June 2016 “Mixed Bag”Questions – Answers

1. Italy, Hungary, Germany, Norway

2. Clancy of the Overflow

3. New Zealand

4. hunch

5. Men’s brief swimming trunks

6. “GP” i.e. General Purpose

7. Pat Garrett

8. 40 and 41

9. (a) England (b) Sir Thomas More

10. Colonel Sander’s Kentucky Fried Chicken

HARDER:

11. 120 mm

12. 1936 / Hobart Zoo

13. 8

14. 621

15. 24

16. The Nobel Prize in Physics for (accept any of):
Inventing the transistor
Electronics
Work on transistors
Work on semiconductors

17. Trampoline, Tai-Kwon-Do, Triathlon

18. Caramel (colour)

19. 1946, deposed by the new communist regime

20. Jupiter

May 2016 “Mixed Bag” Questions – Answers

1. Illness (TB or “consumption”)

2. Crossword puzzles

3. Annual World Music Festival held in Adelaide, South Australia

4. Gut / Digestive system

5. To treat cuts from shaving

6. The length of her hair

7. 1954

8. Resin

9. Purple to mauve

10. 1985

HARDER:

11. Removing or neutralizing a metal object’s magnetic field / To stop them setting off magnetic mines

12. Hannibal / The Carthaginian army

13. The Potomac

14. The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodson / Lecturer in Mathematics

15. Uniform Resource Locator

16. Charlotte Corday

17. 20

18. 1920 / The Mysterious Affair at Styles / Hercule Poirot

19. New York (USA), Bilbao (Spain), Venice (Italy), Helsinki (Finland)

20. Five