WIN £500 Puzzle 18
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 – REBECCA
1 The well-known first line of Daphne du Maurier’s book, on which the 1940 Hitchcock film Rebecca was based, reads, ‘Last night I dreamt I went to _ again’? (9)
2 Which James starred as Brian Jackson opposite Rebecca Hall as Rebecca Epstein in the 2006 film Starter for 10? (6) 3 What is the name of the William
Makepeace Thackeray novel, a 2005 film adaption of which starred Reese Witherspoon as Rebecca ‘Becky’ Sharp? (6,4)
WHERE IN THE WORLD? NOTORIOUS
4 Cary Grant, who starred in the 1947 Hitchcock film Notorious, was born Archibald Leach in 1904 in which West Country city? (7) 5 The gangster Al Capone was imprisoned for tax evasion in which US city where he was a notorious crime lord in the 1920s and 1930s? (7)
6 The notoriously treacherous 1,800m-high icy north face of which Swiss mountain is known as the Nordwand? (5)
TO CATCH A THIEF
7 In 1671 Colonel Thomas Blood was captured in the process of stealing what items from the Tower of
London, and pardoned by King Charles II? (5,6) 8 Who starred in three Hitchcock films, Dial M for Murder, Rear Window and To Catch a Thief, the latter shortly before she retired from acting on her marriage in April 1956? (5,5) 9 According to the saying, you should ‘Set a _ to catch a thief’? (5)
VERTIGO
I See You Baby, and
At the River are singles from the 1999 album Vertigo by the electronic music duo Groove _? (6) Acrophobia, often erroneously referred to as vertigo, is an intense fear of what? (7) 12 Who played Madeleine Elster opposite James Stewart in Hitchcock’s 1958 thriller Vertigo? (3,5) THE LADY VANISHES 13 Which author disappeared from her home in Berkshire in December 1926, turning up 11 days later in Harrogate, apparently remembering nothing? (6,8)
14 What was the surname of Amelia, the famous aviator who went missing during an attempt to circumnavigate the world on 2 July 1937? (7) 15 In Hitchcock’s 1939 mystery thriller The Lady Vanishes, the title character disappears from which form of moving transport? (5)