general knowledge

[honey01]

1.why were floers used at funerals?.2.who had the motto "terror by night"?. 3.what was the first musical piece ever recorded? 4.what during the 2010/2011 football season,linked real madrid and ajax amsterdam? 5.what is the second most poular book in the english language after the bible? 6.where does the saying "dropping a clanger" originate? 7.apart from the animal knigdom what are calves? 8.who said "buy land now,they're not making anymore"? 9.what was the first of c.s.lewis' books about the kingdom of narnia? 10.who coined the term "the british empire"?

[meridian]

5, IT could be the Qur'an,

[meridian]

6 This is only a theory and I have nothing to back it up but I believe it came from bell ringing. If a ringer dropped a clanger he would hit a wrong note

[boxtops]

7 they are on your legs

[boxtops]

Some of these are REALLY easily Googled if you put the quotations in the search box...........

[Twirls]

7 - parts of your legs?

[sandyRoe]

1 Originally to mask the smell of the deceased?
6 Bell ringing?
7 small icebergs that break away from the main mass of the ice.

[Anngel123]

1. I believe it was to cover up the smell.

[meridian]

,8, mark twain

[emu777]

9 the lion, the witch and the wardrope

[Anngel123]

Is the qu'ran in english...somehow I thought it would be in Arabic?

[sandyRoe]

5 How to make friends and influence people?

[emu777]

wardrobe :)

[meridian]

9 the lion the witch and the wardrobe

[meridian]

10 John Dee ( 1527-1609),

[boxtops]

You can get a translation of the Koran in English, anngel - I've got one.

Says here that the second most popular book is "The Pilgrim's Progress" http://www.truthwinds...news.php?q=1263838245