Bits & Pieces Part 5

QUIZ ONE

LINK LISTS – Can you spot the link between each of the following?
Eg Gemini, Taurus, Leo, Pisces = Signs of the zodiac

1 L, V, D, C, X, M

2 Sejm, Storting, Althing, Riksdag

3 The Pardoner, The Physician, The Parson, The Squire, The Merchant, The Knight

4 Hollandaise, Béarnaise, Avgolemono

5 John Kennedy Jnr, John Denver, Rocky Marciano, Yuri Gagarin

6 Zagros, Drakensberg, Cascades, Jura

7 Sable, azure, vert, gules

8 Roger Bannister, David Owen, WG Grace, Che Guevara

9 Edwards, Reynolds, Wilson, Biggs, Goody

10 Jersey White Giant, Blue Orpington, Light Sussex

Answers
Roman numerals
Names of parliaments
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Sauces
All died in plane crashes
Mountain ranges
Heraldic names for colours
All qualified as doctors
The Great Train robbers
Breeds of chicken

QUIZ TWO

LINK LISTS – Can you spot the link between each of the following?

1 Revolver, Rubber Soul, Help

2 BALPE, UCATT, COHSE, TUC

3 Virgil, Morgan, Wyatt, Baxter

4 Ovary, stigma, style, pistil

5 Annan, Waldheim, Lie, U Thant

6 Lev, Won, Quetzal, Yuan

7 Varig, THY, Malev, Avianca

8 Anne Hayes, Miranda Quarry, Britt Ekland, Lynne Frederick

9 Temple Meads, Waverley, Lime Street, Connolly

10 Walter Mondale, Al Gore, Dan Quayle, Nelson Rockefeller

Answers
Beatles albums
Acronyms of Trade Unions
The Earp brothers
Parts of a flower
Secretary Generals of the United Nations
Currencies
National airlines
Wives of Peter Sellers
Railway stations
USA Vice-Presidents

QUIZ THREE

CRYPTOLOGY – AS EASY AS ABC
The following questions all have answers that have initial letters limited to AB or C
Eg CB – Who co-starred with his wife Jill Ireland in Assassination? Charles Bronson

1 AB What turns a gin into a pink gin?

2 AC Which 60s group hit the charts with the song, If Paradise Is Half As Nice?

3 AA What structure stands at the opposite end of the Mall to Buckingham Palace?

4 The BB What name is given to the areas of the USA where religious fundamentalism is dominant?

5 BAC What is the connection between Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway and Georgie Fame?

6 CCC What famous train ran from Cincinnati to New Orleans?

7 The AB What lies between Jupiter and Mars?

8 CB What do those initials stand for with regard to radio hams?

9 BC Which BC accompanied Bob Hope in The Road movies?

10 BB Which musical features the song, Tell Me It’s Not True?

Answers
Angostura bitters
Amen Corner
Admiralty Arch
The Bible Belt
Bonnie & Clyde, Dunaway &Beatty on film and Georgie Fame in song
Chattanooga Choo Choo
The Asteroid Belt
Citizen’s Band
Bing Crosby
Blood Brothers

QUIZ FOUR

CRYPTOLOGY – AS EASY AS ABC

1 BABC What became known as, “The Greatest Show On Earth”?

2 BB Which song originally a hit for Ram Jam was covered by Tom Jones in 2003?

3 BC The pop group Right Said Fred took their name from a 60s hit record by which entertainer?

4 AC What do the initials AC stand for with regard to electronics?

5 CB What is the more common name for dichromatic vision?

6 BB By what name did Max Averson become known when he took to wearing a stetson?

7 CCC What is the official name of the Old Bailey?

8 CB Which founder of the London Marathon died in 2003 aged 74?

9 The BB How are Carol, Mike, Cindy, Jan, Pete, Greg and Bobby collectively known?

10 B, B, B Which three cities beginning with B were European Cities of Culture in 2000?

Answers
Barnum And Bailey’s Circus
Black Betty
Bernard Cribbens
Alternating current
Colour blindness
Bronco Billy
Central Criminal Court
Chris Brasher
The Brady Bunch
Brussels, Bologna, Bergen

QUIZ FIVE

SCIENCE AND NATURE

1 What boys name is also the name for a unit of magnetic force?

2 What small creature terrifies a person who suffers from apiphobia?

3 What word is obtained by adding together the chemical symbols of bromine and silver?

4 What eight-letter S word is the name given to the nasal opening of a whale?

5 How many sides does a parallelogram have?

6 Which planet is the site of craters called Goya, Monet and Raphael?

7 What is the largest rodent that is native to the British Isles?

8 What colour is the milk of a yak?

9 What do birds have two of, that bees have five of and spiders have eight of?

10 With which part of their body do flies taste food?

Answers
Gilbert
Bees
Brag
Spiracle
Four
Mercury
Coypu
Pink
Eyes
Through glands in their feet

QUIZ SIX

SCIENCE AND NATURE

1 A synodic month is a period between two what?

2 What animal provides the symbol for Britain’s Wild Life Trust?

3 What is the only chemical element that is named after a state in the USA?

4 What four-letter B word is the alternative name for a tree trunk?

5 What name is given to an angle of less than 90 degrees?

6 What was the name of the first ever space shuttle launched by the USA?

7 What eleven letter C word is the name given to the apparent outward force of a rotating body?

8 What is a young zebra called?

9 What does it mean if an animal is described as oviparous?

10 To which family of birds do housemartins belong?

Answers
New moons
Badger
Californium
Bole
Acute
Columbia
Centrifugal
Foal
It lays eggs
Swallow

QUIZ SEVEN

TAKE YOUR PICK – Each of the following questions is accompanied by four alternative answers. Can you pick the right one?

