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a shopping is back quiz answers

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

1. London has the Underground and Paris the Métro, but what do Tokyo and Beijing have?

Subway

2. What is the family of tile-based games played with rectangular tile pieces with a line dividing its face into two square ends, each end is marked with a number of spots and the backs are either blank or having some common design?

Dominoes

3. Shoemaker Levy-9, Hyakutake, Hale Bopp and Tempel-Tuttel are all what?

Comets

4. What is any liquid fuel whose ignition takes place, without any spark, as a result of compression of the inlet air mixture and then injection of fuel, or a dog?

Diesel

5. After a super yet somewhat shaky beginning, and following 8 number one singles, which band ended their singles releases with I’m Outta Time (#12), Falling Down (#10) and Don’t Stop (#80)?

Oasis

6. Bigger or smaller than a truck and SUV, but bigger than a common car what type of road vehicles are used for transporting goods or people?

Vans

7. Which 2005 comedy-drama film is based on a true story that tells of a struggling British shoe factory’s young, strait-laced owner, Charlie, who forms an unlikely partnership with Lola, a drag queen, to save the business?

Kinky Boots

8. Composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres and located off the coast of Queensland, Australia, this is the world’s largest what?

Coral Reef

9. The common allotrope of the chemical element oxygen, an arena in Prague or the third studio album by Son of Dave?

O2

10. What is any exposed land surrounded by river water that result from changes in the course of a river called?

River Island

11. What word means a legally defined and protected geographical indication used to identify where the grapes for a wine are grown?

Appellation

12. What is another name for sharpening stones or whetstones that are used to sharpen the edges of steel tools and implements through grinding and honing?

Water stones

13. What name is given to automotive repair shops that offer paintwork repairs to scratches, scuffs and dents, as well as repairs to damaged caused by collisions but do not offer a mechanical repair service?

Body Shop

14. What is a cuboid container used by soldiers or other military personnel to store their belongings, it’s name derives from where it is usually located relative to the soldier’s bunk or bed?

Footlocker

16. What modern farming machine is designed to efficiently process a variety of crops, its name derives from its integrating four separate operations — reaping, threshing, gathering, and winnowing — into a single process?

Combine harvester

16. Which local government district in Cumbria, England has its council based in Kendal and includes much of the Lake District as well as northwestern parts of the Yorkshire Dales?

South Lakeland

17. Which 1965 James Herbert sci-fi novel was made in to a epic movie in 1984 that received mostly critical reviews – unlike the novel which is considered by some critics as the best science fiction book ever written?

Dune

18. Which monthly documentary television programme had the same permanent presenter from its first broadcast on 24 April 1957 until 7 January 2013, making it the longest-running programme with the same presenter in television history?

The Sky at Night

19. Which team played in the Football League from 1921–1993 and 1998–2002, were dissolved in 2008 and reformed the same year and play at The Shay?

Halifax Town

20. In 1809 a new eating establishment in an upmarket London square opened where diners could smoke hookah pipes and recline on bamboo-cane sofas as they tucked into their food. This was the country’s first dedicated restaurant of it’s kind, opened by a a guy named Dean. What is the common name for the variety of the dishes it served?

Currys

Hopefully the theme was clear, but just in case, all the answers contain the name of a shop:

  • Subway – sandwiches, etc.
  • Domino’s – pizzas, etc.
  • Comet – electrical goods
  • Diesel – fashion
  • Oasis – fashion
  • Vans – footwear
  • Boots – the Chemist
  • Coral – bookmaker
  • O2 – Communications
  • Apple – technology
  • River Island – fashion
  • Waterstones – books
  • The Body Shop – Health
  • Footlocker – footwear
  • Harvester – restaurant
  • Lakeland – Home
  • Dune – footwear
  • Sky – Audio/Visual
  • Halifax – finance
  • Currys – electrical

And the bonus question answer: All the names contain something that the shop does not sell.

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a shopping is back quiz

It’s Sunday, week 15 of Lockdown 3! As usual, no Fagan’s theme quiz!

This week we’ve been mostly going to the pub! Well, went twice, which is a lot, considering.

