1. Gussie Fink-Nottle has been strewing frogs in Constable Dobbs's cottage, inspired by love for Cora (Corky) Pirbright, who got the idea from her uncle, the Vicar, who had spoken of the Pharaoh's plague of frogs. (The Mating Season, Chapter 21)

2. Cyril (Barmy) Fotheringay-Phipps woke up JG Anderson and pressed into his hand "a large, slimy, wriggling frog." (Barmy in Wonderland, US title Angel Cake, Chapter 1)

3. Lord Ickenham is advising Sir Raymond Bastable to gather frogs to put down Oily Carlisle's tender neck. (Cocktail Time, Chapter 21)

4. Joey Cooley (formerly Reginald, Lord Havershot) wants frogs to put into Miss Beulah Brinkmeyer's bedroom. (Laughing Gas, Chapter 17)

Extra credit: Ferdinand Frog was modelled on Lord Bromborough, of Rumpling Hall, Lower Rumpling, Norfolk. ("Buried Treasure", Lord Emsworth and Others, US title The Crime Wave at Blandings)

Round 232 - 31 May 2005

1. Eve Halliday, though unafraid of beetles and stealing Lady Constance's jewels, does not like rats. (Leave It to Psmith, Chapter 13)

2. Peter Burns, Audrey Sheridan, and Ogden Ford are sharing a loft with the rats. (The Little Nugget, Chapter 15)

3. Hugo Carmody and Millicent Threepwood are sharing a gamekeeper's cottage with rats while waiting for the person who pignapped Empress of Blandings to return to the scene of the crime. (Summer Lightning, US title Fish Preferred, Chapter 12)

4. This time, George Bevan and Lady Maud Marshmoreton are the ones invading the rats' privacy. (A Damsel in Distress, Chapter 18)

Extra Credit: Aunt Dahlia proposes to shake Bingley (né Brinkley) like a rat. (Much Obliged Jeeves, US title Jeeves and the Tie That Binds, Chapter 11)

Round 233 - 8 June 2005

1. In the short story “Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch”, which was collected in The Inimitable Jeeves (US: Jeeves), Bertie Wooster’s engagement to the daughter of (A), Sir Roderick Glossop was about to be broken off when the prospective father-in-law was presented with strong circumstantial evidence that Mr Wooster was the mastermind behind the theft of his hat.

2. As he paid off his cab driver across the street from the Drones Club Lord Blicester, (C), was amazed when something came whizzing out of the void and struck his top hat squarely abaft the binnacle with disastrous consequences to the topper’s appearance and its owner’s piece of mind.

Although his lordship was leaning to the theory that his topper had been struck by a small meteor, his nephew Freddie Widgeon, (B), knew only too well that the damage was done by a catapult-propelled brazil nut aimed by Barmy Phipps’s cousin Egbert. From the short story “The Masked Troubadour”, which was first collected in Lord Emsworth and Others (US title: The Crime Wave at Blandings).

3. Mr Watling, the father of (E), Myrtle Watling, the private secretary to Cedric Mulliner, (D), was naturally surprised when a top-hat suddenly appeared, apparently out of thin air, in his sitting room at Seven, Nasturtium Villas, Marigold Road, Valley Fields. The mystery was easily solved. The hat was the property of Cedric, who dropped it while attempting to steal Mr Watling’s black boots. Further details may be obtained by referring to “The Story of Cedric”, which was first collected in Mr Mulliner Speaking.

4. Needing a top-hat to accompany his new lady friend to Ascot and lacking the funds to purchase one, Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge helped himself to (F), George Tupper’s, topper and then attempted to place the blame for the theft on a gang of international spies. From the short story “A Bit of Luck for Mabel”, which was first collected in Eggs, Beans and Crumpets.

