SPECTATOR JANUS CHRISTMAS QUIZ Set by Christopher Howse

Here are some answers, but what are the questions? (Or you may turn to the ques- tions on page 96.)

Bows and arrows

1 The Sparrow 2 Ahab 3 Harold 4 An albatross 5 Longfellow

Horse . . .

1 Wellington 2 Caligula 3 Don Quixote 4 Dick Turpin 5 El Cid 6 Alexander the Great 7 Napoleon 8 Siegfried 9 William III 10 Richard III

. and hound

1 Bill Sikes 2 Byron 3 Mrs Browning 4 Isaac Newton 5 Prince Rupert of the Rhine 6 Mr Punch 7 Odysseus

8 The Darlings 9 Llewelyn 10 Pope

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Aka

1 Theodosia Goodman 2 Lucille LeSueur 3 James Lablanche Stewart 3 Leonard, Adolph, Julius, Milton and Herbert 5 Emmanuel Goldeberg 6 Ruth Elizabeth Davis 7 Doris Kappelhoff 8 John Charlton Carter 9 Maria Magdalena von Losch 10 J. Alexis Moncourge

The last word

1 I think I could eat one of Bellamy's veal pies.

2 All is lost. Monks! Monks! Monks!

3 Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards any- one.

4Be sure you show the mob my head.

It will be a long time ere they see its like 5 It don't signify, my dearest, dearest Liz.

6 There are six guineas for you and do not back me as you did my Lord Rus- sell.

7 I shall hear in heaven.

8 Don't let the awkward squad fire over my grave.

9 My bed-fellows are cramp and cough — we three all in one bed.

10 Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do.

Good and faithful

1 Peggotty 2Jeeves 3 Mrs Danvers 4 Samwise 5 Bunter 6 Mark Tapley 7 Gehazi 8 Henry Moat 9 Mrs Hudson 10 The Pope

Give us a clue

in a glas5 down 2 The 87th precinct of the city of Isola Jean Elliot answers: 1 Floating in mid-Atlantic sun-deck café turned upside

SPECTATOR JANUS CHRISTMAS QUIZ

3 During the wars of Stephen and Matilda 4 The head of Cairo's political CID in the 1900s 5 Kinsey Millhone 6 He slept late 7 A police-station in Hong Kong 8 Both wrote about the Ratcliffe High- way murders of the early 19th century 9 A self-portrait by Agatha Christie 10 In an ABC café

Once upon a time

1 The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

2 I was born in the northern part of this united kingdom, in the house of my grandfather; a gentleman of consid- erable fortune and influence, who had, 0. n many occasions, signalised himself In behalf of his country; and was remarkable for his abilities in the law, Which he exercised with great success, In the station of a judge, particularly against beggars, for whom he had a particular aversion.

3 If You really want to know about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my 1°1-18Y childhood was like, and how my Parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Cop- perfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

4 Among the public buildings in a cer- tain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from men- tioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse, and in this work- house was born: on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events: the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.

5 Sir George Farquhar, Baronet, builder of railway-stations, and insti- tutes, and churches, author, antiquari- an, and senior partner of Farquhar and Farquhar, leant back in his office chair and turned it sideways to give more point to his remarks.

6 Mr Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable.

7 It was the sports day that started my attacks off again.

8 It was one of the mixed blocks over on Central Avenue, the blocks that are not yet all negro.

9 Few have been in my secret while I was compiling these narratives, nor is it probable that they will ever become public during the life of their author.

10 'Palestine soup!' said the Reverend Doctor Opimian, dining with his friend Squire Gryll; 'a curiously complicated misnomer.'

Apples and pears

1 Frog and toad 2 Sausage 3 Taters 4 Ginger beer 5 Dog and bone 6 Elephant's 7 Gregory 8 Boracic 9 Jam-jar 10 Minces With acknowledgments to Mr A.H. the onlie begetter.