WIN £500 Puzzle 18
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.
RAINBOW
1 Who directed and starred in the 1996 film Rainbow, and starred in the 1986 film Mona Lisa and the 1980 film The Long Good Friday? (3,7)
2 The Rainbow Guides take girls from what age (the same age at which a child can start infant school in England and Wales)? (4)
3 Which mischievous elf of Irish legend is said to hide their pot of gold at the end of a rainbow? (10)
BROWNIE
4 What name is shared by a chocolate brownie made with vanilla rather than cocoa, and a US rock band fronted by Debbie Harry? (7)
5 Brownie, pinhole and DSLR are all types of what? (6)
6 Brownie Guide leaders have traditionally been named after which bird (with brown, snowy and tawny varieties)? (3)
GUIDE
7 Cook and TV presenter Mary Berry was a Girl Guide as a youngster in which Somerset city, in which she was born in 1935? (4)
8 Which Peter was the voice of the Guide in the radio and TV versions of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? (5)
9 Best known for his Paddington books, who also wrote about Monsieur Pamplemousse, a French detective turned restaurant inspector for Le Guide? (7,4)
RANGER
10 Hank the Ranger, Eric the Cavalier and Diana the Acrobat were characters in the 1980s US TV series based on the role-playing game Dungeons & _? (7)
11 The Ibrox district of which Scottish city is home to Rangers FC? (7)
12 Which word completes the former name of the Ranger Guides the Senior _, and Taskmaster creator Alex Horne’s band The Horne _? (7)
GIRLGUIDING
13 Which football team shares its name with the park where, in 1909, a group of girls gatecrashed a Scout rally dressed as Scouts, before the formation of the Guides? (7,6)
14 Which word, thought to mean ‘come by here’, follows ‘Someone’s crying, Lord’ in an African-American spiritual campfire song popular with Guides and Scouts? (7)
15 The three-leaved plant that forms the outline of the Girlguiding logo is given what name, also used in architecture and heraldry? (7)