Mike’s Maverick Missing Link Mindbender #1 – The Answers

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Here’s how it worked. There were 10 sets of five questions. The answers to each set of questions formed a common theme or Missing Link. There were no prizes on offer, simply the inestimable rewards of brain exercise. 

 

MIKE’S MAVERICK MISSING LINK MINDBENDER #1

SET ONE 

• English county symbolised by the red rose. Lancashire.


• The study of how people live in societies and how they make their lives meaningful. Social anthropology.


• Founded in 1896 as the South African School of Mines in Kimberley before moving to Transvaal.  Wits University.


• A Zulu word meaning a body of warriors. Impi.


• The highest single free-standing mountain in the world. Kilimanjaro.

• Grand Parade Investments recently sold its stake in the SA operations of this fast food chain. Burger King.


• What you will find at 1 Hospital Street, Braamfontein. Constitutional Court.


• Electric guitar brand famous for the Les Paul model. Gibson.


• A word which means to turn (an eyelid, the intestines, or some other bodily part) outwards or inside out. Evert.


• Only Formula One Grand Prix team currently run by a woman. Williams (Claire Williams is the deputy team principal and de facto boss).

• The name of Oprah Winfrey’s semi-palindromic production company. Harpo.


• A clown name and popular Spur ice cream treat. Chico.


• The name for a one-piece novelty mask consisting of horn-rimmed glasses, a large plastic nose, bushy eyebrows and a moustache. Groucho glasses.


• In the Middle of a popular American sitcom which won seven Emmys in the 2000s. Malcolm in The Middle.


• German word for Charles. Karl.

• 1998 Jim Carrey movie, directed by Peter Weir, which, surprisingly, did not receive a single Academy Award. The Truman Show.


• Founder of the Detroit Automobile Company in 1899. Henry Ford.


• The brand name which became synonymous with vacuuming. Hoover.


• ‘Babooshka’ singer. Kate Bush.


• Popularly, but probably inaccurately, credited with the discovery of the main Witwatersrand gold reef in 1886 on the farm Langlaagte. George Harrison.

• Victor Matfield, Sho Madjozi and Mamphela Ramphele were all born in this province.  Limpopo.


• Largest freshwater predator in Africa which can weigh over 1,000 kg. Nile crocodile.


• Defoliant notorious for its use in chemical warfare by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War (or The American War of Aggression as the Vietnamese government calls it). Agent Orange.


• Niamey is the capital of this country. Niger.


• Was a Free State before it became Belgian. Congo (called the Congo Free State when it was ruled as a personal fiefdom by King Leopold before it became the Belgian Congo).

• Author of ‘The Madonna of Excelsior’ and ‘The Heart of Redness’.  Zakes Mda.


• The name of the world cup football stadium in Polokwane. Peter Mokaba.


• The unofficial name of the phenomenon of shared false memory.  The Mandela Effect.


• The only South African to be President of Interpol. Jackie Selebi.


• American state in New England famous for lobsters. Maine.

• Delilah and Sex Bomb singer. Tom Jones.


• Controversial American World War II general nicknamed ‘Blood and Guts’. General George S Patton.


• A lawyer trained at the Inner Temple in London who was assassinated by Nathuram Godse. Mahatma Gandhi.


• American sporting home of Cubs, Bears and Bulls.  Chicago.


• Jason’s ship as he searched for the Golden Fleece. Argo.

• Musical based on a pioneering Charles Dickens social novel about an orphan in a workhouse. Oliver.


• Welsh footballer who plays for Juventus. Aaron Ramsay.


• Actor who portrayed Muhammad Ali in 2001 Oscar-nominated movie. Will Smith.


• Ummagumma was an album by this band.  Pink Floyd.


• Popular 2013 movie set in Edinburgh with music by The Proclaimers. Sunshine On Leith.

• The Duke who rode Stagecoach to major acting fame, mainly in Westerns. John Wayne.


• Quechua (a Peruvian language) word meaning ‘royal’. Tupac.


• Mythically continued his game of bowls as the Spanish Armada approached the English coast in 1588. Sir Francis Drake.


• The direction opposite that of the earth's rotation on its axis. West.


• Shorthand for an alternative name. AKA (Also Known As).

• Iconic sewing brand which sold two million machines by 1876. Singer.


• The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Quasimodo.


• Legend of the SA real estate business who died in April 2018. Pam Golding.


• The current Australian prime minister. Scott Morrison.


• First name of a South African, born in 1964, who is widely famous for his sculptures of wildlife. Dylan (Lewis).