1997 Christmas Quiz
All Sections
Section 1 - Bless 'em all
1) Confession time?
2) Kings, Nassau, Queens, Suffolk?
3) Kiangsi to Shensi?
4) '… walk around telling great big lies'?
5) Prone to Antipodean pruning?
6) 30th June, 1934?
7) An Atkinson straight man?
8) Birmingham Ladywood?
9) Kingfish struck down in Baton Rouge?
10) Uncle John's companion?
Section 2 - …becoming good
1) Jurassic oolite?
2) Hawk or snipe?
3) Runaway?
4) 'lived in a little damp house'?
5) Greenpeace seizure?
6) Ethnic knitwear?
7) Essex barnacle?
8) Magnus Barelegs?
9) Repair the iron rust?
10) Felix's overture?
Section 3 - Overcome
1) Joseph Saddler
2) Lord Woolf of Barnes
3) scene of impending menace
4) wolfish bond-traders
5) expositors of erudite erotica
6) Faversham firkins
7) Halvard Solness
8) 'The streets of Rome are filled with rubble'
9) gambler, lawman and newspaperman
10) Eldrick's green triumph
Section 4 - What
1) was Edward Evans-Lloyd's jubilant gift?
2) are an antique pedestrian precinct?
3) became of the earls of Shrewsbury's town house?
4) recalls burglarious intrusion?
5) did a King witness in September 1645?
6) body camped the longest?
7) hosts equine circuits?
8) honours the memory of St. Werburgh?
9) street theatre would entertain the faithful
10) was Legacaestir?
Section 5 - Not so dusty…
1) 'no lark more blithe'?
2) Nicholas branded?
3) Successor to the Yankee Clipper?
4) Thomas Sargent?
5) Supreme at the White City, 1929 and 1930?
6) Alton, lost in transit?
7) Fringe doctor?
8) Cottus gabio?
9) Tropical writer?
10) All-round Ross from Sunshine, Victoria?
Section 6 - Nominate
1) to boldly go
2) natural point of no return
3) an honest trade
4) splendid spoils
5) customary target for legal action
6) act without progress
7) a dull conclusion
8) not at all hereabouts
9) unscripted twiddly bits
10) going … goin' … go' … g' …
Section 7 - Link
1) Young collaborators ; Ta-Sunko-Witko ; avenue George V
2) Nabob of Sob, 1956 ; 0700 30/9/67 ; MGM, 1952
3) Aldershot ; Maidstone ; Halifax
4) Kevin Costner ; putative plesiosaur ; AWRE
5) Vicious, rotten victim ; Grange Farm ; neighbourly producers
6) Adam ; Paleface ; initially domestic
7) The Ash-tree ; Original Sin ; The Black Fingernail
8) Colin Cowdrey ; Felicity Kendall ; Spike Milligan
9) Dennis Hopper ; Schubert ; Kurt Vonneguttal
10) Lee Marvin ; an undergarment ; Mme Tallien
Section 8 - Which instrument
1) charmed Pluto on behalf of Eurydice?
2) did Little Joe blow?
3) is a 'little goose'?
4) might feature a 'Scruggs peg'?
5) was transported 'in a gunny sack'?
6) did Beecham liken to two skeletons copulating on a galvanized tin roof
7) was a Shavian pseudonym?
8) did Vivian attribute to Princess Anne?
9) was played by Adolf, brother of Julius and Leonard?
10) could be a Father Smith?
Section 9 - In 1997, who, what or where
1) howled his last?
2) made the journey, a century late, from Brompton to the Black Hills?
3) reverted after 155 years?
4) was honoured at 23, Brook St.?
5) did a man in a white suit clean up?
6) got the last two at the Park before demolition?
7) did Dobbin prevail, despite a late start?
8) was Marcus Harvey's sensation?
9) nests at the Linton Travel Lodge?
10) paid three million dollars for a mouthful?
For answers, see answers to ALL sections
See also the list of Winners and amusing tie-break contributions.