Summer Quiz 2017
A big thank you to everyone who bought or sold quiz sheets this year.
You raised £634!
The podium finishers were:
First - A Hiles with a score of 91
Second - G Palmer with 90
You raised £634!
The podium finishers were:
First - A Hiles with a score of 91
Second - G Palmer with 90
Third - G Dale who was picked at random from 3 quizzers scoring 88
Here are the answers we were looking for
| Round 1 - Mouth Parts | ||
|---|---|---|
| e.g. A river has one - Mouth | ||
| 1 | Half a diameter | Radius |
| 2 | An illegal cigarette | Joint |
| 3 | A table of contents in a book | Index |
| 4 | To pry | Nose |
| 5 | One part of a sports contest | Leg |
| 6 | Like one of those scouse girls | Liver |
| 7 | Potatoes have these | Eyes |
| 8 | The rainbow | Iris |
| 9 | A red variety of runner bean | Kidney |
| 10 | Babies suck theirs | Thumb |
| Round 2 - They are all Kings | ||
|---|---|---|
| e.g. McDonald's rivals - Burger King | ||
| 1 | Master of supernatural stories | Stephen King |
| 2 | New England Indians join to fight white invasion | King Philip's War |
| 3 | Nee Miss Moffitt | Billie Jean King |
| 4 | The Last King of Egypt | King Faud II, infant son of Farouk |
| 5 | The world's largest venomous snake | King Cobra |
| 6 | Group sounding like monarchs of a French city | Kings of Leon |
| 7 | Husband of Coretta Scott | Martin Luther Kink Jr |
| 8 | 1991 Robin Williams film | The Fisher King |
| 9 | Aida's father | King of Ethiopia or The Nubian King Amonasro |
| 10 | Part of the Peer Gynt suite by Edvard Grieg | In The Hall of the Mountain King |
| Round 3 - Phrases or sayings | ||
|---|---|---|
| e.g. MHWTSS - Make hay while the sun shines | ||
| 1 | HIWTHI | Home is where the heart is |
| 2 | TABBIC | Tell A Book By Its Cover |
| 3 | SFY | Speak for yourself |
| 4 | TBOOT | To blow ones own trumpet |
| 5 | GMACUHISAIWGYTM | Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man |
| 6 | LSDL | Let sleeping dogs lie |
| 7 | MPTYE | More power to your elbow |
| 8 | TMFOR | That's money for old rope |
| 9 | BAL | By and large or break a leg |
| 10 | AEHIHC | An Englishman's home is his castle |
| Round 4 - Cryptic kitchen equipment | ||
|---|---|---|
| e.g. Done to produce kindling - Chopsticks | ||
| 1 | It sounds like a bloom that will clear waterways | Flour dredger |
| 2 | Voiced hesitation after the raising of glasses | Toaster |
| 3 | We hear it's much bigger after a dairy product | Cheese grater |
| 4 | A famous alien will follow adroitness | Skillet |
| 5 | To drive home after what would kill Count Dracula | Steak Hammer |
| 6 | A small-tailed amphibian closely related to the newt | Salamander |
| 7 | One who walks with affected delicateness | Mincer |
| 8 | Used to ward off evil by the fourth estate | Garlic press |
| 9 | The pages it confused without effort first results in kissing and cuddling | Spaghetti spoon |
| 10 | A trivial quarrel that sounds like you take a note | Spatula |
| Round 5 - Words ending in ist | ||
|---|---|---|
| e.g. A maker of clocks - Horologist | ||
| 1 | Having a life devoted to pleasure seeking | Hedonist |
| 2 | A believer in the literal truth of scripture | Fundamentalist |
| 3 | One practising the art of prize fighting | Pugilist |
