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This is an 'alphabet quiz'.
Answers begin with letters corresponding to the letters of the alphabet. 1=A 2=B 3=C, and so on, through to question 26, whose answer begins with Z.
- A - What is the name of an object or design resembling a cross with a loop instead of a top arm, used in ancient Egypt as a symbol of life?
- B - What is the name of the game in which small balls are hit into numbered holes on a board, with pins as obstructions?
- C - What is a thick soup, usually made with fish or seafood?
- D - What is the loincloth worn by male Hindus called?
- E - What is the practice of training shrubs and trees to grow flat against a wall or fence?
- F - What is a lively Spanish dance for two people, typically accompanied by castanets or guitar?
- G - What is the name of the Good Witch of the South in the 1900 children's novel 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'?
- H - Balbir Singh was a three-time Olympic medal winner in which sport?
- I - What is the study of visual imagary and its symbolism?
- J - What is the name of the coarse brown sugar made in India from the sap of palm trees?
- K - What is the medical term for the inlammation of the cornea of the eye?
- L - What is the US state capital of Michigan?
- M - What is grape juice called before or during fermentation?
- N - What is the name of the essential oil distilled from the blossoms of the bitter orange?
- O - What is the name of a form of dungeon, where prisoners were usually forgotten, only accessible by a trap door in the ceiling of the dungeon?
- P - What was the title assumed by an ancient British chief claiming supreme power?
- Q - What is the name of the large muscle at the front of the thigh which acts to extend the leg?
- R - What word means the killing of a king?
- S - What is a waiter called who manages wine service in a hotel or restaurant?
- T - What is the name of a dark red fruit produced by crossing a blackberry with a raspberry?
- U - What is the twentieth letter of the Greek alphabet?
- V - In Scandinavian mythology, what were each of Odin's handmaids known as, who chose heroes to be slain in battle?
- W - What is the name of a salad made from apples, walnuts, celery and mayonnaise?
- X - What imaginary wonderful place is portrayed in Samuel Coleridge's poem 'Kubla Khan'?
- Y - In the games of bridge and whist, what is the name of a hand with no card above a nine?
- Z - What is the name of the optical toy in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved?
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