a sub-zero #harlequiz

Brrrrrrrrr! Well, here we go again. 20 questions again tonight ("reasons"!) and a theme running through the answers - to be fair, the theme is a bit of a mixed bag this week: it consists largely of terrible word puns that made me laugh. Sorry about that. Anyway, you don't need to get the theme to take part, you could just treat it as a random general knowledge quiz. If you do look for the theme, it might help you but beware soundalikes, spellalikes, hidden words, and instances where you have to put consecutive answers together to make a whole theme related "thing". Ok? Good! Off you go x

In "the hobbit" who or what is smaug?

"as we go marching, marching, in the beauty of the day, a million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts grey" - lines from which song?

Which type of gate is often associated with church yards, and were meeting places and shelters for burial parties?

Admiral, akane, antonovka, and arkansas black are all types of what?

According to the song, who was the daughter of "a miner, forty niner"?

"on either side the river lie, long fields of barley and of rye" - opening lines to which poem by alfred, lord tennyson?

What is the longest river in scotland?

What name is commonly used to describe a path beside a river or canal, originally used for horses transporting barges?

Who plays 'sharpe' in the tv series based on the novels by bernard cornwell?

In 1986, who did madonna ask not to preach?

In morse code (sorry again!) which letter is represented by 'dash dot dash dash'?

'retinol' - sold as an anti-ageing treatment - is a derivative of which vitamin?

In 1987, which newspaper lost a high profile libel action brought by jeffrey archer, over allegations of archer's involvement with monica coghlan?

Who is the mp for edinburgh south west?

The flag of niger consists of horizontal bands of white, green, and BLANK, as well as a roundel of BLANK in the centre.

Robert norman davis is better known as which comedian?

Yay! The end! How was that?

Did you get the theme? If so, care to guess it here?

And finally, your team name tonight? x