THE BIG QUIZ

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he 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 – U 1 Which Hollywood star, famed for a series of sphagetti Westerns, won his first Oscar in 1992, not for acting, but for directing the film Unforgiven? (5, 8) 2 Which US actor and dancer followed up his success in Saturday

Night Fever and Grease with the romantic drama

Urban Cowboy? (4, 8) 3 What completes the 1995 Oscar-winning movie title The Usual ..., which was advertised by the phrase

Who is Keyser Söze? (8) Where in The World? i 4 Which ‘I’ is the south-east Asian country that comprises many islands, including Java, Borneo, Sumatra, Bali and Lombok? (9) 5 Which ‘I’ is the county of England that can be reached by crossing the Solent from the southern shores of the mainland? (4, 2, 5) 6 Islamabad is the capital city of which Asian country? (8) We 7 What’s the surname of the great jazz singer and trumpeter Louis … – nicknamed Satchmo – who sang the song, We Have all the Time in the World? (9) 8 Which Shakespeare play –sometimes referred to as ‘The Scottish Play’ because speaking its name is considered to be unlucky – begins with a witch saying, ‘When shall we three meet again..?’ (7) 9 Which queen is said to have uttered the slightly grumpy phrase ‘We are not amused’? (8) She 10 Which ‘she’ completes the name ‘new …’, for the monetary unit of Israel? (6) 11 What ‘she’ was the married surname of the author Mary …, who wrote the gothic horror story Frankenstein? (7) 12 Which ‘she’ was the name of a sporty, nylon trouser-and-jacket combination that was popular in the late 1980s, and is often described as a fashion faux pas? (5, 4) he 13 In the abbreviated honorific title HE, given to governors and ambassadors, for what does the E stand in His or Her …? (10) 14 Which comedian, whose first and surname initials are HE, created the characters Smashie and Nicey, Kevin the Teenager and Tim Nice-but-dim? (5, 7) 15 What’s the name of the secondlightest element, used in lighter-thanair balloons and for which the chemical symbol is He? (6)