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Branch Quiz  July 1st 2021 -  ANSWERS


1 12
A women's team has 10.

2 Top Hat
The first silk top hat is credited to George Dunnage, a hatter in Middlesex in 1793. Proof that Hetherinton caused a riot and was arraigned before the Lord Mayor on a charge “having appeared on the Public Highway wearing upon his head a tall structure having a shining lustre and calculated to frighten timid people” is inconclusive

3 Dollar
 
4 1937
 
5 Accountant
 
6 Carnation: Car (a vehicle) + nation (a state) = Carnation
Carnation Milk was founded in 1899 as the Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company

7 Cornwall
 
8 48
A farthing was ¼ of 1 pre-decimalisation penny; 12 pennies to a shilling which if the equivalent of 5p. 4 x 12 = 48
2 x 48 = 96

9 Rugby Union
 
10 Dilyn
 
11 £400
A monkey is £500, a ton is £100. £500 - £100 = £400

12 El Salvador
 
13 Egypt
 
14
He was the only English Pope
Nicholas Breakspear, born near St Albans c 1100, was Pope from 1154 to 1159.

15 London
Known as The Great Smog of 1952

16 Meatballs and spaghetti
 
17 Nigella Lawson
Daughter of Nigel Lawson

18 Paul Hogan
Crocodile Dundee (1986), Crocodile Dundee II (1988) and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)

19 Remove the "S", leaving IX, which is 9 nine in Roman numerals
 
20 September
 
21 Skin
 
22 The chef
Sir David was murdered in the afternoon, yet the chef’s alibi was that he was making breakfast.

23 The stripping of stolen motor vehicles for saleable parts
 

24 Three
Edward the Confessor (died 5 Jan 1066), Harold (died 14 October 1066 at Battle of Hastings), William the Conqueror

25 180
 

 

 

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