Answers for Weekly Quiz – 14th May

Now for the answers to the quiz…

1. 1. In which year were TV licences introduced in the UK?

   1946

    

   2. Arctic King, Saladin and Tom Thumb are which types of vegetable?

   Lettuce

    

   3. What is the largest flatfish species?

   Halibut

    

   4. Who became Germany’s first female chancellor?

   Angela Merkel

    

   5. St Mawes and Pendennis Castles in Cornwall were built by which English monarch to defend the coast against a French invasion?

   Henry VIII

    

   6. What word is a kind of rope, a message, and a type of knitting stitch?

   Cable

    

   7. Gymnophobia is the irrational fear of which natural state in humans?

   Nudity

    

   8. Who is the author of the Da Vinci Code?

   Dan Brown

    

   9. What song are these lyrics from? ‘You’ve been running all over town, ooh, I guess you gotta put your flat feet on the ground’

   Mustang Sally

    

   10. If a creature is ‘opodous’, what has it not got?

   Feet

    

   11. How many players are there in a netball team?

   Seven

    

   12. Which retail chain does Truman Capote’s cult classic novella suggest you can breakfast at?

   Tiffany’s

    

   13. In which cop series did Phil Collins appear as Phil the Shill?

   Miami Vice

    

   14. How many carats is pure gold?

   24

    

   15. What is an equilibrist?

   Tightrope walker

    

   16. Eugene the Jeep featured in which comic strip?

   Popeye

    

   17. Who sang the theme tune to the Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies?

   Sheryl Crow

    

   18. In which country would you find the Southern Alps?

   New Zealand

    

   19. What is the first sign of the Zodiac?

   Aries

    

   20. What is the capital of Finland?

   Helsinki

    

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