okthen: just for you, the full set of answers (as quoted by the setter). I'm sure you can see why he has only had 2 all correct sets in 26 years!

1, Melbourne and Suzuka hosted the first and last races of the 1998 Grand Prix season
2, The five to connect were all Belgian. Audrey Hepburn was a film actress born in Brussels (to an English father and a Dutch mother), Tintin is a cartoon character created by Hergé (Georges Rémi), the battlefield of Waterloo is about 16 kilometres (10 miles) south of Brussels, Le Gloupier (Noel Godin) is an entarteur who attacks his well-known victims with 'custard pies', and septante-deux is the Walloon dialect version of the classic French soixantedouze.
      3, The design on the reverse of the new £2 coin shows 19 cog wheels in a ring - since they must rotate alternately clockwise and anticlockwise, an even number are needed for rotation. It was also pointed out the rugby ball on the 1999 coin won't roll properly either!
         4, Ground floor.., perfumery, stationery and leather goods, wigs and haberdashery, kitchenware and food. First floor.., telephones, gents' ready-made suits, shirts, socks, ties, hats, underwear and shoes, according to the Are You Being Served? signature tune         
5, The 'endangered species' stamps issued in January 1998 depicted muscardinus avellanarius (2Op) and gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (43p), and cypripedium calceolus (26p) and segmentina nitida (37p), each pair totalling boletus satanas (63p).
                   6, labels related to pairs of saints. St. Catherine of Alexndria died in 310, broken on a wheel, and St. Catherine of Siena, preacher and peacemaker, died in 1380. St. Thomas Becket, Archbishop and Chancellor, died in 1170 on the orders of Henry II, while St. Thomas More, Chancellor, died in 1535 on the orders of Henry VIII. St. Augustine of Canterbury, first Archbishop of Canterbury, died in 604, but St. Augustine of Hippo, who died in 430, prayed for chastity 'but not just yet'. St. Teresa of Avila died in 1582 after founding many nunneries, and St. Thérèse of Lisieux died young in 1897, and is credited with many miracles. St. James the Just, the brother (or perhaps the cousin) of Jesus, was the first Bishop of Jerusalem and died in 62, while St. James the Great, who died in 43, was the brother of John (and son of Zebedee) and one of 'the twelve'.
               7, In almost all of the United States of America — practice varies from state to state — the third Monday in February is observed as Washington's Birthday or Presidents' Day, the last Monday in May as Memorial Day, the first Monday in September as Labor Day, the second Monday in October as Columbus Day or Discovery Day, and the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
             8, Bruichladdich, Lagavulin and Laphroaig are 'single malt' Whiskies from lslay, Glenfiddich, Knockando and Macallan are Speyyside malts, and Fettercairn, Glencadam and Lochside are Highland malts from the Glenesk area.
      9, Ghost, Phantom, Wraith, Dawn, Cloud, Shadow, Spirit, Spur and Seraph are all Rolls-Royce models, all except Phantom were or are prefixed by 'Silver'. Several readers offered the alternative answer that the Silver Seraph (the newest model) will be the first not to be powered by a Rolls-Royce engine, and were also awarded full marks.
             10, In electricity, potential difference divided by current gives resistance, the standard units for these three quantities are the volt (named after Alessandro Volta, Italian), the ampere (André-Marie Ampere, French) and the ohm (Georg Ohm, German). The standard unit of energy is the joule, named after James Joule, a Manchester brewer. Energy may be differentiated with respect to time to give power, normally measured in watts (James Watt, Glasgow) or with respect to displacement to obtain force, the unit of which is the newton (Isaac Newton, Cambridge). A temperature of 273 Kelvin (Lord Kelvin, who moved from Ulster to Scotland) is equal to 32~ Fahrenheit (Gabriel Fahrenheit, born in Poland but Dutch by adoption). It is also equal to 0 Celsius (Anders Celsius) and 0 Réaumur (René de Réaumur), so we might have added 'no Swedes or Frenchmen' to the question.
11, Norway nil points — most notoriously when Jahn Teigen's performance of Mil Etter Mil scored no points in the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest, in Paris. However, the Norwegian entry has in fact scored no points on three other occasions. Anita Thallaug's Solherv (London, 1963), Finn Kalvik's Alsri i livet (Dublin, 1981) and Tor Endresen's San Francisco (Dublin, 1997) achieved the same distinction. Austria, Spain and Switzerland have each scored no points three times, and several countries have done so once or twice.
