Here is this week’s quiz. 1 point for each correct answer and answers below:
1. What is the most expensive property on the original UK monopoly board?
2. What is the name of The Mayfair hotel with the same name as savoury biscuit?
3. What is the chemical symbol for Carbon Monoxide?
4. Where would you most expect to find Creole cuisine? USA, Mexico, India?
5. When is St Stephen’s Day?
6. How do Vipers kill their prey? Squeeze to death, Poison, Suffocate
7. Stucco is a coating found on: Cookware, Nails or Walls
8. Who said “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time” ?
9. Where is Horatio Nelson buried?
10. How tall is Nelson’s column in Trafalgar Square? 52 metres, 102 metres, 152 metres
Answers…
1. What is the most expensive property on the original UK monopoly board?
Answer: Mayfair £400
2. What is the name of The Mayfair hotel with the same name as savoury biscuit
Answer: The Ritz
3. What is the chemical symbol for Carbon Monoxide
Answer: CO – a highly poisonous, odourless gas made up of 1 carbon atom and 1 oxygen atom
4. Where would you most expect to find Creole cuisine? USA, Mexico, India
Answer: Louisiana USA Creole cooking originates from Louisiana
5. When is St Stephen’s Day?
Answer: December 26th most often referred to as Boxing Day in the UK
6. How do Vipers kill their prey? Squeeze to death, Poison, Suffocate
Answer: Poison with venom stored in their upper jaws Their fangs spear the prey and jaws can open to 180 degrees
7. Stucco is a coating found on Cookware, Nails or Walls
Answer: Walls, traditionally made from lime, sand and water. Nowadays made using portland cement
8. Who said “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time” ?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln – a great site for famous quotes is https://www.brainyquote.com/
9. Where is Nelson buried?
Answer: St Paul’s Cathedral 9th January 1806 It was over a year after his death hit by a sniper in the battle of Trafalgar on 21st October 1805. His body is reputed to have been preserved in spirits of rum or brandy.
10. How tall is Nelson’s column in Trafalgar Square? 52 metres, 102 metres, 152 metres
Answer: 52 meters or to be exact 169 feet 3 inches equivalent to 51.59 metres
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Ian Fleming – The Man With A Golden Typewriter
Delia Owens – Where The Crawdads Sing
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