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a fab four quiz answers

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

Remember this?

1. What volunteer-led, charitable non-governmental organisation dedicated to the teaching and practice of first aid in England was founded in 1877?

St. John’s Ambulance

2. Which Anglican building in London, that has been built and rebuilt five times, serves as the mother church of the Diocese of London?

St. Paul’s Cathedral

3. Which Welsh statesman served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 and was the final Liberal to have held the post of Prime Minister?

David Lloyd George

4. What word is used to describe someone considered a male foreigner from the perspective of Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries in Latin America?

Gringo

5. Which character first appeared in J M Barrie’s The Little White Bird in 1902 and then in a play, subtitled “The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up” which was later adapted in to a novel and has since spawned many TV and film versions?

Peter Pan

6. How might Americans informally refer to a toilet or lavatory?

John

7. What is an ornamental shoulder piece or decoration used as insignia of rank by armed forces and other organizations?

Epaulette

8. What is the brand name of the range of clothing sold by Asda?

George

9. What is the name of the self proclaimed “UK’s No. 1 parking app” that “let’s you take control of your parking” and has car parks across more than 450 towns & cities?

RingGo

10. What is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter that is unique to natural areas such as bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs?

Peat

11. Who was the Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924 and under whose administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state?

Vladimir Lenin

12. Who was famously an animal rights activist, wrote and published several vegetarian cookbooks and founded a vegetarian food company with her husband in 1991?

Linda McCartney

13. Which American actor actor, aviator, and environmental activist gained worldwide fame as a character named Han and has also featured in blockbuter films as Indiana?

Harrison Ford

14. Which is the world’s largest coffeehouse chain headquartered in Seattle, Washington?

Starbucks

15. Who was the Manchester United and Northern Ireland footballer who became one of the first media celebrity footballers, earning the nickname El Beatle?

George Best

16. Which UK international airport’s CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence Number is P735 and, at the outbreak of World War II, was operated by the RAF and known as RAF Speke?

John Lennon Airport

17. Which Beatle went barefoot, wearing no shoes, on the cover of Abbey Road which led to the rumour that he was dead?

Paul McCartney

18. Which English actor won his first Tony Award for his performance as Henry VIII in the play Anne of the Thousand Days in 1949 and his second for the role of Professor Henry Higgins in the stage production of My Fair Lady in 1957?

Rex Harrison

19. What is a luminous ball of gas, mostly hydrogen and helium, held together by its own gravity?

A star

20. What is an excellent electrical insulator that is highly heat-resistant but its use as a building material is illegal in many countries?

Asbestos

OK, slight confession – should really have been called a fab five quiz, but that would have been giving too many clues.

Anyway, in case you didn’t spot the pattern, answers 1-5 and 6-10 give the first names to match surnames given by answers to 11-15 and 16-20. The names are, of course, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and, the fifth Beatle (or, at least, one of them!), Pete Best.

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a no self isolation quiz answers

The answers to a no self isolation quiz. If you’ve not done it yet, and want to, head over to that page before reading on.

Twix the dog. Not the one we know and love, though.

1. What first name did just two of Henry VIII’s wives have?

Anne (Boleyn and of Cleves)

2. Often, incorrectly, used to refer to a building, what is actually nicknamed Big Ben?

The (Great) Bell

3. Which actor, New Zealand film producer came to international attention for his role as the Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the historical film Gladiator in 2000?

Russell Crowe

4. In Eastenders, which “dirty” character was played by the Actor Leslie Grantham?

“Dirty” Den Watts

5. What word means the price one pays as remuneration for rights or services?

Fee

6. What are pectoral, pelvic, adipose and dorsal types of?

Fins

7. 70s popular beat combo, X-Ray Spex, had a hit single in 1978 with what song that was also the title of their album from the same year?

Germ Free Adolescents

8. Who were the warlike Asiatic nomadic people who invaded and ravaged Europe in the 4th–5th centuries?

Huns

9. What is the title of the 1983 James Bond film starring Sean Connery, one of only two that were not produced by Eon Productions – the other being the 1967 Casino Royale?

