The name game

Hidden in the grid is the name of a film director. Answer the questions, then rearrange the letters corresponding to your answers to fill in the name.

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BOX1: What is the oldest continuously operating university in Europe?

University of Oxford (B) University of

Montpellier (X) University of Bologna (E) BOX2: What nationality was the 18th-century zoologist and botanist Carl Linnaeus?

Swedish (Z)

German (D)

Danish (S)

BOX3: What was the name of Geoffrey Palmer’s character in the TV sitcom As Time Goes By?

Ben Parkinson (O)

Lionel Hardcastle (R) Jimmy Anderson (P)

BOX4: In Greek mythology, which nymph was transformed into the reeds that became the first pan pipes? Syrinx (C)

Electra (Y)

Arethusa (Z)

BOX5: In what year was the Japanese spacecraft known as IKAROS launched?

1990 (I)

2000 (G)

2010 (N)

BOX6: In 1967, Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to run which marathon as a numbered entry? Vancouver Marathon (D) New York Marathon (Y) Boston Marathon (K)

BOX7: How many players are there on a water polo team? Five (W)

Seven (Y)

Nine (A)

BOX8:

Which of these is a Hunter S Thompson novel? Terror and Hatred in

Los Angeles (M) Fear and Loathing in

Las Vegas (S)

Peril and Animosity

in La Jolla (G)

BOX9:

Garry Kasparov is a former world champion in which of the following? Tennis (Z)

Golf (E)

Chess (A)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Irish Mirror

BOX10: Mark Kermode (pictured) co-hosted a long-running film review show on BBC Radio 5 Live with which broadcaster? Simon Mayo (D)

Justin Webb (X)

Chris Evans (N)