Our Christmas Quizmaster: Prof. Tom Brewer

Tom's Christmas 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 Christmas 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 Autumn 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 long is Hadrian's Wall?

2/. As what is a group or hatch of partridges known?

3/. How many moons orbit the planet Neptune?

4/. In heraldry, what is the technical term for patterns in a coat of arms?

5/. Nell Gwyn had two children by which monarch?

6/. Which unfinished fabric shares its name with two rivers?

7/. Which Roman emperor "fiddled" while Rome burned?

8/. What is kept in a humidor?

9/. Which famous T.V. comedian "lived" in East Cheam?

10/. How high is Beachy Head?

11/. In which month of 2007 did Gordon Brown become Prime Minister?

12/. Which is greater, the world's human population or the number of micro-organisms in a tablespoonful of soil?

13/. Which animal lives in a drey?

14/. In which Scottish constituency did Labour lose to Scottish National by over 130,000 votes?

15/. Which religious order was founded by Ignatious Loyola in 1534?

16/. Which sport, since 1975, must be played right-handed?

17/. Which is the largest of the Great Lakes?

18/. What is a Hoopoe?

19/. What is the capitol of Saxony?

20/. What is Brazil's official language?

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