Ever Changing Winds Trivia Quiz

Answer: Bell

Mary Hayley Bell is the wife of Sir John Mills and mother of Juliet and Hayley Mills. Her younger daughter, Hayley, starred as Kathy Bostock in 'Whistle Down the Wind'. Mary Hayley Bell was screenwriter both for 'Scott of the Antarctic', (1948) with her husband playing the eponymous title role, and 'Gypsy Girl' (1966) directed by Sir John and in which daughter Hayley starred.

Answer: Kinderdijk, Netherlands

Kinderdijk, near Rotterdam, is the site of 19 well-preserved windmills dating from the 16thC. These are watermill type mills that drain the land. Finchingfield windmill in Essex, UK, holds a Blue Plaque awarded by English Heritage.

Answer: Catch the Wind

Often likened to Bob Dylan, Glasgow-born Donovan (Leitch) had several UK hits including 'Catch the Wind', 'Universal Soldier' (EP) and 'Mellow Yellow' but never managed to top the UK charts.
'Sunshine Superman' topped the US charts in August 1966.

Answer: 6

Force 6 is termed a 'Strong Breeze' which causes movement in large tree branches. Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1856) was mapmaker to the British Admiralty for 25 years. His ancestors were Huguenots who left France for Ireland after the St Bartholomew's Day massacre, the victims being Huguenots, which started in 1574 and continued for several months.

Answer: Cuba and Hispaniola

The 50 mile wide Windward Passage lies between Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti & Dominican Republic), linking the Caribbean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. It is an important sea route between the Panama Canal and the United States.

Answer: Harold Macmillan

In February 1960, Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) upset the South African Parliament by expressing his disagreement over apartheid, stating; (quote) "The wind of change is blowing through the continent of Africa". He was alluding to the fact that more and more African- native populated countries were on the verge of seeking independence from their European colonial masters. Macmillan was nicknamed 'Supermac' due to living standards being raised during his tenure as Prime Minister.

After retirement he refused to be ennobled as a Peer of the Realm, but twenty years later he accepted and was given the title Earl of Stockton.

Answer: Denmark

The Vindeby wind farm, comprising eleven wind turbines, was built in 1991 and is located offshore from the village of Vindeby on the Danish island of Lolland in the Baltic Sea.

Answer: Ted Hughes

Yorkshire-born Ted Hughes was Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death. His personal life was marred by somewhat self-imposed tragic circumstances. He married the American poetess Sylvia Plath in 1956, but upon discovering that Hughes was having an adulterous affair, Sylvia gassed herself in 1963 at the age of thirty. Hughes fathered a child with his mistress, Assia Wevill.

When the child was four years old her mother gave her pills, took some herself and then gassed them both. Hughes married his second wife Carol in 1970 but continued with extra-marital affairs.

He died in 1998.

Answer: 1984

Windsurfing for men was an Olympic sport for the first time in 1984 (Los Angeles), with the ladies' event being introduced in the 1992 games held in Barcelona. 1973 saw the first ever World Windsurfing Championships.

Answer: Notos

In Greek mythology the four main winds were regarded as deities. The Romans later gave these winds Latin names also. Notos (Latin: Auster) was the South wind; Boreas (L. Aquilo) was the North wind; The East wind was named Euros (L. Eurus) and Zephyros (L. Favonius) was the name given for the West wind.