The Brentwood Gazette’s Weekly Teaser — 19-11-2014: World Toilet Day

Well, THAT was embarrassing: I managed to mix up my shifts … !

Basically, I thought I was working, today: and it turns out I wasn’t … !

BOY, did I feel like a lemon … !

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But that’s not why your here, is it?

No.

No, it’s Wednesday: which means it’s time for the Brentwood Gazette’s Weekly Teaser.

Here’s this week’s World Toilet Day themed questions: covered by the usual Creative Commons License* … 

Q1) 19th November is World Toilet Day.   Its organizers are the World Toilet who?

Q2) The organization promotes sustainable what: farming, sanitation or sewerage?

Q3) The 2014 World Toilet Summit will be held in which South Asian country: Bangladesh, Bhutan or India?

Q4) Here in the UK, the commonest types of toilet had a handle or chain: to let us do what?

Q5) When our toilets empty, the waste goes through a u-bend.   Which Victoria plumber invented the u-bend?

Q6) What — when we speak of toilets — does ‘WC’ stand for?

Q7) The box holds the water that goes into the toilet bowl is a what?

Q8) The Zvezda and Tranquility modules have the world’s most expensive toilets.   Where ARE those modules?

Q9) They’ll be in the men’s public toilets: but usually not the ladies.   What are we talking about?

Q10) Finally … the trucks used to empty portable toilets and cesspits are usually known as what wagons?

Here’s last week’s questions and answers …

Questions.

Q1) 12th November, 1984, saw Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer announce the phasing out of the £1 note.   What was it replaced by … ?

Q2) Who was that Chancellor?

Q3) The £1 note’s replacement had been introduced in April of which year?

Q4) Who — apart from the Queen — was pictured on that £1 note … ?

Q5) In which year of the 1980s was the £1 note finally withdrawn from circulation?

Q6) The UK’s pound is the Pound … what?

Q7) What’s the symbol for the Pound?

Q8) The pound’s symbol is a fancy version of which letter?

Q9) Are Scottish or Northern Irish pound notes legal tender?

Q10) Finally … What’s the largest denomination of pound note, in everyday use?

Answers.

A1) The £1 coin.

A2) Nigel Lawson.

A3) 1983.

A4) Sir Isaac Newton.   (Who, at one point, was the head of the Royal Mint: there’s a school of thought that says his real stroke of genius was not the discovery and measurement of gravity — ANYBODY could’ve done that — but the invention of the mill-edged coin, which helped reduce fraud1.   He’s ALSO credited with the invention of the cat-flap.)

A5) 1988.

A6) Pound Sterling.

A7) I’ve shown you already in these questions: it’s the £ sign.

A8) L.

A9) No.   If I’ve understood it correctly, they’re what’s called ‘promissory notes’: something along the lines of a cheque.

A10) The £50.   (The £1, 000, 000 and £1, 00, 000, 000 notes are only used internally by the UK issuing banks: the Bank of England, along with the banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland that issue notes.)

Enjoy those.   I’ll catch you next time.

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