Here are the answers to last month’s quiz. Some of you found this challenging. The million dollars is still unclaimed.
1. The gall bladder of an egret.
2. While skiing in the Alps (specifically, in G sharp minor).
3. A trick question! You probably answered “an oil-based compound and morphia combined,” but the actual answer is every Pope since the schism.
4. Madrid. (We cannot accept Akron, Ohio, which many of you offered.)
5. Polonium. (The others impart a light blue tinge to the solution.)
6. Six dragoon guards, three church wardens and a motor scooter.
7. The flap is worn over the trouser in winter, but in summer, the buttons are not fastened. (The reverse is true for the Norfolk.)
8. 3,286,800 to the power of twelve, except for photons of the B type.
9. Karina Cupfulls, in the play Desire on the Beach.
10. 1742, before the reform of the calendar.
11. Karl Marx, actress Hedy Lamarr, and the philosopher Heidegger. (Schliemann attempted it, but passed the carriage on the left.)
12. Not before 6 p.m., under any circumstances.
13. Girls must be sixteen, though this is waived in some areas of the Middle East.
14. The pot containing the meal is left in a haystack for days. Some insist it must rest on dung!
15. Sydney Opera House (the foyer), Monica Lewinsky, and a Chinchilla rabbit at the Boston Zoo.
16. Vaclav Havel, whilst president of Czechoslovakia.
17. Men are scraped with a silver sword. Ladies sing behind a diaphanous veil. This is NOT required of sons of the sheik.
18. The boll weevil.
19. Cupiditious. The others are anagrams.
20. Vodka, mostly, with just a splash of Bénédictine. The others are illegal in France.
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