THE BIG QUESTIONS
Watching the post-match interviews at Leicester City’s game last week, I was surprised to see the groundsmen cutting the grass – why then? – D
Probably because the floodlights were still on! Grass can be cut up to five times a day, so the fact that there had just been a match made no difference.
Leicester City’s ground staff are known for the elaborate patterns they cut into the grass, such as Remembrance poppies and even the club crest.
The deepest loch in Scotland is Loch Morar, that much I remember from my schooldays, but how deep is it, and how does that compare to the deepest part of the ocean? – R
Morar is indeed the deepest loch in Scotland, at 310 metres, which makes it a puddle in comparison to the deepest part of the world’s oceans.
The Challenger Deep and is located beneath the western Pacific Ocean in the southern end of the Mariana Trench, which runs several hundred kilometers southwest of the US territorial island of Guam.
It reaches an incredible 11,034 metres deep, almost 36 times deeper than Morar. It is also the equivalent of one and a quarter Mount Everests.
The Lizard Peninsula was the answer to a question on a TV quiz the other day. Did it get its name because there are so many lizards living there? – L
The Lizard Peninsula, in Cornwall the most southwesterly point of the British mainland.
The name comes from old Cornish “Lis-ardh”, meaning fortress.
There are lizards in the area, namely the adder, the grass snake, the slow worm, the common lizard and the sand lizard.