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PUZZLES Test your knowledge with our range of brain-teasing questions and crossword…
GENERAL
KNOWLEDGE
1. Which swimming
stroke is named after
an insect?
2. How many equal sides does a scalene
triangle have?
3. Where would you normally find a
Plimsoll Line?
4. Which one of Robin Hood’s Merry Men
was a travelling minstrel?
5. What is the currency in South Africa?
6. The adjective lupine refers to which
animal?
7. What was the former name for
Thailand?
8. How many strings are there on a
Spanish guitar?
9. Why is the Englishman Nicholas
Breakspear so unique?
10. Which is the largest castle in Wales?
MUSIC
1. Which number
did Paul Hardcastle
take to number one
for five weeks in
1985?
2. In addition to penning most of
The Beatles hits, Lennon and McCartney
PRIZE CROSSWORD
wrote number ones for many other
artists. Which of these was the first to hit
number one?
3. Which was the first ever UK number
one by a British artist?
4. Who duetted with the late Eva Cassidy
on the 2007 number one “What a
Wonderful World”?
5. Which TWO singles provided Blur with
their only number ones?
6. Although originally recorded as a BBC
promotion, which Lou Reed song was
released as a charity single for “Children
in Need” reaching number one for 3
weeks?
7. Which record was the first to top the
charts in the Eighties?
8. Which song provided Whitney Houston
with her first UK number one single?
9. Who joined with Gareth Gates on his
2003 number one “Spirit in the Sky”?
10. Which artist has had the most UK
number ones?
SPORT
1. Who was the first athlete to run a subfour minute mile?
2. Who won three Formula One World
Championships between 1988 and 1991?
3. In which sport do you throw stones at
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4. At the start of a game
of snooker how many
balls are on the table?
5. Which two positions
in Netball can score a
goal?
6. In which two years were the Winter
Olympics held in Japan?
7. Name the five events that make up the
Modern Pentathlon?
8. Who in 1930 became the first German
Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the
World?
9. Which team won the football European
Cup for the first five seasons it was
contested?
10. In which year was rugby's five nations
championship increased to six?
WHO AM I?
• I was born in Wylam, Northumberland
in 1786.
• I was once a foreman blacksmith at
Walbottle Colliery, Newcastle upon
Tyne.
• I have a school in Shildon named
after me.
Answers on
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CLUES
Across
7 Not feeling well, so not at school (3,2,4)
8 Warmth gets right into the centre (5)
9 Not knowing how to mend a fuse? (2,3,4)
10 Not very bright, but studies English (5)
12 Look knowing about it? Quite (6)
13 Unaware that one has the wrong key? (4-4)
14 Restraint shown when government security takes time (7)
17 Make more records from master (7)
20 Welsh town where the leaves drop? (8)
22 Find it surrounded by blood — get a lump in the throat (6)
24 Getting little credit in support is irritating (5)
25 Abnormal tides wear the river bank (9)
26 States how old one is — it's the custom (5)
27 Be sufficiently competent to take dimensions (7,2)
Down
1 Did this fowl lay golden eggs? (6)
2 Hot companion is extra in bed (8)
3 Holiday when one is not at one's best (3,3)
4 Alternative offered in a part exchange is equitable (3,4)
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