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April 10, 2005


Ever heard of a ha ha in someone’s garden?


1 — What is a ha ha in a garden in the countryside? 
2 — What’s the difference between Australia and Australasia?
3 — If you fractured your clavicle would you still be able to walk?
4 — Rearrange A MUCH FIRE BILL to reveal a German wine.
5 — Casino Royale is the next James Bond movie, but who played the lead in the original 1967 film?
6 — What is a “sticky willie” in the countryside?
7 — Dan Castellaneta does the voice of which American cartoon character?
8 — Who was Marilyn Monroe’s first husband — Joe Di Maggio, Arthur Miller or Jim Dougherty?
9 — What’s unusual about banana oil?
10 — Which dance contains the name of a star?
11 — What is a horse’s gaskin?
12 — Name Britain’s largest national park.
13 — If someone gave you a sampan would you fire it, measure with it, sail it or eat it? 
14 — Which Scandinavian country is the home of Jarlsberg cheese? 
15 — What makes the Red Sea red?
16 — Fill in the blanks to make two forms of transport. — — — OMO — — — —.
17 — Where on a ship is the bulwark?
18 — Does Cowcaddens in Glasgow have anything to do with cows?
19 — Identify these Coronation Street characters — a) sat with Ena and Martha in the snug, b) shot at Baldwin’s Casuals, c) 1990 Christmas Eve baby, d) married Ian Bentley in 1999. 
20 — What is the stretcher on a piece of furniture? 


Sunday Post Quiz Answers, April 10, 2005

1 — A boundary that doesn’t interrupt the view. It’s often a sunken wall with its top at ground level, with a ditch on the outer side to stop cattle or sheep entering the garden.
2 — Australasia also includes New Zealand, New Guinea and nearly South Pacific islands. 
3 — Yes, as it’s your collarbone. 
4 — Liebfraumilch. 
5 — David Niven.
6 — Another name for cleavers or goosegrass, a plant that produces little sticky seed balls which cling to passing animals and people.
7 — Homer Simpson. 
8 — Jim Dougherty. 
9 — It doesn’t come from bananas. It’s the common name of the chemical compound amyl acetate, which smells like bananas. 
10 — The bossa nova.
11 — The lower part of the thigh between the hock (ankle) and the stifle (knee). 
12 — Cairngorms National Park at 1467 square miles. 
13 — Sail it, it’s an oriental boat. 
14 — Norway. 
15 — The algae that grows on the surface releases a red pigment.
16 — Locomotive and automobile. 
17 — It’s the extension of the ship’s sides above the deck level. 
18 — Yes, it was once common grazing ground for cattle. 
19 — a) Minnie Caldwell, b) Ernest Bishop, c) Rosie Webster, d) Sharon Gaskell. 
20 — The horizontal bar that joins the legs.