… OUR INTRODUCTION FROM ‘A THWARTED EXHIBITION’ of paintings by Leaf AND A QUIZ WITH A DIFFERENCE devised by Leaf and Sue
By Sue
We all need a break – down-time when we ‘down the tools’ of everyday life. Holidays in the West will be around now, July, August, September. Families gather, people go places and some of us stay home and chill out in the garden, if the weather is just right, or in the cool of the house if it isn’t.
WWW is taking a break from wordsmithing to bring two joint projects back to life.
In the spring of 2020, that unforgettable time when the great ‘Pandemic’ was about to be unleashed upon us, LEAF and I were planning two events. One was ‘A THWARTED EXHIBITION’ (published 2 weeks ago) and the other A QUIZ WITH A DIFFERENCE Parts One and Two (published last week).
We hope you had fun pitting your wits with the first two parts.
Here is PART THREE with some general knowledge questions to get you going:
Can you name Santa’s 8 reindeer?
There are 27 countries in the EU, can you name them?
These are the ingredients of popular (and delicious) cocktails! Would you know what to ask for?
WHISKY/DRY VERMOUTH/ANGOSTURA/CURAÇAO
GIN/LEMON JUICE/ SUGAR/EGG-WHITE
TEQUILA/ORANGE JUICE/GRENADINE
WHITE RUM/CREAM OF COCONUT /PINEAPPLE JUICE
AVOCAAT/LEMONADE/LIME JUICE or CORDIAL
BRANDY/SUGAR SYRUP/LEMON JUICE
GIN/LEMON JUICE/COINTREAU/EGG WHITE
MEDIUM SWEET CIDER/GUINNESS
AND FOR THE READERS AMONG YOU:
Here are EIGHT TRILOGIES – can you name the three books in each one?
‘GORMENGHAST’
Mervyn Peake (1940s)
‘THE COSMIC TRILOGY’
C.S. Lewis (1940’s)
‘THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY’
Isaac Asimov – (1950s)
‘THE LORD OF THE RINGS’
J R R Tolkein (1950s)
AND MORE RECENT:
‘HIS DARK MATERIALS’
Philip Pullman (1990s)
‘THE HUNGER GAMES’
Suzanne Collins (since 2000)
‘MILLENIUM’
Stieg Larson (since 2000)
‘THE BROKEN EARTH’
N.K. JEMISON (since 2015)
To round off this section, can you name the seven books of C.S. Lewis’s ‘CHRONICLES OF NARNIA’?
We hope you found these sufficiently challenging. As I said in the previous Quiz Post, we hadn’t organised a dummy-run when the Lockdown descended. Actually I imagine the difficulty level could have caused some disagreements! Crossing fingers you at least enjoyed pitting your wits and will want to carry on to ….
PART FOUR WHICH WILL FOLLOW IN THE NEXT EMAIL -
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