Answers for Weekly Quiz – 14th May

Now for the answers to the quiz…
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- In which year were TV licences introduced in the UK?
1946
- Arctic King, Saladin and Tom Thumb are which types of vegetable?
Lettuce
- What is the largest flatfish species?
Halibut
- Who became Germany’s first female chancellor?
Angela Merkel
- St Mawes and Pendennis Castles in Cornwall were built by which English monarch to defend the coast against a French invasion?
Henry VIII
- What word is a kind of rope, a message, and a type of knitting stitch?
Cable
- Gymnophobia is the irrational fear of which natural state in humans?
Nudity
- Who is the author of the Da Vinci Code?
Dan Brown
- 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
- If a creature is ‘opodous’, what has it not got?
Feet
- How many players are there in a netball team?
Seven
- Which retail chain does Truman Capote’s cult classic novella suggest you can breakfast at?
Tiffany’s
- In which cop series did Phil Collins appear as Phil the Shill?
Miami Vice
- How many carats is pure gold?
24
- What is an equilibrist?
Tightrope walker
- Eugene the Jeep featured in which comic strip?
Popeye
- Who sang the theme tune to the Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies?
Sheryl Crow
- In which country would you find the Southern Alps?
New Zealand
- What is the first sign of the Zodiac?
Aries
- What is the capital of Finland?
Helsinki
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