Choose your Weapon

1 In which 1988 film did Emilio Estevez play Billy the Kid?

2 What name did Davy Crockett give to his rifle?

3 What weapon did the sparrow use to kill Cock Robin?

4 The Flashing Blade is the title of the fanzine of which football club?

5 Which weapon derives its name from the French for pomegranate?

6 Which novel ends with the line, “the knife came down missing him by inches and he took off”?

7 In World War I, which large gun was named after the wife of Gustav Krupp?

8 What is the name of the medieval cannon located at Edinburgh Castle?

9 What three types of sword are used in Olympic fencing competitions?

10 Which 60s Beatles album featured the tracks Taxman and Eleanor Rigby?

11 What is an arbalete?

12 Which musical features the song Colonel Buffalo Bill?

13 What is the nickname of the football club that won the double in 1971?

14 Which murder weapon in Cluedo is also the name of a park in San Francisco?

15 Who wrote the novel The Guns of Navarone?

16 What does the H stand for in H bomb?

17 In which sport is a weapon called an estoque used?

18 Which film was sub-titled How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb?

19 Which song was a number one hit for 10CC in 1973?

20 Which Bond film featured the Bond girl Mary Goodnight?

21 What do the initials SLCM stand for with regard to weaponry?

22 Who wrote the novel The Black Arrow?

23 Which group had a hit with the song Swords of a 1000 Men?

24 What is the name of the legendary King Arthur’s sword and his shield?

25 What is the surname of the character played by Mel Gibson in the Lethal Weapon movies?

ANSWERS TO CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON

1 Young Guns
2 Old Betsy
3 Bow and arrow
4 Sheffield United
5 Grenade
6 Catch 22
7 Big Bertha
8 Mons Meg
9 Epee, foil and sabre
10 Revolver
11 A type of crossbow
12 Annie Get Your Gun
13 The Gunners
14 Candlestick
15 Alistair MacLean
16 Hydrogen
17 Sword used by a bullfighter
18 Doctor Strangelove
19 Rubber Bullets
20 The Man with the Golden Gun
21 Sea launched cruise missile
22 Robert Louis Stevenson
23 Tenpole Tudor
24 Excalibur and Pridwen
25 Riggs