We can’t get enough of this chocolate bar

1 — Which is the best-selling chocolate bar in the UK?
2 — Which wild plant is sometimes called “the Irish daisy”?
3 — Identify the following pop singing “Billys” from their songs — a)
Caribbean Queen, b) Because We Want To, c) Achy Breaky
Heart,
d) An Innocent Man.
4 — Which children’s toy do you associate with Steiff of Germany?
5 — Ponderosa was the name of the ranch in which classic American TV
series?
6 — If someone gave you a steelhead, would you put it in your toolbox, cook it for your tea, wear it round
your neck or play a tune on it?
7 — If your airport luggage tag says PMI to which airport are you flying?
8 — If you say something is kenspeckle, what do you mean?
9 — What time of day can look the same upside down?
10 — Which American state has the smallest population?
11 — Who used a mattock in days gone by — a weaver, a barrel-maker, a locksmith or a farm labourer?
12 — What is a mule the offspring of?
13 — Which is the largest brass instrument?
14 — What was the first name of the person who gave his name to the Atkins diet?
15 — If you ordered gumbo in a Cajun restaurant what would you expect to receive?
16 — Sharks have no bones — true or false?
17 — Do married men live longer than bachelors?
18 — Where in your body is your aqueous humour?
19 — How did the expression eating “humble pie” originate?
20 — Which was the first European country to make wearing seat belts
compulsory — Portugal, Switzerland, Poland or Czech Republic?
Sunday Post Quiz Answers,
March 28, 2004
1 — Cadbury’s Dairy Milk.
2 — The dandelion.
3 — a) Billy Ocean, b) Billie Piper, c) Billy Ray Cyrus, d) Billy Joel.
4 — Teddy bears.
5 — Bonanza. It was owned by the Cartwright family.
6 — Cook and eat it, it’s the saltwater form of rainbow trout.
7 — Palma, Majorca.
8 — It is easily recognisable.
9 — NOON!
10 — Wyoming (498,703).
11 — A farm labourer — it’s a hand-held implement for tilling the soil.
12 — A donkey and a mare.
13 — The bass tuba.
14 — Robert Atkins, who was an American.
15 — A soup thickened with okra pods.
16 — True, they have a skeleton of cartilage.
17 — Yes, there’s evidence to suggest they do.
18 — Your eye. It’s the clear fluid separating the cornea from the iris. 19 — It was “umble pie” originally. Umbles were the heart, liver and entrails of the deer made into a pie for the humble servants.
20 — Czech Republic (then Czechoslovakia) in 1969.
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