CocKeYed! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Leaning Tower of Pisa

Unfortunately, though the ground where the tower stands is composed of dense clay, it is not strong enough to support the weight of the tower. Also, the foundations were only dug to a depth of 3 metres, insufficient for a building of that height.

Answer: Utah

Now, in a truly cockeyed twist, this beverage is advertised as 'Bourbon Barrel Barley Wine Ale' - hmmm...identity crisis?

Answer: South Pacific

According to the song, a cockeyed optimist is 'immature and incurably green'.

Answer: Dublin

On his return, Douglas Corrigan received a hero's welcome, ticker-tape parade and all. The "New York Post" cleverly printed the news of his return backwards on their masthead.

Answer: Cockeyed Cavaliers

This comedy is set in 16th-century England and involves Wheeler and Woolsey donning disguises to escape conviction for stealing. They represent themselves as physicians to The Duke of Weskit, and Lady Genevieve, played by Thelma Todd, falls in love with Bert Winstanley, portrayed by Wheeler. In Laurel and Hardy style, the film ends with a wild carriage chase.

Answer: Mona Lisa

Recent forensic examination of the picture has shown a single hair on the eyebrow line, leading to speculation that there may originally have been more there, but that they were either painted over, or faded over time.

Answer: Graves' disease

Graves' disease is an autoimmune disease which causes the over-production of thyroid hormones. According to the Mayo Clinic, about 30% of people with Graves' disease will exhibit "Graves' ophthalmopathy", the trademark look of Marty Feldman, which he exploited so well in his career as a comedian.

Answer: Ottoman Empire (Turkey)

On 25 April 1915, Australian troops began an amphibious landing on the Gallipoli peninsula. Also known as the Dardanelles campaign, the idea (proposed by Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty), was to launch an attack on Turkey and take them out of the war as quickly as possible. Some 21,000 Australian troops and 10,000 New Zealand troops were involved.

Cape Tepe was the ANZACs' scheduled landing place, but instead they were landed at what became known as Anzac Cove, two kilometres north. This was a critical error and the Turkish, fighting desperately for their own country, and with the benefit of local knowledge, were easy victors.

The battle was seminal in the creation of the Australian identity. Part of the truly significant speech to the mothers of the ANZACs given in 1934 by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk says: "Your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace".

Answer: Tulip Bulb Mania

In mid 16th-century Holland, tulips, originally imported from Turkey, became the 'next big thing' as people believed they were an investment that would yield enormous dividends. Some people literally staked the farm on it, liquidating all their assets to purchase one or more bulbs.

The reason for the interest, it turns out, was that the tulips were subject to a virus that caused them to produce uniquely patterned flowers. Those selling the bulbs managed to persuade folk that to own such a rare flower meant enormous returns on their investment. Not surprisingly - the bubble burst leaving many homeless and much poorer for their speculation.

Answer: Inverted Jenny

The Inverted Jenny required two passes through the printing machine, and at the time, this was a manual process. One batch was passed through the wrong way, meaning the biplane depicted on the stamp was flying upside down instead of right way up, as it was supposed to be.

Before the mistake was realised, a number were in circulation, and those who managed to purchase a sheet of mint Inverted Jennys were in possession of a worthwhile investment!