1 What provides the staple diet of a walrus?
Plankton, clams, fish, seagulls

2 What is the name of Glasgow’s main railway station?
Prince Street, Duke Street, Queen Street, King Street

3 What is a gavotte?
A knife, a hat, a dance, a cooking pot

4 What is the birth flower for September?
Aster, rose, crocus, lily

5 In which film did Kevin Costner play a character called Frank Farmer?
JFK, Dances With Wolves, Waterworld, The Bodyguard

6 What is a York Imperial?
Apple, orange, pear, banana

7 What does a bodger make?
Cups, coats, chairs, candles

8 What title is given to an ambassador to the Pope?
Emirate, Nuncio, Monsignor, Conclave

9 In 453 AD, who bled to death from a nosebleed on his wedding night?
Caligula, Ethelred the Unready, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan

10 Which American state is known as The Prairie State?
Arizona, Illinois, Colorado, Nebraska

Answers
Clams
Queen Street
A dance
Aster
The Bodyguard
Apple
Chairs
Nuncio
Attila the Hun
Illinois

QUIZ EIGHT

TAKE YOUR PICK

1 What flower is depicted on the flag of Quebec?
Orchid, daffodil, fleur-de-lys, pansy

2 A group of what is known as an observance?
Housewives, hornets, hawks, hermits

3 What word represents the letter N in the phonetic alphabet?
New, November, nut, Netherlands

4 Who would wear a hat called a mitre?
A bishop, a builder, a baker, a beekeeper

5 What appeared on British roads for the first time in 1956?
Parking meters, cats eyes, yellow lines, traffic wardens

6 What does the E stand for in the name of the cartoon character Wile E Coyote?
Edgar, Ethelbert, Eric, Ernie

7 What is the home state of Captain James T Kirk?
Iowa, Ohio, Utah, Maine

8 A jumbuck is Australian slang for what animal?
Wombat, kangaroo, sheep, ostrich

9 Sudan has its only coastline on which sea?
Black Sea, Sea of Galilee, Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea

10 The letter M is the international car registration plate for which country?
Malaysia, Malta, Moldavia, Morocco

Answers
Fleur-de-lys
Hermits
November
Bishop
Yellow lines
Ethelbert
Iowa
Sheep
Red Sea
Malta

QUIZ NINE

FOR THE ANORAKS

1 What type of sportsman performs a manoeuvre called the Thomas Flairs?

2 What is the difference between flotsam and jetsam?

3 What is the connection between a statue of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the author Michael Bond?

4 What lyric from The Who song, My Generation gained an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary of Quotations?

5 Who played the father of Kevin Costner in the film Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves?

6 Which rock band fronted by Jerry Garcia took its name from the Egyptian prayer book?

7 What connects Ismit in 1999, Armenia in 1988 and Calcutta in 1737?

8 What first name connects novels by Herman Melville, Keith Waterhouse and Frank Richards?

9 According to an old saying what B is it said to be unlucky to wash in the month of May?

10 At the end of the James Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service why was Miss Moneypenny crying?

Answers
A gymnast on a pommel horse
Flotsam are goods washed overboard from a shipwreck and jetsam are goods thrown overboard
Paddington, Brunel’s statue stands at Paddington Station, Bond created Paddington Bear
Hope I die before I get old
Brian Blessed
Grateful Dead
Scenes of major earthquakes
Billy, Billy Budd, Billy Liar, Billy Bunter
Blankets
Because James Bond got married

QUIZ TEN

FOR THE ANORAKS

1 What does a marigraph record the levels of?

2 From which historical event did the three lions on the England football team shirt derive?

3 On the Isle of Man what is a Deemster?

4 What is the connection between the state capital of Nebraska, Robin Hood and the 16th President of the USA?

5 Which President did Charlton Heston portray in the film, The President’s Lady?

6 By her own admission what did Marilyn Monroe claim was the only thing she wore in bed?

7 Which former Wimbledon champion has a surname meaning, “tall trees by still waters”?

8 The Last Man In Europe was the original working title of which novel?

9 What is the connection between a statue in Kensington Gardens and the actor Robin Williams?

10 The name of which islands is derived from the Spanish for, “shallow waters”?

Answers
Tides
The Third Crusade
A judge
Lincoln, the capital of Nebraska, Robin Hood wore Lincoln green and Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
Chanel No 5
Evonne Goolagong
1984
A statue of Peter Pan stands in Kensington Gardens and Williams played Peter in Hook
The Bahamas