1. If lamb is used in a shepherd’s pie, which meat is used in a cottage pie?
2. Which village in Dumfries and Galloway is the birthplace of the historian, Thomas Carlyle.
3. The gun manufacturer, Birmingham Small Arms, is perhaps better remembered for making which type of vehicles?
4. What name, meaning “table” in Latin, is used by the organisation for individuals with high IQs?
5. What colour is the beak of the Australian black swan?
6. Silver Doctor, Green Highlander and Munro’s Killer are three varieties of which piece of sporting equipment — arrows, fishing flies or golf balls? 
7. Rotator, racecar and radar are all examples of what type of word?
8. In the simple Scottish dwelling, a “but ’n’ ben”, which part of the name is applied to the inner of the two chambers?
9. Which smelly gas has the chemical formula CH4?
10. Which television series was set in and around the fictional estate of Glenbogle? 
11. Topaz was the peculiar middle name of which often derided Scottish poet?
12. What is the alternative name, commonly used as either a boy’s or girl’s name, for the Mountain Ash tree?
13. What is the capital of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia?
14. In the Harry Potter books, give the names of the four houses at Hogwarts, into which the pupils are divided.
15. Which British medal carries the inscription “For Valour”?
16. Which Scottish snooker player is known as “The Wizard of Wishaw”?
17. Which new word, an amalgam of two others, is used to describe a charity worker who approaches people on the street to “extract” money from them?
18. Based on a real event, in which 1949 film does the shipwrecking of the S.S. Cabinet Minister feature strongly? 
19. Which notorious criminals had the surnames Parker and Barrow? 
20. Which planet’s orbit is between those of Jupiter and Uranus?

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, January 30, 2011

1. Beef. 
2. Ecclefechan. 
3. BSA motorbikes. 
4. Mensa. 
5. Red. 
6. Fishing flies. 
7. Palindromes. 
8. The “ben”. 
9. Methane. 
10. Monarch Of The Glen. 
11. William McGonagall. 
12. The Rowan. 
13. Halifax. 
14. Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. 
15. The Victoria Cross. 
16. John Higgins. 
17. Chugger. 
18. Whisky Galore! 
19. Bonnie and Clyde. 
20. Saturn.

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