| 4 | Someone who tries to benefit mankind | Philanthropist |
| 5 | A rope walker or dancer | Funambulist |
| 6 | The writer of a short tale; sometimes feeble; trite and sentimental | Novelettist |
| 7 | A believer in nothingness | Nihilist |
| 8 | One who advocates the practicle course | Pragmatist |
| 9 | A habitual criminal | Recidivist |
| 10 | A person who wants a society without government | Anarchist |
| Round 6 - Anagrams - Countries | ||
|---|---|---|
| e.g. Gad mascara - Madagascar | ||
| 1 | True man knits | Turkmenistan |
| 2 | A tame gal u | Guatemala |
| 3 | A wee pun up again | Papua New Guinea |
| 4 | Slander then | Netherlands |
| 5 | Odd to brand it again | Trinidad and Tobago |
| 6 | Monica in pride club | Dominican Republic |
| 7 | I cant test a cavity | Vatican City State |
| 8 | Sh bad angel | Bangladesh |
| 9 | I berate maud in tears | United Arab Emirates |
| 10 | Salad lover | El Salvador |
| Round 7 - What Links | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| e.g. Charon; Nix; Hydra; Kerberos; Styx - Moons of Pluto | |||
| 1 | Sheffield; Istanbul; Rome; Edinburgh | All said to have been built on seven hills | |
| 2 | Ross; Shaw; Lawrence | Names used by TE Lawrence aka Lawrence of Arabia | |
| 3 | Buffy Summers; Jon Snow; Kenny McCormick; Bobby Ewing | Resurrected TV characters - Buffy the Vampite Slayer; Game of Thrones; South Park; Dallas | |
| 4 | Tod; Reynard; Fennec | Different names for the fox | |
| 5 | Broad white collar; Close cut women's haircut; Strawberries, meringue and cream | Eton - Eton Collar; Eton Crop; Eton Mess | |
| 6 | Vienna; Budapest; Belgrade | Capital cities on the river Danube | |
| 7 | TR19 7AA and KW1 4YR | Postcodes for Land's End and John O'Groats | |
| 8 | Magna Carta; D'Oyly Carte; Swan; Eel Pie; Pharaoh's; Corporation | Islands in the river Thames | |
| 9 | Tom Dacre; Tom; Bert | Chimney sweeps - Song of Innocence; The Water Babies; Mary Poppins | |
| 10 | Blake; Dinkley;Jones; Rogers | Surnames of Scooby Doo characters - Daphne; Velma; Fred; Shaggy | |
| Round 8 - Ways of walking | ||
|---|---|---|
| e.g. One without a settled home - Tramp | ||
| 1 | Expectant fathers do this | Pace |
| 2 | Part of a tyre that touches the ground | Tread |
| 3 | A rung of a ladder | Step |
| 4 | To walk like a duck | Waddle |
| 5 | The stem of a plant | Stalk |
| 6 | To mix randomly | Shuffle |
| 7 | Beatified bread | Stroll |
| 8 | To walk with an air of superiority | Swagger |
| 9 | An esplanade | Promenade |
| 10 | To support as a prop | Strut |
| Round 9 - Missing links | ||
|---|---|---|
| e.g. Cow _____ friend - boy | ||
| 1 | Free _____ clamp | wheel |
| 2 | Tops _____ field | oil |
| 3 | Parking _____ leaf | bay |
| 4 | May _____ line | hem |
| 5 | Charge _____ rail | hand |
| 6 | Kick _____ spring | off |
| 7 | Last _____ dog | lap |
| 8 | Chick _____ nut | pea |
| 9 | Wrapping _____ chains | paper |
| 10 | Driverless _____ car | boy |
| Round 10 - Picture Round | Name that tune | |
|---|---|
| 1 | I will always love you |
| 2 | Stairway to Heaven |
| 3 | I Heard it Through the Grapevine |
| 4 | Back to Black |
| 5 | London Calling |
| 6 | The Eton Rifles |
| 7 | Light My Fire |
| 8 | Tears of a Clown |
| 9 | Jumping Jack Flash |
| 10 | Midnight at the Oasis |
