Quizzes and Games

Christine Blasey Ford


DESSAIE CRUSNOXIE CHOCA PRIT


short holiday?

Seaside Excursion Coach Trip.

LITICALPO STIONDICERP. (2 words - 9 & 11 letters.)


Clue: Jeremy Corbyn was making his usual wild promises yesterday.

Hi Dermot I'm stuck, all I've got is political something :-S

Answer: Political Predictions.

WANS GONS. (2 words - 4 letters each)

Clue: Mrs May can dance - but can Mr Corbyn sing?

Swan song



G5 T5 R7




Clue..... Pinch a ride

Oops sorry got the games mixed up :-S

Robert Bray Granite 3 words. 5-5-7





Clue.. Pinch a ride.

Great Train Robbery.

CCLEESLOIYGO. (One word).

Clue: Some church goers may study this when the sermon is boring.

Ecclesiology

SATAY LAD'S NIL (3,6,3)

Clue: November 1st

All Saints' Day.

RABSTEN EAS. (2 words - 7 & 3 letters.)

Clue: Full of plastic waste.

Barents Sea


WREECHING NAME ITEM (3 words: 8,4,4)

Clue: We return to this near the end of October

Greenwich Mean Time.

AAAEEGH SSSLN. ( 2 words - 7 & 5 letters).


Clue: 1979 Pulitzer Prize Winner.

Not an angram of any of the following..............were there other winners in 1979?

1979 Pulitzer Prizes
JOURNALISM
CATEGORY WINNERS
Public Service
Point Reyes Light, a California weekly
For its investigation of Synanon.

Local General or Spot News Reporting
Staff of San Diego (CA) Evening Tribune
For its coverage of the collision of a Pacific Southwest air liner with a small plane over its city.

Local Investigative Specialized Reporting
Gilbert M. Gaul and Elliot G. Jaspin of Pottsville (PA) Republican
For stories on the destruction of the Blue Coal Company by men with ties to organized crime.

National Reporting
James Risser of Des Moines Register
For a series on farming damage to the environment.

International Reporting
Richard Ben Cramer of The Philadelphia Inquirer
For reports from the Middle East.

Feature Writing
Jon D. Franklin of Baltimore Evening Sun
For an account of brain surgery.

Commentary
Russell Baker of The New York Times
Criticism
Paul Gapp of Chicago Tribune
Editorial Writing
Edwin M. Yoder Jr. of The Washington Star
Editorial Cartooning
Herbert L. Block of The Washington Post
For the body of his work.

Spot News Photography
Thomas J. Kelly III of Pottstown (PA) Mercury
For a series called "Tragedy on Sanatoga Road."

Feature Photography
Staff Photographers of Boston Herald American
For photographic coverage of the blizzard of 1978.

LETTERS, DRAMA & MUSIC
CATEGORY WINNERS
Fiction
The Stories of John Cheever, by John Cheever (Knopf)
Drama
Buried Child, by Sam Shepard
History
The Dred Scott Case, by Don E. Fehrenbacher (Oxford Univ. Press)
Biography
Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews, by Leonard Baker (Macmillan)
Poetry
Now and Then, by Robert Penn Warren (Random)
General Nonfiction
On Human Nature, by Edward O. Wilson (Harvard Univ. Press)
Music
Aftertones of Infinity, by Joseph Schwantner
First performed by the American Composers Orchestra on January 29, 1979 in Alice Tully Hall New York City.

Angela's Ashes - (by Frank McCourt).

Apologies: The date was 1997 - not 1979.) :-S

Nice easy one for today:

BANK JACKS BROOK (2 words - 4 & 10 letters).

Clue: Royalty in the making.

Jack Brooksbank

STRAY FILM YOHI (2 words 6,7)

Clue: The reason we're on GR

Family History.

GONAHX NESAG BOJUIHAX (3 words - 5, 6 & 8 letters).

Clue: A Saintly lady better known worldwide under a different 'title'.

I'm guessing as nobody has posted on here for ages, that we are all well and truly stuck!. :-D :-D


Yooooohoooo Dermot!! ;-)

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu - A lady's birth name, better known as 'Mother Teresa' - recently canonised by Pope Francis to become St Teresa of Calcutta.

EUANTHASAI ROF HILDCREN. 3 words; 10, 3 & 8 letters).

Clue: An idea unthinkable by many, particularly youngsters & parents.

Euthanasia for Children ? :-0


HEN MOVE BERT HIFFT. 3 words 8 3 5




It could be hot

Hmmm! thing a thong o thixth penth