15 ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH ISSUE 1 Pyewipe Junction 2 Junction Pool (River Tweed at Kelso) 3 Limerick Junction (Tipperary Rececourse) KING WILLIAM’S COLLEGE 4 Strickland Junction (Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post) 5 Stacklepoole Junction (E Nesbit, The Railway Children) ISLE OF MAN 6 Spaghetti Junction (M6 and A38) 7 Junction Road Station (John Betjeman, Suicide on Junction Road General Knowledge Paper Station after Abstention from Evening Communion in North London) 8 Effingham Junction (Spanish Armada) 2017-2018 9 Neuromuscular Junction 10 Cemetery Junction (Gervais and Merchant) ANSWERS

16 1 Benjamin Franklin (‘Join or Die’, 1754) 2 Thomas Rowlandson (‘The Corsican Spider in his web’, 1808) 3 Fougasse’s (‘CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES’ posters in 1 WW II) 1 Alec Waugh (The Loom of Youth) 4 David Low (‘Hullo, back again? Have a good time?’ 1943) 2 Rejection of House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in favour of Windsor 5 Vicky (Churchill, after Millais, 1946) 3 Aqaba (T E Lawrence) 6 Sir (‘Dropping the Pilot’, 1890) 4 Halifax, Nova Scotia (SS Mont Blanc and SS Imo collision) 7 Cummings (Diana and Charles, 1995) 5 Siegfried Sassoon’s 8 James Gillray (‘The Plumb-pudding in danger.’ Pitt and Napoleon, 6 Arthur Balfour’s (supporting the establishment of a national home 1805) in Palestine for the Jewish people) 9 Francisco Goya (‘De que mal marira?’ Capricho 40) 7 The Zimmermann Telegram 10 (‘Gent, No Gent & Re-gent’, 1816) 8 W B Yeats (The Wild Swans at Coole) 9 Mata Hari 10 Sinking of HMS Ben-my-Chree (Kastellorizo) 17 1 Doon (Halloween) 2 (Fairest Maid on Devon Banks, Chorus) 2 3 Clyde (Yon Wild Mossy Mountains) 1 Berwick-upon-Tweed (Berwick Cockles) 4 Nith (The Banks of Nith) 2 Tynemouth (Admiral Collingwood, statue by John Graham Lough) 5 Dee (Ballad Third, John Bushby’s Lamentation) 3 Charles Grey (Monument in Newcastle) 6 Fyers/Foyers (Lines on the Fall of Fyers) 4 Lindisfarne/Holy Island (Crinoids, St Cuthbert’s Beads) 7 Galla/Gala Water (Braw Lads o’ Galla Water) 5 Haltwhistle 8 Cree (The Flowery Banks of Cree) 6 Chillingham (Thomas Bewick, The Chillingham Bull) 9 Tweed (Address to the Shade of Thomson) 7 Dilston Hall (3rd Earl of Derwentwater - 1715) 10 Cessnock (Suppressed Stanzas of “The Vision”) 8 Bamburgh Castle (King Ida - Scott, Marmion) 9 Alnwick (Hotspur Tower, Bondgate) 10 Ashington (statue of Jackie Milburn) 18 1 Joost van der Westhuisen’s (Foundation for Motor Neurone Disease) 3 2 (The Road to Mexico) 1 Mr Thomas Carlyle Craw (to Mr Barber. John Buchan, Castle Gay) 3 Storm Brian (21st October. Brianstorm was opening track of Arctic 2 Titus (Paul’s Epistle) Monkeys’ second album - 2007) 3 Loman (Talbot Baines Reed, The Fifth Form at St Dominic’s) 4 MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Blast/Mother of all bombs, 4 Johannes Vermeer’s dropped by US on Achin caves, Afghanistan. Psalms 60 and 108) 5 Nicole Warren (to Dick Diver. F Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the 5 Mark Beaumont (Round the world by bicycle in 79 days) Night) 6 Kazus Ishiguro’s (Nobel Prize for Literature) 6 Ambrose Ashley’s (to Philip. Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel) 7 Mersey Gateway (Marriott Edgar, Runcorn Ferry) 7 Sir Percy Blakeney’s (to Armand St Just. Baroness Orczy, El 8 First female to referee a competitive men’s rugby international in Dorado) Europe (Alhambra Nievas, Finland v. Norway) 8 The Zinoviev Letter (1924) 9 John Surtees (Figlio del vento) 9 Isabella Heathcliff, née Linton (Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights) 10 Richard Gordon (Gordon Stanley Ostlere, author, died 11th 10 Lydia Bennet (Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice) August)

4 1 Richard Hadlee 2 Ngaio Marsh (Surfeit of Lampreys, Henry I) 3 Peter Blake (Round the World and America’s Cup winner) 4 Edmund Hillary (Everest) 5 Ernest Rutherford 6 Lord Porritt 7 Kiri Te Kanawa (Charles and Diana, 1981) 8 Charles Upham. VC and Bar 9 Hone Heke (1844-5) 10 Aspirana Ngata (New Zealand bank note)

