How did you get on? .... Winnie the Pooh and friends, from The Best Bear in All the World (see 16.4). Photograph: Egmont Publishing

1 Jess Willard (the Pottawatomie Giant, lost world heavyweight title fight to Jack Dempsey, the Manassa Mauler/Kid Blackie) 2 Ignacy Jan Paderewski (prime minister of Poland) 3 Somerset Maughams The Moon and Sixpence 4 Suzanne Lenglens (La Divine) at Wimbledon 5 John Alcock and Arthur Brown (from Winston Churchill following transatlantic flight) 6 HMY Iolaire (hit Beasts of Holm off Stornoway, 201 servicemen drowned) 7 The Childrens Newspaper (Arthur Mee) 8 Death of Prince John (their fifth son, aged 13) 9 Theodore Roosevelts (Speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far) 10 Nancy Astor (succeeded her husband as MP for Plymouth in byelection)

1 Patrick Gordon (1635-99) 2 Croagh Patrick 3 Sir Patrick Cullens (George Bernard Shaw, The Doctors Dilemma) 4 Fino San Patricio (Garvey, Jerez) 5 Sir Patrick Spens 6 Patrick OBrian (Aubrey and Maturin in Master and Commander) 7 Patrick Sellar (Highland Clearances) 8 Percy FitzPatrick (Jock of the Bushveld) 9 Patrick Pearse (St Endas/Scoil anna) 10 Patrick Kavanagh (The Great Hunger)

1 Thomas Bond (Jack the Ripper, murderer of Mary Jane Kelly) 2 Francis Camps (Erle Stanley Gardner. The Case of the Duplicate Daughter) 3 John Glaister Junior (Buck Ruxton murders) 4 David Bowen 5 Alec Jeffreys (Colin Pitchfork, Narborough, 1983) 6 Paul Uhlenhuths (Ludwig Tessnow, Rugen, 1901) 7 Donald Teare 8 Keith Simpsons (Mrs Durand-Deacon, victim of John George Haigh, acid bath murderer) 9 Bernard Knights (Karen Price, Cardiff, 1989) 10 Sir Bernard Spilsbury (Operation Mincemeat deception, 1943)

1 Count Jovian (John Buchan, The House of the Four Winds) 2 Count Paris (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet) 3 Count Ribbing (Giuseppe Verdi, Un Ballo in Maschera) 4 Count Joseph Dumoulin (consul-general of Swedish Pomerania in CS Forester, The Commodore) 5 Count Fosco (Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White) 6 Count Vronsky (Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina) 7 Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas, Edmond Dants) 8 Count Folke Bernadotte 9 Count Orgaz (El Greco) 10 Count Basie (Earl Hines and Duke Ellington)

1 Van Houtens cocoa 2 Wonkas Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight (Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) 3 La Cleste Praline (Joanne Harris, Chocolat) 4 Anthon Berg 5 Frys 6 Henri Nestl (Daniel Peter) 7 Drostes (Jan Missets Nurse) 8 My chocolate cream soldier (George Bernard Shaw, Arms and the Man, act III) 9 Thorntons 10 Ritter Sport

1 Lord Jesuss (hymn) 2 Cameron Highlands, Malaya (Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists) 3 Maud (Alfred Lord Tennyson, Maud) 4 Hatton Garden 5 Letchworth Garden City 6 Mr McGregors (Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit) 7 Misselthwaite Manor (Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden) 8 Percy French (song, Come Home Paddy Reilly) 9 TE Brown (My Garden) 10 Johnny Crows (Leonard Leslie Brooke, Johnny Crows Garden)

1 Cheltenham (John Betjeman) 2 Dursley (Dursley and Midland Junction Railway) 3 Berkeley Castle (Christopher Marlowe, Edward II) 4 Lechlade 5 Gloucester (Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester) 6 Chipping Campden 7 Tewkesbury (King Edward IV) 8 Slad (Laurie Lee, Cider with Rosie) 9 Fairford (St Marys Church) 10 Stow-on-the-Wold

1 Jos Canalejas (November 1912) 2 Joselito (Jos Gmez Ortega, matador, May 1920) 3 Pope Calixtus III (Alfons de Borja) 4 Alfonso XI (The Avenger, 1350) 5 Sancho II (Zamora, 1072) 6 Felipe II (singed beard in Cadiz by Drake, 1587) 7 Francisco Goya, Enrique Granados (Goyescas) 8 Santiago Ramn y Cajal (Nobel prize, 1906) 9 Tio Pepe (Gonzales Byasss Fino sherry, Uncle Joe) 10 El Bilbanito (CS Forester, The Gun)

1 Midshipman Hornblower (CS Forester) 2 Horn of Plenty (fungus) 3 The Golden Horn (GK Chesterton, Lepanto) 4 East Hohenhrn (Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands) 5 Battle of Little Bighorn 6 Weisshorn (John Tyndall, physicist, August 1861) 7 Horning (Arthur Ransome, Coot Club) 8 Horncastle (William Marwood, hangman) 9 The cow with the crumpled horn (This is the House that Jack Built) 10 Hornbill

