Bits & Pieces Part 2

QUIZ ONE - THINK LINKS

1 What author links the characters of Christopher Robin, Eeyore and Tigger?

2 What links the name of Andrew, George, Patrick and David?

3 Which car manufacturer links the models of Clio, Laguna and Spider?

4 What is the link between Lincoln, Roosevelt, Washington, Jefferson and South Dakota?

5 Which TV programme of yesteryear links the characters of Detective Chief Inspector Barlow, PC Fancy Smith and Detective Inspector Bamber?

6 What links the words doc, lose, harks, traps and bad?

7 King Edward, Vanessa, May Queen and Romano. What is the link?

8 Mashie, iron and wedge. What is the link?

9 What is the link between Adelphi, Mermaid, Palladium, Strand and Lyceum?

10 What links the sites of Babylon, Rhodes, Alexandria, Giza, Olympia, Ephesus and Halicarnassus?

Answers
AA Milne
Patron saints of Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales
Renault
The heads of these American Presidents can be viewed on Mount Rushmore in S Dakota
Z Cars
All are anagrams of fish, cod, sole, shark, sprat and dab
All varieties of potato
All types of golf club
All names of London theatres
The locations of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

QUIZ TWO - THINK LINKS

1 Name the father and daughter who link the films Ryan’s Daughter and Whistle Down The Wind.

2 Who links Greenwich Observatory, St Paul’s Cathedral and Chelsea Hospital?

3 What is the link between Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucchi and Simon Bolivar?

4 What links the stories, A Study In Scarlet, The Sign Of Four and A Scandal In Bohemia?

5 What is the link between Chelsea, Bath, Dundee and Eccles?

6 Hand, balance, foliot and drum. All parts of a what?

7 What links the names of Hugo, Oscar, Tony and Edgar?

8 Ramadan, Rajab, Shawwal. What is the connection?

9 What links Panama, busby and biretta?

10 Dartmoor, Leicester, Swaledale and Wensleydale. What is the connection?

Answers
John & Hayley Mills
All designed by Sir Christopher Wren
All have countries named after them
Arthur Conan Doyle stories featuring Sherlock Holmes
All have buns or cakes named after them
Clock
All are types of awards
Months of the Muslim year
The names of types of headgear
All are breeds of sheep

QUIZ THREE - ANAGRAMMATICAL
Unravel the anagrams to give the titles of ten films

1 SHORT HUE

2 BARE CAT

3 U SOGGY NUN

4 A NAVY SKILL

5 RATE DROP

6 WIDOWER RAN

7 THEO PAIN

8 PRUNE SAM

9 GODS WARTS

10 REST WIT

Answers
The Hours
Cabaret
Young Guns
Vanilla Sky
Predator
Rear Window
The Piano
Superman
Straw Dogs
Twister

QUIZ FOUR - ANAGRAMMATICAL
Unravel the anagrams to give the titles of TV programmes

1 SAW SIT

2 FED LINES

3 GRID ROPE

4 A WALL

5 MARY’S DAD

6 BEG RACER

7 DAN AMERICA CD

8 ROME SUED NAG

9 SIN FRED

10 STEED RIM

Answers
Tiswas
Seinfeld
Porridge
LA Law
Dad’s Army
Bergerac
Candid Camera
Dangermouse
Friends
Mister Ed

QUIZ FIVE - TRIVIA TREK BONNIE SCOTLAND

1 What is the name of Scotland’s oldest university?

2 Which Scottish town has a name that literally means, “Speckled church”?

3 What is Scotland’s longest river?

4 Which Scottish clothing industry was established in 1842 by the Dowager Countess of Dunmore?

5 Which Scottish football club are nicknamed, “The Honest Men”?

6 Which Scottish folk hero was played by Mel Gibson in the film Braveheart?

7 What was the capital of Scotland prior to 1437?

8 The heart of which Scottish hero, who died in 1329, is buried at Melrose Abbey?

9 What is the name of the cannon, that was built in Belgium, and is a popular tourist attraction at Edinburgh Castle?

10 Neeps are the traditional accompaniment to haggis. What are neeps?

Answers
St Andrews
Falkirk
Tay
Harris Tweed
Ayr United
William Wallace
Perth
Robert the Bruce
Mons Meg
Turnips

