CENTRAL LONDON SAMARITANS 2017 CHRISTMAS QUIZ ANSWERS

General Sayings

1) Neither a borrower nor a lender be 2) Cut your coat according to your cloth 3) Don’t wear your heart on your sleeve 4) Don’t spoil the ship for a ha’porth of tar 5) Live well, love always, laugh often 6) Vanish into thin air 7) Every dog has his day 8) Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today 9) You made your bed now lie in it 10) Too much of a good thing

Colours

1) Red sky at night shepherds delight, red sky at morning shepherds warning 2) Follow the yellow brick road 3) It came like a bolt out of the blue 4) White as the driven snow 5) The black sheep of the family 6) To be born with a silver spoon in ones mouth 7) All that glitters is not gold 8) To be caught red handed 9) Something old something new something borrowed something blue 10) Roses are red violets are blue sugar is sweet and so are you

Songs with Towns or Cities

1) A foggy day in London town 2) An Englishman in New York 3) Meet me in St Louis 4) Midnight in Moscow 5) The girl from Ipanema 6) Last train to San Fernando 7) My kind of town Chicago is 8) By the time I get to Pheonix 9) I belong to Glasgow 10) The last train to Clarksville Book titles

1) My brilliant friend (Eleanor Ferrante) 2) To kill a mockingbird (Harper Lee) 3) A good walk spoiled (John Feinstein) 4) Never let me go (Kazuo Ishiguro) 5) The girl on the train (Paula Hawkins) 6) Bring up the Bodies (Hilary Mantel) 7) Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (J K Rowling) 8) The Man with the Golden Gun (Ian Fleming) 9) A Song of Ice and Fire (George R R Martin) 10) The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Giorgio Bassani)

British Proverbs

1) A leopard cannot change its spots 2) He who pays the piper calls the tune 3) Revenge is a dish best served cold 4) You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink 5) A thing of beauty is a joy for ever 6) Discretion is the better part of valour 7) Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me 8) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder 9) Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery 10) Absence makes the heart grow fonder, too much absence makes it wander

Miscellaneous (with hints)

1) The cow jumped over the moon 2) It takes two to tango 3) Every cloud has a silver lining 4) Sorry really is the hardest word 5) A rolling stone gathers no moss 6) Behind every great man there is a great woman 7) Great minds think alike 8) The value of your investment may go down a well as up 9) You cannot teach an old dog new tricks 10) If it aint broke don’t fix it

Shakespeare Quotes

1) If music be the food of love play on (Twelfth Night) 2) Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown (Henry IV - part 2) 3) Once more into the breach dear friends once more (Henry V) 4)Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow (Macbeth) 5)The quality of mercy is not strained (Merchant of Venice) 6) Et tu Brute (Julius Caesar) 7) A rose by any other name (Romeo & Juliet) 8) Get thee to a nunnery (Hamlet) 9) O brave new world (The Tempest) 10) My horse my horse my kingdom for a horse (Richard III)

Proverbs No 10 - The letters were wrong in this - should have been A M T H grow F, T M A M it W - Absence makes the heart grow fonder, too much absence makes it wander Anyone who left this blank or got the wrong answer will be deemed to have got it right.

Shakespeare quotes No 3 - we will accept either “into“ the breach or “unto” the breach. No 10 - M H M H my K for A H - my horse my horse my kingdom for a horse. Quote is actually A horse a horse my kingdom for a horse we will accept both.