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Answers revealed of The Oldie Christmas Gift Guide Quiz by Marcus Berkmann

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ANSWERS TO CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE QUIZ by MARCUS BERKMANN. And the answers are...

1. Homer’s Odyssey.
(It had the original catalogue number ‘L1’.)


2. Henry VII.
(Henry Tudor also acceptable.)


3. Yes he is.
(Released in September 2016.)


4. Jeremy Hunt.


5. St James’s Palace.


6. John Keats.


7. Albert Campion.


8. Redbridge.
(On the Central Line.)


9. 1 AD.


10. The ARA General Belgrano.


11. Edward I.


12. The Leaning Tower of Pisa.


13. Pentagons.


14. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

(Booker for Heat and Dust, Oscars for A Room With A View and Howards End.)

15. A dagger.


16. They need more anaesthetic.


17. Ronald Reagan.

(Nancy Davis.)


18. Horses.


19. Dick Van Dyke.


20. Murder on the Orient Express.