Pete has kept us entertained over the Summer with his cunning teasers - here are the last 15. As always, please don't use search engines to look up answers for posting. It defeats the purpose of the piece, as well as ruining the effort Pete has made. No merit is gained either way as questions are intended for fun. If you only know part of an answer, put it up for the discussion of others - it might lead us to the whole answer! Expanding on an answer, giving full reasoning is positively encouraged - so away we go for one last time...
THE SUMMER QUIZ 2016 - THE FINAL ROUND
Connections
1. What connects the Norwegian writer Jo Nesbo and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
2. What word might link Tarzan, a type of Tea, a famous cavalry regiment and a fictional school?
3. What connects George Orwell, a Russian Princess and a futuristic pilot?
4. What is the secret link between Rudyard Kipling, Ron Greenwood, Mozart, George Washington, Sir Christopher Wren?
5. What might link the following - recurve, long, composite, cross?
9. three pips, a crown, a crown and one pip, a crown and two pip…
10.1832 – 1867 – 1884 – 1918…
Miscellany
11. “A very remarkable people the "……" They defeat our generals, convert our Bishops and have settled the fate of a great European dynasty “. Who was this Prime Minister talking about?
12. Who was famously described as, “Mad, Bad and Dangerous to know“?
13. The traditional opening of the Catholic and even Anglican Mass/ Eucharist is the prayer “God have mercy, Lord have mercy “ – Even when the rest of the mass is in the vernacular this is often sung in its original language. What is that language?
14. Sailor, Unready , Lack-land , Farmer- were epithets applied to who - identify please.
15. What was electoral right - was abolished in 1948 ?
2. Grey...Greystoke, Earl Grey, Royal Scots Greys, Greyfriars.
10. Parliamentary Reform Acts. 1928 would be next, giving equal rights to men and women; the vote for all over 21.
13. Latin
14. Kings. William IV, Ethelred, John, George 111.
Q3 Orwell wrote a poem with lines something like "dare to do this, dare to do that" - the only one line I am fairly certain of is "dare to stand alone" So, it seems the key is "dare" and I'm guessing the futuristic pilot is Dan Dare but I don't know how the Russian Princess fits
Clegthorpe - there is a difference between a main space ship - per se and a shuttle craft or runabout - so having given a several clues as above etc, - can you work out the connections.
check carefully the responses to Chris Gs suggestions.
No.15: Wild guess here - was this something to do with removing the right to wear a sword whilst voting? Alternatively, withdrawing the right of MPs to wear a sword in the House of Commons?
Did prisoners have the right to vote prior to 1947?
No.8 I'm assuming these are well known Italians but I don't recognise them as artists or footballers so I'm going to go with either prime ministers or popes?
8. Ah thanks for the steer Corkst - Im sure they are Popes - I dont recognise all of them but Albino Luciani was the short lived pope (John Paul 1) so Im guessing the next is Karol Wojtyla ( John Paul II) his successor.
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