Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

Twelve questions for Christmas – answers

1. Anish Giri 2. Nona Gaprindashvili 3. Jamie Njoku-Goodwin 4. Alireza Firouzja 5. Magnus Carlsen–Hikaru Nakamura 6. 2 Qf4+! gxf4 3 Rb7+ Kc8 4 Rc7+ Kd8 5 Rd7+ etc with a draw. The rook is immune due to stalemate. 7. Abhimanyu Mishra 8. Ian Nepomniachtchi 9. Garry Kasparov 10. Trafalgar Square, London 11. Yuri Averbakh

Answers to Spot the Book Title 2021

1. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 2. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 3. The Golden Bowl by Henry James 4. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford 5. From Here to Eternity by James Jones 6. I, Claudius by Robert Graves 7. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 8. Frankenstein by

2021 Christmas quiz – the answers

Rather odd Mars Michael Jordan Tower Bridge Moscow’s Lightning Winston Churchill Russia Jenners Sri Lanka El Salvador Don’t quote me Angela Rayner, the Labour deputy leader, commenting on the Conservatives The Queen, in a video message to COP26 Piers Morgan, on Good Morning Britain Boris Johnson, on lifting coronavirus restrictions Dominic Cummings, of Boris Johnson