Readers Digest UK - December 2021

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By Beth Shillibeer

DECEMBER 2021 • 135

TRIVIA

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Speed 10. Centenarians. 9. aori. ̄ The M8. A fish (Asian sheepshead wrasse). 7. Glitter. 6. Purple. 5.

Adrian IV (Nicholas 13. Isaac Newton. 12.). Ingenuity ars (on NASA helicopter M11. skating.

Trading in old, inefficient cars.15. odehouse. P.G. W14. Breakspear).

1. What was the first Christmas carol
   performed in space in 1965?


2. Governments around the world have
   offered such prizes as a $1.4-million Hong
   Kong apartment and a cow as incentives
   to do what?


3. Which Fauvist painted “Le Bateau,”
   before it was accidentally displayed
   upside down for 47 days?


4. What South American country starts
   celebrating Christmas on December 7
   with El Día de las Velitas?


5. What colour were the earliest
   cultivated carrots?


6. What sparkling adornment
   are some scientists trying to
   ban, due to its harmful
   effects on the environment
   and human skin?


7. Scuba diver Hiroyuki
   Arakawa developed a
   friendship with what
   during his work at the
   Shinto shrine in Japan?
   8. Which people likely explored
   Antarctica long before British and Russian
   explorers claimed to be the first?
   9. Which population segment is projected
   to increase eightfold by 2050?
   10. Vishwaraj Jadeja hopes to become
   India’s first Winter Olympic medallist in
   what sport?
   11. A small swatch of the Wright Brothers’
   first airplane wing took another historic
   flight in 2021. Where did it go?
   12. The birthday of which famous
   scientist is often celebrated on
   December 25, despite his
   real birthday being
   January 4?
   13. Who was the
   first and only
   English pope?


8. Who wrote 96 books
   and died while working
   on his 97th, all in an effort
   to “spread sweetness
   and light”?


9. The French
   government is proposing
   to give residents an
   e-bike voucher worth
   2,500 euros in exchange
   for what?