Loose Connections Trivia Quiz

Answer: Can be followed by Gap

Watford Gap in Northamptonshire is best known as a service station on the M1 motorway in England. Its fame comes from the saying "North of Watford Gap", meaning the dividing line between the north of England and the south, although over time the saying has transformed to "North of Watford" moving the dividing line significantly further south.

Answer: Can be followed by Gap

The Darien Gap is the southern part of the Isthmus of Panama, the most southerly section of Central America. It borders Colombia to the south and is largely undeveloped because of both the high financial cost of building there and the environmental cost of doing so.

As a consequence there are no major roads connecting Central and South America. Darien was the site of an unsuccessful attempt to establish a first overseas Scottish colony in the 17th century.

Answer: Can be followed by Gap

The Cumberland Gap is an Appalachian mountain pass on the borders of Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee. It was a crucial passing point on the journey west for the early settlers in America. A folk song about this area was first recorded in 1924 and subsequent versions by folk singer Woody Guthrie and skiffle artist Lonnie Donegan have broadened its reach.

There was a considerably less romantic Cumberland Gap in the UK - a transportation gap between the M6 motorway in England and the A74 trunk road to Glasgow in Scotland. This gap has now been filled.

There is also a Cumberland sausage. But not in this quiz.

Answer: Can be followed by Gap

"Mind the Gap" is a famous message broadcast on the London Underground mass transit system. It was first introduced on the tube in 1968 as a recorded message. The wording was kept brief because of the great cost of storing the digital recording across multiple stations.

As technology improved and costs reduced, the message was sometimes extended to the more comprehensible "Please mind the gap between the train and the platform's edge."

Answer: Words ending with insects

The name of the city of Toulouse in France ends with the name of an insect. The louse (plural: lice) is the name for a variety of wingless parasitic insects. One such is responsible for the childhood infestation nits. Nits are the eggs laid by chewing lice and bound to the hair on the human head. Once hatched, the lice feed exclusively on human blood.

There is also a Toulouse sausage. But not in this quiz.

Answer: Words ending with insects

The word participant can be a noun or an adjective and ends with the name of an insect. An ant can be any one of up to 22,000 species of the family Formicidae. Ants live in colonies can that consist of millions of individual organisms but work together as a unit to form a superorganism. Species of ant live on all continents except Antarctica.

Answer: Words ending with insects

A frisbee is a disc-shaped throwing toy that ends in an insect. A bee is one of over 20,000 species of flying insect who are best known for their role in pollinating plants and making honey. Bees live across all continents except Antarctica.

Answer: Words ending with insects

Mammoth is an adjective for something that is very large (such as a mammoth) and ends in an insect. A moth is described as an insect in the order Lepidoptera that is not a butterfly. The rules for defining what is a butterfly and what is not are not clearly defined so pinning down the number of moth species is very tricky but it is believed that there are more than 150,000 varieties. Like bees, moths are very important ecologically because they are mass pollinators.

There may be sausages that are mammoth in size. But not in this quiz.

Answer: Fictional captains

"Captain Blood" is a 1922 novel by Rafael Sabatini. It tells the story of a doctor and former sailor in 17th century England. Based around the period of the Glorious Revolution, Blood is convicted of rebelling against the crown and is sentenced to be deported to the West Indies and placed into slavery. Escaping his chains, he becomes a pirate of the Caribbean, who patriotically attacks all ships except the English ones.

It has been made into a movie on several occasions, most famously the 1935 version starring Errol Flynn in the title role.

There is also a blood sausage. But not in this quiz.

Answer: Fictional captains

Captain Ahab is a character from the classic 1851 novel "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville. Ahab seeks revenge on the titular whale who is responsible for the captain's missing leg.

Answer: Fictional captains

Captain Hook is the villain in the play "Peter Pan" (1904) by JM Barrie. He has been played by actors such as Dustin Hoffman, Jude Law and Jason Isaacs across numerous film and TV adaptations. His character is said to have been inspired by Captain Ahab from "Moby-Dick".

Answer: Fictional captains

Captain America is a comic book superhero who first appeared in print in 1940. With his powers gifted to him by a super soldier serum, he survived decades frozen in a block of ice to be re-awakened out of his own time.

As part of the Marvel Avengers he has appeared on screen in multiple movies including several of his own, such as "Captain America: Winter Soldier" (2014).

Answer: Types of sausage

Vienna is the capital city of Austria.

But in this quiz, it is a sausage.

The Vienna sausage takes different forms depending on where you are. In much of Europe, the Vienna is a long cured pork sausage that is boiled, smoked and encased. It is similar to a frankfurter and is the sausage used for hot dogs. In North America it is generally short, spiced with coriander and cloves and has no casing.

Answer: Types of sausage

Chorizo is a spiced sausage that comes from Spain, although there is also a similar Portuguese sausage called Chouriço. The Spanish version is generally made from coarsely chopped pork, garlic and pimenton (smoked paprika).

Answer: Types of sausage

Bratwurst is a German sausage. The name comes from the old Germanic words for chopped meat (brat) and sausage (wurst). It is traditionally a pork sausage and its recipe can be dated back to 1313.

Answer: Types of sausage

The chipolata is generally either a short stubby sausage or a thin one - it has no fixed size. It first appears in print in the French chef Escoffier's "Le Guide Culinaire" in 1903 but its name comes from the Italian "cipollata" meaning "made with onions".