Answers to quiz

Press, 30 December 1976, Page 6

Answers to quiz

(Answers to Wednesday’s Quiz) 1— To marinate in cookery means to soak meat or fish in vinegar, wine, herbs or spices, before cooking, to improve flavour and texture. 2— The thin outer skin of oranges and lemons is called zest. 3— A planet is a heavenly body revolving around the sun. 4— Tipperary' is an inland county of the Republic of Ireland. 5— Cubism was simultaneously invented by Braque. 6— Louisa M. Alcott wrote the “Little Women” series, and there were four books. 7— The chowchow has a blue-black tongue. 8— Chaikovsky’s sixth, and last, symphony was called the “Pathetique.” fl—Cows are lost in “Little Boy Blue.” 10— A. A. Milne wrote “The King’s Breakfast," and the king was demanding butter for his bread. 11 — Lacrosse, once national field game of Canada, Is played with a net on the end of a stick. 12— Ravioli is a savoury meat mixture enclosed in dough and cooked in boiling water. 13— Lentils are the seeds of a small plant that was among the first to be cultivated. 14— Mauritius is in the Indian Ocean about 550 miles east of Madagascar.

15—It is thought Stonehenge was used as an observatory