1. The teller of (probably most unsuitable) limericks is the Hon. Galahad Threepwood (A), who decides that Monty Bodkin (B) is not a worthy audience. C is butler Beach [Heavy Weather, ch. 10].

2. Lord Ickenham (D) and Oily Carlisle (F), transported by Mr Popworth (G), are about to pay a call on Sir Raymond "Beefy" Bastable (E) [Cocktail Time, ch. 8].

3. Lord Blicester urges Freddie Widgeon (K) not to tell the slightest limerick in presence of Lady Pinfold (H) and her daughter Dora (J) ["The Masked Troubadour", from Lord Emsworth and Others].

4. Here we have Sir Murgatroyd Sprockett-Sprockett (L) and his daughter Annabelle, than whom there are no warmer admirers of Mordred Mulliner in the whole of Worcestershire (M) ["The Fiery Wooing of Mordred", from Young Men in Spats].

Round 302 - 21 January 2007

1. The highlight of the daily routine of Sir Buckstone Abbott is his interview with his secretary, Miss Prudence Whittaker (A) [Summer Moonshine, ch. 2].

2. J Chichester Clam (B) discovers that his regular New York routine has made him unfit for the horrors of Steeple Bumpleigh (C) [Joy in the Morning, ch. 15].

3. Here we have Henry Wallace Mills and his wife Minnie (D) ["The Man with Two Left Feet", from the book with the same title].

4. Sir Jasper ffinch-ffarrowmere is describing the ordinary diet of a valet to Wilfred Mulliner ["A Slice of Life", from Meet Mr Mulliner].

Round 303 - 1 February 2007

1. Bertie Wooster and Jeeves (A) are planning a trip to the country ["The Great Sermon Handicap", from The Inimitable Jeeves].

2. The poetess is Prudence Garland, greeting her cousin Frederick Threepwood (B) [Full Moon, ch. 2].

3. The rhymer is Stanley F Ukridge, talking to James Corcoran about his Aunt Julia ["Buttercup Day", from Eggs, Beans and Crumpets].

4. Jane Abbott, daughter of Sir Buckstone (E), informs JB Attwater (D), proprietor of the Goose and Gander (C), that she wants to speak to Mr (Adrian) Peake (G) [Summer Moonshine, ch. 21].

5. Psmith (J) approves of the poetry of Mr Rossiter (H), while Mike Jackson (K) looks on [Psmith in the City, ch. 7].

Round 304 - 10 February 2007

1. Jeeves (A) sends a postcard to Bertie Wooster, who is temporarily engaged to Honoria Glossop (B) ["The Hero's Reward", from The Inimitable Jeeves].

2. Lord Emsworth (D) is the accidental recipient of a picture postcard sent by Maudie Beach Montrose Digby Stubbs Bunbury (C) to her uncle Sebastian [Pigs Have Wings, ch. 1].

3. The stately home of England is Ashby Hall (E), causing a nasty shock to Bill Hardy, in spite of having been warned by Jane Martyn (F) [Company for Henry, ch. 5].

4. Soapy (J) and Dolly (H) Molloy send their greetings to Chimp Twist. G = Grayce Llewellyn [Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, ch. 3].

5. The hypothetical senders of the virtual postcard are Cyril Mulliner (K) and Amelia Bassett, the hypothetical recipient is Lady Bassett ["Strychnine in the Soup", from Mulliner Nights].

Round 305 - 19 February 2007

1. In the short story "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird", Bertie is A, Honoria Glossop is B and Blair Eggleston is Caesar.

2. Lord Ickenham in Uncle Dynamite is using A, B, X and Y as examples.

3. Sigsbee H Waddington proposes a plot to Fanny Welch Mullett in The Small Bachelor, ch. 6.

4. Jerry West's first view of Jane Hunnicut, The Girl in Blue, ch. 2.

5. In the story "The Hero's Reward", Bertie is trying to manipulate Honoria Glossop, Bingo Little and little Oswald to their respective right spots.

