Hi

Just realised that I never really finished this one and I'm feeling a bit guilty.

For the first time, you didn't finish all the questions - though you got pretty much the lot for 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10.

Nobody seems to have got near #4 and you didn't really finish #3 and #7. Here's my bit for them.

3. Jenny Lind apparently stopped singing Opera in favour of popular songs "For Religious Reasons" (don't ask me what they could be)!

4. The answer is Geordie Mackintyre (or "The Muckin' o' Geordie's Byre"). Denis Murphy adopted the tune so that, in Kerry, it was known as "Denis Murphy's Slide". The same tune is also the basis of "Westering Home".

7. Topaz was justly famous for his appaling poetry. So much so that he is still regarded as the world's worst poet.

Cheers!
Ian