Only Consonants VI Trivia Quiz

Answer: Bring home the bacon

If you're bringing home the bacon, it just means that you're earning money. Alternatively, you could be informing your significant other that you're coming back home with a missing ingredient for that night's Quiche Lorraine.

Answer: Packed in like sardines

As you can imagine, to be packed in like sardines means to be packed in very tightly and in a small space. Whether the similarities include being covered in oil or tomato sauce is another thing.

Answer: The best thing since sliced bread

Generally, if something is described as being the best thing since sliced bread, it's a really good, simple invention. Given that sliced bread is such a mundane thing to be compared to, being labelled as better than it is probably not that big a deal nowadays.

Answer: Mitochondrion

The mitochondrion, as you should know if you did biology at school, is an organelle that assists in the conversion of glucose to oxygen. You remember that formula? Glucose and oxygen produces carbon dioxide, water and energy? Adenosine triphosphate? No? Well, that's what goes on in the mitochondrion.

Answer: Endoplasmic reticulum

Imagine molecules inside a cell are cars. They can either be driving around without a purpose, happy as Larry, or they can be on their way to a particular place. The endoplasmic reticulum is the highway for these molecules with a destination set in their internal SATNAV. It gives them a road to travel along.

Answer: Ribosome

Amino acids are important in the creation of proteins, and ribosomes are used to do this. Ribosome take the amino acids and form them into a protein chain in a process called RNA translation. If you're scratching your head thinking, "What are you on about? I need some RNA translation!", don't worry. It's a complex process.

Answer: The Diary of a Young Girl

'The Diary of a Young Girl' is the published form of Anne Frank's diary, which she kept during World War II when the Netherlands was occupied by the Nazis. Anne Frank died in 1944 while the first publication of the book occurred in 1947.

Answer: The Silmarillion

Published in 1977, JRR Tolkien's 'The Silmarillion' provides a sort of mythical backstory to the world in which 'The Lord of the Rings' and the 'The Hobbit' is set. Tolkien died in 1973, and it was his son, Christopher, who helped to get 'The Silmarillion' published.

Answer: Persuasion

'Persuasion' was Jane Austen's last novel, published mere months after her death in 1817. At the centre of the story is Anne Elliot, one of many female protagonists created by Austen across her collective works.

Answer: Claude Monet

Better known as simply Claude, Oscar-Claude Monet was a French impressionist painter, perhaps most famous for his 'Water Lilies' collection of paintings.

Answer: Edgar Degas

Amongst the most famous paintings by Edgar Degas, another French impressionist, are 'L'Absinthe' and 'The Bellelli Family'.

Answer: Alistair McGowan

Alistair McGowan is a British impressionist known for his television work where he does impressions of many British (and some international) celebrities.

See what I've done here? You thought I was doing all impressionist painters. Nuh uh.

Answer: Everglades

Located in Florida, the Everglades National Park is one of the largest in the USA. It consists mainly of wetlands and is home to several protected species, some of which can't be found anywhere else in America or, indeed, the world.

Answer: Guadalupe Mountains

This Texan national park is, as you would expect, situated near the Guadalupe Mountains. McKittrick Canyon, which is contained within the park, boasts a popular trail for tourists and naturalists alike.

Answer: Sequoia

Named for the giant, sky-piercing trees that can be found within, California's Sequoia National Park is located in and around the Sierra Nevada mountain range. It is here that you can find one of the tallest trees in the world, the General Sherman Tree, which stretches more than 80m into the air.