The last stop on the
West Highland line

1 — What is the most northerly station on the famous West Highland railway line?
2 — If Michael Stipe is the lead vocalist, name the rock band.
3 — Cathures is an early name for which Scottish city?
4 — Which insurance company has a four-coloured umbrella as its logo?
5 — What word is a stretch of water and a noise?
6 — Why are they called taxi-cabs?
7 — What’s the origin of a “square meal”?
8 — On TV, who narrated The Wombles?
9 — On which Caribbean island is reggae artist Bob Marley buried?
10 — If Monday’s child is fair of face, which day’s child is full of woe?
11 — Which of these words can be typed using the top row of a Qwerty keyboard — quest, quick, putty, photo, outer?
12 — In English it means “mixed bits”. Name this popular Chinese meal.
13 — Name the Jewish girl who kept a diary while hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War 2.
14 — Films made by which studio begin with a flickering transmitter?
15 — “Eat my shorts” is whose catchphrase?
16 — Which soap star is the odd one out — Letitia Dean, Patsy Palmer, Bruce Jones, Barbara Knox?
17 — How many people feature in Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous painting Last Supper?
18 — Judges wigs are traditionally made of what type of hair?
19 — Why was it called the H-bomb?
20 — What’s the origin of the expression “a ring of truth”?

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, September 23, 2001

1 — Mallaig.
2 — REM.
3 — Glasgow.
4 — Legal & General.
5 — Sound.
6 — Taxi is short for taximeter, the gadget that calculates the fare.
7 — Farmhands, etc, were fed as part of their wages with a fair meal, enough to satisfy them. So it was a fair and square meal.
8 — Bernard Cribbins.
9 — Jamaica.
10 — Wednesday’s.
11 — Putty and outer.
12 — Chop suey.
13 — Anne Frank.
14 — RKO Radio Pictures.
15 — Bart Simpson’s.
16 — Letitia Dean also has blonde hair. Others are redheads.
17 — 13, including Christ.
18 — Horse-hair.
19 — It’s short for hydrogen bomb.
20 — It’s a derivation of ring true, referring to bells hitting the right note or a test for fake coins by dropping them on a hard surface. Base metal coins made a duller sound than gold or silver.