Quizmaster John James Maloney has gone all elephant-like in this week’s quiz.
QUESTIONS
1 What 2011 film starred Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson and Christoph Waltz and was adapted from a 2006 Sara Gruen novel?
2 Apart from Africa, what is the other continent that has elephants – and spread out over 13 countries?
3 In the classic riddle about a sandwich shop in Cairo that pays out $100 if they can’t fulfill your order, a man tries to beat them by ordering an elephant sandwich – only to be told they have the elephant meat out back. What is the punchline’s unexpected reason why he still gets his $100?
4 Which famous Carthaginian general used war elephants to cross the Alps and attack the Roman Republic in 218BCE?
5 What was the name of Disney’s animated film about a flying elephant?
6 What massive extinct relative of the modern elephant had curved tusks and a thick coat for surviving cold weather including the last Ice Age?
7 Composed by Henry Mancini for the John Wayne film Hatari, what light-hearted instrumental won the Grammy for Best Instrumental Arrangement in 1963?
8 If you brought something expensive but it was ultimately useless, the saying was you bought what sort of elephant?
9 If some (usually difficult) topic is avoided or not mentioned but is obvious to some, it is described in a well known phrase as what sort of animal?
10 What elephant in the Barnum & Bailey Circus was a huge attraction in its day and gave its name starting with J to anything gargantuan?
ANSWERS
1 Water for Elephants.
2 Asia.
3 They had run out of bread.
4 Hannibal.
5 Dumbo.
6 Woolly mammoth.
7 Baby Elephant Walk.
8 A white elephant. It was common in the 1960s and before for school or community fetes to have a white elephant stall that sold all manner of no longer wanted goods.
9 The elephant in the room.
10 Jumbo.