It’s the gift you get from kissing the Blarney Stone

1 — According to tradition kissing the Blarney Stone is supposed to endow the kisser with what? 
2 — You never saw his face, but this actor appears in all six Star Wars movies. Name him.
3 — “Nemo Me Impune Lacessit” is the motto of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. How does it translate into English? 
4 — The Police Service of Northern Ireland was formerly known as what? 
5 — Identify the following “majors” — a) Mentioned in Bowie’s Space Oddity, b) Six Million Dollar Man actor, c) Fawlty Towers resident, d) former Prime Minister.
6 — What is marscarpone? 
7 — How is the American entertainer Robert Matthew Van Winkle better known to his young fans?
8 — Is erythrophobia a fear of blushing, crying, laughing or snoring? 
9 — How high is a basketball hoop — eight, 10, 12 or 14 feet? 
10 — Which world-famous magazine did you associate with a Pegasus logo? 
11 — If it’s 12 noon here what time is it in Afghanistan? 
12 — How many tiles should you find in a complete game of Scrabble? 
13 — Which mythological Red Indian hero was reared by his grandmother Nokomis and later married Minnehaha?
14 — Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, Rowan Atkinson and who else made up TV’s Not The Nine O’clock News team? 
15 — Which country will host the 55th Eurovision Song Contest in May — Belgium, Estonia, Norway or Switzerland? 
16 — Born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1965, which singer fronted The Sugarcubes? 
17 — What, according to the advertising campaign, “is fizzy, ginger and phenomenal”? 
18 — Which ice cream flavour means “all fruits” in English? 
19 — What is a grieve on a farm? 
20 — In a standard pack of playing cards, which Queen faces to the right? 

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, March 21, 2010

1 — The gift of the gab. 
2 — Anthony Daniels who plays C-3PO. 
3 — No-one provokes me with impunity. 
4 — The Royal Ulster Constabulary. 
5 — a) Major Tom, b) Lee Majors, c) Major Gowen, d) John Major.
6 — A cream cheese from Italy. 
7 — He’s the rapper Vanilla Ice. 
8 — Blushing. 
9 — 10 feet. 
10 — Readers Digest.
11 — 4.30 pm. 
12 — 100, including two blank ones. 
13 — Hiawatha. 
14 — Pamela Stephenson. 
15 — Norway.
16 — Bjork. 
17 — Barr’s Irn-Bru. 
18 — Tutti-frutti. 
19 — A foreman or overseer. 
20 — The Queen of Spades.