More Fun Trivia

  Good Sunday morning all!  It sure does comes around quickly, doesn't it??   I feel like I just gave you trivia questions a few days ago, hard to believe it has been a full week.  Anyways, here are your twenty questions for Sunday:

1. Which famous fashion designer began her working life as a cabaret singer and is believed to have acquired her nickname from a song she performed?

2. Which common fruit was once so expensive in Britain that wealthy people sometimes rented one to display at dinner parties?

3. What familiar punctuation mark was once called a “note of admiration”?

4. Before becoming famous as an actor, which British celebrity worked as a coffin polisher?

5. Which common game piece was originally made from the knucklebones of sheep?

6. What did Victorian-era “knocker-uppers” do for a living?

7. What unusual substance was sometimes used by the ancient Romans for washing clothes because its ammonia helped remove stains?

8. Which part of a horse is known as the frog?

9. What is the name of the traditional Irish potato pancake also known as bacstaí?

10. What name is given to the individual sections that make up an orange or other citrus fruit?

11. Which South American country has a national flag that is officially different on its front and back?

12. Which animal has three hearts, nine brains and blue blood?

13.Which European country has two official national flags, one for state use and another for civilian use?

14. Which British island is famous for a breed of sheep that can naturally have four or even six horns?

15. What is the only letter that does not appear in the name of any U.S. state?

16. Which country has an archaeological site called Newgrange that is older than both Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids?

17. Which famous British car manufacturer originally produced bicycles before making its first car in 1904?

18. Which European capital contains a hill called Monte Testaccio that was created almost entirely from millions of broken ancient Roman pottery vessels?

19. Which British city has an underground network of caves beneath its streets, including some once used as medieval tannery cellars?

20. What everyday food was once known in Britain as a “Chinese gooseberry”?

 

1. Coco Chanel

2. Pineapples

3. Exclamation point

4. Sean Connery

5. Jacks

6. Waking people up for work by knocking on their windows and doors

7. Urine (both animal and human)

8. The V-shaped part on the underside of the hoof

9. Boxty

10. Carpels

11. Paraguay

12. Octopus

13. Austria

14. Isle of Man

15. The letter Q

16. Ireland

17. Rover Company

18. Rome

19. Nottingham

20. Kiwifruit

Did we do better today than yesterday?  Leave me a comment with your score and if you have any questions for me, I would love that!  I will be back to posting cards tomorrow for you.  All for now, Sue x