Q 01/05

The world's oldest known leather shoe, about 5,500 years old, was found in 2008 in which country?

A) Armenia

B) Egypt

C) Turkey

D) Peru

Answer · why

A) Armenia

It is roughly a modern US size 7, and was preserved under a thick seal of sheep dung.

Q 02/05

The earliest known footwear, 10,000-year-old sagebrush-bark sandals, was found in a cave in which US state?

A) Arizona

B) Oregon

C) Nevada

D) New Mexico

Answer · why

B) Oregon

They were dug out of Fort Rock Cave in 1938.

Q 03/05

Ötzi the Iceman's shoes from around 3300 BC had bases made from the skin of which animal?

A) Deer

B) Goat

C) Bear

D) Wolf

Answer · why

C) Bear

Deerskin side panels and a bark-string net finished the design; the Areni-1 shoe is about 200 years older.

Q 04/05

UK and US shoe sizes are spaced one 'barleycorn' apart. How long is a barleycorn?

A) A quarter inch

B) Half an inch

C) One centimetre

D) A third of an inch

Answer · why

D) A third of an inch

Continental Europe uses the Paris point of two-thirds of a centimetre instead.

Q 05/05

The metal foot-measuring tool found in shoe shops is named after its inventor. What is it called?

A) The Brannock Device

B) The Mondopoint gauge

C) The Ritz stick

D) The Scholl scale

Answer · why

A) The Brannock Device

Charles F. Brannock came up with it in 1925.