1. Hidcote Manor, which features a series of outdoor ‘rooms’
2. Gertrude Jekyll
3. Apple
4. Great Dixter in Sussex (www.greatdixter.co.uk)
5. George Stubbs. In the 1740s, he worked as a portrait painter in the north of England, and also studied human anatomy at York County Hospital. In the 1750s, he rented a farmhouse in Lincolnshire and spent 18 months dissecting horses, publishing his Anatomy in 1766. The original drawings are now in the collection of the Royal Academy
6. Rowan Williams
7. A parliament of owls
8. December 10 (November 30 in Northern Ireland)
9. The sparrow: ‘Who killed Cock Robin?’ ‘I,’ said the Sparrow,/’With my bow and arrow, I killed Cock Robin.’
10. Ash, because although it is tough and very strong, it is also elastic, and so is also used for making bows, tool handles and baseball bats
11. Authorized, ridden by Frankie Dettori
12. The blackthorn bush
13. Four. The horse is measured from the ground to the top of the withers, and the measurement is used to separate horses from ponies. Ponies are 14.2hh or smaller, and a horse is anything taller than 14.2hh
14. Sheep
15. Dumfries House, which was saved after Prince Charles led a £45 million bid
16. Bluetongue disease
17. Hilary Benn, MP for Leeds Central and Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
18. St James’s; Hyde Park; Greenwich; Richmond; Green Park; Kensington Gardens; Bushy Park; Regent’s Park
19. Notes From a Small Island author Bill Bryson
20. The Great Fen Project, which will create a 3,700-hectare wetland between Huntingdon and Peterborough (www.greatfen.org.uk)
21. £8although residents living within the congestion zone receive a 90% discount on one vehicle
22. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
23. Friend
24. Scafell Pike in the Lake District, which is 3,210ft high
25. An enclosed garden, especially a secret garden within a garden
26. The grub of a daddy-long-legs
27. The common name for wild garlic
28. A ha-ha
29. A storm cock
30. Eric Clapton
31. It has 12
32. A 13-ton bell, not the clock itself or the tower
33. The average property price in Kensington and Chelsea for October 2007 is £990,014, according to wheresmyproperty.com; a semi-detached is selling for an average £1.5 million, and a flat for £838,771
34. The Welsh, who spoke to their neighbours most frequently
35. Wire-hair fox terrier; Snowy’s ears are square and stick up, whereas the terrier’s should be small, V-shaped, with the flaps slightly folded over and dropping towards the cheeks
36. Queueing
39. The Irish Guards
40. Savoy Court, London
42. Cornish sardines
43. Beefeater
44. c) Bat
45. c) Washing clothes
46. An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary featuring Al Gore
47. Corvids
49. Willow, whose leaves and bark were first observed to be a remedy for fever in ancient Assyrian, Sumerian and Egyptian texts
50. Doris Lessing, Iranian-born author of In Pursuit of the English and The Golden Notebook
