Daily Cuppa and Quiz: February 18, 2022

#FunFact - The process by which bread toasts is called the “Maillard Reaction.

1. In which country did the sport of Badminton originate? France, England or Germany?
2. In the British Honours System, which award is higher in ranking? The Victoria Cross or the George Cross?
3. In Scrabble, how many points is the letter K worth?
4. True or false, Swede Anders Celsius invented the Celsius temperate scale?
5. St Anthony of Padua is the patron saint of what?
6. How many feet are in a fathom?
7. Which British theoretical physicist and author who died in 2018 said 'Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet'?
8. Born in Trinidad and Tobago as Onika Tanya Maraj this singer is known by which stagename?
9. Which best friend of Hercule Poirot was introduced in the Agatha Christie novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles?
10. “There’s no place like home.” is a famous movie quote from which film?

Answers for February 17:
Questions: 1.Scotland's Forth Bridge crosses which body of water? 2.Which famous internet giant was founded at Menlo Park, California in September 1998? 3.James Patterson teamed up with which former US president to write the fictional novel 'The President is Missing'? 4.Which British actor has starred as Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock in 2010? 5.Which English football club are known as The Canaries? 6.Which Scottish singer had huge success with 'Someone You Loved' in 2019? 7.Accra is the capital of which African country? 8.A Chital is a species of which hooved mammal? 9.Which TV character is older; Bart or Lisa Simpson? 10.In the British army, what is the meaning of the word 'bone' as in 'This is bone'?
Answers: 1.Forth of Firth 2.Google 3.Bill Clinton 4.Benedict Cumberbatch 5.Norwich City 6.Lewis Capaldi 7.Ghana 8.Deer 9.Bart Simpson 10.Pointless

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