Never Say Never Again

10. During the industrial revolution what item of men’s clothing was designed to be long, thin and easy to knot, without accidentally coming undone?

Necktie

11. Which American animated television series that premiered 2000 centers around a seven-year-old Latina girl, with a love of embarking on quests related to an activity that she wants to partake of or a place that she wants to go to, accompanied by her talking purple backpack and anthropomorphic monkey companion named Boots?

Dora the Explorer

12. What consist of the mucosal tissue that lies over the mandible and maxilla inside the mouth?

Gum

13. Which English rock band formed in London in 1981 and was a supergroup of four members of different progressive rock bands of the 1970s – King Crimson Yes and ELP? The debut single from their eponymously named debut album was “Heat of the Moment”.

Asia

14. Which currency, used by many nations, the most well known being Germany up to 1999 is now only used by Bosnia and Herzegovina?

Mark

15. Which letter is “dash dash dot” in morse code and is in flag semaphore is dispalyed with the right hand flag pointing down and the left hand flag pointing diagonally down to the left?

G

16. Where is the most westerly point of mainland Cornwall and England?

Lands End

17. Which song is generally the beginning and the concluding song of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, sung by the title character of Joseph?

Any Dream Will Do

18. Which international footballer, who sent ost of his career at Leicester City, Barcelona and Tottenham Hotspur was famously substituted by England coach Graham Taylor in his last international match, ultimately denying him the chance to equal or better the then record held by Bobby Charlton?

Gary Lineker

19. Which Anglo-Dutch multinational oil and gas company has headquarters in the Netherlands and is incorporated in England? It is one of the oil and gas “supermajors” and the third-largest company in the world measured by 2018 revenues.

Shell

20. Which Ken Kesey novel was made in to a film starring Jack Nicholson as Randle Murphy in 1975 which won 5 oscars?

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Joining answers 1-10 with 11-12 gives you 10 countries you currently do not need to self isolate when arriving from them in the UK:

  • Andorra
  • Belgium
  • Croatia
  • Denmark
  • Fiji
  • Finland
  • Germany
  • Hungary
  • Andorra
  • Taiwan
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a joystick wiggling quiz answers

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

Tom Googles the answers.

1. On the 5th August, 2010, 33 people were trapped where in Coparpó, Chile?

Miners

2. Between 1966 and 1969 what four words – spoken by William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk – began every episode of the popular TV programme Star Trek?

Space: The final frontier

3. Born in 1940) who is the Italian-born American racing driver who was one of the most successful Americans in the history of the sport and is one of only two drivers to have won races in Formula One, IndyCar, World Sportscar Championship, and NASCAR?

Mario Andretti

4. What is the collective name for dogs and wolves?

Pack

5. What two words describe the sound associated with the shock waves created whenever an object travels through the air faster than the speed of sound?

Sonic Boom

6. What is the name of the United States Army post in Kentucky that is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository, which is used to house a large portion of the United States’ official gold reserves?

Fort Knox

7. Eddie Murphy voiced which character in the Shrek series of films?

Donkey

8. The first world record for which event was recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1912 currently stands at 6.18 metres and is held by the Swede Armand Duplantis?

Pole Vault

9. What is a facility built for racing of vehicles, athletes, or animals?

Race track

10. Which song was a hit for Martha and The Vandellas in 1964 and, as part of the Live Aid famine relief cause, Mick Jagger and David Bowie in 1985?

Dancing in the Street

11. What company, with their nearest store at Meadowhall Retail Park, proclaims to provide “all of your essential arts and crafts supplies”?

Hobbycraft

12. Which movie, made in 1953 and remade in 1986, features a boy who tries to stop aliens who have taken over his town and are attempting to brainwash its inhabitants?

Invaders From Mars

13. How are the two German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together collected and published folklore during the 19th century better known? They were among the first and best-known collectors of German and European folk tales, and popularized traditional oral tale types such as “Cinderella” and “Hansel and Gretel”.

Brothers Grimm

14. The unplanned urbanisation of which UK city, brought on by a boom in textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution, resulted in it becoming the world’s first industrialised city?

