Land of the Unwell

I’m afraid this blogging-hiatus is likely to continue for another day or so. Or at least until the batch of plague from which I’m currently suffering moves on to victims new. Assuming it ever does…

Meanwhile, here are the answers to the 2010 edition of the Christmas Quiz:

CHRISTMAS QUIZ 2010 ANSWERS:

1. Where could you find a countryside poet, a TV doctor, a defeated Presidential candidate and an English detective?

These are all Irish counties: John Clare, Dr Kildare, John Kerry and Ruth Rendell’s Chief Inspector Wexford.

2. What didn’t happen in Berlin in 1916 or in Tokyo in 1940 or London in 1944?

The Summer Olympics were due to have been held in these cities in these years but were cancelled because of war.

3. An American cemetery, a British university and palace, a Glasgow music hall star’s valley and Henry II’s mistress are four fifths of what? And which member is missing?

Arlington cemetery, Buckingham palace and university, Harry Lauder is the music hall star so it’s Lauderdale and Henry II’s mistress was Rosamund Clifford.