Lime After Lime Trivia Quiz

Answer: Liverpool

Lime Street Station has been Liverpool's main railway station since it opened in August 1836. Birmingham's principal station is New Street; that of Glasgow is Glasgow Central, while Exeter has St David's.

Liverpool's two main football clubs are less than a mile apart; Anfield is home to Liverpool and Goodison Park to Everton.

Answer: Dr Pepper

Lemon-and-lime flavoured soft drinks are marketed as being clear and refreshing. One of Dr Pepper's main marketing angles is that it is impossible to describe its taste, which it claims is made up of a combination of 23 different flavours.

Answer: The Third Man

Directed by Carol Reed and also starring Joseph Cotton and Alida Valli, the film was written by the novelist Grahame Greene and set in Vienna after the Second World War. The character Harry Lime was revealed during the course of the film to be a villainous black-marketeer.

Apologies for the awful pun in one of the options, but as the quiz title is itself a pun, I thought I ought to include one somewhere...

Answer: To prevent scurvy

Scurvy is a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C in the diet, characterised by loss of teeth, spots on the skin, and finally internal bleeding leading to death. Sailors of all nations tended to suffer from it, as a result of months at sea living on dry biscuits and old potatoes.

The British, typically ahead of the game, were the first to realise that citrus fruits were a good means of preventing scurvy (even if they weren't sure why). The American nickname of "Limeys" for British sailors (and by extension the nation as a whole) was bestowed as a result of this habit.

Answer: The Giants Causeway (Northern Ireland)

The Giants Causeway, found in County Antrim, is formed of interlocking polygonal columns of basalt, formed by volcanic activity.

Both Smoo Cave and Ogof Ffynnon Ddu (Welsh for "Cave of the Black Spring") are limestone cave systems, the Welsh one being particularly extensive. Malham Cove is a cliff formation in Yorkshire, topped by an eroded limestone pavement.

Answer: Corona Extra

I have three theories as to why this practice became popular. It may be the result of a sponsorship deal with the Association of Mexican Lime Growers, as a means of shifting excess stock of their product. It may be intended to disguise the taste of the beer, although quite why a company would brew a product whose taste needs to be covered up in this way is hard to understand. On the other hand, it may just be a triumph of marketing, intended to distinguish Corona from all the other similarly-tasting bottled beer brands out there.

It has also been suggested that the lime is meant to cleanse the neck of the bottle from germs and bacteria; which raises the question - why do Corona put their beer in dirty bottles in the first place? And is it a problem common to all bottled beers - in which case shouldn't we drink all bottled beers through a slice of lime? The question remains an open one...

Answer: False

Tilia tomentosa, known as the Silver Linden in the USA, is a large deciduous tree that can grow up to 30 metres in height, and is common throughout Europe. The fruit known as lime grows on the Citrus aurantifolia tree, originally native to India but now widely cultivated in areas such as South America and the Mediterranean region of Europe.

Answer: Coleridge

The poem was written by Coleridge in 1797, on an occasion when he was unable, as a result of an accidental injury to his foot, to accompany a group of friends on a country walk. The original version was included in a letter to the poet Robert Southey, although Coleridge revised and extended it before publication in 1800.

The poem about the seabird is, of course, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".

Answer: Charlie Chaplin

One of Chaplin's final films, "Limelight" is set in London in 1914. He plays an aging, forgotten music-hall comedian named Calvero, who finds a new purpose in life by helping a young dancer whom he saves from suicide. Buster Keaton plays the role of Calvero's old music-hall partner, with whom he gives one last stage performance in the film's climatic scene. Chaplin also composed the film's music, for which he received an Oscar in 1972 following the film's re-release in the US.

Answer: Indian

In UK Indian restaurants, lime pickle is generally served as a hot and spicy dip, alongside mango chutney and mint raita, to be eaten with an appetiser of popadoms. It should be treated with caution, as a particularly hot example can sear your taste buds even before you have started on your meat Vindaloo.