THE BIG QUIZ

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The answers to all these general knowledge questions – except one – are in the grid in various

directions. To be this week’s Chat Big Quiz champion, work out which answer is missing. This is your prize answer. Answers are in alphabetical order in each section.

The Silver Screen – Wood

1 Which is the ‘wood’, then known for his Spaghetti Westerns, who starred in the musical Paint Your Wagon and sang I Talk to the Trees? (5,8)

2 What is the surname of the actor Woody - - - who links Natural Born Killers, No Country for Old Men and War for the Planet of the Apes? (9)

3 What ‘Wood’ is the actress who played Maria in the musical West Side Story, Carol in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and Wilma in Splendour in the Grass? (7,4)

Where in The World? Forest

4 Which continent is the only one currently with no indigenous trees? (10)

5 Sherwood Forest, home of the legend of Robin Hood and his Merry Men, is in which English county? (15)

6 Yellowstone National Park, with over 2,219,000 acres of land, extends into Idaho and Montana but is mainly in which US state, capital Cheyenne? (7)

oak

7 What ‘Oak’ was the name of the sharp-shooting woman in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show? (5,6)

8 What ‘Oak’ is the UK pub name commemorating Charles II hiding up in a tree after the Battle of Worcester in 1651? (5,3)

9 The Oaks is a classic horse race for threeyear-old fillies. What is the name of the equivalent race for colts, usually run the day after on the same course? (3,5)

ash

10 In which sport are The Ashes competed for by the national teams from England and Australia? (7)

11 What is the first name of the actress - - - Ash, who played Deborah in the BBC sitcom Men Behaving Badly? (6)

12 What follows the word Ash - - -, to complete the name given to the first day of Lent? (9)

carpenter

13 What is the surname of the folk rock music great Bob - - -, whose real surname, Zimmerman, is German for carpenter? (5)

14 What is the first name of the brother of late singer Karen Carpenter, who was the other half of their group The Carpenters? (7)

15 Which large, moustachioed and tusked marine mammal completes the title of the narrative poem The - - - and the Carpenter in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-glass? (6)