Smartypants Quiz, 2007.
The winner of this quiz on 1/12/07 was Jon Randall of Enfield. Congratulations! His score was 57, the highest correct total received by the closing date. He wins the title ‘Smartypants 2007’, a diploma and a book or CD of his choice from my collection plus unlimited boasting rights. Well done to everyone else who competed. The competition is now closed, but you can still have a go in private, and then check your answers by clicking onto answers. They are often cryptic and contain the worst of puns that my sick and twisted mind could construct! If you do well, you will know that we are similar!
1 Double container for French dance  (3,3)   Can Can
2 Measure titration with teeth (5)
3 Did they have JCBs at St. Georges Hill in 1645? (7)
4 Blocks the water outlet with an electrical connector  (4)
5 Sword in a Saxon council? (4, 5)
6 Tilley and Victoria goddess swansong? (5)
7 Has a Suffolk arriwiggle got hairy ears? (6)
8 Push forward the work (7)
9 Metal policeman (6)
10 The injured man was wearing a floral neckerchief (8)
11 East European exotic dancer (4)
12 The Norse God of thunder is getting warmer (4)
13 The detective loves this part of a shirt (6)
14 To bump into a tube that makes patterns (7)
15 An advanced mechanic jumps to conclusions (7, 4)
16 Tree by the seashore (5)
17 Where the Secretary to the Admiralty saved cannon volleys (8)
18 Attic window goes camping (9)
19 Long winded mechanical process (12)
20 I have the number for this miserly Midas (4)
21 Dirty Harry’s champagne flavoured ice cream (6)
22 Air raid lures sailor (5)
23 Wounded by an archaic musical recording (4)
24 Fruity pipe worker (7)
25 Furniture without liquorice sweets (13)
26 Did this WW2 army use Viking weapons to alter equilibrium? (4)
27 Take no notice of his uneducated ravings (8)
28 Uncles nemesis turns to seventies spuds (5)
29 Voting for the best ship was fixed (6)
30 This corn gives me a headache (8)
31 The paperclip lorry stopped (10)
32 The assistant stage manager died (8)
33 Drunk in charge of a book (8)
34 This meeting will decide whether it is a he or a she (6)
35 Where barristers get drunk (3)
36 Left handed herald gave me the creeps (8)
37 Blair swims the Suffolk river to a defunct radio station (6)
38 Generous with his molluscs (9)
39 Finally found the map book (5)
40 Blissful stupidity (9)
41 Milligan in the workhouse (5)
42 Metallic legs of Japanese cartoon character (9)
43 Edward 2nds final continental dance (5)
44 Did he get paid for that lily pond picture? (5)
45 Young canine conqueror of Quebec (5)
46 These roads are the lifeblood of the transport system (8)
47 Can you hear the locomotive mechanic? (8)
48 Bomb throwing soldier from Spain (9)
49 The Scots monster is no longer in the loch. (9)
50 Enthusiastically religious (6)
51 Mend tyre precisely (11)
52 My mother’s young brother isn’t very civilised  (7)
53 Lets get to the root of this heavenly automobile (8)
54 Mechanically coded in Bletchley (9)
55 Flew by himself at minimal altitude (4)
56 Fast campanology goes like this (8)
57 Sex and violence in a field (4)
58 This bird is fast (5)
59 Sucks water up instead of holding it back (6, 3)
60 Light bringer for Tommy’s cigarette (7)
61 Painted arresting landscapes in East Anglia (9)
62 Old picture in attic makes TV maneater show her roots (6, 4)
63 Beef that fills you up from the chest to your face (3, 3, 5)
64 Mose's medication for the sinful (7)
65 A cigarette smoking animal designed by committee (5)

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