Q 01/05

Marmalade-loving Paddington Bear arrived in London as a stowaway from which South American country?

A) Peru

B) Chile

C) Bolivia

D) Ecuador

Answer · why

A) Peru

Peru was a late fix: Michael Bond first wrote that Paddington came from darkest Africa, until his agent pointed out that no bears live there.

Q 02/05

In a 2022 Jubilee sketch with Paddington Bear, where did Elizabeth II say she kept a marmalade sandwich?

A) Under her hat

B) In a tea caddy

C) In her handbag

D) In a biscuit tin

Answer · why

C) In her handbag

In her handbag, she revealed, kept for emergencies just as he keeps one. The pre-recorded sketch opened the Platinum Party at the Palace concert.

Q 03/05

The word marmalade comes from marmelo, the Portuguese name for which fruit once boiled into a firm paste?

A) Medlar

B) Quince

C) Persimmon

D) Pomegranate

Answer · why

B) Quince

Quince was the original marmalade fruit: in the 1500s England imported it as a firm, sticky paste from Spain and Italy, long before orange versions ap...

Q 04/05

During World War I, British and ANZAC troops turned empty jam tins into improvised versions of which weapon?

A) Trench mortars

B) Land mines

C) Signal flares

D) Hand grenades

Answer · why

D) Hand grenades

Hand grenades were so scarce early in the war that engineers packed ration jam tins with explosive and scrap metal, and the ANZACs set up a tin-bomb f...

Q 05/05

The jam doughnut that John F. Kennedy is wrongly said to have called himself is named after which German city?

A) Hamburg

B) Berlin

C) Frankfurt

D) Munich

Answer · why

B) Berlin

Berlin gives the Berliner doughnut its name, yet in the city itself the pastry is called a Pfannkuchen, one reason the tale of a laughing crowd is a m...