Payne’s Chain Reaction III
Time for the third instalment of Payne’s Chain Reaction! As you may know by now this is a quiz with a difference; each answer links to the next forming a chain which can provide clues to any questions you get stuck on. The links range from as obvious as a shared word to more obscure facts and play-on-words. Finally, in the spirit of scientific research, collaboration is encouraged!
Note: links get revealed between the answer and the previous answer.
Last question in the previous chain:
20.In the 2007 film “Hot Fuzz” where does lead character and exceptional policeman, Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg), get told to go if he wants to be “a big cop in a small town”?
1. Which band famously consisted of a cop, a Native American, a GI, a biker, a construction worker and a cowboy?
2. Which Christian organisation was founded by Sir George Williams in 1844?
3. In which European city would you find the Jet d’Eau?
4. What event prompted the Daily Mail headline “Are we all going to die next Wednesday?”?
5. Which fictional character states “Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!”?
6. Which Conservative Prime Minister (1957-1963) was given the title the “Earl of Stockton”?
7. Which tropic lies north of the equator?
8. What are pubic lice colloquially known as?
9. Who was the first Disney character to have a Jamaican accent?
10. A statue of which Hans Christian Anderson character can be found in Copenhagen’s harbour?
11. According to Homer’s poems, what mythical creatures is Poseidon’s chariot drawn by?
12. In what species of fish, with a prehensile tails, do the males bear the unborn young?
13. Who hosts the BBC’s comedy panel show QI?
14. Which country on the Adriatic Sea was broken up, between 1989-1992, forming seven modern-day states?
15. “Cravat” stems from the French word “Cravate” referring to which nationality?
16. Cruella de Vil is the antagonist which 1961 Disney film?
17. Since being adapted for television, which BBC comedy show has been presented by Nick Hancock, Paul Merton and, most recently, Frank Skinner?
18. In what year were the Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles (USA)?
19. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” is a line from which book?
20. Who was King of Italy between 17 March 1805 – 11 April 1814?
21. Which country, act and song that won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest?
About the Author
Nick Payne graduated from the University of Southampton with a BSc in Physics and has since joined the University of Aberdeen to study for a PhD in Medical Physics (only part of the reason for this was to be called Dr Payne).
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