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1 — Which famous play is known as “The Scottish Play”?
2 — Which British coin has the Prince of Wales’ feathers on the reverse?
3 — In which sport do they compete for the Wisden Trophy?
4 — What is a cow’s lick on someone’s head?
5 — What are the four coloured buttons on your TV remote control?
6 — What is the connection between Susan Hampshire, Richard Briers and Sir Edwin Landseer?
7 — We’ve all heard of the star constellation Orion, but is it a bear, a water carrier, a fisherman or a hunter?
8 — Why is the symbol & called an ampersand?
9 — Situated at the top of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh as a tourist attraction this is Latin for dark chamber. What?
10 — What does IR before the pound sign on a price tag mean?
11 — Was the composer George Frideric Handel a German or an Austrian?
12 — Name the northernmost country of Latin America.
13 — Americans call them astronauts, but how are they known in Russia?
14 — A letter from a serviceman abroad might bear the letters BFPO. What do they stand for?
15 — We all know what a democracy is, but what is a theocracy?
16 — Unscramble RAN ALONG PIPE to reveal
the name of a dancing newscaster.
17 — Identify the following car nationality plates by the letters —
a) BG, B) CH, c) MAL, d) SGP.
18 — The Derby and which two other horse races make up the English Triple Crown?
19 — When Ronald Reagan was the US president who was his vice president?
20 — In what part of the human body would you find the incus, malleus and semi-circular canals?

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, February 4, 2000

1 — Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Some actors believe it’s bad luck to say the title.
2 — The 2p coin.
3 — Cricket, between England and the West Indies.
4 — A tuft of turned up hair, usually along the hairline, which sticks up and is sometimes called a double crown.
5 — The red, green, yellow and blue Fastext buttons which correspond with colours on your screen for faster teletext dialling.
6 — Susan and Richard star in BBC TV’s Monarch Of The Glen, also the title of Landseer’s famous painting of a stag.
7 — A hunter.
8 — May simply be derived from the linked letters of Et (Latin for and) or from the phrase “and, per se and” meaning “& by itself means and.”
9 — The camera obscura.
10 — It’s in Irish Republic Punts.
11 — German, but he became a British subject in 1726.
12 — Mexico.
13 — Cosmonauts.
14 — British Forces Post Office.
15 — A state governed by priests.
16 — Angela Rippon.
17 — a) Bulgaria, b) Switzerland, c) Malaysia, d) Singapore.
18 — The 2000 Guineas and the St Leger.
19 — George Bush.
20 — The ear.