Christmas Quiz 2011: The Answers

Back late last night from Jura (fabulous time despite constant rain, gales and all the rest of it) so 2012 blogging will begin soon. Hurrah for that. Here, then, are the results of the 2011 edition of the Annual Quiz. Hope those of you who had a crack at it enjoyed yourselves. There were some very fine entries this year though none, or none sent to me, that were wholly correct. Anyway, the answers:

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?

The Faulkner Novel is “The Reivers” and these are all names of old Reiving families on the Anglo-Scottish border. Richard Nixon is Whittier’s most-famous son; Billy Graham the evangelist and TS Elliot the poet. The man on the moon is Neil Armstrong.

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.