Manchester

15. What animal was Beatrix Potter’s Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, a washerwoman who lives in a tiny cottage in the fells of the Lake District?

Hedgehog

16. The Catholic military order founded in 1119 with the full name Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon are often more simply are referred to as what?

Knights Templar

17. Which film monster has appeared in various media since 1933 and has been dubbed the Eighth Wonder of the World, a phrase commonly used within the films?

King Kong

18. In sports, what are shooting guard, silly mid off, hooker and quarterback?

Positions

19. Which English comedian, writer, actor, artist, musician, and television presenter rose to fame in the comedy troupe The Mighty Boosh and currently co-presents The Great British Bake Off?

Noel Fielding

20. Generally, how are the Supermarine Spitfire, the General Dynamics F16 and the Messerschmitt Me 262 (amongst many other planes of this type) known?

Fighters

Joining answers 1-10 with 11-12 gives you 10 of the most popular video games:

  • Minecraft
  • Space Invaders
  • Mario Brothers
  • Pac-man
  • Sonic the Hedgehog
  • Fortnite
  • Donkey Kong
  • Pole Position
  • Track and Field
  • Street Fighter
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a opening time quiz answers

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

Not long now.

1. Notable as an innovator in the highly specialized and hazardous profession of extinguishing and capping oil well blowouts, how was the American oil well firefighter who contributed to the capping of the biggest oil well blowout to have occurred in the North Sea at the Ekofisk Bravo platform In 1977 commonly known?

(Paul Neal) “Red” Adair

2. What was the name of the Royal Navy flagship that defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588? The name has been used for Goth other navy ships since then.

Ark Royal

3. Born in 1911, who was the American burlesque entertainer and vedette famous for her striptease act? She was also an actress, author, and playwright and her 1957 memoir was adapted into a stage musical in 1959.

Gypsy Rose Lee

4. Which children’s book, by Edith Nesbit , was originally serialised in The London Magazine during 1905 and first published in book form in 1906? It has been adapted for the screen several times, of which the 1970 film version is the best known.

The Railway Children

5. Which song, by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, first appeared on their 1967 debut album Are You Experienced and was later issued as their third single in the U.S?

Foxey Lady

6. Born in 2015 to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who is currently 4th in line to the throne?

Princess Charlotte

7. What BBC TV programme featured annual snooker tournamnets and ran from 1969 to 1986?

Pot Black

8. Which former Prussion and later German military decoration design was a black symbol with a whit or silver outlinederived from a design used by knights on occasions from the 13th century?

Iron Cross

9. Which British telecommunications and internet service provider based in Maidenhead, England launched on 3 March 2003 as the United Kingdom’s first commercial 100% 3G network?

3

10. Which British sitcom produced by Thames Television, first aired between 1976 and 1979, was a spin-off from Man About the House and starred Brian Murphy and Yootha Joyce as constantly-sparring married couple?

George and Mildred

11. What animal are George and Joy Adamson most famously associated with?

Lion

12. In what type of tree, in Shropshire, did the future King of England, Charles II, reportedly hide from Roundhead soldiers during the English Civil War.

Oak

13. Which paint manufacturer’s range boost colors such as botanical noir, croquet, chaise lounge, looking glass and key lime pie?

Crown

14. What is the name of the official charity for recreational cricket and the UK’s leading youth cricket and disability sports charity, its charitable objective is to ‘give young people a sporting chance’?

Lord’s Taverners

15. What type of dog is a hunting dog used by hunters to track or chase prey?

Hound

16. The bowhead, Andrew’s beaked and the false killer are all types of what animal?

Whales

17. There are 46 species of small marine fish in the genus Hippocampus, what is a Hippocampus?

Sea Horse

18. What can be pieces of information that control the operation of a cryptography algorithm; a device used to control access to places or facilities restricted by a lock or a guide to a map’s symbology?

Keys

19. Which game is played between two people and has two throwing targets, or stakes, set in a lawn or sandbox area which are traditionally placed 40 feet apart?

