14 DECEMBER 1996, Page 105

Christmas Quiz: the answers

Christmas numbers I. William McGonagall 2. Richard Crashaw 3. Henry Vaughan 4. Harold Monro 5. Anne Ridler 6. Rudyard Kipling 7. John Donne 8. Robert Herrick 9. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 10. Hilaire Belloc Where, oh where?

1. Manchester 2. Budapest 3. Pusey, Berkshire 4. Ecclefechan 5. KOnigsberg (Kalgrad) 6. Sydney 7. Bradford 8. Cordoba 9. Halle 10. Dublin Ever read it?

1. Shem, Ham and Japheth 2. Uz 3. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego 4. Jairus's daughter 5. Belshazzar 6. Baal 7. Isaac 8. Twenty pieces of silver 9. Moses 10. Goliath Small screen duos 1. Angela Baddeley 2. Robin Hall 3. Wally Whyton 4. Dandy Nichols 5. Hans Hass 6. Armand Denis 7. Stratford John 8. Richard Briers 9. William Hartnell 10. Patrick Macnee Intituled 1. Thomas Coryat 2. Hensley Henson, Bishop of Durham 3. Thomas Bowdler 4. Robert Greene 5. Sir Thomas Browne 6. Henry Mayhew 7. Tennyson 8. Wordsworth 9. Milton 10. Cromwell's Decomposition 1. Poulenc 2. Rimsky-Korsakov 3. Byrd 4. Palestrina 5. Schubert 6. Rossini 7. Wagner 8. Silas Gamaliel Pratt 9. Francis Hopkinson 10. Sir Michael Andrew Agnus Costa Abecedarian Z and 11 Y and 14 X and 4 W and 26 V and 1 U and 18 T and 7 S and 12 R and 3 Q and 15 P and 2 0 and 24 N and 5 M and 8 L and 25 K and 23 J and 22 I and 6 H and 13 G and 10 F and 21 E and 16 D and 17 C and 20 B and 9 A and 19