The REALLY big Quiz
By Old Pete
July 24 2014
THE BIG QUIZ -25 questions
Please read carefully - Very often there are several clues in the question. Also as before we want all elements of the question answered.
This time the inquisitor will not comment until the Friday following publication. So all queries and suggestions – you can debate amongst yourselves.
SECTION ONE –Political and some Current and less Recent Affairs
1. Who once described who’s performance in the house of commons as “ Like being savaged by a dead sheep “
2. Which House of Commons debate is never chaired by the Speaker of the house ?
3. How did a canine execution lead to the down fall of party leader.
4. What follows in this list and why - what do they represent ? - None ; Massachusetts , Texas , California , Michigan, Georgia , California, Texas , Arkansas , Texas ………
5. How did the son of professor of Technology cause “Mummy “ to jump up and down
SECTION TWO - Travel - Trains & Boats and Planes
6. What connects Sir Edward Elgar with a submarine hunter –
7. Can you trace /track this very odd journey - I start with a Footballer – And then go via a Popular Musician to a sometime General - from there I go to a Painter and Polymath and take a big hike to a Trumpeter ending up at a Film star/Comedian
8. Which is the odd one out - Gnat , Mosquito , Hornet , Wasp -
9. How did a wrecked politician allegedly lead to the intoxication of an island .
10. What is the connection between a performer with a “ heavy stomach “ a passing train and hopes of freedom.
SECTION THREE - Green, Black and Gold – all of the answers will involve at least one of these iconic colours .
11. Of whom might it be said that they all but telegraphed their fraudulent acts by their opulent and extravagant expenditure
12. What is the link between a Presidential aspirant; a Bulls- eye and a West African country -
13. How might - a tyro practitioner involved in a deniable enterprise by joining an old imperial Order become canonised.
14. what is the connection between John Buchan ; a Lusitanian wine and a late medieval French Queen
15. How would you link the following to a saintly colour scheme - The head of a holy order ; variations on an allegedly Henrican melody ; a villainous digit.
SECTION FOUR A Game of Thrones ( Kings and Queens Etc.)
16. what visible change occasioned by an event in 1876 was brought to an end by another event in 1947..
17. Amazingly there is at least in theory one elected monarchy in Europe - where or which one is it.
18. Which is the odd one out - Wittlesbach ; Hohenzollern , Savoy , Battenberg ,Braganza , Bernadotte;
19. Who was the last British Monarch to have at one time participated in an actual battle. .
20. Bertie , David and Bertie were the familial names used by three British Monarchs who were they officially ?
SECTION FIVE - People and Places
21. Whose return to Croydon raised false hopes ?
22. What connects an air show , Marks and Spencer and a former special constable
23 What place links a former butchers boy who revolutionised health care and a prominent supporter of Plymouth Argyle.
24 Who , known for musical offerings with a nautical bent is also associated with a small coastal town known for its good locally brewed beer
25. which eponymous city would you associate with a man who was exceptionally tall for the age in which he lived – but was actually quite frail and suffered from occasional epilepsy. He was also fascinated by ships and shipbuilding
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Denis Healy describing Geoffrey Howe
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The Finance Bill
"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."
-- Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161-180 A.D.
BTW - I've only just seen the "none", which I assume relates to Eisenhower who hadn't held political office before becoming POTUS
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20 - Edward VII was known as Bertie as was George VI. Edward VIII was known as David
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8) Wasp, because it's annoying pest and all the others are military aircraft.
Wasp because it is a helicopter. All the others are fixed-wing aircraft.
In the ensuing scandal Thorpe resigned as leader of the Liberals.
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6 - Nimrod from The Enigma Variations by Elgar. The Hawker Siddeley Nimrod was a WW2 patrol aircraft for anti-submarine warfare.
20 - Edward VII was known as Bertie as was George VI. Edward VIII was known as David
I don't think the Nimrod was quite that old!! It came into service in the early 1970's, but it is the right answer though!
The Nimrod was in service from early 70's to early 2010!!
Must read the whole article in future.
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8) Wasp, because it's annoying pest and all the others are military aircraft.
Wasp because it is a helicopter. All the others are fixed-wing aircraft.
Aha, I didn't realise there was a helicopter by that name!
Barry Goldwater - Presidential aspirant.
Bulls-eye also referred to as Gold
Ghana in West Africa used to be The Gold Coast.
No.19: I would offer William IV who was a naval officer at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1780.
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24. Benjamin Britten, Adnams, Southwold.
Like the thought but Southwold is not Aldeburgh.
The Snape Maltings (the local concert venue) indicate a brewing past - Flintham's. I'd be surprised if OP was old enough - yes, not even Old Pete is old enough - to have described the brew in such glowing terms.
Peter Grimes and Billy Budd certainly provoke the nautical bent and would be most unlike Pete to conflate the two towns into the Suffolk coast
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I do not know why the thought that I have sticks and I haven't gone all over the internet to check it out. I just believe it to be true.
George II was the last king to lead troops into battle - Dettingen
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I like Andorra for this. A Spanish bishop and the President of the French Republic are co-Princes of Andorra. Hence, the French electorate decide the Prince-ruler of Andorra
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Call Me God!
With a deniable enterprise being HM Secret Service, MI6 or whatever you like to call it, a member of that service is where we ought to look.
Commander Bond RNVR was awarded a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 'From Russia With Love' - I think he's the man.
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Always tempting to look at a question on European royalty in terms of Queen Victoria being the Grandmother of Europe.
I couldn't find a link and exceptions in that direction so all I can offer is that the Benadottes are a current royal family and are the ruling house in Sweden.
All the others are no longer required on the voyage.
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I'm looking at this as a series of names that could also be place-names and would form an itinerary. Mornington Crescent for those with a Round Britain Quiz mentality.
So I could start with
Bobby Charlton to Eric Clapton and perhaps end up at Eric Morecambe
I realise that there are some missing and 'The Riviera Touch' might be a slim and tenuous claim for Eric to be called a film star but it's a start
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No.11: This is Conrad Black, Chairman of the Hollinger Group which owned the Telegraph newspapers. He basically used the Hollnger funds to pay for hiw (and his wife's) extravagent lifestyle. Found guilty of fraud in the USA.
No.19: I would offer William IV who was a naval officer at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1780.
Changed my mind about No.19. I will now go for George VI, who was on board HMS Collinwood in the Battle of Jutland in World War I.
Leadbelly (and many many others, but he brought it to popular attention) recorded this folk song for John and Alan Lomax's collection for the Library of Congress at Louisiana State Penitentiary.
The premise of the song is that if the light of the Midnight Special should fall upon a prisoner, he would be set free.
Lusitanian Wines are Portuguese, one of which: Vinho Verde; translates as Green.
The connection with a French Queen defeats me.