Clues for the 1999 quotations quiz
1. "Ouchi!" yelled the umpire with great gusto.
By someone who went to a Gilbertian island, but not Utopia.
2. "Saunders, do you know what Dr Aberford means by the lower classes?"
His only famous novel is historical. This is not it.
3. 'Our beloved sister, Diana... her unfinished work which she now can
never finish...'
For once, the plants were not really to blame.
4. Sweet poet, hired for birthday rhymes.
This often describes a type of Motion.
5. "Diddle, diddle, diddle, diddle, dum, dum, dum: hasn't he got
lovely legs?"
All gas and gaiters.
6. Do you realise the magnitude of the fixed stars?
A tale of politics, revolt and cannibalism.
7. In the meantime the Pyrot case, having been presented to the
Supreme Court...
French birds are involved.
8. THE DOME.
Somewhere between Yorkshire and Belgium.
9. Disappointingly, no-one knows why it is called the Devil's
Dyke.
There's a chiel among ye taking notes.
10. ...the pure mathematicians are perhaps the guiltiest of the
lot...
The author later became Master of a Cambridge college.
11. There is to be a twenty-year ban on novels set in Oxford or
Cambridge...
More French birds, but these ones are dead.
12. 'No,' said Professor Finniston. 'All our departments got
daggers.'
A now-retired academic.
J.R.P. 26/7/99