Saturday, January 09, 2010

WINTER QUIZ: ANSWERS PART ONE


By the way this is post number 900 since September 2006!
The photo is very old but the weather out there is similar today.
Congratulations to those visitors, who were brave and intelligent enough to enter the quiz.
In third place came England, in second place but not by much was Texas, and in first place was British Columbia. Your prizes will be in the post when this old age pensioner can dig his way out of the snow and ice.
Here are the answers to questions 1 -5.

1] Who said 'Send him to gaol, and you make him a gaol bird for life. Besides it is the season of forgiveness.'

Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.

2] Which crime writer, and which actor in a crime series, are never odd or even?

I admit this was a nasty one. The key phrase was 'never odd or even' which is a palindrome [ a word or phrase that reads the same backward or forward].
The answer was the crime writer Sophie Hannah, and the actor in Rebus, John Hannah.

3] How would a minister of religion, a word puzzle, a type of code and an aperture be useful in a murder investigation?

Charlie PRIEST, John REBUS, Endeavour MORSE, and Harry HOLE are all detectives.

4] A famous crime novel begins with the following sentence fill in the gaps and name the novel.

'Some women give birth to MURDERERS, some go to bed with them and some MARRY them.'

From Before the Fact by Francis Iles.

5] Grace Kelly starred in the film Rear Window, and Catherine Deneuve starred in the film Mississippi Mermaid [la Sirene du Mississippi].
What is the connection between these two films, apart from having two very beautiful women as stars?

Both films were based on stories by Cornell Woolrich. [It Had To Be Murder and Waltz into Darkness]
[to be continued]

4 Comments:

Blogger Dorte H said...

Congratulations to the winners!

I can see I had a chance on questions 1, 4, 5, and part of question 3, but I am not Morse (who would certainly have got question 2).

6:00 AM  
Blogger Uriah Robinson said...

Dorte, question 2 was a bit of a stinker. I have to admit did not know what a palindrome was until I read about President Carlos Menem of Argentina back in 1994. A palindromic name is supposed to be lucky, although not for some Argentines during his presidency.

1:18 PM  
Blogger Maxine Clarke said...

Hi Norman, I left a congratulatory comment here yesterday but Blogger must have eaten it, sorry.

Well done on an excellent part 1. (And an excellent part 2!)

7:29 AM  
Blogger Uriah Robinson said...

Thanks Maxine.

8:17 AM  

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