“Mixed Bag” Questions January 2016 – Answers

1. Ian McShane / Lovejoy; George Cole / Minder; Arthur Lowe / Dad’s Army

2. a. 8 Tentacles on an Octopus
b. 12 Numbers on a Clock Face
c. 12 Eggs in a Dozen
d. 6 Wives of Henry the Eighth
e. 2 Wrongs Don’t Make a Right

3. Development of penicillin

4. Doris Day

5. Arthur Calwell

6. Kennedy

7. New South Wales

8. (Johnny) Diesel

9. Perth, Western Australia

10. Tin Tin

HARDER:

11. Having three (or more) nipples

12. There are two possible answers: Cardinal Wolsey commissioned it; King Henry VIII wanted to use it after Wolsey was disgraced, but died before his tomb was completed.

13. The Northern Territory (next is June 24 2016)

14. Romanadvoratrelundar

15. Canberra

16. Prince Charles Edward or The Duke of Albany or The Duke of Saxe Coburg & Gotha

17. The Stawell Gift (Australia’s premier annual foot race for professional sprinters)

18. Davis Base, Antarctica

19. Paraguay

20. Georgia