THE BIG QUIZ
The answers to all but one of these quiz questions can be found hidden in this wordsearch grid, reading forwards, backwards, up, down or diagonally. To help you, we’ll tell you that the answers are in alphabetical order in each section. However, one answer can’t be found in the grid. This is your prize answer.
SOOTY
1 If you saw a sooty shearwater, what type of creature would you be looking at? (4)
2 What surname was shared by Harry and his son Matthew, who both performed with Sooty and his friends on TV, and one of the Two Ronnies? (7)
3 Sooty fan, Nicko McBrain, whose drum kit sports a Sooty puppet, is the drummer for which heavy metal band, who had a 1992 hit with Be Quick or Be Dead? (4,6)
BASIL BRUSH
4 What was the surname of animator Peter, who created the original Basil Brush puppet and co-created Bagpuss and The Clangers with Oliver Postgate? (6)
5 Basil Brush is a fan of which East Midlands football team, nicknamed the Foxes, who won their first-ever FA Cup in May 2021? (9,4)
6 The game show once hosted by Anne Robinson – and now by Romesh Ranganathan – and which Basil Brush won in 2005 is The _? (7,4)
ORVILLE
7 Orville the Duck appeared with Sooty, Sweep and Bungle in the video for the 2005 Comic Relief version of Is This the Way to Amarillo by which comedian? (5,3)
8 The mice Bernard and Miss Bianca, Orville the albatross and the villainous Madame Medusa all feature in the 1977 Disney animation The _? (8)
9 The puppet Orville the Duck was named after US aviation pioneer Orville _? (6)
EMU
10 Kevin Eldon did a parody of Emu’s operator Rod Hull on This Morning with Richard Not Judy written by and starring Stewart Lee and Richard _? (7)
11 Which is the only living bird that’s larger than an emu? (7)
12 What was the surname of the TV presenter, who was terrorised by Rod Hull’s puppet Emu on his chat show in November 1976? (9)
PUPPETS
13 Giant puppet Little Amal met an equally giant Alice in 2021 in which city, at whose university
Alice’s creator Lewis Carroll had taught maths? (6)
14 Who won the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest with Puppet on a String? (6,4)
15 Which Mia played Alice Kingsleigh in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland and the puppeteer Judy in the 2019 black comedy film Judy & Punch? (10)