Here are the answers to my earlier questions.
Today we have a mixed orchard supplying a variety of questions.
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One
What is the alcoholic drink that is made from the fermented juice of pears?
Answer: Perry.
noun (plural perries) [mass noun] an alcoholic drink made from the fermented juice of pears.
origin Middle English: from Old French pere, from an alteration of Latin pirum ‘pear’.
— Oxford English Dictionary
Two
Which Avril Lavigne album cover features her with a red ‘X’ on her sleeve?
Answer: Under My Skin.
Avril Lavigne’s second studio album, Under My Skin, was released in 2004 and debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart and US Billboard 200. The album, produced by Raine Maida, Don Gilmore and Butch Walker, received mixed to positive reviews and is considered a classic that defined pop-punk in the early 2000s.
Three
—— was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is the use of a book’, thought —— ‘without pictures or conversation?’
What name is missing twice from, and what book opens with, the above quote?
Answers: Alice; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a children’s novel by Lewis Carroll, follows a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world. The novel, known for its literary nonsense genre, has had a lasting influence on popular culture and literature.
Four
List all the countries and their capital cities where that city stands on the River Danube.
Answers: Vienna, Austria; Bratislava, Slovakia; Budapest, Hungary and Belgrade, Serbia.
The Danube, Europe’s second-longest river, flows through Central and Southeastern Europe, connecting ten countries and serving as a vital trade route. Flowing from the Black Forest to the Black Sea, it is navigable for 2,415 km and supports various fish species, including carp and sturgeon.
Five
How many playing squares does a Scrabble board have?
Answer: 225.
Alfred Mosher Butts invented Scrabble in 1931. It is a word game played on a 15×15 grid of 225 squares. It is produced by Hasbro in the US and Canada—Mattel elsewhere—with 150 million sets sold worldwide.
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