- guardian.co.uk, Wednesday January 17 2001 11.57 GMT
- The Guardian, Wednesday January 17 2001
i) King Umberto I of Italy
ii) Frank Baum (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
iii) Zeppelin (airship)
iv) Casey Jones
v) John Ruskin
vi) Crystal Palace (MCC v London County - Doyle's only wicket in first-class cricket)
vii) Oscar Wilde
viii) Max Planck's (quantum theory)
ix) First fully operational submarine (USS Holland)
x) Central line opened
2.
i) Oranges and lemons
ii) Orange tip butterfly
iii) Orange-pekoe (tea)
iv) Orangeburg (South Carolina - February 1968)
v) The Five Orange Pips
vi) The Love of the Three Oranges (Gozzi - Prokofiev)
vii) Agent Orange
viii) Orange Order
ix) Orange River
x) A Clockwork Orange
3.
i) James the Red Engine
ii) Jesse James
iii) Clive James
iv) St James (the Greater)
v) James Joyce (Ulysses)
vi) James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree (AA Milne)
vii) James Bay (Canada)
viii) Henry James
ix) King James II
x) PD James
4.
i) Flying Scotsman
ii) Pullman
iii) The Long Man of Wilmington
iv) The common man
v) Beggarman
vi) Kentish Man
vii) Manxman
viii) Flashman
ix) Dragoman
x) Chinaman
5.
i) Hot Lips Page
ii) Fats Waller
iii) Cootie Williams
iv) Sonny Rollins
v) Jelly Roll Morton
vi) Stuff Smith
vii) Miff Mole
viii) Duke Ellington
ix) Bix Beiderbecke
x) Dizzy Gillespie
6.
i) Nicosia (Cyprus)
ii) Ottawa (Canada)
iii) Sofia (Bulgaria)
iv) Amman (Jordan)
v) Wellington (New Zealand)
vi) Monrovia (Liberia)
vii) Oslo (Norway)
viii) Jakarta (Indonesia)
ix) Tallinn (Estonia)
x) Ulan Bator (Mongolia)
7.
i) Lacrosse
ii) Contract bridge
iii) Shinty
iv) Bowls
v) Croquet
vi) Rowing
vii) Table tennis
viii) Curling
ix) Road walking
x) Eton fives
8.
i) Here's Harry
ii) Only Fools and Horses
iii) Up the Elephant and Round the Castle
iv) Hancock's Half Hour
v) Sykes
vi) My Wife Next Door
vii) George and Mildred
viii) The Larkins
ix) Bread
x) Upstairs Downstairs
9.
i) Bullseye
ii) Goldeneye (diving duck)
iii) Fisheye
iv) A joyless eye (Shelley - To the Moon)
v) The London Eye (architects of ferris wheel)
vi) Lazy eye
vii) Dick Deadeye (Gilbert - HMS Pinafore)
viii) Pink-eye
ix) Black eye
x) Ireland's Eye
10.
i) La Sonnambula (Bellini)
ii) La Cenerentola (Rossini)
iii) Le Prophète (Meyerbeer)
iv) The Gipsy Baron/Der Zigeunerbaron (Johann Strauss)
v) Martha (Flotow)
vi) The Magistrate/Der Corregidor (Wolf)
vii) La Favorita (Donizetti)
viii) La Traviata (Verdi)
ix) Madame Butterfly (Puccini)
x) The Bartered Bride (Smetana)
11.
i) Silly billy
ii) Hocus-pocus
iii) Lazy daisy
iv) Brain drain
v) Fuddy-duddy
vi) Jet set
vii) Mumbo-jumbo
viii) Willy-nilly
ix) Delhi belly
x) Hurdy-gurdy
12.
i) Belarius (Cymbeline)
ii) Lucentio (Taming of the Shrew)
iii) Viola (Twelfth Night)
iv) Portia (Merchant of Venice)
v) Duke Vicentio (Measure for Measure)
vi) Sir John Falstaff (Merry Wives of Windsor)
vii) Rosalind (As You Like It)
viii) Julia (Two Gentlemen of Verona)
ix) Helen (All's Well That Ends Well)
x) Kent (King Lear)
13.
i) Newfoundland (off Cape Race)
ii) Halifax, Nova Scotia
iii) Lebanon (off Tripoli)
iv) Nantucket Sound
v) St Lawrence River
vi) Tobago
vii) River Mersey
viii) River Thames (London)
ix) Philippines (Tablas Strait)
x) Gibraltar
14.
i) Alvis
ii) Humber
iii) Armstrong Siddeley
iv) AC
v) Rover
vi) Packard
vii) Hispano Suiza
viii) Bugatti
ix) Farman
x) Graf und Stift
15.
i) Crete
ii) Naxos
iii) Lesbos
iv) Corfu
v) Skyros
vi) Samos
vii) Rhodes
viii) Patmos
ix) Kos
x) Ithaca
16.
i) Black Cobra (Rudyard Kipling)
ii) Whiteadder
iii) A Python (Hillaire Belloc)
iv) A Rattlesnake (Lewis Carroll)
v) An Asp
vi) The Serpent's
vii) Anaconda
viii) Snake Pass
ix) Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson)
x) Grass Snake
17.
i) Andrew Jackson
ii) William Harrison
iii) Andrew Johnson/Bill Clinton
iv) Thomas Jefferson
v) Theodore Roosevelt
vi) John Adams
vii) Lyndon B Johnson
viii) James A Garfield
ix) Woodrow Wilson
x) Franklin D Roosevelt
18.
i) Garry Kasparov (failed to win any games in world chess championship defeat)
ii) HM Queen Elizabeth II (she made a request for no garlic during her state visit to Italy)
iii) Elizabeth Taylor and Julie Andrews received DBEs at the same ceremony
iv) Shane Warne in Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Century
v) Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (wrong answer forfeited £218,000)
vi) David Beckham (statue)
vii) David Hempleman-Adams (balloon flight over north pole)
viii) Alec Stewart, on the birthday of the Queen Mother
ix) Hansie Cronje (Piet Cronje was defeated Boer general)
x) The third secret of Fatima (Portugal - 1917)
