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1. In 1977 the actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr sold his collection of over 3000 what?
 
Toy cars
Toy ships
Toy soldiers
Toy trains
 
 
2. What name is given to the collecting of birds' eggs?
 
Oology
Ornithology
Orthology
Ovology

The same word can be used to describe the scientific study of eggs
 
 
3. What does a petrologist collect?
 
Bones
Fossils
Petrol caps
Rocks
 
 
4. Niek Vermeulen of the Netherlands has appeared in the Guinness Book of Records because of his collection of what aircraft-related items?
 
Black boxes
Boarding cards
Safety instruction leaflets
Sick bags
 
 
5. In 1895 the Wills tobacco company issued their first series of cigarette cards, featuring 25 what?
 
Cricketers
Footballers
Locomotives
Ships

Cricketers appeared in 1896
 
 
6. What does a philographist collect?
 
Autographs
Fountain pens
Pencils
Quill pens
 
 
7. What do collectors of lottery tickets call themselves?
 
Losers
Losologists
Lotologists
Luckologists
 
 
8. What does an arenophile collect?
 
Clocks
Parking tickets
Sand samples
Sporting event tickets
 
 
9. What popular seaside items are collected by a deltiologist?
 
Buckets and spades
Postcards
Sticks of rock
Toffee apples
 
 
10. A Swedish 3 skilling stamp of 1855 was sold at auction in 1996 for 2.5 million Swiss francs. Why was it so valuable?
 
It wasn't perforated
It carried a printing error
It was unfranked
It was the wrong colour

Yellow instead of green
 
 
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