Extra credit 1: Shoeblossom in The Gold Bat, ch. 14.

Extra credit 2: The logical conclusion according to Aurelia Cammarleigh's potty aunt in the story "The Reverent Wooing of Archibald" is that Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays.

Round 306 - 5 March 2007

1. In Laughing Gas Ann Bannister offends Lord Havershot with the way she pronounces "April June".

2. The voice that attracts attention belongs to Aunt Julia Ukridge; the narrator is "Corky" Corcoran, in the short story "Buttercup Day".

3. Bill Hollister is entranced by the voice of Jane Benedick in Something Fishy.

4. Myrtle Shoesmith's voice is described in conversation with Jeff Miller in Money in the Bank.

Extra Credit: Percy Stout in the story "Ukridge Starts a Bank Account".

Round 307 - 13 March 2007

1. A is Harold Pickering in the short story "Scratch Man" which is narrated by the Oldest Member.

2. Aline Hemmingway's alleged brother "Sidney" also known as "Soapy Sid" in the story "Aunt Agatha Takes The Count". The wording of the same scene in "Pearls Mean Tears" is slightly different.

3. In The Girl in Blue Crispin Scrope, C, keeps Chippendale out of "Barney" Clayborne's (E) room even though his bleat can't compete with the organ tones of his brother Willoughby (D).

4. Old Mr Saxby (G) attaches himself to young Cosmo Wisdom (F) in Chapter 19 of Cocktail Time.

5. H is D'Arcy "Stilton" Cheesewright, J is Jeeves, in Chapter 29 of Joy in the Morning.

Extra credit: In Chapter 4 of Thank You, Jeeves Pauline's father Mr Stoker gave this response when asked for an opinion. Arthur Robinson pointed out the Empress of Blandings also probably can produce the sound.

Round 308 - 22 March 2007

1. The Hon. Frederick Threepwood (A) is ringing up Arnold Pinkney (B) at the Plaza Hotel to clinch a deal at the climax of "Life With Freddie".

2. The butler Slingsby (C) is pleased to serve again his employer the once and future Lord Droitwich (E). In this scene from Chapter 13 of If I Were You his name was Price. D is Sir Herbert Bassinger.

3. Eunice Bray (F) compares Ramsden Waters (G) to a lamb and her brother Wilberforce (H) to a mouse in "The Rough Stuff", from The Clicking of Cuthbert.

4. In Money for Nothing, ch. 4, Pat Wyvern (J) laments John Carroll (K)'s sheepy-ness.

5. Bertie Wooster is speaking to Jeeves (L) in the story "Jeeves Makes an Omelette".

The Extra Credit:
1. Gussie's presentation of school prizes – a famous scene from Right Ho, Jeeves
2. Jeeves' encouragement of a member of the aristocracy to assault a policeman – Jeeves was keeping Lord Pershore out of deeper trouble in "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest"
3. The cook Anatole and the unwelcome birthday present – an idea PGW had and mentioned in a preface but never used
4. Jeeves' experiences as a caddy – ?
5. Jeeves as reviewer of nightclubs – the task Jeeves took on in "The Aunt and the Sluggard".

Number Four is the tale which differs from the others. Its outstanding characteristic is that it is non-existent. The experiences of Jeeves as a caddy were never referenced by Mr Wodehouse. Number 3 also was not recounted in the canon but it was an idea put forth by The Master himself in the introduction to The Jeeves Omnibus (and the introductions to The World of Jeeves and to the Selected Stories of P.G. Wodehouse Modern Library edition). So all except #4 were conceived by PGW.

Entrants were awarded 1/2 credit for recognizing that both #3 and #4 were not stories we ever had the privilege of reading, and another 1/4 point for finding the reference to "Anatole and the unwelcome birthday present" in that introduction.

It is true that Jeeves is shown carrying clubs about in the Jeeves and Wooster television series. The QM fails to see the relevance of this to the q.

