Day 15 - Anagrams of foods 1. Sugared Ambulances (Delicious with mash) - Cumberland sausages 2. Upbeat Nutter (Something to put on toast) - Peanut Butter 3. As Angel (layered Italian dish) – Lasagne 4. God hunt (Round bun) - Doughnut 5. Find his Chaps (a seaside staple) – Fish and Chips 6. No Handy Car (a wine variety) - Chardonnay 7. To Riots (Rice dish) - Risotto 8. Tie Coat Peg (a British classic) - Cottage Pie 9. Shocker in act (Sunday meal) - Roast Chicken 10. Churns Boots (Easter treat) - Hot Cross Bun 11. Past Eight (Italian) - Spaghetti 12. Loc Toothache (Something to enjoy whilst skiing) - Hot Chocolate 13. Sieved Gits (Type of biscuit) - Digestives 14. Green Faff Boots (meat dish) - Beef Stroganoff 15. Bear Bandana (Something everyone has been making in lockdown) - Banana Bread 16. Deskman Looms (Type of fish) - Smoked Salmon 17. We Barristers (Type of fruit) - Strawberries 18. Kindred Pug Sir Hoy (the best accompaniment to Sunday) - Yorkshire Pudding 19. PM Ganache (Alcoholic drink) - Champagne 20. Noticing Dan (an essential evening drink) - Gin and Tonic Day 16 – Games 1. In contract Bridge, how many points do you need to make game? 100 2. What are the colours of the four balls in croquet? Blue, red, yellow, black 3. How many Triple Word Scores are there on a scrabble board? 8 4. Name three of the character pieces in Cluedo. Professor Plum, Colonel Mustard, Mrs White, Miss Scarlet, Mrs Peacock, Reverend Green 5. In Monopoly, which property makes up the yellow set along with Leicester Square and Picadilly? Coventry Street 6. In what early computer game did you navigate a maze eating dots and being chased by ghosts? PacMan 7. What is the only piece in chess that remains on its own colour? Bishop 8. How many dice would you find in a normal backgammon set? 5 (2 pairs of dice and a doubling dice) 9. How many numbers (excluding zeros) would you find on a roulette wheel? 36 10. What is the maximum possible break in snooker? 147 11. On a darts board, what number lies between the 14 and the 12? 9 12. In 10 pin bowling, what is it called when (a) you knock over all the pins in one throw and (b) you knock over all the pins in two throws? (a) Strike (b) Spare 13. In table football, how many “strikers” does each team have? 3 14. What card game does James Bond teach Solitaire in Live and Let Die? Gin Rummy
Transcript
Day 15 - Anagrams of foods
1. Sugared Ambulances (Delicious with mash) - Cumberland sausages 2. Upbeat Nutter (Something to put on toast) - Peanut Butter 3. As Angel (layered Italian dish) – Lasagne 4. God hunt (Round bun) - Doughnut 5. Find his Chaps (a seaside staple) – Fish and Chips 6. No Handy Car (a wine variety) - Chardonnay 7. To Riots (Rice dish) - Risotto 8. Tie Coat Peg (a British classic) - Cottage Pie 9. Shocker in act (Sunday meal) - Roast Chicken 10. Churns Boots (Easter treat) - Hot Cross Bun 11. Past Eight (Italian) - Spaghetti 12. Loc Toothache (Something to enjoy whilst skiing) - Hot Chocolate 13. Sieved Gits (Type of biscuit) - Digestives 14. Green Faff Boots (meat dish) - Beef Stroganoff 15. Bear Bandana (Something everyone has been making in lockdown) - Banana Bread 16. Deskman Looms (Type of fish) - Smoked Salmon 17. We Barristers (Type of fruit) - Strawberries 18. Kindred Pug Sir Hoy (the best accompaniment to Sunday) - Yorkshire Pudding 19. PM Ganache (Alcoholic drink) - Champagne 20. Noticing Dan (an essential evening drink) - Gin and Tonic
Day 16 – Games
1. In contract Bridge, how many points do you need to make game? 100
2. What are the colours of the four balls in croquet? Blue, red, yellow, black
3. How many Triple Word Scores are there on a scrabble board? 8
4. Name three of the character pieces in Cluedo. Professor Plum, Colonel Mustard,
Mrs White, Miss Scarlet, Mrs Peacock, Reverend Green
5. In Monopoly, which property makes up the yellow set along with Leicester Square
and Picadilly? Coventry Street
6. In what early computer game did you navigate a maze eating dots and being chased
by ghosts? PacMan
7. What is the only piece in chess that remains on its own colour? Bishop
