Quizmaster John James Maloney is also a bell ringer. And after doing this quiz, you’ll understand why we’ve told you that.
QUESTIONS
1 There is a campground managed by the Kyogle Fishing Club near a large body of water and it is called…?
2 Who wrote the 1940 classic novel set in the Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls?
3 In the classic 1946 Christmas film It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), what is said to happen every time a bell rings?
4 On ships, what was traditionally struck to mark the passing of each half hour during a watch?
5 The phrase saved by the bell comes from which sport?
6 Which British multi-instrumentalist recorded the iconic 1973 album Tubular Bells, famously used in the film The Exorcist?
7 Which honeyeater found only in southeastern Australia is well known for its distinctive loud call that resembles a ringing bell?
8 According to the nursery rhyme Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross, where will the “fine lady” have rings and bells?
9 What is a whistling kite?
10 In maritime tradition, a small, high-pitched boatswain’s pipe or bosun’s pipe was used to pipe commands across noisy ship decks — and gave us the phrase pipe down. But what did it mean?
ANSWERS
1 Bells Bay Campground.
2 Ernest Hemingway.
3 Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings.
4 The ship’s bell was traditionally struck eight times in a four-hour watch.
5 Boxing.
6 Mike Oldfield.
7 Bellbird or bell miner.
8 Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes.
9 An Australian raptor also called the whistling eagle or whistling hawk. It often makes its loud whistling in flight. They patrol roads for roadkill and hover at the edges of grass fires looking for potential prey fleeing the flames. They sometimes carry burning sticks and drop them on unburned areas to drive prey out.
10 Pipe down is the whistle call by the bosun to dismiss all crew members who are not part of this current watch.