Horseshoes

20. In J.R.R. Tolkein’s 1937 novel The Hobbit, what was Smaug?

A dragon

Joining answers 1-10 with 11-12 gives you 10 of the most common pub names on the UK:

  • Red Lion
  • Royal Oak
  • Rose & Crown
  • Railway Tavern
  • Fox & Hounds
  • Prince of Wales
  • Black Horse
  • Cross Keys
  • Three Horseshoes
  • George & Dragon
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a performing arts festival quiz answers

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

The back room (again).

1. What technical drawing instrument is used by draftsmen primarily as a guide for drawing horizontal lines on a drafting table, its name derives from its shape?

T square

2. Born in 1942, who was the English journalist and broadcaster who was a newscaster for ITN before becoming the presenter of the BBC’s Question Time between 1989 and 1993, and a presenter of the BBC Nine O’Clock News and Ten O’Clock News between 1993 and 2003?

Peter Sissons

3. Which sports commentator gave his name to a phenomenon common among sports commentators of allowing sentences to leave their mouth without letting their brain decide if they made sense with lines such as “If that had gone in, it would have been a goal” and “The front wheel crosses the finish line, closely followed by the back wheel”?

David Coleman

4. What is the name of the South Lakeland village in Cumbria with one primary school and four pubs that is also the name of a chain of outdoor clothing stores?

Hawkshead

5. Who was the singer and actor, one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, who was managed by the former carnival barker Colonel Tom Patker and only ever performed in North America despite an estimated 40% of his sales being outside the United States?

Elvis Presley

6. Which invention, generally attributed to Guglielmo Marconi in the 1890s, actually spanned many decades, from theoretical underpinnings, through proof of the phenomenon’s existence, development of technical means, to its final use in signalling?

Radio

7. Which TV series, one of the most successful of the 1970s, portrayed an idealized vision of life in the mid-1950s to mid-1960s Midwestern United States, and centered around the Cunningham family and their “over the garage” lodger Arthur Fonzarelli?

Happy Days

8. Which 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré depicts Alec Leamas, a British agent, being sent to East Germany as a faux defector to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer?

The Spy Who Came In From the Cold

9. What is the geographic region spreading around the North Pole, that technically has no single correct definition as the southern boundary varies depending on the method used to describe the area?

Arctic

10. What was the name of the student housemate played by Nigel Planer in the anarchic 1980s TV show The Young Ones?

Neil

11. According to the “science” of phrenology, an individual’s character and abilities can be deduced from the size and shape of various bumps on which part of the body?

Head

12. After 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer fired at children in a school playground in San Diego, California, on 29 January 1979, killing two adults and injuring eight children and one police office, what reason did she remorselessly give for her actions?

I don’t like Mondays. This livens up the day

13. Which children’s TV programme featured the characters Poppy, Jemima, Humpty, Little Ted and Big Ted and aired from April 1964 until March 1988?

Play School

14. Which American popular beat combo were originally active between 1966 and 1971 with a line-up that consisted of American and English actor/musicians and were conceived specifically for a TV situation comedy series?

The Monkees

15. Who became the youngest prime minister of Great Britain in 1783 at the age of 24 and the first prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in January 1801?

William Pitt the Younger

16. What is the Latin word that means “king” in English and it’s also the name of the dinosaur in the Toy Story films?

Rex

17. In the three Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – which one of the archangels was employed to announce the birth of John the Baptist to Zechariah and to announce the birth of Jesus to the Virgin Mary?

Gabriel

18. What type of knife is a fixed-blade fighting knife created by James Black in the early 19th century and named after the fighter it was designed for who had become famous for his use of a large knife at a duel known as the Sandbar Fight?

Bowie knife

19. The speed of what can be measured using a tool called an anemometer?

Wind

20. Who were the American comedy duo whose work on radio and in film and television made them the most popular comedy team of the 1940s and early 1950s and the highest-paid entertainers in the world during World War II?

