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1. In Spain, why would Mr Kipling have preferred not only a sponge cake to a woman, but also both a crown and a bull?Ìý

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2. Why could Martha Jane Canary, Lenin's would be assassin, and a police van, all provide alternative titles to a Tchaikovsky opera?Ìý ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

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3. (Music): Once you've extracted the names in order from the titles, what would you expect to experience at the end?

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4. (Music): Three seats of learning, three alumni, three quotes – can you match them up?

‘Reader, if you seek his monument, look about you.’

‘There are some of us… who will fight and fight and fight again to save the Party we love.’

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5. (From Imogen Thomas) Who are the following, and whose faithful companions might they be?

One sharing a middle name with James Joyce;

Another with unfortunate spots;

A third sharing the name of a ventriloquist’s doll who was famously ‘educated’.

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6. (From Ivan Whetton) What musical instructions would take you:

From the architect responsible for Europe's tallest building to a British caterer and hotelier; and from Issigonis's 1100 successor to Fleming's SPECTRE second-in-command?

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7. A subdivision of an Act, several ungulates, St Clement’s material and the Osmeridae. Did you sense that something was missing?

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8. The warden of Hiram’s Hospital, the founder of the National Trust and a Roman assassin according to Mozart: why do they count?

Which restless quintet would you associate with a second crop after the harvest, what you’d have if you’d been making a collage, and an unappetising-sounding broth?

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Answer: The ‘restless’ quintet is the Rolling Stones (who, proverbially, gather no moss) – because the clues all point to words or phrases they used as album titles. A second crop after the harvest is the ‘Aftermath’, you’d have ‘Sticky Fingers’ if you’d been making a collage, and an unappetizing-sounding broth might be ‘Goat’s Head Soup’.

In what sense can Winston Churchill and F.E. Smith, Nicole Kidman and Mary Boleyn all be regarded as ‘alternative’?

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