Time out EXTRA

who, what, where, when?

WHO wrote The Day of the Locust and A Cool Million?

WHAT water sport features sprints and slaloms?

WHERE is the Minch?

WHEN did Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman form the Yippies?

remember when...

The following events all occurred in a year in living memory.

Can you guess the year?

1. Australian prime minister Harold Holt was believed to have drowned

2. The Prisoner baffled TV viewers

3. Procol Harum’s Whiter Shade Of Pale was a UK No 1 single

4. The Beatles released the album Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

impossipuzzles

Today we have a Magic Square. That’s a sequence of consecutive positive numbers in a chessboard style formation, so that each row, each column, and each of the two diagonals will add up to the same Magic total: 50.

You only have to discover what the smallest and greatest numbers must be in this Magic Square.

wordwise The word may sound familiar, but what does it mean?

CHOLTRY

A. Shed used as a place of rest B. Low, deep laugh

C. Troupe of minstrels

who am I?

A singer, I was born in Exeter in 1977. I’m the lead singer of Coldplay. I married actress Gwyneth Paltrow in 2003. We divorced in 2016.

10 questions

1. Brass is an alloy of copper and what – zinc, aluminium or lead?

2. A bingo caller who says ‘dancing queen’ is referring to which number?

3. In music, how many semi-quavers are there in a minim?

4. The Vapours had a 1980 hit with a song called Turning what?

5. A Scots pine at which North East National Trust site had a reign as the UK’s tallest tree in the 2010s?

6. The capital of the Isle of Man is called what?

7. What was the pre-euro currency of Austria?

8. What is the literal meaning of crème brûlée?

9. Bessie Surtees is famous for eloping from Newcastle with a man who held which position?

10. Shirlee Crabtree found fame as a wrestler known as what?