Time out EXTRA

who, what, where, when?

WHO wrote the classic Gothic novel Vathek?

WHAT is nitrous oxide more familiarly known as?

WHERE is Mount Vinson the highest mountain?

WHEN did Oswald become king of Northumbria?

remember when...

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

Can you guess the year?

1. Roger Moore made his debut as James Bond in Live And Let Die

2. Last of the Summer Wine was first broadcast

3. The Simon Park Orchestra had a UK No 1 single with Eye Level

4. Spain’s Prime Minister Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco was assassinated

impossipuzzles

“How old am I?” Doreen asked.

“I’ve got no idea,” replied Tommy.

“Well, you can figure it out yourself,” his aunt told him. “I’m just one year older than eight times the total of the two digits of my age.”

How old was she?

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

A. Medieval visor

B. Open skin boat crewed by women

C. Garment fashioned from the skin of a seal

who am I?

An actor, I was born in Barking in 1964. My first credited TV performance was as Graham Lodsworth in Emmerdale Farm in 1986. I played Grant Mitchell in EastEnders.

10 questions on... children’s literature

1. Where did the fable writer Aesop live?

2. Wendy Darling is a character in which children’s tale?

3. Who is the North East-born writer of Skelling, Clay and The Tightrope Walkers?

4. Who wrote The Wind in the Willows?

5. Which member of the Royal Family wrote The Old Man of Lochnagar?

6. Which novel tells the story of a pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider?

7. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, does Dorothy meet the tin man, scarecrow or lion first?

8. Set in Gateshead in the 1990s, The Season Ticket by Jonathan Tulloch was made into a film called what?

9. Scatterbrook Farm is the home of which character?

10. The text of which book by Dr Seuss consists of just 50 words?