Only Fools And Zebras Quiz - based on "Richard Osman's House of Games" | Word Play

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1. Category - animals What is the title of the fairy story about a little girl who eats porridge and destroys furniture?

Answer: Goldilocks and the Three Giraffes

The fairy tale is 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. Replacing the 'bears' in the title with the giraffes, as seen in the picture, gives 'Goldilocks and the Three Giraffes'.

Goldilocks went for an early morning walk in the woods one day. She found a little house with nobody at home. When she went in, she found three chairs, and a table set with three bowls of porridge. The first chair and the second chair were not to her liking, but when she sat on the third chair it broke. The first two bowls of porridge weren't to her taste, but the last, and smallest, was just right and she ate it all up. After that she ventured upstairs where she found three beds. After trying them all, she fell asleep in the smallest.

2. Category - animals What is the title of the hit single released in 2000 by the Baha Men?

Answer: Who Let the Elephants Out

The song is 'Who Let the Dogs Out'. Replacing the 'dogs' in the title with the elephants, as seen in the picture, gives 'Who Let the Elephants Out'.

The Baha Men were a Jamaican band formed in 1977. The single reached number one in both Australia and new Zealand, number two in the United Kingdom, and ranked in the top ten in Sweden, Germany and Switzerland. It also posted quite highly on a list of the most annoying songs, so I'm sorry if you now have an earworm.

3. Category - colours Which song recorded by Van Morrison refers to the colour of part of someone's face?

Answer: Blue Eyed Girl

The song is 'Brown Eyed Girl'. Replacing the 'brown' in the title with the blue, as seen in the picture, gives 'Blue Eyed Girl'.

Van Morrison (born in 1945) is an artist from Northern Ireland who first came to prominence in the 1960s. The song was one of the first singles recorded by him in 1967. Although it is possibly one of the best-known, it was not one of his favourites. He has said that there are at least three hundred which are better that that one.

4. Category - colours What is the title of the first novel written by Baroness Orczy, which features the exploits of Sir Percy Blakeney?

Answer: The Green Pimpernel

The novel is 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'. Replacing the 'scarlet' in the title with the green, as seen in the picture, gives 'The Green Pimpernel'.

Born in Hungary, Baroness Orczy (1865 - 1947) moved to England with her family at the age of fourteen. The novel was first published in 1905 following the success of a stage play with the same title. It was the first of a number of novels featuring the English aristocrat who helped to rescue some of the French aristocracy during the revolution. The title refers to his code name, and signature emblem.

5. Category - flowers Which floral gift did Max Bygraves sing about in 1958?

Answer: Hyacinths from Amsterdam

The song title is 'Tulips from Amsterdam'. Replacing the 'tulips' in the title with the hyacinths, as seen in the picture, gives 'Hyacinths from Amsterdam'.

A slightly different version of a song with that title was first written and performed by Klaus G�nter Neumann, a German singer, after he had visited the bulb-fields at Keukenhof near Amsterdam in 1953. The English version, with a new tune, became much more popular. Max Bygraves (1922 - 2012) made a recording which reached number three in the United Kingdom, and it came to be regarded as one of his signature songs.

6. Category - flowers What is the English title of Umberto Eco's first novel?

Answer: The Name of the Sunflower

The novel's title is 'The Name of the Rose'. Replacing the 'rose' in the title with the sunflower, as seen in the picture, gives 'The Name of the Sunflower'.

Umberto Eco (1932 - 2016) was an Italian philosopher and novelist. He spent a large part of his life as a professor at the university in Bologna. He was a prolific author, producing translations from English and French, and academic works as well as a regular newspaper column and a few children's books. 'Il nome della rosa' was his first novel, published in 1980; it was translated as 'The Name of the Rose' in 1983.

7. Category - chemical elements What is the title of a 1944 film about two old ladies who murder a succession of elderly bachelors?

Answer: Mercury and Old Lace

The title of the film is 'Arsenic and Old lace'. Replacing the 'arsenic' in the title with the mercury, as seen in the picture, gives 'Mercury and Old Lace'.

The film was based on a Broadway play, and was not released until the play's run came to an end. The old ladies advertise lodgings, and then murder their tenants "to end their suffering". They are helped in this endeavour by their delusional nephew, who thinks he is Theodore Roosevelt, and that the dead men are victims of yellow fever at the Panama Canal.

8. Category - chemical elements What is the title of the 1968 science fiction novel by Ted Hughes subtitled 'A Children's Story in Five Nights'?

Answer: The Copper Man

The title of the novel is 'The Iron Man'. Replacing the 'iron' in the title with the copper, as seen in the picture, gives 'The Copper Man'.

Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998) is probably best known as a poet; he held the position of Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death. However he is also known for short stories, translations and children's books. 'The Iron Man' is described as a modern fairy tale. The story tells of a giant metal man who arrives in England and wreaks havoc over the countryside by devouring the farm machinery.

9. Category - fruit What is the title of the 1971 Stanley Kubrick film?

Answer: A Clockwork Banana

The film's title is 'A Clockwork Orange'. Replacing the 'orange' in the title with the banana, as seen in the picture, gives 'A Clockwork Banana'.

Stanley Kubrick (1928 - 1999) was an American film-maker. He based his film on the book with the same title written, in 1962, by Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993), an English author. The book was described as a dystopian black comedy, with the description, a dystopian crime film, being applied to Stanley Kubrick's work. Anthony Burgess ascribed the popularity of his novel to the film adaptation.

10. Category - fruit What is the title of John Steinbeck's novel about the Joad family?

Answer: The Strawberries of Wrath

The novel is 'The Grapes of Wrath'. Replacing the 'grapes' in the title with the strawberries, as seen in the picture, gives 'The Strawberries of Wrath'.

John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968) was an American author. He wrote 'The Grapes of Wrath' in 1939 to highlight the hardships which some Americans had faced during the depression years. It tells the story of the Joad family's travels to California from Oklahoma after the crops have failed and the family farm has been taken by the bank.

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Only Fools And Zebras Trivia Quiz

based on "Richard Osman's House of Games"

Each question is in two parts - the question and a picture of an item in the same category as one of the words in the answer. You need to replace the word in the answer with what you see in the picture. More details on how it works are below. Good luck!

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