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The year that was
1 Great Paul; 2 Two, blue and yellow; 3 Eggs, owing to avian flu; 4 Australia; 5 Great Britain (Sam Ryder); 6 Curling; 7 Lincolnshire (at Coningsby); 8 Shehan Karunatilaka is Sri Lankan; 9 Richmond (North Yorkshire); 10 Sleep dearie, sleep
Country lore
1 Dedham Vale; 2 Fox; 3 Woodcock; 4 In the Flow Country, Caithness and Sutherland; 5 Grey; 6 The lark; 7 Horse chestnut; 8 Yellow; 9 Snowdrop; 10 Tench
Christmas traditions picture round
1 Log fire; 2 Star in the east; 3 Farmers’ market; 4 Wreath making; 5 Dog walking; 6 Boxing Day meet; 7 Midnight Mass; 8 Sledding; 9 King’s Speech
Cathedral spires
1 Durham; 2 Truro; 3 Coventry; 4 Gloucester; 5 Ripon
My family and other animals
1 Susan, a Pembroke corgi; 2 A Jersey cow; 3 Aureole; 4 An elephant called Jumbo; 5 Fell pony
Carols by heart
1 It came upon the Midnight Clear; 2 In the Bleak Midwinter; 3 The First Nowell; 4 O Little Town of Bethlehem; 5 While Shepherds Watched
What the Dickens?
1 A Christmas Carol; 2 Oliver Twist; 3 Bleak House; 4 Hard Times; 5 Barnaby Rudge
Watch your flocks picture round
1 Herdwick, 2 Manx Loaghtan, 3 Soay, 4 Balwen, 5 Cotswold, 6 Bluefaced Leicester]
Eat, drink and be merry
1 Cambridgeshire; 2 The last Sunday before Advent; 3 Advocaat, which is brandy based; 4 Apple; 5 Chestnut with red wattle and white tail feathers
We are the champions
1 Eventing; 2 Liverpool; 3 Sam Waley-Cohen; 4 Tour de France; 5 Leah Williamson
Dearly departed
1 Hilary Mantel; 2 Barry Cryer; 3 Shane Warne; 4 Lester Piggott; 5 Raymond Briggs
National pride
1 Exmoor; 2 Brecon Beacons; 3 Peak District; 4 Yorkshire Dales; 5 Norfolk Broads
Hotchpotch
1 Trombone; 2 Environmental Land Management Schemes; 3 Frank Auerbach; 4 English Literature; 5 Finnish; 6 Badger; 7 Land of My Fathers; 8 They are all Wykehamists; 9 A chicken; 10 A West Country tradition of imitating a rutting red-deer stag
