The Flakes Fabulous First Birthday Party Quiz

Answer: How's Your Mother

Flake was a band from Sydney in New South Wales that was active between 1968 and 1974, with a brief revival in 1989. The band underwent frequent changes in membership and produced several successful singles. The single that most people remember them for is a cover version of Bob Dylan and Rick Danko's "This Wheel's on Fire" released in July 1970. "How's Your Mother", their only album from their original years as opposed to the revival, was an eleven track album released late in 1971 on the Violet's Holiday record label.

The album was re-released on CD in 2007, and the original vinyl version is now a valuable collectors item. Dance With My Father was released in 2003 by Luther Vandross, Brothers in Arms was released by Dire Straits in 1985 and Sons of Northern Darkness was released by Norwegian band Immortal in 2002.

Answer: Four

Mystery Jets are a London band who formed in 2000 on Eel Pie Island, a small island situated in the River Thames near Twickenham. The Eel Pie Island Hotel was a famous music venue for many years, hosting dances and live music from famous bands such as the Rolling Stones until the hotel burned down in 1971.

The island is now a private residence for the wealthy, and the illegal parties hosted there by the Mystery Jets would have annoyed the residents. The band has consisted of four members for the majority of its lifespan and has released numerous singles. "Twenty One" was their second UK album, and was released on 24th March in England in 2008. "Flake" is the fourth track on the album, and the second track, "Young Love" was released as a single a couple of weeks earlier on March 10th.

The album reached number 50 in the UK Album Chart during its initial release.

Answer: Dandruff

As skin cells all over the body die, it is normal for them to be shed as small flakes. When this occurs at an excessive rate from the scalp, the flakes are known as dandruff. This condition is a result of a combination of factors - skin oil secretions, by-products of skin micro-organisms and an individual's own genetic tendency to suffer from the condition.

In afflicted individuals, scalp skin cell turnover can be up to 15 times more rapid than in non-sufferers.

Answer: Maize - Zea mays

Many researchers believe that maize was first cultivated by humans in Mesoamerica between 12,000 and 7,500 years ago, making it one of the first farmed crops of the Stone Age. It later became a staple food in many parts of the Americas. Today, the weight of maize produced is greater than that of any other crop, with the USA and China being the major producers. Maize is used in various foodstuffs and is also used as an animal feed and as a biofuel. Maize starch is a component of some plastics, fabrics and adhesives.

In the USA and Canada, maize is more commonly known as field corn or Indian corn. Outside of North America, corn is a generic term that refers to all cereal crops.

Answer: New Pence

Since decimalisation was implemented in the UK and Ireland on 15th February 1971, the currency in the United Kingdom has been pounds sterling and new pence. The shilling was a pre-decimal coin that was equivalent to five new pence, being as there were 20 shillings to the pound prior to decimalisation.
The farthing was a British coin worth one quarter of an old penny, and hence there were 960 farthings in a pre-decimalisation pound stirling. The coins were abolished in 1960 because they were no longer economically viable. The guinea was a coin minted in the United Kingdom between 1663 and 1813. The value of the coin varied between 20 shillings and 30 shillings depending on the purity of the gold it was made from and the financial circumstances prevalent at the time. The coin was replaced by the pound stirling in 1816, which was given a fixed value of 20 shillings. The guinea lives on in the world of horse racing, with such races as the 2000 Guineas indicating the initial value of the prize purse for the first ever race, with a guinea being notionally worth 21 shillings. They are not however legal tender and cannot be used to purchase goods in shops.

The Cadbury's Flake chocolate bar was first sold in 1920, and consists of very thin folds of chocolate which crumble and melt easily. Small bars are often served with ice-cream in cones. This creation is bizarrely known as a "99".

Answer: Arizona

Jeff Flake was elected on 7th November 2000 as a Republican to serve as a member of the United States House of Representatives on 7th November 2000. He started his first term of office on January 3rd 2001, and initially represented the vast 1st congressional district of the state of Arizona.

After the redistricting of 2002 that added two extra seats to the Arizona congressional delegation, Jeff Flake was elected in November of that year to represent the 6th congressional district of Arizona, which until the redistricting of 2012 will consist of a small suburban area to the east and southeast of Phoenix. Jeff was born in Snowflake, Arizona on 31st December 1962.

The town was co-founded in 1878 by his great-great grandfather William J. Flake, who was of the Mormon faith, just like his famous descendant. According to statistical data compiled in 2009, Arizona was the 6th largest state by area and due to a rapid growth was the 14th largest state by population. Arizona became a state on 14th February 1912, and was the last of the 48 contiguous states to be admitted to the Union.

Answer: A small sharp piece of rock used in early stone tools

Lithic flakes are small sharp stone fragments struck from larger pieces of rock either by percussion or the applying of pressure to the larger stone. Historically the stone used most often was flint, but obsidian and chert were utilised if flint was not present in the locality.

There are several methods of removing these small sharp stone fragments, but the most common in the Stone Age was a striking method called flint knapping. Tools of various materials were used to remove the fragments from the main piece of stone.

These fragments were then chipped further to make sharper edges or particular shapes such as arrowheads, blades, knives and scrapers. Flint tools are very sharp, and if you are insane enough to try flint knapping yourself then the wearing of thick clothes, gloves and goggles is highly recommended. Lumps of fossilized animal dung commonly found at domestic and rural sites are known as coprolites.

The blue tin-glazed decorated ceramic tiles found on buildings in Spain and Portugal are called Azulejo.

The pottery shard used for voting in Ancient Athens was known as an Ostrakon. The process of voting to ban an individual from the city is where the term "ostracize" comes from.

Answer: French

"Les flocons de neige" are snowflakes and "les flocons de sel" are salt flakes. The French word "ecailles" refers to flakes of the more scaly variety, and "les pellicules" means flakes of dandruff or scurf. The word "flake" translates as "fiocchi" in Italian, "flocken" in German, "flocos" in Portuguese and "copos" in Spanish. All these words refer to the type of flake that falls as snow.

Answer: Cake

Cakes may be decorated with flakes of chocolate, coconut, almond or many other foodstuffs, but the portions of cake handed out to party guests would ideally be somewhat larger than flakes. The tiny remains of the cake left over after eating would be called crumbs, but not many of our hungry team members would leave any of those. Tobacco, goldfish food and chocolate all commonly exist in the form of flakes.

Answer: Snow

Snowflakes form when water vapour condenses directly into ice around a condensation nucleus such as a dust particle. They come in many forms including hexagonal prisms, stellar plates and stellar dendrites. For more information visit

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/class/class.htm

Hailstones consist of balls or irregular pieces of ice formed in thunderclouds. These ice fragments repeated move up and down inside the cloud until they are too heavy to be supported by the updrafts. At this point they fall to the ground as hailstones.

Frogs are highly unlikely to fall as precipitation at all, and would never precipitate in the form of flakes.

Graupel is also known as soft hail and forms when snowflakes collect so many of the frozen water droplets known as rime that the original shape is no longer identifiable as a flake.