Answers To September Monthly Prize Quiz

Congratulations to Chris Morris of Chigwell, Essex the winner of the inaugural Quizzy Heights monthly prize quiz.

To enter October’s prize quiz see monthly prize quiz link on home page. Closing date November 5th 2005- £50 WH Smiths book voucher to first all correct entry opened on Saturday Nov. 5, 2005

September’s Quiz with answers.

1 Which novel opens with the line “It was Mrs May who first told me about them”?
Answer The Borrowers

2 Who was the subject of a number one hit in 1978, two years after his death?
Answer LS Lowry who died in 1976 two years prior to the Brian& Michael chart topper Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs

3 Which Carry On star was born with the surname of Deeks?
Answer Barbara Windsor

4 The novel Silverfin, by Charlie Higson recounted whose life as a schoolboy?
Answer James Bond

5 Who did Bob Hoskins portray in the film Nixon?
Answer J Edgar Hoover

6 Which song was number one in the UK for a solo artist in 1974 and a number one hit in 1999 with a cover version by a boy band?
Answer Seasons in the Sun for Terry Jacks and Westlife respectively

7 What connects Dandelion, Buttercup, Silver, Pipkin, Acorn and Cowslip?
Answer All rabbits in Watership Down

8 Who was the only US President to have a first name beginning with Z?
Answer Zachary Taylor

9 Which singer was born Terence Parsons?
Answer Matt Monro

10 Which fictional character lives at 698 Candlewood Lane?
Answer Jessica Fletcher

11 Which member of the Righteous Brothers died on November 5, 2003?
Answer Bobby Hatfield

12 Who penned the autobiography Banana’s Can’t Fly?
Answer Des O’Connor

13 Beryl Palmer, Fiona Thompson and Charlie Bartlett are all characters from which TV soap?
Answer Sons and Daughters

14 What do the initials WNA signify on a plimsoll line?
Answer Winter North Atlantic

15 In cotton measures, how many hanks make one spindle?
Answer 18

16 Which novel ends with the line, “The knife came down, missing him by inches and he took off”?
Answer Catch 22

17 What does the C stand for in the name of the Spice Girl Mel C?
Answer Chisholm

18 Double Carpet is horse racing betting slang for what odds?
Answer 33-1

19 What is chionophobia the fear of?
Answer Snow

20 Which chart topping group of the 1970s was fronted by Sally Carr?
Answer Middle of the Road

21 Who did Gregory Peck portray in the film Beloved Infidel?

Answer F Scott Fitzgerald

22 Who penned the autobiography Polly Want a Zebra?
Answer Michael Aspel

23 What is the home county of the Dursleys in the Harry Potter novels?
Answer Surrey

24 In which country was the fashion designer Yves St Laurent born?
Answer Algeria

25 What was Cassandra’s maiden name in Only Fools and Horses?
Answer Parry

26 Who won an Oscar in the 1980s playing a character called Loretta Castorini?
Answer Cher in the film Moonstruck

27 Which singers first hit as a solo artist came courtesy of the 1998 song “Put a Little Love in Your Heart”?
Answer Annie Lennox

28 Which month of the year is mentioned in the opening line of the novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles?
Answer May

29 In which state of the USA was the 60’s comedy show I Dream of Jeannie set?
Answer Florida

30 Which singer born in New York in 1953 was a member of a band called Blue Angel before gaining solo success?
Answer Cyndi Lauper