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Twenty fiendish questions to flex your wordpower, test your memory - and tease your brain


1 What is the slang expression used in the Stock Exchange to describe a temporary recovery in share prices after a substantial fall?

Dead Cat Bounce

2 The US Democratic party slogan aimed at the somewhat untrustworthy figure of Richard Nixon in the 1968 presidential election has since passed into common usage. What was it?


Would you buy a used car from this man?


3 A Nazi; A Witch; A Communist; An Angel; A Monster from Outer Space. These words all come from film titles. In each instance, what same two words precedes them?

I Married


4 What nine-syllable word describes a 17th-century reaction against theological controversies, instead calling for toleration?


disestablishmentarianism




5 Of the 192 member countries in the United Nations, only four comprise one syllable. What are they?

France, Greece, Spain and Chad


6 What everyday nine-letter word has only one vowel?

Strengths


7 When Liverpool Airport was renamed after John Lennon, it adopted a four-word phrase from a famous Lennon lyric for its new slogan. What is the slogan?

'above us only sky'

8 The phonetic alphabet - alpha, bravo etc. - features three place names - one a city in South America, one a city in North America, and one a country in Asia. What are they?

Lima, Quebec, India


9 What famous palindrome was coined in translating Napoleon's alleged words on arriving in exile?

Able was I ere I saw Elba

10 What Russian word, in wide circulation in the late 1980s, described the country's growing political and economic opennesss - a feature at the time of the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev?

Glasnost


11 What word connects the following: New Orleans; New York; a 1988 film starring Tom Hanks

Big


12 "The Word" is a track on which Beatles album?

Rubber Soul

13 Sporting nicknames: Who were known as the following: Guy the Gorilla; the Rockhampton Rocket; Psycho?

Ian Botham, Rod Laver, Stuart Pearce

14 What ironic nickname, based on an order by the German Kaiser, did the British Expeditionary Force apply to themselves when they set out to war in 1914?

Old Contemptibles


15 A high-ranking school pupil; an embassy official; a realm of outer space. What's the connection?

Ford

Prefect, Consul, Galaxy


16 What name - coined to denote the average man - was adopted by a clothing brand when it launched in 1985?

Joe Bloggs

17 This phrase was used as the title of a magazine that launched in 1992, and of a film that came out in 1993. It denotes a general state of bemusement. What is it?

Dazed & Confused



18 A figure known for more than 30 years only as a sobriquet was revealed in 2005 to be someone called Mark Felt. What was the sobriquet?

Deep Throat

19 Which short, everyday word is reckoned to be the only one in which the letter "f" is sounded as the letter "v"?

Of


20 Which phrase, taken from Othello, is the collective title of a series of five marches by Elgar?

Pomp And Circumstance

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Good Luck

hunnybunny_2

8 The phonetic alphabet - alpha, bravo etc. - features three place names - one a city in South America, one a city in North America, and one a country in Asia. What are they?

Could it be - India, Lima Quebec?

kipper_2-2

thanks hunnybunny

Dalkirst

Oops i didn't take much notice and thought all the answers were there so just copied and pasted it to the email and sent it...lol

aggie

No 5 - United Nations question must be France, Greece, Spain and Chad. (Never heard of Chad but its on the list - joined in 1960 apparently).

kipper_2-2

Chad is in Africa.... Cheers aggie

mpython

I think 4 could be Antidisestablishmentarianism (Not sure if i've spelt it correctly) and 10 could be Glasnost.

MSErs have a good success rate with comps from the independent, so I think this is worth perservering with.

Will work on the others as the morning progresses.

mpython

11 could be Big (Big Easy, Big Apple & film Big with Tom Hanks)

floyd

8 The phonetic alphabet - alpha, bravo etc. - features three place names - one a city in South America, one a city in North America, and one a country in Asia. What are they?

Lima Quebec India

mpython

14 'Old Contemptibles'

Strepsy

I think number 2 is 'Tricky Dicky'.

'In 1950, Nixon was elected to the United States Senate over Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas. Accusing her of communist or fellow traveler sympathies, Nixon called her "the Pink Lady" and said she was "pink right down to her underwear." Gahagan, meanwhile, gave Nixon one of the most enduring nicknames in politics: "Tricky !!!!!!."' ?