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1 What product is associated with the line “Course you can Malcolm”?
A Vick’s Sinex (as advertised on TV in the 70’s)
2 What is the Girl Guides’ motto?
A ‘Be Prepared’, shares the Founder’s initials and is a practical reminder of the educational purposes of Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting (they use a left handshake to greet each other)
3 Which car manufacturer produces a model called the RAV4?
A Toyota.
4 Oil of bergamot flavours which tea blend?
A Earl Grey (it’s a fruit the size of an orange but the colour of a lime or lemon, depending on ripeness – a citrus fruit native to southern Italy)
5 What is the name of Israel’s national intelligence agency?
A Mossad (short for HaMossad leModiʿin uleTafkidim Meyuḥadim)
6 In history, what was the alternative name for a Norseman?
A Viking
7 In which year did Microsoft register as a company and Brotherhood of Man win the Eurovision Song Contest?
A 1976
8 The US President usually awards which medal to wounded or killed serving US Military personnel?
A Purple Heart (a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the president to those wounded or killed while serving, on or after 5 April 1917, with the U.S. military.)
9 With over 17 million members, which country can boast of more than half of the world’s Boy Scouts?
A Indonesia (established there in 1912 when it was still a Dutch colony – it has a population of over 237 million)
10 In the place names like Chipping Ongar or Chipping Norton, what does the ‘Chipping’ bit mean?
A Market.