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BIRDS

Blastermind The SFX quiz

It’s avian answers we’re after for this month’s quiz. Try not to get in a flap, eh?

BIRDS

Blastermind The SFX quiz

It’s avian answers we’re after for this month’s quiz. Try not to get in a flap, eh?

QUESTION 1

Which stocky, beakless seabirds could you find on the planet Ahch-To?

QUESTION 2

Which type of bird was Manimal able to transform into? Clue: it’s not a budgerigar.

QUESTION 3

Which Doctor Who companion had an avian nickname? (And no, we’re not after Polly…)

QUESTION 4 Picture Question

What’s the name of this bird?

QUESTION 4

QUESTION 5

In the Marvel comics, what’s the name of the Falcon’s feathered companion?

QUESTION 6

Which John Wyndham novel was adapted for the screen under the title Village Of The Damned?

QUESTION 7

What’s the title of the fourth and final film in Spanish horror director Amando de Ossorio’s Blind Dead series?

What’s the name of this bird?

QUESTION 9

In The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (the original radio series, that is), the inhabitants of the planet Brontitall evolved into bird people because they were so sick of what?

QUESTION 10

Name the shapeshifting companion from the Doctor Who Magazine comic strips who usually preferred to assume the form of a penguin.

QUESTION 11

In the Hunger Games series, what special ability do the genetically enhanced jabberjays possess?

QUESTION 12 Picture Question

What’s the name of this bird?

QUESTION 8 Picture Question

QUESTION 13

Which sci-fi television series features a stealth vessel called the Blackbird?

QUESTION 14

Which mythological bird attacks Sinbad and his crew in The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad?

QUESTION 15

​Name the animated Disney film which features a talking owl by the name of Archimedes.

QUESTION 16 Picture Question

Supply the title which we’ve removed from this movie poster.

AF ARCHIVE, ALLSTAR, THE EVERETT COLLECTION/ALAMY

QUESTION 17

What type of bird is Professor Dumbledore’s companion and defender Fawkes?

QUESTION 18

In Middle-earth, what kind of birds are Thorondor and Gwaihir?

QUESTION 19

Which author wrote the 1952 short story “The Birds”, basis of the Alfred Hitchcock film?

QUESTION 20

Name the Doctor Who episode in which Clara Oswald is killed by a Quantum Shade.

Answers

1 Porgs 2 Ahawk 3 Dodo (Dorothea Chaplet) 4 Howard The Duck 5 Redwing 6 The Midwich Cuckoos 7 Night Of The Seagulls 8 Hedwig 9 Buying shoes 10 Frobisher 11 Memorisingandrepeating conversations 12 Bubo 13 Battlestar Galactica 14 ARoc 15The SwordIn The Stone 16 TheGiant Claw 17Aphoenix 18Eagles 19Daphne duMaurier 20 “Face The Raven”

How did you do?

Are you a bird-brain? 0-5

11-15 No cause to grouse

16-19 Crow about it 20

Wise old owl

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