World challenge quiz

[smouse]

If you are not doing this quiz its hard to explain it
The questions are grouped in 10s and there is a loose theme to each one but you arent given it
No number of letters but given starting letter

1. John Smith yearns to return here - G
Connection TV programmes or places in them

2. Certainly not John's paradise - P
Tiltes of books or places in them

3. Dorothy and Toto are dropped here by a twister - M
Film titles

4. Oxford and Cambridge play each other at this sport - T
Countries or places

5. Is this the only rich islander now - B
6. Follow the faded sign for 15 miles - LS
Song titles with places in them

7. The Beagles allowed something big to start here - G
8. Virgins escape here - NI
9. Upper class felines nearly end up here - T

No general theme to last lot but every answer in the quiz is a place a mode of transport geographical term etc relating to the world. It does say they are interpreted quite loosely

[JMR27]

8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necker_Island_(Br itish_Virgin_Islands)

[Fibonacci]

4 Munchkinland?

[mirandasmum]

6. The B-52's song Love Shack has the Lyrics

If you see a faded sign by the side of the road that says 15 miles to the love shack, I'm heading down the Atlanta Highway.........( or very similar)

So the answer would be Atlanta but the clue indicated Love Shack ???? Not sure if that helps !!

[sddsddean]

7 Galapagos Islands? (Darwin's ship was HMS Beagle)

[mirandasmum]

1. Dr Who is called John Smith and he wants to return to the fictional planet Gallifrey ?

[smouse]

Thanks everyone
It would have to just be Galapagos (not islands) because it just says G and if they are two words it gives 2 starter letters - so not sure

Trouble with Munchkinland is that in that section the rest are just film titles so off to see if that is a film

Thanks again

[smouse]

Brilliant mirandasmum

Having struggled throught he other 91 it would be nice to fill a few more gaps

getting there now
thanks

[Vicasso]

Strewth Smouse!...what odd clues :-)

just guessing really....

7. Darwin's ship was called the 'Beagle', and he developed his theory of 'Natural Selection' after visiting the Galapagos Islands

9. If the upper class felines are the 'siamese' (as in Lady and the Tramp), does 'nearly' shorten it to Siam which has 'ended up' being called Thailand.

Ho hum :-)

[Vicasso]

Sorry to offer 'Galapagos' again, the phone went when I had half-typed my post and I didn't press 'refresh'.

You can see now how I rose to obscurity :-)

[Vicasso]

2. Anything to do with John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' ?????

[smouse]

Odd isnt in it lol
Its the way it says loose connection that doesnt help
I shall put galapagos (without the islands)

I like Thailand but confess go getting desperate now lol

[vegasmad]

2. Book/volume 2 of John Milton's Paradise lost is titled Purgatory.

[Vicasso]

4. Oxford and Cambridge play each other at Tiddlywinks, and I found this..
'The BBC regional television weather forecast map for the south-west of England last Friday marked the usual cities such as Bristol and Exeter, but also added Tiddleywink in Wiltshire, an obscure hamlet ignored by gazetteers and all maps except those of largest scale. The BBC was having fun over its inhabitants� success in persuading the local council to put up road signs to mark this cluster of eight cottages, as up to now people driving past would miss it if they blinked. Those in favour of perpetuating the name did so not only out of local (very local) pride, but because of the name�s associations with word history.'

[Vicasso]

Oops, didn't post the link
http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw- tid1.htm

[smouse]

Well I am sure its tiddlywinks but any link between that sherwood forest and beijing is beyond me lol

You've all been brilliant hope I can return you efforts sometime

Jean