Let’s Get Quizzical

NOVEMBER’S PUZZLE PAGE LET’S GET QUIZZICAL!

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First Lines

Name the title and the artistes of the following songs:

“We’ve got stars directing our fate, and we’re praying it’s not too late.” “Does he love me I want to know, how can I tell if he loves me so.” “Goodbye Norma Jean, though I never knew you at all.” “No New Year’s Day to celebrate. “Let’s go for a little walk.” “Close your eyes, give me your hand, darling, do you feel my heart beating.” “I feel the need — the need for speed!” “Here’s Johnny!” “A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.” What numeric term both describes perfect vision and a form of the game of cricket? What was the currency of the following countries prior to the adoption of the Euro? (i)France, (ii) Italy (iii) Portugal (iv) Holland and (v) Finland. Name the three red coloured properties on the UK version of the board game Monopoly. Which commercial chain of restaurants is named after a character from the novel “Moby Dick”?

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“Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord.”

“Standing in the dock at Southampton trying to get to Holland or France.” “When I was a little biddy boy my grandma bought me a cute little toy.” “Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit lonely and you’re never

Famous Movie Quotes Name the films from which these famous lines came:

13. “A boy’s best friend is his mother.”

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15. “Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By’.”

16. “I’ll have what she’s having.” 17. Striker: “Surely you can’t be serious.”

Rumack: “I am serious…and don’t call me Shirley.” 18. “A martini. Shaken, not stirred.” 19. “Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys.

Make your lives extraordinary.” 20. “Take your stinking paws off me, you

Pot Luck

damned dirty ape.”

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The ships Queen Mary, Titanic and Queen Elizabeth, among others, had the letters RMS before their names. What do these letters signify? Nutwood Cottage is the home of which fictional children’s character? When, and which one, was the first “Carry On” film to be made in colour? The men’s tennis “grand slam” is won by winning which events? Who created the fictional town of Middlemarch? In which English city is Saint Edmunds buried?

The Australian Open, The French Open, Wimbledon and The US Open; 29. George Eliot; 30. Bury St Edmunds (Doh!!!) Square; 24. Starbucks; 25. Royal Mail Ship (or Steamer or Steamship); 26. Rupert the Bear; 27. 1962- “Carry on Cruising”; 28. of the Apes. Pot Luck 21. 20/20; 22. (i) Franc, (ii) Lira, (iii) Escudo, (iv)Guilder, (v) Markka; 23. The Strand, Fleet Street, Trafalgar Silence of the Lambs, 15. Casablanca. 16. When Harry Met Sally, 17. Airplane, 18. Goldfinger, 19. Dead Poets Society, 20. Planet Chuck Berry, 20. Total Eclipse of the Heart – Bonnie Tyler. Famous Movie Quotes 11. Top Gun, 12. The Shining, 13. Psycho, 14. The Bangles, 7. Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen / Alexandra Burke, 8. The Ballad of John and Yoko – The Beatles, 9. My Ding-a-Ling – John, 4. I Just Called to Say I Love You – Stevie Wonder, 5. Under the Moon of Love - Showaddywaddy, 6. Eternal Flame – The First Lines 1. Millennium – Robbie Williams, 2. The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss) - Cher, 3. Candle in the Wind – Elton Answer