Prisons, literature, momentous journeys .*.*. Is there here on AB an English expert who can tell me why the two asterisks are over the ellipsis to oprn a dparagraph as above?(The ellipsis I understand...
Anyone any idea why the compiler would put these words in quotation marks when introducing a quiz about the Cairngorms: Stepping stones"; "waterfall"; "refuge". Thanks a lot. Lm
The final clue of a ST WWI? quiz (354 5 Oct 2003): It gives the grid reference of a village church as 80 miles east-north-east, for which the compiler and his friend immediately head with their extra...
92 27 Sep 98 ? 20 minutes on a train from Highgate village: (???) If I tell you its basement restaurant is an unusual place to take a spot of kidney punch , you will instantly know for what this place...
Anyone help with this please? We continue west (from Garlick Hill) to a third church (???) - one of Wren's last in the city of London. Its bells come from a village (Domesday's Aweneburi) far to the...
A quiz compiler stated, in 1998, that the view from the top of The Monument (in London) is a little different to the last time he was up there in about 1990, and the blame for that must lie with...
This is about Beverley in Yorkshire in August 2003: An outrageous hat, on which, it appears, a master confectioner has built a spun sugar arrangement resembling a pile of jackstraws. Can an Answer...
Some 50+ years ago I was severely reprimanded by a senior member of the Common Room (female) when, in conversation, I referred to 'the wife'. Such was the impact of her wrath that I have never used...
What well known food would you match with the following places:- 1) Belfast 2)Christmas ( I can't actually find a place just called Christmas) Also can I ask for opinions on the following. I have...
1. Direction of life was sweet for an Italian (8 7) 2. Irish tenor the Pope counted on (4 9) 3. Opera composer sloganised for the house of Savoy (8 5) 4. Clone a word for the master (4 6) 5. Did he...
Thanks Leo!! Stuck on the last two questions for this quiz: Q14 On which site can divers see rifles, motorcycles, motar shells and a steam locomotive? Q16 Which famous globetrotters set out on these...