July Quiz & Answers

Answer: Constantinople, Byzantium
Answer: Fountain Pen
Answer: Venezuela
Answer: Port Said
Answer: Olympic and Brittanic
Answer: Britain
Answer: Sow
Answer: Petticoat Lane
Answer: Polio
Answer: Vellum
Answer: Mitre
Answer: Shrove Tuesday
Answer: Fawlty Towers – the waitress
Answer: Van Gogh
Answer: Canada
Answer: Lonsdale
Answer: The Giraffe
Answer: Jim Rockford (Burt Reynolds).
Answer: Columbia
Answer: Sirhan Sirhan

 Give me the two former names of the modern Turkish city of Istanbul?
 In 1884, what was invented by Lewis Waterman?
 In which country is the Orinoco River?
 Suez lies at one end of the Suez Canal which city is at the other end?
 The Titanic had two sister ships, name both of them.
 To which country does the island of Bermuda belong?
 What is a female bear called?
 What is the popular name for Middlesex Street in London?
 What killer disease was controlled by Jonas Salk’s vaccine?
 What name is given to calfskin, dressed and prepared for writing on?
 What’s the proper name for a bishop’s hat?
 When do we traditionally eat pancakes?
 Where does Polly Sherman work?
 Which artist painted "Sunflowers"?
 Which country did boxer Lennox Lewis represent at the Olympics?
 Which earl gave his name to a boxing award?
 Which is the world’s tallest mammal?
 Which private eye had a caravan on Malibu Beach?
 Which South American country is named after an explorer?
 Who assassinated Robert Kennedy?