O for a P for Relief Trivia Quiz

Answer: Paris Hilton

What can one say about Ms Hilton? Well, she certainly has tried her hand at a multitude of careers: modelling; writing (her autobiography was published when she was just 23); singing; and acting. Should that not be enough, she was also the star of the hit TV show, "The Simple Life", a reality TV show that followed her and BFF Nicole Richie as they demeaned themselves by doing "normal" jobs for the sake of entertainment. Verily she is the icon of her age.

Answer: Workers are industrious and conscientious females. Drones are lazy males good for only one thing.

Yes, while the female workers do all the flying around collecting nectar, defending the hive and even feeding the drones, the sole job of the drone honey bee is to fertilize the eggs of a queen bee. Some men may think that this demonstrates that the male honey bee has reached some sort of evolutionary nirvana. Some women may think that the human male is pretty much already there.

However, its not all wine and roses for the drone. Their first sexual congress is also their last as the act of intercourse ends with their genitals and abdominal muscles wrenched from their body.

Answer: Mediterranean Sea

We have much to thank the Phoenicians for. From their homeland in what is now Syria and The Lebanon, they travelled throughout the Mediterranean, introducing advances in sea navigation and writing; their alphabet is considered the foundation of all modern alphabets.

Whether they were the originators of the phrase "the seven seas" is open to considerable debate. There seems little consensus on where the phrase came from or indeed to what seas it refers. The seven seas of the Mediterranean were; the Adriatic, between Italy and the Balkan peninsula; the Aegean, between Greece and Turkey; the Alboran, between Spain and Morocco, immediately to the east of the straits of Gilbraltar; the Balearic, between Spain and the Balearic islands; the Ionian, to the south of the Adriatic; the Ligurian, between northern Italy and Corsica; and the Tyrrhenian, between southern Italy, Sardinia and Sicily.

There have been many other interpretations of the seven seas throughout history. In the modern world, it is often considered that the seven seas are the seven oceans of the world, the Arctic, the North and South Atlantic, the Indian, the North and South Pacific and the Antarctic Ocean.

Answer: Sandra Dee

Dee was not Sandra's given name at birth. She was born Alexandra Zuck, probably in 1944, although her official birth date was given as 1942, possibly because her mother inflated her age to help her get work.

Dee cultivated a very clean cut image in her movie roles, such as Douglas Sirk's 1959 masterpiece, "Imitation of Life", and it was this primness that was satirized in the song "Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee" in the Broadway musical and subsequent movie "Grease". Dee's marriage to Darin was tempestuous as Dee became dependent on alcohol and they divorced after seven years. A part-fictionalised account of the marriage is portrayed in the 2004 movie, "Beyond the Sea".

Answer: Children's eyes adapt more quickly to the dark

Red-eye effect happens in low light conditions and children's pupils dilate more quickly than those of adults. Red-eye occurs when the light from a flash goes into the eye and reflects back from the interior surface of the eye, known as the fundus. The red colour is caused by the blood that flows through the eye, although the amount of red can also be affected by the amount of melanin behind the retina. People with lighter-coloured irises, such as blue or grey-eyed people, will display redder eyes than those with brown eyes.

Answer: Mutton

The em-quad was sometimes called the mutton-quad to make the sound distinct from the en-quad when called out in a noisy printers. The en-quad contained the smaller en-dash, half the width of the em-dash. It is not certain why the word mutton, which means the meat of an adult sheep, was chosen for this purpose.

The em-dash comes from the metal block printing process. The height of the metal block on which a letter is embossed is the font size of the type. The letter M's block was traditionally the same width as its height and was the maximum width that a single block could be. Therefore the em-dash was the widest typographical mark that could be inserted into the printing press.

Answer: Perrier

When Perrier first discovered traces of the petrochemical benzene in some of their bottles, they dismissed it as "a little affair that in a few days will be forgotten." However, they seriously underestimated the PR disaster that they had on their hands. Having marketed themselves in the United States as "perfect", their fall from grace was spectacular.

In the few days that they dallied over what to do, the company's share price fell through the floor and by the time that they recalled the entire stock of 160 million bottles worldwide, the damage had been done.

As much as five years later, they came second in a Europe-wide poll to discover the most damaged brands, only topped by Shell, who had more recently suffered appalling coverage over their decision to dump the Brent Spar oil tank in the mid-Atlantic.

Answer: China

This ruling was applied during the period of the Qing dynasty from the mid-17th century to 1912, when the Republic of China was formed. The hairstyle came from the Manchu culture, from which the Qing had originated, and was not common to the Han people that made up the majority of the Chinese people.

The death knell for the queue in China came when Puyi, best known to the world as "The Last Emperor", stopped sporting the look in 1922.

Answer: Portugal

Though much of the early tea leaves that came to England probably came via the Netherlands, it was the habit of tea-drinking at the Portuguese royal court that Catherine successfully transferred upon her arrival to the country. Its adoption as the drink of the people was partly cemented by royal patronage but was strongly re-inforced by the East India company, who saw the import of tea as a potentially massive money-spinner for them.

The passion for tea in England had many cultural side-effects, not least in causing a massive rise in opium use in China and subsequently leading to war. Because the Chinese rulers were aware that they were producing a highly valuable commodity, they were able to call the shots in trade negotiations. One demand they made was that all tea leaves were to be paid for by silver bullion alone. The demand for tea in England was such that the creation of new bullion had to be funded and one of the main ways of achieving this was to massively increase the export of opium from India to China. With the increase in opium abuse, the Chinese government took steps to ban its import. With the loss of trade in opium, British traders were unable to purchase as much tea and the subsequent loss in taxes to the British government prompted them, among other causes, to declare war on China. So the Opium Wars began.

Answer: England and Wales

The source of the River Wye is the Cambrian mountains in Ceredigion, Wales. From there it flows down through the county of Powys towards Hay-on-Wye, just south of where it starts to form the border between England and Wales. The Wye runs through some of the most beautiful countryside in the UK. On its journey to the Bristol Channel via the Severn Estuary, it passes through the Brecon Beacons, the city of Hereford, Symonds Yat (where the views from the top of the rock are spectacular) and past the ruins of Tintern Abbey.

The Wye Valley is popular with walkers and canoeists alike and is even noted as one of the best drives in the UK.