Which island or island group:
1 Gained psittacine relief?
2 Was discovered on New Year’s Day?
3 Had an Imperial association with an eminent MHK?
4 Take their name from a mainland feature 450km distant?
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1 Which entomologist was lost in the Grimpen Mire?
2 Who drowned, aged 29, when his schooner, Don Juan, sank?
3 Who succumbed to the whirlpools of the Seine on June 7 1832?
4 Who fell fatally into a weeping brook from a broken willow branch?
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Which seat of learning is named after:
1 A canonised bishop?
2 A Glaswegian fur-trader?
3 A slave trader and corrupt Indian administrator?
4 An excommunicated Friend and telegraph pioneer?
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Which hospital:
1 Was a beneficiary of the South Sea Bubble?
2 Recalls an alternative title of Princess Diana?
3 Was built as a memorial to a solicitor’s wife at Moor Edge?
4 Was renamed after a Welsh surgeon and a pioneering English nurse?
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1 Who was allowed a gill of beer a day?
2 Who viewed his domain upon Arkindale Side?
3 With what birth defect was Greene’s corvid assassin afflicted?
4 Whose gait was likened to that of a gentleman with exceedingly tight footwear?
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1 What was reduced by 20 in 1967?
2 What urges adhesion to the desk on terra firma?
3 What prohibited shoes or boots with spikes or springs?
4 What postulates that individuals in warmer climates have longer limbs?
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(Into the 2nd half now, come on…)
1 Where is the Blue Slipper?
2 Where did nightingales warble and sing?
3 From where were the boys evacuated to Brantwood?
4 Where did Sophie’s grandson find the window too narrow?
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1 Who wrote about the polymath, Joseph Bologne?
2 Whose prestige product honours a former naval person?
3 Who progressed from Arras via Sens and Rouen to finally settle in Avignon?
4 Who was the life and soul of King’s Abbot, but was stabbed by the[…]

Which periodical:
1 Was found under Adrian’s bed by his mother?
2 Provided Mr Finch with a £10 prize for solving a crossword?
3 Carried the headline DIAR KNAB NI EFIL OT THGUORB EERHT?
4 Published an ode by the poet laureate to the seasonal fluct[…]

(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[…]