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Giant long weekend quiz and crossword
PLUS Two pages of puzzles
Section 1 Male names
1
What 1969 album by The Who was made into a film in 1975?
2
What is the capital of the Isle of Man?
3
In a 1980 song by Slim Dusty, who did he like to have a beer with?
4
Now used only in Bosnia and Herzegovina, what currency unit was used for 1000 years in European countries, including Germany?
5
What Japanese sport involves fencing with two-handed staves of split bamboo?
6
In Australia and New Zealand, what is a tin or container used as a kettle and cooking pot?
7
What is the tall framework erected over an oil well to support the drilling apparatus?
8
What nickname for a police officer has existed since London’s Metropolitan police force was created in 1829?
9
In Scotland and Ireland, what is vegetable matter from a bog and dried for use as fuel?
10
What is the white ball in lawn bowls?
Section 2 Female names
1
What name is given to a female donkey?
2
What is a variety of tangerine grown in North Africa and the Mediterranean, and was also the name of Winston Churchill’s wife?
3
Which daughter of Priam, king of Troy, has now come to mean someone who predicts disaster, and is often ignored?
4
Which east coast state lies between Florida and South Carolina?
5
What French dessert consists mainly of poached pears and chocolate sauce?
6
Bearing small white flowers and red berries, what evergreen shrub is associated with Christmas?
7
Who, according to a 1994 film title, was Queen of the Desert?
8
What can be a type of tea, a type of rice, or a climbing shrub with fragrant white flowers?
9
According to The Beatles, where did a barber show photographs “of every head he’s had the pleasure to know”?
10
What two-layer airy cake often has a filling of jam and whipped cream?
Section 3 Days in songs
1
What day did the Mamas and the Papas say is ‘so good to me’?
2
In what song did Sam Cooke lament that ‘I ain’t got nobody’? 3
What 1983 New Zealand hit says: ‘I’m bringing you the weather from the satellite jigsaw’?
4
And in that Question 3 song, what day is ‘not a good one at all’?
5
What kind of day did Lou Reed have in one of his best-known songs?
6
Which Rolling Stones song includes the lyrics: ‘When you change with every new day, Still I’m gonna miss you’?
7
What’s the missing day from a 60s hit? ‘I met him on a _ _ _ and my heart stood still’
8
What kind of days did Bruce Springsteen reminisce about in a song from his Born in the USA album?
9
‘How long? How long must we sing this song’ are lyrics from which song?
10
What 1986 song – which spent 74 weeks in the NZ Top 50 - starts: ‘How does it feel, To treat me like you do?’
Section 4 Starts with cat
1
What is an underground area of tunnels where bodies are buried?
2
What is a violent geological or meteorological event such as the Flood in the book of Genesis?
3
What is a basic book which gives Catholics general religious instruction?
4
What was an archaic name for northern China, still used in the name of an airline?
5
What is an inflammation of the nose and throat, causing increased mucus?
6
What is a downy spike or tuft of flowers on plants such as willow and hazel?
7
The South Island’s most southerly point lies in what area?
8
Which British singer-songwriter changed his name to Yusuf Islam?
9
Milo Minderbender and Major Major Major Major are characters in what novel?
10
Barcelona is the largest city in Spain? what province of north-east
Section 5 Famous duos
1 French and Saunders
2 Hudson and Halls
3 Hall and Oates
4 Laurel and Hardy
5 Mulder and Scully
6 Simon and Garfunkel
7 The Blues Brothers
8 The Weasley twins
9 Abbott and Costello
10Holmes and Watson