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gollob | 17:11 Fri 27th Apr 2007 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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need 50 questions in which the obvious answer are wrong like-panama hats come from equador and indian ink comes from china
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Bombay duck is actually a fish.
First there's the obvious one - the black box on a plane is orange coloured.

catgut comes from sheep

camel hair paintbrushes are made from a squirrel's tail

mock turtle soup - made from calf's head

steel guitar - made of wood

French fries originated in Belgium

In which U.S. State are the Alabama swamps (N.York)

100 years' war lasted 116 years

The Caspian Sea is the world's largest what? (Lake)
Clay pigeons are made from tar and pitch
A Digby Chick is dried herring.
Leeds Castle is in Maidstone, Kent
Where are Turkeys from - North America not Turkey
You'll find a lot of this sort of thing in the QI 'Book of General Ignorance' (available for browsing through in most good bookshops).
pickled herring is a roll mop
Balti cuisine originated in UK
Where is the Duke of Norfolk's ancestral seat? Sussex
Dr John - I thought bookshops were for buying books!
Lord privy seal is none of these things
Which flower should we not gild?
The rose (R&J)
A guinea pig is not a pig and it doesn't come from Guinea either.
Adam and Eve ate from tree of Knowledge (not an apple)

English horn (Cor anglais) is woodwind instrument: not English nor a horn
Bombay duck is a form of dried fish

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