As well as everything else, each month I offer you something to think about and get the brain working. This month …
A telephone makes sound travel faster than the speed of sound.
Monthly Archives: February 2025
February Quiz Questions
Each month we’re posing six pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. As always, they’re designed to be difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers – so have a bit of fun.
Medicine
- What is dermatophobia the fear of?
- How many teeth do adult humans have?
- In 2015, which country started thanking people via text message when their donated blood was used?
- An absence of the SRY gene means what for a human being?
- In which part of the body would you find the atlas and axis bones?
- First developed by John Salk, the vaccine for which illness was first tested in 1952?
Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.
February 1925
Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.
1. Ahmed Zog ascended to power in Albania, becoming its President, Prime Minister and Marshal of the Royal Albanian Army.
2. Born. Elaine Stritch, actress and singer, in Detroit (d.2014)
8. Born. Jack Lemmon, actor, in Newton, Massachusetts (d.2001)
11. In the English House of Commons, Reginald Applin of the Conservatives asked the Speaker of the House if Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson was in order while addressing the House without wearing a hat. The Speaker ruled that she was and a precedent for women was set.
26. Born. Everton Weekes, cricketer, in St Michael, Barbados (d.2020)