It’s the most famous mile in Scotland


1 — Is Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, less, exactly or more than a mile long?
2 — What pen name did novelist Mary Ann Evans use?
3 — In politics who were the Gang of Four?
4 — Which car manufacturer gets its name from Japanese words meaning “three diamonds”?
5 — In boxing which class is heavier — welterweight or middleweight?
6 — Give the names of the bands who backed — a) Brian Poole, b) Lloyd Cole, c) Gerry Marsden, d) Siouxsie Sioux.
7 — Why do men’s jackets have lapels?
8 — Which TV soap family are the odd one out — The Dingles, The Grimshaws, The Hopes, The Tates?
9 — Through how many degrees would a soldier turn if given the command “right about face”? 
10 — Would you find a gilt on a farm, in an optician’s shop, at the dentist or in an aquarium?
11 — Add an N to a type of fowl to make a prison official.
12 — Who was “the Virgin Queen”?
13 — Why is someone who takes the blame called a fall guy? 
14 — What’s the difference between a dwarf and a midget? 
15 — What is jenga?
16 — Why is London’s Central Criminal Court called the Old Bailey?
17 — The gazelle hound is more commonly known as what?
18 — In Alice In Wonderland which creature smokes a hookah?
19 — Which is the world’s most eaten meat? 
20 — In Spain which is the “golden coast”? (

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, January 4, 2004

1 — More than a mile (one mile, 107 yards, from Edinburgh Castle to Holyrood House). 
2 — George Eliot. 
3 — Labour politicians Bill Rodgers, Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins and David Owen who broke away to form the SDP. 
4 — Mitsubishi. 
5 — Middleweight.
6 — a) The Tremeloes, b) The Commotions, c) The Pacemakers, d) The Banshees. 
7 — Style evolved from jackets that buttoned right up to the collar. When left open at the top folds formed lapels.
8 — The Grimshaws from Coronation Street. Others are in Emmerdale.
9 — 180, so as to face in the opposite direction.
10 — On a farm — it’s a female pig. 
11 — Turkey to turnkey. 
12 — Elizabeth I. 
13 — In rigged wrestling bouts, he was the one who agreed to “take a fall” and in Hollywood the fall guy is the stuntman. 
14 — A dwarf tends to have a normal-sized head and torso, but short limbs, a midget is small but with a body in proportion. 
15 — A building blocks game. Idea is to try to remove blocks from a tower without knocking it over.
16 — Taken from the street where it’s situated, Bailey is from Old French baille, “enclosed court”, referring to the enclosure of the City wall between Ludgate and Newgate. 
17 — The saluki. 
18 — The caterpillar. 
19 — Pork. 
20 — Costa Dorado.