Bits & Pieces Part 4
QUIZ ONE
LETTER LINKS – The first letters of the answers to the following ten questions form the name of a famous film star
1 What sport combines cross country skiing and rifle shooting?
2 What was the former name of the Green Party?
3 What is the name of Saturn’s largest moon?
4 What is the national flower of Japan?
5 In the acronym LASER what does the E stand for?
6 What name is given to the indentations on a golf ball?
7 What rank of clergy is immediately below a bishop?
8 What is the capital of Lithuania?
9 Zante and Corfu belong to which group of Greek islands?
10 What is the name of the volcano found on Lipari Island in the Mediterranean Sea?
Answers
Biathlon
Ecology Party
Titan
Tiger lily
Emission
Dimples
Archdeacon
Vilnius
Ionian Islands
Stromboli
The initial letters spell out Bette Davis
QUIZ TWO
LETTER LINKS – The first letters of the
answers to the following ten questions form the name of a pop group.
1 What is the parliamentary constituency of Tony Blair?
2 If cat equals feline what word equals bear?
3 What kind of fruit is a nashi?
4 The TV documentary show Airline concerns which economy airline?
5 What is the national wine of Greece?
6 What is the name of Tom Thumb’s female counterpart?
7 What is the state capital of North Carolina?
8 Which capital city was visited by the Pope in 2001, their first Papal visit for 1300 years?
9 What name is given to the sweet confection made from ground almonds?
10 Which is the longest book in the Old Testament?
Answers
Sedgefield
Ursine
Pear
Easyjet
Retsina
Thumbellina
Raleigh
Athens
Marzipan
Psalms
The initial letters spell out the name of the pop group Supertramp
QUIZ THREE
CRYPTOLOGY- FIND THE FILM
Identify the film titles from their initials and star
Eg R of the LA Harrison Ford - Raiders Of The Lost Ark
1 The SWCIF the C Richard Burton
2 M on the OE Albert Finney
3 YOLT Sean Connery
4 The FLW Meryl Streep
5 AP: IM of M Mike Myers
6 The I of SH Ingrid Bergman
7 The MWAF Mel Gibson
8 GPB Marilyn Monroe
9 A and CMDJ and MH Boris Karloff
10 CE of the TK Richard Dreyfuss
Answers
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
Murder On The Orient Express
You Only Live Twice
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery
The Inn Of Sixth Happiness
The Man Without A Face
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Abbott And Costello Meet Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
QUIZ FOUR
CRYPTOLOGY – TRACK DOWN THE TV PROGRAMMES
Identify the TV programmes from their initials and star
Eg The GG Estelle Getty The Golden Girls
1 B the VS Sarah Michelle Gellar
2 S on HM Pauline Quirke
3 V to the B of the S Richard Basehart
4 R of the B Leo McKern
5 The DB of M Pam Ferris
6 X: WP Lucy Lawless
7 L of the SW Brian Wilde
8 LH on the P Melissa Gilbert
9 E and MS Cynthia Harris
10 The A of WT Conrad Phillips
Answers
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Shine On Harvey Moon
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
Rumpole Of The Bailey
The Darling Buds Of May
Xena: Warrior Princess
Last Of The Summer Wine
Little House On The Prairie
Edward And Mrs Simpson
The Adventures Of William Tell
QUIZ FIVE
THEMED QUIZZES- CARRY ON SCREAMING
1 Who played Detective Sergeant Bung in the film Carry On Screaming?
2 Which siblings collaborated on the 1995 trans-Atlantic hit Scream?
3 Who painted The Scream?
4 Which former Spice Girl had a hit with the song Scream If You Want To Go Faster?
5 Which actress from a famous acting dynasty was killed in the opening scenes of the 1996 horror flick Scream?
6 Which rock band were formed in the 1980s by Bobby Gillespie and Jim Beattie?
7 Who founded the Monster Raving Loony Party?
8 Which song contains the line, “There’s screaming and crying in the high rise blocks”?
9 Which literary character exclaimed that she would “scweam and scweam” until she made herself sick?
10 Which film had the publicity tag line, “In
space no one can hear you scream”?
Answers
Harry H Corbett
Michael & Janet Jackson
Edvard Munch
Geri Halliwell
Drew Barrymore
Primal Scream
Screaming Lord Sutch
Rat Trap
Violet Elizabeth Bott in the Just William stories
Alien
QUIZ SIX
THEMED QUIZZES – PAUL TO PAUL
The answers to the following ten questions all contain the name Paul
1 Who was born Karol Josef Wojtyla on May 18, 1920?
2 Which Parisian born artist painted Yellow Christ?
3 Which American patriot’s famous horse ride in the Revolutionary War was immortalised in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
4 Who was the first black footballer to captain England?
5 Who was Prime Minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996?
6 Who played a Mafia boss in The Road To Perdition and a lawyer in The Verdict?
7 Who married Heather Mills in 2002?
8 Who designed Madonna’s conical basque that she wore on her 1990 Blonde Ambition Tour?
9 Who played the title role in the 1966 Oscar winning film A Man For All Seasons?
10 In 1986 who recorded the award winning
album Graceland?
