That Was The Week: QUIZ OF THE WEEK

Sunday 01 February 1998 00:02 GMT
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Picture question: The Chinese Year of the Tiger has just begun. Which Chinese year has just ended?

1. Where did 62, three and 17 add up to nothing at all?

2. Who now has a professorship at Cambridge after twice being denied a degree by Oxford?

3. What did Lord Montgomery of Alamein describe as "one of the ultimate absurdities"?

4. Which august body comprises 1,141 men and 39 women?

5. Who was posthumously trisected, though one third is now water under the bridge?

6. Who has settled for 102,417 when he could have had 143,860?

7. How did a Sunderland fan learn of an unexpected hat-trick at half- time during his team's away loss to Norwich?

8. Who called what a "raffle", then claimed he never did?

9. Where was the plug pulled on an expensive, bubbly deviation?

10. Why can the Dutch now boldly go in Europe where they could not previously tread safely?

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