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Sunday quiz: A game of wind, seasons and flowers

Grab a cuppa and see if you can answer the questions for February 4

Jayne Middlebrook

Jayne Middlebrook

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Sunday quiz: A game of wind, seasons and flowers

144 TILES: Can you answer question number 2 in today's quiz? (Image: Jessie Casson/Getty)

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  1. What is the official language of Egypt?
  2. What game is played with 144 tiles featuring winds, seasons and flowers?
  3. Which Hong Kong born actor starred in the Rush Hour series of movies?
  4. What form of transport was developed by the Montgolfier Brothers?
  5. Of which country was Bob Hawke Prime Minister from 1983 to 1991?
  6. Which of the seven wonders of the ancient world was located south of modern Baghdad?
  7. In the food dish to what does the word Sushi refer?
  8. What is the name for the study of plants?
  9. Which cathedral overlooks Red Square in Moscow?
  10. What is the most northerly capital city in the world?

What do you think of today's questions? Let us know in the comments below and tell us which topics you prefer.

Answers for February 3:
Questions: 1.What makes the Blackmouth Catshark completely different from any other shark? 2.Which British Army Regiment has the nick-name The Jacks? 3.Approx how many litres of gas do you expel from your rectums each year to the nearest 30 litres? 4.In what year was The Cenotaph, located on Whitehall, unveiled by George V? 5.Where would you locate your myocardium muscle? 6.To the nearest two, as of 2023 how many countries claim Spanish as its official language? 7.Endometriosis effects what part of a woman’s body? 8.Which future world boxing heavyweight champion won the Heavyweight Gold-medal at the 1964 Tokyo games? 9.What is the average life-span of a fox? 10.If you have Hyperphagia what are you inclined to do? 11.What bit of football history did Bolton Wanderers Kevin Davenport achieve on September 8, 1888 after 2 mins v Derby? 12.How many 3-wheeled Reliant Robin cars were produced between 1973 – 2002 (to the nearest 4,000)? 13.How many brains does an octopus have? 14.Which TV talent show contestant had the best-selling album in the UK of 2009? 15.For the first time in 1975 what were candidates no longer required to demonstrate during their driving tests? 16.In what decade was the first ‘The Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes’ (RAOB) formed by the artist Joseph Lisle and comedian William Sinnett, along with stagehands and theatre technicians? 17.Which character appears in more episodes of Game of Thrones than any other? 18.The Soviet spies, Donald McClean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross, who passed information from the UK to the Soviet Union during WWII and remained active into the 1950s were given what nick-name? 19.To the nearest 25, in what year did the UKs Government first impose their Hearth / Chimney Tax, charging a 1 Shilling Tax for every fire-hearth , chimney in all dwellings and houses? 20.What colour Royal British Legion poppy represents the suffering of animals during conflict?
Answers: 1.Has no teeth and no skin 2.The Military Police 3.547 litres 4.November 11, 1920 5.Spine/vertebrae 6.21 7.Uterus 8.Joe Frazier 9.Five years 10.Excessive desire to eat all the time 11.Scored first ever league goal 12.63,000 13.Nine 14.Susan Boyle (I dreamed a dream) 15.Hand signals 16.August 1822 17.67 - Peter Dinklage (67) 18.The Cambridge Spy Ring 19.1662 20.Purple

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