Christmas Quiz: the answers
Queen's English 1 and d; 2 and e; 3 and a; 4 and f; 5 and h; 6 and c; 7 and j; 8 and g; 9 and i; 10 and b.
Screen Test 1. Kevin Costner; 2. Gerard Depardieu; 3. Tom Hanks; 4. Mel Gibson; 5. The Ballad of the Sad Café; 6. Gerard Depardieu; 7. Anthony Hop- kins; 8. Louise, of course; 9. Prospero's Books; 10. Life Stinks.
Swings and roundabouts 1. South Africa (from the Oceanus); 2. Leningrad; 3. The British Tourist Authority; 4. Ian Botham, knocking over his wicket; 5. Keith Prowse; 6. Gardener's Question Time; 7. Women; 8. Nicholas Mosley (Lord Ravensdale); 9. The Nobel Peace Prize; 10. Umaru Dikko.
Pogonotrophy I. Himself; 2. Thomas More; 3. Aaron's (Psalm cxxxiii); 4. a. The soldier; b. The justice; 5. Peter the Great; 6. Lord Salisbury; 7. Blueheard; 8. Barbarossa; 9. Raphael; 10. Old man's beard.
Winged chariot 1. Thirteen; 2. Four in the morning; 3. Twelve o'oclock; 4. Twelve o'oclock at night; 5, The third hour (9 a.m.); 6. Ten to three; 7. Tristram Shandy's; 8. Twelve; 9. Petra; 10. Gerard Man- ley Hopkins.
Says who?
1. President Gorbachev: 2. Dr John Habgood, Archbishop of York, of George Austin, Archdeacon of York; 3. Boris Yeltsin; 4. Nigel Short; 5. Dr George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury; 6. Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Gover- nor of the Bank of England; 7. Mrs Thatcher in a letter to Bruce Gyngell, chairman of TV-am; 8. Salman Rushdie; 9. John McCarthy; 10. The Princess of Wales.
Shady business 1. Goat-skin; 2. Jonas Hanway; 3. Mrs Harris; 4. Philip; 5. South America; 6. Renoir; 7. Jeremy Taylor; 8. Silas Wegg; 9. Les Parapluies de Cherbourg; 10. Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Sporting Times 1. Barry McGuigan, Ian Botham, Frank Bruno, in pantomime; 2. Alan Munro, Ever Ready; 3. Cyril Washbrook; 4. Mrs Brian Clough; 5. Essex, Arsenal, Australia; 6. Bobby Charlton 49, Gary Lineker 46; 7. Germany - Stich beat Becker; 8. Botham's last ball boundary to tie series with West Indies; 9. Paul Gascoigne, car- ried off after foul in Cup Final; 10. Western Samoa.
Rock bottom 1. The Sex Pistols; 2. Led Zeppelin; 3. The Mamas and the Papas; 4. Experience; 5. Tyran- nosaurus Rex; 6. The Rolling Stones; 7. Lynyrd Skynyrd; 8. The Doors; 9. The Who; 10. The Pretenders.
Red, white and blue 1. Red-hot poker; 2. Procul Harum 3. Gainsbor- ough; 4. Stendhal; 5. Gilbert White; 6. Blue grass; 7. John Donne; 8. Lead carbonate; 9. Sam Weller; 10. William Drummond.
Si monumentum 1. Sir Christopher Wren; 2. Sir Edwin Landseer; 3. Inigo Jones; 4. Edwin Lutyens; 5. St Pancras, by George Gilbert Scott, grandfather, of Giles Gilbert Scott; 6. Buckingham Palace; 7. The Reading Room of the British Museum; 8. John Vanbrugh; 9. Marc Isambard Brunel and his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel; 10. The Duke of Devonshire.
Nominal acrostic 1. GEORGE (Saint and Stephenson) 2. ALEXIS (Comnenus and Korner) 3. DORCAS 4. FRED 5. HILARY 6. AGNES (Saint and Wickfield) 7. PHILIP (of Macedon and Spain) 8. ANDREAS (Whittam Smith)
Reading vertically: GLORIA IN EXCELSIS.
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