General Knowledge A-to-Z Quiz

Sixty-five sheets were returned for marking of which 7 were 100% correct (including spelling) and the winner has been drawn from those 7. The lucky lady was Mary Ricks from Lydiard Millicent who has received a £25 M&S token.

I thank Pat Hughes for organising this event, which raised £228. This sum will go towards our sheet music collection. Thanks to all who took part.

Mary New, Musical Director - Sing for Four Community Choir.

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Answers

Aardman	........... Animations, The creators of Wallace & Gromit.
Brittain	The author of ‘Testament of Youth’.
Chrysanthemum	This flower is the crest of the Japanese Imperial Family.
Dickin	The PDSA Medal awarded to animals for gallantry.
Elgar	The composer of the ‘Enigma Variations’.
Fantasia	1940 classic Walt Disney film featuring classical music.
Gallifrey	Doctor Who’s home planet.
Hessian	A coarse strong fabric made from Jute or Hemp fibres.
Istanbul	City, formerly Constantinople.
Jutland	Major Naval battle of WW I.
Kwacha	The currency of Zambia.
Limpopo	The river featured in ‘The Elephant’s Child’, one of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Just So Stories’.
Marley	The Ghost who appeared to Scrooge in Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’.
Neolithic	The later Stone Age Period of Europe.
Origami	Japanese art of paper folding.
Pianissimo	A musical term meaning very soft. (Piano means just soft, not very soft.)
Quadragesima / Quadragesimal	The 40 days of Lent.
Redmayne	The surname of the actor playing Stephen Hawking in the film ‘The Theory of Everything’.
Stipend	Ecclesiastical salary.
Toast	Nigel Slater’s ‘Story of a Boy’s Hunger’.
Unicorn	A mythical beast with a single horn.
Vivaldi	Composer of ‘The Four Seasons’.
Warhol	Pop art painter, noted for soup cans.
Xanadu	Kublai Khan’s great capital and summer residence.
Yankee	This letter in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
Zephyr / Zephyrus	Greek God of The West Wind.