A NEW Quiz and the answers to the PREVIOUS WEEKS Quiz will be posted every Saturday
Quiz 30 – It’s a Puzzle to me
All the questions relate to TV quiz programs or panel games, some you may have forgotten, others you may wish you had!
Section 1, the 1950’s
1. Hughie Green hosted without any hitch.
2. From a selection you have to select the correct tool to break up tarmac.
Section 2, the 1960’S
3. Mum, dad and the kids are on the receiving end of the questions in this quiz.
4. A panel game of true and false definitions.
Section 3, the 1970’s
5. In one episode of this quiz, a long stick mike was bent by Kenny Everett.
6. Isla St Clair was a co-
7. Bargains all the way as the prices are as low as this just once in a 100 years.
Section 4, the 1980’s
8. Daft clues, a receptacle for rubbish and a neat hand move by the host can only mean one thing.
9. Two against one was never fair to me, but it did allow Johnny No Mates to compete.
10. The odds are against you, especially if you get the first two questions wrong.
11. A board game of the same name bore no resemblance of this TV quiz, which is still on.
Section 5, the 1990’s
12. Several three cornered football matches perhaps?
13. Despite the name it does not mean a clean shop when the programme is over.
14. A question, a cough, a scandal.
Section 6, 2000 onwards
15. Do you need running shoes to be a contestant on this quiz?
16. What links, what’s next and a wall all feature is this fiendish quiz.
17. OXO may have been first, but inside this one; cash was there to be won.
18. On the edge a fall leads to golden success.
19. Like a useless pencil.
20. Where the chain fails.
Quiz 29 – Words or phrases containing a double ‘P’ -
1. A type of bed eaten on Thanksgiving day -
2. In the past an officer in attendance at a court to execute orders -
3. Your double is yours even if you’ve never met -
4. A food or vitamin that helps a natural deficiency -
5. A large woodland in Essex -
6. In sea mammals a limb that has adapted to aid swimming -
7. A herring that’s a bit browned off -
8. A ghost or phantom -
9. A metallic element that together with zinc produces brass -
10. The old name for a Roller Coaster -
11. A common spice and condiment -
12. Snoop dog for instance? -
13. Derogatory name for a woman of loose morels -
14. A private in the Royal Engineers -
15. It hits the bell to make it ring -
16. A breed of dog similar to a greyhound -
17. A popular childs bicycle of the seventies -
18. An insect that chirps by rubbing its wing coverings together -
19. A fish common off the east coast of America -
20. The name of an early sanitation engineer which seemed very appropriate! -