Place the Canadian towns and cities in order from west to east, aided by the clues given.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Mar 14 16
Category:
Canada - Cities
For the purposes of this quiz, fusion will mean addition, while fission will indicate subtraction. Look at the photos, then answer the questions posed. Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Jun 04 18
Category:
Rebuses
Travelling the Silk Road brings the wanderer close to many UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Match the site to the country where it can be found.
Easier, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Nov 25 19
Category:
World Sites
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How often have you watched a movie or TV show and thought that the animals were the best part, even if they were not the stars? Here are a few cases when the (human) actors might have thought "Don't feed the animals," because they might steal the show!
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Aug 17 13
Category:
Something in Common
...the fifth of November, and various other things related to that month. In fact you need not remember, just find them hidden here.
Easier, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Nov 16 13
Category:
Hidden Words by Theme
Match the characters on the left with the 'B' books on the right. Brief descriptions of the characters are given to help you.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Jan 02 21
Category:
Name My Book
Here are some questions about characters who drove something for a living or for fun.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Jun 10 21
Category:
Movie Drivers
It seems that every year Christmas movies are shown earlier and earlier, and I feel rebellious! The movies in this quiz are all about other holidays! Well, there might be one about Christmas, but don't expect anything jolly, or a soppy romance!
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Dec 08 19
Category:
Holiday Movies
All of the songs discussed in this quiz have at least one measure in the title. Measures of length, height, volume, time, weight will all be found here, though one song uses the measurement word in a different sense.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Jul 18 22
Category:
Science and Nature in Songs
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The colour silver has often featured in the name or description of all types of transportation, possibly because it gives the impression of opulence, wealth and speed. Match the descriptions on the left with the "silver" appellations on the right.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
May 10 19
Category:
Transport
Sorry, not a Sports quiz! Each answer is an eight letter word, with exactly HALF the letters being those in the word TIED. A definition is given for the other half, and you will likely need to anagram the resulting words.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Apr 17 20
Category:
Words in Common
Answer the first nine questions, then use those answers to determine the sport that is the common bond.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Sep 24 08
Category:
10Q CB Tough
"Stalag 17" (1953) is about 600 sergeants (and one misplaced lieutenant) held prisoner in a German camp during WWII. Match each character with the item or attribute that is most fitting.
Tough, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Nov 01 17
Category:
Stalag 17
Purple comes in many shades. See how many of them you can find in these word puzzles.
Easier, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
May 28 19
Category:
Mixed Word Puzzles
Match the members of Canada's Olympic team with the sport in which they competed during the Summer Olympics held in Beijing, China in 2008. Each won at least one medal.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Feb 06 18
Category:
2008 Beijing
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"How Green Was My Valley" (1941) was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won five, including Best Picture. Test your knowledge of this acclaimed film.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Feb 06 18
Category:
Hn - Hz Movies
Although an earthquake is not the starting point of all of these films, a seismic event sets some sort of action in motion in each one. See what you remember about the events in these movies, spanning the years 1936-2014.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Sep 02 18
Category:
Disasters in Movies
Start with the word "lord" and change one letter at a time until you make him "leap". No anagramming is required.
Very Easy, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Dec 20 17
Category:
Letter Quizzes
Floods, Hurricanes and Tsunamis
Whether caused by excessive rainfall, stirred up by a hurricane, or caused by an earthquake, troubled water can cause death and destruction to the areas affected. Your task is to place these events in chronological order. Tough, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Jan 09 23
Recommended for grades: 9,10,11,12
Category:
Disasters
For the sake of brevity, baseball scorekeepers number the fielding positions from one to nine, starting with the pitcher and proceeding to the right fielder. Use the hints to work out the answers, and the numbers used for each position.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Dec 05 23
Category:
Thematic Sports
The answers to the first nine questions will lead to an event in history that also spawned a popular movie.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Sep 12 06
Category:
10Q CB Average
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The number of memorials and monuments in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and the surrounding battlefield park can be quite overwhelming to a visitor. Match each memorial described with its location, found "all over Gettysburg".
Tough, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
May 01 17
Category:
Monuments & Memorials
I might be a LOUSE if I were to go about stirring Seoul, don't you think? Anagram the words in CAPS to find some more capital cities.
Easier, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Oct 19 19
Recommended for grades: 9,10,11,12
Category:
Geography Anagrams
Identify the settings of these Canadian television programmes by matching the titles to the numbered locations.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Jan 08 22
Category:
Canadian TV
Here are ten cryptic clues to the titles of movies from a fairly wide time range. If you are unfamiliar with solving cryptic clues, I suggest you try some of the 'How to' quizzes in Brain Teasers first.
Difficult, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Sep 19 10
Category:
Movie Cryptics
Sports often provide the necessary conflict that advances a movie's plot. Here we find ten different sports as portrayed onscreen.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Jan 18 15
Category:
Sports in Movies
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No, not swear words, just a selection of words of four letters for you to define. Just choose the definition that you think is correct. All words can be found in the Concise Oxford Dictionary.
