So just how old is our 
planet Earth?


1 — The Earth is thought to be how many millions of years old? 
2 — Why should gardeners thank Edwin Beard Budding for what he did in 1830?
3 — The TV series Batman was set in which fictional city?
4 — What are Prince Harry’s first four names?
5 — Solve the following clues to famous sculptures or paintings — a) ponderer, b) complaining Elizabeth, c) Merry King’s soldier, d) touching lips.
6 — Who is the patron saint of shoemakers — St Jude, St Crispin, St Andrew or St Ninian?
7 — Is a balletomane a ballet enthusiast, a rack for stacking footballs, a ballroom steward or a medieval weapon?
8 — Monkeys have prehensile feet, humans don’t. What’s the difference?
9 — Ars Gratia Artis is the motto of which well-known company?
10 — What word describes a farm that only grows crops?
11 — Does it ever snow at the Equator?
12 — How many sides does a honeycomb cell have?
13 — Name the actors behind the following TV detectives — a) Wexford, b) Bergerac, c) Maigret, d) Dixon of Dock Green. 
14 — Where is your thyroid gland?
15 — Which area of the USA is renowned for its beautiful autumn foliage?
16 — In the Agatha Christie novel, what time is the train from Paddington?
17 — When is a number like a priest? 
18 — Bottle-nosed, saddle-backed, and Pacific white-sided are all types of what?
19 — On a weather map, an isohyet is a line connecting points having the same amount of what?
20 — What is a buckaroo? 

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, February 1, 2004

1 — Scientists believe the Earth was formed 4500 million years ago. 2 — He invented the lawnmower. 
3 — Gotham City.
4 — Henry Charles Albert David. 
5 — a) The Thinker, b) Mona Lisa, c) The Laughing Cavalier, d) The Kiss.
6 — St Crispin.
7 — A ballet enthusiast. 
8 — Prehensile means they can curve them to grasp branches, etc. 
9 — The film studio Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
10 — Arable.
11 — Yes, at high-altitudes, in places such as Mt Kilimanjaro and Mt Kenya.
12 — Six sides. 
13 — a) George Baker, b) John Nettles, c) Rupert Davies or Michael Gambon, d) Jack Warner.
14 — In your neck, just below the larynx. 
15 — New England.
16 — 4.50. 
17 — When it’s a cardinal number. 
18 — Dolphin. 
19 — Rainfall.
20 — It’s slang for a cowboy.