Christmas Quiz: the answers
You said it 1. Mr Major; 2. Mr Cyril Reenan; 3. Bobby Fis- cher; 4. Mr Lamont; 5. Lady Thatcher; 6. Bar- bara Cartland; 7. Charles Manson; 8. Woody Allen; 9. Sally Gunnell; 10. Jimmy Connors.
Funny old world 1. Israel's; 2. Mr Michael HeseRine; 3. Barry Unsworth; 4. Mr Major; 5. Grand Hotel, the musical; 6. Martin Bell; 7. Radio 3; 8. Willow Ptarmigan; 9. Francis Bacon; 10. Lipizzaners of the Spanish Riding School next to the Hofburg in Vienna. '
Water ...
1. Phlebas the Phoenician (The Waste Land); 2. Noah (Wine and Water by Chesterton); 3. The Ancient Mariner; 4. 150 days; 5. Acheron.
... Babies 1. Alice (in Wonderland); 2. Topsy (Uncle Tom's Cabin); 3. James Edward (The Old Pretender); 4. Tristram Shandy; 5. Shiprah and Punah.
Desert Island Desert 1. Donny Osmond; 2. Roger Miller; 3. Bananara- ma; 4. Gilbert O'Sullivan; 5. Tommy Steele; 6. Gary Glitter; 7. The Bee Gees; 8. Terence Trent D' Arby.
History lesson 1. Jenner; 2. Covent Garden; 3. Sedan chairs; 4. The Duke of Wellington; 5. Admiral John Byng; 6. Eclipse; 7. Atmospheric pressure; 8. Captain Cook; 9. Repeal of the window tax; 10. Joanna Southcott.
Plain English 1 and g; 2 and h; 3 and j; 4 and c; 5 and i; 6 and b; 7 and f; 8 and e; 9 and a; 10 and d.
Music bath charms 1. a) Offenbach (by Rossini); b) Handel (by Berlioz); c) Brahms (by Paul Dukas); d) Richard Strauss (by Tchaikovslcy); e) Liszt (by Clara Schumann); 2. Thomas Britton; 3. Allan Ramsay; 4. a) David; b) Charpentier; 5. Charles Jennens.
Priestcraft 1. Dryden, Religio Laid; 2. Tennyson, Maud; 3. Shakespeare, Hamlet; 4. Milton, Paradise Lost; 5. Shelley, Rosalind and Helen.
Sport 1. England rugby XV: two successive Grand Slams; 2. A 1992 heavyweight champion of the world; 3. Durham bottom of cricket's County Championship; 4. Rowing double-scullers Red- grave, Pinsent, and the Searle brothers, not for- getting Garry the cox; 5. Bill O'Reilly; 6. Andre Agassi; 7. Vivian Richards and Ian Botham in public debate; 8. David Campese (Australia); 9. Atlanta; 10. Gascoigne, Platt and Walker.
In short 1. Institute of Practitioners in Advertising; Inter- national Phonetic Alphabet; India Pale Ale; 2. Grand Old Man; 3. Deo optimo maximo; Domi- nus omnium magister, 4. Read-only memory; 5. Librae, solidi, denarii; Lysergic acid diethylamide; 6. Subscriber trunk dialling; sexually transmitted disease; 7. Train a Grande Vitesse; 8. Heavy goods vehicle; 9. Human immunodefiency virus; 10. In vitro fertilisation.
Whodunnit 1. a) Aristotle Detective by Margaret Doody; b) Dr. Sam: Johnson, Detector by Lillian de la Torre; c) The Gentleman from Paris by John Dickson Carr; d) A Rich Full Death by Michael Dibdin; e) The Lady in Black by Anna Clarke; 2. a) Conan Doyle; b) G.K. Chesterton; c) Agatha Christie; d) Austin Freeman; e) Austin Freeman again; 3. a) Thompson and Bywaters; b) The 18th-century disappearance of Elizabeth Canning; c) The Wallace case; d) Jack the Ripper; e) Leopold and Loeb.
Solution to 1087: Made to measure The unclued MEASURING DEVICES were: 1D saccharometer, 5, octant, 9 almacantar, 11 rain-gauge, 12 Geiger counter, 15 pipet- te, 19 steelyard, 24 Venturi, 37 Optic, 41 theodolite.
First prize: Mrs M. G. Parmee, Cam- bridge. Runners-up: Mrs J. R. Allingham, Peterborough; Alastair Bruce, London SW13.
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