5 10 1 an Apple (old alphabet rhyme) 1 Eddie Large (biography, 2005) 2 eating humble pie 2 Steve Jobs 3 mouse pie (, The Pie and the Patty-Pan) 3 James Hardy (Chimpanzee Heart, 1964) 4 Eel Pie Island (David Frome) 4 A kidney (Joseph Murray, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 5 venison pies (Louis XI following the Treaty of Picquigny (1475) Herrick twins, 23 Dec 1954) 6 one of Bellamy’s veal pies. (William Pitt the Younger) 5 David Hookes’s (2004) 7 a custard pie (George Orwell essay - Funny, But Not Vulgar) 6 Prof Sir Roy Calne 8 Stargazy Pie (Tom Bawcock’s Eve in ) 7 Eric Abidel 9 Pie in the Sky (TV police drama) 8 Thymus 10 Melton Mowbray Pie (bow-shaped sides) 9 Eduard Zirm (Corneal transplant, 1905) 10 Rapamycin (Rapa Nui/Easter Island)

6 1 The Aristocrat who banks at Coutts (W S Gilbert, The Gondoliers) 11 2 Isle of Man Bank’s (Mobile Bank) 1 Gerontius’s (Praise to the Holiest in the Height) 3 The Capital and Counties Bank, Oxford Street branch (Conan 2 Ezekiel (Ezekiel 1, 10) Doyle, The Adventure of the Priory School) 3 St John the Divine (The Revelation, 1,13) 4 Martin’s Bank (Grasshopper) 4 Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (Paul Gaugin, Genesis 22, 22-32) 5 Bank of England (Kenneth Grahame, 1903) 5 Hugh Montefiore (later Bishop of Birmingham) 6 Lloyd’s Bank, Durrington, Worthing (robbery in November 1960, 6 Fatima (Portugal) John Terry later hanged for murder) 7 Saul (Acts, 9, 3) 7 Tellson’s Bank (Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities) 8 Joan of Arc’s 8 Hoare’s (Patrick O’Brian, The Commodore) 9 Locksley Hall (Tennyson) 9 Bank of America, Mayfair (1975) 10 St Teresa of Avila’s (The Ecstasy of St Teresa, Cornero Chapel, Santa 10 The British Linen Company (, Kidnapped) Maria della Vittoria, Rome)

7 12 1 Tignes/Chevril Dam (Isère, 1989) 1 Mangalicas (woolly-coated ) 2 Collapse of Malpasset Dam (December, 1959) 2 Landrace 3 Cornalvo and Proserpina Reservoirs (Badajoz province) 3 Robinson (Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Little Pig Robinson) 4 Möhne Dam (Dam Busters, May 1943) 4 The Empress of (P G Wodehouse, in the 5 Vajont Dam (Northern Italy, 1963) Springtime) 6 Malta/Maltański Reservoir (Poznan - rowing and canoeing) 5 Pumbaa (warthog in 1994 film, The Lion King) 7 Rutland Water (Ospreys bred in 2001) 6 Napoleon (George Orwell, ) 8 Bilberry Reservoir (Above Holmfirth, 1852) 7 The Hog’s Back (Aldous Huxley, Brave New World) 9 Nant y Gro Dam (Elan Valley, Dam Busters, 1942) 8 Wilbur (E B White, Charlotte’s Web) 10 Queen Mary Reservoir (submersible - 1943) 9 Algie (Pink Floyd’s inflatable Pig, Battersea Power Station) 10 (his pet pig, Beano, issue No. 1920)

8 1 Salisbury 2 Cheltenham 13 All BBC Personalities of the Year 3 Bideford 1 Mary Rand (Long Jump World Record and Olympic Champion, 4 Rochester 1964) 5 Leamington Spa 2 Chris Chataway (5,000m World Record, London v. Moscow, 1954) 6 Maidstone 3 Jonathan Edwards (Triple Jump World Record and World 7 Drogheda Champion, 1995) 8 Buckingham 4 David Steele (Ashes series v. Australia, 1975) 9 Barnard Castle 5 Dai Rees (Ryder Cup captain in win over US at Lindrick, 1957) 10 Midhurst 6 Ian Black (European Champion at 400 and 1500m freestyle and 200m butterfly, 1958) 7 Mark Cavendish (Road Race World Champion, 2011) 9 8 David Hemery (400m Hurdles World Record and Olympic 1 “The Queen, Duke of Lancaster” Champion, 1968) 2 Reginald III, Duke of Guelders (Known as ‘The Fat’) 9 Paula Radcliffe (Marathon World Record, 2002) 3 James, Duke of Hamilton (Fought Lord Mohun in Hyde Park, 15th 10 Jonny Wilkinson (Rugby World Cup Winner, 2003) November 1712) 4 Duke of Plaza-Toro (W S Gilbert, The Gondoliers) 5 Duke Ellington (Take the A Train) 14 6 Duke of Wellington, the Iron Duke (Aldershot) 1 Brownhill Inn (Robert Burns, Epigram at Brownhill Inn) 7 General John Marmaduke 2 The Jolly Herring, Ellan (F W Farrar, Eric or Little by Little) 8 Arthur, Duke of Brittany (Shakespeare, King John Act IV) 3 The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters (Charles Dickens, Our Mutual 9 William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (post Culloden - Sweet Friend) William and Stinking Willie) 4 The Tappit Hen (John Buchan, The Free Fishers) 10 The Grand Old Duke of York 5 The Lion d’Or at Yonville-l’Abbaye (Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary) 6 The Bucks Head at Roy-town (Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd) 7 The Pied Merlin near Lyndhurst (Conan Doyle, The White Company) 8 The McClellan Arms, Kirkcudbright (Dorothy L Sayers, The Five Red Herrings) 9 The Stag, Datchet (Jerome K Jerome, Three Men in a Boat) 10 The Roaring Donkey near Kendal Dyke (Arthur Ransome, The Big Six)