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Quiz Page - to gently stretch the mind
Every fortnight we’ll post some new material here to gently exercise our brains and, maybe, even enlarge our knowledge in a fun way. We hope you enjoy what you find here. The answers will usually follow in the next week, so that will give you a week to think about what is here.
This Quiz : 21st Nov Answers: 28th Nov Next Quiz: 5th Dec
1. Scraps on plate –
2. Cornish toilet? –
3. If these go blue you are suffering from hypothermia –
4. Strong mouthwash –
5. Home of the Beatles –
6. A wild cat deodorant –
7. Angular distance from Equator –
8. Name tag tied on to parcel –
9. Socialist party -
10. Confusion of winding passages –
11. Patterned, open-textured material –
12. Hard glossy varnish –
13. Young boy –
14. Climbing device played with snakes? –
15. Large spoon with long handle –
16. Woman with social grace –
17. Capital of Nigeria –
18. Large enclosed expanse of water –
19. Young sheep –
20. A song or poem of mourning –
21. Feller of trees –
22. Angular distance from Greenwich –
23. Memorial flight bomber –
24. Inland but coastal body of water –
25. Team sport with stick and ball –
26. Scottish member of gentry –
27. A painting of inland scenery -
28. A soldier of a cavalry regiment -
29. Loved by Guinevere –
30. Four wheeled passenger carriage with folding hood -
31. Organised system of speech -
32. The tip of Cornwall –
33. Tall and thin –
34. Cord around the neck holding whistle or knife –
35. Fat of pigs used in cooking –
36. Cool room for storing food –
37. A high energy beam of light –
38. Well known film dog –
39. One side lower than the other –
40. A circle of say string –
41. A wood-shaping machine –
42. To express amusement –
43. Small fast power driven boat –
44. Law making body –
45. Thomas Edward who gained fame in Arabia –
46. A pull-in for vehicles –
47. Heavy metal –
48. Part of a tree used in photosynthesis –
49. Famous painter or Ninja Turtle –
50. A measure of distance about 5Km –
51. Acquire knowledge –
52. Old yeast equivalent –
53. Stand behind which to deliver a speech –
54. Country of Beirut, famous for cedars –
55. Sediment in bottom of wine cask –
56. Jumping off cliff birds –
57. Marxist revolutionary –
58. Tribe of Israelite priests and workers –
59. Big cat of central Africa –
60. Small house at gates of large estate –
61. A bean or member of grasshopper family –
62. Baked, shaped bread –
63. One going ahead –
64. Written compositions generally –
65. Paper that tests for acid or alkali –
66. Pause to hear -
67. King of the jungle –
68. Wide stall in which a horse is free to move about –
69. Item for auction –
70. National museum and art gallery in Paris –
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1. Red-coated Canadian policeman –
2. Pippin’s friend in Lord of the Rings –
3. Orange preserve –
4. Insane –
5. Early part of the day –
6. A Pint of Old and ....
7. A primary unit of being –
8. Place for grinding grain –
9. Science of numbers –
10. A sixtieth of an hour –
11. Grows on cheese –
12. Country to south of USA –
13. Cartoon Great Dane –
14. A kangaroo is one of these –
15. A wooden hammer –
16. The post –
17. Attracts iron filings –
18. Notes in order of harmony –
19. Very large hill –
20. Single lens for one eye –
21. Chains for locking one up –
22. A detective thriller –
23. Layout for showing the way –
24. Interwoven initials on say a lace handkerchief –
25. Major road route –
26. Dundee’s the name! –
27. Home of the Kremlin –
28. First of the four Gospels –
29. Animal that fights and kills snakes –
30. The Eucharist –
31. Pasta made of semolina –
32. Communist-hating republican senator –
33. Ship of the pilgrim fathers –
34. Early Disney cartoon rodent –
35. A great musical conductor –
36. Grassy area for growing hay –
37. Our spiral galaxy –
38. Excavator of coal or ore –
39. Christmas plant offering a kiss? –
40. A person under legal age –
41. Sir Henry, welsh buccaneer –
42. God of dreams –
43. Ten times fifteen, for example –
44. Similar to a toadstool –
45. Body embalmed in a Pyramid say –
46. Explosive Cocktail –
47. Condition of the eye that stops seeing distances clearly –
48. The Ninja Turtles, for instance –
49. Well known Chinese dynasty –
50. Meat cut up small –
51. Seat of conscious thought –
52. Country to north of China –
53. Considered to be the second day of the week –
54. Island and recent cartoon film –
55. Mixed breed dog –
56. Out of fashion fur pelt –
57. Polished reflective surface –
58. John Stuart, economist and philosopher –
59. In the centre –
60. Popular resort of Florida –
61. Florentine painter and sculptor –
62. High IQ group –
63. White fungus growth on plants etc. –
64. Junior officer of Royal Navy –
65. Cars used for “The Italian Job” –
66. Sherlock Holmes’ brother –
67. Well known Chinese dialect –
68. Mythical Greek creature with head of a bull and body of a man –
69. Yiddish for good luck –
70. The root of all evil? –