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April 3, 2005


Who fought a duel with 
Two Ton Ted?



1 — Whose arch enemy was Two Ton Ted from Teddington who drove the baker’s van?
2 — A pyot is another name for which bird?
3 — What is corkage in a restaurant? 
4 — Which member of the Royal Family is Colonel-In-Chief of The Black Watch?
5 — What are Hufflepuff, Slytherin and Ravenclaw?
6 — Can you sleep with your eyes open?
7 — A woman gave birth to two sons on the same day in the same year, yet they are not twins. How can that be? 
8 — What is a quaich? 
9 — Which former US President had his name changed from Leslie Lynch King as a child — Richard Nixon, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter or Gerald Ford? 
10 — Unscramble I PLAN RACE to reveal a popular Tyneside-born musician. 
11 — Solve these “Con” words — a) French caretaker, b) following as a result of, c) lowest female singing voice, d) region of Co. Galway. 
12 — How many vowels appear on the middle line of a qwerty keyboard? 
13 — Which female name is derived from the Latin meaning “bringer of joy” — Beatrice, Candice, Margaret or Valerie?
14 — The European shirt collar size 35 is equal to what shirt collar size in the UK?
15 — Which fish is often called the sild when it is small and immature?
16 — What do you call a cigar with both ends cut square, rather than one being pointed?
17 — Name four popular singers whose names might remind you of 
different times of day.
18 — A standard adult UK passport has to be renewed every 10 years. How long does a child’s passport last? 
19 — Give another name for the alligator pear. 
20 — What is trichology?


Sunday Post Quiz Answers, April 3, 2005

1 — Ernie, the fastest milkman in the west in the Benny Hill song.
2 — The magpie.
3 — A charge made by restaurants to customers for each bottle of their own wine they bring and consume on the premises. 
4 — Prince Charles, who took over the role from his late grandmother, the Queen Mother.
5 — Three of the four houses at Hogwart’s School in the Harry Potter novels. Gryffindor is the fourth.
6 — Yes, sleepwalkers do. 
7 — They were two of a set of triplets. 
8 — A two-handled wide-rimmed, usually silver or pewter, drinking cup. 
9 — Gerald Ford. 
10 — Alan Price.
11 — a) Concierge, b) consequence, c) contralto, d) Connemara. 
12 — Just one — A. 
13 — Beatrice. 
14 — 131/2. 
15 — The herring.
16 — A cheroot. 
17 — Peter Noone, Gladys Knight, Eve Graham, Don Williams, Don McLean, etc. 
18 — Five years. At age 16 a teenager can apply for an adult one. 19 — Avocado. 
20 — The science of the structure, function and diseases of human hair.