It’s that time of year again. So here’s the 2011 of the annual Christmas quiz. As always, there are no prizes and it’s just for fun. Mr Google may help with some, though perhaps not all, questions but where’s the glory in enlisting him as your assistant? The answers will be posted in the New Year but they’re also available by emailing me (alexmassieATgmail.com) or you can ask for clues on Twitter (@alexmassie). Good luck!
1. Where, arguably, might Whittier’s most famous son, a great American evangelist and an Anglo-American poet have ridden with a man on the moon? And in which Faulkner novel could they have appeared?
2. In the beginning, 46 fled but lost his foolish wife; 39 was Eric Blair’s island, 18 simply means expensive, 86 is on the Danube and one half of Glasgow is 32. Identify these and then determine what 75 must be worth.
3. Where do the Nile, Ganges, Danube and River Plate meet?
4.
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