Abbott and Costello

Combining the answers, you get the following Glastonbury Festival headliners:

  • T-Rex (1970)
  • Peter Gabriel (1979/1994)
  • David Bowie (1971/2000)
  • Hawkwind (1981)
  • Elvis Costello (1987/1989/1994)
  • Radiohead (1997/2003/2017)
  • Happy Mondays (1990)
  • Coldplay (2002/2011/2016)
  • Arctic Monkeys (2007/2013)
  • Neil Young (2009)
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a football’s back quiz answers

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

The main room (again).

1. Who was the Welshman who became  the first-ever BDO World Professional Darts Champion in 1978?  Nicknamed Marathon Man, he competed during the 1970s and 1980s and achieved World Number 1 status before retiring from the game in 1991.

Leighton Rees

2. Which town, in Lancashire, England and close to Blackburn and Burnley, is a former centre of the cotton and textile machinery industries and famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world?

Accrington

3. What is given, traditionally, as a gift for a 15th Wedding Anniversary?

Crystal

4. With a layout similar to that of an amphitheatre, what is the capital city of Haiti?

Port-au-Prince

5. Which English city grew initially as a market town specialising in the woollen trade, in the Industrial Revolution became a major centre for coal mining, steel production, lock making, and the manufacture of cars and motorcycles and is named after its Anglo-Saxon noble woman founder, Wulfrun?

Wolverhampton

6. Dating from the mid 20th century in the UK, what phrase is used to refer to a person who had died or an item that was broken?

Gone for a burton

7. What can be a man’s stiff felt hat with dome-shaped crown and narrow brim or a race open to all comers or to a specified category of contestant?

Derby

8. In 1620, the Pilgrim Fathers departed from where for the New World to establish the second English settlement in what is now the United States of America?

Plymouth

9. After beginning his career as a singer, who went on to work as a DJ for the offshore pirate radio stations Radio Caroline and Radio London between 1964 and 1967, before joining the BBC?

Tony Blackburn

10. Officially opened in April 1966, but had been a school and college before that, what is the name of the university in the UK midlands that has more than 70% of its students take a placement year, the highest percentage in the UK?

Aston

11. Who were the Italian-American gang vying for respect on the streets of the Bronx in 1963 with rivals such as the Ducky Boys and the Fordham Baldies in the 1979 movie of the same name? 

The Wanderers

12. Which domestic sports competition officially began in 1890, but unofficially has been played in one form or another since 1709?

County Championship (County cricket)

13. Noted for its  ceremonial Hall of Mirrors, the jewel-like Royal Opera , and the royal apartments,  what  was the name of the principal royal residence of France from 1682  until the start of the French Revolution in 1789?

Palace of Versaille

14. What was the full name,  announced at the start of every episode, of Ronnie Barker’s character in the 1970s TV comedy Porridge?

Normal Stanley Fletcher

15. Born José Doroteo Arango Arámbula in 1878, how is the Mexican revolutionary general and one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican Revolution more commonly known? 

(Francisco) “Pancho” Villa

16. It is the name or part of the name of many places throughout the world but what is also a pattern made of diamonds or lozenges? The word is sometimes used to refer to an individual diamond in the design, but more commonly refers to the overall pattern.

Argyle

17. Designed by husband and wife David and Elizabeth Emanuel, what did Princess Diana wear on 29th July 1981 that was 153 yards long? 

Veil

18. Who would walk long distances to take livestock to market—usually on foot and often with the aid of dogs?

Drovers

19. Which  long-distance passenger train service was created in 1883 by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits? The  route and rolling stock of the service has changed many times and, although originally it was simply a normal international railway service, the name has become synonymous with intrigue and luxury travel.

Orient Express

20. What was the name of the British soap opera, set in a covered market in Salford, in the northwest of England that was intended as a companion to fellow ITV soap Coronation Street? Due to continued troubles and ratings competition from the BBC’s Open All Hours, the series was only broadcast for one year.

Albion Market

Combining the answers, you get the following UK football teams:

  • Leyton Orient
  • Accrington Stanley
  • Crystal Palace
  • Port Vale
  • Wolverhampton Wanderers
  • Burton Albion
  • Derby County
  • Plymouth Argile
  • Blackburn Rovers
  • Aston Villa
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a shop till you drop quiz answers

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

The bar (again)

1. Which philosopher best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto, and the three-volume Das Kapital?

Karl Marx

2. What is a small, non-vascular flowerless plants that typically form dense green clumps or mats, often in damp or shady locations?

