Which Scottish city was 
once Cathures?


1 — Which Scottish place was known as Cathures in its infancy?
2 — What do the initials of Winnie The Pooh author AA Milne stand 
for — Alastair Arthur, Adam Aiden or Alan Alexander?
3 — What do you call male and female badgers?
4 — Which game is older — golf or lawn tennis?
5 — Which flower gives us the dye saffron?
6 — The answers to the following clues are bands on the current pop scene — a) when the lights go out, b) dark iris legumes, c) broken or damaged, d) noisy ladies. 
7 — What shape is the red “Stop” sign on our roads?
8 — What is a royal stag?
9 — Why do we say someone who has been betrayed has been “sold down the river”?
10 — Is ichthyology the study of worms, minerals, gases or fish?
11 — Name a place in Dumfries and Galloway with two letters in its name.
12 — What was a chapman in Scotland in days gone by?
13 — Pick the odd one out — Goliath, Polyphemus, The BFG, Medusa, Finn MacCool. 
14 — How old was Sir Winston Churchill when he died — 70, 80 or 90?
15 — What would you expect to see stored in a hogshead?
16 — How do horses manage to sleep standing up?
17 — What’s surprising about moleskin trousers?
18 — How many regular presenters has ITV’s You’ve Been Framed had?
19 — Choppers, which were all the rage in the 1970s, are back in production. What are they?
20 — What word can follow second yet precede man? 

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, February 15, 2004

1 — Glasgow. Around 80AD, Cathures was a trading post inhabited by Celtic druids.
2 — Alan Alexander. 
3 — Boars and sows. 
4 — Golf, which was first played in St Andrews around 1400. Lawn tennis was first played in the early 1870s. 
5 — Crocus.
6 — a) The Darkness, b) Black-Eyed Peas, c) Busted, d) Girls Aloud. 
7 — Octagonal. 
8 — One with 12 or more points on its antlers. 
9 — American slaves were transported down the Mississippi after being sold to plantation owners. 
10 — Fish.
11 — Ae, north of Dumfries. 
12 — A merchant or a peddler. 
13 — Medusa, a gorgon from Greek mythology with snakes for hair. The others are giants. 
14 — He was 90 when he passed away in 1965.
15 — Beer or wine, it’s a large cask or barrel. 
16 — They’re able to “lock” their kneecaps and fetlocks, although for deep sleep they do lie down. 
17 — They have nothing to do with moles. They’re made of a coarse twilled cotton fabric. 
18 — Three — Jeremy Beadle, Lisa Riley and Jonathan Wilkes. 
19 — Children’s bikes with a long saddle and smaller front wheels.
20 — Best.