This is just a bit of fun, so please don't look the answers up, or copy them off others (largely because that won't help). There are no prizes for winning. Closing date for entries is the eighteenth of January. Send answers to my specifically created 09philj@zoho.com, with your username. (Not my main email, will be erased after contest). Clear?
Part 1: F Words
1. What is a fylfot?
2. During the first world war, british soldiers were issued with "fish jam" which was so disgusting they spent their wages on tinned sardines to replace it. But what was in it?
3. What is the oldest synthetic chemical process known to man?
Part 2: Fruit
4. What fruit was thrown at the bride and groom at roman weddings?
5. Where do most pineapples come from?
6. What unusual labour force was used to harvest plums in the Santa Clara Valley in California in 1905?
Part 3: Faith
7. What is the world's fastest growing faith?
8. Which faith believes God retired in 1914?
9. An illiterate blacksmith's daughter founded which faith in Toad Lane, Manchester, England, in 1736?
Part 4: F World
10. Where in the world is the florin the currency?
11. What bay, beginning with F, has the world's highest tides?
12. Between 2000 and 2005, what percentage of Guyana's forests were cut down?
Part 5: Florilegium
13. What was the responsibility of the Roman god Fabulinus?
14. What was shot on the island of Gozo in 1982?
15. In what country was the word "fall" fist used to describe autumn?
