"Mixed Bag" February 2011 Answers
1. a. Basic / sick bay ; b. Welfare / farewell; c. Zero / rosy; d. Germaine / manger
2. a. 6 Strings on a guitar; b. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover; c. 4 Suits in a deck of cards; d. 1 Giant Leap for Mankind; e. 9 Lives of a Cat; f. 7 colours in the rainbow; g. 206 bones in the human body; h. 13 stripes on the American flag; i. 76 trombones in the big parade.
3. a. Late date; b. Glum plum; c. Current currant; d. Grape gripe
4. a. Anthony Perkins / Psycho; b. Anthony Hopkins / The Silence of the Lambs; c. Jack Nicholson / A Few Good Men
5. Calpurnia – Julius Caesar; Katharina – The Taming of the Shrew; Iago – Othello; Prospero – The Tempest
6. a. Enterprise; b. Rouseabout; c. Rudiments
7. A mirror
8. a. Pupils / slipup; b. Regal / lager; c. Snoops / spoons; d. Straw / warts
9. MARGE LETS NORAH SEE SHARON’S TELEGRAM. NO MISSES ORDERED ROSES, SIMON.
10. a. Chelsea; b. Aston Villa; c. Southampton; d. West Ham United