Why ice cream makes your 
head throb


1 — Why does eating ice cream sometimes give you a headache?
2 — The following answers contain the word Easter — a) Judy Garland film, b) 1916 Irish rebellion, c) Pacific Ocean land, d) colourful hat.
3 — How much is a standard 10-year adult passport — £22, £32, £42 or £52?
4 — Are starfish really fish?
5 — Complete the proverb “An idle mind is . . .”
6 — Why were smugglers called bootleggers?
7 — What makes popcorn pop?
8 — Why are model pigs the most popular children’s banks?
9 — The first five letters of this British football manager’s name and his team are the same. Name them.
10 — How did Mercedes Benz cars get their name?
11 — Name two cups you don’t drink from.
12 — Which children’s film features a cowboy called Woody?
13 — What’s the speed limit for a car towing a caravan on a motorway?
14 — Name three islands you associate with sweaters. 
15 — Which nation invented paper money?
16 — Name three American TV detective show duos. 
17 — Which type of road literally means “bottom of the bag” in French?
18 — With what is the oncology department of a hospital concerned? 
19 — Calabrese is a popular vegetable. What’s its more common name?
20 — From which language do we get the word paprika?

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, April 25, 2004

1 — The cold triggers a nerve reaction in the roof of your mouth, which causes blood vessels in your brain to swell. 
2 — a) Easter Parade, b) Easter Rising, c) Easter Island, d) Easter bonnet. 
3 — £42.
4 — No, they belong to a group of sea animals called echinoderms.
5 — The devil’s workshop or playground.
6 — It derives from the smuggling of flasks of alcohol in boot legs. 
7 — When it’s heated water inside turns to steam and bursts through the kernels. 
8 — The idea came from loose change storage jars made from orange “pygg” clay. 
9 — Arsene Wenger and Arsenal. 
10 — From Mercedes, the daughter of Austrian businessman Emil Jellinek, and inventor Karl Benz.
11 — Buttercups, eggcups or hiccups! 
12 — Toy Story. 
13 — 60 mph. 
14 — Any three from: Jersey, Guernsey, Arran and Fair Isle. 
15 — China.
16 — Any three from: Crockett & Tubbs, Cagney & Lacey, Starsky & Hutch, Mulder & Scully, etc.
17 — Cul-de-sac. 
18 — The treatment of tumours. 
19 — Broccoli. 
20 — Hungarian.