The Irish Mail on Sunday

Earth To Echo (2014) PG ● 6PM, SKY FAMILY ★★★

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Family-friendly found-footage sci-fi about a group of friends who make contact with extraterre­strials in the desert near their Nevada home – and record what they find.

1 In Greek mythology, Pygmalion was the king of which Island?

2 Who played the title role in the 1953 film The Glenn

Miller Story?

3 What type of animal is a Manx Loaghtan?

4 What sort of substances are adrenaline, cortisone, insulin?

5 Which element takes its name from the Greek for ‘pale green’?

6 On which country’s flag would you see an eagle on a cactus eating a snake?

7 How do you say ‘journey’ in Swahili?

8 Edward Jenner developed an effective vaccine for which disease?

9 In which country is the Angel Falls, the world’s highest waterfalls?

10 In musical notation there are five lines in a what?

11 What is the Russian parliament called?

12 In Greek mythology who solved the riddle of the Sphinx? 13 Which commercial chain is named after a character in Moby Dick and has a double-tailed mermaid as the main feature of its logo?

14 Which word in the Arabic language originally meant ‘old man’, although it now can mean elder of a tribe, lord, revered wise man, or Islamic scholar?

15 Who’s natural birth is the first to be recorded in the Bible? 16 What is the US state capital of South Dakota?

17 Which instrument represents the duck in Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf?

18 In which country would you find the port of Fray Bentos? 19 Jerzy Buzek was elected prime minister of which European country in October 1997?

20 Who composed the William Tell Overture?

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