Blockbusters - Quiz Book 9

**Blockbusters - Quiz Book 9** is a UK book publisher by Sphere Books Limited on 1989.

## Quiz 1

M: What 'M' was the most successful female singer of 1988 in the UK?

O: What 'O' is underwater hockey?

K: What 'K' was Japan's capital before Tokyo?

D: What 'D' are people who can discover water?

J: What 'J' is an internationally traded 'soft' com-modity?

P: What 'P' found chart success with 'Third From the Sun'?

H: What 'H' is the natural home of a plant or animal?

W: What 'W' is pale or colourless?

F: What 'F' is a Spanish dance that rhymes with tango?

B: What 'B' was once a frothy liquid - and now means nonsense?

L: What 'L' is the Crocodile River?

S: What 'S' comes before screen, worm and stockings?

T: What 'T' is a drying cloth for the body?

R: What 'R' is a popular literary digest?

C: What 'C' is a fairy-tale, pantomime and major ballet?

E: What 'E' means tending to excite emotion?

A: What 'A' was the greatest of the ancient Greek city-states?

V: What 'V' is a brand of petroleum jelly?

G: What 'G' is to choke?

N: What 'N' is a small metal spike that holds things together?

### Solution: Puzzle 1

M: Minogue (Kylie); O: Octopush; K: Kyoto; D: Diviners' J: Jute: P: Prong; H: Habitat; W: Wan; F: Fandango; B: Balderdash; L: Limpopo; S: Slik; T: Towel; R: Reader's; C: *Cinderella;* E: Emotive; A: Athens; V: Vaseline; G: Gag; N: Nail.

## Quiz 2

C: What 'C' was discovered by Columbusin 1492?

I: What 'I' means on the condition, or supposing?

N: What 'N' is spruce, trim or neat and tidy?

O: What 'O' had a 1989 rock hit with 'Shell Shock'?

F: What 'F' is a large cider bottle with ear-shaped handles?

K: What 'K' are the Royal Botanical Gardens?

A: What 'A' is an emotive state of fear or appre-hension?

P: What 'P' was the original host of *Desert Island Discs*?

D: What 'D' is a German 'badger-dog'?

J: What 'J' is John?

B: What 'B' is government by written rules and a hierarchy of officials?

Q: What 'Q' is the opposite of dead?

H: What 'H' is a documentary series on BBC2?

L: What 'L' comes after Martin - and before Vandros?

S: What 'S' is advertising jargon for an exclamation Mark?

R: What 'R' means smelling or tasting like stale fat?

E: What 'E' is the Cheltenham plasterer who ski-jumped to fame?

M: What 'M' is to mutilate or cripple?

T: What 'T' is an alcoholic drink made from cactus?

W: What 'W' is an English and Welsh river that flows into the Severn?

### Solution: Puzzle 2

C: Cuba; I: If; N: Natty; O: Onslaught; F: Flagon; K: Kew; A: Anxiety; P: Plomley (Roy); D: Dachshund; J; Jack; B: Bureaucracy; Q: Quick; H: Horizon; L: Luther; S: Screamer; R: Rancid; E; Edwards (Eddie); M: Maim; T: Tequila; w; Wye.

## Quiz 3

G: What 'G' sacked Rome in 390 B.C.?

Z: What 'Z' is the world's smallest animal?

A: What 'A' had nine number one singles in the UK charts?

T: What 'T' is the act of clipping and trimming trees?

V: What 'V' comes before display unit?

S: What 'S' is to pass slowly through pores or fine openings?

U: What 'U' is the northernmost of the historic pro-inces of Ireland?

B: What 'B' is a drink?

E: What 'E' is a geometric figure having all sides of equal length?

N: What 'N' is an unskilled labourer?

I: What 'I' is a deep blue colour?

L: What 'L' is a children's building toy?

P: What 'P' was Elvis Presley's wife?

C: What 'C' is a blue-white metal resemling tin?

H: What 'H' describes days of peace and calm?

F: What 'F' is a kind of small shrill flute?

D: What 'D' means to make a god of?

M: What 'M' is equally far from two extremes?

J: What 'J' is a spirit in Muslim mythology able to assume human shape?

R: What 'R' is far removed or out of the way?

### Solution: Puzzle 3

G: Gauls; Z: Zorilla; A: Abba; T: Topiary; V: Visual; S: Seep; U: Ulster; B: Beverage; E: Equilateral; N: Navvy; I: Indigo; L: Leggo; P: Priscilla; C: Cadmium; H: Halcyon; F: Fife; D: Deify; M: Mean; J: Jinn; R: Remote.