Weekly Quiz - Answers to February 14, 1999

Number	Answers
1.	Never Despair.
2.	District of Columbia.
3.	Tropic of Cancer.
4.	Anticlockwise.
5.	Grass.
6.	Nine-tenths.
7.	The Marianas Trench.
8.	Red dust blown up from the Sahara by the sirocco.
9.	True. The kerosene fungus.
10.	The smallest amount needed to kill a guinea pig weighing 250g (9oz) within four days.
11.	Long-sightedness.
12.	The touch receptors on the tongue are 100 times denser than the ones on the back.
13.	20%.
14.	True.
15.	1924.
16.	New Zealand, in 1893.
17.	The Maid of Zaragoza.
18.	Colonel Blood.
19.	Using the same letter or syllable several times in rapid succession (e.g., 'He is bearded, balding, but basically benevolent').
20.	Dentine.