Matching Qs Trivia Quiz

Answer: Quail

Categories: Animals, Hobbies, Humanities

Animals: Quail is a name used for a number of small game birds hunted for sport or food. Domesticated quail are kept for both meat and eggs.
Hobbies (Food): Quail eggs are much smaller than chicken's eggs, have spotted shells and are considered a delicacy in many countries, especially in Asia and parts of Europe.
Humanities: Cower is a synonym of the verb to quail, meaning to become frightened or cringe in fear.

Answer: Quinn

Categories: Celebrities, Movies, Music

Celebrities: Aidan Quinn, from Chicago, Illinois, has appeared in movies and on TV since 1984. You might know him as Captain Gregson on the television show "Elementary". Mexican-born Anthony Quinn (1915-2001) had a movie career spanning the 1930s to the 2000s during which he won two Best Supporting Actor Oscars, and was nominated for two as Best Actor.
Movies: Both Aidan and Anthony have had movie careers. "The Mighty Quinn" was a 1989 movie starring Denzel Washington (as Xavier Quinn) and James Fox. Set in the Caribbean, it was a thriller involving large amounts of money, murder and wayward friends.
Music: "Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)" was written by Bob Dylan, and recorded both by him and by Manfred Mann in the 1960s. Its chorus, slightly altered, could be heard on the soundtrack of the movie mentioned above.

Answer: Quebec

Categories: Geography/History, Humanities, Movies

Historical Geography: Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer known as "The Father of New France" (part of which became the Canadian province of Quebec), who founded Quebec City in 1608.
Humanities: The letter Q is represented by the word Quebec in the NATO military alphabet.
Movies: John Drew Barrymore starred in the 1951 movie "Quebec", about a rebellion against the British in the 1830s.

Answer: Quilt

Category: Hobbies

Hobbies: In quilting one can use fat quarters, lengths of material cut in a certain manner, to make quilts of various patterns. Crazy quilts can look like a jumble of unrelated materials pieced together, while a log cabin pattern is more formalized and regular.

Answer: Quality

Categories: General, Hobbies, Movies

General: Quality control is the practice of checking on a product to ensure that a company's standards are being maintained. Quality time is something that working parents aspire to enjoy with their children, if not every day then at least on the weekend.
Hobbies (Food): Quality Street is a brand of toffees that can be purchased in decorative tins.
Movies: "Quality Street" is a 1937 romantic comedy-drama starring Katharine Hepburn and Franchot Tone.

Answer: Queue

Categories: General, Entertainment (or History)

General: Queues (lines) at banks and grocery stores always slow down once I set foot in them, or so it seems. In the UK it is normal to see an orderly queue waiting for a bus, but this is not always so in other parts of the world.
Entertainment (Fashion): The men's hairstyle known as a queue (or cue) is usually in the form of a braid or pigtail, sometimes with the rest of the head shaved.
History: In China in the 17th century, the conquering Manchu required the conquered Han to adopt the queue (a Manchu style) as an emblem of surrender to the winning side. Other forms of queue included those worn by sailors of the Royal Navy, soldiers of various European armies and some Native Americans.

Answer: Quid

Categories: Humanities, World

Humanities: Definitions of the word 'quid' include slang for a pound Sterling, and a slab of chewing tobacco.
World: The slang word 'quid' is used for various currencies, especially the UK pound, but also, historically for the Australian pound. The Latin word 'quid' shows up in the legal phrase 'quid pro quo', meaning something given and something returned, or an exchange.

Answer: Quarrymen

Categories: Music, Television

Music: Before becoming The Beatles, the Liverpool group The Quarrymen included John Lennon, George Harrison and Paul McCartney, as well as Stuart Sutcliffe and a number of others at various times.
Television: Fred Flintstone of "The Flintstones" (1960-66) worked in a quarry in Bedrock, and Mike Heck, the father of three in "The Middle" (2009-), managed a quarry in Orson, making both of them quarrymen.

Answer: Quincy

Categories: Geography, Television, World

Geography: Quincy, Illinois is a city on the Mississippi River, located in Adams County.
Television: "Quincy, ME" (1976-83) starred Jack Klugman as a coroner whose every case seemed to be the result of murder.
World: John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the USA, from 1825-29, and son of John Adams, who had been that country's second president.

Answer: Quirk

Categories: Humanities, Sports

Humanities: Quirk is a synonym of eccentricity, meaning something a bit out of the ordinary or charmingly odd.
Sports: Jamie Quirk was a catcher for the Kansas City Royals baseball team. On April 13th 1980 he became part of the first ever 'all Q' battery* in Major League Baseball, when reliever Dan Quisenberry entered the game against Detroit in the seventh inning.

*Battery=combination of pitcher and catcher in a baseball game