Thursday 31 January 2013

Forgot to say...I did a fundraising event for Alzheimers

At work, we have a chosen charity each month, and take turns trying to raise funds, in a variety of ways. Some can be as simple as a Wear Red Day, or a bake sale, others try different methods or events.
January was for Alzheimers Society, and Howard and I decided to combine our love for quizzes, puzzles and food.

I made a Puzzle book to sell, with ten types of puzzle, including Wordsearch, Anagrams, Crosswords, Logic Puzzles etc. I added a little movie quiz too, which I compiled by taking 10 random DVDs from my shelf, and making up questions about them. Perhaps you would like a go? Oh, go on, then...

1. 'This ABBA-obsessed misfit ditches her pathetic life and plastic friends in a small Australian suburb for big-city dreams in Sydney'. Name this 1994 film starring Toni Collette.

2. In The King's Speech, who played the speech therapist to the king, Lionel League?

3. Who was The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)? Name Anne's sister, and the actress who played her.

4. In the classic cult film from 1987 Withnail and I, which actors played the two unemployed actors who go on holiday to the country 'by accident'?

5. Moon is an engrossing, intelligent sci-fi movie from 2009, starring Sam Rockwell. Who directed and wrote the film, and who is his famous father?

6. Danny Boyle's film Millions, about 2 young brothers finding a suitcase full of cash when it falls out of the sky, is based on the best-selling book by which author?

7. The Kite Runner was a great success as a book and a film - in which country is the story set?

8. Who played the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android, in the 2005 movie of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

9. Which famous author wrote An Education (2009), an award-winning film set in 1961 and starring Carey Mulligan? He also wrote About A Boy.

10. In Walt Disney's The Emperor's New Groove (2000), what is the name of the emperor from Peru who got turned into a llama?

Howard organised a lunch-time games and food session in the staff room, where we ate soups and bread and curries and rice. We played memory game with a pack of cards, tried to Name the Celebrities before they were famous, had a go at logic questions, oh all sorts of fun parlour games!

We raised a total of £130 for Alzheimer's Society, I am delighted and very proud of this!

Plus, that was the 9th List item, hurrah!

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