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1. In what story did Sherlock Holmes make his first appearance?
2. Picture 1: what’s the name of the plant and also the name of the colour of the flower? According to Greek myth the water nymph Clytie transformed into this plant after failing to win the love of the sun-god.
3. What can go before music, suit and lizard?
4. Picture 2: what’s that?
5. What can mean a disadvantage; an untrustworthy person; or, in a more modern way, a meeting of people with similar interests?
6. In computing, what is a program or device that provides functionality for client programmes or devices, for example sharing data or resources amongst multiple clients?
7. Music: what’s the occupation being celebrated in this piece of music, as referred to in the popular name for the song?
8. Morse code: . - - . [dot dash dash dot] is which letter?
9. Picture 3: this dead Nazi was born in 1896 and joined the Nazis in 1922. He was chief administrator of East Prussia from 1933 and Reichskommisar of Ukraine from 1941, where his first act was to close the schools, as “Ukraine children need no schools. What they'll have to learn will be taught them by their German masters.” After the war he failed to escape to South America, evading capture until 1949 in Hamburg. He went on trial in Warsaw for war crimes and the extermination of 400,000 Poles in 1958, though was never indicted for his crimes in the Ukraine. He was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted due to his ill health or possibly because he had information about art looted by the Nazis. He remained completely unrepentant and died in prison in 1986 aged 90.
10. Crossword clue: Penalise eating posh grub [4,6]
11. What broad medical term describes chronic pain affecting the joints or connective tissue, covering a range of such conditions including arthritis and regional pain syndrome?
12. What typographical symbol, also known as an obelisk or obelus, is, in modern usage, often used to indicate a second footnote on a page after an asterisk has already been used?
13. What’s the name of the prestigious rugby league tournament that culminates each year at Wembley Stadium? It began in 1896 and the title is currently held by the Warrington Wolves.
14. Which iconic Two Ronnies sketch was apparently inspired by a real incident in a hardware shop in Hayes?
15. Picture 4 – what’s that?
16. Lyrics: “Oh yeah, it was like lightning, everybody was frightening, and the music was soothing, and they all started grooving” – what’s the song title?
17. Picture 5 – what does that symbol represent?
18. Picture 6 – who’s that guitarist?
19. Published in 2000, what was the name of Anthony Bourdain’s book exposing the darker side of the modern restaurant business, subtitled “Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly”?
20. Blankety blank. This phrase originates from a nautical term, when seamen would check the depth of the water by dropping a weight with a marked rope to the bottom of a waterway. Lazy sailors would take their time over dropping the weight, as pulling it back up again was hard work; they were therefore said to be _ __
21. In sewing, what is a kind of trim or embellishment consisting of a strip of folded fabric inserted into a seam to define the edges or style line of a garment or textile object?
22. Music – what album is this track from?
23. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titania’s servants are Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth and who?
24. Before they were famous, what job did these people have in common? Bob Hoskins, Michael Caine, Ozzy Osbourne, Joe Cocker
25. Make your accusation!
