1. Adrian Mulliner ("The Smile That Wins," Mulliner Nights)

2. Clifford Gandle's smile unnerves Mr John Hamilton Potter. ("Mr Potter Takes a Rest Cure," Blandings Castle and Elsewhere)

3. Jane Hunnicut, an air hostess, finds that her job requires "too much smiling". (The Girl in Blue, Chapter 2)

4. Rupert Baxter's smile brings no pleasure to Lord Emsworth. ("The Crime Wave at Blandings," Lord Emsworth and Others, US title The Crime Wave at Blandings)

5. The woman with the coy yet roguish smile, at the thought of which Clarence Mulliner shudders, is Lady Monica Southborne. ("The Romance of a Bulb-Squeezer," Meet Mr Mulliner)

Round 242 - 23 August 2005

1. Madeline Bassett is the one guilty of tinkling, silvery laughs. (The Code of the Woosters, Chapter 3)

2. Beach's unbutlerlike laughter is the result of reading Galahad Threepwood's account of Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe and the prawns. (Heavy Weather, Chapter 8)

3. Monty Bodkin fails miserably in his attempt to laugh carelessly after Gertrude Butterwick finds him patting Lottie Blossom's head. (The Luck of the Bodkins, Chapter 12 UK edition, Chapter 10 US edition)

4. The hollow laugher is John Halliday. (Pelican at Blandings, US title No Nudes Is Good Nudes, Chapter 6)

Extra Credit: Honoria Glossop ("Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit," Very Good Jeeves)

Extra Extra Credit: Mrs Oakley is the foxlike laugher. (A Prince for Hire, Chapter 11 – I warned you this was obscure.)

Round 243 - 31 August 2005

1. Steeple Bumpleigh is the place of terror that, for Bertie Wooster, is infested with hippogriffian perils like Aunt Agatha and Edwin the Boy Scout. (Joy in the Morning, Chapter 1)

2. The knight is Sir Agravaine the Dolorous, and the damsel is Yvonne, daughter of Earl Dorm of the Hills. ("Sir Agravaine," The Man Upstairs and Other Stories)

3. Lady Hermione Wedge glares "like a well-bred basilisk" at her brother Galahad after he puts a "loathsome animal" (a description of Empress of Blandings that borders on lèse majesté) in her daughter Veronica's bedroom. (Full Moon, Chapter 8)

4. The bad werewolf is Bertie's Aunt Agatha and the good werewolf is his Aunt Dahlia. (Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, US title The Cat-Nappers, Chapter 3)

Round 244 - 8 September 2005

1. The sight of Bernadette (Barney) Clayborne (B) has nearly Gorgonized Crispin Scope (C). (The Girl in Blue, Chapter 11; A is Chippendale, the broker's man in butler's clothing.)

2. Hildebrand Spencer Poyns de Burgh John Hannasy de Coombe-Crombie, twelfth Earl of Dreever, reacts to Molly McEachern's letter breaking off their engagement. (A Gentleman of Leisure, US title The Intrusion of Jimmy, Chapter 23; the second passage given as a hint is from Chapter 29.)

3. Psmith is addressing Freddie Threepwood. (Leave It to Psmith, Chapter 8)

4. Bertie Wooster is being enlisted to steal a painting of Venus with a dove painted by Edward Fothergill and given by him to his son, Everard Fothergill. ("Jeeves Makes an Omelette", A Few Quick Ones)

5. Berry Conway is the Promethean groaner and wincer. (Big Money, Chapter 7)

Round 245 - 16 September 2005

1. In this conversation from the short story “Fixing it for Freddie”, which was first collected in Carry On, Jeeves, a trip to the cinema provided Jeeves, (A), with the inspiration needed to produce the happy ending.

2. After being stood up by Bobbie Wickham, (C), Ambrose Wiffin, (B), had a testing afternoon at the cinema, accompanied only by two repulsive small boys and (although Ambrose wasn’t yet aware of the fact) a white mouse in the short story “The Passing of Ambrose”, which was first collected in Mr Mulliner Speaking.

3. In Chapter One of The Luck of the Bodkins the title character, (F), vacationing in Cannes, was having difficulty composing a letter home to his fiancée Gertrude Butterwick, (X), who was still a little touchy about Monty’s open admiration of film star Lotus Blossom, (E), during their recent outing to the cinema in London.

4. A date at the Valley Fields Bijou Palace with Kitchie Valentine, (I), complicated the life of Lord Biskerton, (H), in Chapter Nine of Big Money. Already engaged to a wealthy American before setting out for his evening’s entertainment, the Biscuit had doubled his fiancée quota by evening’s end. Fortunately, his friend Berry Conway, (G), was ready and willing to take the first fiancée off the Biscuit’s hands.

Round 246 - 24 September 2005

1. This was Ukridge’s Aunt Julia, whose unexpected return to her Wimbledon home would disrupt her nephew’s latest money-making scheme in the short story “Ukridge and the Home From Home”, which was collected in the British edition of Lord Emsworth and Others and the American edition of Eggs, Beans and Crumpets.

2. This was Joe Davenport, (A), trying to explain to Kay Shannon the natural urge every ex-screen-writer has to throw things at Superba-Llewellyn studio czar Ivor Llewellyn. From Chapter Two of The Old Reliable.

3. This was the sad case of Bulstrode Mulliner, (B), who called on Mr Schnellenhamer (C), in quest of his stolen hat and found himself press-ganged into writing dialogue for ‘Scented Sinners’, a powerful drama of life as it is lived by the jazz-crazed, gin-crazed Younger Generation whose hollow laughter is but the mask for an aching heart. From the short story “The Castaways”, which was collected in Blandings Castle and Elsewhere.