It’s a quiz of 20 themed questions – clue in the title.

There’s also Bonus question at the end. Ooh, intriguing!

There’s may be “sound-a-likes” or embedded words.

The use of electronic devices to divine the answers, with the exception of hearing aids and pacemakers, is forbidden.

1. London has the Underground and Paris the Métro, but what do Tokyo and Beijing have?

2. What is the family of tile-based games played with rectangular tile pieces with a line dividing its face into two square ends, each end is marked with a number of spots and the backs are either blank or having some common design?

3. Shoemaker Levy-9, Hyakutake, Hale Bopp and Tempel-Tuttel are all what?

4. What is any liquid fuel whose ignition takes place, without any spark, as a result of compression of the inlet air mixture and then injection of fuel, or a dog?

5. After a super yet somewhat shaky beginning, and following 8 number one singles, which band ended their singles releases with I’m Outta Time (#12), Falling Down (#10) and Don’t Stop (#80)?

6. Bigger or smaller than a truck and SUV, but bigger than a common car what type of road vehicles are used for transporting goods or people?

7. Which 2005 comedy-drama film is based on a true story that tells of a struggling British shoe factory’s young, strait-laced owner, Charlie, who forms an unlikely partnership with Lola, a drag queen, to save the business?

8. Composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres and located off the coast of Queensland, Australia, this is the world’s largest what?

9. The common allotrope of the chemical element oxygen, an arena in Prague or the third studio album by Son of Dave?

10. What is any exposed land surrounded by river water that result from changes in the course of a river called?

11. What word means a legally defined and protected geographical indication used to identify where the grapes for a wine are grown?

12. What is another name for sharpening stones or whetstones that are used to sharpen the edges of steel tools and implements through grinding and honing?

13. What name is given to automotive repair shops that offer paintwork repairs to scratches, scuffs and dents, as well as repairs to damaged caused by collisions but do not offer a mechanical repair service?

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14. What is a cuboid container used by soldiers or other military personnel to store their belongings, it’s name derives from where it is usually located relative to the soldier’s bunk or bed?

16. What modern farming machine is designed to efficiently process a variety of crops, its name derives from its integrating four separate operations — reaping, threshing, gathering, and winnowing — into a single process?

16. Which local government district in Cumbria, England has its council based in Kendal and includes much of the Lake District as well as northwestern parts of the Yorkshire Dales?

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17. Which 1965 James Herbert sci-fi novel was made in to a epic movie in 1984 that received mostly critical reviews – unlike the novel which is considered by some critics as the best science fiction book ever written?

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18. Which monthly documentary television programme had the same permanent presenter from its first broadcast on 24 April 1957 until 7 January 2013, making it the longest-running programme with the same presenter in television history?

19. Which team played in the Football League from 1921–1993 and 1998–2002, were dissolved in 2008 and reformed the same year and play at The Shay?

20. In 1809 a new eating establishment in an upmarket London square opened where diners could smoke hookah pipes and recline on bamboo-cane sofas as they tucked into their food. This was the country’s first dedicated restaurant of it’s kind, opened by a a guy named Dean. What is the common name for the variety of the dishes it served?

Bonus question: Apart from the obvious theme link to all the answers, what else links them? Extra cryptic clue: “False advertising?”

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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 shop till you drop quiz

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It’s Sunday, week 234 of lockdown, or so it seems. Which means yet another week of no Fagan’s theme quiz. We had some rain this week? End of news report.

The theme this week is in anticipation of tomorrow when everything returns to normal and people go shopping. Maybe?

Its the usual 20 questions, again. This week, I’m pretending not to remember that I can’t remember what the inside of Fagan’s looks like.

The theme is a quiz of two halves. Answers to questions 11-20 relate to answers to questions 1-10 in some way. If there’s a pattern, it’s unintentional.

There may be some “sound-a-likes” and embedded words.

The use of electronic devices to divine the answers, with the exception of hearing aids and pacemakers, is forbidden.

The bar (again)

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

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

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?

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

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?

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

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?

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

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

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?

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?

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

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?”

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?

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?

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?

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

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

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?

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