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August 10, 2008

When the curtain came down on Top Of The Pops

1 — In which year did the BBC broadcast the last episode of Top Of The Pops?
2 — A nunchuck is an add-on controller used to play which games console? 
3 — Give five common expressions or phrases containing something to eat.
4 — What is the smallest interval in music? 
5 — Name three Scottish football teams ending in “K”. 
6 — What can be pop-up, tunnel or frame?
7 — Name the largest park in Glasgow. 
8 — If you live in a littoral property are you likely to have a view of the coast? 
9 — What name is given to the topmost layer of your skin? 
10 — What type of penguin is also a kind of pasta? 
11 — Did the first Tour De France take place in 1903, 1905, 1908 or 1912? 
12 — Identify the following European airports from the codes — a) BHX, b) FAO, c) LCA, d) BRU? 
13 — What does FSH in a car ad mean? 
14 — An icosahedron has how many sides? 
15 — Coronation Street character Becky Grainger recently became the 35th, 40th, 45th or 50th Rovers Return barmaid?
16 — What word can be a Scottish river and a university tutor? 
17 — If someone has heterochromia iridis what’s different about them? 
18 — Which sport is played on a diamond? 
19 — What is a clocker on a farm? 
20 — Rearrange Bath pray dry it to find an annual celebration. 


Sunday Post Quiz Answers, August 10, 2008

1 — 2006, after 42 years. 
2 — Nintendo Wii. 
3 — Any five from salad days, cheap as chips, best thing since sliced bread, save your bacon, apple pie order, cool as a cucumber, have egg on your face, etc. 
4 — A semitone or half-step. 
5 — Kilmarnock, Falkirk and Queen’s Park.
6 — A tent. 
7 — Pollok Country Park. 
8 — Yes, littoral means of or by the coast or seashore. 
9 — The epidermis, surfaced by peeling, dead skin cells (stratum corneum). 
10 — Macaroni penguin.
11 — 1903. 
12 — a) Birmingham, UK, b) Faro, Portugal, c) Larnaca, Cyprus, d) Brussels, Belgium. 
13 — Full service history. 
14 — 20 sides. 
15 — The 50th.
16 — Don. 
17 — Their eyes are different colours. 
18 — Baseball. 
19 — A broody hen. 
20 — Birthday party.