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(1) Let’s return to my daily walk, a habit I hope to keep forever. All my destinations have names which begin with a ‘P’ and then immediately an ‘a’. First letter ‘P’; second letter ‘a’. Where are we going?
a)    ITALIAN CITY THAT PRODUCES A LOT OF HAM, AND THE CHEESE I GRATE ON TO MY PASTA --PARMA
b)    LONDON RAIL TERMINUS WHOSE PLATFORM 1 HAS A BEAR STATUE --PADDINGTON
c)    ISLAND NATION WHOSE CARS HAVE STICKERS READING ‘PNG’ --PAPUA NEW GUINEA
d)    FIRST MONOPOLY PROPERTY AFTER JAIL, OFTEN ADVANCED TO --PALL MALL
e)    PRICEY MONOPOLY PROPERTY BETWEEN CHANCE AND SUPER TAX --PARK LANE
f)    FLORIDA SEASIDE RESORT WITH COCONUT TREES AND BILLIONAIRES --PALM SPRINGS
g)    CRICKETING COUNTRY WHICH ACQUIRED TEST STATUS IN 1952 --PANAMA
h)    ATHENS TEMPLE WHICH USED TO BE HOME TO THE ELGIN MARBLES --PARTHENON
i)    SILICON VALLEY CITY THAT NOT ONLY BEGINS ‘PA…’ BUT ALSO HAS THE INITIALS ‘P.A.’ --PALO ALTO
j)    CITY SETTING FOR WEST END MUSICAL AMÉLIE --PARIS

(2) Here are some fictional children; who are the fictional fathers? And just to be clear, we’ve stopped doing the P&A thing... for now.
a)    BALD DAD OF BARTHOLOMEW, LISA AND MARGARET --HOMER SIMPSON
b)    ALABAMA LAWYER DAD OF JEM AND SCOUT --???
c)    UNDERPAID VICTORIAN CLERK DAD OF MARTHA, BELINDA, PETER AND, SMALLEST OF ALL, TIM --BOB CRATCHETT
d)    AMITY ISLAND SHARK-HATING POLICEMAN DAD OF MICHAEL AND SEAN -- [Roy Schneider]
e)    DAD OF LUKE AND FATHER-IN-LAW OF HAN --DARTH VADER

(3) Back to P&A. Here are ten people, all known by the initials PA. Who are they?
a)    ‘PANTSDOWN’ --PADDY ASHDOWN
b)    TRUE ROMANCE STAR; SISTER TO ROSANNA, ALEXIS AND DAVID --
c)    BBC GOLF COMMENTATOR WITH NAME VERY SIMILAR TO A LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE ACTOR --PETER ALICE
d)    COTSWOLDS-BASED, SHE’S THE AUTHOR OF THE TIMELESS VERSE COLLECTION SOME OF ME POETRY --PAM AYRES
e)    MAVERICK MEDIC MIRTHFULLY PLAYED ONSCREEN BY ROBIN WILLIAMS IN 1998 --
f)    AMERICAN IDOL JUDGE WHO SANG ‘OPPOSITES ATTRACT’ IN 1991 --PAULA ABDUL
g)    THEATRICAL DAME WHO BAGGED A BAFTA FOR A PASSAGE TO INDIA --
h)    PORTRAYER OF FICTIONAL CALIFORNIA LIFEGUARD C.J. PARKER --
i)    SHE DOESN’T HAVE A SURNAME BECAUSE HER MUM’S A MONARCH --PRINCESS ANNE
j)    AND HE WAS MARRIED TO ANOTHER MONARCH — UNTIL 1861 --PRINCE ALBERT

(4) Two things about Popes. There have been lots of Holy Fathers, and they come from all over the world – meaning there are some excellent papal names. The list below contains five of them, and also five that I’ve just made up. So it’s time to play: Pope Or Nope?
•    POPE HYGINUS --NO
•    POPE GERALD --NO
•    POPE CHRISTIAN VII --YES
•    POPE INNOCENT XIII --YES
•    POPE SERIOUS III --NO
•    POPE URBAN VIII --YES
•    POPE HILLARY IV --NO 
•    POPE BONIFACE IX --YES
•    POPE ADRIAN VI --YES
•    POPE ECUMENICA II --NO

(5) Five different takes on fatherhood in five different films. Which films?
a)    CALIFORNIAN DAD RECONNECTS WITH CHILDREN BY POSING AS BRITISH NANNY (Chris Columbus, 1993) --MRS DOUBTFIRE
b)    IT’S THE PLOT OF HAMLET, BUT THERE ARE SONGS BY ELTON JOHN AND HORATIO IS A MANDRILL (Disney, 1994/2019) --
c)    A DAD LOSES HIS SON AND FOR SOME REASON ENLISTS AN AMNESIAC TO HELP LOCATE THE MISSING CHILD (Pixar, 2003) --
d)    THE GUY WHO PLAYED JAMES BOND IS THE FATHER OF THE GUY WHO PLAYED HAN SOLO (Steven Spielberg, 1989) --
e)    A DAD FINDS WORK-LIFE BALANCE CHALLENGING AND MISSES A DEADLINE IN LOCKDOWN-LIKE CONDITIONS (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) --