Pauls Household Genie Quiz 1
1. In order to keep the water in your hot water bottle warmer longer one should add a little
a. vinegar and salt
b. cola and baking powder or
c. whisky and soda
2. In order to keep beer cold in the bathtub longer one should add a handfull of
a. baking powder
b. steel nails
c. salt or
d. marbles
3. The smell of which one of the following will help make mosquitoes bug out or buzz off ?
a. a tomato plant
b. a rose bush or
c. an aloe vera plant
4. Pouring which one of the following into the sink would not help in keeping your kitchen drain clean and fresh as a daisy ?
a. a cup of boiling water and salt
b. a glass of cola
c. a pint of stout
d. the left over water from boiled potatoes
5. Burns can be treated and heal quicker if you rub them with albumen. What is albumen ?
6. Candles will burn much longer if you do what with them a few hours beforehand ?
7. Before polishing leather shoes with a woolen cloth, they can be made to look spik and span if you rub them with
a. banana mash
b. apple juice or
c. half an onion
8. In order to keep grass cuttings off the blades of your lawnmower one should rub them first with
a. salad oil
b. lemon juice or
c. mayonaisse
9. In order to soften raw hands, before massaging them with baby oil one could rub in
a. a teaspoon of salt
b. a teaspoon of sugar or
c. a teaspoon of coriander powder
10. In order to avoid that cabbage smell in the kitchen, one should boil the cabbage with
a. lemon rind
b. a raw onion
c. shelled walnuts or
d. a raw potato
ANSWERS
1. a. vinegar and salt
2. c. salt
3. a. a tomato plant
4. c. a pint of stout
5. egg white
6. put them in the fridge
7. c. half an onion
8. a. salad oil
9. b. a teaspoon of sugar
10. c. shelled walnuts