Moss

3. Which animal is the second largest student in the world and have it’s name to the branch of Boy Scouts aged 6 to 8?

Beaver

4. What is the name of the sentient computer in Arthur C Clarke’s film “2001: A Space Odyssey”?

HAL

5. A thousand years of yellow, white and purple carrot history was wiped out in a generation in the 17th century by growers from which country when they cultivated orange carrots as a tribute to William of Orange?

Holland

6. What is the often used abbreviation for the Tennessee whiskey that is the top selling American whiskey in the world?

JD

7. Who was the English humanitarian and author who was kidnapped and held captive from 1987 to 1991 during his effort to secure the release of four hostages in Lebanon?

Terry Waite

8. Born in 1947, which flamboyant pop star was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight?

Elton John

9. Which Central American country’s capital is San Jose?

Costa Rica

10. What name is shared by a Leeds United and Scotland goalkeeper and a British show jumping champion, both competing at the top level in their chosen sports in the 70s?

Harvey (David Harvey/Harvey Smith)

11. What is the name of the accident prone lead character who is married to Berry and has a daughter named Jessica in a 1973 British sitcom?

Frank Spencer

12. Octopush, Hobbyhorsing, Ferret Legging and Shin Kicking are all what sort of activity?

Sports

13. Twin brothers Matt and Luke Goss formed which band in 1986 with their friends Craig Logan? Their first major success was the number 2 hit “When Will I Be Famous?”

Bros

14. Which actress is best known for her role as Else Garnett, the long-suffering wife of the racially bigoted and misogynistic character Alf Garnett in the BBC sitcom Till Death Us Do Part?

Dandy Nichols

15. What is a small cap, akin to the biretta, worn in the Middle Ages by soldiers and ecclesiastics​ and also the name of a house building company in the UK?

Barrett

16. What is the name of the northern part of the largest island of the Outer Hebrides archipelago in Scotland, frequently referred to as if it was a separate islands?

Lewis

17. Which American director, writer, actor, comedian, producer and composer’s films include The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Spaceballs?

Mel Brooks

18. What is Finland the largest drinker of (per capita), beating neighbouring Norway in to second place?

Coffee

19. What are shallow places with good footing where a river or stream may be crossed by wading, or inside a vehicle getting its wheels wet?

Fords

20. What collective name is given to the series of English civil wars that lasted through many sporadic episodes between 1455 and 1487?

War of the Roses

When combined, the answers give the following shops:

  • Marks & Spencer
  • Moss Bros
  • Beaverbrooks
  • Halfords
  • Holland & Barrett
  • JD Sports
  • Waitrose
  • John Lewis
  • Costa Coffee
  • Harvey Nichols
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a it’s not unusual quiz answers

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

The Snog (again)

The Snog, Fagan's, Sheffield

1. Best known for its 161 theatrical short films by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which animated series centres on a friendship/rivalry (a love-hate relationship) between a cat, and a mouse?

Tom & Jerry

2. What is  the most widespread surname in Wales, borne by 5.75% of the population? 

Jones

3. Who are the  two incompetent detectives  in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé who provide much of the comic relief throughout the series?

Thompson & Thomson

4.What is the name of the Welsh footballer, born in 1965, who is famous for his “hard man” image? He has also appeared in films, such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, often typecast as criminal or villain characters.

Vinnie Jones

5. Who were founded by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman and controlled much of Southeastern Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries?

Ottomans

6. By what name is the event that  occurred in a  settlement in the South American nation of Guyana  on November 18, 1978, when more than 900 members of an American cult called the Peoples Temple died in a mass suicide-murder under the direction of their leader, commonly known?

Jonestown Massacre

7. Which character in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream provides comic relief throughout the play? A weaver by trade, he is famously known for getting his head transformed into that of a donkey by the elusive Puck.

