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1 — Which pop singer is also the host of BBC TV’s Garden Invaders?
2 — Was Thomas Jefferson the second, third or fourth president of the USA?
3 — Where can you find Beecher’s Brook?
4 — How did the expression “no room to swing a cat” originate?
5 — What was the top-selling film soundtrack album of the 1970s — Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Tommy or The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
6 — According to the song who was “Born on a mountain top in Tennessee”?
7 — Are there more or fewer than 130 members of the Scottish Parliament?
8 — Sitting behind the wheel of a Starlet are you driving a Ford, Toyota, Fiat or Renault?
9 — Is a heptaglot a poem of seven verses, a plant with seven leaves or a book in seven languages?
10 — Which pop star played the scarecrow in the 1978 movie The Wiz?
11 — Why is someone’s double a doppelganger?
12 — Which famous Liverpudlian published a book of poetry called Blackbird Singing?
13 — How many people have actually walked on the moon?
14 — Which is the longest Shakespeare play — Hamlet, Macbeth or Julius Caesar?
15 — How many countries are in the European Union — 12, 13, 14 or 15?
16 — Where in the body are your pectoral muscles?
17 — Which hit by the Hollies is also a Marilyn Monroe film title?
18 — Someone who is talking nonsense can be said to be talking baloney, but what is baloney?
19 — Which eight-letter word can precede gown, room and table?
20 — Which of the four seasons appears in the most film titles?

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, July 22, 2001

1 — Kim Wilde.
2 — He was the third US president.
3 — At Aintree racecourse, it’s a well-known hurdle.
4 — The cat is a cat o’ nine tails, a long whip once used as punishment on sailing ships. It was administered on deck as there was no room below.
5 — Saturday Night Fever.
6 — Davy Crockett.
7 — Fewer, there are 129 members.
8 — Toyota.
9 — A book in seven languages.
10 — Michael Jackson.
11 — It’s a word we’ve borrowed from German, meaning double walker or double goer. A doppelganger was a ghostly double of a living person.
12 — Sir Paul McCartney.
13 — 12, all members of the Apollo missions, from 1969-1972.
14 — Hamlet.
15 — There are 15 countries.
16 — In your chest.
17 — Bus Stop.
18 — A type of sausage, originally Bologna, from the Italian town where it originated.
19 — Dressing.
20 — Summer.