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Christmas Quizzes 2009
Our thanks to all those who entered either or both of our Christmas quizzes this year. The winners, all of whom will receive a book token, were:
1. Winner of cryptic quiz: HELEN & JONATHAN PORTER, ALTON, HAMPSHIRE.
2. Winner of general knowledge quiz: CAROLYN GILL, KING’S LYNN, NORFOLK.
3. Overall winner: DAVID & TRICIA CROUCH, WISBECH, CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
4. Lucky Dip winner: KATH & TERRY CAIN, CRICCIETH, GWYNEDD, NORTH WALES.
Here are the quizzes, with answers in capitals, so you can slap your head and go "of course..."
CRYPTIC QUIZ on the theme of MUSIC (set by Chris Healey)
1. German composer, born a Swiss (4) BACH
2. Performance given next to front of orchestra (8) CONCERTO
3. Clarinet plays G instead of C - makes a completely different sound (8) TRIANGLE
4. The king lives all over the place (5) ELVIS
5. Beatle character in jam (i.e. loganberry) (7,5) ELEANOR RIGBY
6. Song, part of a variation (4) ARIA
7. Note - the elderly put on this band (8) COLDPLAY
8. Classical composer revival didn’t feature (7) VIVALDI
9. Blimey - English? (French?) Blow me! (3,7) COR ANGLAIS
10. A king, a prime minister … and a sex machine?? (5,5) JAMES BROWN
11. Could provide better arrangement than dung like Elton (4,9) DUKE ELLINGTON
12. Second rate bum provides low end stuff (4) BASS
13. Shillings, cents or English notes for professional musicians (5) SCORE
14. Series of pitches - strike one and hit home (5) CHORD
15. Singer seen in concerts in a trance (7) SINATRA
16. Note demands vibrato? (6) QUAVER
17. Quiet instrument (5) PIANO
18. Punks got the money around 50 (3,5) THE CLASH
19. Gets battered, and it turns into murder (short answer) (5,4) SNARE DRUM
20. This type of music sends Jack half to sleep (4) JAZZ
21. Hippy singer bashes banjo and writes extreme letters embracing drug (4,4)
JOAN BAEZ
22. Take a pencil, reflect, and become top pop act (4) ABBA
23. Bravely bygone composer (5) RAVEL
24. Simple man - shaker - in front of orchestra (5,6) SIMON RATTLE
25. Aggressive types love guns (3,7) SEX PISTOLS
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ (set by Mike Foot)
MUSIC
1. What, numerically, do Beethoven, Dvorak and Vaughan Williams have in common?
9 (SYMPHONIES)
2. Who followed Paul Jones as the lead singer of Manfred Mann? MIKE D’ABO
3. Who was the original drummer of the Beatles? PETE BEST
4. What is the American city famous for its Country Music Hall of Fame? NASHVILLE
5. What nationality was the composer Frederick Delius? ENGLISH/BRITISH
VISUAL ARTS
1. Who painted the original ‘Bubbles’ used by Pears Soap in their advertising? MILLAIS
2. What are the names of the 4 Tate art galleries in England? BRITAIN, MODERN,
LIVERPOOL and ST IVES
3. What were the Christian names of the English painter, J. M. W. Turner? JOSEPH
MALLORD WILLIAM
4. In which city would you find the Uffizi museum and art gallery? FLORENCE
5. What was the style of painting that included Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir and
Camille Pissarro among its leading exponents? IMPRESSIONISM
FILM
1. Who was the Oscar winning actor who starred in ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’
and ‘The Shining’? JACK NICHOLSON
2. What was the name of the studios where British comedy films such as ‘Passport To
Pimlico’ and ‘The Titfield Thunderbolt’ were made? EALING
3. What do the letters MGM stand for? METRO GOLDWYN MAYER
4. Who was the German actor who - improbably - was one of the original ‘Magnificent Seven’?
HORST BUCHHOLZ
5. Sean Connery, GEORGE LAZENBY, Roger Moore, TIMOTHY DALTON, Pierce Brosnan,
Daniel Craig. Who are missing?
LITERATURE
1. What were the Christian names of the Brothers Grimm? JACOB/JAKOB and WILHELM
2. What was the name of the inn in which Jim Hawkins lived with his parents in ‘Treasure
Island’? ADMIRAL BENBOW
3. In what capital cities was George Orwell ‘down and out’? PARIS and LONDON
4. Who was the Poet Laureate before the present one? ANDREW MOTION
5. What was the name of the magical country in which C.S. Lewis set a series of novels?
NARNIA
THEATRE
1. Who wrote the play on which the musical ‘My Fair Lady’ was based? GEORGE BERNARD
SHAW
2. Name the American choreographer probably most famous for his work on ‘West Side
Story’ JEROME ROBBINS
3. Name the play which holds the record for the longest unbroken run in a British theatre.
THE MOUSETRAP
4. Two of Laurence Olivier’s wives were actresses. Who were they? VIVIEN LEIGH and
JOAN PLOWRIGHT
5. Which comedian played Shakespeare’s Othello in 2009? LENNY HENRY