5. The speaker was General Sir Hector Bloodenough, VC, KCIE, MVO, formerly known by the natives of West Africa as Wah-nah-B’gosh-B’jingo – which, freely translated, means Big Chief Who Can See Through The Hole In A Donut. Some time during the night watches some hidden hand had painted the newly unveiled statue of Lord Hemel of Hempstead pink and Sir Hector or, if you prefer, Wah-nah, was frankly nonplussed when the shovel-hat of the visiting Bishop of Stortford was discovered resting on the statue’s pink head. From the Mulliner short story “The Bishop’s Move”, which was first collected in Meet Mr Mulliner.

Round 234 - 16 June 2005

1. Archibald Mulliner, (A), famed far and wide for his imitation of a hen laying an egg, gave the performance of a lifetime to win the heart of Aurelia Cammarleigh in “The Reverent Wooing of Archibald”, which was first collected in Mr Mulliner Speaking.

2. After losing his battle with the eggs in the kitchen of his son Frederick’s Long Island home, Lord Emsworth, (B), was delighted to welcome to the front reinforcements in the form of an encyclopaedia saleswoman, known only as “Mrs Ed”, she being the wife of Ed, a garage mechanic. From the short story “Birth of a Salesman”, which was collected in Nothing Serious.

3. Two of the three Trent sisters, Terry and Jo, (C and D, respectively), had just about reached saturation point dealing with the merchandise produced on the family’s Long Island chicken farm in Chapter One of French Leave.

4. Kay Derrick, (F), wasn’t quite as egg-conscious as she appeared in this conversation with Sam Shotter, (E), in Chapter 18 (‘Discussion at a Luncheon Table’) of Sam the Sudden (US: Sam in the Suburbs). Sam was determined to lay his heart at Kay’s feet and Kay was equally determined to edge the topic of the conversation over to some less dangerous subject, eggs for example.

Round 235 - 24 June 2005

1. In Chapter 7 of Heavy Weather the Hon. Galahad Threepwood, (C), came face to face with his old friend Stinker Pyke, (A), for the first time since that memorable night at Romano’s when Stinker (who now goes about the place under the alias Lord Tilbury) was laid out cold by a side of beef wielded by Major Wilfred “Plug” Basham, (B).

2. (D), Archibald Mulliner’s attempt to spread sweetness and light among the huddled masses of Bottleton East got off to a rocky start when his gift of bread was haughtily rejected in this scene from the short story “Archibald and the Masses”, which was first collected in Young Men in Spats.

3. New York Police officer Garroway’s attempt to arrest (E), Mrs Sigsbee H Waddington for breaking-and-entry came to naught when the miscreant flung the contents of a pot of pepper at the intrepid officer’s face and then escaped via the fire-escape. From Chapter 14 of The Small Bachelor.

4. In Chapter 20 (“The Sausage Chappie Clicks”) of Indiscretions of Archie the Sausage Chappie, (F), regained his memory just in time to see his wife dining at the Cosmopolis Hotel restaurant with Hollywood motion picture executive James J Gossett, (G), and took what he considered to be appropriate action by pouring a bowl of fruit salad over Mr Gossett’s bald head.

5. In Chapter 16 of Much Obliged, Jeeves (US title Jeeves and the Tie That Binds) narrator Bertie Wooster was shocked by the egg-encrusted appearance of Lady Florence Craye, (H), and Ginger Winship, (I), at the conclusion of a political debate leading up to the Market Snodsbury by-election.

Round 236 - 4 July 2005

1. In Chapter Three of The Code of the Woosters Augustus Fink-Nottle recalled his introduction to his father-in-law elect, Sir Watkyn Bassett, (A).

2. Senator Ambrose Opal, (B), took an intense dislike to Packy Franklyn, (C), at their first meeting when Packy, who was impersonating a barber at the time, used his scissors to turn the Senator’s noble white mop into a devastated area. From Chapter Two of Hot Water.

