I'll Have a Double Please. Quiz | Alphabetical Words

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1. The real surname (last name) of pop-singer Cliff Richard?

Answer: Webb

Sir Harry Roger Webb was born in Lucknow, India in 1940 and moved to England at the age of eight. In 1958 he formed a group called 'The Drifters' but changed it to 'The Shadows' to avoid confusion with the popular American vocal group of the same name.

2. An American state whose capital is Nashville?

Answer: Tennessee

Nashville is nicknamed 'Music City'.

3. A deliberate deception as in a game of poker?

Answer: bluff

A bluff can also mean a steep bank or cliff formed by river erosion on the outside bend of a meander.

4. A word that can go before cup, plant, shell and white?

Answer: egg

In America and Canada the eggplant is another name for aubergine. Albumen is another word for the white of an egg or egg white.

5. This American state was admitted to the Union as the 50th state in 1959?

Answer: Hawaii

You should always remember which is America's 50th state if you have ever watched the longest running cop show in US TV history, 'Hawaii Five-0' starring Jack Lord as Steve McGarrett. If you got this one wrong, 'book'em, Dan-0'!

6. An oceanic, shrimp-like crustacean which is eaten by the blue whale?

Answer: krill

It is estimated that the blue whale eats up to 40 million krill a day as it is the principal food of whale-bone whales.

7. The real surname (last name) of Judy Garland?

Answer: Gumm

Judy Garland was born Frances Ethel Gumm. She lived for 47 years (1922-1969) and died one month before man landed on the moon. Playing the role of Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939) made her famous but the pressures of fame buckled her private life. An accidental overdose of sleeping tablets was blamed for her death.

Her quotations of "I can live without money, but I cannot live without love" and "I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back" leads you to draw your own conclusions of her turbulent life.

8. The surname of a character in the book 'Treasure Island' by Robert Louis Stevenson?

Answer: Gunn

In 'Treasure Island', Captain John Flint's pirate crew leave Ben Gunn marooned on an island for three years where his appearance becomes that of a wild and deranged man. Benn Gunn is an original member of Flint's crew and stumbles across Flint's treasure on the island and buries it when he is forced to survive on his own. Gunn becomes a reformed character and Jim Hawkins gains his confidence and leads Doctor Livesey to a secret cave where Gunn had transferred the treasure.

These valuables provide a means of escape from the pirates who had threatened the lives of both Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver.

9. A species of bird whose young were all thought to be reared by 'foster' parents as it lays its eggs in the nests of other birds?

Answer: cuckoo

The national habitat of most of the cuckoo species is woodland but the ground-dwelling cuckoo, the roadrunner, for instance, inhabits dry open country of South-Western USA. Of the approximate 130 species of cuckoo only about 50 species do not build a nest therefore this is a general misnomer that all cuckoos don't build nests.

10. A German steelmaking armaments firm who were associated with the construction of Big Bertha?

Answer: Krupp

Big Bertha was named after Bertha Krupp (1886-1957) at whose works in Essen, Germany, a successful 42 centimetre mortar was manufactured for long-distance artillery use during World War One.

11. The sound a domesticated cat makes, usually when expressing pleasure?

Answer: purr

Related words for purr include 1) to be in heaven 2) feel happy 3) to take great satisfaction.

12. A curved sword formerly used by sailors?

Answer: cutlass

The cutlass is a curved, one-edged, short weapon with a high carbon steel blade and was popular with pirates around the 17th century. The pirate's hand was protected by a steel basket which doubled as an armoured fist during close combat.

13. The burrow of a badger?

Answer: sett

A sett of a badger consists of a maze of excavated tunnels. Tons of earth need to be moved by the badger to construct this underground labyrinth of burrows which it calls home.

14. The surname (last name) of the person who popularised jogging in America?

Answer: Fixx

James Fixx was the author of 'The Complete Book Of Running'. He died of a coronary at the age of 52 while running on 20th July, 1984. American comedian Joan Rivers once said about jogging, "The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it".

15. A word whose definition is 'any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent'?

Answer: razzmatazz

A noisy, showy activity or another word for razzle-dazzle. I hope you learnt something new.

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I'll Have a Double Please. Trivia Quiz

All of the following answers end in the same two letters. For example bu(zz), shamp(oo), stre(ss) and employ(ee). The hint will tell you how many letters long the word is and what its last two letters are. Good luck and have fun.

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