1984 Christmas Quiz

All Sections

SECTION 1 - How are these 'Dynamic Duos' better known?

1) Albert and Harold?

2) Dave and Ken?

3) Chris and Mary Beth?

4) Phil and Don?

5) Richard and Oscar?

6) William Schenk and Arthur Seymor?

7) Evadne and Hilda?

8) Dan and Dick?

9) Bob and Terry?

10) Dennis and Jeff?

SECTION 2 - Who or What

1) is regulus regulus?

2) covered Chrysomallus?

3) was christened Auric?

4) was Alfred Bernhard's literary beneficiary in 1983?

5) is home to seagulls?

6) was formerly a pelican?

7) is one percent mercuric oxide?

8) is the major work of Joseph B Strauss?

9) are second at Cambridge?

10) incurred ursine disfavour?

SECTION 3 - Decipher

1) MASH?

2) BOSS?

3) ORACLE?

4) PICKUP?

5) FOREST?

6) AGHAST?

7) CARD?

8) SHAPE?

9) RAGE?

10) CREEP?

SECTION 4 - What

1) censors?

2) slims?

3) conceals?

4) incarcerates?

5) wipes?

6) aligns?

7) reverses?

8) derides?

9) photographs?

10) supports?

SECTION 5 - Whose autobiography is

1) Past Imperfect?

2) This Time Next Week?

3) A Postillion Struck by Lightning?

4) The Sport of Queens?

5) Sparks Fly?

6) Clinging to the Wreckage?

7) Flashbacks?

8) I Don't Bruise Easily?

9) I Remember it Well?

10) It Ain't Necessarily So?

SECTION 6 - Who

1) is twinned with a hammer-wielder?

2) chronicled Mr Wu?

3) was a paternal acquaintance?

4) shares an emblem with Geneva?

5) is O'Dowd?

6) was Mary Ann Evans?

7) inspired mural claims of inculpability?

8) admitted culpabiluty for unwanted truncation?

9) wrote 'He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches'?

10) caused maidenly lamentation?

SECTION 7 - What work suggested

1) minimal entertainment?

2) rodent clamour?

3) self-centred satisfaction?

4) marriage?

5) elasticity?

6) closed competition?

7) celestial covering?

8) medical perversion?

9) speculation?

10) vulpine pursuit?

SECTION 8 - Who is or was

1) Sebastian Dangerfield?

2) Thomas Jerome Newton?

3) Steve Austin?

4) Howard Kirk?

5) Gregory Syme?

6) John Merrick?

7) Francisco Scaramanga?

8) Napoleon Solo?

9) Jack Crabb?

10) Tom Domiphon?

SECTION 9 - Who, what, or where

1) saw Pinkie's demise?

2) is by Augustus Toplady?

3) is dogfish in disguise?

4) showed disappearing schoolgirls?

5) is Bobby's catchphrase?

6) is Roy's Scherer?

7) was annexed in 1955?

8) is Mrs Balboa's prodigious progeny?

9) gaurds the Calf?

10) featured in Blackboard Jungle?

SECTION 10 - Of whom are they speaking?

1) 'He thinks too much : such men are dangerous'?

2) 'She ran the whole gamut of the emotions from A to B'?

3) 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know'?

4) 'A modest little man with much to be modest about'?

5) 'Never played a Christian stroke in his life'?

6) 'Hasn't an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him'?

7) 'He has Van Googh's ear for music'?

8) 'He always has an alibi and one or two to space'?

9) 'If (he) was a chocolate drop, he would eat himself'?

10) 'When his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it'?

For answers, see answers to ALL sections