ANSWERS WEEK #2

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1. In the zodiac, which animal is linked with Capricorn? Goat 2. Who wrote the award-winning play “Jerusalem”? Jez Butterworth 3. In music, how many quavers equal a minim? 4 4. Which country originated the term “plonk” for wine? Australia 5. What is the singer Adele’s surname? Adkins 6. A human has seven neck vertebrae. How many does a giraffe have? 7 7. Which family lived at 165 Eaton Place, London? The Bellamy family (Upstairs

Downstairs) 8. What is the currency of Poland? Zloty 9. The “Two of Us” was an autobiography about which actress and her late husband?

Sheila Hancock 10. Traditionally, what is made by a cooper? Barrels 11. Which motorway goes from east to west across the Pennines? M62 12. What are workers and drones types of? Bees 13. What is the middle name of Winston Churchill? Spencer 14. On what date is Burns night celebrated? 25 January 15. What is the home of beaver called? Lodge 16. Which instrument is also called the octave flute? Piccolo 17. Which political party takes its name from a band of Irish outlaws? Tories 18. What is the largest wild land mammal in the British Isles? Red Deer 19. Who created Billy Bunter? Frank Richards 20. People who are terdekaphobic are afraid of what? Number 13

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1. What was the final battle that Napoleon fought in? Waterloo 2. On which day of the week are British elections held? Thursday 3. What was the name of the land where Gulliver met the Little People? Lilliput 4. In the nursery rhyme, who ran away with the spoon? The dish 5. Which animal’s name comes first in the dictionary? Aardvark

6. What would Europeans call what the Americans call a moose? Elk 7. Whom did Demelza marry in the drama set in Cornwall? Ross Poldark 8. What colour are the flowers of St John’s Wort? Yellow 9. Segovia is associated with which musical instrument? Guitar 10. Which king is supposed to have hidden in a tree after the battle of Worcester?

Charles II 11. Which brothers flew the first powered aeroplane? Wright brothers 12. The Heriot-Watt University is in which city? Edinburgh 13. The characters Killer Queen and Scaramouche feature in which musical? We will

rock you 14. Jonathan Woodgate was first capped for England while at which club? Leeds United 15. In music, a flat sign lowers a note but which sign raises a note? A sharp 16. Which instrument’s name is the Hawaiian word for jumping flea? Ukulele 17. Which song starts “The taxman’s taken all my dough”? Sunny Afternoon 18. Who was David’s son in the Bible? Solomon 19. Which is the oldest part of the Tower of London? The White Tower 20. Which company first introduced tea-bags in Great Britain in 1952? Tetley

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1. What was the final battle that Napoleon fought in? Waterloo 2. On which day of the week are British elections held? Thursday 3. What was the name of the land where Gulliver met the Little People? Lilliput 4. In the nursery rhyme, who ran away with the spoon? The dish 5. Which animal’s name comes first in the dictionary? Aardvark 6. What would Europeans call what the Americans call a moose? Elk 7. Whom did Demelza marry in the drama set in Cornwall? Ross Poldark 8. What colour are the flowers of St John’s Wort? Yellow 9. Segovia is associated with which musical instrument? Guitar 10. Which king is supposed to have hidden in a tree after the battle of Worcester?

Charles II 11. Which brothers flew the first powered aeroplane? Wright brothers 12. The Heriot-Watt University is in which city? Edinburgh 13. The characters Killer Queen and Scaramouche feature in which musical? We will

rock you 14. Jonathan Woodgate was first capped for England while at which club? Leeds United 15. In music, a flat sign lowers a note but which sign raises a note? A sharp 16. Which instrument’s name is the Hawaiian word for jumping flea? Ukulele 17. Which song starts “The taxman’s taken all my dough”? Sunny Afternoon 18. Who was David’s son in the Bible? Solomon 19. Which is the oldest part of the Tower of London? The White Tower 20. Which company first introduced tea-bags in Great Britain in 1952? Tetley

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Brain Teaser Answers 1) Did you spot the 2nd YOU in the sentence? Took me a while. 2) There wasn’t a single letter ‘e’ in the whole paragraph, which is unusual as it’s

the most commonly used letter in the English language. That made my brain hurt before I finally gave up trying to figure it out!

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1. Which public school did Winston Churchill attend? Harrow 2. Which is the largest land carnivore in Britain? Badger 3. Who made the album “Confessions on a Dance Floor”? Madonna 4. What is the stage name of Harry Webb? Cliff Richard 5. The fabled bird, the griffin, has the head of which real bird? Eagle 6. What are the two main colours of the Vatican flag? White and yellow 7. Chemically, pure gold contains how many carats?24 8. In chess, which piece always moves diagonally? Bishop 9. Are sea urchins animal, vegetable or mineral? Animal 10. Who is England’s most capped rugby union player ever? Jason Leonard 11. Which artist painted “Sunflowers”? Van Gogh 12. Which is the highest mountain on the Alps? Mont Blanc 13. Who wrote “The Invisible Man”? H G Wells 14. Which Derbyshire town gives its name to a tart and a pudding? Bakewell 15. Jonquil is a shade of which colour? Yellow 16. What were the French Protestants led by Henry of Navarre called? Huguenots 17. Which church’s doctrine is set out in the 39 articles? Anglican Church 18. In the Earth’s crust, which metal is most abundant? Aluminium 19. Which English actor played the disillusioned journalist in “The Quiet American”?

Michael Caine 20. What type of word reads the same forwards and backwards? Palindrome

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1. On which common would you find the Wombles? Wimbledon 2. Whose catch phrase was “Nice to see you, to see you nice? Bruce Forsyth 3. Who was the first Labour MP? Keir Hardie 4. Whom did Boris Yeltsin make his Prime Minister in 1999? Vladimir Putin 5. What is the plural of the word sheep? Sheep! 6. Where does an arboreal animal live? Trees 7. Which shipping line did the “Charlotte Rhodes belong to? Onedin Line 8. Which sea does the River Rhone flow into? Mediterranean Sea 9. In which card game can you stick and twist? Pontoon 10. The Rio Grande separates which two countries? Mexico and USA 11. What do 2+2= according to Radiohead? 5 12. Which royal was quoted as saying “Why don’t you naff off”? Princess Anne 13. Which writer created Philip Marlowe, the private eye? Raymond Chandler 14. What is the name for the study of rocks and the Earth’s crust? Geology 15. Which footballer was involved in Britain’s first million-pound transfer? Trevor

Francis 16. Who was the second president of the USA? John Adams 17. Which organ of the body is affected by otitis? The ear 18. Which was the first country (in 1824) to legalize trade unions? Britain 19. Which is the smallest state of Australia? Tasmania 20. In which castle was Edward II murdered? Berkeley Castle

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1) He still had 5 fish, as fish can’t drown!