Blockbusters Gold Run by Category Quiz

Answer: German Shepherd Dog

The German Shepherd Dog is a popular breed of dog in the USA and UK being the American Kennel Club's second-most registered breed and the seventh-most registered breed with The Kennel Club in the UK. In the UK the breed name was changed after World War I to the Alsatian Wolf Dog due to anti-German sentiment; the UK reverted to the name German Shepherd Dog in 1977. German Shepherd Dogs are used in many different roles including as guard and police dogs as well as being used for search and rescue and as detection dogs for drugs and explosives.

Answer: Cryptic Crossword

Cryptic Crosswords were developed in the UK in the 1920s particularly through the crosswords set by Edward Powys Mathers in 'The Observer' newspaper from 1926. Mathers used the name 'Torquemada' as his crossword compiler pseudonym and although he cannot be deemed the inventor of the cryptic clue he became the first person to create published crossword puzzles consisting entirely of cryptic clues.

Answer: Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston is an American actress who is well known for playing Rachel Green on the TV show 'Friends'. She has also appeared in a number of movies including 'Marley & Me', 'Horrible Bosses' and 'Bruce Almighty' amongst others. Aniston married Brad Pitt in 2000 and they divorced in 2005; her marriage to the actor Justin Theroux lasted two years from 2015 to 2017.

Answer: Wonder Woman

The character of Wonder Woman first appeared in 1941 in 'All Star Comics #8'. Wonder Woman is a member of the original line up of the Justice League along with Superman, Batman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman and Martian Manhunter as featured in 'The Brave and the Bold #28' in 1960.

Answer: Albus Dumbledore

Albus Dumbledore is the headmaster of Hogwarts School for most of the first six books of the 'Harry Potter' series by JK Rowling. The character acts as a mentor, guide and to some extent protector of the character of Harry Potter. A younger version of the character also appears in the 'Fantastic Beasts' series of movies.

Answer: Loch Ness Monster

The Loch Ness Monster is a long necked and humped creature that is supposed to inhabit the Scottish lake Loch Ness. There have been a number of alleged sightings over the years with the first reference to a 'water beast' in the Loch Ness area appearing in a sixth century account of the life of St Columba.

The majority of supposed sightings have been in the 20th and 21st centuries. The monster is also referred to as Nessie after the name of the Loch it is said to inhabit.

Answer: United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates is a country on the Arabian Peninsula that borders Oman and Saudi Arabia. The UAE is a federation of the individual emirates of Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm Al Quwain. Although Abu Dhabi is the capital city the largest city is Dubai.

Answer: League of Nations

The League of Nations was established after World War I as part of the Treaty of Versailles and came into being in January 1920. US President Woodrow Wilson was instrumental in establishing the League although the US Senate voted against joining it. The aim of the League was to promote peace by finding diplomatic settlements to international issues rather than countries resorting to war.

Despite its aims and some successes in the 1920s the League failed to deal with the aggressions perpetrated by nations in the 1930s and the outbreak of World War II showed that the League had failed.

It was dissolved in 1946 and replaced by the United Nations.

Answer: Colonel Mustard

The game Cluedo (called Clue in North America) first went on sale in 1949 in the UK and was devised by Anthony E. Pratt. The game takes the form of a murder mystery with players having to work out who committed the murder, with which weapon and in which room; they do this by asking questions of other players and using logic.

The original version featured six characters all with surnames relating to a colour which was reflected in the playing token for that character. As the name suggests Colonel Mustard has a yellow token.

Answer: Jesus Christ Superstar

'Jesus Christ Superstar' had its Broadway debut in 1971. It had been released as an album the previous year as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice were initially unable to get funding for a stage version. The musical has no spoken lines and is entirely performed in songs.

The plot centres around the last week of the life of Jesus Christ although it includes much material not found in the Bible.

