Christmas Quiz 2009
ANSWERS Published 1st January 2010

Questions & Puzzle (taken from The Fishkeeper 1977)
1) Why are fish so smart? They travel in schools.
2) What fish would you find in a birdcage?  A Perch.
3) How can you communicate with fish? Drop them a line.
4) How can you tell how much a fish weighs? Look at its Scales.
5) Why is hay like a fish? Because cattle (cat'll) eat it.
6) What kind of fish do find on your foot? A Sole
7) How Many Fish?
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Name These Cars
1) rrraefi  Ferrari

          2) Lotus               3) Vauxhall            4) Porsche        5) SEAT.

Children's TV Programmes
1) ENB  DIX   Ben Ten  - ENB = BEN; DIX is 10 in French
2) Removing wool from this animal. Shaun the Sheep
3) not olds circle. News (olds) Round (circle)
4) Robert the constructor. Bob the Builder
5) Vroom from Birmingham. Brum (Birmingham is known locally as Brum)

Anagrams 
1) RAN DEB GIR EEK Bede Kerrigan
2) WAR BRAUL PO  Paul Barrow
3) BE KANY THING  Bethany King
4) MY CART HEARS  Amy Charters
5) MODRN NEK MUD  Ken Drummond

Records
1). What is the lowest place on the Earth's surface?  Dead Sea, Jordan: 399 metres below sea level
2). What is the highest place on the Earth's surface? Mt. Everest: 8,846 metres above sea level
3) Which English county has recorded the highest rainfall? Cumbria: Burrowdale 3.3 metres per year
4) Which English county has recorded the lowest rainfall? Essex: St Osyth 0.513 metres per year
5) What is the hottest place on the Earth's surface? Libian Desert or Death Valley, USA: 57oC
6) What is the coldest place on the Earth's surface?  Antartica: - 70oC
 
Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
 1) pangolin   Animal: the Scaly Anteater.
 2) tourmaline  Mineral: a semi-precious stone.
 3) Salvinia  Vegetable: a floating plant.
 4) galena  Mineral: Lead ore.
 5) marcasite  Mineral: a metallic substance also known as white fool's gold.
 6) mung  Vegetable: a bean.
 7) okra  Vegetable: has edible green fruits.
 8) aye-aye  Animal: a type of lemur.
 9) tarsier  Animal: a small Asian primate.
10) pla-kang    Animal: a South American catfish growing to over 35kg.
11) lapis lazuli  Mineral: a type of blue stone use to manufacture coloured paint.
12) Pussytoes  Vegetable: a low growing plant found in arid conditions.

Brain Teasers
1) Which letter is the next in this sequence? M, A, M, J, J, A, S, O, N: November
2) A Peacock does not lay eggs, how does it reproduce? Peahens lay the eggs.
3) Why do Eskimos not eat Penguins? Penguins live at the south pole and Eskimos at the north pole.
4) How far can you walk into a wood? Into the middle because you'll then be walking out.
5) A B I T H I W T I T B (proverb) A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
6) VI=1983; V=1980; III= 2005; II =2002; I=1999; what does IV=  
IV=1977: Release years of Star Wars episodes

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