Desperate character 
calls Cactusville home

1 — Who lives in Cactusville? 
2 — If a new street was built containing 100 houses, how many number 9s would the builders need to put on the doors? 
3 — What is a petaflop — a) a measurement of computing speed, b) a marine mammal, c) a perennial plant or d) a gymnastics movement? 
4 — By what name was Yangon in Burma formerly known? 
5 — What rank did Ian Fleming’s James Bond reach in the Navy? 
6 — What’s the only bird that can fly backwards? 
7 — By what name was Derek Niven Van den Bogaerde known as an actor? 
8 — Eilean Muireach or Cherry Island is the only island on which famous Scottish loch? 
9 — Bortsch is a Russian soup primarily containing which vegetable? 
10 — Why is Nipper the dog a familiar sight on the High Street? 
11 — In which card game do players use spilikins? 
12 — Rearrange THE LUNCH BAN and WARN BLOKE to identify two Coronation Street characters who are related. 
13 — Name three English words that contain these groups of consonants — sthm, tchphr, tchst. 
14 — The name of which pop group is one word repeated three times? 
15 — If you tune into channel 6 on Freeview what TV station are you watching? 
16 — What is an omnibologist?
17 — How many coloured squares are there on a Rubik’s cube? 
18 — Identify these wild birds — a) three under par at a hole in golf, b) festive meal country, c) Batman’s partner, d) little Jenny.
19 — Why are dinner jackets also called tuxedos? 
20 — Which African city’s name means “white house” in Spanish? 

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, July 20, 2008

1 — Desperate Dan. 
2 — 20. 
3 — a) A measurement of computing speed. 
4 — Rangoon. 
5 — Commander. 
6 — The humming bird. 
7 — Dirk Bogarde. 
8 — Loch Ness. 
9 — Beetroot. 
10 — Because he’s the dog on the well-known logo of HMV. 
11 — Cribbage. They’re the pegs for the board. 
12 — Blanche Hunt, mother-in-law to Ken Barlow. 
13 — Asthma and isthmus, catchphrase, matchstick. 
14 — Wet Wet Wet. 
15 — ITV2.
16 — A bus-spotter. 
17 — 54. Six sides of nine. 
18 — a) Albatross, b) turkey, c) robin, d) wren. 
19 — They were popularised by men who wore them at the Tuxedo Club, New York. 
20 — Casablanca, Morocco.