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1. What is the collecting of beermats usually called?
Hint: It's from the Latin for mat.
2. Which beermat has a picture of a draught horse on it and warns that this is "The beer with a punch"?
Hint: This is a pun.
3. Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
With a silhouette of a witch, with hat and broom stick, this mat has a decidedly witchy theme to it - although *not* the Shakespeare verse quoted above.
What's it promoting?
4. "You won't find much like it outside Yorkshire"
This is true of a lot of things and in many cases we are grateful for it. Which beer was being advertised?
Hint: According to the trade mark, after drinking this beer you'll be magnetically attractive and lucky!
5. "It's what your right arm's for"
Leftys need not apply, according to which beer slogan?
Hint: Be brave, this isn't that difficult.
6. This beermat has a bird with a colourful beak on it. No prizes for guessing it's the Guinness Toucan, but which British detective novelist made the toucan into the Guinness celebrity spokesbird with her whimsical (hint) poem?
7. "Worth passing a few pubs for"
Possibly, but it doesn't say whether you should pass them because they do or don't carry which mediocre keg beer?
Hint: The advice is given by what appears to be one of the seven dwarves wearing a tophat.
8. This beermat features a jolly, fat huntsman with the words "Hardy beer from Hardy's Country"
The brewery certainly was in Hardy's country - and still is, although it has changed its name. Just where is Hardy's country?
Hint: it's actually a real county not a country, and you should have paid more attention in English Lit.
9. In these times of drunk-driving awareness, this beermat looks to be in bad taste. Featuring a picture of a traffic light it says: "Stop..Now...Go for XXX Ales". Which beer was being advertised?
(XXX is the name of the brewery)
Who was responsible for this politically incorrect beermat?
Hint: Put these ad-men out to pasture
10. This beermat has a spade on it with the words "If you haven't got a leaflet, you haven't got a clue" It was one of a series with other digging implements on it. Which beer was advertised with that slogan?
Hint: This brewery was in England's then smallest county which got a case of severe rising damp.
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