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1. I read in a book about some children who have a nanny with a parrot head umbrella. They have plenty of magical adventures with her. Where can I visit these children?

Answer: Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane

Mary Poppins is a nanny who arrives on a gust of east wind to look after the Banks children on Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane. Although the children have magical encounters under her care, she never admits to any magical happenings and is offended when the children allude to them. The "Mary Poppins" series was authored by P. L. Travers.

Number Four Privet Drive is where Harry Potter lives. Harry Potter is the main character in a series written by J. K. Rowling.

221B Baker Street is where Sherlock Holmes lives. Sherlock Holmes is the main character in a detective series written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

32 Windsor Gardens is where Paddington Bear lives. Paddington Bear is fictional bear written by Michael Bond.

2. "Aye aye" is most commonly heard in a nautical setting as an affirmative response to a given order. But where can I go to hear aye-aye being used to refer to an animal?

Answer: Madagascar

An aye-aye is a type of lemur found in Madagascar. It was thought to be extinct before being rediscovered in the 1950s. There is a local superstition that says the aye-aye is a symbol of death. As such, it is killed on sight by natives, further putting strain on the species' survival.

3. Since its launch the late 1990s, the Octopus Card quickly became a mainstay of one city's public transport system. Where would I go to use it?

Answer: Hong Kong

The Octopus Card is a contactless smart card system. Funds are stored on the card through electronic top-ups. Fare is deducted when the card is held up to a card reader. Card usage has since been expanded to many retail businesses and parking meters in Hong Kong.

Similar cards have been developed in other countries such as the EZ-Link Card in Singapore, the Oyster Card in London and the Touch 'n Go Card in Malaysia.

4. A Golgi apparatus sounds like something you may find in a laboratory. While that may be true, you can also find it wherever you are even if you can't actually see it. In which of these places could I find the Golgi apparatus?

Answer: On yourself

A Golgi apparatus is an organelle present in most cells. It is also called the Golgi complex or Golgi body. It is involved in the synthesis of proteins and the export of proteins from the cell. Since humans are made up of cells, you would most certainly have Golgi bodies on your person although you would need some dyes and a microscope to visualise them.

5. In Victorian London, where could I have seen a tosher ply his trade?

Answer: In the sewers

A tosher is a person who scavenges for miscellaneous items of value in the sewers, particularly during the 19th century in London. These items include coins, silverware, and bits of metal that somehow found their way into the sewage system. This occupation was documented by Henry Mayhew, a journalist and social reformer of that era.

6. I recently met someone who was rowdy, perhaps even a little dirty, and who gained fame as the man with no name and even more talking to an empty chair. Where could I have met this man?

Answer: Heartbreak Ridge

Clint Eastwood had his first real taste of fame playing Rowdy Yates on "Rawhide" on TV from 1959 to 1966. He then moved to the big screen in Sergio Leon's Spaghetti Western dollar trilogy ["A Fistful of Dollars" (1964), "For a Few Dollars More" (1965), and "The Good the Bad and the Ugly" (1966)] as the man with no name. In the '70s he brought the iconic role of Harry Callahan, aka Dirty Harry, to life. Eastwood is an Academy Award winning director and producer, having won the top Oscar for "Unforgiven" (1992) and "Million Dollar Baby" (2004). At the 2012 Republican Convention, Eastwood became an internet sensation when he took the stage and talked to an empty chair as if President Barack Obama was sitting in it.

Clint Eastwood directed, produced and acted in "Heartbreak Ridge", a 1986 war film set during the invasion of Grenada in 1983.

"Hanover Street" (1979) starred Harrison Ford, "Dream House" (2011) starred Daniel Craig and "Troy" (2004) starred Brad Pitt.

7. Which one of the places listed would be a good place to visit with Patrick Star and is the only one where you can get your feet wet in a moat? (Hint: layout of the fort)

Answer: Fort Bourtange

Fort Bourtange is situated in The Netherlands and is a good example of a star fort, which is a style of fortification that came about with the advent of gunpowder. The moat that surrounds it is a series of canals and lakes that help to protect the fort from attacking forces. Its construction was ordered by William I of Orange during the Eighty Years' War to control a major road. Fort Bourtange was attacked by Spanish forces soon after its completion in 1593, though the siege of the fort failed.

All the other fortifications listed do have moats but they are examples of where dry moats have been used.

Patrick Star is a character from the children's cartoon "Spongebob Squarepants". He is a sea star and, stands to reason, would be interesting in anything starry.

8. I read about a new, powerful telescope array consisting of 66 antennas that can be controlled individually. This array needs to be somewhere that is high and dry to cut out interference from water vapor. Where is this telescope array located?

Answer: Atacama Desert, Chile

The Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) is an international collaboration among researchers from Europe, the United States, and Japan. The antennas are controlled by a supercomputer capable of adjusting their angles and positions with exceptional precision to pinpoint a specific target in outer space.

9. The foul-smelling titan arum plant attracts numerous visitors to botanical gardens around the world when it is in bloom. But where would I go to sniff it in the wild?

Answer: Indonesia

The titan arum plant (Amorphophallus titanium) is also called the corpse flower. It grows on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and the flower can reach more than three metres in height. It emits a scent of rotting meat when it is in bloom to attract insect pollinators that feed on decaying flesh.

As with rare plants, it flowers very infrequently and visitors throng botanical gardens on the rare occasions that it blooms, hoping to catch a whiff of its revolting aroma.

10. The actor and singer David Hasselhoff appeared on TV adverts for a pantomime in the UK in 2012 saying his performance part would be "Hoff the Hook". According to the popular tale, where does his character reside?

Answer: Neverland

David appeared on a TV advert for the pantomime Peter Pan dressed as Captain Hook. He also played the role for previous pantomimes in London (2010) and Bristol (2011). The Hoffisms in the TV advert were "Hoff the scale" - sorry, couldn't resist that one! In the advert David is heard to say "don't hold Hoff getting your tickets", "to Hoffinity and beyond", "Hoff the charts", "you need to be quick Hoff the mark" and that the show will be "Hofftastic". During the panto itself, some of the songs sung by David such as the Donna Summer song "Hot Stuff" had the lyric "hot" changed to - yes, you guessed it - "Hoff"!

In the novel and play by J.M. Barrie, Captain Hook and his nemesis Peter Pan live in Neverland.

Source: Author purelyqing

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