Can you identify whether the following are cheeses or Ikea products?
If Ikea can you identify the product?
Have you spent too much time at those cheese fairs?
Or wandering the endless pathways in your (not so) local Ikea?
So many questions ... !
So here they are: cheese or Ikea?

1. Gullunge
2. Bergkäse
3. Smaka
4. Bygel
5. Mongstad
6. Sardo
   
7. Klappor Haj
8. Bitto
9. Lighvan
10. Caravane
11. Västerbotten

Can you find the missing 4 letter words in this word ladder?  *** clues are board games.
CLUE

1. *** The Game of _____ ***
   
2.  Plural of louse
3.  Starch found in Chinese dishes
4.  To get up
5.  *** World domination game: ____ ***
6.  Floor for ice skating
7.  Color made from red and white
8.  Evergreen tree
9.  Portion of a window
10.  Top of the head
11.  *** Mystery _____ ***
12.  Challenge
13.  Small, hand-held missile
14.  Section; portion
15.  Lively; sprightly
16.  Marshy, organic material used for fuel
17.  Animal udder
18.  Opposite of this
19.  ***___ Shall I Be? ***
20.  British pop duo
21.  Fraud; hoax
22.  Shut a door loudly
23.  Slender; slight
24.  Woman's undergarment
25.  Cut; trim
26.  Strike the hands together
27.  Nonsense (slang)
28.  *** Mouse _____ ***
29.  Flat serving dish
30.  Battle; skirmish
31.  Strip off the skin
32.  Defect; imperfection
33.  Moved through the air
34.  Run away from
35.  Chimney passage
36.  *** [American] Crime-solving game: ____ ***
37.  Heavy stick
38.  Sniffle, sob
39.  Smear or smudge
40.  Pronounce indistinctly
41.  Acidic taste
42.  *** Connect _____ ***
    

 

Can you name the animals in these book titles?
 1.     Yacqui Delgado wants to kick your equs africanus.
 2.     bubalis bubalis Trail.
 3.     The felis domestacus in the Hat.
 4.     The Enormous crocodylus palustris.
 5.     The Curious Incident of the canus lupus familiarus in the Night-Time.
 6.     Fantastic Mr vulpes vulpes.
 7.     War equs caballerus.
 8.     The panthera leo, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
 9.     To Kill a mimus.
10.    If you give a mus musculus a Cookie.
11.    The bubo service.
12.    The Velveteen oryctolagus cuniculus.
13.    The Secret of corvus covax Point.
14.    The White panther tigris.
15.    canis lupus Hall.

Can you name the famous sidekick of each of the following?
1. Batman
2. Secret Squirrel
3. Dangermouse
4. Sherlock Holmes
5. Inspector Morse
6. Arthur Daley
7. Captain Hook
8. Xena, Warrior Princess
9. Fox Mulder
10. Beavis
11. Seeley Booth
12. Frodo Baggins
13. Postman Pat
14. Rocky J Squirrel
15. Don Quixote
16. C Montgomery Burns
17. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
18. Ford Prefect
19. Dr Frankenstein
20. Asterix
21. The Green Hornet
22. Radioactive Man (from The Simpsons)
23. The Lone Ranger
24. Tintin
25. Buffy the vampire slayer

Can you identify the title of the book by the face mask?

For these pairs of words find a third word that is connected or associated with both of these two words.
For example, the first pair is PIANO and LOCK. The answer is KEY.

1. SHIP — CARD
   
2. TREE — CAR
3. SCHOOL — EYE
4. PILLOW — COURT
5. RIVER — MONEY
6. BED — PAPER
   
7. ARMY — WATER
8. TENNIS — NOISE
9. EGYPTIAN — MOTHER
10. SMOKER — PLUMBER

Alan writes: "each answer has at least two 'A's separated by a letter - as in my name Alan."

1. The name of which Italian entertainment venue translates into English as "the staircase"?
   
2. Located on the West coast of S.America and stretching for over 600 miles, what is the driest place on earth?
   
3. Which well known and often used mystical word is said to come from the Aramaic phrase "I create as I speak"?
   
4. On June 8th 1982, Which British ship was damaged beyond repair by Argentinian aircraft at Bluff Cove in the Falklands War?
   
5. Which word is derived from the Sanskrit for "great" or "high king"?
   
6. Which US President was born on Hawaii?
   
7. Tenzin Gyatso is the 14th and current holder of which religious title?
   
8. Which modern word is derived from the Persian for a group of merchants or pilgrims travelling together?
   
9. Which popular snack/appetiser takes its name from the local word for "lids"?
   
10. According to legend, which amphibian is able to withstand any heat and put out fires?
    

This set of questions relate to adverts which have appeared on our screens in times gone by. We?ve all seen them, but how many can you remember? 
1. Which ad featured Buzby, a feathered friend?
2. Who said, rather hopefully, "we're getting there"?
3. What was the first TV advert advertising?
4. Which ad, featuring cigarettes, said they were " cool as a mountain stream"?
5. What items of confectionery, now called "Starburst", were "made to make your mouth water"?
6. "Every little helps" according to this shopping chain
7. This product makes "budgies bounce with health"
8. Tony says these are "Grrreat!"
9. Leonard Rossiter appeared in a series of adverts alongside Joan Collins. What product were they advertising?
10. Which ad promoted a product "full of Eastern promise"?
11. This ad featured an enquiry for a book entitled "Fly Fishing" by J R Hartley. What was it actually advertising?
12. The ad showed robots laughing at humans who "peeled them with their metal knives". The product was?
13. "Mr Shifter, do you know the piano's on my foot?" "You hum it, son, and I'll play it." These are lines from which advert, featuring our national beverage
14. According to the adverts, this product is "the real thing"
15. Rowan Atkinson played an inept secret agent in this series of ads but, what was he advertising?
16. Who played Beattie, the proud Jewish grandmother, whose grandson gained an 'ology in this commercial?
17. Harry Enfield said: "This bloke's a nutter". What was he advertising?
18. Which company was telling everyone to 'put a tiger in your tank' back in the 60s?
19. Businessman Victor Kyam 'liked this product so much' he 'bought the company'. What was the product?
20. This is 'probably the best lager in the world'.