-1. What bird is the only bird that can fly backwards?
-2. What do Peter Falk, Sammy Davis Jr. and Rex Harrison all have in common ?
-3. After the end of the Vietnam war, to what was Saigon's name changed?
-4. Which popular facial fashion accessory amongst the rich in the 18th century was made from mouse hair?
-5. John Philip Sousa's The Liberty Bell march is the TV theme music for what program?
-6. What is the largest number that can be made by using every Roman numeral just once?
-7. What is the name of the international airport in Amsterdam?
-8. Which year was the Berlin wall erected?
-9. What is borborygmus?
-10. Meteorologically, which phenomenon has the opposite effect to El Niño?
-11. Of what is zymurgy the study?
-12. In the recent World Athletic Championships this guy set a new world record. In which event?

1. Hummingbird

I like to call them "zippy zoomers"

Good start, jb!

2. all blind in one eye

Peter and Sammy had glass eyes, not sure about Rex.

My source says all 3 had glass eyes

3. Ho Chi Minh City

Hi Rog.

11. fermentation

Good to know.

Remi, michele - both good!

7. Schipol

Bernie

8. the early 1960s, either 61 or 62

Bernie, good - Lady K, '61 gets the cigar

4. I will guess at fake beauty spots. (Ugh !!)

10. La Nina

12. It was the pole vault (he is rather good)

6. MDCLXVI

Mad - you're in the right area, but no...

flotsam - "rather good"?

manxman, Pandora (1666) - cigars all round!

9. Stomach growling sounds and intestinal rumbling as food is digested

#4

4. OK. Research pointed to “darkening of eyebrows” …

If so, Double “Ugh” !! 😯

You got that right Mad "EWWW"!!!!

A noise I'm all too familiar with, michele!

Mouse-hair eyebrows - but it's right. Bleah!!

5. Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Thanks, Koala!