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February 8, 2004


Railway under the streets 
of Glasgow



1 — How many lines are there on the Glasgow Underground?
2 — A car bearing a GBZ sticker comes from where? 
3 — Name three Abba hits that end with the letter O.
4 — What do the initials WS stand for after the name of a firm of solicitors?
5 — What is a unicameral government?
6 — Who were Sabrina, Jill, Kelly and Kris in the popular 1970s TV series?
7 — Which planet has a moon called Europa?
8 — Elvis Presley made his first recordings on which record label?
9 — Which self-defence sport translates from the Japanese meaning “gentle way”?
10 — Which James Bond film title is also a duck?
11 — Oxgangs is a well-known suburb of Edinburgh, but what is an oxgang?
12 — The Millennium Dome is in which London borough?
13 — Was Tom Baker the third, fourth, fifth or sixth actor to play Dr Who?
14 — Wild budgerigars are mainly what colour?
15 — Unscramble GAS MAN’S MUG NOUNS to identify a famous TV quizmaster. 
16 — Is rhubarb a fruit or a vegetable?
17 — When was the first postage stamp issued — 1830, 1835, 1840, 1845?
18 — Woodentop was the original name of which long-running TV police drama?
19 — Where was the old Roman province of Lusitania?
20 — What kind of animal is a Flemish giant? 


Sunday Post Quiz Answers, February 8, 2004

1 — Just two — clockwise and anti-clockwise. 
2 — Gibraltar.
3 — Waterloo, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, Fernando.
4 — Writer to the signet. Originally they were clerks who prepared letters under the king’s signet seal.
5 — One which operates with a single legislative chamber.
6 — Charlie’s Angels. 
7 — Jupiter. 
8 — Sun Records. 
9 — Judo. 
10 — Goldeneye.
11 — A measure of land (around 13 acres), but originally as much as an ox could plough, or gang over, in a day.
12 — Greenwich. 
13 — The fourth. 
14 — Green, with some yellow.
15 — Magnus Magnusson.
16 — Vegetable. 
17 — 1840. It was known as the Penny Black. 
18 — The Bill
19 — Portugal and western Spain. 
20 — A rabbit.