Not so much a test of knowledge, girls and boys, but a test of ferret-ability:
- Old (main) alternative to hops for ale?
- Kai Trump’s mother’s first name? Not former surname.
- Which chemical element was known as the monk-killer? Why?*
- What was a brace and bit used for?
- Name a landmark rock formed by magmatism.
- What could this meme by Andrew Neil possibly be about?**
**There’s a clue at 893:2
*Answer is not: “Coz it kills monks, Jimbo.”
#4 Drilling holes and (with a suitable bit) driving & removing large screws. I still have fathers old B&B in the shed.
Old (main) alternative to hops for ale? For ale the alternative was no hops. If you add hops it becomes beer.
Kai Trump’s mother’s first name? Not former surname. Ferret.
Which chemical element was known as the monk-killer? Why?* Antimony. Because it sounds about right.
What was a brace and bit used for? Wotyamean “was”? I used one as a youngster. Boat-building, see?
Name a landmark rock formed by magmatism. Granite?
What could this meme by Andrew Neil possibly be about?** The fraudulent Transport Secretary as was.
…..
JH: 1, 3, 4, 6 all good.
2. Vanessa
5. Plutonic rocks, as distinct from platonics resulting from Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s animal magmatism.
……
JH: Vanessa yes … the other I was looking for was Rockall. Everest? Maybe.
5. cont…Mt Everest would be a landmark example.