When the world’s highest mountain was conquered

1 — Mount Everest was finally conquered in which year? 
2 — What are the Five Classic Horse Races? 
3 — Which British politicians were known by the nicknames — a) Bambi, b) Tarzan, c) Two Jags, d) Supermac?
4 — Which nation is the world’s largest garlic producer — a) France, 
b) USA, c) Japan or d) China? 
5 — Which TV drama is set in Leopard’s Den? 
6 — Who is the “elder hand” in a game of playing cards? 
7 — Take away seven letters from “startling”, one at a time, to make seven new words. 
8 — If you’re a galanthophile do you love — a) tulips, b) polyanthus, c) euphorbias or d) snowdrops? 
9 — Identify the “stupid” songs by the following singers and bands — 
a) Shania Twain, b) Connie Francis, c) Garbage, d) Pet Shop Boys.
10 — What is a sockeye in a fishmonger’s shop? 
11 — Rearrange COGNITION to find a disguised word. 
12 — Did Dick Turpin really exist? 
13 — Name Britain’s third oldest university.
14 — What’s the opposite of the nadir? 
15 — To supervise a learner driver you have to be how old and to have held a full driving licence for how long? 
16 — How is America’s Idlewild airport better known today? 
17 — Who would wear a yarmulke? 
18 — How did the expression “to pull the wool over someone’s eyes” originate? 
19 — Which abbreviated English county is a good thing for tired people? 
20 — What comes after red hot to make the name of a common garden plant?  

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, March 16, 2008

1 — 1953. 
2 — One Thousand Guineas, Two Thousand Guineas, The Oaks, The Derby and The St. Leger. 
3 — a) Tony Blair, b) Michael Heseltine, c) John Prescott, d) Harold Macmillan. 
4 — China, which produces 75 per cent of the world’s supply. 
5 — Wild At Heart.
6 — The player to the left of the dealer, first to receive a card. 
7 — Starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in. 
8 — Snowdrops. 
9 — a) Don’t Be Stupid (You Know I Love You), b) Stupid Cupid, c) Stupid Girl, d) I’m With Stupid. 
10 — It’s a salmon.
11 — Incognito. 
12 — Yes, the infamous highwayman was the son of an 18th Century innkeeper. 
13 — St Andrews, after Oxford and Cambridge. 
14 — The zenith. 
15 — 21 and have had a licence for three years.
16 — John F. Kennedy International Airport. 
17 — Jewish males. It’s a skullcap. 
18 — The wool refers to a wig in the days when they were worn like hats. 
19 — Beds! 
20 — Poker.