Best-selling new car in Britain

1 — Name the best-selling new car in the UK.
2 — A windjammer would be most at home on an open hillside, on top of a tower, at sea or on a space satellite?
3 — What is a loblolly — a chocolate cream dessert, a desert rat, a Chinese passenger trolley or a pine tree?
4 — Comedian Charles Springall became famous after he changed his name to what?
5 — How did the Red Sea get its name?
6 — Angela Lonsdale in Coronation Street and Alan McHugh in High Road both do the same jobs in their respective soaps. What?
7 — In the Starsky & Hutch TV series what were their first names?
8 — What are the two most common reasons given for absence from work in the UK?
9 — What makes hard water hard?
10 — What kind of fish has another word for beer in its name?
11 — Is your spleen located on the right or left side of your abdomen?
12 — What kind of writing paper might remind you of a jester’s hat?
13 — How many muscles are there in the adult human body — over 300, over 400, over 500 or over 600?
14 — Bo’ness in West Lothian is an abbreviation of what?
15 — Can you see the initials VSOP on bottles of beer, vodka, wine or brandy?
16 — What is Sarah Ferguson’s middle name?
17 — Complete the line, “When I grow rich, say…” from the nursery rhyme Oranges And Lemons.
18 — Where were the 1996 Olympic Games held?
19 — Why don’t your wisdom teeth appear until you’re in your late teens?
20 — Rearrange I TAKE SLY IOU to find a Shakespeare comedy title.

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, June 3, 2001

1 — The Ford Focus.
2 — At sea, it’s a sailing ship. 
3 — A pine tree.
4 — Charlie Drake. 
5 — Because the algae which grows in it makes the water appear red at certain times of year.
6 — They’re police officers.
7 — Dave Starsky and Ken Hutchinson.
8 — Stress and lower back pain.
9 — It picks up deposits of calcium and magnesium en route to the reservoir.
10 — An alewife.
11 — The left.
12 — Foolscap.
13 — Over 600 muscles.
14 — Borrowstounness.
15 — Brandy — it stands for Very Special Old Pale.
16 — Margaret.
17 — The bells of Shoreditch. 
18 — Atlanta, USA.
19 — Because there’s not enough room in your jaw until you’re fully mature. 
20 — As You Like It.