Bottom

8. Whose catchphrases are “Don’t panic!”, “Permission to speak, sir?” and “They don’t like it up ’em!”, in a BBC TV sitcom that originally aired between 1968 and 1977?

Lance Corporal Jack Jone

9. What is the name of the South African instrumental kwela song that originally charted in the UK in 1958 and later, as a cover with added lyrics by Brighton based punk band The Piranhas in 1980?

Tom Hark

10. What are you said to be doing if you compare and attempt to emulate one’s neighbour’s social class or accumulation of material goods?

Keeping up with the Joneses

11. What is the former name of the British motoring association founded in 1905, now known simply by the initials of its old name?

Automobile Association

12. Born in 1930, which actress was most famous for starring in all 20 Carry On… films and also appeared in British TV sitcoms On the Up and As Time Goes By?

Joan Sims

13. How is the sensation that an amputated or missing limb is still attached usually known?

Phantom limb

14. First name Edwin, by what name is the driver of the title character more commonly known in the cut out animation television series Ivor the Engine?

Jones the Steam

15. The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s that uses a timer to break down work into intervals, named after the kitchen timer that he used as a university student. What food was his kitchen timer designed to resemble?

Tomato

16. Which imperfect piece of cockney rhyming slang appears to derive from the music hall song ’E Dunno Where ’E Are and means to be alone?

Jack Jones

17. Originating in Southern Italy as a lottery-style board game, but a variation of which is a popular form of raffle in the UK and elsewhere. What is it?

Tombola

18. By what name did sailors refer to the bottom of the seas, often in relation to drowned sailors and shipwrecks?

Davey Jones’ Locker

19. Create in the UK in 1991, what is the name of the theatrical percussion group that uses the body and ordinary objects to create a physical theatre performance using rhythms, acrobatics and pantomime?

Stomp

20. What was the title of the 1998 hit recorded by popular beat combo Space with guest vocalist Cerys Mathews of Catatonia fame?

The Ballad Of Tom Jones

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a the sun has got his hat on quiz answers

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

A Fagan’s breakfast

1. Which British newspaper ran with the following headlines: Gotcha; Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster and Werewolf Seized In Southend?

The Sun

2. How was Jack McVitie, posthumously known for triggering the imprisonment and downfall of the Kray twins, more commonly known?

Jack the Hat

3. What did ex-Smiths lead singer, Morrissey, think “everyday is like” in 1988 according go his number 9 hit single from his debut album?

Sunday

4. What term originated in cricket, later was transferred to ice hockey, soccer, and baseball and then to more general use and is also the magical sounding name of the TV company responsible for shows such as Drop three Dead Donkey, Father Ted, Room 101, Outnumbered and Have I Got News For You?

Hat Trick

5. What is the name of the American boxer who competed from 1953 to 1970, became the world heavyweight champion in 1962 after knocking out Floyd Patterson in the first round and eventually lost the title in 1964 to Muhammad Ali, who had entered the fight as a 7–1 underdog?

Sunny Liston

6. This British Labour politician, author and journalist from Sheffield was MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook for 33 years from 1964 to 1997 and served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party for 9 years during that time. Who is he?

Roy Hattersley

7. What device for telling the time dates back to around 1500 BC, the time of Egyptian and Babylonian astronomy?

Sundial

8. What is a miniature version of an axe that only needs one hand to wield?

Hatchet

9. Which 1969 American Western film is based loosely on fact and tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker and his partner Harry Longabaugh who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies?

Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid

10. What is the collective name for the chemicals used as cleansing agents found in household cleaners, detergents, and even shampoo? Reasons for adding include to create a lathering effect to remove oil and dirt.

Sulphates

11. The biggest what occurred in Lituya Bay, Alaska on the night of July 9, 1958 following an earthquake along the Fairweather Fault in the Alaska Panhandle?

Tsunami

12. What is a casual conversation, often light in nature or of a gossipy nature, also know as small talk?

Chit-chat

13. Which British motor car manufacturer had its works at Moorfields in Blakenhall, a suburb of Wolverhampton in the county of Staffordshire? Two models dominated their production car line, known only by numbers which changed as small modifications were made each year. They also produced buses, aero engines, Grand Prix cars and two land speed record breaking cars.

