Answers VI

Answers to the lost lockdown quiz. Questions are repeated, so that you can use this page for a read-out quiz if you like.

Warm-up

  1. Which Scottish football team plays at Ibrox Stadium?
    • Rangers
  2. What name is given to the song used as the personal anthem of the US President, used to accompany his appearance?
    • “Hail to the Chief”
  3. Which fact-checking and urban legend website is named after a family in the works of the author William Faulkner?
    • Snopes
  4. What was the name of the revolutionary organisation founded in 1765 by Samuel Adams? It is name-checked in the musical Hamilton owing to Hercules Mulligan’s involvement.
    • Sons of Liberty
  5. Which British sitcom features, in its opening sequence, the title character dropping out of the sky in a beam of light, while a choir sings “Ecce homo qui est faba”?
    • Mr. Bean
  6. What is the surname of Phileas, the protagonist in Around the World in Eighty Days?
    • Fogg
  7. Which 2004 book by author David Mitchell, set across six different timelines, was made into a film by the Wachowskis?
    • Cloud Atlas
  8. What name is given to a type of connection found on much Apple hardware that was developed by Intel? Its third iteration uses the same socket as USB-C.
    • Thunderbolt
  9. Which London theatre, next to Leicester Square tube station, has recently seen productions of Fleabag and The Catherine Tate Show Live? In the 1970s, it was where the musical Godspell made its West End debut.
    • Wyndham’s Theatre
  10. By what nickname was the Northern Irish snooker player Alex Higgins best known?
    • “Hurricane”

Hidden theme: all start with the sounds of weather phenomena.

Guess the performer

Which artist (solo artist or band) had albums with these titles?

  1. Revolver, Rubber Soul, Abbey Road
    • The Beatles
  2. B’Day, I Am… Sasha Fierce, 4
    • Beyoncé
  3. The Black Album, 4:44, Reasonable Doubt
    • Jay-Z
  4. Dark & Wild, Wings, Map of the Soul: 7
    • BTS
  5. Honky Château, Reg Strikes Back, Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player
    • Elton John
  6. Choke, Miaow, Quench
    • The Beautiful South
  7. Hot Fuss, Day & Age, Battle Born
    • The Killers
  8. Employment, Yours Truly, Angry Mob, Duck
    • Kaiser Chiefs
  9. Foxy Lady, It’s a Man’s World, not.com.mercial
    • Cher
  10. Made in the A.M., Take Me Home, Four
    • One Direction

Numbers round

Perform the stated operation and write down the answer.

  1. The number of Wonders of the Ancient World, minus the traditional number of hills of Rome
    • 0 (7−7)
  2. The number of lines of the London Underground, plus the number of stations on the Monopoly board
    • 15 (11+4)
  3. The number of Spice Girls, times the number of KFC’s secret herbs and spices
    • 55 (5×11)
  4. The number of possible four-digit PINs, divided by the number of UK banks that can issue banknotes
    • 1,250 (10,000÷8)
  5. The total number of digits belonging to (human) residents of 742 Evergreen Terrace
    • 80 (16 per person, 5 people)
  6. In film titles, the difference between the number of Angry Men and the number of Men and a Baby (not counting the baby)
    • 9 (12−3)
  7. The total, in the works of Shakespeare, of the number of households “alike in dignity”, the number of Gentlemen of Verona, and the number of witches in Macbeth
    • 7 (2+2+3)
  8. The number of tiles in an English-language Scrabble set, divided by the number of types of bonus square on the board
    • 25 (100÷4)
  9. The median of the ages referenced in songs called “Happy Birthday Sweet ____” by Neil Sedaka, “When I’m ____” by the Beatles, and “____ Years” by Lukas Graham
    • 16 (16, 64 and 7)
  10. The highest common factor of the number of states in the US and the number of member states in the UN
    • 1 (50 and 193)

Theme round: Oxford

  1. Including the new Parks College, how many colleges does the University of Oxford have?
    • 39
  2. In which suburb of Oxford would you find a shark protruding from the roof of a building?
    • Headington
  3. Oxford United FC, as of the suspended 2019–20 football season, play in which division?
    • EFL League One (the old third division)
  4. The Oxford and the Cowley were models of car made by which manufacturer?
    • Morris Motors
  5. G&D’s is a chain of Oxford ice-cream shops, all called George and ____. What are the three names that can fill in the blank?
    • Davis, Danver and Delilah
  6. “Mousecatcher Lane” is an old name for which central Oxford thoroughfare?
    • Catte Street
  7. Oxfords are a type of what kind of article of clothing? They are characterised by having eyelet tabs attached under the vamp.
    • Shoes
  8. The Oxford Down is a breed of which farm animal?
    • Sheep
  9. Name a word before which you might find an Oxford comma in a sentence.
    • “and” or “or”
  10. In the film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, featuring the songs of ABBA, a young Donna Sheridan is shown graduating from which Oxford college in 1979? (In reality, the college did not admit women until later that year.)
    • New College