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1. (a) Bertrand Russell; (b) Sir Allen Lane; (c) Kerensky; (d) Salazar, (e) Lord Thurso (Archibald Sinclair); (f) de Gaulle and Nasser; (g) de Gaulle and Basil Liddell Hart; (h) Jochen Rindt; (i) E. M. Forster; (j) Schacht. 2. (a) A. L. Rowse; (b) Skinflint; (c) the Spec- tator, (d) Auberon Waugh; (e) Mercunus Oxoniensis. 3. (a) the National Anthem, the Hallelujah chorus, St. John's Gospel 1 i-xiv; (b) The affair of the Red Headed League presented Holmes with 'a three-pipe problem'; (c) Home, Russell, Disraeli; (d) William r. William n, William in; (e) Homer, Ve%il, Milton. 4. (a) Winston Churchill; (b) Lord Hailsham; (c) Rousseau; (d) C. B. Fry; (e) Bernini. 5. (a) crash of R-101 airship; (b) earthquake; (c) train crash; (d) volcanic eruption; (e) burn- ing down of London Bridge with 3,000 dead. 6. (a) the Harp is a quartet by Beethoven, all the rest by Haydn; (b) Aloxe-Corton is a burgundy, all the others clarets; (c) Marbled White is a 'brown' butterfly, all the others 'whites'; (d) Gloucester is the only cathedral without a spire; (e) Holbein was the only one not knighted. 7. (a) Dorset; (b) Wiltshire; (c) Nottingham- shire (cricketers); (d) Norfolk (painters); (e) Devonshire (Dukes of); (f) Suffolk; (g) Devon, Lancashire, Inverness. Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland; (h) Rutland. Huntingdon, Cam- bridge, Beds, Bucks, Oxford, Warwick, Leices- ter. Lincs; (i) Devon; (j) Cornwall, Devon, Somerset. Gloucs. 8. (a) Lord Arran; (b). Dowding; (c) Asquith; (d) Selwyn Lloyd; (e) Edward Heath. 9. (a) dances; (b) Derby winners; (c) Arm- strong; (d) organ stops; (e) they all renounced their titles. 10. (a) Careme; (b) Peter; (c) Robert Carrier; (d) Captain; (e) Thomas.
11. (a) Mrs Beeton's Household Management; (b) Boswell's Johnson; (c) War and Peace; (d) Gilbert White's Selborne; (e) Scoop. 12. (a) Don Giovanni; (b) Gotterdammerung; (c) Tippett's The Knot Garden; (d) lolanthe; (e) La Boheme.
13. (a) Van Eyck; (b) Andy Warhol; (c) Giotto; (d) Cezanne; (e) Leonardo da
14. (a) Henry V; (b) Macbeth: (c) Julius Caesar, (d) A Winter's Tale; (e) Antony and Cleopatra; (f) Henry IV (g) Titus Androni- eta (only mentioned in Othello); 00 Hamlet, ittlista Caesar, Richard Ill and Macbeth.. .
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