THE BIG QUIZ
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 – Dogs
1 What’s the name of the evil character played by Glenn Close in the 1996 live action version of 101
Dalmatians? (7,2, 3) 2 What completes the 1992 crime thriller … Dogs, that began director Quentin Tarantino’s Hollywood career? (9) 3 The Hound of the Baskervilles has been filmed many times. What’s the name of the famous detective in the story? (8, 6)
Where in The World? cats
4 Siam, home of the Siamese cat, is the old name for Thailand, whose capital is what? (7) 5 The Isle of Man, home to the tailless Manx cat, is surrounded by which body of water? (5, 3) 6 Catalonia is the name of an autonomous region in the North Eastern corner of which European country? (5) Your answer:
rabbits
7 When Elmer Fudd says he’s ‘Hunting wabbits,’ which cartoon rabbit is he after? (4, 5) 8 What was the surname of the children’s author Beatrix …, who wrote The Tale of Peter Rabbit? (6) 9 What completes the title of the live action and animation movie Who Framed …?(5, 6)
birds
10 Who plays Captain Jack Sparrow for the fifth time in the new movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales? (6, 4) 11 What bird was the surname of Crimean War nurse Florence, referred to as ‘The Lady with the Lamp’? (11) 12 In what sport was former player turned TV pundit John Parrott the World Champion in 1991? (7)
Pigs
13 What African country, also a pre-decimal coin, can go before the word ‘pig’ to make the name of a rodent often kept as a pet? (6) 14 What items, sometimes made into jewellery, completes the phrase ‘to cast … before swine,’ usually used in a derogatory way meaning to offer something of quality to someone who won’t appreciate it? (6) 15 What’s the name of the bear whose best friend in the stories about him in The Hundred Acre Wood is Piglet? (6,3, 4)