You know where your towel is. How much do you know about it?

How many of these towel-related questions can you answer?

1. What country is traditionally credited with inventing the towel?
2. According to the Bible, did Jesus know where his towel was?
3. Does Shakespeare ever talk about towels?
4. What was special about tea towels in 18th-century England?
5. Terry cloth comes from Manchester. How did ethnologist Henry Christy discover the secret of terry cloth in the 19th Century?
6. Paper towels were invented in Philadelphia in 1907. What was the inventor's name?
7. The term 'to throw in the towel' comes from 1915. What was thrown in to signal defeat before 1915?
8. According to Douglas Adams, 'A towel... is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.' Why?
9. Where does a towel jockey work?
10. What is the most money a tea towel has ever sold for?

Don't get your towels in a knot. Just click on the picture for answers.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

23.05.16 Front Page

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