Trivia Answers - III

by Geraden

Answers to Ten Tights Trivia No 3

1. In 2005, which of these replaced the Charnos 'Light Fantastic' 7 denier tights ?
A. Charnos Transparent
Surprisingly, Charnos have improved on the already near-perfect Light Fantastic. The asking price is up 33% too, though.

2. The softer type of nylon fibre used for hosiery yarns is known as?
D. type 6.6
You actually knew the answer? What are you, some kind of geek?

3. In the USA, which is the main hosiery manufacturing state?
D. North Carolina
If you said 'Ohio' you were probably mislead by the location of Activskin's global headquarters.

4. Who wrote the two 'Open letters to wives and lovers of men who wear pantyhose'?
B. Roadrunner
Every male hose wearer should know those. Meep-meep! 

5. The literal meaning of the hosiery colour 'taupe' is:
C. mole
A French word for the colour favoured by moles in France for their tights. I suppose it is easier to ask for 'taupe tights' than to say <tights-color="#483C32">. British moles, of course wear only black.

6. Single leg tights were marketed under the brand name of?
A. Tytex
Fans of Mike and Olga should have known this one.  

7.  Pretty Polly have re-started hosiery advertising with a line called?
D. Stairway to heaven
Wow!

8. Which cross-dressing showbiz personality is quoted as saying: "They are not ladies' tights - they are MY tights!"?
B. Eddie Izzard
Good response! 

9. In which country is the Wolford company based?
A. Austria
On the Wolfordstraße,  Bregenz, near the border with Switzerland (to be over-precise).

10. And lastly, which brand introduced 'caffeine tights' to beat cellulite?
B. Palmers
Of course, men don't get cellulite, do they?

Scores:

There are no prizes, but if there were, this is what you might deserve:

0-1 Todays Price tights, 69p  (see here.) Things can only get better. (Look on it as a learning opportunity in the exciting world of tights!)
2-3 Supermarket Multipack (You need to pull your tights up!)
4-5 M&S Soft and Sheer (Quite good, but still in need of some support!)
6-7 Charnos Transparent (Sheerly impressive!)
8-9 Wolfords - tights addict! (Clearly you have the Magic Touch)
10 Victoria's Secret Seamless - virtually unobtainable (Hey, you can write the next set of trivia questions yourself and save me the job! - unless you are lying, in which the case you get the 69p tights, laddered of course!)