BLOCKBUSTERS

1.       What BOAF flock together?

2.       What FFO means to quarrel with?

3.       What MM was the actress Norma Jean Mortensen?

4.       What RC is the oldest castle in Britain?

5.       What TB was an album recorded by Madonna?

6.       What OW told the US customs he had nothing to declare but his genius?

7.       What BB is a nautical style of trousers?

8.       What MAPA is to chat up someone?

9.       What EMB wrote some 600 books of children’s stories?

10.     What SM is a teacher

11.     What GTS is to be Fired?

12.     What IM had a heavy metal hit with The Clairvoyant?

13.     What LAAF describes something weighing very little?

14.     What ATCF is to travel in a strait line and a novel by Jeffrey Archer?

15.     What EC went to work - disastrously on an egg?

16.     What SAC were the two mythological monsters guarding the Straits of Messina?

17.     What TAF means backwards and forwards?

18.     What JD was a poet and dean of St. Paul’s?

19.     What CH was the world’s first full-scale nuclear power station?

10.     What RD is called ‘wapiti’ in North America?

I'll give the answers later.  Someone (Marty) wrote in to ask what you do about cheats.  There are a number of ways of cheating.  A WAP phone can be used, but it is so slow at the moment that it's probably not worth doing.  If anyone does try they should be warned.  Another way is to bring in a crib sheet with recent events such as who was the latest to be evicted from Big Brother or whatever.  Another is to try to copy other team's answers or for two teams to blatantly swap answers.  There are other ways; I have seen people with mini encyclopaedias.  However, how do you stop it?

The most effective way I have found is to penalize the cheating team - I normally apply a five point penalty for the first offence, ten for the second and expulsion for the last.  I will state this at the start of the quiz if I feel it necessary, then apply it without warning.  If I don't make it clear at the start, and see someone cheating, I will warn the team, and the whole room, and point out to the offending team that they were all in danger of being penalized because of the actions of the one individual.

That normally works.  If someone is caught cheating by me, they either stop doing it, or try to be more efficient at it so that they are not caught.  I haven't found any other effective method.  Toothless warnings are no good, and you don't really want to kick out a team for one offence.  So penalties are best.

I now have a free 5 round quiz for you.  To those of you new to the site, you get two newsletters automatically - when you register and 6 days later.  You then get them whenever I send them, and back-issues can be obtained from the website.  Whenever I leave to long a time between newsletters I generally give away a quiz.  This makes me try to be on time so I save the quiz, but it rarely works, much to the benefit of my customers.

Answer sheets can be obtained from the SUPPLIES page as can an unzipper if required. 

The quiz comes in word or PDF format so download here:  WORD or PDF.

Here are your answers to the Blockbusters quiz.
 

ANSWERS

1.       Birds of a feather

2.       Fall foul of

3.       Marilyn Monroe

4.       Richmond Castle

5.       True blue

6.       Oscar Wilde

7.       Bell bottom

8.       Make a pass at

9.       Enid Mary Belton

10.     School master/mistress

11.     Get The Sack

12.     Iron Maiden

13.     Light As A Feather

14.     As The Crow Flies

15.     Edwina Currie

16.     Scylla And Charybdis

17.     To And Fro

18.     John Donne

19.     Calder Hall

20.     Red Deer