For those who have missed it: The new Macmillan Cancer Support Summer Quiz is available from Quizzes for Charity. All the usual horrors of 130 general knowledge, puzzles and picture questions. Closing...
The new Macmillan Cancer Support Summer Quiz is available from Quizzes for Charity. All the usual horrors of 130 general knowledge, puzzles and picture questions. Closing date is October 1st 2007....
52 Crush, Held If my others are correct should be somewhere between Kabul & Tehran. My eyes are getting weary studying the atlas! Any help much appreciated.
Pulling my hair out with this one: Add a vegetable to an orange dyestuff obtained from the fruit hairs of an Indian tree of the spurge family. The dye could be Dhak or Dak but I can't fit a vegetable...
Been away for couple of weeks and need to try and tidy this one up. Any thoughts on the following? 41 O HI ZULU (anagram) 52 Crush Held 67 Rearrange a smudge 91 Senior and junior male stirred together...
There is a new Charity Sports & Leisure Quiz out this weekend: 100 questions, pics and puzzles for ?3.50 (payable to Quizzes For Charity) Send to: QfC, 196 Telford Avenue, Stevenage, Herts, SG2 0AU...
Can anyone help with what connects Thomas the Tank Engine, Lesley Joseph, Prince Andrew, David Beckham,Gregory Peck, Cyril Smith, Barbara Windsor, Patrick Kielty, Basil Brush, Denis Bergkamp and...
Not long to go now; still trawling the almanack with no joy for the following: 1 What are Ind, Pollett and Allars? 2 What links the births and deaths in the calendar section? (I have an idea but can't...
I feel as though I've read the Almanack several times. But I'm still struggling with Number 2 ;Ind, Pollett and Allars are all what? Number 3; What are Silk and Thread? 5; What links the births and...
Which book contains this passage: 'Near to the stones and mortar and the stack of timber above the sunken garden the two dogs were standing? I saw her footsteps in the sand and lime, and her sunshade,...
Too much to do, too little time! Any pushes in the right direction for these would be appreciated: 1 In which poem did an heroic king bemoan being married to an old woman? 2 What name is given to the...
1 Which 1959 novel took its title form a West indian Calypso? 2 Which article of clothing was valued by Browning's traitor but not by Newbolt's schoolby hero? (I've checked Vitai Lampada, did he write...
Three more that are causing much brain pain! 1 Which musical instrument was quoted with approval by (a) a 16th C eligious reformer and (b) a 19th C clergy and wit, both with Scottish connections? Also...