Answers to Ian’s Trivialus 22 June 2025

Answers

1. Pastoral

2. Royal Ascot

3. Avalon

4. Stanley Cup – the annual trophy of the National Hockey League.

5. Savile Row

6. Kalahari

7. Alberta - The G7 countries are, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US. Unfortunately, the meeting didn’t live up to expectations due to the US pulling out on the second day when President Trump left abruptly to address issues in the Middle East conflict.

8. b) – 11, in order of population they are, Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Nice, Nantes, Montpellier, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Lille, Rennes.

9. A bill to introduce assisted dying allowing terminally ill adults with six months, or less to live, to get medical assistance to end their lives. Here the vote was much tighter with a majority of only 23 in favour of the bill. In both decisions, MPs were advised to vote in accordance with their conscience, rather than the dictates of their party whips.

10. When sunlight reaches the Earth’s atmosphere it is scattered in all directions by the gases and particles in the air. In the colour spectrum, violet and blue light have the shortest wavelengths and red light the longest. Because of this, blue light is scattered more than red light and consequently the sky appears blue during the day.

11. Myanmar – Burma

12. True – it has 80, closely followed by Brazil with 79 and then Australia with 66.

13. Mondo Duplantis – the Swedish/American, who chooses to represent Sweden, cleared 6.28m, and is regarded as the greatest pole-vaulter of all time.

14. Senility – it is also known as gerontology.

15. a) – Theodore Roosevelt who was 42 when he succeeded to the post after the death of William McKinley. Kennedy was 43 and Obama was 47.

16. Labubu

17. b) – Newton’s second law of motion which is expressed as f = ma (force = mass x acceleration). The force from the rocket is largely constant right from launch. As fuel is expended, the mass of the rocket rapidly decreases. In order to balance the equation, a (acceleration) has to increase as m (mass) drops.

18. Rambunctious

19. John Wayne – True Grit.

20. Leo Tolstoy