Wednesday 27th December 2023
Difficulty: Very hard
Cheques (Quiz #404)
Photo by Likuan Wang (Unsplash)
1. In which year did the use of cheques peak in the UK, when four billion cheque payments were made?
2. There is a well-known story that a farmer once wrote a cheque to pay his taxes on the side of a cow, as a form of protest. How does Snopes.com, the fact-checking website, rate this story?
3. When a new chapel was proposed for Churchill College, Cambridge, Francis Crick, the Nobel Prize winning scientist, sent a cheque for 10 guineas to Winston Churchill, saying that the money should instead be used for the establishment of a ... what?
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