Christmas Quiz 2014: The Answers

Here, earlier than is traditional, are the answers to this year’s Christmas Quiz. As always scoring is discretional but if five marks are awarded for an entirely correct answer then the maximum total possible is 100 points. It is also, of course, possible to get the answer correct even while failing to answer some of its components. Points are deducted for this. Or would be if any were actually awarded. Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed a splendid Christmas and that you will have an equally happy New Year. See you, so to speak, in 2015.

1. Who are served, so to speak, by an Ulster Unionist, Carthage’s greatest foe and a Warwickshire cricketer? These are butlers. Lord Grantham in, forgive me, Downton Abbey is served by Carson (Edward Carson being the Ulster Unionist), Inspector Clouseau is served by Cato (descendent, we like to think, of the Carthago delenda est Cato) and Percy Jeeves was the Warwickshire cricketer who gave his name to Bertram Wooster’s gentleman’s gentleman.