8. How many dice would you find in a normal backgammon set? 5 (2 pairs of dice and a
doubling dice)
9. How many numbers (excluding zeros) would you find on a roulette wheel? 36
10. What is the maximum possible break in snooker? 147
11. On a darts board, what number lies between the 14 and the 12? 9
12. In 10 pin bowling, what is it called when (a) you knock over all the pins in one throw
and (b) you knock over all the pins in two throws? (a) Strike (b) Spare
13. In table football, how many “strikers” does each team have? 3
14. What card game does James Bond teach Solitaire in Live and Let Die? Gin Rummy
15. How many squares are there on a regular sudoku puzzle (ie how many boxes where
you put numbers!)? 81
16. What computer game inspired the movie starring Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft? Tomb
Raider
17. What number is being referred to in Bingo if “Two Fat Ladies” is called? 88
18. What comes between a Straight and a Full House in Poker? A Flush
19. What is the name of the target ball in Boules? The Jack
20. In which popular playground game do players toss a small object into a numbered
rectangular grid drawn on the ground and then jump through the spaces to retrieve
it? Hop Scotch
Day 17 – Famous places
1. Petra (Jordan) 2. The Rialto (Venice)
3. The Great Wall of China 4. Machu Pichu (Peru)
5. Mont Saint Michel (Brittany, France) 6. Angkor Wat (Cambodia)
7. St Basil’s Cathedral (Moscow) 8. Abu Simbel (Egypt)
9. Chichen Itza (Mexico) 10. The Louvre (Paris)
11. Sydney Opera House 12. Hagia Sophia (Istanbul)
13. Tiger’s Nest Monastery (Bhutan) 14. Temple Mount (Jerusalem)
15. Lincoln Memorial (Washington) 16. Potala Palace (Lhasa, Tibet)
17. Sugarloaf Mountain (Rio de Janiero) 18. Parliament Building (Budapest)
19. The Lake Palace (Udaipur, India) 20. The Acropolis (Athens)
Day 18 – Lyrics 1 Mama, just killed a man Put a gun against his head Pulled my trigger, now he's dead Queen ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ 2 It's late in the evening; she's wondering what clothes to wear She puts on her make-up and brushes her long blonde hair And then she asks me, Do I look all right? Eric Clapton ‘Wonderful Tonight’ 3 Dennis is a menace with his "anyone for tennis?" And beseeching me to come and keep the score And Maud saya "Oh Lord! I'm so terribly bored!" I really can't stand it anymore Chris de Burgh ‘Patricia the Stripper’ 4 You, you may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you will join us And the world will be as one John Lennon ‘Imagine’ 5 Through these fields of destruction Baptisms of fire I've witnessed your suffering As the battle raged high Dire Straits ‘Brothers in Arms’ 6 Every move you make, and every vow you break Every smile you fake, every claim you stake, I'll be watching you Police ‘Every Breath You Take’ 7 Buying bread from a man in Brussels He was six-foot-four and full of muscle I said, "Do you speak-a my language?" He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich Men At Work ‘Down Under’ 8 'Cause if you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it Beyoncé ‘Single Ladies’ 9 Thunder only happens when it's raining Players only love you when they're playing Fleetwood Mac ‘Dreams’ 10 Some of them want to use you Some of them want to get used by you Some of them want to abuse you Some of them want to be abused Eurythmics ‘Sweet Dreams’
11 A long long time ago I can still remember how That music used to make me smile Don Maclean ‘American Pie’ 12 So you're a tough guy Like it really rough guy Just can't get enough guy Chest always so puffed guy Billie Eilish ‘Bad Guy’ 13 I'm in love with your body And last night you were in my room And now my bedsheets smell like you Every day discovering something brand new Ed Sheeran ‘The Shape of You’ 14 Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth Pharrell Williams ‘Happy’ 15 And I would have liked to have known you But I was just a kid Your candle burned out long before Your legend ever did Elton John ‘Candle in the Wind’ 16 I wish nothing but the best for you, too "Don't forget me, " I beg "I'll remember, " you said Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead Adele ‘Someone Like You’ 17 You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life, oooh see that girl, watch that scene ABBA ‘Dancing Queen’ 18 We don’t need no education, we don’t need no thought control, no dark sarcasm in the classroom Pink Floyd ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ 19 It’s Christmas time, There’s no need to be afraid, At Christmas time We let in light and we banish shade Band Aid ‘Do they know it’s Christmas?’ 