For those reading this on a page, I'll repeat the outstanding uestions. Remember, this was Christmas 1998, some of the questions may have been more topical that year (3,5, &13). 16 is musical!
2.       Connect Audrey Hepburn, Tintin, Waterloo, George Le Gloupier and septante-deux.
3.       Why won't the new £2 coin roll properly?
5.       How were muscardirzus avellanarius and gryllotalpa gryllotalpa, or cypripedium calceolus and segmentina nitida, each equivalent to boletus satanas?
7.       Name the third Monday in February, the last Monday in May, the first Monday in September, the second Monday in October, and the fourth Thursday in November.
10.       Explain how...   
    (b)       A differentiated Mancunian is a Glaswegian or a Cantabrigian.
11.       Norway nil points — but when, where, who and with what?
12.       Distinguish between the Lord Advocate, the Lord Justice-Clerk, the Lord Justice-General, the Lord Ordinary and the Lord President.
13.       How are Severn, Aust and Kingsgate one above Parson's Pleasure, Swanscombe, and Zoo West?
14.       Complete the sequence — arms, thistle, leek, flax, oak, arms, thistle, leek, flax, oak, arms, lion, dragon,
15.       Why might Scouts be particularly drawn to Aston Villa Football Club, Merchiston Castle School or the Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside?
16.       Why did two lost children need fourteen angels?
18.       This year's cipher owes much to M. Mot-clé de Tableau, a sixteenth-century French cryptographer.
GPAZF SUTBZ ARHRL IVXJO IVYWP QGZWE UUOGL SBWLX WSQWE.
19.       For their winter expedition, the Venture Scouts are contemplating a five point hike in which they will visit (in any convenient order) the villages of Norton, Sutton, Easton, Weston and Middleton. Where in Great Britain is the shortest route meeting these requirements? (Any entrants who actually complete such a hike themselves may claim bonus marks.)
20.       Say it with flowers —
Sir Percy Blakeney, The Scarlet Pimpernel
Sheffield Park to Horsted Keynes, The Bluebell Line
Sebastian's sister,
Nobody's son,
a New Year football game,
a careless baby farmer, Buttercup
the fall of Caetano,
the reign of Ahmed III, The Tulip Age
the Vicar of Wakefield,
and the belle of Dogpatch USA. Daisy Mae