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Written by Robert Girvan   

question_mark_3.jpgHitchin Priory Club has just had another successful quiz, selling getting on for 3000 quiz sheets at £1 each in aid of the Lymphoma Association and other Rotary charities.  Some 300 entries were received by the closing date, with only one 100% correct answer.  Prizes are being sent out shortly.

For those who attempted the quiz, here are the answers.

 

1

Connector between ankle and knee bones (3,4)

from the spiritual “dem bones”)

Leg bone

2

Part of a pop group in the kidneys (6)

Stones

3

Take on responsibility (like Atlas) (8)

Shoulder

4

Circulates, containing flat-screen TV(5)

The answer is not plasma -  blood contains plasma

Blood

5

West End show (4)

Hair

6

A hill cabin affects the extremities (9) anagram

Chilblain

7

If it’s numbskull, you’re dim (5)

Skull

8

Parts of a circle rearranged (4) anagram of arcs

Scar

9

Adam’s spare one (3)

Rib

10

Between the hands and the bumps (5) nursery rhyme

Knees

11

Part of a shoe (6)

Tongue

12

A plumber’s joint (5)

Elbow

13

Causes everyone to fall after circular dance (6)

nursery rhyme - not tissue (a’tishoo) or plague

Sneeze

14

Horner’s appendage (5) another nursery rhyme

Thumb

15

A Euro in a station (8) St Pancras + E

Pancreas

16

Maize (4)

Corn

17

A closer shave needed if this remains (7)

Stubble

18

The opposite end of a sick cow from its feet (5)

Mouth

19

Add nothing to become amusing (7)

Humerus

20

I hear Belgians enjoy them with frites (6)

Muscle

21

Slap here indicates mild displeasure (5)

Wrist

22

Honey maker in front of window cleaner’s steps (7)

Bladder

23

It’s in cockles and mussels, aliv’ alive O.(6)

Saliva

24

Lots in an organ (8)

Windpipe

25

Dog’s biters (6,5)

Canine Teeth

26

Cyrano’s narrow victory at Ascot (4)

Nose

27

A bit further ahead at Ascot(4)

Neck or head

28

Hungry Eve’s biggest mistake (5,5)

Adam’s Apple

29

An ass’s is a useful weapon, biblically (7)

Jawbone

30

Other people get on yours, annoyingly (6)

Nerves

31

By one’s cheek (4)

Jowl

32

A roof in one’s head (6) (the roof of your mouth)

Palate

33

Fencer’s weapon after type of charge(8,5)

Shoulder blade

34

Punctuation mark (5)

Colon

35

Dip it to test the temperature of the water (3)

Toe

36

Dr Who has two but you only have one (5)

Heart

37

Bottom (8)

Buttocks or backside

38

It likes to machinate (7)

Stomach

39

Where you keep your drawers (5)

Chest

40

Pierced for a ring (7) (also allowed eyebrow or nostril!!)

Earlobe

41

A small and unrepeated aberration in an otherwise consistent pattern. (6)

Hiccup

42

Spiteful bad temper (6)

Spleen

43

Pea or bean (5)

Pulse

44

Find it in colour in every drop(5)

Urine

45

Living veal (4)

Calf

46

In the bank, legs are supported (5)

Ankle

47

Useless bit at the end (8)

Appendix

48

Red-legged coastal bird without hydrogen (5) (Chough)

Cough

49

A penny before Mr Presley (6)

Pelvis

50

Sure sign of a Brit on the Costa (7)

Sunburn

 

51

Per Forster, it sounds like it should have a view (4)

(not Rheum)

Womb

52

The middle vital statistic (5)

Waist

53

Beckham’s fragile bit (10)

Metatarsal

54

Did Anne Boleyn have a 11th of these? (6)

Finger

55

Or a third one of these (6)

Nipple

56

Sounds like the lifeboat captain’s unwell (6)  Cox + sick

Coccyx

57

Jonah’s residence for three days (5)

Belly

58

Hesitation behind end of boat (7)

Sternum

59

Tear in to see with (6) (anagram)

Retina

60

Thetis’s son’s weak spot (8,6)

Achilles Tendon

61

Black and blue, then yellow (6)

Bruise

62

There was a pig over the impossible nest (5,3)

Swine Flu

63

Sunspots (8)

Freckles

64

It’s in us all (5)

Sinus

65

Shakespeare’s weaver (6)

Bottom

66

Peggy Lee had this all through the night (5)

Fever

67

Not high, but big-boned (5)

Thigh

68

Impetuous (4)

Rash

69

Beans in chilli (6)

Kidney

70

Its humours comes in black and yellow (4)

Bile

71

A glass one is useless for a boxer (4)

Chin

72

Get one up for a big step (3)

Leg

73

Fowl rash (7,3)

Chicken pox

74

Mix hart to get orifice (6)

Throat

75

Blinking fringe (7)

Eyelash

76

Behind you, from top to bottom (5)

Spine

77

More European money in a bowl (5) (bowl + E)

Bowel

78

Broken pane behind you (4) (anagram)

Nape

79

Not hot (4)

Cold

80

Cruel confusion causes pain (5) (anagram)

Ulcer

81

Second-rate movie precedes downpour (5)

Brain

82

Nelson’s upper singular asset (3)

Eye

83

Nelson’s lower singular asset (3)

Arm

84

Jenkins’s singular asset caused a war (3)

Ear

85

Gives voice to confused Ryan and 60 (LX) Romans (6) (anagram)

Larynx

86

This joint is cool, man (3)

Hip

87

It takes more than your 20 to make a bed (4)

Nail

88

A bird from Merseyside (5)

Liver

89

Sauciness (5)

Cheek

90

This fish is out of water (4) (not Sole - the lungfish is the only one that can breath out of water)

Lung

91

Part of a bridge under foot (4)

Arch

92

The connection between rack and pinion (5) (not joint)

Teeth or teeth

93

An addendum after mother (5)

Mumps

94

A Red Rum arrangement (7) (anagram)

Eardrum

95

Miss Murdoch’s tall flower (4)

Iris

96

Tear up your mac – ruin this head (7) (anagram)

Cranium

97

Not in the Army or RAF, but OK in the Navy (5)

Not navel or semen or hands

Beard

98

Greet the first lady of song on the head (7)

Patella

99

For blinking (6)

Eyelid

100

Alms see mixed spots (7) (anagram)

Measles

 

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 02 February 2010 )
 
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