Q 01/05

Which royal bride's Windsor wedding featured a lemon and elderflower cake decorated with peonies?

A) Kate Middleton

B) Princess Eugenie

C) Meghan Markle

D) Camilla Parker Bowles

Answer · why

C) Meghan Markle

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry picked London cake designer Claire Ptak for their 2018 wedding, and the choice was tipped to shape other British brides...

Q 02/05

Which comedy troupe's 1975 film has a French knight hurl an insult about hamsters and elderberries?

A) Monty Python

B) The Goodies

C) The Marx Brothers

D) The Three Stooges

Answer · why

A) Monty Python

Monty Python gave the taunt to a French soldier in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, who mocks King Arthur from a castle with increasingly ludicrous in...

Q 03/05

Douro valley elder trees were once ordered uprooted to stop elderberry juice colouring which wine?

A) Madeira

B) Sherry

C) Marsala

D) Port

Answer · why

D) Port

Port shippers had been using the juice as a cheap dye, so the Douro Wine Company, established in 1756, banned it and mandated that the trees be torn u...

Q 04/05

In which Joseph Kesselring comedy do two kindly aunts serve lonely old men glasses of elderberry wine?

A) The Philadelphia Story

B) Arsenic and Old Lace

C) Private Lives

D) Design for Living

Answer · why

B) Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace has the sisters lace their home-made wine with poison; it opened on Broadway in 1941 and ran for 1,444 performances.

Q 05/05

Hollowed elderberry twigs were traditionally used as spiles to tap which trees for making syrup?

A) Maple

B) Willow

C) Hickory

D) Chestnut

Answer · why

A) Maple

Maple sap ran through the twigs once their soft pith was pushed out, and the same hollow stems were also turned into blowguns and syringes.