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(1) Let’s return to my daily walk, a habit I hope to keep forever. All my destinations have names which begin with a ‘P’ and then immediately an ‘a’. First letter ‘P’; second letter ‘a’. Where are we going? | |
a) ITALIAN CITY THAT PRODUCES A LOT OF HAM, AND THE CHEESE I GRATE ON TO MY PASTA --PARMA | |
b) LONDON RAIL TERMINUS WHOSE PLATFORM 1 HAS A BEAR STATUE --PADDINGTON | |
c) ISLAND NATION WHOSE CARS HAVE STICKERS READING ‘PNG’ --PAPUA NEW GUINEA | |
d) FIRST MONOPOLY PROPERTY AFTER JAIL, OFTEN ADVANCED TO --PALL MALL | |
e) PRICEY MONOPOLY PROPERTY BETWEEN CHANCE AND SUPER TAX --PARK LANE | |
f) FLORIDA SEASIDE RESORT WITH COCONUT TREES AND BILLIONAIRES --PALM SPRINGS | |
g) CRICKETING COUNTRY WHICH ACQUIRED TEST STATUS IN 1952 --PANAMA | |
h) ATHENS TEMPLE WHICH USED TO BE HOME TO THE ELGIN MARBLES --PARTHENON | |
i) SILICON VALLEY CITY THAT NOT ONLY BEGINS ‘PA…’ BUT ALSO HAS THE INITIALS ‘P.A.’ --PALO ALTO | |
j) CITY SETTING FOR WEST END MUSICAL AMÉLIE --PARIS | |
(2) Here are some fictional children; who are the fictional fathers? And just to be clear, we’ve stopped doing the P&A thing... for now. | |
a) BALD DAD OF BARTHOLOMEW, LISA AND MARGARET --HOMER SIMPSON | |
b) ALABAMA LAWYER DAD OF JEM AND SCOUT --??? | |
c) UNDERPAID VICTORIAN CLERK DAD OF MARTHA, BELINDA, PETER AND, SMALLEST OF ALL, TIM --BOB CRATCHETT | |
d) AMITY ISLAND SHARK-HATING POLICEMAN DAD OF MICHAEL AND SEAN -- [Roy Schneider] | |
e) DAD OF LUKE AND FATHER-IN-LAW OF HAN --DARTH VADER | |
(3) Back to P&A. Here are ten people, all known by the initials PA. Who are they? | |
a) ‘PANTSDOWN’ --PADDY ASHDOWN | |
b) TRUE ROMANCE STAR; SISTER TO ROSANNA, ALEXIS AND DAVID -- | |
c) BBC GOLF COMMENTATOR WITH NAME VERY SIMILAR TO A LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE ACTOR --PETER ALICE | |
d) COTSWOLDS-BASED, SHE’S THE AUTHOR OF THE TIMELESS VERSE COLLECTION SOME OF ME POETRY --PAM AYRES | |
e) MAVERICK MEDIC MIRTHFULLY PLAYED ONSCREEN BY ROBIN WILLIAMS IN 1998 -- | |
f) AMERICAN IDOL JUDGE WHO SANG ‘OPPOSITES ATTRACT’ IN 1991 --PAULA ABDUL | |
g) THEATRICAL DAME WHO BAGGED A BAFTA FOR A PASSAGE TO INDIA -- | |
h) PORTRAYER OF FICTIONAL CALIFORNIA LIFEGUARD C.J. PARKER -- | |
i) SHE DOESN’T HAVE A SURNAME BECAUSE HER MUM’S A MONARCH --PRINCESS ANNE | |
j) AND HE WAS MARRIED TO ANOTHER MONARCH — UNTIL 1861 --PRINCE ALBERT | |
(4) Two things about Popes. There have been lots of Holy Fathers, and they come from all over the world – meaning there are some excellent papal names. The list below contains five of them, and also five that I’ve just made up. So it’s time to play: Pope Or Nope? | |
• POPE HYGINUS --NO | |
• POPE GERALD --NO | |
• POPE CHRISTIAN VII --YES | |
• POPE INNOCENT XIII --YES | |
• POPE SERIOUS III --NO | |
• POPE URBAN VIII --YES | |
• POPE HILLARY IV --NO | |
• POPE BONIFACE IX --YES | |
• POPE ADRIAN VI --YES | |
• POPE ECUMENICA II --NO | |
(5) Five different takes on fatherhood in five different films. Which films? | |
a) CALIFORNIAN DAD RECONNECTS WITH CHILDREN BY POSING AS BRITISH NANNY (Chris Columbus, 1993) --MRS DOUBTFIRE | |
b) IT’S THE PLOT OF HAMLET, BUT THERE ARE SONGS BY ELTON JOHN AND HORATIO IS A MANDRILL (Disney, 1994/2019) -- | |
c) A DAD LOSES HIS SON AND FOR SOME REASON ENLISTS AN AMNESIAC TO HELP LOCATE THE MISSING CHILD (Pixar, 2003) -- | |
d) THE GUY WHO PLAYED JAMES BOND IS THE FATHER OF THE GUY WHO PLAYED HAN SOLO (Steven Spielberg, 1989) -- | |
e) A DAD FINDS WORK-LIFE BALANCE CHALLENGING AND MISSES A DEADLINE IN LOCKDOWN-LIKE CONDITIONS (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) -- |
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