Average, 25 Qns, spanishliz,
May 18 21
Category:
Thematic Word Definitions
The ten cryptic clues will lead you to the titles of ten television series. The year the programme was first aired is also given to help you. If you are not familiar with cryptics, I suggest you try some of the 'How To' quizzes in Brain Teasers first.
Difficult, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Feb 11 05
Category:
TV Wordplay
Although he may be best remembered as Hudson, the butler in the 1970s television series "Upstairs, Downstairs", Gordon Jackson has played a number of different occupations in his movie career. Match the movie title with the occupation.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Apr 24 19
Category:
J - People Themed
Anagram the words in ALL CAPS to find items associated with different aspects of entertainment. Look for clues in the sentences. Initial letters of sentences are not included unless the whole word is in capital letters.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Jan 16 22
Category:
Entertainment Word Play
A lot of things in life come in fives. Here we will explore ten of these groups as we journey through several categories of trivia.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Oct 30 18
Category:
Mixed 10 Qn Average C
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One of the joys of Christmas is having the time and opportunity to explore a bit more of the world, whether by physically visiting new places, watching travelogues or reading about them. Here we find a few suitably named places for our Christmas journey.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
May 12 24
Category:
Where am I? Average
I give you three characters from movies or TV, you choose which actor named James played those characters. Most of these are not too recent, but have tried not to make them too obscure. Good luck.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Jan 19 07
Category:
Players - Average 10
I'll tell you who wore the number during the 2003 season. You will tell me who wore it in the early days of the team, or in some cases who did not wear that number.
Tough, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Jan 18 10
Category:
Toronto Blue Jays
One of the joys of Christmas is the wide variety of sports available to be enjoyed, whether by watching on television or in person, or even as a participant. Here are some events that have taken place during Christmas seasons over the years.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Dec 13 14
Category:
Wide World of Sports
Should that be "bites the dust"? Perhaps it is a bit of both, as we explore the deaths of a few people who died because of something they ate, or whilst eating, or because they didn't eat.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Dec 01 15
Category:
What a Way to Go
Director Stanley Donen's "Charade" (1963) is full of marvellous patter and non sequiturs, all part of the charm of this very watchable caper. Match the dialogue with the performer who spoke the words. There may be some spoilers.
Tough, 15 Qns, spanishliz,
Oct 29 17
Category:
Charade
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Truthfully, there might be some tears, if these French sportspeople haven't won their events. Match the people with the sport in which they made their name.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Dec 16 17
Category:
France
"Destry" (1954) was a remake 1939's "Destry Rides Again", and a 1932 film with the longer title, but a somewhat different plot. Test your knowledge of the newest version.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Oct 09 17
Category:
Da - De Movies
The answers to the first fourteen questions will help you to identify the famous person whose name is sought in question fifteen. This person did NOT gain fame as an entertainer.
Difficult, 15 Qns, spanishliz,
Sep 24 08
Category:
Common Bond 15 Questions
These are a selection of questions from a quiz I put together some time ago for a local pub quiz, loosely based on Trivial Pursuit categories.
Difficult, 15 Qns, spanishliz,
Nov 24 05
Category:
Mixed 15 Q. Difficult
This quiz in my 'oldies' series will focus on actors who were born in countries where English is not the first language. Characters may be of any nationality, and are from films released before 1980.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Jun 26 04
Category:
Players - Average 10
Sorry, but this is NOT about the 1943 movie, in which Lassie treks from Scotland in an effort to reach her home in England. It's about expatriate Scottish lassies, their occupations and the places from which they might come home.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Mar 24 20
Category:
Scotland
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Our small local library uses a somewhat simplified version of the Dewey Decimal System to classify our non-fiction books. Unfortunately we don't have a card catalogue. Could you find these books? (There is a pattern to help you.)
Tough, 15 Qns, spanishliz,
Sep 19 20
Category:
Thematic Occupations
"Moonlight" tells the story of a young black man growing up gay in a tough district of Miami. Your task is to match the character descriptions with the correct name or nickname.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Aug 24 18
Category:
Moonlight
Participants in sports have long been given nicknames. Ski jumping is no exception. Here are a few questions about some of those jumpers, and their sobriquets, from the 1970s to the 2000s.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Aug 12 05
Category:
Skiing
When playing "Angry Birds Friends" on Facebook, eight birds are definitely never enough for me to defeat all the piggies, at least not at the first attempt! Match the attributes described with the name of each bird.
Tough, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Mar 21 16
Category:
Angry Birds
Jimmy Rabbitte wanted to manage a band, so he recruited some and auditioned the rest and The Commitments started to rehearse. Here are some questions about the movie with the same name as the band.
Average, 10 Qns, spanishliz,
Apr 20 20
Category:
Commitments, The