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The Annual E Quiz

Questions 1-18, along with their answers, are reproduced below.

Question 1: What is the word for the part of the play where the plot thickens? Answer: the Epitasis
Question 2: Who or what are Dunk, Mya and Mary? Answer: they are all Elephants
Question 3: Which medicine comes from a Greek hedgehog? Answer: Echinacea (from the Greek "Echinos" meaning "Hedgehog")
Question 4: What did zoologist Frank Buckland describe as 'horribly bitter'? Answer: Earwigs
Question 5: ADTFIAT, WUEMG. What does the 'E' stand for? Answer: England's (check the start of the hymn "Jerusalem" if you don't believe me)
Question 6: What connects 2 Kings of England, an estate in Kennington and a room in Kingsmeadow stadium? Answer: the name Ethelred
Question 7: Who is the man pictured on the left? Answer: Edison
Question 8: Which spherical object owes its name to the Ye river? Answer: Edam cheese
Question 9: How many people could live off a day's oxygen from one acre of fir trees? Answer: Eighteen
Question 10: Where would you find a labyrinth, an oval window and a round window? Answer: they are all parts of the Ear
Question 11: What is Mr A.G.Dorsey's preferred first name? Answer: Engelbert
Question 12: What is the next letter in the sequence: A, Б, B, Г, Д...? Answer: E (or, if you want to be pedantic, Є)
Question 13: Who does the eye pictured on the left belong to? Answer: Einstein
Question 14: What was the 28th most popular name for baby girls in England and Wales in 2006? Answer: Erin
Question 15: Which country flies the flag pictured on the left? Answer: Eritrea
Question 16: What did we eat 173 times in 2006? Answer: Eggs
Question 17: Where would you see beaks going up Judy's passage? Answer: Eton
Question 18: What is a 'korvalappu'? Answer: it's an Earflap (in finnish)

The tie-breaker questions were:

Question 19: Tell us something Quite Interesting about Easington, County Durham.

Question 20: Tell us something Quite Interesting about eagles.

Question 21: Tell us something Quite Interesting about emails.