QUIZ SIX - TRIVIA TREK SPANISH STEPS

1 What did the Euro replace as the Spanish currency?

2 What two colours feature on the flag of Spain?

3 Which best selling novel by Ernest Hemingway was set during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s?

4 La Manga is a venue famed for which sport?

5 In terms of population what is Spain’s third largest city?

6 Who was crowned King of Spain in November 1975?

7 Which Spanish city houses the Alhambra Palace?

8 On which river does the city of Madrid stand?

9 Which language spoken in the Alava region of Spain shares its name with an article of clothing?

10 Which small principality is jointly ruled by the Spanish Bishop of Urgel and the President of the French Republic?

Answers
Peseta
Red and yellow
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Golf
Valencia
Juan Carlos I
Granada
Manzanares
Basque
Andorra

QUIZ SEVEN - WORD GAMES
What word can precede each group of three?
Eg Dresser, net and style = Hair

1 Stroke, glasses and spot

2 Money, boy and weight

3 Admiral, square and cross

4 Ox, deer and rat

5 Man, ball and fly

6 Tree, cart and pie

7 Fair, pole and Queen

8 Screen, drive and mouse

9 Bag, leaf and cup

10 Soldier, stool and ball

Answers
Sun
Paper
Red
Musk
Fire
Apple
May
Computer
Tea
Foot

QUIZ EIGHT - WORD GAMES MISSING LINKS
Can you spot the linking words? Eg FULL (MOON) LIGHT

1 CABLE ( ) PARK

2 BRASS ( ) WRENCH

3 OPERA ( ) MARTIN

4 ELECTRIC ( ) MAN

5 MATCH ( ) INSECT

6 TEAR ( ) KICK

7 BLOOD ( ) DANCE

8 PULL ( ) TURN

9 FAMILY ( ) HOUSE

10 SURGICAL ( ) LEVEL

Answers
Car
Monkey
House
Chair
Stick
Drop
Line
Over
Tree
Spirit

QUIZ NINE - FOR THE ANORAKS

1 In which novel did the character of Ada Doom see “something nasty in the woodshed”?

2 Which capital city is overlooked by Mount Esja?

3 What was launched in 1765, docked and restored in 1922 and now can be seen on display at Portsmouth?

4 Monaco possesses an identical flag to which other country?

5 What is the connection between the Earl of Merioneth and the Baron of Greenwich?

6 What connects Romeo and Juliet, The Lady With The Lamp, The Rocket and The Beagle?

7 What name connects Barnaby Rudge, The Taiping Rebellion and Buster Crabbe?

8 Of all the American state capitals which one has the most letters in its name?

9 The Mask of Zorro, The Four Seasons and The Merchant Of Venice. What is the connection?

10 Peter Ustinov starred as Nero in the film Quo Vadis. When the title of the film is translated into English what question does it ask?

Answers
Cold Comfort Farm
Reykjavik
HMS Victory
Indonesia
The same person, Prince Philip, holds both titles
People who have featured on British bank notes. William Shakespeare, Florence Nightingale, the inventor of the Rocket, George Stephenson and Charles Darwin whose research ship was called The Beagle
Jefferson City, state capital of Missouri
The name Antonio, for Antonio Banderas, the name of The Merchant of Venice and Antonio Verdi the composer of The Four Seasons
Where are you going?

QUIZ TEN - FOR THE ANORAKS

1 Margaret Beaufort was the mother of which English monarch?

2 How many chemical elements are named after planets?

3 Bridges, Hughes, Motion and Austin. What is the connection?

4 Besides being towns in England what connects Hexham, Barnet, St Albans, Wakefield and Northampton?

5 In 1972 what moved from Throgmorton Street to Old Broad Street?

6 What role connects the actors Orson Welles, Tim Curry, Robert Newton and Charlton Heston?

7 In Morse Code what girls name is spelt out by dot, dot dot dot dash, dot?

8 Fable, Myth, Jolly, Chipper and Shadow. All the names of what?

9 What connects the national symbol of Germany, the date of September 6, 1620 and the first record played on Radio 1?

10 What word could be defined as, “emphasised” when reading forward and “puddings” if read in reverse?

Answers
Henry VII
Four – Uranium, Plutonium, Mercury and Neptunium
All names of Poet Laureates
All battles of the War of the Roses
The Stock Exchange
Long John Silver
Eve
Corgis of Queen Elizabeth II
Flowers. The cornflower, the historic voyage of The Mayflower and Flowers In The Rain
Stressed and desserts