Toilet Trivia Trivia Quiz

Answer: Ephraim Louis sanitation

One of the earliest examples, Elsans came into being in 1920 and are now the scourge of pop concerts and camping sites.

Answer: Italian

Directly borrowed from the Italian 'casa', simply meaning house, (also Spanish, but the dictionary says Italian in this example), as in many languages you pay a visit to the 'little house'.

Answer: Delsey

Originally made by Kimberly Clark, who also make Kleenex, the product was dropped around the 1970s, and mysteriously morphed (probably by total coincidence) into an upmarket label of French luggage. You could say from the ridiculous to the sublime, relatively speaking. There are rumours the toilet roll brand may still survive somewhere on the planet but cannot be confirmed.

Answer: The same origin as 'crop'

Although Thomas Crapper made highly effective flush toilets in Victorian Britain, the name was hundreds of years earlier than him, meaning basically the same as crop, objects found which you collect. Of course in many cases crap is a very valuable asset so would be collected as any other crop with many uses. Mr Crapper just happened to have a very 'convenient' name for the 'job'.

Answer: Narrow pipes

Usually for extra toilets added in small areas such as lofts, where there isn't room for a standard gauge waste pipe, a macerator grinds up the products before being fed to a narrow outlet. If you ever use a toilet and hear a whirring sound after the flush you'll now know why.

Answer: Bogs to go

No doubt someone will think of my idea or a similar one sooner or later.

Answer: Their similarity to jeroboams

It is indeed an abbreviation of a longer word, as a jeroboam is a large bowl shaped container which also applies to a chamber pot. It has also been suggested it is similar to a German helmet, but it seems as they came later the coincidental appearance and the fact Jerry can also be short for German leaves that in a linguistic grey area as to which is behind that meaning, or a bit of both.

But jeroboam precedes them both historically.

Answer: Poo

A very simple answer, it's based on an Old English term continued in Australia but obsolete in Britain, dunnaken. Dunna/danna means poo, and ken is house. The literal and more vulgar version is common worldwide in most languages. It remains in the British village of Gordano, which means 'Field covered with poo'.

Answer: True

Though it's supposed to be a civilised country, don't rely on finding a loo anywhere in the country, their provision is totally optional and though some areas have them in profusion, many have given up providing them altogether to save money. Clearly no one has told them cleanliness is next to godliness.

Answer: Heads

A ship actually has two captains, the regular one and the unofficial captain of the heads, the one who keeps them clean.