The big quiz
The answers to all but one of these quiz questions can be found hidden in this word search 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 – Cross-country
Which country is the setting for the 2002 film Rabbit-Proof Fence in which three girls, forcibly placed in a settlement, walk 1,500 miles back home? (9) Which star of The Bodyguard played a cross-country team coach in the 2015 sports drama McFarland, USA? (5,7) A family takes a cross-country trip to get their daughter to a beauty pageant in the 2006 film Little
Miss _? (8)
Where in the World? Swimming The classic Art Deco outdoor swimming pool Saltdean Lido may be found in which East Sussex resort? (8) The Cave of Swimmers, featured in the 1997 film The English Patient, is near the border between Libya and which other country? (5) Swimmer Sharron Davies and diver Tom Daley were both born in which Devon port city, also home to Drake’s Island? (8)
Shooting
Which Irish boy band had a 1997 hit with the double A-side Baby Can I Hold You/ Shooting Star? (7)
The 1881 shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, between the Earp brothers and the outlaws called the Cowboys is known as the Gunfight at the _? (1,1,6) How many gold medals did Team GB win for shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics? (3)
Horse jumping Becher’s Brook and The Chair are jumps in which annual horse race, at Aintree in late March or early April? (5,8) Who wrote the Rutshire
Chronicles, beginning with the 1985 novel Riders, which is set in the world of international show jumping? (5,6)
What name is given to a horse race which features ditches and jumps, the name deriving from the 18th century when a church tower marked the finishing point? (12)
Fencing
What colour is Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber with which he has his first duel with Darth Vader in the 1980 Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back? (4) Fencing, horse jumping, shooting, swimming and crosscountry all feature in the Olympic sport known as the Modern _? (10) Since his first film appearance in 1920, which masked vigilante’s rapier has been marking his foes’ faces or clothes with its owner’s initial? (5)