4. In this conversation with Bertie Wooster from Chapter Six of Joy in the Morning, Zenobia “Nobby” Hopwood made it clear that she had no illusions about the will-power of her screen-writing fiancé George Webster “Boko” Fittleworth.

5. These were all names considered and rejected by parlour-maid Vera Prebble before she finally settled on “Minna Nordstrom” as her new nom de théâtre. From “The Rise of Minna Nordstrom”, which was collected in Blandings Castle and Elsewhere.

Round 247 - 3 October 2005

1. This was Sam Shotter, (A), returning to London to seek his fortune, in a chance encounter on the Strand with a pair of old Wrykynian school mates, the two exquisites Bates and Tresidder, in Chapter Three of Sam the Sudden (US title Sam in the Suburbs).

2. When New York petty crook Spike Mullins, (B), had an unexpected London reunion with that supposed Napoleon of Crime, Jimmy Pitt, in Chapter Ten of A Gentleman of Leisure (US title: The Intrusion of Jimmy) he wasn’t looking his best. The extract also appears in Chapter Two of The Gem Collector.

3. In Chapter Nineteen of Indiscretions of Archie, Reggie van Tuyl, (E), assumed, incorrectly, that the marriage of his friends Archie and Lucille Moffam (C and D, respectively) was on the rocks, a development that shocked Reggie as profoundly as that cataclysmic day eighteen months earlier when he appeared in public wearing only one spat.

4. The prismatic fellow who so jarred (F), Freddie Fitch-Fitch’s, peace of mind, if you can call it a mind, during a tense railway journey was Joe Boffin, better known to his many fans and admirers as “Boffin of St. Luke’s” and the uncle of Freddie’s fiancée Annabel Purvis, (G). From "Romance at Droitgate Spa", which was first collected in The Crime Wave at Blandings (US) and in the British edition of Eggs, Beans and Crumpets.

Round 248 - 13 October 2005

1. The speaker, Roberta Wickham, may not have wanted to spoil Bertie Wooster’s evening but she succeeded in doing so with the stop-press news that her cousin Clementina, (A), was celebrating her birthday by being absent without leave from her school and it would be Bertie’s job to get her back behind the enemy’s lines undetected. From the short story “Jeeves and the Kid Clementina”, which was first collected in Very Good, Jeeves.

2. It was a memorable birthday for Veronica Wedge, (D). First some hidden hand inserted a pig in her bedroom, then she became engaged to the American millionaire Tipton Plimsoll, (C), and then her new fiancé set out for Shrewsbury with the intention of purchasing a birthday present, eventually returning in the next chapter with the two-seater “laden with apes, ivory and peacocks like a camel of the epoch of King Solomon”, according to Freddie Threepwood (who may have been exaggerating somewhat). From Chapter Seven of Full Moon.

3. Although he wasn’t aware of it yet, Algernon Aubrey Little, (E), was about to hit the jackpot on his first birthday although his father Bingo, (F), would have to endure a good deal of mental anguish before being able to fulfill his paternal obligations. From the short story “The Word in Season”, which was collected in A Few Quick Ones.

4. In Book I, Chapter X of The Coming of Bill we learned that little William Bannister, (I), was delighted to receive the dog, Whiskers, as a birthday present from Hank Jardine, (H). Unfortunately for all concerned, William’s great-aunt, the dreadful Mrs Lora Delane Porter, (G), was somewhat less enthusiastic.

5. Belpher Castle was THE place to be in Chapter Twelve of A Damsel in Distress, as the county gathered to celebrate the 21st birthday of Lord Belpher, (J), the son and heir of the seventh Earl of Marshmoreton, (K), whose idea of a good time was to curl up in bed with a pipe and a good gardening book.

Round 249 - 20 October 2005

1. Prudence Carroway attempted to shoot apples off the head of Percival (B), the porker belonging to her headmistress Miss Maitland (C), much to the horror of Freddie Widgeon (A) ["Trouble Down at Tudsleigh", from the UK edition of Young Men in Spats, or the US edition of Eggs, Beans and Crumpets].

2. The sharpshooter is Frederick, Lord Ickenham (D), head of the noble Twistleton (E) family, and his target is Sir Raymond Bastable, about to lose his top-hat [Cocktail Time, ch. 1].

3. Lord Emsworth (F) is trying to convince his sister, Lady Constance Keeble, that he is innocent of the charge of shooting the Efficient Baxter (G) with an air-gun ["The Crime Wave at Blandings", from Lord Emsworth and Elsewhere].

4. The imitatrix of William Tell is Miss Putnam (J), her target is the Duc de Pont-Andemer, also known as Gordon Carlisle (I), H being Mrs Gedge [Hot Water, ch. 17].

Round 250 - 1 November 2005

1. The Hon. Galahad Threepwood (B) advises Penelope Donaldson (D) to be cautious in her ship-board romance with Jerry Vail (C). For once, Lady Constance Keeble (A) would probably agree wholeheartedly with her brother [Pigs Have Wings, ch. 1].

2. This is Jimmy Pitt (E), telling his friend Arthur Mifflin how he fell in love at first stare with Molly McEachern [A Gentleman of Leisure, ch. 2].

3. Oofy Prosser (G) is appalled to learn that his Uncle Horace (F) is on a strict diet to please his betrothed, Mrs Loretta Delancy (H) ["The Fat of the Land", from A Few Quick Ones].

4. Lady Wetherby informs Lord Dawlish (K) that Claire Fenwick (I) has become affianced to the American millionaire Dudley Pickering (J) [Uneasy Money, ch. 15].