Day: March 18, 2015

1. A. Michael Douglas; B. Sting; C. (Old Time) Dancing; D. Africa; E. Tasmania; F. Princes, Highway 1 or Geelong Road / Western, Highway 8, or Ballarat Road

2. Endeavour and Resolution

3. Silicon Valley

4. Treasure Island

5. February 2005

6. Giant Spider

7. The Kelly Gang shot three policemen

8. Betty (Cooper), Veronica (Lodge)

9. Beijing (formerly Peking)

10. Zambesi

HARDER:

11. Punctation combining exclamation mark and question mark. 

12. Originally Punctuation marks, but used for Fast Forward or Reverse symbols.

13. Cross Country running

14. All bushrangers

15. Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia

16. Aircraft escape slide

17. Infection from being bitten by a pet monkey

18. Starved himself to death

19. Frederick, hit by a cricket ball

20. Henry Fonda, Kathryn Hepburn

1. Garbled use of the English language, from Mrs Malaprop in a play by Sheridan

2. Michael Keaton – Michael Douglas; Angie Dickinson – Angeline Brown; Judy Garland – Frances Ethel Gumm; Bono – Paul Hewson; Brigitte Bardot – Camille Javal; Ben Kingsley – Krishna Bhanji; Meg Ryan – Margaret Hyra; Cary Grant – Archibald Leach

3. Baht

4. Don Beach

5. Frankenstein

6. Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer

7. They derive from real people’s names

8. Frederick Forsyth

9. Either inert gases or noble gases

10. Bob the Builder

HARDER:

11. The Jabberwock

12. 63

13. It’s shaped like a picnic basket

14. To honour Hawaii’s friendship with the British. NOTE: Hawaii was never a British possession.

15. Coppersmith / copper worker

16. Oldest Everest climber

17. The planet Venus

18. Prince Phillip / Duke of Edinburgh

19. The first shot in both wars was fired there

20. Kolkata (formerly Calcutta)

1. Any four of: Senegal, Swaziland, South Africa, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Somalia

2. David Niven – The Moon’s A Balloon; Peter Ustinov – Dear Me; Errol Flynn – My Wicked, Wicked Ways; Michael Caine – What’s It All About?; Peter Fonda – Don’t Tell Dad; Leonard Nimoy – I Am Not Spock; Sir Alec Guinness – The Diary of a Retiring Actor

3. Trevor Chappell

4. Carp

5. George and Mildred (Roper)

6. Scrabble

7. Alfred

8. North America (American Civil War)

9. Klute (1971); Coming Home (1978)

10. Poseidon
HARDER: (YOU MIGHT WANT TO LOOK THESE UP)

11. Seventh Day Adventist

12. Turkish Delight

13. Schaffhausen is in (then neutral) Switzerland, not Germany

14. Albert Einstein & Leo Szilard, Refrigerator

15. To get him elected to Parliament / political reasons / or similar

16. 8

17. Nebraska

18. TV Themes (Inspector Morse / Lewis / Endeavour)

19. Surveying the D Day beaches

20. Victoria

1. A. Loch Dub (Lock doob); B. Gretna Green; C. Brigadoon

2. Rum, Pineapple juice, Coconut flavour

3. Jupiter

4. Fred Bassett

5. Chile

6. A woman scorned

7. Mickey Mouse

8. Edgar Allen Poe

9. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

10. Brisbane

HARDER:

11. Watergate’s “Deep Throat”

12. Plato

13. 1992

14. (roughly) cubic

15. 22

16. Games of Chess

17. 158

18. 29 years 5 months

19. Guinea

20. First solo return trip to the South Pole