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- Golden Wonder Wonders!
-
- Being an avid consumer of Golden Wonder crisps, I thought it may be
- fun and interesting to print out the Trivia questions that they print
- on the back of the packets. Then again, maybe it would not be
- interesting. Either read it or don't.
-
- Q: What are Hush Puppies?
- A: Hush Puppies are associated with shoes but in Southern US states
- Hush Pupies are a corn meal batter served with fried fish.
-
- Q: At which club did Lee Sharpe begin his League career?
- A: Torquay.
-
- Q: Where do Frisbees get their name from?
- A: William Russell Frisbie opened the Frisbie Pie Company in
- Connecticut in 1871 near the US university of Yale. Students who
- bought Frisbie's pies invented the game, though whether it was the
- pie tins that they threw to each other, or the pies themselves, is
- not clear.
-
- Q: What do the letter S.O.S. stand for?
- A: The letters do not actually stand for anything. They were chosen
- as a distress call as the Morse Code for them (3 dots followed by 3
- dashes followed by 3 dots), was easy to remember.
-
- Q: What is a firkin?
- A: A small barrell or measure of ale.
-
- Q: What does a Scotsman do with his 'spurtle'?
- A: Stirs his porridge with it - it's a kitchen utensil.
-
- Q: What is the mythical frog Reahon?
- A: According to ancient Cambodian legend the giant frog is attempting
- to eat the moon. In 1972 two people were killed when troops opened
- fire at the moon trying to prevent an eclipse caused they thought,
- by the frog.
-
- Q: Why is the term 'try' used to descibe a touchdown in rugby?
- A: Under early rules, points were scored only at kicks at goal, and to
- qualify for a kick the player had to cross the goal line with the
- ball and touch it down. Supporters would then shout 'a try' -
- meaning that their team should now attempt to kick at goal.
-
- Q: What was it that Health Minister, Enoch Powell, did in 1962 which
- caused uproar in the House of Commons?
- A: An opposition spokesman claimed that he had been involved in
- 'activities unbecoming a Greek scholar and gentleman' - he had been
- spotted bouncing around on a pogo stick in Eaton Square, London.
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