuses, professional wrestling and other forms of sports and entertainment?

Madison Square Garden

4. Norma Jeane Mortenson is better known by her stage name which was?

Marilyn Monroe

5. Best known for her portrayal of Arwen Undómiel in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, which American actress, producer, singer and former model is the daughter of the lead singer of US popular beat combo Aerosmith?

Liv Tyler

6. Originating in the middle of the nineteenth century in Bohemia, what is a Czech dance and genre of dance music that is a lively couple dance in duple time with a basic pattern of hop-step-close-step?

Polka

7. The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, The Byrds, Frank Zappa, Lenny Bruce, Miles Davis and many many others have all appeared at which San Francisco historic music venue, which was built in 1912 and originally named the Majestic Hall?

The Fillmore

8. What word can be used to describe someone who moves voluntarily from one country to another, intending to settle there?

Immigrant or Emigrant

9. Born on June 19, 1978, in the kitchen of Mamma Leoni’s Italian Restaurant – where he developed a taste for lasagna – which cartoon character was created by Jim Davis?

Garfield

10. The 1968 epic science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey was written by Stanley Kubrick and which famous science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer and TV series host?

Arthur C. Clarke

11. Which UK non-metropolitan county was created in 1974 includes the districts of Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees?

Cleveland

12. Named after its manufacturer, what does Chuck Noland name the volleyball that serves as his personified friend during the four years he spends alone on a deserted island in the 2000 film Castaway?

Wilson

13. Which folk singer rose to national fame in 1975 with the release of his single The Rochdale Cowboy, which led to numerous TV and radio appearances?

Mike Harding

14. Originally known as Boulder Dam, what was the concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona, renamed to in 1933?

Hoover Dam

15. Born in 1924, which American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor wrote the novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1958 and the true crime novel In Cold Blood in 1966?

Truman Capote

16. The Model T was the invention of which famous car manufacturer?

Henry Ford

17. John Thaw played which character in the 1970’s TV police drama The Sweeney?

Detective Inspector Jack Regan

18. Which English singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer’s first single topped the UK singles charts for 4 weeks in 1979 making her the first female artist to achieve a UK number one with a self-written song?

Kate Bush

19. First published in 1978, which card game – which boasts over 700 packs – features cards containing a list of numerical data, and the aim of the game is to compare these values to try to beat and win an opponent’s card?

Top Trumps

20. What name is given to the fruit growing in the Garden of Eden which God commands mankind not to eat?

Forbidden Fruit

The answer refer to US Presidents plus one president-elect:

  • 1st George Washington
  • 2nd John Adams
  • 4th James Madison
  • 5th James Monroe
  • 10th John Tyler
  • 11th James K. Polk
  • 13th Millard Fillmore
  • 18th Ulysses S. Grant
  • 20th James Garfield
  • 21st Chester A. Arthur
  • 22nd Grover Cleveland
  • 28th Woodrow Wilson
  • 29th Warren G. Harding
  • 31st Herbert Hoover
  • 33th Harry S. Truman
  • 38th Gerald R. Ford
  • 40th Ronald Reagan
  • 41st George H. W. Bush/43th George W. Bush
  • 45th Donald J. Trump
  • Joe Biden
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a drum ‘n’ bass quiz answers

The answers to a drum ‘n’ bass quiz. If you’ve not done it yet, and want to, head over to that page before reading on.

1. Born in 1943, which English broadcaster, restaurateur and food writer’s eccentric style of TV programme presentation involved drinking wine as he cooked and talking to his crew?

Keith Floyd

2. Who was the Hanna-Barbera produced Wacky Races character who is described as dashing and handsome to young girls and incredibly cool to young boys?

Peter Perfect

3. What is a cover, traditionally made of cloth, used to insulates a teapot to keep the contents warm?

Tea cozy

4. Karol Józef Wojtyła was the real name of which pope who was the head of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005?

John Paul II

5. Primarily heard in the UK and Ireland, what phrase means to tease, mock, or ridicule someone or something?

Take the mick

6. What was Fred Dinah’s main profession?

Steeplejack

7. In radio communication, what single word is used to indicate that the speaker has heard and understood what the person they are communicating with has just said?

Roger

8. In Yellowstone National Park in the Colorado, what is Old Faithful – named after its predictable nature?

Geyser

9. What are railways up the side of a mountains, consisting of a counterbalanced car sat either end of a cable passing round a driving wheel at the summit called?

Funiculars

10. What is a military step in which soldiers march in place, moving their legs as in marching, but without stepping forward?

Mark time

11. Which fast food chain started in 1954 and is the “home of The Whopper”?

Burger King

12. Which Swedish-British television presenter started as a TV-am weather presenter, moved on to present ITV’s Gladiators and become a panelist on BBC’s Shooting Star?

