Christmas Quiz 2005
Answers
and results
Thank you for your answers.
Hope you enjoyed the quiz. Every
one made some progress towards the full answer, but three were clearly ahead of
the rest.
In first place, with a near perfect 49 points out of 50, was Curls –
and he takes the magnificent trophy:
Runners-up, close behind, were Teresa and Test Pilot. Congratulations to them also.
All the other entries were within two points of each other, so too
close to call the remaining places, but well done all.
Just a reminder of the questions as they might be grouped …
1. Shriver’s
colour fictionally
2. Top scoring
Test batsman
3. ‘I will arise
and go now, and go to …’ where?
4. Linked with
Tommy investigatively
5. Linked with
Dean terpsichoreanly
6. Will stop the
wheel coming off
7. Expectations
of marriage to her were unrealised
8. Scene of
England’s expectations
9. Eastern empire
defeated in World War I
10. Editable
encyclopaedia
11. Tropaeolum
12. ‘Half sunk, a
shattered visage lies …’ whose?
13. Every good boy
deserves it musically
14. Edgware Road
is a station on which London underground line?
15. London soap
16. ‘I am
extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end …’ who?
17. Eponymous
hero who started amidships
18. Found by
Stanley
19. Operatic
bullfighter
20. Royal house
of 18th and 19th Centuries
21. Inspector
Morse’s first name
22. Newton’s
three laws of … what?
23. Tokyo is on
which island?
24. He asked for
more
25. Young dog
… and the
answers were:
1.
Orange Lionel Shriver won the Orange Prize
for Fiction 2005
- Lara In
2005 Brian Lara of the West Indies achieved the highest aggregate of runs
scored in Test cricket; he already held the record for the highest
individual score
- Innisfree From
the poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W B Yeats
- Tuppence From
the detective novels of Agatha Christie
- Torvill Torvill
and Dean were Britain’s World and Olympic champion ice dancing team in the
1980s
- Lynchpin (Or
‘lynch-pin’) Inserted through the axle-tree
to hold the wheel on.
Alternatively, a locknut could be used on certain types of wheel,
and starts with the right letter, so I have allowed this too.
- Estella Miss
Havisham’s daughter, whom Pip hoped to marry, in Great Expectations by
Charles Dickens, was intended. The
clue was in the question, but, being generous, I will give half a mark for
‘Elizabeth’, who certainly had many disappointed suitors
- Trafalgar Before
the battle, Nelson made his famous flag signal ‘England expects that every
man will do his duty’
- Ottoman Established
in the 14th Century, the Ottoman Empire was broken up after
fighting on the side of the Germans in the First World War
- Wikepedia The
on-line encyclopaedia to which any one can contribute
- Nasturtium Tropaeolum
majus is the Latin name of the common nasturtium
- Ozymandias From
the poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley:
Ozymandias was the Greek name for Rameses the Great
- Favour ‘Every
good boy deserves favour’ is the mnemonic for the notes on the five lines
of the stave of the treble clef (also taught as ‘every good boy deserves
fun’, which also fits and gets the mark, and half a mark for ‘fudge’,
which I have not come across myself, but may well be used by some
teachers)
- Bakerloo Running
between Queen’s Park and the Elephant and Castle, the Bakerloo line is
coloured brown on the map of the underground, so ‘brown’ makes an
acceptable alternative answer.
Circle and Metropolitan lines, however, which also have stations at
Edgware Road, do not fit the overall answer.
- Eastenders The
long running BBC soap opera set in London’s east end
- Thatcher Margaret
Thatcher – who else? - quoted in The Observer in 1989
- Hornblower In
the popular series of books by C S Forester, Hornblower started as a
midshipman and ended up as an Admiral.
(Mr Midshipman Easy in the novel by Captain Marryat is also
eponymous, but doesn’t fit the quotation – and also remained a midshipman
as far as I know.)
- Livingstone David
Livingstone was an English explorer thought to be lost in Africa, who was
found by an expedition sponsored by The New York Herald and led by
its reporter, Henry Stanley
- Escamillo The
toreador’s name in the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet
- Hanover British
royal house of six monarchs from George I to Victoria, descendants of the
electors of Hanover
- Endeavour Revealed
in the penultimate novel of the popular Inspector Morse series by Colin
Dexter
- Motion The
famous laws of mathematician Isaac Newton
- Honshu The
main island of Japan
- Oliver
In the novel Oliver
Twist by Charles Dickens, Oliver dares to ask for more food in the
orphanage
- Whelp Defined
as the young of a dog, or of a beast of prey
The Bonus
As
you have seen from the answers above, the spelled out words are:
O little town of
Bethlehem, how …
And the clue in the questions? No
one thought to mention this, and maybe it was overlooked: the first letters of the questions in order
continue the carol:
… still we see thee lie. For in thy …
I
would have split the bonus marks between the words spelled by the answers, and
a super bonus for the continuation in the questions had it made a difference.
Thank you again for entering and have a very happy
Christmas!
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