Firstly, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and are now ready to start quizzing again. As always the answers are given below.

 

Questions

1) Florence Welch is the lead vocalist for which group?

 

2) In mythology who is the principal Greek God?

 

3) Blondie was the name of the dog belonging to which dictator?

 

4) Related to the llama, which South American mammal has long shaggy hair?

 

5) Which animal lives in a Formicary?

 

A quiz for those of you who like music and the arts. The answers are given below

 

Questions

1) Prince Siegfried is a prominent character in which Tchaikovsky ballet composed in 1875?

 

2) Tchaikovsky's next ballet, choreographed by Marius Petipa, features King Florestan and Princess Aurora. Can you name it?

 

3) Soviet composer Sergei Prokofiev famously composed which ballet based on the work by Shakespeare, including the 'Dance of the Knights'?

 

All of the questions are about events that happened or have connections to the month of January. We have dozens of other quizzes about events from other months - check out our History Category.

 

Questions

1) The first transatlantic commercial telephone service was established in 1927 between which two cities?

 

2) In 2015 two gunmen murdered 12 people at the offices of which magazine in Paris?

 

Round 2 of our quiz about well known personalities who passed away this year.

 

Clues

1) English actress perhaps best known for playing Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in ‘Open All Hours’

 

2) Which larger than life singer, born Marvin Lee Aday, died in January

 

3) Eastenders stalwart who announced that she had finally left the show in February 2020 aged 93 and died in April this year

 

4) Became famous for playing Coco Hernandez in the film ‘Fame’

 

Below are a number of anagrams of words or names associated with Christmas, the answers are given below. Good luck

 

Anagrams

1) lens bell jig

 

2) cleaning skews

 

3) helm the be

 

4) knife scanner

 

5) jacks fort

 

6) resist rematch

 

7) coordinates

 

8) age roughened ribs

 

 

Answers

1) lens bell jig

Jingle bells

 

2) cleaning skews