The Sunday Telegraph - 01.09.2019

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THE SUNDAY QUIZ

BY ANDREW BAKER

Have you been paying attention to this

week’s news? Test yourself...

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1

Which girl’s name

has halved in

popularity among

new parents in

the past year, according

to the official UK

listings?

(a) Meghan

(b) Kate

(c) Alexa

2

A robot with

“fettuccine-like

fingers” has been

developed by

scientists at Harvard

University. What is its

purpose?

(a) To catch jellyfish

(b) To test the

consistency of pasta

sauce

(c) To play the harp

3

What was Jacob

Rees-Mogg’s choice

of light reading for

the plane when he

flew up to Scotland to see

the Queen and request the

prorogation of parliament?

(a) Jeeves and the Feudal

Spirit

(b) Jeeves and the King of

Clubs

(c) Jeeves Takes to the

Streets

4

Numbers of

Bottlenose dolphins

off the Bay of

Islands have sharply

declined, and experts have

suggested a reason. What?

(a) Too many fish

(b) Not enough fish

(c) Too much love

5

Melting Arctic ice

has allowed

Russian Arctic

explorers to

discover five... what?

(a) Frozen woolly

mammoths

(b) New islands

(c) Frozen Russian Arctic

explorers

6

The German town

of Bielefeld in North

Rhine-Westphalia

has offered a prize

of €1 million to anyone

who...

(a) Can prove that the town

does not exist

(b) Can come up with a less

confusing name for North

Rhine-Westphalia

(c) Can stay awake through

the mayor’s end-of-year

speech

7

The former “Wolf of

Wall Street” Jordan

Belfort, played on

screen by Leonardo

DiCaprio, admits that at

the height of his infamy he

was consuming sufficient

drugs to...

(a) Satisfy Colombia

(b) Sedate Guatemala

(c) Seduce Bolivia

8

Sir Percy Cox served

in disguise as an

espionage officer for

the British “D”

Division in Kurdistan in the

Second World War. What

was his cover?

(a) Donkey blacksmith

(b) Pox doctor

(c) Seller of cheese

9

Great

British

Bake Off

judge Prue

Leith is on

crutches after

snapping her

Achilles

tendon while

filming a skit

for the show.

Which

character from

The Wizard of Oz

was she playing?

(a) Tin Man

(b) Cowardly Lion

(c) Dorothy

10

Red wine is

good for the gut

and lowers

cholesterol,

according to researchers at

King’s College London. But

what is the catch?

(a) You only need it once

a fortnight

(b) It causes impotence

(c) It gives you a headache

11

Which band, then

known as

Seymour, played

their first gig at

the East Anglian Railway

Museum in 1989?

(a) Oasis

(b) Blur

(c) Coldplay

12

Athelstan

Charles

Ethelwulf Long,

who has died

aged 100, was a former

governor of which British

Overseas Territory?

(a) The Cayman Islands

(b) The Falkland Islands

(c) The South Sandwich

Islands

PET SUBJECTS

Vet Pete Wedderburn

has the answers

My two-year-old cat isn’t the

cuddliest of cats (she’s a hunter)

but she often lies on her back

when I play with her, showing

me her tummy. The trouble is,

whenever I tickle her tummy,

she takes my hand in both her

paws and tries to eat it. Why is

she doing this? Does she want a

tummy rub or not?

AB, SUSSEX

When feeling affectionate,

cats often throw themselves

on to their side, rolling over

and exposing their belly. She’s

telling you that she trusts you,

by exposing a vulnerable area,

but she does not want you to

touch her there. Less than one

in 10 cats like to be stroked

there, with 90 per cent

reacting aggressively if

humans try to pet their

abdomen. In future, when she

does this, try petting the top

of her head, around her ears

and above her eyes. Most cats

do enjoy this type of social

bonding contact. To learn

more about cat behaviour,

read Cat Sense by John

Bradshaw (Penguin, 2014).

Our working cocker spaniel

has a lovely nature but on

walks, off and on the leash, she

can be very aggressive if other

dogs get too close to her face.

She bares her teeth in warning

and if they persist, she attacks

them viciously. At all other

times she is delightful. Any

suggestions?

GOF, PUTNEY

Many modern dogs are not

well socialised with other

dogs. Their dog-to-dog

manners can be appalling,

going straight for face to face

contact before the usual

niceties of pausing to gaze and

sniff, then getting-to-know-

each-other gradually by side

to side positioning and bottom

sniffing. When a sensitive dog

is confronted by a rude dog

like this that they don’t know,

they often take the attitude of

“attack is the best form of

defence”. It may be best to

have a rule that she is simply

never allowed to get close to

other dogs when out and

about unless she already

knows them.

CHOOSE ELEPHANT-

FRIENDLY TOURIST

ATTRACTIONS

Many travellers don’t realise

that elephant rides and other

activities often involve cruelty

to these magnificent animals.

World Animal Protection has

put together a list of elephant-

friendly venues that offer the

highest level of care for their

elephants: see

worldanimalprotection.org/

elephant-friendly-tourist-

guide for details.

RESCUE PET

Mia is a friendly five-year-old

husky. She is fine with other

dogs but doesn’t like cats. Call

Wadars Animal Rescue on

01903 247111.

To view outcomes of rescued

pets, see petethevet.com/

rescues/

Send queries to petsubjects@

telegraph.co.uk or tweet

@PeteTheVet. All sick

animals should be taken to

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