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24 Questions and Answers About the Word 'Long'
Questions
- Long Beach is a city in which U.S. state?
- Which DIY tool may often have the words 'long nosed' in front of its name?
- Which 1980 British gangster film starred Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren?
- Whose autobiography was entitled: 'Long Walk to Freedom'?
- Who said about his songs "some are ten minutes long some are six"?
- Name the actress best known for playing Diane Chambers on the sitcom Cheers?
- By what name do we better know the infamous Operation Hummingbird, a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from June 30 to July 2, 1934?
- The Long Goodbye is a 1953 detective novel by which author?
- Which country is also known as 'The Land of the Long White Cloud'?
- What celestial body gets its name from the Greek for "wearing long hair"?
- Long Eaton is a town in which English county?
- Long John Silver is a cunning pirate who was quartermaster under which notorious captain?
- English Longhorn are a breed of which farm animal?
- Which English stately home is the seat of the Marquesses of Bath?
- What term is often used to describe anything continuing at tedious length?
- Name the American poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride" and "The Song of Hiawatha"?
- Name the Lord whose campaign for the release of Moors murderer Myra Hindley attracted much media and public controversy?
- The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe horse race is held on which course?
- Who held the world long jump record for almost 23 years until it was broken in 1991 by Mike Powell?
- Name the 2005 American prison comedy film which stars Adam Sandler as a washed-up former professional quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers?
- Which 1513 battle was the last battle on English soil to be fought with the longbow as the principal weapon?
- In the UK national anthem, the first line is "God save our gracious Queen", what are the exact 5 words in the second line?
- The Karvi, Snekkja, Skeid, and Drakkar are types of what?
- Located in the village of South Littleton in Worcestershire, what is Long Lartin?
Answers:
- California
- Pliers
- Long Good Friday
- Nelson Mandela's
- Bob Dylan
- Shelley Long
- The Night of the Long Knives
- Raymond Chandler
- New Zealand
- Comet
- Derbyshire
- Captain Flint
- Cows or cattle
- Longleat
- Long-winded
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Lord Longford or Lord Pakenham
- Longchamp (in Paris)
- Bob Beamon
- The Longest Yard
- The Battle of Flodden
- Long live our noble Queen
- Viking longships
- A prison