Torrevieja Forum and Discussion Board

• 1. What connects area, mail and tension ?

• 2. Which Poet Laureate HELD JOINS FAME (anagram) ?

• 3. Which is the odd one out: troposhere, bathysphere, exosphere, mesosphere ?

• 4. Starting with A, add a letter and shuffle to make a new word each time until you reach MEDALLIST

• 5. Which 2014 film stars Denzel Washington as a former Marine who becomes a vigilante ?

• 6. You Want It Darker and Thanks For The Dance were the final studio albums by which Canadian singer, who died in 2016 ?

• 7. Dennis Waterman starred as retired police detective Gerry Standing in which comedy-drama series ?

• 8. The Coupe des Mousquetaires trophy is awarded to the winner of which annual event ?

• 9. Which German craftman and entrepreneur invented the first moveable-type printing press in the 1440s ?

• 10. White, black, Javan, Sumatran and Indian are the five extant species of which large mammal ?

• 11. Which Essex MP, a former Business Secretary, was elected Leader of the Conservative Party in November 2024 ?

• 12. Which English author won the 2024 Booker Prize for her fifth novel Orbital ?

• 13. What is the meaning of the word evanescent ?
  A. Fading
  B. Magical
  C. Glittering

• 14. Opened in 1931, which zoo and safari park is located near Dunstable in Bedfordshire ?

• 15. On 15 November 2024, which YouTuber defeated former heavyweight world champion Mike Tyson in a boxing match ?

Answers will be provided next Thursday evening after 21:00.

2 John Masefield
3 Bathysphere

10. Rhino
11. Kemi Badenoch

5 The equalizer
8 Men's' singles champion tennis French open Roland Garros

7. New tricks
13. A - fading

9. Joannes Gütenburg
10. Rhino

14. Whipsnade zoo

11. Kemi Badenock

ANSWERS

1. They may all follow surface
2. John Masefield
3. Bathysphere, a submersible; the others form layers of the atmosphere
4. One way is:
A
At
Tea
Sate
Stead
Lasted
Details
Misdealt
Medallist
5. The Equalizer
6. Leonard Cohen
7. New Tricks
8. French Open men's singles tournament
9. Johannes Gutenberg
10. Rhinoceros
11. Kemi Badenoch
12. Samantha Harvey
13. A. Fading
14. Whipsnade Zoo