1.On the first ever non-stop transatlantic flight by Capt. John Alcock and Lt.

A rthur Whitten Brown, they had on board, two passengers named Lucky Jim and Twink letoes. Who or what were Lucky Jim and Twinkletoes? 2.A medical condition known as Stigmata is more of mystic and spiritual interest than medical. What is stigmata? 3.A Californian surfer by the name Tom Harvey (c. 1970) had a great passion for the drink 'Italian Screwdriver'(orange juice vodka, galliano). After a day of su rfing, he would rush to his favorite bar, get stoned and walk into walls and lam p posts when it was time to go home. The "Italian Screwdriver" was renamed in Ha rvey's honor. What was its new name? 4.Where in the world can I find Aubrey Holes, 56 in number? 5. It was originally a Chinese concoction of pickled fish and spices in the 169 0s. By the early 1700s its popularity had spread to Malaysia, where British expl orers first encountered it. By 1740, having attained its present name;it was an English staple, and it was becoming popular in the American colonies. The form in which it is most popular today wasn't made until the 1790s, when New England colonists first mixed it with a vegetable or fruit which had, for the most of the 18th century, been assumed as being poiso nous as they were close relatives of the toxic belladoena and nightshade plants. What food? 6."The Jewes Are The Men What Wont Be Blamed For Nothing." This was a slogan chalked up on a wall near the body of a murder victim in Engla nd, in the late 19th century when England was gripped by fear and the police wer e near helpless to do anything. What was the cause of the panic? 7.The Russians called them The Crown Jewels. Who or what were the Crown Jewels? 8.Connect the Guggenheim Museum with Simon and Garfunkel. 9.The corridor to his office is lined with oscars won by films like Gone With th e Wind. Opposite the reception desk is a wall mounted rack of guns and his confe rence room wall has the mounted head of a lion. When asked about it, he jokes th at he tells animal rights activists that it tried to kill him. But the man himse lf is a pacifist, who has done a lot for world peace. Who is the gentleman with opposing interests? 10.What was made from the metal obtained from melting some guns which had been captured by the British during the Crimean War? 11.A model was exhibited at the New York World's fair in 1939-40, of a proposed statue honoring one Capt. Hansen Gregory. The full statue was to have b een 250-300 ft high and would have been located on the summit of Mount Battie an d would have been lit up by huge floodlights so that it could have been visible 50 miles out to sea. Needless to say, it was never built. What was the captain' s achievement which merited such an honor?(hint : think bakeries) 12.What is the significance of the following line, apart from being a palindrome of the English language: "Rise, sir lapdog! Revolt, lover! God, pal, rise, sir!" 13.The early bobbies wore top hats which were lined with steel. If the purpose for this was not the protection of the contents of their cranium in case of assault, what was the actual purpose?

14.What word in the English language is derived from the Latin word meaning, "bright, shining, glistening white." As the ancient Roman runners for office would wear bright white togas. 15.In the 18th century and in the early part of the 19th century in Europe, A so rt of ritual was performed on the bodies of suicide victims, before burial. What was this ritual and what was the reason behind this? 16. It's name comes from an Aztec name. The first Spaniard to encounter substance was Hernan Cortes, shortly after his initial reception at the Court o f Montezuma in the island-city of Tenochtitlan in 1519. After highly praising th e drink and inquiring how it was made, he was told that one started with "cacahuaquchtl" powder , which was then boiled in wat er and combined with chili, musk and honey (and ground maize if you were going off to war and needed additional calories). What is bei ng talked about? 17.What word in the English language is derived from the custom of fleeing ancie nt Romans to cast away their capes, to avoid capture? 18.There is a curious discrepancy in Arthur Conan Doyle's description of Dr. Wa tson, between the novels A study in scarlet and The sign of four. What? 19.The original inhabitants of Spain were fair skinned people. Spain was then in vaded by the Moors who were dark skinned. Association with the conquerors led to a race of dark skinned descendants. But some of the dark skinned Noblemen did n ot want to be associated with the conquerors and in a bid to regain the lost com plexion of their fair skinned ancestors, avoided sunlight by hiding out in caves . As a result, they became so pale that some of their veins were visible through the skin. What phrase in the English language derived its origin from this? 20. The Eastern European region of Silesia was known for its fine cloth. Eventua lly, so many low-quality imitations wound up on the market that Silesian turned into another word which means cheap and of shoddy nature. What's the new word? 21.In relation to crime fiction, what is common to the words 'chocolate box' and 'Norbury'? 22.What is common to the words 'Tacular', 'Mential' and 'Bariffs' ? 23.What is strange about these book titles: Hansard's guide to refreshing sle ep (19 vol's)and Modern Warfare by Gen. Tom Thumb? Answers 1.Two stuffed black cats for good luck. 2.The sufferer shows the same wounds suffered by Christ at the cross. 3.Harvey Wallbanger. 4.At the Stonehenge. 5.Ketchup. 6.Jack the Ripper's murders. 7.They were a ring of five spies in post war Britain : Philby, Blunt, Burgess, Blake and Cairncross; who spied for Russia. 8.Frank Lloyd Wright. He designed the Guggenheim. S&G made a song called 'So lon g Frank Lloyd Wright'. 9.Ted Turner. 10.The Victoria Cross. 11.He supposedly invented the doughnut hole. 12.It was the slogan of the anti-woman's lib movement.

13.They used to stand on their hats to look over walls and into windows which were above head level. 14.Candidate. 15.They were buried with a wooden stake through the heart. The superstition was that suicide victims became vampires. 16.Chocolate. 17.Escape. 18.Dr. Watson suffered a bullet wound during the Afghan campaign in which he par ticipated. In A Study in Scarlet, this wound is on his shoulder, but in The sign of four, it is on his leg. 19.Blue blood in reference to aristocrats. 20.Sleazy. 21.They were remainders of failure to Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes respect ively. Poirot asked his sidekick Capt. Hastings to mention the word Chocolate bo x whenever Poirot was becoming pompous or too sure of himself. Sherlock Holmes made a similar request to Dr. Watson, at the end of the story, Yellow Face. 22.They are all nonexistent words which were invented by George Bush Jr. in spee ches during his election campaigns. 23.They are both nonexistent books which adorned Charles Dickens' house and were used to cover certain parts of the wall which the author wished to conceal.