1. Where in the home must a pair of new shoes never be placed? In the shoe closet On the table On the wrong feet In the bath

2. When is not the best day to cut finger and toe nails? Wednesday Sunday Monday Thursday

3. What is said to have happened if you feel that either one or the other of your ears is burning hot? You are the topic of a discussion You have ear mites You ate too much chili sauce You have Vulcan Spock syndrome

4. What does it mean if someone says "it is raining in Paris"? A lady's unmbrella blew away in a hurricane A man's toupe blew off in a wind and rain storm A man's pants zip or fly is undone A lady's underskirt is visible and hanging below her frock

5. What does it mean when you hear or read the phrase "He has egg on his face"? A man is eating a soft boiled egg and got in a mess with yolk all over the place A man washed his hair in raw eggs and it ended up with more egg on his face than his head A lady threw an egg at him for stealing her parking space A man has been made to look foolish or embarrassed

6. When a mirror gets broken in Scotland it is said to sentence the culprit who broke it to seven years bad luck. How can this bad luck be cancelled? Bury a small fragment of the mirror in the nearest flower bed Place the fragments in a shoe box and do a hand-stand chanting Run around the broken mirror seven times backwards Buy a new identical mirror and kiss your reflection for the next seven years

7. In the bad old days of smoking when lighting more than one cigarette with the same match there was a phrase 'third light first...'. Which word is next? Sneeze Prize Asleep Dead

8. On New Year's Eve or Hogmanay as it is called in Scotland, there is a tradition of opening the windows at the time of midnight. Why is this? To allow evil sprits to come inside to scare unwanted guests To wish any passing neighbors a happy new year without asking them inside To allow some homeless highland haggis to jump inside To allow all the previous year's evil spirits to leave

9. Why is 'Friday The Thirteenth' a very bad day according to one school of thought, in ancient superstition and folklore? It was fish on Fridays, many families had thirteen hungry children After every thirteenth Friday of the year, Saturday and Sunday got cancelled Following Friday 13th, people confessed sins for the whole weekend Christ was crucified on a Friday, the thirteenth person at the last supper was Judas

10. In superstition and old wives tales in the bonny wee land of Scotland, if your nose itches it means? You will be extremely nosey about everything and everyone and upset folk You will be sick, as a fly landed on it and regurgitated You are going to be angry today for some reason You will be cleansed, as a ghost dusted you with a phantom feather duster