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Weekly quick quiz

May 26 04:23pm

Each week, we're asking three little questions to give your brain a bit of a workout. Test your home, garden and food knowledge by answering our teasers - they're put together by the experts at the magazine.

You can also find more quizzes in the current issue of Better Homes and Gardens.

Enjoy!

Quiz for week starting 26th May:

1) What percentage of wall-paint sales do shades of white make up?

2) What is the other name for Pacific Maple that rhymes with Spumate?

3) How often should you wash your sheets and pillowcases, and at what temperature to kill dust mites and wash away the allergens they produce?

Quiz for week starting 19th May:

1) To comply with Australian Standards, what is the allowable space between a cot's vertical bars?

2) What is the national flower of Holland, and what does its red, variegated and yellow forms symbolise?

3) How often should you replace your pillows? 

Quiz for week starting 12 May:

1) Who was responsible for introducing tweed to high fashion in the 1950s and 1960s?

2) MDF is commonly used by furniture manufacturers and DIYers as an inexpensive board for furniture and trim. What does MDF stand for?

3) If painting an entire room, which surface should you always paint first?

Quiz answers

Quiz for the week starting 5 May:

1) What is the common name of the Heliconia psittacorum flower?

2) One set of cotton sheets has a thread count of 200, the other has a thread count of 400. Which has a softer finish?

3) Most paint sales occur on which day of the year?

Quiz answers
 

Quiz for the week starting 28 April: 

1) What is the world's most luxurious wool fibre?

(see our June issue for decorating with your old fabrics) 

2) What's the ratio of width to height on widescreen TVs?

(make a fantastic TV cabinet with our June issue) 

3) How many layers does a quilt have?

Quiz answers 

 

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