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The potato is full of mystery, as you will discover when you tuck into these subtly flavoured multiple-choice questions.

1 Which Shakespearean character said 'Let the sky rain potatoes'?

a Hamlet

b Caliban

c Falstaff

d Henry V

e Malvolio

2 Only one of these is a potato. Which one?

a Yukon Gold

b Gardener's Delight

c Russet

d Pentland Firth

e Victoria

3 What are Potato Eaters?

a Bright orange grubs

b Small birds related to house martins

c A drawing by Van Gogh

d A novel by Maeve Binchy

e A new chain of fast food outlets

4 Who or what was Potato Jones?

a An Anglesey dish combining potatoes and leeks

b Leader of the Bristol food riots in 1805

c First radio gardening expert in 1927

d Sea captain who tried to run the 1937 blockade of Spain

e American outlaw (briefly allied with Butch Cassidy), noted for huge appetite

5 What is a potato-bogle?

a An Australian potato rustler

b A scarecrow with a head made of a potato

c A bright orange grub

d An instrument for extracting eyes from potatoes

e A junior dealer in the potato futures market

6 What is a sweet potato?

a A sweet

b A potato

c A climbing plant with purple flowers

d Slang (vide Damon Runyon) for a 1920s New York chorus girl

e A baseball term for a fast, breaking ball

It looks like nobody's come out to play - I hadn't come across Potato Jones.

David 'Potato' Jones was one of three Welsh sea-captains who ran goods – and guns – to northern Spain for the opponents of Franco during the Spanish Civil War. All three were called David Jones – nicknamed "Potato", "Corn Cob" and "Ham 'n' Chips" Jones to distinguish them. Potato Jones, the dominant character among them, was in his late fifties by the time of the war. He had gone into business with a Swansea landlady, Edith Scott, and they owned three tramp steamers: the one that Potato Jones himself skippered was the Marie Llewellyn. Potato Jones had a cargo of potatoes under which were hidden the guns that he ran to Spain from Rotterdam. He was reputed to have broken the blockade set up by Franco at Bilbao. In fact he did not: the reporters got their facts wrong – it was another skipper, William Roberts, captain of the Seven Seas Spray, who broke the blockade. However, Potato Jones did take part in moving thousands of refugees from Spain to safety in France after the Republican defeat in 1939.

I am still trying to get some answers, and by not using google or the like, i am struggling.

Hi Alan,
I failed on the first quiz but think I have managed the second in a matter of moments. Do I PM you the answers?
JB.

Johnboy wrote:Hi Alan,
I failed on the first quiz but think I have managed the second in a matter of moments. Do I PM you the answers?
JB.

Go on. PM me.