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1. To ensure we all know precisely what we are dealing with here, just what is a chamberpot?
2. Which of the following was a popular nickname for a chamber pot?
3. The Greek word for a chamberpot, "lasanon" or "lasana", gave rise to the name of which popular Italian dish?
4. What name was given to the specially shaped chamberpot whose design enabled it to be used while standing or squatting by seventeenth-century ladies, hidden away under their large skirts?
5. What did mediaeval Edinburgh housewives traditionally shout to warn passers-by that they were about to empty the contents of their chamberpots into the street below?
6. What nickname was given to the British 14th Light Dragoons Regiment following an incident in 1813 when they carried off the chamberpot belonging to Joseph Bonaparte (a present from his brother, the Emperor Napoleon)?
7. What is the modern name for a chair designed to incorporate a chamberpot into its seating structure?
8. Following the decision to exile the defeated Emperor Napoleon to the Isle of St Helena, the British Government commissioned the manufacture of a special earthenware chamberpot and other toilet-ware for his use. Why were these not in the end used by him?
9. Which French playwright, best known for his marital farces, in 1910 wrote a one-act play entitled "On Purge Bebe" ("Baby's Laxative"), in which the hero invents an indestructible chamberpot?
10. Those whose interest in chamber pots has been aroused by this quiz would be well advised to visit which stately home near Ripon in Yorkshire, which has a special Chamberpot Room, containing a collection of over 100 pots from all over the world?
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