Thursday 3 July 2008

Week 8 - The Link Round

1. Name the 1968 movie made by Walt Disney that starred a white Volkswagen Beetle named Herbie.

2. What is the connection between the character played by Alan Alda in the TV Series ‘M.A.S.H.’ and the character played by Daniel Day-Lewis in ‘The Last of the Mohicans’

3. In the Post War period Ireland have won it once and Scotland only twice; England have won fewer times than Wales who have claimed it seven times; only France have won it more times. What is it?

4. What, in military terminology, is the term for a simultaneous discharge of weapons?

5. In the which 1942 film written by and starring Noel Coward is the story told in flash backs by survivors clinging to a life raft?

6. Which stadium is named after an early French aviator and a fighter aircraft pilot who, during World War I, was the first man to fly a plane over the Mediterranean Sea?

7. In 1963 the Beach Boys sang about a 1932 Ford Model B; what was the name of the song?

8. Originating from the French Revolution and still used on French coins the motto ‘Liberté, fraternité’ is missing which third element?

9. Where do Tomsk and Madame Cholet live?

10. What does the robot in the picture advertise?

1 comments:

snorrisson said...

1. The Love Bug (a tennis score)
2. Hawkeye - Captain Benjamin Franklin ‘Hawkeye’ Pierce and Nathaniel Poe – Hawkeye
(Hawkeye is the equipment used to assist line-calls)
3. Grand Slam (Rugby Union)
(Tennis Grand Slam: US, Australian + Wimbledon & Roland Garros)
4. Volley (a tennis stroke)
5. In Which We Serve (a tennis stroke)
6. Roland Garros (where the French Open is played)
7. Little Deuce Coupe (a tennis score)
8. Egalité (a tennis score – French for Deuce)
9. Wimbledon Common -They are Wombles (The UK Open)
10. Cadbury’s Smash (a tennis stroke)