2008 Christmas Quiz

All Sections WITH ANSWERS

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Section 1 - Which association

Clubs

This section was supplied by Brian Jordan.

  1. charitably celebrates early dismissal? - Primary Club (1st ball duck in cricket)
  2. advocated ethnic repatriation? - The (Conservative) Monday Club
  3. saw Dave tend to Arthur and his assistant? - The Winchester Club - 'Minder'
  4. regularly serves seven 'afters'? - The Pudding Club - Chipping Camden
  5. might see the tres played in Marianao? - Buena Vista Social Club
  6. particularly affronts Martha Burk? - Augusta National Golf Club - general misogyny!
  7. claims over 50 Nobel Prize winners as past or present members? - The Athenaeum Club
  8. came from a post-war blitz? - Club Med - founder Gerard Blitz
  9. published its papers posthumously? - The Pickwick Club - in full title
  10. was ruled out by Julius Henry? - Any (club) that would have him as a member - Groucho Marx

Section 2 - All Things Nice

Sweets

This section was supplied by Chris and/or Jim.

  1. Wobbly infants - Jelly Babies
  2. Where posh people live - Quality Street
  3. Bovine peepers - Bulls' Eyes
  4. Seen on a race course - Tic-tacs
  5. Quietly please - Wispa
  6. Pirate’s loot - Bounty
  7. To carry a dairy product - Milk tray
  8. Inhabitants of Naples - Neapolitans
  9. Home for alcoholic teeth - Wine gums
  10. Wise guys - Smarties

Section 3 - In recession?

Red

This section was supplied by Phil.

  1. Significant date - Red Letter Day
  2. Female in 1984 romantic comedy - Woman in Red
  3. Labour anthem - The Red Flag
  4. Plainly a colour - Simply Red
  5. Russian Sailor - Red Admiral
  6. Patriotic - Red, White and Blue
  7. Mayor of London - "Red" Ken Livingstone
  8. Displays Aerially - Red Arrows or Red Devils
  9. Last seat for David - Red Bull (David Coulthard's last race in F1)
  10. Move away astronomically fast - Red Shift

Section 4 - The last shall be the first

the final part of the name given by the clue gives the surname of a prime minister

This section was supplied by John and/or Sue.

  1. His cynical character has a problem with belief. - Richard Wilson character Victor Meldrew → Harold Wilson
  2. An odd coupling of a leisure tycoon and a man without conviction. - David Lloyd (sports centres) and Boy George → David Lloyd George
  3. Mrs. **** we're needed. - Emma Peel (Avengers) → Robert Peel
  4. A one time hairdresser who gave us Rita and Shirley. - Willy Russell ( Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine) → John Russell
  5. I'm lovin' it like this clown. - Ronald Macdonald → Ramsay Macdonald
  6. Joshua's brave young brother. - Thomas Chamberlain subject of 'My Brave Young Brother' by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain → Neville Chamberlain
  7. This captain is all a charade. - Lionel Blair → Tony Blair
  8. Joseph had it threefold with an officer. - Major Major Major in Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 → John Major
  9. He had no idea coffee in September would bring in cash. - Society for the Prevention and Relief of Cancer founded in 1911 by Douglas Macmillan now Macmillan Cancer Support holds World’s Biggest Coffee Morning each September → Harold Macmillan
  10. His red cup trilogy involves Arthur. - Victor Canning (Crimson Chalice trilogy) → George Canning

Section 5

Stone

This section was supplied by Ann.

  1. Odd Cheshire-based novel - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen2
  2. Family group - Sly and the Family Stone
  3. American general - Stonewall Jackson
  4. Electrical circuit - Wheatstone bridge
  5. Glen Campbell song - Rhinestone cowboy
  6. Director - Oliver Stone
  7. Used in translation - Rosetta Stone
  8. A standard - Touchstone
  9. "Fanshaw" - Featherstonehaugh (surname pronounced Fanshaw)
  10. A cutting edge town - Whetstone

Section 6 - One over the eight

nine written as IX in Roman numerals

This section was supplied by John and/or Sue.

  1. He was experienced - Jimi Hendrix (debut album Are you Experienced)
  2. They came together at Black's - Order of the Phoenix ( Harry Potter) met at Sirius Black’s house Grimauld Place
  3. PI 67 - 75 - Mannix (private investigator in American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975)
  4. You choose, sweetie. - Pick and Mix
  5. He went round for RCA. - Felix (RCA's first experimental television transmissions began in 1928. A13" Felix the Cat figure made of paper mache was placed on a record player turntable and was broadcast.)
  6. We've got it but we don't need it. - Appendix (no function in human body)
  7. Where the good news went. - Aix (How they Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix by Robert Browning)
  8. Roman adversary. - Asterix ( Gaul who resisted Roman occupation)
  9. A pair who were Raiders elsewhere. - Twix ( packaged in pairs. Twix was called Raider in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Norway)
  10. At the end. - Suffix (placed at the end of a word)

Section 7 - Ear to Ear

EAR

This section was supplied by Andrew.

1LOUDEARSPLITTING
2VERY DISTRESSINGHEARTRENDING
3LEADINGSPEARHEADING
4INSCRUTABLEUNSEARCHABLE
5DEMORALISEDDISHEARTENED
6RETURN TO VIEWREAPPEARANCE
7NOT SERIOUSLIGHTHEARTED
8WOOL TRIMMERSHEEPSHEARER
9A BOOK CONTAINING INTERLINEATIONSINTERLINEARY
10RELATING TO A NUCLEAR REACTION INDUCED BY PHOTONSPHOTONUCLEAR

Section 8 - Sound and Vision

COMPOSERS AND PAINTERS

This section was supplied by Andrew.

OFFENBACH (OFF HEN BARK)
RACHMANINOFF (RACK MAN IN-OFF)
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (2 LOOS LOO TREK)
BEETHOVEN (BAIT HOE VAN)
PICASSO (PICK ASS HOE)
TCHAIKOVSKY (CHI COUGHS KEY)
ROSSETTI (ROW SET TEE)
MENDELSSOHN (MEN DOLL SUN)
CANALETTO (CAN O' LETTO)
PAUL CEZANNE (PAUL SAYS ANNE) - ANNE ROBINSON THAT IS

For answers see answers to ALL sections

 

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