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quizballs 30 - free alphabet quiz - questions and answers for trivia quizzes and pub quizzes

This is an alphabet quiz. If you've not spotted it by now, note that the first letters of the answers correspond respectively to the letters of the alphabet. 1 = A, 2 = B, 3 = C, and so on. The depth of this explanation prior to the quiz is at the discretion of the quizmaster (quizmistress... quizperson?...)

The fruit in Tarte Tatin? Apples
Children's TV programme featuring Professor Yaffle (the wooden woodpecker)? Bagpuss
Charles Babbage's notable invention? Computer
Framework for oil well drilling machinery? Derrick
Traditional fur trim on ceremonial and heraldic robes? Ermine (From the white winter coat of the ermine - mustela erminea - AKA stoat and short-tailed weasel. Incidentally the black spotted patterns in heraldic ermines are the black tips of the tails in the joined pelts.)
A maker of arrows? Fletcher
A hot spring which shoots out boiling water and steam? Geyser
Metric unit equal to 10,000 square metres? Hectare
Chemical element with atomic number 53? Iodine
Contest fought between medieval knights with lances on horseback? Joust
Basketball-netball hybrid game for mixed male and female teams? Korfball
Zurich's river? Limmat
The twelfth letter of the Greek alphabet? Mu (= m)
The Tokyo stock exchange index? Nikkei
A fine translucent stiff cotton muslin used chiefly for making dresses? Organdie/organdy/organza
Female part of a flower? Pistil
A type of low fat curd cheese? Quark (interestingly perhaps indirectly related to particle physics quarks, a term adopted by US physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1964, based he says on the mythical seabird chorus "...Three quarks for Muster Mark..." in James Joyce's book Finnegans Wake, thought to mean three cheers or jeers. Either or both Gell-Mann and Joyce might have been alluding ironically to quark cheese since in German the word extends metaphorically to mean rubbish or nonsense.)
The right page of an open book? Recto (the left page is verso)
The white part of the human eye? Sclera
Bride in the 1998 film Bride of Chucky? Tiffany
Mottled green and yellow citrus fruit hybrid between a grapefruit and tangerine? Ugli
Roman goddess of the hearth? Vesta
US state of which Madison is capital? Wisconsin
Irrational fear or dislike of people from foreign countries? Xenophobia
Circular collapsible tent of felt or skins used by Mongolian nomads? Yurt
Italian dessert of whipped egg yolks, sugar and marsala wine? Zabbaglione

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