20 The warden threw a party in the county jail, The prison band were there and they began to wail, The band was jumpin’ and the joint began to swing, You should’ve heard them knocked-out jailbirds sing Elvis Presley ‘Jailhouse Rock’
Day 19 – Nature
1. The blackthorn bush grows which fruit, sometimes used to flavour gin? Sloe
2. Which infamous tree disease has killed millions of elm trees in the UK? Dutch Elm
Disease
3. Which mammal, indigenous to the UK, is the badge of Hufflepuff House in Harry
Potter? Badger
4. Which flower is the traditional heraldic emblem of England? Tudor Rose
5. Morphine is a painkiller deriving from which plant? It is an opiate so derives from
the opium poppy
6. Which herbivorous mammal has a name which derives from the ancient Greek
meaning ‘river horse’? Hippopotamus
7. Insects (or Ectognatha) have a three-part body. What are the names of the three
parts? Head, thorax, abdomen
8. Bluefaced Leicester, Greyface Dartmoor, Swaledale and Welsh Mountain are all
breeds of which animal? Sheep
9. What are the only mammals which are capable of true and sustained flight? Bats
10. What kind of fish was Nemo in Disney’s Finding Nemo? Clownfish
11. What colour are the flowers of oilseed rape? Yellow
12. What do the following birds all have in common: emu, penguin, kiwi? None of them
can fly
13. Where might you find the following venomous spiders: Huntsman, funnel-web, trap
door, recluse? Australia
14. Why would hydrangea flowers turn pink? Because the plant has been situated in
alkaline soil.
15. Do polar bears live in the Arctic, the Antarctic or both? Just the Arctic
16. Fermenting and distilling what ingredient can leave you with rum? Sugarcane
17. Unusually which male sea creature carries and looks after the young? Seahorse
18. What animal is a Steinbock? Species of wild goat (sometimes see them in Klosters)
19. What is a baby hare called? Leveret
20. The fingerprints of which animal are so undisguisable from our own that they have
been on occasion confused at a crime scene? Koala bear
Day 20 – Quotations
1. “I have a dream” Martin Luther King
2. “Insanity: doing something over and over again and expecting different results”
Albert Einstein
3. “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind” Neil Armstrong
4. “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that
is his.” Oscar Wilde
5. “I came, I saw, I conquered” Julius Caesar
6. “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”
John F Kennedy
7. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” Muhammed Ali
8. “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety nine percent perspiration” Thomas Edison
9. “Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong” Mahatma Gandhi
10. “Big brother is watching you” George Orwell
11. “I want to be alone” Greta Garbo
12. “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”
Winston Churchill
13. “If music be the food of love, play on” William Shakespear
14. “The bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Willey” Brian Johnston
15. “The Lady’s not for turning” Margaret Thatcher
16. “I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member” Groucho Marx
17. “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants” Isaac
Newton
18. “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart
people so they can tell us what to do” Steve Jobs
19. “I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and
at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you don’t
deserve me at my best” Marilyn Monroe
20. “I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and
