Congratulations to Jaggers of East Kilbride the winner of the December Quizzy Heights Prize Quiz and the first two times winner of the Monthly Prize Quiz

Below are the questions and answers to December’s Prize Quiz.

January’s prize quiz can be located via the monthly prize quiz icon on the Quizzy Heights home page

DECEMBER’S QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1 What is the middle name of Dr Watson in the Sherlock Holmes tales?

Answer – Hamish

2 In which field are the Coty Awards presented?

Answer – Fashion

3 Which football club was founded under the name of Christ Church FC in 1874?

Answer – Bolton Wanderers

4 Which fictional character began her working life at the age of 11 at Palmerston’s Mill and was widowed when her husband Alfred died?

Answer – Ena Sharples

5 What links a rocket, a cat and a crocodile in 1972?

Answer – All contained in the titles of Elton John hits – Rocket Man, Honky Cat, Crocodile Rock

6 What links Godric, Salazar, Rowena and Helga?

Answer – First names of the characters that gave their names to houses in Hogwarts School

7 What links the fifth most populous city in Australia, the longest river in Venezuela and the capital of the island of Mull?

Answer – Names of Wombles – Adelaide, Orinoco, Tobermory

8 Which number one hit contains the line, “Only shadows move in places where we used to go”?

Answer – The Legend of Xanadu by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich

9 What is the “snooker value” of Steve Buscemi in a 1992 film?

Answer – 6 points, he played Mr Pink in Reservoir Dogs

10 Paul Boross was one half of the duo the Calypso Twins. Which other half of the duo went on to bigger and better things?

Answer – Ainsley Harriott