Are You Proper Posh?

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. According to Kate Fox in her book "Watching the English", if someone speaks to you but you don't quite hear what they said, what is the correct English upper class response? I didn't catch that old chap! Pardon? What? Sorry?

2. What have Kate Fox's studies revealed as what the English upper classes would call the room which one visits to relieve oneself? Lavatory Bog Toilet Dunny

3. Which word, according to Kate Fox in her book "Watching the English", would an English upper class person use to describe a small piece of cloth used in wiping the lips and fingers and in protecting the clothes while eating; "serviette" or "napkin"? Answer: (One Word - serviette or napkin)

4. What, reports Kate Fox in her book "Watching the English", would an English upper class person call the meal one has in the middle of the day (or thereabouts)? And the one in the evening? Lunch in the day, tea in the evening Dinner in the day, tea in the evening Lunch in the day, dinner in the evening Dinner in the day, supper in the evening

5. And what word is revealed, in Kate Fox's "Watching the English", as the correct name, if you are truly "posh", for the course towards the end of your evening meal, when one might be served gateau, syllabub or fool? Sweet Afters Dessert Pudding

6. In her studies for the book "Watching the English", what word did Kate Fox discover the English upper classes would use to describe an upholstered seat for two or more people? Couch None of these Settee Sofa

7. And, as reported in Kate Fox's "Watching the English", in which room of an English upper class house would you find this Sofa/Couch/Settee? Drawing Room Living Room Lounge The Servant's Quarters

8. According to social anthropologists, if you are of the English upper class would you be "wealthy" or "rich"? Answer: (One Word - Wealthy or Rich)

9. If you want to pass off as a truly posh English person you should never use the word "posh". True False

10. Who popularised the phrase "U and non-U" to distinguish between upper class words and non upper class words? Stephen Spender Nancy Mitford Evelyn Waugh John Betjeman