Better the Devil you Know
1 Which playing card is known as the devil’s bed posts?
2 Who wrote the novel Life and Loves of a She Devil?
3 In which 1997 film did Al Pacino play the role of John Milton?
4 Which fictional villain was described as having “a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan”?
5 Robert the Devil was the father of which 11th century monarch?
6 Which 1973 film saw Steve McQueen incarcerated on Devil’s Island?
7 What is the largest carnivorous marsupial?
8 Devil’s apron is a variety of what?
9 In which two years of the 20th century did the Red Devils win football’s European Cup?
10 Who wrote the novel The Devil Rides Out?
11 What accompanies bacon in the dish Devils on Horseback?
12 Which song contains the lyric, “Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me”?
13 Which sport is played by the New Jersey Devils?
14 In which 2000 film did Liz Hurley play the devil?
15 What six letter D word is the Spanish for devil?
16 Who went into hiding after writing the novel The Satanic Verses?
17 What alternative name for Satan was also the name for an early form of friction match?
18 Who wrote the novel The Old Devils?
19 In which Spielberg movie is Devil’s Tower in Wyoming central to the plot?
20 Which 2000 film comedy saw Adam Sandler playing the son of the devil?
21 Which Christian had a 1976 top ten hit with Devil Woman?
22 Which gambling objects are known as the devil’s bones?
23 In which controversial film directed by Mel Gibson did Rosalinda Celentano play Satan?
24 Which name for the devil derives from the Latin for light bearer?
25 In which sport is a devil take the
hindmost event contested?
ANSWERS
1 Four of clubs
2 Fay Weldon
3 The Devil’s Advocate
4 Fu Manchu
5 William the Conqueror
6 Papillon
7 Tasmanian devil
8 Seaweed
9 1968 and 1999
10 Dennis Wheatley
11 Prunes
12 Bohemian Rhapsody
13 Ice hockey
14 Bedazzled
15 Diablo
16 Salman Rushdie
17 Lucifer
18 Kingsley Amis
19 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
20 Little Nicky
21 Cliff Richard
22 Dice
23 The Passion of the Christ
24 Lucifer
25 Cycling