Before Freddie and Co.
became famous


1 — What did Freddie Mercury, David Bowie, Bryan Ferry and Ronnie Wood all do before they became famous? 
2 — Name the cat in TV’s Postman Pat. 
3 — Why are earwigs so called? 
4 — Eccles and Bluebottle appeared in which famous radio show? 
5 — What word can come before point and room and after foot? 
6 — Name the hit songs by the following artistes with creatures in their titles — a) Chas ’n’ Dave, b) America, c) The Goodies, d) They Might Be Giants. 
7 — Do your eyes keep growing all your life? 
8 — Why do we give cowards a white feather?
9 — If someone gave a lady a mutch what might she do with it? 
10 — What is the largest mammal on earth?
11 — How was BBC Radio 4 known during the 1950s?
12 — Identify the following numbers from TV programmes — a) Patrick McGoohan’s alias, b) Beverly Hills phone number, c) Emergency Ward, d) Sunset Strip.
13 — What is Old Glory in the USA? 
14 — What is a smolt? 
15 — What was the first British car number plate?
16 — How many Wimbledon titles did Billie Jean King win — 16, 20 or 24?
17 — What number was the 1969 Apollo moon mission — 9, 10, 11 or 12?
18 — Why do we talk about getting down to brass tacks?
19 — Would you expect to see a percheron in an aviary, a stable, a formicary or a cattery? 
20 — How many Books of the Old Testament contain fewer than four letters?

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, November 7, 2004

1 — They were all art students.
2 — Jess.
3 — From a myth that they crawled into your ears and up into your brain. 
4 — The Goon Show. Spike Milligan was Eccles and Peter Sellers played Bluebottle. 
5 — Ball.
6 — a) Rabbit, b) Horse With No Name, c) Funky Gibbon, d) Birdhouse In Your Soul.
7 — No, they stop growing during childhood. 
8 — In cock fighting, if a cock had a white tail feather it was a sign of bad breeding and not a good fighter. 
9 — Wear it, it’s a close-fitting cap. 
10 — The blue whale.
11 — The BBC Home Service. 
12 — a) 6, b) 90210, c) 10, d) 77. 
13 — The Stars and Stripes flag. 
14 — A young salmon. 
15 — A1 in 1903.
16 — 20 titles. Six singles, 10 doubles and four mixed doubles. 
17 — Apollo 11. 
18 — It’s rhyming slang — brass tacks, facts. 
19 — In a stable, it’s a horse. 
20 — Just one — Job.