Flickery wee symbol in the corner of your TV screen

1 Whats a cue dot on your TV screen?
2 Which flower is also known as the wild hyacinth?
3 In which Shakespeare play does a ghost walk the ramparts of Elsinore Castle?
4 Identify these popular indoor games a) musical featuring the song
One Night In Bangkok, b) they sang Daddy Cool back in 1977, c) an excluder keeps out these, d) flat-bottomed
boat.
5 Would you expect to see a hassock in an operating theatre, a cinema, a church or a stable?
6 If you have musophobia do you fear a) loud music, b) strong odours, c) mice or
d) darkness?
7 Name any four past or present celebrities whose surname is a British city.
8 If a dumdum was heading your way would you be pleased about it?
9 In which sport might you see a googly?
10 Which mammal takes its name from the Spanish meaning little armoured one?
11 Punch is often served from a bowl at parties. But why is it called punch?
12 What does an arctophile collect beer mats, pencils, keyrings or teddy bears?
13 Is a tetraphobic person afraid of the number one, two, three or four?
14 Cathures is an early name for which Scottish city?
15 Which Cliff Richard hit includes the lyrics Hurry hurry hurry, For the time is slipping by, You dont need a ticket, It belongs to you and I?
16 Would you admire or be afraid of a Dendrocopus major in your garden?
17 How old will Madonna be on her birthday this year?
18 If someone gave you a Waltham Cross would you eat it, wear it, fly it or shake it?
19 Royal Ascot celebrates 300 years in 2010, 2011, 2012 or 2013?
20 What is prosciutto on an Italian restaurant menu?
Sunday Post Quiz Answers,
May 2, 2010
1 Its the flickering symbol in the top right
of the picture used to indicate an ad break is due.
2 Bluebell.
3 Hamlet.
4 a) Chess, b) Darts, c) draughts, d) pontoon.
5 In a church, its a kneeling cushion.
6 c) Mice.
7 Any four from Belinda Carlisle, Charlie Chester, Sir Francis Chichester, Judith Durham, Julie London, Michael or Susannah York, etc.
8 No! Its a bullet that explodes on impact.
9 Cricket. Its a bowling technique.
10 Armadillo.
11 Punch is a word derived from the Persian word punj (five) so called from its five original ingredients spirits,
water, lemon, sugar and spice.
12 Teddy bears.
13 The number four.
14 Glasgow.
15 In The Country.
16 You would probably admire it its a Great Spotted Woodpecker.
17 Shell be 52 on August 16.
18 Youd eat it, its a variety of grape.
19 2011. The Meeting first took place in 1711.
20 Ham.
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