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Here are the answers to YellowBelly A to Z week 5. Next week's quiz will not be quite so tough. See you then!

1.     Chad. Chad’s population is about 15.5 million – about one million more than Ontario.
2.     Four thousand and thirty one (4,031). Cat Stevens, Cecil B. DeMille, Trent Reznor, Kim Jong-Un. Cat Mille Trent et Un. = 4,031. Yah, it’s a stretch. Fun though!
3.     Jenner (Bruce at the time of his 1976 Olympic decathlon victory, now Caitlyn)
4.     Six-letter first and last names. Answers are Nicole Kidman, Minnie Driver, Nicole Richie, Alyssa Milano, Meghan Markle, Rachel Hunter
5.     Verge (Lynn).
6.     Eight. The numbers one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine and ten are hidden in order in these sentences. Only eight is missing.
7.     Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Keepin’ it local.
8.     MAPPED (Ed Martin, Andrew Parsons, and Paddy Daly). Keepin’ it REALLY local.
9.     Wozniacki (Caroline). Big name talent, but not exactly a big-game player.
10.  Phillips (Phillip). All the acts have doubled (or even tripled) words. Toto, (Lady) Gaga, Goo Goo (Dolls), Yeah Yeah Yeahs, JoJo, Ting Tings. Phillip Phillips seems only fitting
11.  King (Stephen). All these songs are also the names of Stephen King stories. Misery, Stand By Me, Elevation, (The) Stand
12.  Turkmenistanzania. Half point for either Newfoundlandorra or Labradoratheexplorer.
13.  X. When pronounced, all of group A starts with a vowel sound (ay, ee, ef, locally, one might argue aitch is haitch!, etc.) Group B are pronounced starting with a consonant sound: bee, see, dee, gee, etc.) X is pronounced Ex (starts with a vowel sound).
14.  Name. None of these characters has an actual name in their films (loose connection is to the song That’s Not My Name in Question 10).
15.  Beard (Frank). The member of ZZ Top that does not have a monster beard is named Beard. Weird. B’ys started in the 1960s and still at it. (Note Frank does sometimes have a patch of scruff, but not of significance).
16.  Yorick. Character is a skull. Many know the line “Alas poor Yorick I knew him well” But actual line is “Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him Horatio.”
17.  Dennehy (Brian). He always seemed to play a cop, but Dennehy, who recently died, was quite the stage actor.
18.  Zanzibar. Now part of Tanzania, and birthplace of Freddie Mercury.
19.  Istanbul. Which means “city of Islam” or “plenty of Islam” in Turkish. 
20.  Uncle Buck. Series is Penny (Oleksiak), Nickel (Film Festival), (March of) Dimes, Quarter(staff), 50 Cent. Next is Buck – i.e. Uncle Buck
21.  Oldsmobile
22.  Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix 1. The mixtape itself (as a mixtape) was featured as Peter Quill’s mixtape in the film, and was sold in many places as a mix (cassette) tape.
23.  Rocky. All boxers appeared in one of the Rocky movies either in cameo or as a key character.
24.  Quark. The Ferengi guy was in or reference din 4 different Star Trek franchises and shot for a film but didn’t make it. The answer is NOT Q – different character.
25.  Ashley.
26.  Linger. All words form a different word when spelled backwards. Some wizard named this type of word a semordnilap (Palindromes backwards! Yes, Harpo backwards is Oprah; Pupils backwards is slip-up)

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