1
1 Finland, Kaarle I (Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse)
2 Sidónio Pais (President of Portugal, assassinated at Rossio station)
3 Brest-Litovsk (Treaty ceding extensive Russian territories to the central powers)
4 Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, the Red Baron (21 April)
5 Lytton Strachey (Eminent Victorians – Cardinal Manning, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon)
6 Fritz Haber (Nobel prize for chemistry)
7 Claude Debussy’s (25 March)
8 Kaiser Wilhelm II (on abdication to Count Godard Bentinck at Amerongen)
9 Wilfred Owen’s (Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori)
10 Royal Air Force
2
1 Vannes (Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne)
2 Bishop of Sodor and Man (WS Gilbert, Patience)
3 Bishop Len Brennan (Father Ted, TV series)
4 Dr Proudie, Bishop of Barchester (Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers)
5 Bishop of Roslyn (FW Farrar, Eric, or Little by Little)
6 A bowl of Smoking Bishop (Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol)
7 Sigurd the Bishop (Longfellow, The Saga of King Olaf)
8 Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester (Shakespeare, Henry VI Part 1)
9 Bishop’s Finger (Shepherd Neame’s Kentish strong ale)
10 Bishop Myriel of Digne (Victor Hugo, Les Misérables)
3
1 The Gorbals (John Buchan, Huntingtower)
2 Ibrox (1902 and 1971)
3 Hampden Park (Queen’s Park Football Club remain amateur with motto – “Ludere causa ludendi”)
4 22 Royal Crescent – then part of Sauchiehall Street (Dr Edward Pritchard, 1865)
5 Buchanan Street, (Donald Dewar statue)
6 High Kirk of Glasgow/St Mungo’s Cathedral (Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy)
7 Kelvingrove Museum (Salvador Dali’s Christ of St John of the Cross)
8 The Lighthouse (Mackintosh Tower)
9 Knightswood hospital (Smallpox, March 1950)
10 Clyde Auditorium/Armadillo
4
1 The Mystery of the Blue Train
2 Cards on the Table
3 The ABC Murders
4 Peril at End House
5 Murder in Mesopotamia
6 And Then There Were None
7 Five Little Pigs
8 Death on the Nile (Signor Guido Richetti)
9 Murder on the Orient Express
10 Lord Edgware Dies
5
1 St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury (Damaged lime tree)
2 St Helen’s, Swansea (Scores in a single over. Sobers in 1968 and Hayes in 1977)
3 Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica (West Indies v England, 1998, pitch unsafe)
