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)
- What type of clothing is a Glengarry? Hat or bonnet
- Which country features a shipwreck on its national flag? Bermuda
- Which two months of the year are named for mortal men? July and August
- Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire is famous for which two foods? Stilton Cheese, Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
- Name the type of rigid airship, first flown commercially in 1910, and carrying many thousands of fare-paying passengers before WWI? Zeppelin
- 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.