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Tom's Autumn 2008 Quiz

Our very own walking encyclopaedia,  that professorial master mind Tom Brewer, has once again put his highly educated brain to the task of tasking our brains with a brand new general knowledge Autumn quiz.

Tom has put together a further twenty general knowledge questions designed to get your "thinking cap" spontaneously combusting with a highly enjoyable hour or two of over work! (Mine went up in smoke ages ago from trying to answer Tom's Summer quiz!!!)

The answer to each question can be found by clicking the "answer box" to the right of your selected question - but, don't cheat by clicking the box before you have worked out the answer - it's not really cricket you know!!

When you have read the answer, click the box again to close the answer, in case someone else reads it over your shoulder before they themselves attempt the quiz!

1/. How many new books are published every year in Britain?

2/. Which illness was once widely known as the "Royal Disease"?

3/. Which body part is protected by a greave?

4/. What is a goniometer?

5/. What is the height of the Tower Block at St. Mary's Wharf?

6/. What year saw the end of the U.S.S.R. (Union of Soviet Social Republics)?

7/. In golf, how many strokes under par achieve a "condor"?

8/. What is a loge?

9/. Huascarian is the highest peak in which South American country?

10/. Which nineteenth century artist, writer and architect is now best known for his wallpaper designs?

11/. When was the Panama Canal officially opened?

12/. What is maté?

13/. Which bottle size has the capacity of 16 normal bottles?

14/. In heraldry, which colour is gules?

15/. What is Dentrology?

16/. What is the name of the galaxy in which our solar system lies?

17/. What is the boiling point of water on the reaumur scale?

18/. Which portrait painter became the first president of the Royal Academy in 1768?

19/. Where is the World's deepest water?

20/. What is singultus?

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