Christopher Howse

The answers | 10 December 2015

issue 12 December 2015

On the record

1. Jean-Claude Juncker
2. David Cameron
3. Sir Tim Hunt
4. Jeremy Corbyn
5. President Vladimir Putin of Russia
6. Tony Blair
7. John McDonnell (quoting Mao Tse-tung)
8. Ed Miliband
9. Lord Ashdown (They were, he didn’t)
10. Natalie Bennett, the leader of the Green Party, after giving a poor interview








Animal magic

1. Ants
2. A goat
3. Gerbils
4. Lancashire
5. A dachshund
6. A rabbit
7. Matisse
8. A spider
9. Bears
10. Nutella








Right royal

1. Australia
2. Richard III
3. Princess Charlotte (Elizabeth Diana)
4. The Prince of Wales
5. Britannia
6. The Prince of Wales’s
7. Australia, at the Seppeltsfield Winery near Tanunda
8. Canada
9. China, Chen Dapeng being the sculptor
10. Queen Victoria, who reigned for 23,226 days, 16 hours and 23 minutes








Numbers

1. Liz Kendall
2. Twelve
3. The Population
4. Modigliani
5. Julian Assange
6. Angola
7. Ukip
8. Never Mind the Buzzcocks
9. China
10. Japan








At the pictures

1. Inside Out

2. Michael Keaton
3. Wrestling
4. A drummer
5. Mortdecai

6. Steve Jobs

7. The Walk

8. Pan

9. Jupiter Ascending

10. Brooklyn




Seasonal

1. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (In Memoriam, XXX)
2. Charles Dickens (The Pickwick Papers, Chapter XXVIII)
3.

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