Ron Russell, ex Royal Engineers, introduced himself to us at last year’s Remembrance Day Service. Ron is a blind veteran and a Quizmaster. He will be supplying us with a “20 Questions” column for the magazine – the answers will appear in the next issue.
1.Which of these is the Army for the Vatican City?
Belgian Guard | Swiss Guard | Belese Guard
2. What is unique about the Canadian F1 race track?
3.Which country has the lowest birth rate in the world?
Monaco | Vatican | Belgium
4.Which Trinidadian cricketer was given a peerage?
5. Who in the 50’s became to last woman to be ….
an Admiral | hanged | to win at Wimbledon
6. What was the name of which fictional Old Bailey barrister in the tv series of the same name?
7. Which 20th Century monarch had a stammer?
Edward VII | Edward VIII | George VI
8. What marine creatures can fly short distances?
9. In the UK it is estimated that how many bicycles are stolen each year? 50,000 | 75,000 | 1 million plus
10.Which country has 10 national borders?
11.Buddhism was introduced into China from India. Fact or fiction?
12. By adding all the numbers 1 to 100 together, what would be the total? 1020 | 3060 | 5050
13. Which two US states share borders with no other states?
14. In rhyming slang, what is a rub a dub dub?
15. Which tv character referred to his wife as “’er indoors”?
16. What insect shares its name with a sport?
17. What do the Scots call a small river?
18. How many red Queens are in a pack of cards?
19. Which is the oldest vegetable in the world?
Pea | Potato | Cabbage
20. What does bogof mean?
4 hours | 5.5 hours | 6.5 hours
© This material is Copyright Ron Russell & St George’s News
Answers to the Quizmaster quiz in the Summer 2026
1: Dyson | 2: Liberty cabbage | 3: Henry VI | 4: Alpines | 5: Smut | 6: Speaker of the House
7: Fifty (pound note) | 8: White/yellow metal | 9: Loch Lomond | 10: Birmingham | 11: Coventry
12: William |13: Easel | 14: Femur | 15: Mandibar (mandible) | 16: Germany | 17: Earth
18: The Yen | 19: Venezuela | 20: 6.5 hours
