Tuesday 8th October 2024
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Build a better mousetrap (Quiz #690)

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“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door”, as American essayist and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson is meant to have said.

1. What is the name of the classic mousetrap design patented by James Atkinson in 1898, and still available today?

A. Little Nipper

B. Out O' Sight

C. Victor

2. In the board game Mouse Trap, what is the final stage of the machine, which causes the trap itself to descend down the pole?

A. A boot kicking a bucket

B. A diver jumping into a tub

C. A bowling ball falling into a bath

3. The Mousetrap is the longest-running show in London's West End, having played almost continuously since 1952. Why has a film of the play never been made in the UK?

A. Because under the terms of the play's contract, no film adaptation can be made until the West End production has been closed for at least six months

B. Because two rival film studios claim to have the rights, but this is the subject of a court case that has run for almost as long as the play has

C. Because it's rubbish

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