Answers
Pope John Paul II
Paul Gauguin
Paul Revere
Paul Ince
Paul Keating
Paul Newman
Paul McCartney
Jean Paul Gaultier
Paul Schofield
Paul Simon
QUIZ SEVEN
SEQUENCES – What comes next in the following lists?
1 Yellow, green, brown, blue, pink
2 Dr No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger
3 Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon
4 Brazil, England, Brazil, West Germany, Argentina
5 George I, George II, George III, George IV
6 Nicky Hilton, Michael Wilding, Mike Todd, Eddie Fisher
7 Paper, cotton, leather, flowers, wood
8 Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas
9 China, India, USA, Indonesia
10 Snake, horse, sheep, monkey
Answers
Black, for the sequence of snooker balls
Thunderball, the first four James Bond films
Ford, chronological list of US Presidents
Italy, World Cup winners from 1962
William IV, chronological list of the British Monarchy
Richard Burton, husbands of Elizabeth Taylor
Sugar, the first six wedding anniversaries
California, an alphabetical list of US states
Brazil, the five most highly populated countries in the world
Chicken, animals representing the Chinese calendar
QUIZ EIGHT
SEQUENCES – What comes next in the following
lists?
1 5, 20, 1, 18
2 The Philosopher’s Stone, The Chamber Of Secrets, The Prisoner of Azkaban, The Goblet Of Fire
3 Churchill, Atlee, Churchill, Eden
4 Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour
5 William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee
6 Walter Winterbottom, Alf Ramsey, Joe Mercer, Don Revie, Ron Greenwood
7 Carry On Sergeant, Carry On Nurse, Carry On Teacher, Carry On Constable, Carry On Regardless
8 Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer
9 Armstrong, Aldrin, Conrad, Bean
10 Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer,
Sudden Impact
Answers
4, numbers on a dartboard
The Order Of The Phoenix, the first five Harry Potter novels
Macmillan, chronological list of British Prime Ministers
Anne of Cleves, the first four wives of Henry VIII
Tom Baker, the first four actors to play Dr Who on TV
Bobby Robson, managers of the England football team
Carry On Cruising, the first six Carry On Films
Leo, signs of the zodiac
Shepard, the first five men to walk on the moon
The Dead Pool, films in which Clint Eastwood played Harry Callahan
QUIZ NINE
FOR THE ANORAKS
1 If pride equals lions what does rafter equal?
2 What is the only book of the Bible that does not mention God by name?
3 Only one day of the week has a name in which a one-word anagram can be made. What is the day and anagram?
4 What name connects two Kings of England, two of Scotland and ten of France?
5 What country is obtained by subtracting pearl from gold?
6 Which of the world’s capital cities is situated on the island of Java?
7 What one word connects No 1 hits by Cliff Richard, Captain Sensible and Rod Stewart?
8 What connects The Last Of The Mohicans, the state of Iowa and MASH?
9 What battle fought in the year MLXVI began on October 14?
10 What is the link between a cocktail of
vodka and orange, the composer of the Miami Vice TV theme and Fox Mulder?
Answers
Turkeys
Esther
Monday and dynamo
Charles
China, 50 – 30 = 20 (wedding anniversaries)
Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia
Talk, We Don’t Talk Anymore, Happy Talk and I Don’t Want To Talk About It
Hawkeye, characters in The Mohicans and MASH and the nickname of Iowa
The Battle of Hastings
Tools, screwdriver, Jan Hammer and The X Files
QUIZ TEN
FOR THE ANORAKS
1 Which is the only Agatha Christie novel in which the narrator is the murderer?
2 What is the connection between the films, Play It Again Sam and The Usual Suspects?
3 What connects the 9th and 23rd Presidents of the USA with the Beatles?
4 According to the lyrics of a song who lived in a land called Honilee?
5 What is the connection between Diana Prince and Miss USA in 1972?
6 Who links the play Death Of A Salesman with the Yankee Clipper?
7 What is the connection between The Samaritans and the city of N’Djamena?
8 What four words make up the title of a hit record for 10cc and the motto of MGM?
9 Besides being characters in Greek mythology, Pegasus, Perseus and Andromeda are all the names of what?
10 What occupation links a Jack Nicholson
film, a hit for The Carpenters and a film starring Kevin Costner?
Answers
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Both titles were inspired by dialogue from Casablanca
The name Harrison for William, Benjamin and George
Puff the Magic Dragon
Linda Carter was Miss USA and went on to play Diana Prince alias Wonder Woman
Marilyn Monroe married to Arthur Miller the author of the play and Joe Di Maggio
who was nicknamed The Yankee Clipper
Chad, N’Djamena is the capital of Chad and Chad Varah founded the Samaritans
Art For Art’s Sake
Constellations
Postman, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Please Mr Postman and The Postman