General Knowledge Quiz No. 21

[Carl]

• 1. In what year was the National Health Service founded ?

• 2. What is the capital city of Greenland ?

• 3. What is the connection between York Minster, The Rovers Retrun, Manchester United and the Jedi Council on Coruscant ?

• 4. When was the emergency number '999' introduced in the UK ?

• 5. At the intersection of which four American states would you find the "Four Corners" ?

• 6. Name the capital cities of the three Baltic States ?

• 7. What is the hard tag at the end of a shoe lace called ?

• 8. What is rupophobia the fear of ?

• 9. What is metathesiophobia the fear of ?

• 10. In the animated film 'Thumbelina', who sang 'Let Me Be Your Wings' ?

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

[Carl]

ANSWERS

• 1. In what year was the National Health Service founded ? 1948

• 2. What is the capital city of Greenland ? Nuuk

• 3. What is the connection between York Minster, The Rovers Retrun, Manchester United and the Jedi Council on Coruscant ? They are all the equivalent of Mayfair on their own specialised versions of Monopoly

• 4. When was the emergency number '999' introduced in the UK ? June 30th 1937

• 5. At the intersection of which four American states would you find the "Four Corners" ? Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico

• 6. Name the capital cities of the three Baltic States ? Tallinn (Estonia), Riga (Latvia) and Vilnius (Lithunia)

• 7. What is the hard tag at the end of a shoe lace called ? Aglet

• 8. What is rupophobia the fear of ? Rubbish or dirt

• 9. What is metathesiophobia the fear of ? Changes

• 10. In the animated film 'Thumbelina', who sang 'Let Me Be Your Wings' ? Barry Manilow