Words and Literature

Words…

1 Metric Demy, Metric Crown and Metric Royal are all sizes of what?

2 Which five letter word for a loose woman derives from the Italian for baby?

3 Which derogatory term for a lesbian is said to have derived from the Celtic warrior Queen Boudicca?

4 Which two word term of Chinese origin literally means, work together?

5 What bird was William Wordsworth describing when he wrote, “Shall I call thee bird or but a wandering voice”?

6 What term for a moral or pious person was taken from the title character of a 1766 book?

7 What five letter word is the collective noun for a group of goldfinches?

8 What type of distress call derives from the French for help me?

9 What word is the opposite of explosion?

10 What type of makeshift grenade was named after a 1940s Soviet minister for foreign affairs?

11 Which North American Indian tribe gave their name to a type of motor home?

12 If an animal is described as arboreal where does it live?

13 What is the alternative name for the Decalogue?

14 What is the name of the tube that connects the middle ear to the back of the throat?

15 In Judaism, what is a gett?

16 What type of book derives its name from the Greek for circle of learning?

17 What three words complete the following saying? When America sneezes the world…

18 What eleven letter word derives from the French for record library?

19 In a French pack of playing cards, what is a Jack known as?

20 What would a doctor understand by the initials NYG?

…and Literature

1 Which private detective made his final literary appearance in the 1958 novel Playback?

2 Who directly preceded John Betjeman as Poet Laureate?

3 Which British Olympic hero penned the autobiography A Golden Age?

4 Home Again is the title of the final chapter of which novel?

5 Where is Ruth sandwiched by Judges and Samuel?

6 Which Booker Prize winning novel by Michael Ondaatje was later adapted into an Oscar winning film?

7 On which thoroughfare do the Dursley family live in the Harry Potter books?

8 Which is the only animal mentioned in the title of a Shakespeare play?

9 Which coffee house chain took its name from a character in Moby Dick?

10 Which novel by Mario Puzo inspired an award winning film trilogy?

11 In the nursery rhyme which character could eat no fat?

12 Whose novels were mainly set around the fictional village of Darrowby?

13 Who celebrated his eleventy first birthday in Lord of the Rings?

14 Which author, a cousin of Stanley Baldwin, refused to accept the Order of Merit on three occasions?

15 Which Dickens character has been played on film by Robert Newton and Oliver Reed?

16 Which poem by Tennyson includes the line, “All in the valley of death rode the 600”?

17 Which two books of the Bible begin with the letter L?

18 Which was the first Stephen King novel to be filmed?

19 Whose first name was revealed in the novel Death Is Now My Neighbour?

20 Which novel opens with the line, “Renowned curator Jacques Sauniere staggered through the vaulted archway of the museums Grand Gallery”?

Answers to Words

1 Paper
2 Bimbo
3 Dyke
4 Gung ho
5 Cuckoo
6 Goody Two Shoes
7 Charm
8 Mayday
9 Implosion
10 Molotov cocktail
11 Winnebago
12 In trees
13 Ten Commandments
14 Eustachian tube
15 A bill of divorce
16 Encyclopaedia
17 Catches a cold
18 Discothèque
19 Valet
20 Not yet diagnosed

Answers to Literature

1 Philip Marlowe
2 Cecil Day Lewis
3 Steve Redgrave
4 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
5 In the Bible, Old Testament
6 The English Patient
7 Privet Drive
8 Shrew, The Taming of the Shrew
9 Starbucks
10 The Godfather
11 Jack Sprat
12 James Herriot
13 Bilbo Baggins
14 Rudyard Kipling
15 Bill Sikes
16 Charge of the Light Brigade
17 Leviticus and Lamentations
18 Carrie
19 Endeavour Morse
20 The Da Vinci Code