Rabbit and pork 1. Victoria Beckham; 2. Mr John Prescott (to Sir Christopher Meyer, the former ambassador to Washington, who had published some indiscreet memoirs);
3. President Jacques Chirac of France (on the self-sacrifice of new EU members during negotiations); 4. President George Bush (of Mr Jean-Claude Juncker, the Prime Minister of Luxembourg); 5. Mrs Cherie Blair; 6. Mr George Galloway (during a visit to Syria); 7. Mr Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality; 8. Prince Harry (of the Duchess of Cornwall, their new stepmother); 9. Pope John Paul II (his last words); 10. Mr Gordon Brown (in September).
Painted acrostic: BRANDY BUTTER 1. Sandro Botticelli; 2. Peter Paul Rubens;
3. Pietro Annigoni; 4. William Nicholson;
5. Richard Dadd; 6. Jack Yeats; 7. Francis Bacon; 8. Paolo Uccello; 9. J.M.W. Turner;
10. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo; 11. Jan van Eyck; 12. Pierre Auguste Renoir.
Rings a bell 1. Harry Dacre ('Daisy Bell', 1892); 2. Shane MacGowan and Jem Finer ('A Fairy Tale of New York', 1987); 3. Clive Erard, Ross Parker and Tommie Connor ('Hang on the Bell, Nellie (Curfew Shall not Ring Tonight)', 1949) 4. Bob Geldof and Midge Ure ('Do They Know It's Christmas?', 1984); 5. E.Y. Harburg ('Ding, Dong! The Witch is Dead', from The Wizard of Oz, 1939); 6. Harry Lauder and Gerald Grafton ('I Love a Lassie', 1906);
7. Bob Dylan ('Ring them Bells'; from Oh Mercy, 1989); 8. Chuck Berry ('Johnny B. Goode', 1955); 9. Dick Manning ('Three Bells', 1959;
original French words by Bert Reisfeld);
10. Rudyard Kipling ('Mandalay', 1890).
Capitalism 1. Topeka; 2. Carlisle; 3. St Petersburg;
4. Ankara; 5. The Plate; 6. Washington;
7. Aragon; 8. Florence; 9. Cracow;
10. Greenland.
Think of a number 1. Ellen MacArthur, sailing single-handed round the world; 2. Snails; 3. The Grand National; 4. Labour (the Conservatives getting 32.3 per cent); 5. The Conservatives (Labour getting 9,556,183); 6. Six million (5,982,045); 7. 142; 8. Dry cleaners; 9. Three thousand; 10. The Humber.
On the day 1. Queen Victoria, Letter to the King of the Belgians, 1861; 2. Samuel Pepys, Diary, 1668;
3. Frederick Bettesworth, 1901, in Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer by George Bourne;
4. Alan Clark, Diaries, 1985; 5. Jonathan Swift, Journal to Stella, 1712; 6. Barbara Pym, Diary, 1934; 7. W.E. Gladstone, Diary, 1888;
8. Benjamin Disraeli, Letter, 19 December 1873; 9. Sydney Smith, Letter, 20 December 1840; 10. Horace Walpole, Letter, 30 December 1773.
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