Day 5

Question 1

Who do these years’ Christmases represent? 

•1509 – 1532 (24)

•1533 – 1535 (3)

•1536 (1)

•1541 (1)

•1543 – 1546 (4)

Answers

Catherine of Aragon
Anne Boleyn
Jane Seymour
Catherine Howard
Catherine Parr

The Queen Consorts of Henry VIII, who were married to him at Christmas in these years. (Anne of Cleves’ marriage to him did not span any Christmas)

Question 2

Sort this grid into four groups of three connected names

Bond	Shadwell	Norton
Eastwood	Hordern	Potter
Whishaw	Beresford	Limehouse
Paddington	Craig	Zelensky

Answers

Children’s authors
Bond (Paddington)
Beresford (Wombles)
Potter (Beatrix)

Actors who’ve played unnamed leading roles
Craig XXXX in Layer Cake
Eastwood The Man with No Name in The Fistful of Dollars series (culminating with The Good, The Bad & The Ugly)
Norton The Narrator in Fight Club

Actors who’ve voiced Paddington Bear
Whishaw
Zelensky
Hordern (Shakespearean actor who did the voice for the original TV cartoon in the 70s)

Canal Basins in London
Paddington
Shadwell
Limehouse

Other valid groups have been duly considered

Question 3

Christmas Crackers

Answers

Serious answers:

• Jejunum – derived from Greek word meaning ‘empty’ or ‘fasting’. Déjeuner therefore literally means ‘un-fast’ or ‘break fast’. Déjeuner is the root for the English word ‘dinner’
• Clavicle – derived from a latin word meaning ‘little key’
• (Inter-laminar) epidurals – Lamina means sheet and are so named for their flatness as part of the posterior arch of the vertebrae

Alternative jokes were accepted if they made the Quizmasters chuckle

Question 4

The Drug Cupboard

Name the drug whose patent refers to it as ‘salt of the purging water’?

Answers

Magnesium Sulphate, by Dr. Grew, 1698. The first drug patent in Britain

‘The sedative for the cough’ – Bayer Pharmaceuticals, diacetylmorphine until 1912

Question 5

What happened at both these locations?

Answers

Miracles (on the Hudson, on 34th Street) or plane crashes