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1 If you had a white elephant (figuratively!) what in fact would you have?
A Something which was more of a nuisance than of value
2 Which one word can mean both, ‘a Large furry animal’ and ‘to carry’?
A Bear
3 What is the British equivalent of the American ‘drug store’?
A A chemist – A pharmacy is the place within a chemist’s or drugstore, or within a supermarket or other business, where you can get prescription drugs.
4 What word, beginning with C, means chat or talk?
A Conversation
5 In Cockney rhyming slang, what is meant by ‘plates of meat’?
A Feet
6 The American cartoonist Chester Gould conceived which police detective character?
A Dick Tracy
7 What was a ‘Tin Lizzie’?
A An early Ford motor car
8 What does ‘carry coals to Newcastle’ mean?
A To perform a pointless task
9 Which contentious artefact is claimed to be the object previously known as the Mandylion?
A Shroud of Turin
10 In which year did France abolish the Guillotine? 1901, 1941 or 1981
A October 9, 1981