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.
THE SILVER SCREEN – THE SCREAM
1 Which 1979 sci-fi horror film carries the tagline, ‘In space no one can hear you scream’? (5) 2 Which star of the 1933 film King Kong is considered to be one of the first ‘scream queens’? (3,4)
3 Who directed the 1997 film
Scream, whose killer wears a mask inspired by Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream? (3,6)
WHERE IN THE WORLD? MONA LISA 4 What was the nationality of Lisa Gherardini, thought to be the sitter for Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece the
Mona Lisa? (7)
5 Neil _, the director of the 1986 crime drama Mona
Lisa, shares his surname with the name of which Middle Eastern country, whose capital is Amman? (6) 6 Which French museum houses the Mona Lisa? (6)
THE STARRY NIGHT 7 Which TV scientist has
hosted Stargazing Live and A Night with the Stars? (5,3) 8 Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh painted his picture The Starry Night while he was living in which country? (6) 9 What is the title of the 1972 Don McLean hit which begins, ‘Starry, starry night…’? (7)
THE BLUE BOY
10 The Blue Boy is an 18th-century painting by celebrated English portrait artist Thomas _? (12) 11 Which nursery rhyme features the lines, ‘…come blow your horn, the sheep’s in the meadow, the cow’s in the corn’? (6,3,4)
12 Who is the actor mother of Emma Thompson, with whom she co-starred in the 1994 film The Blue Boy? (8,3)
THE NIGHT WATCH
13 What nationality was Rembrandt, whose most famous work is the 1642 painting The Night Watch? (5)
14 Which character in
Game of Thrones, who becomes Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, shares his name with a real-life British journalist and news presenter? (3,4) 15 What is the surname of the late author of the Discworld series, which includes the
2002 novel Night
Watch? (9)