RAINBOW QUIZ

 

Set July/August 2001

 

Teresa, who combines the roles of guinea pig and competitor, posted this month’s high score with 42, closely followed by Mick and Pat with 38.  Well done to both.

 

 

The questions were

 

  1. Often said to be sworn in anger (4, 6)
  2. Fast footwear? (5, 5)
  3. Acrobatic airmen (3, 6)
  4. Risqué humour (4, 4)

 

  1. King Henry’s song (12)

 

  1. The Duke’s song sounds blue (4, 6)
  2. Noble lineage (4, 5)

 

  1. A metallic sulphide discovered by Covelli (6, 6)

 

  1. Eco-warriors (10)
  2. Type of North American sorrel (6, 4)
  3. Achieved record speed on land and water (8)

 

 

  1. American finch which sounds like a flag?  (6, 7)

 

  1. Flown for sea sickness (6, 4)

 

  1. Stop sign (3, 5)

 

  1. Ascended the British throne in 1689 (7, 2, 6)

 

  1. Northern Ireland protestant movement founded in 1795 (5, 5)

 

  1. International organisation formed in Switzerland in 1863 (3, 5)

 

  1. Bird of fear and horror (6, 6)

 

  1. Unusual banger seen on menu (5, 5)
  2. Worn in a John Ford film (6, 6)

 

 

  1. ’E gets lowly chore mixing the colour for painters (6, 5)
  2. Fruit production arranged in Oman (7, 6)
  3. Relishes the risk in loving adventurously?  Quite the opposite.  (9, 6)
  4. Unruly lad married fragile beauty (3, 7)

 

  1. The answer shouldn’t be in this quiz (5, 6)

 

And the answers were as follows 

 

  1. BLUE MURDER (colloquial)
  2. GREEN FLASH (sports shoe)
  3. RED ARROWS (RAF air acrobatic team)
  4. BLUE JOKE (colloquial)

 

  1. GREENSLEEVES (song allegedly written by Henry VIII)
  2. MOOD INDIGO (song by Duke Ellington)
  3. BLUE BLOOD (colloquial)

 

  1. INDIGO COPPER (a sulphide of copper also known as Covelline)
  2. GREENPEACE (organisation)
  3. VIOLET WOOD (Oxalis violacea)
  4. BLUEBIRD (name given to their cars and boats by Malcolm and Donald Campbell)

 

  1. INDIGO BUNTING (American bird of the finch family)
  2. YELLOW FLAG (flown by ships to warn of infectious disease)
  3. RED LIGHT (traffic signal)

 

  1. WILLIAM OF ORANGE (crowned King William III of England in 1689)
  2. ORANGE ORDER (founded after the Battle of the Diamond in 1795, originally as the Loyal Orange Institution)
  3. RED CROSS (the International Committee of the Red Cross met for the first time in 1863)

 

  1. YELLOW HAMMER (yellow for fear, Hammer for horror)
  2. GREEN BEANS (anagram)
  3. YELLOW RIBBON (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, film directed by John Ford, 1931)

 

  1. YELLOW OCHRE (anagram)

 

  1. MANDARIN ORANGE (anagram)
  2. SHRINKING VIOLET (anagram)

 

  1. RED ADMIRAL (anagram)

 

  1. ULTRA VIOLET (beyond visible spectrum)

 

 

 

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