Would you dine at
MacLeod’s Tables?

1 — What do you do with MacLeod’s Tables — solve maths problems, climb them or dine at them?
2 — The composer Peter Tchaikovsky had a brother called — Morbid, Modest or Mysterious?
3 — Name the husband and wife in The Simpsons.
4 — Make a connection between golf, chains and an English county.
5 — In which American cities were — a) Abraham Lincoln, b) John F. Kennedy, c) Martin Luther King assassinated?
6 — Why is a football match between local teams known as a derby?
7 — Where would you read about galleons, sickles and knuts as currency? 
8 — Complete the names of these “Saintly” places — a) Ottery St - - - - , b) Abbey St - - - - -, c) Chalfont St - - - - - - -, (d) Bury St - - - - - - -. 
9 — Name the dog in Frasier.
10 — How many people are there in each boat in the University Boat Race? 
11 — On an average day, who are called out more often — firefighters or paramedics?
12 — Is President Bush a Democrat or Republican? 
13 — It was originally proposed to call a famous Scottish thoroughfare St Giles Street, but King George III objected because that name reminded him of a slum area in London. What do we know it as?
14 — If a golfer returns a score for any hole lower than he really scored he’s disqualified. What happens if he returns a score higher than the proper score?
15 — Why do we say you can win “hands down”?
16 — The Lone Ranger’s famous horse was Silver. What was the name of his sidekick Tonto’s horse?
17 — Which was the first “manufactured” pop group, formed by NBC-TV in America as the result of an advertisement in a Los Angeles paper in 1965?
18 — In old-fashioned telephone boxes, what would have happened if you pressed Button B?
19 — At which racecourse does the flat racing season traditionally begin and end? 
20 — What do the “J” and “K” stand for in J.K. Rowling?

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, June 27, 2004

1 — Climb them, they’re twin flat-topped mountains on Skye. 
2 — Modest. 
3 — Homer and Marge. 
4 — Links and Lincs! 
5 — a) Washington DC, b) Dallas, c) Memphis.
6 — The Epsom Derby horse race became so popular in the 19th Century that soon all sporting events between neighbouring sides became known as local derbies. 
7 — In Harry Potter books. 
8 — a) Mary, b) Bathans, c) Peter or Giles, d) Edmunds. 
9 — Eddie. 
10 — Eight rowers, plus the cox.
11 — Paramedics. 
12 — He’s a Republican. 
13 — Princes Street, Edinburgh. 
14 — The higher score stands. 
15 — In horse racing a jockey with a commanding lead can relax the pull on the reins and win hands down.
16 — Scout. 
17 — The Monkees. 
18 — You got your money back. 
19 — Doncaster. 
20 — Joanne Kathleen.