BLOCKBUSTERS
1 BRS – Which baseball team broke an 86 year old jinx to win the World Series?
2 D – What seven letter word describes the widow of a King?
3 C – Which is the only part of the human body that is completely devoid of any blood supply?
4 RG and CC – In 1993 who were voted the Sexiest Couple Alive by People Magazine?
5 SB – Which SB has a university named after him in Caracas?
6 CH – Dying in 1877, how was T’asunka Witko better known?
7 CM – Which Welsh golf course is to stage the Ryder Cup in 2010?
8 MA – Which non residential area has the postcode M90?
9 The G of P – What did the writer Fay Weldon describe as, “Vulgar, very middle class with rich colours and double glazed”?
10 TFB – Which device protecting London first came into operation in 1984?
11 BF – What breed of dog is Buster, the pet pooch of Paul O’Grady?
12 S and M – What are known as zeppelins in a fog in an American diner?
13 CT – In 2006 who confessed to an affair with Fiona McKechnie?
14 T – In medieval castles what was a garderobe?
15 V – What is the French counterpart for a jack in a pack of playing cards?
16 D and B – What is the more common name for taraxacum officianale and arctium lappa?
17 JL -Whose estate earned £12.6 million in 2005 despite the fact that he is dead?
18 G – Which equipment for executions was first used in France in 1792?
19 AG – Which famous Irish man was born in 1725 and died in 1803?
20 WS – What is sometimes referred to as a blind man’s lantern?
21 W the C – Robert the Devil was whose father?
22 MJ – Which MJ provided backing vocals on the Carly Simon hit, You’re So Vain?
23 B – What B is the collective noun for a group of unicorns?
24 L at the T – What completes the proverb, you can’t tell which way a train is going by …?
25 AW – What AW is so named from the custom
of marking the foreheads of church congregations as a sign of penance?
Answers
1 Boston Red Sox
2 Dowager
3 Cornea
4 Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford
5 Simon Bolivar
6 Crazy Horse
7 Celtic Manor
8 Manchester Airport
9 The Gates of Paradise
10 Thames Flood Barrier
11 Bichon Frise
12 Sausages and mash
13 Chris Tarrant
14 Toilet
15 Valet
16 Dandelion and burdock
17 John Lennon
18 Guillotine
19 Arthur Guinness
20 Walking stick
21 William the Conqueror
22 Mick Jagger
23 Blessing
24 Looking at the track
25 Ash Wednesday