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1 What is the name for a grotesquely carved waterspout?
A Gargoyle – a grotesque is a decorative carving that has no functional architectural purpose
2 What distance is 10 centimetres on a 1:50,000 scaled map?
A 5 Kilometres (500,000 cm)
3 What two words did Battersea Dogs Home add to its name in 2002?
A And Cats – Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
4 Whose death did Walter Cronkite announce to a US TV audience in 1963?
A President J F Kennedy
5 What does the BACS system move about?
A Money (Bankers’ Automated Clearing Services)
6 If a pornographer photographs sexually explicit pictures, what does a sonographer do?
A Ultrasound images (ultrasonography, a.k.a. echogram or sonograph)
7 What type of military weapon was an M-60?
A Machine Gun – a fully-automatic, belt-fed, medium machine gun used by the U.S. military
8 What can be complex, mixed, or vulgar?
A Fractions – The term “vulgar” may come from the Latin word for “common”.
9 What does a blue flag on a beach indicate?
A Clean and pollution-free (high quality)
10 Which car manufacturer produces the ‘Accent’ and ‘Sonata’ models?
A Hyundai