Time out EXTRA

who, what, where, when?

WHO... wrote the autobiographical novel La Fanfarlo?

WHAT... sort of creature is a rudd?

WHERE... is the largest of the Mariana Islands?

WHEN... in 1936 did the Jarrow march begin?

remember when... The following events all occurred in a year in living memory. Can you guess the year?

1. Julie Andrews was born

2. Charles Laughton starred in Mutiny On The Bounty

3. Hitler banned German-Jewish marriages

4. Clement Attlee became leader of the Labour party

impossipuzzles

Martin picked up the photo. “Your two teenage boys, eh? Fine looking kids,” he commented. “How old are they?”

“A teaser for you,” Nigel replied. “There’s also Susan, our youngest child. The sum of their three ages is one less than three times the age of the second child, and Susan is two years younger than half the age of the eldest.”

What were the three ages?

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

SUBTRIST

A Push in stealthily

B Roman under-garment C Somewhat sad

who am I?

An actor, I was born in Hackney, London in 1972. I played Stringer Bell in the HBO series The Wire. My films include Thor and Mandela: A Long Walk To Freedom.

10 questions

1. As reported in The Journal, the WWT Washington Wetland Centre is celebrating its first birth of what kind of chick in its 46 years?

2. In Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, those cities are London and which?

3. What was the nationality of the former F1 world champion Niki Lauda?

4. Thomas Hobbes wrote that ‘scientia potentia est’. What does this translate as?

5. The cast of which 1990s sitcom included Martin Clunes, Harry Enfield and Caroline Quentin?

6. If a creature is said to be ‘arboreal’, what is its natural habitat?

7. Plumbism is a poisoning of the human body due to absorption of what?

8. Hailing from the North East, who will present the first televised Prince’s Trust Awards this month?

9. Which tax was first levied on the United Kingdom in 1973?

10. What is a tarantella?