What shall I offer as this week's quiz topic? If I go for "one letter answers" will that be too easy? Everyone knows Bond's tech wizard Q; D is the number plate code for Germany; Juliet is the common phonetic alphabet J. What if I expanded it to two letters? That might be a bit harder. Here we go.
Q1. What is the 9th letter of the Welsh alphabet?
Q2. What area is designated by UK postcode IM?
Q3. ISO 3166-1 includes code SG for which country?
Q4. Which British territory has the internet domain name io?
Q5. Name a two letter Japanese board game.
Q6. What does the Spanish verb ir mean in English?
Q7. Boris III of Bulgaria had a son Simeon with what regnal number?
Q8. In the periodic table of elements, which element is abbreviated as Hg?
Enjoy.
What is the 9th letter of the Welsh alphabet? I knew it must be a digraph therefore ll or ff or ph. But I had to look it up. Ff
ReplyDeleteQ2. What area is designated by UK postcode IM? Isle of Man. Guessed and was correct
Q3. ISO 3166-1 includes code SG for which country? Singapore. Guessed and was correct
Q4. Which British territory has the internet domain name io? Looked it up. Indian Ocean
Q5. Name a two letter Japanese board game. Couldn’t find an answer. They don’t use our orthography.
Q6. What does the Spanish verb ir mean in English? To go. Knew that one.
Q7. Boris III of Bulgaria had a son Simeon with what regnal number? II. Looked it up
Q8. In the periodic table of elements, which element is abbreviated as Hg? Mercury. Remembered that one from school. Our Teacher told us it was from the Greek meaning dancing liquid. I think. But I might be wrong.
And now it’s time to get up having acquired more odd knowledge which has a 3% chance of being useful.