general knowledge quiz

Novice? (Just a guess.)

O: Vanilla comes from the pod of this kind of tropical flower.

Neophyte 

P: An English city whose namesake is a band.


Portisaid

Q: Scottish drinking cup of past

Q: Scottish drinking cup of past

Quaich

Q: The name for those whispy clouds that are high in the atmosphere

Cirrus (though, for future reference, julie.bug, we play down the alphabet, so the answer to the next question should have begun with R.  Then S then T and so on)

R question:

A traditional Jewish rolled pastry

Rugelach

Q: an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.

an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.

serendipity

T: Name of the football park for Dundee United

Cirrus (though, for future reference, julie.bug, we play down the alphabet, so the answer to the next question should have begun with R.  Then S then T and so on)

R question:

A traditional Jewish rolled pastry

Doh!  I would have noticed that if I would have read the prev. post! I thought the "Q" stood for "question." Sorry

T: Name of the football park for Dundee United

Tannadice Park

U:  Famed structure on Loch Ness

Doh!  I would have noticed that if I would have read the prev. post! I thought the "Q" stood for "question." Sorry

  I thought that was the reason. Makes sense to me.


Urquhart Castle

V: member of nobility whose title ranks (usually) above a baron and below an earl

Viscount

W: Romantic poet who penned  "I Wandered Lonley as a Cloud"

William Wordsworth


x: a copy of a document or the machine itself

Xerox

Y - The state flower of New Mexico

Yucca

Z -  eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something

zealotry

A- A technique of painting in transparent watercolours.  Also, French for "watercolour."

aquarelle


B:  a cylindrical glass vessel with a large and short neck.

beaker?