Round 309 - 31 March 2007

1. In Chapter 17 of The Girl on the Boat (US title Three Men and a Maid) a totally unforeseen cuckoo clock got Sam Marlowe’s (A’s) clandestine expedition off to a rocky start.

2. In Chapter 13 of Thank You, Jeeves the sozzled valet Brinkley’s assault on an innocent grandfather clock was most injudiciously interrupted by his face-blackened employer, Bertie Wooster. As a result of Mr Wooster’s interruption the house and its contents, including the grandfather clock, a banjolele and all the butter on the premises, would soon be reduced to a heap of charred embers.

3. The jig was up for Ukridge when his Aunt Julia, (C), discovered that her nephew had raised the funds for his latest project by pawning her clock. From the short story “A Bit of Luck for Mabel” in the collection Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets.

4. For the bonus point, we learned in the short story “Ukridge Starts a Bank Account” in Plum Pie that Aunt Julia’s pawned clock was an ormolu. Apologies if it turned out that the “later story” clue in the question, which was intended to be helpful had the opposite result. Arthur Robinson informs me that, for reasons known only to the Barrie and Jenkins editorial staff, the story lineup of the omnibus volume The World of Ukridge had 1967’s “Ukridge Starts a Bank Account” preceding 1925’s “A Bit of Luck for Mabel”, leading to a dead end for people skimming through the stories following “Mabel” in quest of another passage about a purloined clock.

5. As confirmed by the Mallow Hall grandfather clock, it was High Noon when Scotland Yard Sergeant Claude Potter stopped a bullet with bank owner Mike Bond’s, (E’s), name on it. From Chapter 14 of Do Butlers Burgle Banks?, the butler in the title being Horace Appleby, (D).

6. After 400 pages of trouble and strife (in the Everyman-Overlook edition; only 300 pages of t. and s. in my paperback copy) Jill Mariner, (F), finally reached Journey’s End with Wally Mason, (G), in Chapter 21 of Jill the Reckless (US title The Little Warrior), serenaded only by the cosy tick-tock of Wally’s grandfather clock.

Round 310 - 9 April 2007

1. In the short story “Jeeves and the Greasy Bird”, which was collected in Plum Pie, the speaker, Bertie Wooster, seemed to be comparing himself to a stubborn horse as he told Jeeves how he had declined his Aunt Dahlia’s invitation to play Santa Claus at the Market Snodsbury children’s Christmas party.

2. In the final chapter (23) of Love Among the Chickens (1921 edition) Ukridge, (C), was telling the narrator Jeremy Garnet how he and his wife Millie, (A), managed to acquire some much-needed capital from Millie’s Aunt Elizabeth, (B), at the expense of having to listen to the old girl’s home-truths and proverbs. Aunt Elizabeth’s proverb and Millie’s response to it are also quoted in a slightly shorter version of this extract in Chapter 23 of the original 1906 edition of the book.

3. In Chapter 6 of Uncle Fred in the Springtime Mustard Pott, (D), quoted from Shakespeare while declining to advance a tenner to the impecunious Pongo Twistleton, (E).

4. Showing why he was given the nick-name “Barmy” by the members of the Drones Club, where barmyness is a way of life, Cyril Fotheringay-Phipps, (E), ignored the oft-repeated wise old saying of his absent Uncle Theodore, (G), and became a financial backer of a Broadway play being promoted by Joe Lehman, (F), of Lehmac Productions, Inc. From Chapters 9 and 10 of Barmy in Wonderland (US title: Angel Cake).

5. Retired financier Sir Jasper Todd, (H), was, perhaps, not quite as altruistic as he appeared in this scene as he set about the childishly easy task of separating Reginald Mulliner from a windfall inheritance of fifty thousand pounds. From the short story “Big Business”, which was first collected in A Few Quick Ones. Bearing in mind his business scruples and his profession, one wonders if Sir Jasper was related to Jeeves’ former employer, the financier Mr Montague-Todd, “now in the second year of his sentence”.