Which royal child was
born on 8/8/88?

1 — Which member of the Royal Family was born on the eighth day of the eighth month in 1988?
2 — Which Ayrshire town gives its name to a willow tree?
3 — What, when bought new, comes with a NHBC 10-year guarantee?
4 — Solve these clues to TV programmes — 
a) naughty ladies, b) frail connection, c) stethoscope detects it, d) our planet’s future.
5 — Who took over from Betty Boothroyd as House of Commons Speaker?
6 — Is a seahorse a mammal, reptile or fish?
7 — What is a dowager countess?
8 — Who played the ghost in the original TV series Randall & Hopkirk?
9 — “The minute you let her under your skin, Then you begin to make it better” are lines from which Beatles recording?
10 — If you booked a holiday to Cancun you’d be going to which country?
11 — Which famous literary figure had a son called Hamnet?
12 — Why is a top pupil called a dux?
13 — If Alpha is the first Greek letter, what’s the last?
14 — Is limnology the study of limbs and muscles, citrus fruit, cloud formations or lakes and freshwater basins?
15 — In parts of England they call them barm cakes. How do people refer to them in Scotland?
16 — In the Bible, seraphim is a word sometimes used to describe whom?
17 — Which car company shares its name with a bridge in London?
18 — Why is an articulated lorry so called?
19 — Add a consonant to the end of a favourite cuppa, to make another name for a hurricane.
20 — Spider, woolly and squirrel are all types of what?

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, June 24, 2001

1 — Princess Beatrice.
2 — Kilmarnock willow.
3 — A house, it’s the National House-Building Council. 
4 — a) Bad Girls, b) The Weakest Link, c) Heartbeat, 
d) Tomorrow’s World.
5 — Michael Martin.
6 — It’s a fish.
7 — The widow of an earl or count. It distinguishes her from the wife of her late husband’s heir.
8 — Kenneth Cope who played Marty Hopkirk.
9 — Hey Jude.
10 — Mexico.
11 — William Shakespeare.
12 — It’s the Latin word for leader.
13 — Omega.
14 — Lakes and freshwater basins.
15 — As rolls.
16 — Angels.
17 — Vauxhall.
18 — Articulated means jointed. Cab can move at an angle to rear section. 
19 — Typhoo becomes typhoon.
20 — Monkey.