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1 — When was the sixpence withdrawn from circulation — 1976, 1980, 1984?
2 — Name three characters Rowan Atkinson has played on TV.
3 — Which is increasing faster — the number of people or the number of cars on Earth?
4 — How much were TV licences when they were first introduced — two shillings and sixpence, half a crown, £1 or £2?
5 — Name the first female member of the Royal Family in the order of succession.
6 — They’re called opportunity shops in Australia, but how do we know them?
7 — How many strings does a ukulele have?
8 — Would you eat, drink, swear in court or run away from a hippocras?
9 — Alison Clarkson found fame in the pop world as — Alison Moyet, Dido, Lisa Stansfield or Betty Boo?
10 — Is a cassowary a monk’s garment, a beef and vegetable stew, a flightless bird or a surgical instrument?
11 — Is Gibraltar connected to Spain?
12 — Who would perform a paradiddle — a pilot, a drummer, a dancer or an acrobat?
13 — We’ve all heard of the Fiat Cinquecento car. What does cinquecento mean?
14 — Posters and video sleeves for which 1990’s film feature the leading actress with a butterfly over her mouth?
15 — “Money talks, but it don’t sing and dance and it don’t walk” is how which Neil Diamond song begins?
16 — Which Borders town gives its name to a regiment of guards formed there in 1660?
17 — Concetta Rosa Marie Franconero made her name in the fifties and sixties as which recording star?
18 — Does former World’s Strongest Man Geoff Capes breed budgerigars, canaries or pigeons?
19 — Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus are monarchs of which nation?
20 — The Old Man Of Storr is a rocky column on — Orkney, Barra, Eigg or Skye?

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, August 12, 2001

1 — 1980.
2 — Blackadder, Inspector Raymond Fowler in The Thin Blue Line, Mr Bean.
3 — The number of cars.
4 — £2 for a combined radio and TV licence, introduced on June 1, 1946.
5 — Princess Beatrice of York.
6 — Charity shops.
7 — Four.
8 — Drink it, it’s a cordial wine.
9 — Betty Boo.
10 — Flightless bird.
11 — Yes, by a narrow neck of land.
12 — A drummer — it’s a drum roll.
13 — 500.
14 — The Silence Of The Lambs, with Jodie Foster.
15 — Forever In Blue Jeans.
16 — Coldstream.
17 — Connie Francis.
18 — He breeds budgies.
19 — The Netherlands.
20 — Skye.