Random Trivia Quiz No. 180

[Carl]

• 1. Otoplasty is the surgical alteration of what external body parts ?

• 2. A pickerel is a young what: pike; bird; platypus; or elephant ?

• 3. What is the large island state of Australia, 150 miles from its south east edge ?

• 4. What type of creature has the family name howler ?

• 5. What was first and last European colony in China ?

• 6. Which eastern European country, called Hrvatska in its own language, has the international vehicle registration code HR ?

• 7. Which popular UK TV police series started as a pilot episode called 'Woodentop' in 1983 ?

• 8. What type of alcoholic drink is Manzanilla ?

• 9. A Gibus or Chapeau Claque is what sort of top hat, originally popular at the opera: white; collapsible; exploding; or made of beaver-skin ?

• 10. By what name is footballer Edison Arantes do Nascimento better known ?

• 11. In which country is the Caledonian Canal ?

• 12. In 1725 King George the First created what British chivalric honour, whose original ceremony entailed bodily cleansing ?

• 13. In astrology the constellation Leo represents the Lion slain by whom ?

• 14. Whom did Pat Cash defeat in the 1987 Wimbledon Men's Singles Final ?

• 15. Ergophobia is the irrational fear or what: working; oneself; snails; or the future ?

Answers will be provided next Thursday evening after 21:00.

[elcarretero]

1 Ears
4 Monkey

[gail]

3. Tasmania
7. The Bill

[elcarretero]

9 Collapsible

[gail]

11. Scotland

[Carl]

ANSWERS

• 1. Otoplasty is the surgical alteration of what external body parts ? Ears

• 2. A pickerel is a young what: pike; bird; platypus; or elephant ? Pike

• 3. What is the large island state of Australia, 150 miles from its south east edge ? Tasmania

• 4. What type of creature has the family name howler ? Monkey

• 5. What was first and last European colony in China ? Macau

• 6. Which eastern European country, called Hrvatska in its own language, has the international vehicle registration code HR ? Croatia

• 7. Which popular UK TV police series started as a pilot episode called 'Woodentop' in 1983 ? The Bill

• 8. What type of alcoholic drink is Manzanilla ? Sherry

• 9. A Gibus or Chapeau Claque is what sort of top hat, originally popular at the opera: white; collapsible; exploding; or made of beaver-skin ? Collapsible

• 10. By what name is footballer Edison Arantes do Nascimento better known ? Pele

• 11. In which country is the Caledonian Canal ? Scotland

• 12. In 1725 King George the First created what British chivalric honour, whose original ceremony entailed bodily cleansing ? Order of Bath

• 13. In astrology the constellation Leo represents the Lion slain by whom ? Hercules

• 14. Whom did Pat Cash defeat in the 1987 Wimbledon Men's Singles Final ? Ivan Lendl

• 15. Ergophobia is the irrational fear or what: working; oneself; snails; or the future ? Working