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Tom's Summer Holiday Quiz 2008

Those long hot sultry days of summer may have you perspiring a little in the heat of a hot afternoon, but our Tom has kept himself cool by devising another of his brain teasing quizzes for you to puzzle over.

Tom has once again put together another twenty questions designed to get your "thinking cap" spontaneously combusting with a highly enjoyable hour or two of over work!

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/. In printing, what is the meaning of the word stet?

2/. What is psaligraphy?

3/. What is prunella?

4/. What is prunello?

5/. What is pruritus?

6/. What is the nick-name of R.A.F. squadron 617 who used Barnes Wallace's bouncing bomb in World War 2?

7/. When was the Order of the Garter formed by King Edward 3rd?

8/. When did Hannibal cross the Alps?

9/. What is the speed of sound?

10/. What kind of creature is a stilt?

11/. What is the largest port in Europe?

12/. What is a funambulist?

13/. Which wildcat is a cougar, mountain lion or panther?

14/. Which of the 7 wonders of the ancient world was at the Island of Rhodes?

15/. How many U.S. colleges are in the Ivy League?

16/. Two counties share the title of smallest county, according to the tides. What are they?

17/. What is the height of Nelson's Column?

18/. What is hyperopia?

19/. Of which European country is Greenland a self governing province?

20/. How much did a pound of tea cost in 1650?

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