The latest challenge. If would still like to have a go, scroll down to December 28.
- Remember that no correspondence, computers or cell phones may be entered into!
- Answers below.
What is the main ingredient in guacamole? (avocados)
- Which book by Charles Dickens was a key feature of the novel Mister Pip? (Great Expectations)
- Calcium carbonate crystals are the basis of which type of rock? (limestone/marble)
Which Hawke’s Bay town was named after an 18th century Governor of British India? (Clive)
- What is the German word, used in English, which means a look-alike? (doppelganger)
- Liana: an African animal, a climbing plant or a type of pasta? (a climbing plant)
- What sport do the San Antonio Spurs play? (basketball ) (Take a free point as I put in Orlando by mistake!)
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n what year did the Pike River mining tragedy occur? (2010)
- Who turned up on the fourth day of Christmas? (Four calling birds)
- Which actual event provided the dramatic climax of the film Suffragette? (Emily Davison being fatally injured by the king’s horse racing in the 1913 Derby)