Does your hair grow
faster than your nails?

1 — Which grows faster — your hair or your fingernails?
2 — Burns wrote, “Facts are chiels that winna ding”. What does that mean?
3 — Which supermodel’s name means a sudden change of mind or impulsive desire? 
4 — Name the Queen’s official residence in Scotland. 
5 — Which chart hit for Freda Payne was also the title of an ITV drama series? 
6 — Players in which two positions are the only ones allowed to score in netball? 
7 — Bovine is to cattle as lupine is to what? 
8 — The following answers have a Royal connection — a) It Might As Well Rain Until September singer, b) type of bowls, c) former British gold coin, d) Scottish brimless cap. 
9 — Deoxyribonucleic acid is something that identifies us as individuals. How do we commonly refer to it? 
10 — The tax year begins on which date? 
11 — What does the doctor mean by the ABO system? 
12 — When World War 2 started who was US president? 
13 — Why does boiling water bubble? 
14 — Identify the following films which feature John Travolta — a) soft wet mass, not real, b) armed swimmer, c) obtain small person, d) you needn’t speak. 
15 — If you’re an ailurophile do you love cats, real ale, expensive perfumes or air travel? 
16 — What is a boomer in Australia? 
17 — Name four football teams with points of the compass in their names. 
18 — Why do we say a psychic person possesses a sixth sense? 
19 — Which butterfly is named after an area of south east London? 
20 — Which mythical creature has the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion? 

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, October 24, 2004

1 — Your hair, at about half an inch a month. Your fingernails grow around a quarter of an inch a month. 
2 — Facts are fellows that will not be upset (Facts can’t be denied). 3 — Caprice. 
4 — The Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. 
5 — Band Of Gold.
6 — Goal attack and goal shooter. 
7 — Wolves. 
8 — a) Carole King, b) crown bowls, c) Sovereign, d) Balmoral. 
9 — As DNA. 
10 — April 6.
11 — The four basic blood groups system — A, AB, B and O. 
12 — Franklin D. Roosevelt. 
13 — Water is being converted to steam or vapour and breaks through the surface as bubbles. 
14 — a) Pulp Fiction, b) Swordfish, c) Get Shorty, d) Look Who’s Talking. 
15 — Cats.
16 — A large male grey kangaroo. 
17 — Any four from: West Bromwich Albion, East Fife, Queen of the South, Preston North End, East Stirling, Southampton, etc. 
18 — Because it’s in addition to the five senses — sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch — we all possess. 
19 — Camberwell Beauty. 
20 — A griffin.