If you’re watching fitba’at the Famous 5 Stand . . .

1 — Where can you watch football from the Famous 5 Stand?
2 — What modern word is derived from the Greek meaning “a place to train naked”?
3 — We’ve all heard of road rage, but what is wrap rage?
4 — The following clues give “moon” answers — a) Ozzy Osbourne album, b) David Niven autobiography, c) online personal greetings card company, d) Glenn Miller Orchestra theme.
5 — If Gary Lightbody is singing lead vocals you’re at a gig by which band?
6 — Europe’s only legal private army is Scottish. Name it.
7 — Where can you find Haroldswick Methodist Church, the UK’s most northerly church building?
8 — Victor Borge, Imogen Cooper, John Ireland and Gerald Moore are famous musicians associated with which instrument?
9 — Originally broadcast from a converted church in Manchester in 1964, it ran until 2006. What was it?
10 — Which show tune from Rodgers and Hart musical Babes In Arms
includes the lyrics, “Won’t go to Harlem in ermine and pearls, Won’t dish the dirt with the rest of the girls”?
11 — Is an aye-aye a species of — lemur, meerkat, parrot or rat?
12 — Delete a vowel in a type of hammer and replace it with a different vowel to make a men’s hairstyle from the 1980s.
13 — Which industry is said to have started as a way to make use of rain-damaged barley?
14 — The historic Stone of Scone is also known as the Stone of . . . what?
15 — Apart from Lassie, name four celebrity dogs from films and TV programmes?
16 — What shape is a cleat hook?
17 — How many coloured balls are used in a game of croquet?
18 — What’s the difference between translucent and transparent?
19 — Is rhubarb a fruit or vegetable?
20 — What is a boomer in Australia?
Sunday Post Quiz Answers,
January 3, 2010
1 — Easter Road, the Leith home of Hibernian FC. Named after the legendary forward line
of Gordon Smith, Bobby Johnstone, Lawrie Reilly, Eddie Turnbull and Willie Ormond.
2 — Gymnasium.
3 — When you buy something that’s so well packaged up you get angry trying to open it.
4 — a) Bark At The Moon, b) The Moon’s A Balloon, c) Moonpig.com,
d) Moonlight Serenade.
5 — Snow Patrol.
6 — The Atholl Highlanders.
7 — On the island of Unst in the Shetlands.
8 — The piano.
9 — Top Of The Pops.
10 — The Lady Is A Tramp.
11 — Lemur.
12 — Mallet to mullet.
13 — Scotch whisky distillation.
14 — Destiny.
15 — Schnorbitz, Rin Tin Tin, Toto, Rebel, Schmeichel, Shep, Fanny the Wonderdog, etc.
16 — Usually oval with two arms, one top and one bottom for wrapping rope, etc around.
17 — Four. Blue, red, yellow and black.
18 — Something translucent allows light to pass through but the image beyond is unclear. You can see objects clearly through
something transparent.
19 — Botanically it’s a vegetable, but it’s eaten as a fruit.
20 — A male kangaroo.
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