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A. You mean the Tyntesfield estate, near Bristol, home of the late lord Wraxall. It is not, contrary to popular opinion, the real Hogwarts School of the Harry Potter novels - but its spires

A. The Express Lift Tower in Northampton, which was opened by The Queen in November, 1982. It was only 17 years old when ministers used special powers to list it as a building of unusual interest.

A. Our ancestors, identified by the archaeologist John Thurnam in the late 1860s. Q. Why beaker A. Thurnam, examining the skeletons from the barrows - burial mounds - of Wiltshire around the

A. You're not going to get much unless you want to pay big money. For example, a passenger's gold-plated watch that stopped as the ship sank has just made 19,800. The item was among 316 lots

A. Mary Mallon, an Irish immigrant cook, who etween 1900 and 1907 infected 22 New Yorkers with typhoid fever through her puddings and cakes. One of them died. Mallon moved from household to

A. Nothing to do with the Royal Mail. It's a hobby that requires a map, a compass, walking shoes, an ink pad, paper and plenty of patience. Ah yes, and you need to be on Dartmoor. Q. You're not

A. Traditionally, the first was Veeraswamy's of Piccadilly in the early 1900s. The first, however, was a curry house opened in London by Sake Dean Mahomed a century before. Q. Who was he A. A

A. A modest but accomplished British diplomat called Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell. As the Ambassador to Lisbon in the Second World War, he saved the lives of about 1,000 Jews by issuing them visas to

A. His name was Joseph Jaggers - although the vaudeville song probably pre-dates his achievement at the casino in Monte Carlo in 1873. Q. Who was he A. A cotton mill engineer from Yorkshire,

A. At the start of the race when Dr George Carey announced his forthcoming retirement, the answer would certainly have been: the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester. Not any more. The man

A. Yes. The film-maker Billy Wilder has died aged 95. His gifts for writing and directing led to such classics as Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and Double Indemnity. He collected three Oscars

A. A house called The Bury in the village of St Paul's Walden in North Hertfordshire.Q. Surely it was Scotland A. No. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was generally regarded as a Scot. Indeed, in 1937

A. Riotous behaviour in the peaceful Channel Island haven. An angry mob of 30 drinkers besieged the only police station on Alderney after a man was arrested for alleged drink-driving. Stones were

A. Sadly, yes. Dudley Moore, the comic actor whose double-act with Peter Cook heralded the 1960s satire boom, has died after a three-year battle against a rare brain disorder. He was 66. The illness

A. I wouldn't go that far. I think George W Bush probably wants to be the next president. But it seems likely that Dr Rice - known as Condi - will run as vice-president if Dick Cheney steps down.

A. Nobody knows for sure. They probably moved and starved to death, or were killed by Native Americans - or were assimilated into a local tribe. Q. First, I think you'd better explain who they

A. It's a fancy name - no doubt given by one of the denizens of Fleet Street - for the magnificent St Bride's Church. It is know as the printers' church and the reporters' church. And it is there

A. Her name is Sharbat Gula - and she's just been found after a long and complicated search. Q. And she's famous A. Yes - but she didn't know it. Her image was captured by Steve McCurry, a