SPECTATOR JANUS CHRISTMAS QUIZ

Here are the questions:

Bows and arrows

1 Who killed Cock Robin?

2 Who was mortally wounded by 'an arrow shot at a venture'?

3 Who does the Bayeux tapestry appear to show being pierced by an arrow?

4 What did the Ancient Mariner shoot?

5 Who shot an arrow in the air?

Horse . . .

Who owned these horses?

1 Copenhagen 2 lncitatus 3 Rosinante 4 Black Bess 5 Bavieca 6 Bucephalus 7 Marengo 8 Grani 9 Sorrel 10 White Surrey

. and hound Who owned these dogs?

1 Bull's Eye 2 Boatswain 3 Flush 4 Diamond 5 Boy 6 Toby 7 Argos 8 Nana 9 Gelert 10 Bounce

Easy as . . .

What is the value of pi to 500 places?

Aka

What were these film stars once called?

1 Theda Bara 2 Joan Crawford 3 Stewart Granger 4 The Marx Brothers 5 Edward G. Robinson 6 Bette Davis 7 Doris Day 8 Charlton Heston 9 Marlene Dietrich 10 Jean Gabin

The last word

What were the reputed last words of the following?

1 Pitt 2 Henry VIII 3 Nurse Cavell 4 Danton S Charles James Fox 6 Monmouth •

7 Beethoven

8 Burns 9 Lamb 10 Palmerston 'There's not much left of the old gang, is there?'

Good and faithful

Name the servants of the following: 1 Clara Copperfield 2 Bertie Wooster 3 Maxim De Winter 4 Frodo Baggins 5 Lord Peter Wimsey 6 Martin Chuzzlewit 7 Elisha 8 Sir George Sitwell 9 Sherlock Holmes 10 Servorum Dei

Give us a clue

1 Where is Inspector Appleby at the end of Appleby on Ararat?

2 Where do Ed McBain's stories take place? 3 In which period are Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael stories set? 4 Who is Mamur Zapt (in Michael Pearce's stories)? 5 Who is the female private eye in Sue Grafton's whodunnits? 6 What did the Rabbi do on Friday (in Harry Kemelman's books)? 7 Where is Yellowthread Street (in Willi° Marshall's series)? 8 What do Thomas De Quincey and P.D' James have in common?

9 Who is Ariadne Oliver?

10 Where does Baroness Orczy's Old Marl in the Corner carry out all his detection?

Once upon a time

Give the first sentence of the following novels:

1 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 2 Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett 3 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger 4 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 5 The Nebuly Coat by John Meade Fatkner 6 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 7 Of Love and Asthma by Ferdinand Mount 8 Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler 9 The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Waiter Scott 10 Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock

Apples and pears

Give a rhyming slang term for the following:

1 Road 2 Cash 3 Cold 4 Queer 5 Phone 6 Drunk 7 Cheque 8 Skint 9 Car 10 Eyes Answers on pages 22 and 23