1
1 Jess Willard (the Pottawatomie Giant, lost world heavyweight title fight to Jack Dempsey, the Manassa Mauler/Kid Blackie)
2 Ignacy Jan Paderewski (prime minister of Poland)
3 Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence
4 Suzanne Lenglen’s (La Divine) at Wimbledon
5 John Alcock and Arthur Brown (from Winston Churchill following transatlantic flight)
6 HMY Iolaire (hit Beasts of Holm off Stornoway, 201 servicemen drowned)
7 The Children’s Newspaper (Arthur Mee)
8 Death of Prince John (their fifth son, aged 13)
9 Theodore Roosevelt’s (“Speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far”)
10 Nancy Astor (succeeded her husband as MP for Plymouth in byelection)
2
1 Patrick Gordon (1635-99)
2 Croagh Patrick
3 Sir Patrick Cullen’s (George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor’s Dilemma)
4 Fino San Patricio (Garvey, Jerez)
5 Sir Patrick Spens
6 Patrick O’Brian (Aubrey and Maturin in Master and Commander)
7 Patrick Sellar (Highland Clearances)
8 Percy FitzPatrick (Jock of the Bushveld)
9 Patrick Pearse (St Enda’s/Scoil Éanna)
10 Patrick Kavanagh (The Great Hunger)
3
1 Thomas Bond (Jack the Ripper, murderer of Mary Jane Kelly)
2 Francis Camps (Erle Stanley Gardner. The Case of the Duplicate Daughter)
3 John Glaister Junior (Buck Ruxton murders)
4 David Bowen
5 Alec Jeffreys’ (Colin Pitchfork, Narborough, 1983)
6 Paul Uhlenhuth’s (Ludwig Tessnow, Rugen, 1901)
7 Donald Teare
8 Keith Simpson’s (Mrs Durand-Deacon, victim of John George Haigh, acid bath murderer)
9 Bernard Knight’s (Karen Price, Cardiff, 1989)
10 Sir Bernard Spilsbury (Operation Mincemeat deception, 1943)
4
1 Count Jovian (John Buchan, The House of the Four Winds)
2 Count Paris (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)
3 Count Ribbing (Giuseppe Verdi, Un Ballo in Maschera)
4 Count Joseph Dumoulin (consul-general of Swedish Pomerania in CS Forester, The Commodore)
5 Count Fosco (Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White)
6 Count Vronsky (Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina)
7 Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas, Edmond Dantès)
8 Count Folke Bernadotte
9 Count Orgaz (El Greco)
10 Count Basie (Earl Hines and Duke Ellington)
5
1 Van Houten’s cocoa
2 Wonka’s Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight (Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
3 La Céleste Praline (Joanne Harris, Chocolat)
4 Anthon Berg
5 Fry’s
6 Henri Nestlé (Daniel Peter)
7 Droste’s (Jan Misset’s Nurse)
8 “My chocolate cream soldier” (George Bernard Shaw, Arms and the Man, act III)
9 Thornton’s
10 Ritter Sport
6
1 Lord Jesus’s (hymn)
2 Cameron Highlands, Malaya (Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists)
3 Maud (Alfred Lord Tennyson, Maud)
4 Hatton Garden
5 Letchworth Garden City
6 Mr McGregor’s (Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit)
7 Misselthwaite Manor (Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden)
8 Percy French (song, Come Home Paddy Reilly)
9 TE Brown (My Garden)
10 Johnny Crow’s (Leonard Leslie Brooke, Johnny Crow’s Garden)
7
1 Cheltenham (John Betjeman)
2 Dursley (Dursley and Midland Junction Railway)
3 Berkeley Castle (Christopher Marlowe, Edward II)
4 Lechlade
5 Gloucester (Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester)
6 Chipping Campden
7 Tewkesbury (King Edward IV)
8 Slad (Laurie Lee, Cider with Rosie)
9 Fairford (St Mary’s Church)
10 Stow-on-the-Wold
8
1 José Canalejas (November 1912)
2 Joselito (José Gómez Ortega, matador, May 1920)
3 Pope Calixtus III (Alfons de Borja)
4 Alfonso XI (The Avenger, 1350)
5 Sancho II (Zamora, 1072)
6 Felipe II (singed beard in Cadiz by Drake, 1587)
7 Francisco Goya, Enrique Granados (Goyescas)
8 Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Nobel prize, 1906)
9 Tio Pepe (Gonzales Byass’s Fino sherry, “Uncle Joe”)
10 El Bilbanito (CS Forester, The Gun)
9
1 Midshipman Hornblower (CS Forester)
2 Horn of Plenty (fungus)
3 The Golden Horn (GK Chesterton, Lepanto)
4 East Hohenhörn (Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands)
5 Battle of Little Bighorn
6 Weisshorn (John Tyndall, physicist, August 1861)
7 Horning (Arthur Ransome, Coot Club)
8 Horncastle (William Marwood, hangman)
9 The cow with the crumpled horn (This is the House that Jack Built)
10 Hornbill
10
1 Henry Purcell’s (Dido and Aeneas)
