Answers to Ian’s Trivialus 17 August 2025
Answers
Irish Wolfhound
Sentebale – Lesotho
Turkey
Aeneas – as recounted in Virgil’s Aeneid.
WKRP in Cincinnati
8 – Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra and Spain.
Aerosmith
Public schools
Washington – Los Angeles. Despite statistics showing a gradual decline in crime in the Washington, Trump claims the figures (from the Democratic Mayor) are phony, and that crime is on the rampage. The Los Angeles action was to quell protests at the immigration crackdown.
Volleyball
Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) – the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
b) – shy or socially awkward. From the Old French word, forasche, which was used to describe an outsider.
Perseid – more visible in the Northern Hemisphere although some of the shooting stars can be seen from the Southern Hemisphere near the horizon. The Perseids are the debris left by the comet Swift-Tuttle which orbits the sun every 133 years. The Earth, in its orbit around the sun, passes through this debris trail once a year.
b) Oscar Wilde.
b) - It is alleged that the figure which Sir Keir Starmer announced to Parliament as being the total cost (£3.4bn), is only a tenth of the figure which the government’s actuarial department has calculated. Something that will be debated when Parliament reconvenes.
True
Richard – Elizabeth and Emmet.
Bangladesh – East Pakistan.
Horatius, who, with his companions, held the narrow end of the bridge long enough for it to be destroyed by other Romans retreating behind them, thus preventing the Etruscans from entering the city. The story is recounted in a poem by Thomas B. Macaulay (Horatius at the Bridge) written in 1842. The truth of the story is uncertain.
Atrium