How Do You Like Them Apples? Trivia Quiz

Answer: i

The 1998 iMac was the first to use the prefix, with the i standing for internet. Apple's first logo depicted Sir Isaac Newton sitting underneath an apple tree, but this was changed within months to the rainbow silhouette of an apple with a bite taken out of it. With the introduction of the iMac, Apple made their logo monochrome.

Answer: Horse poo

Words in German that are made up of other words stuck together are called Bandwurmwörter (literally tapeworm words). Other examples include Handschuh (literally hand shoe) meaning glove, Unterseeboot (literally under sea boat) meaning submarine and Flusspferd or Nilpferd (literally river horse or Nile horse) meaning hippopotamus.

Answer: True

All we are told in the Bible about the forbidden fruit is that it grew on a tree and various cultures have cited the fruit as being a fig, grape, tomato or even an extinct species of fruit. The Latin for 'apple' and 'evil' are nearly identical, which may have influenced Renaissance painters and hence the European belief that the fruit was an apple.

Answer: New Amsterdam

Initially the region was called Nouvelle-Angoulême (or New Angoulême) after Francis I, King of France and Count of Angoulême. When the Dutch settled (on what is now Manhattan) they named it New Amsterdam and the city changed its name to New York after the Dutch surrendered the city to the British in 1664.

The British remained there until the last British soldiers left New York at the end of the American War of Independence in 1783.

Answer: Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr's voice is instantly recognisable to a generation of 1980s children who heard him narrate "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends" on ITV. Starr almost turned down the role as he thought children would be more interested in "dinosaurs with lasers."

Answer: Pears

Traditionally the rhyming word is then dropped (so stairs becomes apples) and many words and phrases have entered the English language through Cockney rhyming slang. Another example is to have a 'butchers' (from butcher's hook, meaning look).

Answer: Bristol

There are also regional centres in Swindon and Bath, but the majority of the university is based in Bristol. The university is relatively young, having opened as a polytechnic in 1970 and converting to university status in 1992.

Answer: an equal and opposite reaction

This explains the recoil felt when a gun is fired. As well as Newton's laws (which are still used more than 300 years later), he also built the first practical reflecting telescope and developed several mathematical problems including calculus. However, despite fame for his scientific and mathematical studies, he actually wrote more about the Bible and the occult!

Answer: Pigs were often kept in orchards

As pigs were traditionally kept in or near orchards, the apples were readily available. In Germany apple sauce is normally eaten with potato pancakes, in Holland with chips and in France it is normally part of a dessert.

Answer: Pom

Also spelled Pommy or Pommie, there are many theories where this term came from, ranging from the acronym 'Prisoner Of Mother England' to early English cricket tours, where the English gentlemen cricketers preferred to drink Pommery Champagne over the local beer. The most likely is that it was from a form of Australian rhyming slang, coming from pomegranate (immigrant).