Swashbuckler from the west
of Scotland

1 — Which legendary pirate was born in Greenock?
2 — What are SUVs on the road?
3 — Which sporting item has a heel and a head?
4 — Why are hospital operating rooms called theatres?
5 — Cats meow, bulls bellow and turkeys gobble. What do peacocks do?
6 — Which of the following films DIDN’T Frank Sinatra appear in — a) Robin And The 7 Hoods, b) High Society, c) On The Town, d) Carousel.
7 — At what time of day are we thought to be at our most creative?
8 — Short-sightedness is to myopia as long-sightedness is to what?
9 — It’s glace in France and helados in Spain. How do we know it?
10 — Name Cliff Richard’s first UK hit back in 1958. 
11 — In the P & O Shipping Company, what does the P & O stand for?
12 — The following answers contain numbers — a) afternoon beard growth, b) Nena’s red balloons, c) Henry Fonda movie, d) Sound Of Music track.
13 — Ankara, Athens, London, Moscow, Kiev and Athlone were often seen on the front of what once common household gadget?
14 — Why is spilled oil on a wet road so colourful?
15 — What is the name of the Lone Ranger’s horse?
16 — Is a rat tail a type of saw, hammer, wrench or file?
17 — If you’re a “gable endie” you come from which Scottish town?
18 — A plantain is a variety of which fruit? 
19 — Why do we talk about “cottoning on” to something? 
20 — Which popular BBC sitcom was set in Torquay? 

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, February 20, 2005

1 — Captain Kidd.
2 — Sport utility vehicles, such as the Toyota Land Cruiser and Land Rover Freelander. 
3 — A golf club. 
4 — Because early operating rooms were set out like theatres to allow trainee doctors to observe operations. 
5 — They scream.
6 — Carousel.
7 — In the mornings, from 10 am to 12 noon. 
8 — Hypermetropia or hyperopia. 
9 — As ice cream. 
10 — Move It.
11 — Peninsular and Oriental. 
12 — a) Five o’clock shadow, b) 99 Red Balloons, c) 12 Angry Men, d) Sixteen Going On Seventeen. 
13 — A wireless. 
14 — Oil and water don’t mix, so oil sits on the top and acts like a prism splitting up white light into its component colours. 
15 — Silver.
16 — It’s a file. 
17 — Montrose. From when the streets were lined with gable-ended houses. 
18 — Banana. 
19 — From the way raw cotton stuck to cotton pickers’ clothes. 
20 — Fawlty Towers.