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Open Eye: Of course the answer was frumenty - you knew it all along. But a week into the new year, can you still remember the questions?

Discover how well (or otherwise) you did in the OU Christmas Challenge

Thursday 07 January 1999 00:02 GMT
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1 Michael Jones of Selly Oak who spent pounds 100,000 on legal fees fighting the Leylandii trees at the bottom of his garden (January).

2 Lord Irvine, justifying the pounds 59,000 bill of the wallpaper in his state apartments (March).

3 Dana International, Israel's transvestite entry for the 1998 Eurovision Song contest, on complaints from Orthodox Jews that her act was blasphemous (April).

4 Tony Peasley, member of the Coopers Hill Cheese Rolling Committee, held in secret at dawn after it was banned by Glos County Council (May).

5 Netta Reinberg, Octagenarian former captain of Middlesex Ladies on the vote held at Lords in order to force the admission of Women for the first time (Feb).

6 Charles Dickens - Pickwick Papers

7 Louisa M Allcott - Little Women

8 CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia

9 Laura Ingalls Wilder - The Little House in the Big Woods

10 Kenneth Graham - Christmas Underground

11 D H Lawrence - The Rainbow

12 F Kilvert - Diary

13 Dylan Thomas - A Child's Christmas in Wales

14 S.Pepys - Diary

15 M Bond - More about Paddington

16 She appeared in court after making a pudding for Eco Warriors at a road development site in Crystal Palace, whose names included Womble, Mouse and King Arthur

17 Incredibly enough his phone was alive with people blaming him for the El Nino weather phenomenon; One man blamed him for his daughter's loss of virginity while stranded in a storm

18 Butch and Sundance; Two Tamworth pigs, who escaped from an abbatoir and enjoyed several days high on the hog before being recaptured and saved by a national newspaper

19 Razorfish. Abnormally low tides left beds of the bivalves exposed to the feet of bathers

20 Sir Anthony Hopkins

21 Martin Bell MP

22 David Hempleman Adams

23 Cumbrian Tales

24 Marc Overmaars

25 Princess Margaret

26 Wassail

27 Frumenty, from which developed Christmas Pudding

28 The Prussians were besieging the city and the Communards were reduced to scavenging in the sewers and Zoo

29 East to West, in honour of the 3 wise men

30 Christmas crackers

31 Mistletoe

32 The Lord of Misrule

33 Speech

34 A full churchyard

35 Wrens

36 Italy

37 Christmas cards

38 Silent Night

39 Wales

40 Kent

41 Haxey, Lincs

42 Dewsbury

43 Christmas Berry or California Holly

44 Blood clotting will be altered (It's a type of haemophilia)

45 Abraham Lincoln

46 Last Christmas - Wham

47 Stop the Cavalry - Jona Lewie

48 Merry Christmas Everybody - Slade

49 A Winters Tale - David Essex

50 Christmas Rapping - The Waitresses

51 Toto

52 Herrings

53 Kingfisher

54 Delia Smith

55 Tomato

56 Queue

57 His Signature

58 Hours of Sunshine

59 Bakewell

60 St. Michael

61 Prefab Sprout

62 Primal Scream

63 Spin Doctors

64 Pink Floyd

65 Pinkerton's Assorted Colours

66 Lieutenant Pigeon

67 Judas Priest

68 Edinburgh

69 Cork

70 Barry

71 Dublin

72 Fear of Beards

73 Elvis Presley

74 Thomas Smith

75 Parking meters

76 T.S.Elliott

77 Nine Drummers, drumming

78 1880

79 The Goodies

80 The Lion King

81 Brian & Jimmy Greenhoff

82 Tombstone

83 Lancelot

84 Lacrimae Christie (Tears of Christ)

85 Didier Deschamps

86 Manchester (Trafford Centre)

87 Furby

88 Guernica

89 Angel of the North

90 Static Electricity

91 Rabbit

92 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse

93 206 Bones in the Body

94 66 Books in the Bible

95 6 Points on the Star of David

96 49 Numbers in the National Lottery

97 37 Plays by William Shakespeare

98 3 Coins in a Fountain

99 Isle of Man

100 Martin Luther (1530)

101 Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, Blitzen

102 Holland

103 USA

104 Switzerland

105 Sweden

106 Finland

107 Indiana

108 Pinata

109 Australia

110 The Glastonbury Thorn

111 A kiss, it's the Latin name for Mistletoe

112 Germany

113 France

114 12

115 Mr Blobby

116 The Angels

117 Michael Caine

118 Hannukah

119 Matthew and Luke

120 An ancient language, common where Jesus lived, and which He probably would have spoken

121 Caesar Augustus

122 Isaac Newton

123 George Washington and his troops

124 William the Conqueror

125 Bach

The OU Christmas Challenge was set by

Martin Heighway.

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