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1 — Which organisation uses the slogan “Rise above the rest” in recruitment campaigns?
2 — The British company Corus was formerly known as what?
3 — Percy, James, Toby and Edward are friends of which children’s TV character?
4 — Unscramble WE NET STAN to find a current affairs programme.
5 — When did the UK last win the Eurovision Song Contest — 1992, 1995, 1997 or 1998?
6 — Under what name did country singer Virginia Hensley find fame — Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Emmy-Lou Harris, Jean Shepard?
7 — Which canal links the North Sea with the Baltic Sea?
8 — St Magnus is the patron saint of which Scottish island — Iona, Orkney, Shetland or Mull?
9 — In music how many horizontal lines make up a stave?
10 — Identify these Clint Eastwood films — a) daub your truck, b) power to a champagne bottle, c) unexpected collision, d) ghost-like horseman.
11 — An odometer measures the distance covered by what?
12 — What is a Grandee in Spain?
13 — Which of the following comedians wasn’t discovered on Opportunity Knocks — Frank Carson, Freddie Starr, Les Dawson, Jim Davidson or Tom O’Connor?
14 — What name links a 1960s pop singer with an Australian soap actor/singer of the 1980s and ’90s?
15 — Don Diego de la Vega is better known as which fictional hero?
16 — What is Maundy Money?
17 — “Mister Brown goes off to town on the eight twenty-one” is a line from which classic TV theme?
18 — Who created the detective Maigret — Georges Simenon, Leslie Charteris or John Creasey?
19 — James Short made his name as a Scottish comedian and entertainer after changing his name to what?
20 — Name the five colours of the Olympic Game rings.

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, December 9, 2001

1 — The Royal Air Force.
2 — British Steel. 
3 — Thomas the Tank Engine.
4 — News At Ten. 
5 — 1997, with Love Shine A Light, performed by Katrina And The Waves.
6 — Patsy Cline.
7 — The Kiel Canal.
8 — Orkney. 
9 — Five.
10 — a) Paint Your Wagon, b) Magnum Force, c) Sudden Impact, d) Pale Rider.
11 — A wheeled vehicle.
12 — A high-ranking nobleman.
13 — Jim Davidson, who found fame after appearing on New Faces. 14 — Donovan (Donovan the 1960s singer and Jason Donovan, star of TV’s Neighbours).
15 — Zorro.
16 — Gifts of newly-minted coins given to pensioners by the Queen, of the same face value as her age. 
17 — Dad’s Army.
18 — Georges Simenon.
19 — Jimmy Logan.
20 — Black, yellow, red, green, blue.