THE COLD FACTS

1 Who wrote the novel Cold Comfort Farm?

2 Which 1993 film recounts the true story of a Jamaican Winter Olympic bobsleigh team?

3 Which play opens with the line, “Now is the winter of our discontent”?

4 Which song contains the lyric, “Little darling, its been a long cold lonely winter”?

5 Who played Mr Freeze in the 1997 film Batman and Robin?

6 Which Oscar winning song was originally performed by Betty Garrett and Red Skelton in the 1949 film Neptune’s Daughter?

7 What F word is the name given to the morbid fear of the cold?

8 What is the alternative name for an ounce in the animal kingdom?

9 Which cartoon character’s chief adversary is a dog called Smedley?

10 Be Cool was a belated sequel to which film?

11 Who played the role of Adam Williams in the TV drama Cold Feet?

12 What does the computer acronym COLD signify?

13 Which novel by Nancy Mitford features the characters of Lord and Lady Montdore?

14 Which group recorded the album, A Rush of Blood to the Head?

15 In which US TV crime drama does Kathryn Morris play Detective Lilly Rush?

16 Who wrote the novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold?

17 Established in 1650, what is the oldest regiment in the British Army that has been in continuous active service?

18 What is the more common term for herpes simplex?

19 Which Charles Frazier novel was adapted into a film starring Nicole Kidman?

20 Which song penned by John Lennon in 1969 dealt with his battle against heroin addiction?

 

Answers

1 Stella Gibbons

2 Cool Runnings

3 Richard III

4 Here Comes the Sun

5 Arnold Schwarzenegger

6 Its Cold Outside

7 Frigophobia

8 Snow leopard

9 Chilly Willy

10 Get Shorty

11 James Nesbitt

12 Computer Output for Laser Disk

13 Love In a Cold Climate

14 Coldplay

15 Cold Case

16 John Le Carre

17 Coldstream Guards

18 Cold sore

19 Cold Mountain

20 Cold Turkey