4 Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
5 Kingsmead, Durban (The Timeless Test, South Africa v England, 1939)
6 The Park, Buxton (Derbyshire v Lancashire, June 1975)
7 The Gabba, Brisbane (Pig released with names painted on sides, 1983)
8 Bourda, Georgetown (Guyana)
9 The Nevill, Tunbridge Wells (1913)
10 Boland Park, Paarl (Boland v Border, 1995 – six hit had landed in a pan of fried calamari)
6
1 Lobelia (Matthias de l’Obel)
2 Loganberry (James Harvey Logan)
3 Alstroemeria (Baron Carl Alströmer)
4 Dahlia (Anders Dahl)
5 Kniphofia (Red Hot Poker, Johann Hieronymus Kniphof)
6 Weigela (Christan Ehrenfried Weigel)
7 Magnolia (Pierre Magnol)
8 Poinsettia (Joel Roberts Poinsett)
9 Begonia (Michel Bégon)
10 Euphorbia (Euphorbos, physician to King Juba II)
7
1 Big and Bouncy (Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole)
2 The Daily Yell (Dorothy L Sayers, The Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleager’s Will)
3 Yadretsey (Red Dwarf episode Backward – TV sitcom)
4 The Daily Beast (Evelyn Waugh, Scoop)
5 The Amity Leader (Peter Benchley, Jaws)
6 The bi-weekly North Surrey Observer (Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Retired Colourman)
7 The Maycomb Tribune (Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird)
8 The Stradhoughton Echo (Keith Waterhouse, Billy Liar)
9 The Centre-Forward. (John Buchan, Mr Craw in Castle Gay)
10 The Daily Prophet (JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)
8
1 A leek (Shakespeare, King Henry V, 5, 1, 24-25)
2 Lettuce (Beatrix Potter, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies)
3 Cauliflower (Mark Twain, Pudd’n Head Wilson)
4 Mushroom (Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)
5 Green peas (William III and Princess Anne. Will Cuppy, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody)
6 Gammon and spinach (A Frog He Would A-wooing Go)
7 A shower of onions and turnip-radishes (Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby)
8 Sunbeams from cucumbers (Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels)
9 Asparagus (WS Gilbert, The Gondoliers, Act 2)
10 A potato (James Joyce, Ulysses)
9
1 Roger de Beauvoir (Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges)
2 Pol Roger champagne (Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill)
3 Pierre Roger (Pope Clement VI)
4 Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
5 Roger Walker (Arthur Ransome, Missee Lee)
6 Roger Casement (Good Friday 1916)
7 Roger Hamley (Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters )
8 Sir Roger de Coverley (Joseph Addison, The Spectator, No 108, 4 July 1711)
9 Roger Bacon (Opus majus)
10 Roger Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?)
10
1 The Undercliff
2 In the Garden at Swainston (Tennyson)
3 Bembridge School
4 Carisbrooke Castle (Charles I’s abortive attempt to escape. Queen Sophie, mother of Anne of Denmark)
5 Hoy Monument (Old Man of Hoy)
6 Cowes (J Meade Falkner, Moonfleet)
7 RNC, Osborne House (Terence Rattigan, The Winslow Boy)
8 Havenstreet (Isle of Wight Steam Railway)
9 Ryde (Edward Lear)
10 The Needles (Collapsed in 1764)
11
1 Fifty-year rule (public release of government documents)
2 Golden Rule (WS Gilbert, HMS Pinafore)
3 Marquess of Queensberry rules
4 Allen’s rule
5 Naismith’s rule
6 Haber’s rule
7 McNaughton rule (Regarding insanity)
8 St Rule trophy (Ladies’ amateur golf tournament, St Andrews)
9 Coggeshall rule (Two foot rule sliding to one foot)
10 Rule Britannia (Thomson/Arne)
12
1 Moses (George Orwell, Animal Farm)
2 The Baron of Ravensworth (Sir Walter Scott, Rokeby)
3 Hare Lip (Raven in A Gun for Sale)
4 Grip’s (Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge)
5 Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway (ex Gretna munitions factory, renamed River Irt)
6 The ravens flocking around the dying deer (WE Aytoun, The Execution of Montrose)
7 Elijah (I Kings 17:5-6)
8 Huginn and Muninn (Odin’s ravens)
9 “Nevermore” (Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven)
10 Raven Seek Thy Brother (Gavin Maxwell sequel)
13
1 Guy’s hospital, London
2 Countess of Chester hospital, Chester
3 Fleming memorial hospital for sick children, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
4 Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic hospital, Oswestry.
5 Simpson memorial maternity pavilion, Edinburgh (Simpson forceps)
6 Crichton hospital, Dumfries (Dr James Crichton, physician to Governor General, Lord Mornington)
7 Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cambridge
8 Christie hospital, Manchester (Sir Joseph Whitworth, through Richard Copley Christie)
9 Queen Charlotte’s hospital, London (Mother of 15 children and consort of George III)
10 Jessop hospital, Sheffield
14
1 Laval (Quebec)
2 McGill (Montreal)
3 Yale (New Haven, CT)
4 Cornell (Ithaca, NY)
5 Harvard (Cambridge, MA)
6 Dalhousie (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
7 Johns Hopkins (Baltimore, MD)
8 Vanderbilt (Nashville TN)
9 Duke (Durham, NC)
10 McMaster (Hamilton, Ontario)
15
1 Jack Stapleton (Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles)
2 Percy Bysshe Shelley (Gulf of Spezia, 18 July 1822)
3 Inspector Javert (Victor Hugo, Les Misérables)
4 Ophelia (Shakespeare, Hamlet, 4,7, 138-155)
5 Captain Webb (drowned at Niagara, 1883. John Betjeman, A Shropshire Lad, 1940)
6 Frederick I, Barbarossa’s
7 Rosanna Spearman (drowned at Shivering Sands. Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone)
8 James Steerforth (drowned with Ham Peggotty. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield)
9 Maggie Tulliver (drowned in the flood with Tom. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss)
10 Virginia Woolf
16
1 South Georgia (Operation Paraquet, Falklands war, 25 April 1982)
2 Annabón
3 St Helena (Napoleon and Col Wilks)
4 Cape Verde Islands (Boa Vista the most easterly and nearest to Senegal)
5 Falkland Islands (Viscount Falkland MP, HMS Welfare)
6 St Paul’s Rock (Patrick O’Brian, HMS Surprise)
7 South Trinidad (Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World)
8 Ascension Island (Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle)
9 Tristan da Cunha (Inaccessible and Nightingale Islands)
10 São Tomé
17
1 Argyll Robertson pupil (Ophthalmology)
2 Walter Evson (FW Farrar, St Winifred’s)
3 Stephen Greenfield (Talbot Baines Reed, The Fifth Form at St Dominic’s)
4 Nigel Molesworth (Geoffrey Willans, How to be Topp)
5 Beetle (Rudyard Kipling, Stalky and Co)
6 Morgan Moreen (Henry James, The Pupil)
7 Peter Beste-Chetwynde (Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall)
8 Eunice Gardiner (Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
9 Gordon Caruthers (Alec Waugh, The Loom of Youth)
10 Battersby (James Hilton, Good-bye Mr Chips)
18
1 Sergeant Wilson (Royal Mail’s Dad’s Army stamps)
2 Strängnäs Cathedral, Sweden
3 David “Bumble” Lloyd (Around the World in 80 Pints)
4 Bluebird
5 Arkady Babchenko (staged death in Kiev on 29 May/Sherlock Holmes at Reichenbach Falls)
6 Sergio Ramos (assault on Mohamed Saleh in Champions’ League final)
7 Prince Henry, Duke of Sussex (Baron Kilkeel. Prince Augustus Frederick, 1st Duke of Sussex, Baron Arklow in 1801)
8 Anglo-French conflict over scallop fishing
9 Stephen Hawking
10 Bishop Michael Curry’s (described by Archbishop of Canterbury, wedding of Prince Harry)