Answers to Ian’s Trivialus 4 May 2025

Answers

1. 50m – 25m – Eight lanes.

2. The Iberian Peninsula – early on Monday afternoon, 60% of Spain’s electricity grid suddenly lost power.  This affected most of the country’s electricity system, plus most of neighbouring Portugal.  The power wasn’t restored until 07h00 the next day.

3. Bees – it is also termed melissophobia.

4. Umbrellas

5. Mark Carney  - The Liberal Party.

6. Dog

7. Edmonton

8. The first 100-days of his presidency.  The first time this metric was applied was to President Roosevelt.

9. Sirius Black - Harry Potter series.

10. Marie Curie – first Physics (1903) and then Chemistry (1911).

11. Winston Churchill

12. Frank Zappa

13. Korea

14. Marks & Spenser and The Co-op.

15. a) – picosecond

16. b) – it was incorrectly hung for over a month.

17. a) – to wander from place to place.

18. American Gigolo

19. True – another interesting fact is that sea otters have the densest fur of all animals (2.6 million hairs per square inch).

20. Perforated.