Quiz Answers

How did you do? Check your answers to the Editor’s Christmas quiz (page 102)

So that was 2018 1) Fox hunting 2) Kieran Trippier 3) Bird flu 4) France 5) robbie Williams

Sport 1) Birmingham 2) Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff 3) Four 4) Manchester united 5) ray reardon

Arts and culture 1) Terracotta 2) The pilgrims of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales 3) St ives 4) george Harrison 5) Cleopatra

Nature 1) red deer (Cervus elaphus) 2) St Elmo’s fire 3) Potatoes 4) Lodge 5) Blue

We wish you a merry Christmas 1) Brooms 2) Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol) 3) 1957 4) To take part in a census 5) Eggnog

Out of order 1) Christmas tree 2) Snowflakes 3) Mistletoe 4) Father Christmas 5) Decorations

History

1) nancy Astor (Constance Mackievicz was elected, but didn’t take her seat) 2) Trafalgar 3) george iii (59 years) 4) Domesday Book 5) rrs Discovery

Say what you see: dog breeds 1) Labrador 2) Poodle 3) Dandie Dinmont 4) Corgi 5) Pekingese 6) irish wolfhound 7) Border collie 8) Scottie

Science 1) Hg 2) Between the top lip and nose 3) Blue 4) A dwarf planet 5) Vitamin K

Food and drink 1) Sandwich 2) USA 3) Stir porridge or soup 4) Dame nellie Melba 5) Poitín or poteen

Raise your voices 1) I Saw Three Ships 2) Good King Wenceslas 3) Oh Come, All Ye Faithful 4) The Twelve Days of Christmas 5) Silent Night

All mapped out 1) Australia 2) india 3) italy 4) Mexico 5) Japan 6) norway