Christmas Quiz: the answers

Wrong numbers 1. Gibraltar.

2. Centrica.

Queues outside the Passport Office in

London.

4. A whirlwind.

5. Jeffrey Archer (over Steven Norris).

6. Martin Pipe.

7. The Queen's at Buckingham Palace.

8. March.

9. Brian Jones and Bertrand Piccard's hot- air balloon, the first to circumnavigate

the globe.

10. Syria.

Overheard 1. John Prescott.

2. Lady Thatcher.

3. Tony Blair.

4. Bill Clinton.

5. William Hague.

6. The Earl of Burford (standing on the Woolsack).

7. Jack Straw.

8. Saddam Hussein.

9. Glen Hoddle.

10. The Prince of Wales.

Porcine 1. A shilling.

2. March.

3. The Cheshire Cat.

4. Hudibras by Samuel Butler.

5. Beatrix Potter.

6. Falstaff (Henry IV, Part II, Act II, Scene iv).

7. St Anthony, Abbot.

8. The pork tapeworm.

9. The Earl of Emsworth.

10. Shelley. Ursine 1. Pooh.

Haydn's.

3. Kipling.

4. Macaulay.

5. John Betjeman's.

6. John Hookham Frere (1769-1846).

7. Edward Thomas.

8.

Sebastian's, in Brideshead Revisited.

9. Arcturus, 10. Ware, in Edward Lear's limerick.

Wearing people 1. The 7th Earl of Cardigan.

2. The 1st Duke of Wellington.

3. The 2nd Earl Spencer.

4. Charles Macintosh.

5. Mae West.

6. Anthony Eden.

7. Sir Samuel Browne.

8. General Gebhard von Blucher.

9. Samuel Plimsoll.

10. Lord Dundreary.

Elementary 1. John Donne (1573-1631): The Dissolution'. Earth

2. Shakespeare (Hamlet, Act V, Scene i).

3. Henry Vaughan (1622-95): `The Incarnation, and Passion'. Air 4. Charles Turner (1808-79): `Wind in the Corn'.

5. Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)., Fire 6. William Cowper (1731-1800): On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library with his MSS by the Mob in .the Month of June 1780'. 7. Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953). Water 8. Richard Crashaw (1613-49): Epigram on Acts viii, 38.

9. Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-49): `Song on the Water'.

Solution to 1441: Stirring

Circuit lights were dm names for PRISON (2) and the name of a proposed circular one, PANOP11CON.

First prize: John M. Brown, Roileston-on- Dove, Staffordshire.

Runners-up: D.G. Tallis, Oxford; Elliott Zuckerman, Annapolis, MD, USA.