In 1692, Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba were brought before local magistrates of which village, to be tried as witches?
Salem

 

E Remington and Sons, New York, began the production of the first practical what in 1873? a) Food Processor b) Calculator c) Typewriter

c) Typewriter

 

Bobby Sands began a hunger strike in HM Prison Maze in 1974. Of what organisation was Sands a member?
Provisional IRA

 

All the following answers are current and former celebrity couples, with the vowels removed from their names:

 

Clues

1) tylrswft&clvnhrrs

 

2) blkshltn&gwnstfn

 

3) kthrngtn&rslsl

 

4) blklvly&rynrynlds

 

5) vmnds&ryngslng

 

6) lzbthtylr&rchrdbrtn

 

7) nglnjl&bllybbthrntn

 

8) whtnyhstn&bbbybrwn

 

 

Answers

1) tylrswft&clvnhrrs

Which Geoffrey Chaucer novel contains the first link between 1st April and foolishness?

The Canterbury Tales

 

With which animal do the French best associate April Fools Day?

Fish

 

An imfamous BBC prank suggested what food stuff now grew on trees?

Spaghetti

 

Which Google service was initially dismissed as a joke on it's launch date of April 1st 2004?

Gmail

 

The following are all anagrams of alcoholic spirits with the clue being their country of origin.

How many metres high is London's BT Tower?

190m

 

How old was William Shakespeare when he died?

52

 

Who is older; Steven Gerrard or Frank Lampard?

Frank Lampard

 

How many minutes long is the running time of The Beatles album Revolver?

34:43

 

When is Justin Bieber's date of birth?

1st March 1994

 

How many words are there in Leo Tolstoy's novel War & Peace?

587,287