Here are the answers to last year's quiz.

1. in 1924:

1. Whence was a saint ousted, until 1991? [St Petersburg/Petrograd, became Leningrad.]
2. What, at Chamonix, would later be declared the first of its kind? [Winter Olympics]
3. Where did 125,000 become citizens all at once? [United States, Indian Citizenship Act]
4. Who did not write a letter ordering sedition in the United Kingdom? [Grigoriy Zinoviev]
5. What flew from Croydon to Purley, prompting a public inquiry? [de Havilland DH.34 G-EBBX of Imperial Airways, which crashed shortly after takeoff.]
6. Whose remote engine-stopper failed to impress the War Office, or anyone else? [Harry Grindell Matthews]
7. Who stayed for two months in a forbidden city? [Alexandra David-Néel, in Lhasa, disguised as a male pilgrim]
8. How would Lamont Jr, born in New York City, later be known on his one (gold-certified) record? [Lee Marvin]
9. Which actor was born, to die a hundred years later, best known for his two seasons on a children's educational programme? [William Russell Enoch, who played Ian Chesterton in Doctor Who.]
10. Who was born in Warsaw, who would later inspire a generation of computer-rendered art in the 1980s? [Benoit Mandelbrot]

2. [Cheeses]

1. What lost its abbey and convent to iconoclasm, which didn't help with the third wipers? [Passendale or Passchendaele]
2. What requires stinging nettles for authenticity? [Cornish Yarg]
3. Which Cambridgeshire village names a product that has never been made there? [Stilton]
4. Why might you wear protective goggles in Sardinia or Corsica? [Casu Marzu, cheese with live and jumping Piophila casei maggots]
5. What was first made from waste prpducts and no longer contains iron, though for a while its addition was mandated? [Brunost or mysost, Norwegian whey cheese]
6. Which brine-cured product takes its name from a Crusader city? [Akkawi, from Acre]
7. What so commonly passed on brucellosis that the disease became known as that country's fever, until an archaeologist put a stop to it? [Ġbejna, from Malta]
8. Where did the Westphals settle and borrow its name for their product, which is now produced in lots of other places but not there? [Tilsit, East Prussia; now Sovetsk in the Kaliningrad Oblast]
9. What was apparently not inspired in shape by Napoleon's explots in the Mediterranean, though it was invented at about the right time? [Pouligny-Saint-Pierre, pyramidal cheese from the 18th century]x
10. Where would you find arachnids as a vital ingredient? [Wurschwitz Mite Chees, or Milbenkäse]

3. Who [Earls]

1. fought in court for the underdog (in reality and in his books) and ended up a popular crossword answer? [Erle Stanley Gardner]
2. wrote Brown, Loving and Miranda? [Earl Warren]
3. ran away to Townes and plays with the Dukes? [Steve Earle]
4. was the second to be first, having changed party after a quarrel with his brother? [Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington. second British prime minister]
5. was praised by Dizzy and the Count, and spent several years as Mr Capone's piano man? [Earl Hines]
6. spent most of his career out of power and as a commoner, but dedicated to victory over France? [William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham]
7. popularised a banjo style, toured with Joan Baez and crashed his plane? [Earl Scruggs]
8. cost $79 million of damage in 1998, and $250 million in 2016? [Hurricane Earl]
9. probably didn't bigod the Duke of Wellington? [Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge (second creation)]
10. became a psychic prodigy after colliding with a tram, but opened the 20th century in depressingly widely repeated style? [Earle Nelson, first known serial sex murderer of the 20th century]

4. in 1774:

1. Who inherited a job from his father than he wouldn't pass on to his son? [Louis XVI of France]
2. Who named Palmerston, Caledonia and Norfolk? [James Cook aboard HMS Resolution]
3. What was discovered for the third time, though this time the discoverer published, and it wouldn't be named for another three years? [Oxygen, by Joseph Priestley]
4. Which popular Swedenborgian began his life in Leominster? [Johnny Appleseed; Leominster, Massachussetts]
5. Which Norfolk man arrived in the colonies to stir up trouble? [Thomas Paine]
6. Where did a town pick up and move out of the flood zone? [Martinsborough, later Greenville, North Carolina]
7. What law was introduced to prevent the tactical use of pads? [Leg Before Wicket]
8. Who was said to be helped to his eternal reward by a bilocating saint? [Pope Clement XIV, St. Alphonsus Liguori]
9. Where was a blockade started on account of the brown water? [Boston; the Boston Port Act closed the port until the customs duty on tea should be paid.]
10. Which future utopian and Balliol man got his start in the West Country? [Robert Southey]

5. [Eponymous Foods]

