QUESTIONS

Q : Without any other balls on the table, what is the maximum number of cushions that the cue ball can hit with a single shot?

Ian E. Mitchell, Batley, West Yorks.

Q : Sticking plasters were invented in 1920 by a Johnson & Johnson employee. Yet Captain Marryat, in Mr Midshipman Easy, published in 1836, refers to his local doctor asking ‘Have you such a thing as a sticking plaster in the house?’ What might this have been?

Chris Meadowcroft, York.

Q : What is an urban village?

G. Bishop, Lancing, W. Sussex.