Ulrika Jonsson

13. In DC Comics and films, the character Alfred works for Bruce Wayne as what?

Butler

14. London’s Saville Row is best known for being the home of what type of profession?

Tailor

15. How was the Scottish king who reigned from 1306 to his death in 1329 popularly kown?

Robert the Bruce

16. Which north west town expanded greatly in the first half of the 20th century with the growth of the fishing industry to become a deep-sea fishing port but today its most notable employer is the manufacturer of the lozenge Fisherman’s Friend?

Fleetwood

17. According to the 2000 US Census, which name is the 5th most popular surname and is of Welsh origin, meaning “son of Ioan”?

Jones

18. Which Jamaican sprinter twice set the 100m world record, 1st in 2005 and later in 2007 and is still the record holder for the 100 yard dash, which he set in 2010?

Asafa Powell

19. What collection of fishing equipment also means to fall for something (often an untruth) without hesitation or reservation?

Hook, line and sinker

20. Where did Wallace & Gromit visit in their 1989 debut A Grand Day Out?

The Moon

Putting together answers from questions 1-10 with 20-11 gives you 5 drummers and 5 bassists:

  • Keith Moon (The Who)
  • Peter Hook (Joy Division/New Order)
  • Cozy Powell (Rainbow)
  • John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin)
  • Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac)
  • Jack Bruce (Cream)
  • Roger Taylor (Queen)
  • Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath)
  • Lars Ulrich (Metallica)
  • Mark King (Level 42)
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a two themes quiz answers

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The answers to a two themes quiz. If you’ve not done it yet, and want to, head over to that page before reading on.

Part 1 – History

1. Heavy metal heroes Anthrax and synth-pop Sheffielder’s The Human League both wrote songs about the British weekly anthology comic 2000AD’s lead character, Judge Dredd with his catchphrase as the title. What are the songs called?

I am the law

2. Which insurance company advertised using a dog that is voiced by Middlesbrough funny man Bob Mortimer?

Churchill

3. Which American corporation was founded in 1940 by brothers Richard and Maurice, inventors of the “speedee Service System”, and now serves over 69 million customers in over 100 countries daily?

McDonalds

4. Opened in 2000, what is the name of the environmentally friendly Cornish tourist attraction near St. Austell?

Eden Project

5. Which month has the emerald as its birthstone; was once considered a bad luck month to get married and in Old English is called the ‘month of three milkings’ referring to a time when the cows could be milked three times a day?

May

6. What is the surname of the adoptive family of Paddington bear?

Brown

7. Which ITV soap factory owner and serial womaniser was portrayed by the actor Johnny Briggs between 1976 and 2006?

Mike Baldwin

8. Which 1999 American supernatural horror film was the first film to use the internet for marketing and go viral, despite having been produced before many of the technologies that facilitate such phenomena existed?

Blair Witch Project

9. Who would you expect to be able to create a roof using dry vegetation?

A thatcher

10. What was the name of the character played by John Le Mesurier in the BBC sitcom Dad’s Army?

Sergeant Arthur Wilson

Part 2 – Nature

11 These days, how are the Byker Grove characters PJ and Duncan better known?

Ant and Dec

12 In the Harry Potter films, what animal is Hedwig?

Owl

13 How is an orderly – a soldier or airman assigned to a commissioned officer as a personal servant – otherwise known?

Batman

14 In North America what term describes the action of walking across a street in violation of traffic law, especially by crossing outside of a marked pedestrian crosswalk at an intersection?

Jaywalk

15 “Two kids are stuck at home alone on a rainy day. An anthropomorphized cat appears with two strange companions at their door and wreak havoc, while the kids’ goldfish warns them of these bad characters. In the end, the cat uses a machine to clean up his chaotic mess, all before mom gets home.” was how the author imagined the story of which famous children’s book, first published in 1957?

The Cat in the Hat

16 Born in 1920, who was the American artist, designer, visual effects creator, writer and producer who created a form of stop motion model animation known as ‘Dynamation’, first used in 1953?

Ray Harryhausen

17 Premiered in 1914, which smooth, progressive dance is characterized by long, continuous flowing movements across the dance floor and is danced to big band (usually vocal) music?

Foxtrot

18 What English colloquialisms means that something is sold or bought without the buyer knowing its true nature or value, especially when buying without inspecting the item beforehand?

Pig in a poke

19 What is the savoury jelly based on meat or fish stock, used as a relish or as a mould for meat, vegetables, etc., pork pies being a common example of its use?

