Answers to Ian’s Trivialus Mar 17

Answers

Tights
General Franco
Haiti – Ariel Henry who is stranded in Puerto Rico. His resignation is dependent upon the installation of a transitional council, but it is not clear how this will be achieved.
Van Morrison
c) – Red Fox
The de Havilland Comet – the protype flew on 27 July 1949 and it entered service with BOAC in May 1952.
Eric Carmen (74) – his wife announced that he passed away in his sleep over the previous weekend.
False – it was only discovered in 1820, the last region on Earth to be discovered.
b) – Polynesia and Micronesia where more than 60% of adults were regarded as obese. Obesity is defined as a Body Mass Index (BMI) greater than 30. BMI is calculated by dividing one’s weight in kilograms by the square of one’s height in metres.
b) – Uneven heating from the Sun.
Yokohama – England and South Africa.
TikTok – the Chinese owners need to sell the app to an owner of another nationality or else face a ban in America. The influence of the app through its coverage of news is the so-called real sensitive issue. Most countries object to mainstream news companies (which TikTok is becoming) being owned by foreign countries, especially potentially hostile ones. But like everything, things are seldom what they seem, and there are likely other forces at play.
France – one of the last European countries to accept the potato.
They are interchangeable, as both mean liable to catch fire. Flammable is preferred for warning labels since inflammable could be misunderstood as meaning the opposite. In a figurative context, inflammable is preferred (e.g. this could be an inflammable situation).
Androcles
The Princess of Wales – Kate touched up a family photo of herself and her three children on photoshop before sending it out for general media release. When the editing was discovered, a hullabaloo ensued and many newspapers rejected it.
b) – Two – Catherine Parr was his last wife. Anne of Cleaves was the other.
Gene Hackman – Clint Eastwood still won the Best Director Oscar and the film itself won the Best Picture award that year.
Vatican City
Noble Gases

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