03-Oct-2024 Theme: 'Puffin'

(1) True or false: there are no Puffins in the southern hemisphere?

Answer: True.

(2) The children’s book publisher Puffin Books was an offshoot of which British publishing house?

Answer: Penguin Books.

(3) Where in Australia is the Puffing Billy narrow gauge heritage railway?

Answer: Dandenong Ranges, Victoria (Belgrave or Melbourne).

(4) In Irish folklore, puffins were believed to be re-incarnations of what?

Answer: Celtic monks.

(5) A petrol-powered, horse-drawn device nicknamed ‘Puffing Billy’, invented in Britain by Hubert Cecil Booth and patented in 1901, was the first ever what?

Answer: Vacuum cleaner.

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