Aspic

20 What is the name of the Japanese criminal organization involved in illegal gambling, extortion, gun-running, etc. whose name derives from the name of the worst possible hand in a traditional Japanese card game in which a player’s final score is the last digit of the sum of the values of the player’s hand?

Yakuza

Bonus

Bonus points for guessing the themes.

British Prime Ministers

Three letter animals

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a the knowledge quiz answers

The answers to a the knowledge quiz. If you’ve not done it yet, and want to, head over to that page before reading on.

Arty!

1. Mid-point

Halfway

2. Factory cottages

Millhouses

3. Angry pond

Crosspool

4. Block the orifice with it

Dore

5. Maximum timber

Fulwood

6. Phallic sound

Penistone

7. Poachers tavern

Hunters Bar

8. Verdant mound

Greenhill

9. Burnt rap

Charnock

10. Shiny bit

Brightside

11. Ramble meadow

Walkley

12. Central wish rocks

Midhopestones

13. Clever copse

Wisewood

14. Collect within

Intake

15. Beach entrance

Sandygate

16. Cowpat value

Dungworth

17. Bouncy Frenchman’s town

Normanton Springs

18. Brush knoll

Broomhill

19. Recreation cranium

Parkhead

20. In-between timber

Middlewood

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The answers to a sports quiz. If you’ve not done it yet, and want to, head over to that page before reading on.

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1. What was the name of the 2nd film in The Pink Panther series, released in 1964 and one of only two not to include Pink Panther in its title?

A Shot in the Dark

2. What are usually made from wood with symbols cut or painted on them that are part of the tradition of the Native Americans of the west coast of Canada and the northern US?

Totem Poles

3. What word was shared by two pubs in Walkley, one on South Road and one on Walkley Road – both now closed – that resulted in them becoming prefixed locally with “Upper” and “Lower” to help distinguish them?

Freedom (View and Hotel)

4. Invented by famous scientific chef Heston Blumenthal, how are chips that are first simmered in boiling water, then dried and deep fried at 130 °C and finally cooled and deep fried at 180 °C to give “glass-like crust and a soft, fluffy centre” known?

Triple cooked

5. Which book, published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames and was the basis for a 2006 TV documentary starring Dara Ó Briain, Rory McGrath and Griff Rhys Jones?

Three Men in a Boat

6. What game is one of the oldest known board games, its history traceable back nearly 5,000 years to archeological discoveries in Mesopotamia? It is a two-player game where each player has fifteen pieces that move between twenty-four triangles.

Backgammon

7. In the children’s TV programme The Magic Roundabout, what did the Jack-in-the-box character Zebedee use to travel around?

A spring

8. Who is the English presenter best known as a presenter of the popular children’s TV series Blue Peter from 1962 to 1972 as well as various radio and television programmes on financial and business issues?

Valerie Singleton

9. What was a form of public humiliation and punishment used to enforce unofficial justice or revenge, used in feudal Europe and its colonies in the early modern period, as well as the early American frontier, mostly as a type of mob vengeance?

Tar and feathering

10. What word means to talk about something in order to reach a decision or to convince someone of a point of view, often used when there is an exchange of ideas?

Discuss

11. What is to hit a golf ball into the hole by striking it gently so that it rolls across the green?

Putt

12. What is a reinforced room or compartment where valuables are stored?

Vault

13. Which popular beat combo was formed in 1982 by Paul Weller, formerly of the Jam, and Mick Talbot, previously a member of Dexys Midnight Runners?

Style Council

14. What is the name of the indoor trampoline company that has venues in Sheffield, Leeds, Lincoln and Rotherham or a 1984 hit single for Van Halen?

Jump

15. By what other name is an odometer known, especially in countries that use the Imperial units of measurement?

Milometer

16. In the context of an internal combustion engine, what term refers to the phase of the engine’s cycle, during which the piston travels from top to bottom or vice versa?

Stroke

17. What is a group of people constituted as the decision-making body of an organization?

Board

18. What is the name of the fictional island that first appeared in the 1933 film King Kong and later in its sequels and other King Kong-based media?

Skull Island

19. The Grain is basic unit of what in the Imperial system of units?

Weight

20. What metaphor means to challenge or confront someone, but in its earliest use was a physical action intended to issue a formal challenge to a duel?

Throw down the gauntlet

Putting together answers from questions 1-10 with 11-20 gives you 10 sports that were in the first British Empire games:

  • Shot putt (athletics)
  • Pole vault (athletics)
  • Freestyle (swimming)
  • Triple jump (athletics)
  • 3 mile (race)
  • Backstroke (swimming)
  • Springboard (diving)
  • Single sculls (rowing)
  • Featherweight (boxing and wrestling)
  • Discus throw (athletics)