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1 In which English city is Aston University?
A Birmingham
2 According to the traditional children’s nursery rhyme, what do you get for five magpies?
A Silver (magpies was/is considered a bird of ill omen)
3 Which car company manufactured a model named ‘Kitten’?
A Reliant Motor Company (produced from 1975-1982, it was a 4-wheeled vehicle)
4 In which Welsh castle was the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales?
A Caernarfon Castle (built by the English in order to control Wales)
5 In 1927, actress Norma Talmadge started which famous ongoing Hollywood tradition?
A Preserved her hands and footprints in cement (she accidentally stepped into wet concrete in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but seen as a good idea, it was carried on)
6 The Hindu god Ganesha has the head of which animal?
A Elephant (perhaps the best-known deity in the West of all the Hindu gods)
7 Which motorway connects Scotland’s two largest cities, Glasgow and Edinburgh?
A M8
8 What does an Indian man do with a dhoti?
A Wear it (it’s a rectangular piece of cloth to wrap around the waist and legs and knot at the waist)
9 Which word is a blanket term used to describe heathen non-Abrahamic polytheistic religious traditions?
A Pagan or paganism
10 Before crude oil was commercially refined, which oil was most commonly used for lubrication and lighting?
A Whale oil.