Pot Luck

1 Which cartoon character would one associate with a member of the Amaranthaceae family?

2 What is created when light from a laser interfaces with a light from a photographic plate?

3 Which marine creature is used to mark Poole Pottery?

4 What is the Spanish variant of the English name Paul?

5 Which English city is served by a newspaper called the Eastern Daily Press?

6 In past times what did a lavender do for a living?

7 People with Klinefelter’s Syndrome are more susceptible to this condition. What is the condition in question that shares its name with the title of a1958 film?

8 What connects Falstaff, George Dixon, Bobby Ewing and Sherlock Holmes?

9 A rainbow and a kaleidoscope are both collective nouns for which creature?

10 Which gem stone takes its name from the Greek for “not drink”?

11 What is the name of the sheep in the Wallace & Grommit animations?

12 What begins at the Solent, travels to the southern tip of Ireland before returning to the Solent?

13 Which English city had the Roman name Luguvalium?

14 Which fictional employee of the FBI ran away from her uncle’s farm after witnessing the slaughter of newborn lambs?

15 What connects Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Keeping Up Appearances?

16 What links the words pure, serial, rain and mail?

17 The circus act Cirque de Soleil was founded in 1984 in which country?

18 Which politician was MP for Yeovil from 1983 to 2001?

19 Which surname derives from the Italian for left handed?

20 Which Italian city has a name that means new town?

Answers

1 Popeye, the scientific name for spinach

2 Hologram

3 Dolphin

4 Pablo

5 Norwich

6 Washer woman

7 Vertigo

8 All resurrected after dying

9 Butterfly

10 Amethyst

11 Shaun

12 Fastnet Yacht Race

13 Carlisle

14 Clarice Starling

15 The surname of Bucket

16 All are anagrams of countries, Peru, Israel, Iran, Mali

17 Canada

18 Paddy Ashdown

19 Mancini

20 Naples