Connecting Nine
1 According to the lyrics of a song on which train would you be in Baltimore by the time you had read a magazine?
2 Which co-founder of The Guinness Book of World Records died in April 2004?
3 Which knighted cricket star has the middle name of St Auburn?
4 Which was the first vegetable to be sold as frozen food by Clarence Birdseye?
5 Under what name did Timmy Mallett top the charts with a cover of Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini?
6 The biography The Rocky Road to the Top is an account of which film stars career?
7 What is the state capital of Oregon?
8 Vindobona was the Roman name for which city?
9 Which singer’s grandson Alexander Woodward competed at the 2006 Commonwealth Games as a full bore marksman?
10 What connects the previous nine answers?
Connecting Nine – Mark 2
1 In which 2005 supernatural thriller did Michael Keaton play a character called Jonathan Rivers?
2 Which 1857 novel features the marooned characters of Peterkin, Ralph and Jack?
3 In which film did Geoffrey Hughes voice Paul McCartney?
4 Which novel in the Narnia Chronicles is sub-titled The Return to Narnia?
5 Which song contains the line, “We set sail from the Coal Quay of Cork”?
6 Which group’s debut album was entitled Picture Book?
7 In which Hitchcock thriller did Eva Marie Saint deliver the line, “I never discuss love on an empty stomach”?
8 Orion and Walburga are the parents of which Harry Potter character?
9 Which chart topping band was fronted by Pete Burns in the 1980s?
10 What connects the previous nine answers?
Answers to Connecting 9, Quiz 1
1 Chatanooga Choo Choo
2 Norris McWhirter
3 Garfield Sobers
4 Asparagus
5 Bombalurina
6 Sylvester Stallone
7 Salem
8 Vienna
9 Tom Jones
10 Connection is fictional cats
Choo Choo a member of Top Cats gang, Mrs
Norris in Harry Potter, Garfield, Asparagus & Bombalurina in TS Eliots Cats,
Sylvester, Salem the talking cat in Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Vienna pet cat of
Rigsby in Rising Damp and Tom
Answers to Connecting 9, Mark II
1 White Noise
2 Coral Island
3 Yellow Submarine
4 Prince Caspian
5 The Irish Rover
6 Simply Red
7 North By North West
8 Sirius Black
9 Dead or Alive
10 Connection is names of seas
White, Coral, Yellow, Caspian, Irish, Red,
North, Black, Dead