6) 4 8) pebbles 11) white 16) mercury 18) glenn miller 19) apes have vestigial stubs and monkeys have ones with muscles that they can control
February 2025 Quiz. Answers below.... 1) Who was the first goalkeeper to score in the Premier League? 2) Why are Sheffield Wednesday called 'Wednesday'? 3) Which country came second to the USA in the 1920 Antwerp Olympic medal table? 4) In athletics, which is the final event in the heptathlon 5) Why was William Taynton famous? 6) How many chambers does the human heart have? 7) The 39th parallel separates Canada from the USA; but what does the 38th parallel separate? 8) Name the Flinstone's daughter? 9) In 1915, Mrs Edith Smith became England's first woman what? 10) Which is the only city in the world located on two continents 11) A geisha girl makes up her face in what colour? 12) What connection was there between the deaths of Keith Moon and Mama Cass Elliott? 13) Brontophobia is fear of what? 14) Which train station in the UK has the most platforms? 15) A famous pop star name taken from a woman burned at the stake during the Salem witch trials for practicing the black arts. Who is it? 16) What chemical element has symbol Hg 17) USA States: 50th Hawaii, 49th Alaska. Name the 48th? 18) “Where the hell are the parachutes? Were the last words spoken by whom before he boarded a plane that went missing over the English Channel in 1944? 19) How do the tails of monkeys and apes differ? 20) Who wrote ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’?
Answers.... 1) Peter Schmeichel became the first goalkeeper to score in the Premier League in October 2001 with his goal at Goodison Park 2) Because the team was founded by butchers who played on their half day off - Wednesday 3) Sweden 4) The 800 metres 5) He was the first person to be televised. (By Baird.) 6) Four 7) North Korea from South Korea 8) Pebbles 9) Policewoman, in Grantham, Lincs 10) Istanbul 11 White 12) They died in the same London apartment 13) Thunder 14) Waterloo, London 15) Alice Cooper 16) Mercury, from the Latin Hydragyrum meaning liquid silver 17) Arizona 18) Glen Miller 19) Apes don't have tails 20) Victor Hugo
8! Plus I got played on Wednesday, but didn’t do the butcher thing. So 8 1/2 Either way, personal best!
8. Policewoman. Pah, I read an article or she was an answer to another quiz quite recently. I certainly knew the name.
Baldie. Should do an add on...Which other famous woman emerged out of Grantham, Lincs to become a first? TBH its an easy one.
12) What connection was there between the deaths of Keith Moon and Mama Cass Elliott? Answer.... https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/mama-cass-keith-moon-death-the-who-mayfair/