1 Henry Purcells (Dido and Aeneas) 2 Jeremiah Clarke (Prince of Denmarks March, aka Trumpet Voluntary) 3 Thomas Arne (Ariels Where the bee sucks, there suck I, The Tempest) 4 Hubert Parry (Jerusalem) 5 Edward Elgar (Nimrod, Augustus Jaeger) 6 Ralph Vaughan-Williams (Down Ampney, hymn tune, after Bianco da Siena) 7 Gustav Holsts, Thaxted (Jupiter) 8 Benjamin Britten (Noyes Fludde) 9 William Waltons (Belshazzars Feast) 10 Arthur Sullivans (with WS Gilbert at the Savoy. The Grand Duke or The Statutory Duel)

1 Malgudi (RK Narayan, Swami and Friends) 2 New Delhi (Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger) 3 Madras (Edward Lear, The Book of Nonsense) 4 Simla (Rudyard Kipling, Kim) 5 Allahabad (Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days) 6 Agra (Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four) 7 Calcutta (Patrick OBrian, HMS Surprise) 8 Darjeeling (Nel Coward, I Wonder What Happened to Him) 9 Bombay (EM Forster, A Passage to India) 10 Jhansi (Christina Rossetti, poem, The Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857)

1 Dram, Armenia 2 Rand, South Africa (Mary Rand Olympic gold in 1964 long jump) 3 Pula, Botswana 4 Sucre, Ecuador 5 Cordoba, Nicaragua 6 Lek, Albania 7 Birr, Ethiopia (telescope The Leviathan of Parsonstown) 8 Quetzal, Guatemala 9 Dong, Vietnam (Edward Lear) 10 Coln, Costa Rica

1 Lake Baikal (Baikal Teal/bimaculate duck) 2 Toplitzsee (Nazi forgeries of UK bank notes) 3 Lake Peipus (Alexander Nevsky, 5 April 1242) 4 Lac Lman (Lord Byron, The Prisoner of Chillon) 5 Lake Maggiore (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms) 6 Lake Como (August Strindberg, Frken Julie) 7 Loch Morar (monster) 8 Loch Maree (Botulism, August 1922) 9 Lough Neagh (legend of Finn McCool creating the Isle of Man) 10 Lake Trasimeno (Hannibal v Flaminius 217BC)

1 Raidillon (Spa-Francorchamps, watchmaker since 2001) 2 Interlagos (Brazil, Bico do Pato, Mergulho) 3 Mistral (Le Castelet, Circuit Paul Ricard, France) 4 Remus (Red Bull, Spielberg, Austria) 5 Tosa (Imola, San Marino/Italy) 6 Monza (Italy, Vialone became Ascari) 7 Beckets (Silverstone) 8 Massenet (Monaco, premiere of opera Don Quichotte) 9 Knickerbrook (Oulton Park) 10 Tarzanbocht (Zandvoort, Holland)

1 Ind Coope (Double Diamond slogan) 2 Crosse and Blackwell 3 Holland and Holland (gunsmiths) 4 Winsor and Newton (paint brushes) 5 Patek Philippe (Calibre 89, celebrating 150 years since foundation) 6 Parker Knoll 7 Williams and Humbert (sherry) 8 Bryant and May (imported matches from Sweden) 9 Ratsey and Lapthorn (sailmakers, Cowes) 10 C and A (Clemens and August Brenninkmeijer, Sneek)

1 Manhood Hundred (Selsey, within the Rape of Chichester) 2 Hundredweight (112lb in UK, 100lb in US) 3 Chiltern Hundreds 4 Hundred Acre Wood (AA Milne, The House at Pooh Corner) 5 The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014 film) 6 One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garca Mrquez) 7 Hundred Year Hall (two CD live album by the Grateful Dead, following Jerry Garcias death) 8 The Hundred Years war (Battle of Castillon) 9 WG Grace scored his hundredth hundred in 1st class cricket. 10 Your Hundred Best Tunes (1997 and 2003)

1 Tavistock (The Adventure of Silver Blaze) 2 North Walsham (The Adventure of the Dancing Men) 3 Shoscombe (The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place) 4 Mackleton (The Adventure of the Priory School) 5 Waterloo (The Adventure of the Crooked Man) 6 Forest Row (The Adventure of Black Peter) 7 Charing Cross (The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez) 8 Winchester (The Adventure of the Copper Beeches) 9 Chislehurst (The Adventure of the Abbey Grange) 10 Canterbury (The Adventure of the Final Problem)

1 Shane Long (scoring quickest goal in Premier League history for Southampton v Watford) 2 Jack Leach (92 runs in Test Match v Ireland) 3 Volodymyr Zelensky (president of Ukraine, following TV series Servant of the People) 4 Norwich Cathedral (George Irvins Helter Skelter) 5 George Mendonsas, (The Kissing Sailor, has died aged 95) 6 Unveiling of statue of Regis, Cunningham and Batson in West Bromwich 7 New Australian 50 dollar note (responsibilty) 8 Franky Zapata (Channel crossing by hoverboard) 9 Abdication of Emperor Akihito and accession of Naruhito to chrysanthemum throne 10 Denbigh plum

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