(GAH – I published 7 and 8 out of order, soz like)
1 What was likely to give Pistol indigestion?
2 What proved to be soporific for Benjamin and his family?
3 What was dismissed as no more than a college-educated relative?
4 What, according to t[…]

What:
1 Takes its name from James I’s physician?
2 Is a drupe of drupelets brought together by a Californian judge?
3 South American lily takes its name from an alumnus of Uppsala University?
4 Tuber is named after that alumnus’s Curator at his […]

“Greetings! It’s me, 90’s summer dance craze The Macarena. I’ve never really gone away, as you must surely know: the muscle memory of hand flips and hip wiggles is ingrained into the very fabric of your DNA, to be passed down […]

Where:
1 Was Tilia reduced to 7ft?
2 Did Garry and Frank take 36 and 34 off Malcolm?
3 Did Steve and Venkat say “Enough” after 62 balls?
4 Is the venue a memorial to a Brotherly Leader and Guide?
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So as per usual I will be dispatching the movie poll results in batches of ten, which might start in a puppydog quick fashion, and finally limp out the final ten in the middle of February. Well we will see…
Some stats this year – we recei[…]

By annual tradition, my rankings – best to worst – of the year’s UK number one hits, with initial thoughts – very initial, I’d heard only one of these before last week and it wasn’t Ariana. Again, I didn’t ad[…]

In which tale:
1 Did Kitty Kid masquerade as Ada Mason?
2 Was the Mephistophelian host fixed by a dummy?
3 Did a showing of Not a Sparrow coincide with the running of the St Leger?
4 Was the recognition that two cousins were named Magdala crucial […]

1 Whence the Diehards?
2 Which Park witnessed disasters costing 25 and 66 lives?
3 Where, after 150 years, do they continue “to play for the sake of playing”?
4 Where did the repeated administration of Antimony lead to a public execution on the G[…]

This list was inspired by Brad Nelson in another place, and their excellent idea of just smushing together the things which stood out in 2018 regardless of media or format or whatever else. In practice the list is distressingly limited in scope. It�[…]

(RUBRIC’n’RULEZ can be found in the first post)
1 To what See was Aramis appointed?
2 Who was credited with “style” by Calverley?
3 Who banished the three Fathers to Craggy Island?
4 Who was preferred to Dr Grantley for what position […]