            12, In the Scots legal system, the Lord Advocate (presently Lord Hardie) is Her Majesty's principal law officer in Scotland, the Lord Justice-Clerk (Lord Cullen) is the second most senior judge and leads the Second Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session, the Lord Justice-General (Lord Rodger) is the most senior judge and leads the High Court of Justiciary in criminal cases, the Lord Ordinary is the title given to a judge sitting at first instance in serious cases and the Lord President is the same person as the Lord Justice-General but so titled when leading the First Division of the Inner House in civil cases.
    13, How are Severn, Aust and Kingsgate one above Parson's Pleasure, Swanscombe and Zoo West? . In May 1998, ten post war bridges were officially named as 'listed' buildings. These included the Severn Bridge, the Aust Viaduct and the Kingsgate Footbridge in Durham, all listed as Grade I, and footbridges at Parson's Pleasure (Oxford), Swanscombe (Ashford, Kent) and London Zoo, listed as Grade II.
14, The sequence — arms, thistle, leek, flax, oak, arms, thistle, leek, flax, oak, arms, lion, dragon... continues with cross, leopards (or lions), arms and lion — these are the annual £1 coin designs from 1983 to 1999 inclusive.
          15, Scouts (whose motto is Be Prepared) might be particularly drawn to Aston Villa Football Club (motto Prepared), Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh (Ready Ay Ready) or the Metropolitan Borough
of South Tyneside (Always Ready).
    16, In Humperdinck's opera HAnsel und Gretel the children's evening song explains that the 14 angels keep watch — two at the head, two at the feet, two on the right, two on the left, two to cover, two to wake, and two to lead the children to heaven. (The usual English translation has the sixth pair hovering, but full credit was given for either answer.)
17, We ordered these historical and legendary figures as follows — Wenceslas (charitable giving, 925?), Bishop Hatto (eaten by mice, 970), Erik the Red (discovered Greenland, 982), Brian Boru (made High King, 1002), Macbeth (became King, 1040), Godiva (rode naked, 1050?), William the Conqueror (won at Hastings, 1066), Hereward (led rebellion, 1070), El Cid (took Valencia, 1094), Omar Khayyam (wrote Rubaiyat, 1110?), Cadfael (solved murders, 1140?), Prester John (wrote letter, 1165), Robin Hood (ruled Sherwood, 1194), Genghis Khan (captured Peking, 1215), Llywellyn (ruled all Wales, 1254), Marco Polo (visited China, 1271), Pied Piper (freed Hamelin of rats, 1284), William Tell (resisted Austrians, 1307), Geoffrey Chaucer (wrote Canterbury Tales, 1388), Dick Whittington (became Lord Mayor, 1397). Most readers agreed with this, but other orders were given full credit if convincingly argued.
             18, The best known French cryptographer of the 16th was probably Blaise de Vigenère. We hoped (often wrongly, as it turned out) that readers would deduce from the reference to M. Mot-clé de Tableau that the cipher was based on a Vigenère tableau with keyword (mot-clé) BLAISE. (A detailed explanation of the standard cipher procedure can be found in encyclopaedias and other reference books.) The message reads — FEAR NOT I BRING GLAD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY TO ALL PEOPLE.
                19, We asked for the shortest hiking route visiting (in any convenient order) the villages of Norton, Sutton, Easton, Weston and Middleton, and decided to treat as a village for this purpose any group of buildings large enough to be named on Landranger maps, but to exclude compound names such as Norton Disney and Sutton-on-the-Fosse. On this basis, the shortest verifiable route was in Shropshire, starting at Easton (805464,11 kilometres (7 miles) south of Ludlow) and going via Middleton (S05469), Norton (806382) and Sutton (S07286) to Weston (805992, 11.6 kilometres (8 miles) west of Bridgnorth), a walking distance of about 48 kilometres (30 miles). Had we allowed compound names, a much shorter route runs from East Norton (SK7800, 16 kilometres (10 miles) east of Leicester) via Great Easton (SP8493), Middleton (SP8390) and Weston by Welland (SP779 1) to Sutton Bassett (SP7790, 4.5 kilometres (3 miles) north-east of Market Harborough) and totals only 24 kilometres (15 miles). No one claimed the bonus marks for actually walking their route!
          20, Sir Percy Blakeney was the Scarlet Pimpernel, Sheffield Park and Horsted Keynes are the termini of the Bluebell Railway Sebastian's sister in Twelfth Night is Viola, the writer's son in Diary of a Nobody is Lupin Pooter, New Year sees the Rose Bowl football game in Pasadena, a careless baby-farmer might have been Little Buttercup (HMS Pinafore), the fall of Caetano was the result .of Portugal's Carnation Revolution, the reign of Ahmed III was known as the Tulip Age, the Vicar of Wakefield was Dr. Charles Primrose, and the belle of Dogpatch USA was Daisy Mae in the Li'l Abner comic strip


Nigel