Sunbeam

14. What is a young bird, reptile or fish that has recently emerged from an egg?

Hatchling

15. What happens every day in the UK but only once a year at the North Pole?

Sunrise (or sunset)

16. Who led the successful campaign for India’s independence from British Rule in 1947? His honorific title was first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa but is now used throughout the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

17. What phrase interrupted an Opera in the 1970s advert for the game, Battleships? It involved two well to-do gentlemen playing the game in an Opera house box and continually being told to sush by their accompanying wives. At the end, one of them stands up, having been defeated, and shouts this phrase.

You sunk my battleship

18. It can be a castle, a fortress, or stately residence, the largest of which is in France and has over 400 rooms and 85 staircases. What are these types of buildings called?

Chateau

19. Which song became a transatlantic hit for popular beat combo The Animals in 1965? The song was originally written for and recorded by Nina Simone a year earlier and has since been covered by many other artists.

Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood

20. “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

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a better late than ever quiz answers

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

The back room at
Fagan’s, Sheffield

1. What is a fine-grained rock that is created by the alteration of shale or mudstone by low-grade regional metamorphism? It is popular for a wide variety of uses such as roofing, flooring, and flagging because of its durability and attractive appearance.

Slate

2. On which island do Peter Pan, Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys live?

Neverland

3. What is the contemporary English UK music TV show has been running in short series since 1992 and is a part of BBC 2’s late-night line-up, usually at around 11 pm to 12 midnight? It features a mixture of both established and new musical artists, from solo performers to bands and larger ensembles.

Later… with Jools Holland

4. What is the title of popular beat combo Nirvana ‘s 2nd studio album, released in 1991 that has sold over 340 millions copies to date?

Nevermind

5. What is the Cockney rhyming slang for feet?

Plates of meat

6. Which British sitcom that ran for eleven series from 7 September 1981 to 9 October 1991 starred Windsor Davies and Donald Sinden as rival antique dealers?

Never the Twain

7. This English actor and comedian – born in 1959 – Was a television regularly from the mid-1980s, most notably as a regular on the Channel 4 improvisation show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” Who is he?

Tony Slatery

8. What is a loud noise that us repeated several times as an echo otherwise called?

Reverberation

9. In geology and physical geography what is an area of a highland, usually consisting of relatively flat terrain, that is raised significantly above the surrounding area, often with one or more sides with deep hills.? It is also know as a high plain or a tableland.

Plateau

10. Name the English actor, writer, and singer born in 1959 who has starred in films such as Another Country (1984), The Madness of King George (1994), Shrek 2 (2004) and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)?

Rupert Everett

11. Which CBS American late-night talk show first aired in August 1993 with host David Letterman and is now hosted by comedian Stephen Colbert and is filmed, when lockdown is not in operation,  originates from the Ed Sullivan Theater, New York?

The Late Show

12. What is a disease characterized by abnormally high body temperature or a condition of heightened activity or excitement: a fever of anticipation?

Fever

13. Singers Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams released which song in 1978, reaching number 3 in the UK?

Too Much, Too Little, Too Late

14. What word described various liquids for drinking (some of which do not contain alcohol!) such as water, soda, tea, and coffee?

Beverage

15. What type of glass, initially produced in plane form, is commonly used for windows, glass doors, transparent walls, and windscreens? It is also used in hilarious classic comedy skits, being carried by two men and involving oncoming traffic.

Plate glass

16. What slang term describes and person who is intellectual in an annoying way?

Clever clogs

17. What term defines to protect something by interposing material that prevents the loss of heat or the intrusion of sound?

Insulate

18. Which British electrical firm formed in 1906 as the export branch of an American but became independent in 1914? For decades it dominated the UK consumer battery market.

Ever Ready

19. In which direction is something said to be moving if it moves towards the side or in a direction away from the middle but not backward or forward.

Laterally

20. What is the name of Harry Potter’s teacher, initially for Potions classes, then Defence Against the Dark Arts who finally became the Headmaster of Hogwarts school?

Severus Snape