1. What is The Season?
a) Period of time between Christmas and New Year
b) Interlude between London Fashion Week and New York Fashion Week
c) Series of social events in London between March and August
2. A debutante is:
a) A 4-door car model produced by Ford during the 1980s
b) An adolescent girl who is presented to The Queen in a formal ceremony
c)) A cocktail: like a Cosmopolitan without cranberry juice
3. What is a debs’ delight?
a) A young man who attends debutantes’ parties
b) A light and airy chocolate cake
c) A miniature bottle of champagne
4. MTF stands for:
a) Multiple Tibia Fracture: compound fracture of the leg bone
b) Must Touch Flesh: descriptive term dangerous young man
c) Major Traffic Foul-up: congestion on motorway
5. What is the key to a good curtsey?
a) Locking your knees, one behind the other
b) Wearing a tight skirt
c) Fluttering your eyelashes at the Duke of Edinburgh
6. Which magazine followed the debutantes throughout The Season?
a) Vogue
b) Horse and Hound
c) The Tatler
7. ONE-two-three, FOUR-five-six is the dance rhythm of a:
a) Waltz
b) Cha-cha
c) Flamenco
8. When did the Lord Chamberlain’s Office announce that court presentations would stop?
a) On VE day, 1945
b) After The Queen’s Christmas speech 1957
c) November 1957
Answers:
1.c; 2.b; 3.a; 4.b; 5.a; 6.c; 7.a; 8.c
