January Quiz Answers

Here are the answers to this month’s six quiz questions. If in doubt, all should be able to be easily verified online.

General Knowledge (1)

  1. What type of clothing is a Glengarry? Hat or bonnet
  2. Which country features a shipwreck on its national flag? Bermuda
  3. Which two months of the year are named for mortal men? July and August
  4. Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire is famous for which two foods? Stilton Cheese, Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
  5. Name the type of rigid airship, first flown commercially in 1910, and carrying many thousands of fare-paying passengers before WWI? Zeppelin
  6. Benjamin Disraeli once described William Ewart Gladstone as “A sophistical rhetorician, _____ with the exuberance of his own verbosity”. What is the missing word? Inebriated

Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2024.