quiz for thursday

[Penny]

1. What is the minimum age at which you may legally purchase fireworks

2. In which year was the first human heart transplant made

3. What were Stoats Nest and Bo-Peep Junction

4. According to Hyman Kaplan, what is the opposite of ' nightmare'

5. For what are the two sets of marks awarded to ice skaters

6. Name the clown played by James Stewart in ' The Greatest Show on Earth '

7. Kozo Okamoto was released from Jail in 1985. What was his crime

8. Which steelp-driving man died trying to beat Captain Tommy's track-laying machine

9. Which parts of the mandrill monkey are brightly coloured.

cheers Penny

[Tiddles]

1. 16

3. railway junctions on the old southern railway

9. its face and rear end

[Victors Mate]

8 John Henry ('cos John Henry was a steel drivin' man recored by Lonnie Donnegan and several others)

[Tiddles]

6. buttons

[Penny]

1,6,8 and 9 correct. Well done. cheers Penny

[Tiddles]

5 technical merit and timing

[Penny]

No.5 correct Tiddles. Seems everyone has other things to do so perhaps no more quiz for a while. Sorry about that.
No. 2 1967, 3, Old stations on the Brighton and South Coast Railway. 4. 'daymare' No.7. He was in the Japaneese Red Army squad responsible for the Lod Airport massacre in 1972

cheers Penny.

[Rowan]

oh no penny i enjoy them - just usually up too late - also doing one finger typing.

[Victors Mate]

Me to Penny I enjoy them.