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PUZZLES Test your knowledge with our range of brain-teasing questions and crossword…
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
MUSIC
1. What is the name of the Paranoid
Android in Douglas Adams’ ‘Hitchhiker’s
Guide to the Galaxy’?
1. What was the last
ever single Elvis
Presley released
during his lifetime –
his first number one
following his death?
3. Who created
Snoopy?
4. What does UNESCO stand for?
5. After how many years would you
celebrate your crystal anniversary?
6. Which sign of the zodiac would you be
if your birthday was on the 18th October?
7. Who was the first famous non-royal to
appear on a UK postage stamp?
8. Which birthstone is associated with
the month of May?
9. Which measurement of speed is
equivalent to one nautical mile per hour?
10. Of what is semiotics the study?
WHO AM I?
2. A hit for Boyzone in 1998, which
Andrew Lloyd Webber musical featured
the track No Matter What?
3. Adam Levine is the lead singer with
which Californian rock band?
4. Which 1999 chart-topper was the
biggest ever selling single for Cher?
• I was born on New Year’s Eve 1937 to
parents Muriel and Richard Arthur
• Following my dream, I left school to
enrol in the Cardiff College of music and
drama and after graduation I took a job
with the Arts Council.
• I have had acting roles in Dracula,
Chaplin, Legends of the Fall, Amistad,
The Mask of Zorro and Meet Joe Black.
5. Released in 2005, what was the name
of Babyshambles’ debut album?
6. Who played slide guitar on the 1971
John Lennon track How Do You Sleep
– a song allegedly written about Paul
McCartney?
7. The 1997 film Space Jam featured
which massive hit by R. Kelly?
8. In the film Quadrophenia, which Kinks’
classic did Phil Daniels sing whilst lying
naked in a bath?
FEB ISSUE ANSWERS:
2. In Monopoly, the
green set consists of
Bond Street, Regent
Street and which
other?
10. Complete this lyric to Gwen Stefani’s
4 In The Morning: “Stay up till four in the
morning and the what… are pouring?”
9. Electric Light Orchestra formed in 1970
in which city?
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Across
1 Desert city to discourage housing (6)
4 Duke leaving country in Greek liner might cross it (8)
9 Like some beaches where husband goes separately (6)
10 “Bank — rely — extremists fly”: worse verse! (8)
11 24’s sway over black cat rising in Far East (5,9)
13 Unfortunate 24s heard predators at sea (10)
14 River of top quality? It’s in the water (4)
16 Fleet unable to move (4)
18 Excessive noise in spout adjoining home (10)
21 They’re not keen on Brussels playing streaker in team (4-10)
23 First to fill cavities? (8)
24 Just under 10 roughly treated by 23, or 26, say (6)
25 Studying what’s driven up temperature in part of garden (8)
26 Son’s less resolute, wife having left me (6)
Down
1 Only half of hit on record (4)
2 Conservative dashing around — not something MPs are noted
for (7)
3 Chocolate treat an islander’s 7 runs after (8)
5 Easy money (French) pocketed by supporter (11)
6 Country cat (long-haired) primarily looking for queen (6)
7 No good cat bites stray 24 (7)
8 Peristyle showing sign of listing disturbed Dean (9)
12 Reformer’s golden age described by viceroy in North (11)
13 One arranging publicity in the reptile world? (4,5)
15 7 let out by porter, perhaps (8)
17 Iniquitous acts in a novel (7)
19 Companion leaving mountain transport to provide help from
above (7)
20 Aussie runner’s enthralling cleavage upset judge (6)
22 Stand for don (4)