3. Pongo Twistleton, (D), failed to ingratiate himself with his fiancée’s father when he came face-to-face with Sir Aylmer Bostock, (E), for the first time in Chapter Four of Uncle Dynamite. Pongo’s chances of eventually establishing an entente cordiale with the old boy weren’t improved when it was discovered that he had dropped and smashed a peculiar sort of what-not fashioned out of red mud that had been the pride and joy of Sir Aylmer’s collection of African curios.

4. In this episode from the short story “The Voice From the Past”, which was first collected in Mulliner Nights, the week-end visit of Sacheverell Mulliner, (G), to Branksome Towers to meet Lieut.-Colonel Sir Redvers Branksome, the father of his fiancée Muriel, (F), was such a frost that Sacheverell immediately enrolled in a correspondence school to bone up on some of the colonel’s pet subjects.

Round 237 - 12 July 2005

1. This is Sam Marlowe (A), escaping his cupboard Bastille and having encounters with cuckoo clocks and things [The Girl on the Boat, ch. 17].

2. The narrator, Bertie Wooster (B), is apalled to learn from Sir Watkyn Bassett that the Rev. Harold "Stinker" Pinker (C) is in danger of being bunged in the cooler [The Code of the Woosters, ch. 9].

3. Mrs Elmer Ford (E) feels like a prisoner in the Bastille while awaiting her son Ogden in her suite at the Hotel Guelph (D) [The Little Nugget, ch. 1].

4. Frederick Threepwood (F) is filling in his friend Rupert Bingham on the stubborn nature of his (Freddie’s) Aunt Georgiana, who has sent her daughter Gertrude (H) to Blandings Castle (I), and who, by the way, refuses to buy Donaldson’s Dog Joy (G) ["Company for Gertrude", from Blandings Castle].

Round 238 - 20 July 2005

1. The cellar-dweller is Barter (B), butler to Miss Julia Ukridge (A) ["Buttercup Day", from Eggs, Beans and Crumpets].

2. Eustace Trumper (C) and Clarissa Cork (E) walk into the trap set by Dolly Molloy (D) [Money in the Bank, ch. 26].

3. Here we have Vera Prebble (G), together with Mr Schnellenhamer (F), Mr Fishbein (H) and Mr Zizzbaum (I) ["The Rise of Minna Nordstrom", from Blandings Castle].

4. Beach is reporting to Lord Emsworth (K) that his pigman Pirbright (J) has captured a would-be pig-nobbler [Heavy Weather, ch. 17].

5. Lana Tuttle (M) has imprisoned Judson Phipps (L), who is, in fact, a friend of her employer Frederick Threepwood (N) ["Life with Freddie", from Plum Pie].

Round 239 - 28 July 2005

1. This is the library of Mr Cooley Paradene (A) [Bill the Conqueror, ch. 2].

2. Here we are in the library of Mr Pett (D), where Jimmy Crocker (B) has found a refuge from Mrs Pett (C) [Piccadilly Jim, ch. 18].

3. Lord Belpher (E) is taking a strengthening whiskey and soda before meeting his father and his aunt, Lady Caroline Byng (F) [A Damsel in Distress, ch. 6].

4. Crispin Scrope (G) is hiding in his library from his dear paying guests [The Girl in Blue, ch. 8].

Round 240 - 5 August 2005

1. Sacheverell Mulliner (B) thinks the guest of honour is Bernard (C), cousin of Muriel Branksome (A). The real g. of h. of Branksome Towers (D) turns out to be the Bishop of Bognor ["The Voice from the Past", from Mulliner Nights].

2. Mrs Dahlia Travers (E) has drawn the Blue Room. The dim figure is Jeeves, interrupting a pleasant conversation between Bertram W Wooster and Roderick Spode [The Code of the Woosters, ch. 4].

3. Here we have Mycroft Cardinal impersonating Stanwood Cobbold (G) and being interviewed by butler Spink (F) [Spring Fever, ch. 11].

4. This time Aunt Dahlia is the dispenser of the Blue Room, of Brinkley Court (J), which has gone to Wilbert (I) Cream (H). K is the cat Augustus [Jeeves in the Offing, ch. 8].