Answers to Ian’s Trivialus 21 July 2024

Answers

1. Geometry
2. J D Vance (39), who, if Trump wins the next election, will be one the youngest vice presidents in US history. – Hillbilly Elegy.
3. False – it wasn't until 2013 when the ban on French women wearing trousers was finally overturned after 200 years.  The law was introduced to keep women out of the workforce and transgressors could be fined or imprisoned for dressing in "men's clothes".
4. Crowdstrike – an apt name perhaps?  Although the bug has been fixed, the knock-on repercussions are likely to last for days.
5. A dinghy is a small boat, dingy is used to describe something that is shabby or gloomy.
6. Sir Walter Scott.
7. Bangkok – a bizarre story, seemingly involving a failed financial arrangement amongst the deceased group.
8. Attila the Hun.
9. b) – Jimmy Connors.
10. 21 hours – the two islands are separated by the International Date Line.  The Russian island adopts the standard time of Kamchatka, while the small US isle takes Alaskan time.
11. Pennsylvania – Thomas Crooks, a 20-year old recluse, who was killed by security forces.  Questions remain as to the shooter's intentions and, more importantly, the apparent failures of the security forces covering the event.
12. Manga
13. Types of British tanks.
14. c) – to gnaw.
15. The downing of Malaysian flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpa by Russian forces in the Donbas region of Ukraine. 193 of the 298 victims were Dutch, while the other victims came from Australia (38) and fourteen other countries.  Both the Netherlands and Australia called for Russia to be held to account for this act of aggression.
16. Claude Monet
17. Roberta Flack – Play Misty For Me.
18. Bob Newhart – Suzanne Pleshette, who played his wife in The Bob Newhart Show.
19. Dr Strangelove 1964.
20. b) – Sydney.