1. What would tempt Peter, the son of Jan? [Jansson's Temptation, a traditional Swedish casserole made of potatoes, onions, pickled sprats, bread crumbs and cream.]
2. What have both Shirley Temple and Arnold Palmer got? [Non alcoholic beverages named for them, in one case club soda, grenadine, and a maraschino cherry with a slice of lemon and a straw, and in the other half lemonade and half iced tea.]
3. What have a Roman emperor, an Indian Emperor and a Dutch painter in common? [Caesar, King Edward (VII) and Van Gogh are all types of potato.]
4. Who has undeserved eponymous credit for a culinary invention? [John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718–1792) did not invent the sandwich, which had been around for centuries before his name was put to it in 1762 or so]
5. Whose daughter was Tootsie and why was this important? [Leo Hirshfield's; he made confectionery, and the Tootsie Roll, named after his daughter, was the first individually wrapped candy in the USA.]
6. Who foolishly said that he was a cider drinker, and scored a Royal first? [The Prince William apple is the first cider apple ever named after a member of the royal family of Great Britain]
7. What intoxicating sticky sweet gained fame for the author of a book in which it is mentioned? [Alice B Toklas Hash Fudge, though it was not in fact her recipe and was called Haschich Fudge in the book she wrote.]
8. What is to Logan as Logan is to Boysen? [The raspberry and blackberry; they were crossed to make the loganberry, then it was crossed with both to make the boysenberry.]
9. What oleracea gave its name to one of the families who took it with them to America? [Broccoli]
10. Whose big heart was briefly commemorated as a confection, though in the end it would kill him? [Al Smith, unsuccessful presidential candidate in 1928; "Big Hearted Al" candy bar was named that by a supporter, but he died of a heart attack in 1944.]

6. Who [Claimants to be the Messiah]

1. was told by Adam and Eve that sex was the root of all evil, and was considered to be all the perfection of God? [Ann Lee of the Shakers]
2. fought the spread of communism in Asia, but funded North Korea's nuclear bomb programme? [Sun Myung Moon]
3. severed Mary's arm with a hammer? [Laszlo Toth]
4. sang in the style of Jacques Brel and later sold human cloning? [Claude Vorilhon aka "Rael"]
5. expanded on self-taught chiropractic with winter lake bathing, and incorrectly prophesied that he would become president? [Ante Pavlović]
6. worked as a clerk, then reinvented himself as a Knight of Malta among other things? [John Nichols Thom or Tom, aka Sir William Courtenay]
7. had visions after failing an exam and eventually started a 14-year war that killed at least twenty million? [Hong Xiuquan, the Taiping Rebellion]
8. turned the world inside-out after an alchemical shock? [Cyrus Reed Teed]
9. was sacked from the BBC, joined the Greens, and then went turquoise? [David Icke]
10. moved from acupuncture to Taoism to extortion to chemical warfare? [Shoko Asahara, born Chizuo Matsumoto, founder of Aum Shinrikyo ]

7. Bodies of Water

1. For what is there no light at the end of the tunnel? [Alph, the Sacred River, in "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge]
2. What body of water would have given hope to Noah? [The River Dove]
3. Would one of those set one of these, at an Oxbridge college? [Rivers Don and Test.]
4. What did Beatrix Potter buy in 1929 before selling half to the National Trust? [Tarn Hows]
5. You would be unlikely to encounter one of these in this, though it might be all around it. [Ling in the River Ling and on its banks]
6. Where has a god associated with thieves received a valuable gift from the Empress of Japan? [Mercury pond, Tom Quad, Christ Church, Oxford; a huge koi carp]
7. Where did George's shirt end up, much to George's chagrin and everyone else's mirth? [The river Thames, Three Men in a Boat]
8. Where did a wizard, a goblin and a firefly forgather for a working holiday? [Secret Water, Arthur Ransome]
9. To do this would be more likely for an eagle than for one answer. [The river Soar]
10. Where would you be when the steward fell in the soup tureen? [In the Kipling poem "50 North and 40 West"; much where the Titanic sank.]

8. in 2024:

1. Which former president, and murderer of another president, died in office as a senator? (All of the same country.) [Prince Yormie Johnson of Liberia]
2. Where did the banner no longer wave after the loss of a supporting pier? [Francis Scott Key Bridge, Baltimore]
3. How was a letter permanently removed to make ZZ? [Death of Jim Abraham of Zucker-Abraham-Zucker, or ZAZ]
4. Which UK political party, having failed to negotiate an alliance with the Greens, was dissolved by a popular vote of its members? [Women's Equality Party]
5. What British charity, founded in 1987, closed after the government stopped paying it to lobby the government? [Inter Faith Network.]
6. Where was a larger-than-expected conurbation from 500BCE discovered? [Upano Valleu, Ecuador]
7. Where did ingenuity finally fail? [Valinor Hills, Mars]
8. Which UK television channel closed down with a mendacious announcement that it would be back soon? [Viaplay Xtra]
9. Who was forced to call a halt after 28 studio albums, the last to chart having been released in 1979? [Melanie]
10. Whose soldiers marching towards a war memorial entered the public domain? [Will Longstaff, Menin Gate at Midnight]