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1 What is a mumper?
A A scrounger, one who obtains by getting someone else to pay for it – dialectal and slang, primarily used in British English. A beggar.
2 Which country has the deepest gold mine in the world?
A South Africa, Ashanti’s Mponeng gold mine, near Johannesburg.
3 What links the Dolomite, Herald, Spitfire, Stag, Toledo and Vitesse?
A They were all cars made by Triumph
4 Who or what was Tommy Atkins?
A A typical British soldier.
5 Which Cunard liner was sunk in 1915 off the Irish coast by a German torpedo?
A The Lusitania.
6 Who designed the early warplanes, the Tiger and the Camel?
A (Sir Tommy) Sopwith.
7 What car manufacturer is associated with the slogan “The lion goes from strength to strength”?
A Peugeot
8 On which vessel did Charles Darwin make his historic voyage?
A HMS Beagle – The HMS Beagle was a Royal Navy survey ship that Darwin joined as a naturalist in 1831 for a five-year voyage around the world, which greatly influenced his development of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
9 The journey of which Lunar Mission led to Neil Armstrong saying, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind”?
A Apollo 11, on July 20, 1969.
10 What was the name of Jacques Cousteau’s research vessel?
A The Calypso – The Calypso became a household name, appearing in Cousteau’s documentary series “The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau”.