2 Jeremiah Clarke (Prince of Denmark’s March, aka Trumpet Voluntary)
3 Thomas Arne (Ariel’s Where the bee sucks, there suck I, The Tempest)
4 Hubert Parry (Jerusalem)
5 Edward Elgar (Nimrod, Augustus Jaeger)
6 Ralph Vaughan-Williams (Down Ampney, hymn tune, after Bianco da Siena)
7 Gustav Holst’s, Thaxted (Jupiter)
8 Benjamin Britten (Noye’s Fludde)
9 William Walton’s (Belshazzar’s Feast)
10 Arthur Sullivan’s (with WS Gilbert at the Savoy. The Grand Duke or The Statutory Duel)
11
1 Malgudi (RK Narayan, Swami and Friends)
2 New Delhi (Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger)
3 Madras (Edward Lear, The Book of Nonsense)
4 Simla (Rudyard Kipling, Kim)
5 Allahabad (Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days)
6 Agra (Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four)
7 Calcutta (Patrick O’Brian, HMS Surprise)
8 Darjeeling (Nöel Coward, I Wonder What Happened to Him)
9 Bombay (EM Forster, A Passage to India)
10 Jhansi (Christina Rossetti, poem, The Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857)
12
1 Dram, Armenia
2 Rand, South Africa (Mary Rand Olympic gold in 1964 long jump)
3 Pula, Botswana
4 Sucre, Ecuador
5 Cordoba, Nicaragua
6 Lek, Albania
7 Birr, Ethiopia (telescope – The Leviathan of Parsonstown)
8 Quetzal, Guatemala
9 Dong, Vietnam (Edward Lear)
10 Colón, Costa Rica
13
1 Lake Baikal (Baikal Teal/bimaculate duck)
2 Toplitzsee (Nazi forgeries of UK bank notes)
3 Lake Peipus (Alexander Nevsky, 5 April 1242)
4 Lac Léman (Lord Byron, The Prisoner of Chillon)
5 Lake Maggiore (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms)
6 Lake Como (August Strindberg, Fröken Julie)
7 Loch Morar (monster)
8 Loch Maree (Botulism, August 1922)
9 Lough Neagh (legend of Finn McCool creating the Isle of Man)
10 Lake Trasimeno (Hannibal v Flaminius 217BC)
14
1 Raidillon (Spa-Francorchamps, watchmaker since 2001)
2 Interlagos (Brazil, Bico do Pato, Mergulho)
3 Mistral (Le Castelet, Circuit Paul Ricard, France)
4 Remus (Red Bull, Spielberg, Austria)
5 Tosa (Imola, San Marino/Italy)
6 Monza (Italy, Vialone became Ascari)
7 Beckets (Silverstone)
8 Massenet (Monaco, premiere of opera Don Quichotte)
9 Knickerbrook (Oulton Park)
10 Tarzanbocht (Zandvoort, Holland)
15
1 Ind Coope (Double Diamond slogan)
2 Crosse and Blackwell
3 Holland and Holland (gunsmiths)
4 Winsor and Newton (paint brushes)
5 Patek Philippe (Calibre 89, celebrating 150 years since foundation)
6 Parker Knoll
7 Williams and Humbert (sherry)
8 Bryant and May (imported matches from Sweden)
9 Ratsey and Lapthorn (sailmakers, Cowes)
10 C and A (Clemens and August Brenninkmeijer, Sneek)
Walt Disney Co/Courtesy Ev/RE
16
1 Manhood Hundred (Selsey, within the Rape of Chichester)
2 Hundredweight (112lb in UK, 100lb in US)
3 Chiltern Hundreds
4 Hundred Acre Wood (AA Milne, The House at Pooh Corner)
5 The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014 film)
6 One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez)
7 Hundred Year Hall (two CD live album by the Grateful Dead, following Jerry Garcia’s death)
8 The Hundred Years war (Battle of Castillon)
9 WG Grace scored his hundredth hundred in 1st class cricket.
10 Your Hundred Best Tunes (1997 and 2003)
17
1 Tavistock (The Adventure of Silver Blaze)
2 North Walsham (The Adventure of the Dancing Men)
3 Shoscombe (The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place)
4 Mackleton (The Adventure of the Priory School)
5 Waterloo (The Adventure of the Crooked Man)
6 Forest Row (The Adventure of Black Peter)
7 Charing Cross (The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez)
8 Winchester (The Adventure of the Copper Beeches)
9 Chislehurst (The Adventure of the Abbey Grange)
10 Canterbury (The Adventure of the Final Problem)
18
1 Shane Long (scoring quickest goal in Premier League history for Southampton v Watford)
2 Jack Leach (92 runs in Test Match v Ireland)
3 Volodymyr Zelensky (president of Ukraine, following TV series Servant of the People)
4 Norwich Cathedral (George Irvin’s Helter Skelter)
5 George Mendonsa’s, (The Kissing Sailor, has died aged 95)
6 Unveiling of statue of Regis, Cunningham and Batson in West Bromwich
7 New Australian 50 dollar note (“responsibilty”)
8 Franky Zapata (Channel crossing by hoverboard)
9 Abdication of Emperor Akihito and accession of Naruhito to chrysanthemum throne
10 Denbigh plum