Answer: Wuthering Heights

'Wuthering Heights' was first published in 1847 with Emily Bronte using the pseudonym Ellis Bell. The novel is set on the moors of West Yorkshire and focuses on the Earnshaw and Linton families. In particular the novel focuses on Catherine Earnshaw's conflict as to whether to marry Heathcliff or Edgar Linton.

The novel has been adapted many times for film, theatre and TV and was the inspiration for the 1978 song 'Wuthering Heights' by Kate Bush.

Answer: Slumdog Millionaire

'Slumdog Millionaire' is a 2008 movie loosely based on Vikas Swarup's novel 'Q & A'. The plot of the film centres on the character of Jamal who wins the jackpot on an Indian version of the TV show 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?'. The authorities assume Jamal must have cheated on the show and the film shows Jamal's life story as he tells it to the police which demonstrates how he knew the answers to all the questions.

As well as winning Best Picture the movie's director Danny Boyle also won the Oscar for Best Director.

Answer: Let It Be

The album 'Let It Be' was released in May 1970 and topped the album charts in both the UK and the USA. The album was the twelfth studio album by The Beatles and ended up being released shortly after the band broke up. The songs 'Let it Be' and 'The Long and Winding Road' were released as singles and both charted at Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart in the US.

The song 'Get Back' which features on the album had been released as a single in 1969 although in a different mix to that which appeared on the album 'Let It Be'.

Answer: Lyndon Baines Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson was president of the USA from 1963 to 1969. He assumed the presidency in 1963 following the assassination of John F Kennedy. Johnson then won the 1964 presidential election with Hubert Humphrey as his Vice President. Johnson chose not to run in the 1968 election despite being allowed to under the US Constitution as he had served less than two years after he succeeded Kennedy. Johnson's time as president saw major legislation passed regarding civil rights as well as an escalation of US involvement in Vietnam.

Answer: Jehovah's Witnesses

The Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian group although some of their beliefs are very different from many of the mainstream Christian denominations. The Jehovah's Witnesses grew out of the Bible Student Movement of the 1870s founded by Charles Taze Russell. Following Russell's death Joseph Franklin Rutherford controlled the Watch Tower Society and it was he who introduced the name Jehovah's Witnesses. One of the core things that Jehovah's Witnesses must perform is evangelism, the spreading of their beliefs to others.

This has famously been done by them visiting people's homes but more recently in some places they have moved to having stands in public places such as shopping centres and railway stations.

Answer: Central Processing Unit

The Central Processing Unit is the name given to the part of a computer that performs the necessary calculations, logic, input/output and control operations that the program being run requires. Because of the key functions it performs it is sometimes referred to as "the brain" of the computer.

Answer: Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers are an American football team from the city of Green Bay in Wisconsin. The team was founded in 1919 and is wholly owned by the community of Green Bay making it the only major professional sports team in the US that is community owned.

The name 'Packers' comes from a meat packing company, the Indian Packing Company who funded uniforms and equipment when the team was first founded.

Answer: Downton Abbey

The first series of 'Downton Abbey' was originally shown in 2010 on ITV in the UK and in 2011 in the USA on PBS. There were six seasons of the show with a total of 52 episodes. Julian Fellowes, the British screenwriter who created the show, also wrote a film based on the series which was released in 2019. 'Downton Abbey' is set in the early 20th Century and focuses on the Crawley family and their domestic servants who inhabit the country house of the same name as the show.

Answer: Call of Duty

'Call of Duty' is a video game franchise in the first-person shooter genre. The first game was released in 2003 for PC with the first console title 'Call of Duty: Finest Hour' released for GameCube, PS2 and Xbox in 2004. The series was originally set in the Second World War before expanding into the 'Modern Warfare' series which had a contemporary setting and the 'Black Ops' series which focused more on clandestine missions.

There have also been games which feature a more futuristic warfare setting.

Answer: Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force is the branch of the UK armed forces concerned with aerial warfare. It was founded in 1918 near the end of World War I when the Army's Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service merged and became a separate organisation. Although the RAF is the primary aerial force in the UK in the modern era both the Army and Royal Navy maintain some aerial capabilities.