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Paddy is lucky to have neighbours as kind and diligent as you and Mr. M. I hope she has an easy recovery although at that age broken bones take a long time to heal..

9. I know Bleaklow and Kiinder Scout are both in the Peak District - is it as simple as that? 13. British EGOT winners? 14. These are abbreviations for the teams in the IPL e.g. CSK is Chennai Super Kings 15. This is a really good question so I'll leave it as there's a certain satisfaction when the ...

1. Wind farm? total guess..
2. Furby's correct but they'll give the answer as Lactose
3. Winifred Atwell at a guess - in one of the other Grauniad quizzes this week she was named as the biggest selling artist of the first half of the 50s.
8. Large Language Model, GPT-4 being the best known example.

Ah St George's Day. Nothing seems to encourage the average keyboard warrior to descend into incoherent apoplectic rage more than St George's Day. There seem to be two camps and very litle middle ground: one group seems to believe they're not allowed to have an England flag any more and that their hu...

1, Bowie
5. Neither confirm nor deny

11. Translations of German words used in English - Wanderlust, schadenfreude and Weltschmertz. Don't know the gate closing one.

Love Duxford - it's only 15 miles down the road for me so I go every couple of years or so. Some great photos there..looks like they had a lot of fun.

2. It's a Korean rice wine drink similar to sake but much stronger.
4. Slieve Donard - another quiz league favourite question along with the highest on the Isle of Man (Snaefell by the way).

12. These are major US sporting trophies - The Earl of Derby was a Stanley and the Stanley Cup is the most important ice hockey trophy; the Vince Lombardi trophy goes to the Superbowl champions in American football; Larry O'Brien was commissioner of the NBA in the 80s so I'd guess the major basketba...

Confusingly the river that Austin stands on is called the Colorado but it is not the same Colorado river that passes through the Grand Canyon and that the Zephyr passes. It did go dark and incredibly quickly - even at 90% coverage it was still like normal daylight but 3 minutes later it was pitch bl...

..and now you say that, she won Best Actress Oscar for Poor Things last month and I think she might have done for LaLa Land too.

And MYF has just informed me that Mia Dolan is Emma Stone's character in La La Land - not that that helps me any! But it might help someone else..

10. Not sure about orange blossom but the others are English translations of the Spanish Costas - del Sol, Calida, Blanca and Brava
14. Juan Munoz, Anish Kapoor, Rachel Whiteread and Eliasson (Icelandiic but don't know his first name) are living sculptors so I assume the others are too.

5. The Iditarod dog sled race - it made a bit of news because the guy who won it this year is now the record holder for most wins.
8.The cartoonist Posy Simmonds

We got back from the US yesterday after a terrific 2 weeks. Highlights were The Sphere which is simply awe inspiring and the Grand Canyon which is just as amazing in a completely different way. We were lucky enough to be in Austin on Monday so we saw the total eclipse which was truly a once in a lif...

We are getting excited for our trip to Austin and Las Vegas. We are packed and ready or our 8 a.m. pick-up tomorrow and I've booked loads of stuff to do - helicopter trip down the Grand Canyon and sunset dinner at the bottom followed by flying over the lights of Las Vegas, quad biking in the Nevada ...

8. MYF and I did the tour of Blandy's Wine Lodge last year on our holiday in Funchal so I can say with certainty this is Madeira. I agree with Furby that some lyrics are very difficult to decipher. Peter Kay did a very funny sketch about it - if you haven't seen it it is welll worrth a watch https:/...

That sounds like a whole ton of hassle - still as you say, worth it if she's no longer in pain..

7. Whaam! by Roy Liechtenstein in the Tate Modern

11. Clotho, Atropos and Lachesis, the fates from Greek mythology. Spun the thread, measured the thread and cut the thread of life.
#10 is interesting - hadn't heard that but the names sound very Khanesque.