Glorious displays that light up the night skies

1 — The Northern Lightsare also known as the Aurora Borealis, but what’s the alternative name for the Southern Lights? 
2 — Which male singer sang the theme to a James Bond movie and represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest? 
3 — Give two place names ending in “ii”. 
4 — What does bolshoi in Bolshoi Ballet mean? 
5 — What is a Camberwell Beauty? 
6 — Were all Charlie Chaplin’s films silent movies? 
7 — From where do we obtain saffron? 
8 — By what name is the common condition epistaxis better known? 
9 — What word can come after gold, table and loose?
10 — Is it more or less than 15 years since the National Lottery began? 
11 — Is Gordon Brown the Queen’s ninth, tenth, eleventh or twelfth Prime Minister? 
12 — Barrels of oil have been in the news a lot recently. But how much does a barrel contain — 15 gallons, 25 gallons or 35 gallons? 
13 — Name the hostelry frequented by TVs Rab C. Nesbitt and his friends.
14 — What do the initials NASA stand for? 
15 — If something is described as columbine is it dove-like, eagle-like, mouse-like or parrot-like? 
16 — What species of ape live on Gibraltar? 
17 — If a doctor said you have infectious parotitis, what would be wrong with you? 
18 — Which of these countries does NOT show a star on their flag — Cameroon, South Korea, New Zealand or Panama?
19 — Which airlines merged in the 1970s to form British Airways? 
20 — Which stays fresh for longer — honey, jam, mustard or butter? 

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, July 27, 2008

1 — Aurora Australis. 
2 — Matt Monro who sang From Russia With Love and represented the UK in 1964 with I Love The Little Things. 
3 — Hawaii and Pompeii.
4 — It’s Russian for great or big. 
5 — A butterfly.
6 — No, he did make a few talkies. 
7 — The stigmas of the saffron crocus. 
8 — A nosebleed. 
9 — Leaf. 
10 — Less, it’s 14 years this year. 
11 — He’s the eleventh. 
12 — 35 gallons. 
13 — The Two Ways Inn. 
14 — National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 
15 — Dove-like. 
16 — Barbary apes. 
17 — You’d have mumps. 
18 — South Korea. 
19 — BOAC & BEA. 
20 — Honey, which keeps almost indefinitely.