Answers to Ian’s Trivialus 25 May 2025

Answers

1. Brandy

2. Venus

3. Norm Peterson (Norm will do) – Cheers.

4. Drambuie

5. Medals

6. Lithuania – German chancellor Friedrich Merz stated “The security of our Baltic allies is also our security”.

7. Shanghai

8. Anton Chekhov

9. South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa. Supported by an entourage of acolytes, hand-picked to mollify President Trump, he was nevertheless subjected to an embarrassing display of televised footage and newspaper clippings attesting to Trump’s claim that whites in SA are being subjected to racial abuse and violence. Most of the information presented by Trump has been shown to be misleading and incorrect.

10. c) – Singapore grants one 193 destinations, Japan and South Korea are tied for 2 nd place with 190. Belgium is 4 th, and Canada is 7 th . South Africa is 47 th with 106 destinations. Afghanistan with only 25 destinations is at the bottom.

11. It is 55% greater.

12. Robert Baden Powell – Second Boer War (1899-1902)

13. Chessboxing – A sport where two combatants play alternating rounds of blitz chess and boxing until one wins either by checkmate or knockout. It is popular in the UK, France, Finland, Russia and India.

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14. b) – Ricky Valence who was Welsh. He sold more than a million copies of the song in 1960 and was the first male Welsh singer to have a UK No. 1 single hit.

15. The Slave Trade

16. Northampton Saints and Bordeaux-Begles. Three weeks ago there were high odds on any these teams being in the final. A bet on both being there would have netted a small fortune.

17. False – there are four, Russia, Canada, The USA and China.

18. Meryl Streep – Sophie’s Choice, Out of Africa, A Cry in the Dark.

19. Caught in the act of a crime, from the Latin “with the crime still blazing”

20. Hydraulics