Play your Cards Right

1 What card game takes its name from the Spanish for “basket”?

2 What name is given to Bruce Forsyth’s female assistants on Play your Cards Right?

3 Who was killed by Jack McCall in 1876 playing poker in a Deadwood saloon?

4 Which film saw Robert Shaw and Paul Newman playing cards aboard a train?

5 Which card depicts a centurion’s head as its logo?

6 Who played the treacherous politician Francis Urquhart in the TV drama House of Cards?

7 What colour is the Coventry Street card in Monopoly?

8 In which 80s TV series did Ray Brooks play an addicted gambler called Robbie Box?

9 In which novel did Count Rostov lose a fortune playing Faro?

10 Which card game is contested for the Bermuda Bowl?

11 What does a cartophilist collect?

12 In which card game is the 9 of trumps known as the Dix?

13 Which song was a hit for Wink Martindale and Max Bygraves?

14 Which historical figure is the King of Diamonds said to represent?

15 What is the alternative name for the Hierophant in a pack of Tarot cards?

16 Which historical leader is the King of Hearts said to represent?

17 Which rock group enjoyed a 1980 hit with Ace of Spades?

18 What is the best hand in a game of poker?

19 Which card game that employs a 32 card deck shares its name with the surname of a Formula One champion?

20 Which card game features Mr Bun the Baker?

21 What is Pokemon short for with regard to Pokemon cards?

22 Which TV show saw two of the main characters playing a card game called Fizzbin?

23 Which Bond movie saw Roger Moore purchasing a number of Tarot cards depicting the Lovers?

24 Which card is known as The Curse of Scotland?

25 What are the four suits in a deck of playing cards said to have originally represented?

Answers to Play Your Cards Right

1 Canasta
2 Dolly Dealers
3 Wild Bill Hickok
4 The Sting
5 American Express
6 Ian Richardson
7 Yellow
8 Big Deal
9 War and Peace
10 Bridge
11 Cigarette cards
12 Pinochle
13 Deck of Cards
14 Julius Caesar
15 The Pope
16 Alexander the Great
17 Motorhead
18 Royal flush
19 Piquet
20 Happy Families
21 Pocket monster
22 Star Trek
23 Live and Let Die
24 9 of diamonds
25 Hearts – love, diamonds – wealth, clubs – knowledge, spades - death