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(1) We’ve enjoyed a lot of geography along the way. But we’re down to one letter now, and it’s hard to get a good quiz question out of the French commune called Y or the Swedish village called Ö. Bear with me, I’ll find a way to get some geography in. In the meantime, these answers are all single letters.
a)    FILM CERTIFICATE REPLACED WITH ‘18’ IN 1982 --X
b)    LETTER ON THE BACK OF HOLIDAYING SPANISH CARS --E
c)    MAJOR SCALE YOU CAN PLAY WITHOUT ANY EBONY KEYS --C
d)    LETTER ON THE COSTUME OF A CLOWN CALLED RONALD --M
e)    MOST COMMON BLOOD GROUP --O
f)    IT’S BETWEEN ‘U’ AND ‘O’ ON A QWERTY KEYBOARD --Damn! If only there was a keyboard somewhere to look at! --I [I knew it anyway!]


(1b) I’ve got it! Which country can you form from the answers in the previous question?
 MEXICO --That was good. Told me my answer to C was right, which I was slightly unsure of.

(2) Now, some questions about trees. Specifically, Christmas trees.
a)    WHICH COUNTRY-INFLECTED FESTIVE TUNE HAS BEEN RECORDED BY JUSTIN BIEBER, BRENDA LEE, AND KIM WILDE WITH MEL SMITH? --Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
b)    WHICH COUNTRY GIVES THE UK A CHRISTMAS TREE EVERY YEAR FOR DISPLAY IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE? --Norway
c)    AND WHICH SPECIES OF TREE DO THEY USUALLY GIVE US? --Spruce
d)    IN WHICH FILM DOES BUDDY LOVINGLY WATCH AS JOVIE DECORATES A TREE? --???
e)    AND IN WHICH FILM DOES BOOKSHOP-OWNER MEG RYAN DECORATE HER TREE WHILE SINGING A JONI MITCHELL LINE ABOUT CUTTING DOWN TREES? --???
f)    THE CAROL ‘OH, CHRISTMAS TREE’ SHARES ITS TUNE WITH WHICH POLITICAL SONG? --The Red Flag


(3) More trees! Who are these people, whose names all contain trees? And why do we sometimes call some of these trees ‘shrubs’? No need to answer that, it’s not part of the 40 points.
a)    STEVE COOGAN PLAYED HIM IN STAN AND OLLIE --Stan LAUREL
b)    SHE PLAYED FLICK IN NEIGHBOURS BEFORE SINGING ‘KISS KISS’ --??
c)    MR BEAN --ROWAN Atkinson
d)    THE ONLY PERSON TO STAR IN MEN BEHAVING BADLY AND QUADROPHENIA --Lesley ASH[e]
e)    SCOTTISH PRESENTER, SHE OFTEN HOSTS THE GOLF AND THE SNOOKER FOR THE BBC --??
f)    SISTER TO MOSES, DAUGHTER TO CHRIS AND GWYNETH --??
g)    HEAVYWEIGHT BOXER WHO HAS BEEN A BRITISH, OLYMPIC AND WORLD CHAMPION --??
h)    HE PLAYS CAPTAIN KIRK NOWADAYS --??
i)    SHE PERFORMED ‘BUFFALO STANCE’ WHILE PREGNANT ON TOP OF THE POPS AND HAS A BROTHER CALLED EAGLE-EYE --Nenah CHERRY


(4) Now, the partridge. Or rather, Partridge. Five of the TV shows below are pitched by Alan Partridge. The other five are actual TV shows. A point each time you can tell me: Actual Telly or Alan Telly?
•    COOKING IN PRISON
•    TREE OF THE YEAR WITH ARDAL O'HANLON
•    KNOWING M.E., KNOWING YOU --YES
•    EXTREME FISHING WITH ROBSON GREEN --YES
•    THERE’S A RHINO IN MY HOUSE
•    YOUTH HOSTELING WITH CHRIS EUBANK --YES
•    A YEAR WITH THE RED ARROWS
•    RICHARD MADELEY MEETS THE SQUATTERS --YES
•    INNER CITY SUMO
•    ARM WRESTLING WITH CHAS AND DAVE --YES


(5) At last, the fruit of our theme.
a)    WHICH PEAR VARIETY, NOW BRITAIN’S MOST WIDELY GROWN, WON FIRST PRIZE AT BRITAIN’S APPLE AND PEAR CONFERENCE IN 1888? --Conference Pear
b)    AND WHAT DO YOU CALL CIDER IF YOU MAKE IT FROM PEARS RATHER THAN APPLES? --Perry


(6) Finally for now, some more single-letter answers.
a)    FIFTY AS A ROMAN NUMERAL --L
b)    FOR A WHILE, IT SEEMED LIKE HE MIGHT BE SUPERINTENDENT TED HASTINGS --M
c)    IT’S ON THE RIGHT-HAND TAP --C
d)    MOST COMMON LETTER IN WRITTEN ENGLISH --E
e)    PAUL MCGANN’S TITLE ROLE ALONGSIDE RICHARD E. GRANT --??


(6b) Oh, I’ve just noticed. You can make another country out of those letters. --not with mine, you can't!