The Pro Hair Locks Down Bank Holiday Quiz

Compiled by quizmaster Scott Taylor.

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Questions are all General Knowledge/ ‘look it up’ rather than cryptic! 

A : ANAGRAMS: Solve these anagrams of football teams. The first 10 are Premiership teams; the second 10 are from the Championship

1. RAN SALE………………………………………………………………………….
2. LEACHES……………………………………………………………………………
3. NEVER TO…………………………………………………………………………
4. CRY WITH CORN……………………………………………………………….
5. UNTWISTED A HEM………………………………………………………….
6. A PECCARY STALL……………………………………………………………..
7. I NEED IT SHUFFLED………………………………………………………….
8. SYNTHETIC CREAM…………………………………………………………..
9. HOLING NINTH ABOVE BOARD…………………………………………
10. NARROW PANTS OVERWHELMED……………………………….
11. I GARDEN…………………………………………………………………….
12. NOT OWL NUT…………………………………………………………….
13. A NEW ASS………………………………………………………………….
14. DENY RUBY COT…………………………………………………………..
15. I ELUDED NETS…………………………………………………………….
16. ENCROACH TILT HALT………………………………………………….
17. NO FORTNIGHT TEAMS…………………………………………………
18. SQUARER KEG SPANNER……………………………………………..
19. ODD RUG BLEMISH……………………………………………………..
20. CRAB WITH SNOWMOBILE………………………………………….
    

B: ‘K-WORDS’: (all answers begin with the letter ‘k’)

1. Bird of prey or flying toy…………………………………………………….
2. French cuisine……………………………………………………………………
3. Definitely not a big cat!………………………………………………….
4. Aussie bird or cricket bat maker…………………………………………
5. Class or considerate…………………………………………………………..
6. Sleeper or smoked herring………………………………………………..
7. North Atlantic gull………………………………………………………………
8. Scottish church or Enterprise captain………………………………….
9. Set on fire, arouse or e- book…………………………………………….
10. 10)Worcs. home of carpets and Harriers……………………………
11. 11)Tanzanian mountain (5895m./19340ft.)………………………
12. 12)‘Wet blanket’ /wowser………………………………………………….
13. 13)Russian ballet troupe/ port on River Vyatka………………….
14. 14)H.G. Wells novel…………………………………………………………..
15. 15)Type of cumulative ‘effect’ (not good in rugby!)………………
16. 16)What London cabbies need to have to get around!………….
17. 17)Boot, recoil or thrill………………………………………………………..
18. 18)Central principal or silent comedy ‘kops’………………………..
19. 19)Bluegrass state…………………………………………………………….
20. 20)Jack, fish or Stanley………………………………………………………

C: DAYS OF THE WEEK: Each answer is, or contains, the name of a day of the week

1. ‘All the playing’s stopped in the playground now, she wants to play with her toys a while’; lines from which song?……………………………..
2. According to the rhyme, the child born on which day ‘works hard for a living’?…………………………………………………………………………………
3. Maundy Money is usually distributed, by the reigning monarch, on which day of the week?……………………………………………………………
4. According to a 1966 song by ‘The Scaffold’  roast beef was served on which day?…………………………………………………………………………….
5. Good, Joe or Man can all precede which day?……………………………..
6. On which day did Solomon Grundy marry?…………………………………
7. Who played the role of Christian Rudd in ‘The Cincinnati Kid’ (1965)?…………………………
8. On which day was Melina Mercouri never to be kissed?……………….
9. ‘My sister looks cute in her braces and boots, A handful of grease in her hair.’ Which Elton John song?………………………………………………
10. What was Thursday Island (in the Torres Straits) originally named by Capt. Owen Stanley?…………………………………………………………….
11. The first verse of which song might be paraphrased in the following manner: This female was at no time ever willing to reveal her origins because her past was immaterial. Whether it was night or day she would appear or disappear according to her whim and with no person being aware of her movements. (It sounded better when sung by The Rolling Stones/Melanie! ……………………………………………
12. Which group’s line-up originally included Shaun and Paul Ryder, Gary Whelan and Paul Davis?…………………………………………………..
13. On which day of the week did David Bowie/The Easybeats especially have ‘Friday on my mind’?…………………………………………
14. Which ‘big’ 1978 movie was about surfers in California?…………..
15. Which Blondie song begins: ‘I know a girl from a lonely street, cold as ice-cream but still as sweet’?……………………………………………………
16. “Catch it” was the tagline to which 1977 movie?……………………….
17. According to Morrissey, Everyday is like…..?……………………………..
18. In the song ‘Blue Monday’ by New Order approximately how many times does the word ‘Monday’ occur?…………………………………………
19. “If it’s ……………….,  This must be Belgium” what word is missing from the title of this 1969 movie?……………………………………………….
20. A cowboy rode into Dodge City on Friday. He stayed for three days and three nights then left on the day after Thursday. How is this possible?………………………………………

D: CONSONANTS OUT: The answers to the following clues ALL contain the three vowels A, I and E used only ONCE and in that same order e.g. aimed, alive, malice, traipse, strained etc. All you have to do is supply the missing consonants.

1. Relating to a dog…………………………………………………………………………………….
2. Stew slowly in a closed container…………………………………………………………..
3. Parisian fortress/prison stormed in 1789………………………………………………
4. Found in a kitchen, bathroom or government!……………………………………
5. Turned up……………………………………………………………………………………………….
6. Said to be the ‘spice of life’……………………………………………………………………
7. Extreme scarcity of food……………………………………………………………………….
8. Greek hero with a weak spot………………………………………………………………..
9. Definitely not modern…………………………………………………………………………..
10. 10)Dangerous disease disseminated especially by No.1 animals………
11. 11)Dickinson, Long or Joplin…………………………………………………………….
12. 12)Which Surrey town added ‘on-Thames’ to its name in December 2011?………………………………………………………………………………………
13. 13)Leg support or hinged measuring device………………………………..
14. 14)South American rodents (including guinea-pigs)……………………..
15. 15)North- easternmost US state………………………………………………….
16. 16)No place for gentlemen!……………………………………………………
17. 17)Molly Malone’s mussels were sold fresh in this state!………….
18. 18)Elton John song or den survivor…………………………………………….
19. 19)Not of this world…………………………………………………………………..
20. 20)Definitely not resembling No. 1 animal!………………………………

E: CONNECTIONS ROUND:  all the following questions have a common link for you to find

1. 1935 movie; 4^th outing for Fred and Ginger………………………..
2. Most northerly English county……………………………………………
3. Leave….on the beach?…………………………………………………..
4. Nelson’s last battle……………………………………………………………..
5. Irate monarch could be so described?…………………………….
6. Prison located on Caledonian Road, N7………………………………
7. Sent here if ostracised?…………………………………………………
8. Ancient Chinese strategy board game………………………………….
9. A word to follow even, second or last…. Could precede ‘would be a fine thing’………………………………………………………………………….
10. The world of the journalist……………………………………………
11. Introduced in 1799 (by Pitt the Younger) to finance the Napoleonic Wars and still with us today (Hurrah!)……………………………..
12. Sounds like an extravagance for 007?…………………………
13. Jeremy, presenter of ‘Eggheads’……………………………………
14. Matthew Arnold’s ‘city of dreaming spires’……………………..
15. Comedian Jack or the civil service in general…………………..
16. Nick, reliable/regularly sought out…………………………………
17. Theresa’s festival?…………………………………………………..
18. Dropping in, simply………………………………………………………
19. No charge made for Yorkshire gingerbread, Gee!…………
20. E.g. Potemkin………………………………………………………………
21. Connection?…………………………………………………………..

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