1. Lord Vosper (A) discusses his engagement to Penelope Donaldson (B) and Gloria Salt (C) with Galahad Threepwood (D) [Pigs Have Wings, ch. 8].

2. Jaklyn Warner (F) is engaged to both Sally Fitch (E) and Daphne Dolby [Bachelors Anonymous, ch. 8].

3. Archie Gilpin (J) explains to Lord Ickenham (G) about his engagement to Myra Schoonmaker (H) and Millicent Rigby [Service with a Smile, ch. 9].

4. J Hamilton Beamish engages the services of Fanny Welch in order to help his friend George Finch, engaged to both Molly Waddington and May Stubbs [The Small Bachelor, ch. 9].

Round 322 - 23 July 2007

1. The honorary goldfish is Augustus Fink-Nottle (A), secretly fed by the Totleigh Towers cook who turns out to be Emerald Stoker [Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, ch. 7].

2. The hungy narrator is Reggie Havershot, eating, in the body of Joey Cooley, a sausage abandoned by the Brinkmeyers [Laughing Gas, ch. 12].

3. This lively discussion about goldfish and ants takes place between Eustace Trumper (B), Clarissa Cork (C) and Mrs Barlow (D) [Money in the Bank, ch. 16].

4. Sir Aylmer Bastable (E) does not approve of his nephew, Frederick Fitch-Fitch, falling in love with goldfish handler Annabel Purvis ["Romance at Droitgate Spa", from Eggs, Beans and Crumpets].

5. The living-room at Castlewood (F) contains photographs of Elaine Dawn (G) and Lord Uffenham (H) [Something Fishy, ch. 2].

Round 323 - 31 July 2007

1. The proud owner of a new set of false teeth is Sam Bulpitt (B), here talking to his sister Lady Abbott (A) [Summer Moonshine, ch. 10].

2. Galahad Threepwood consults his brother Clarence (C) on the counterfeit snappers of Lord Burper (E), stolen by Tubby Parsloe (D) [Summer Lightning, ch. 1].

3. Crispin Scrope (F) reports to Chippendale (J) that a Minnie Shaw, painted by Gainsborough (H), has been donated to charity [A Girl in Blue, ch. 13].

4. Butler Pollen informs Jane Abbott (K) about the fate of Mr Bulpitt's teeth [Summer Moonshine again, ch. 21].

5. Major Plank (M) tells Sir Watkyn Bassett and Roderick Spode, or Lord Sidcup (L), about an adventure in Mozambique [Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, ch. 23].

Round 324 - 8 August 2007

1. Medway (B), maid of Mrs Gedge (C), returns a cigar to Senator Opal (A) [Hot Water, ch. 8].

2. Wally Mason (F) reminds Jill Mariner (D), engaged to Sir Derek Underhill (E), of her brief cigar smoking experience [Jill the Reckless, ch. 4].

3. The speakers are Bingo Little (G) and his wife, the fictional smokers are Maud (J) and Angela (K), while H is Ma Purkiss ["Bingo Bans the Bomb", from Plum Pie].

4. George (L), the Valley Fields (M) police constable, suggests to Sally Foster (N) that Leila Yorke (O) engage the services of a private eye to find her husband [Ice in the Bedroom, ch. 13].

5. Here we have Lady Bassett (P) and Cyril Mulliner (Q) ["Strychnine in the Soup", from Mulliner Nights].

Round 325 - 16 August 2007

1. Wally Mason, now a successful Broadway lyricist, was grateful for a helping hand in his penniless past from the father of his old friend Jill Mariner, (A). From Chapter 4 of Jill the Reckless (US: The Little Warrior).

2. In Chapter One of Big Money Berry Conway brought his old friend The Biscuit, (D), up to date on his life story, which included a life-saving two hundred pound loan from his late aunt’s lawyer, Ebenezer Attwater, (B).

3. In Chapter Nine of Service With a Smile the always helpful Lord Ickenham, (E), after giving Lavender Briggs, (F), the inside scoop about the hostile reception awaiting her at Blandings Castle and helping her swindle Lord Tilbury out of five hundred pounds, then sprung for the money to hire a car to send La Briggs back to London in style.

4. In Chapter Five of Something Fishy (US: The Butler Did It) Bill Hollister, (H), looked forward to seeing Mortimer Bayliss, who had come to his father’s rescue when times were hard following the 1929 stock market crash.

5. A year after taking the trouble on his golfing holiday to cure visiting American millionaire Ira J Nutcombe, (J), of his slice, Lord Dawlish was astonished to learn from lawyer Jerry Nichols, (I), that he was the prime beneficiary of the late Nutcombe’s estate. From Chapter Four of Uneasy Money.

Round 326 - 28 August 2007

1. Bruce Carmyle of The Adventures of Sally is the odd man out on this list as he lives in Much Middleford, Shropshire while Jeremy Garnet (Love Among the Chickens), the British Ashe Marson (Something Fresh), Lady Malvern (the short story “Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest”), and Sir William Romney (the Joan Romney series of early stories) all call Much Middlefold, Shropshire home. The American Ashe Marson of Something New was from Hayling, Massachusetts. And we specifically omitted Sally Fitch of Bachelors Anonymous from this list because, while she comes from Much Middlefold all right, her home town is in Worcestershire instead of Shropshire. Unfortunately it was brought to my attention during the week that at least two frequently-used Wodehouse reference sources seem to have trouble accurately spelling Middleford and Middlefold.

2. Newt fancier Gussie Fink-Nottle is the odd man out in this list as we learn in Chapter One of Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves that Bertie Wooster and Jeeves have never kept newts nor, to the best of Bertie’s knowledge, have Einstein, Jack Dempsey or the Archbishop of Canterbury.

3. Mavis Mulligan of Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (US: The Plot That Thickened) is the one that doesn’t belong on this list. Gloria Salt of Pigs Have Wings, Poppy Kegley-Bassington, who entertained the multitude with her rhythmic dance at the Village Concert in Chapter 22 of The Mating Season, and Cora McGuffy Spottsworth of the golf story “Feet of Clay” have all been likened to “a snake with hips”.

4. Vera Sipperley of the short story “Without the Option” doesn’t belong on this list of pig-keeping Wodehouse characters. Lord Emsworth (beginning with the short story “Pig-Hoo-o-o-o-ey!”), Miss Maitland (the short story “Trouble Down at Tudsleigh”), old Wivenhoe (for the first time in Summer Lightning), Sir Gregory Parsloe (for the first time in Summer Lightning), and Lord Tilbury (Service With a Smile; implied earlier in Heavy Weather) are all proud pig-keepers.

5. In Chapter one of Bill the Conqueror we find Mr George Pyke considering a long list of names to assume with his new peerage. However “Bluffingdale” wasn’t one of the names on his list. Neither was “Tilbury”, which was the name he finally selected.

Round 327 - 5 September 2007

1. Peter Willard, (A), and James Todd, (B), remained closely in touch with their respective business operations, or as closely in touch as it is possible to be for two men who spend every day from dawn to dusk on the golf course. From the golf story “A Woman Is Only a Woman”, first collected in The Clicking of Cuthbert.

2. Injured polo player Bobbie Cardew, (C), was so impressed by red-headed hospital nurse Mary Anthony, (D), that a week after being discharged from the hospital he and the girl were toddling off to the registrar’s office to get spliced. From the early Reggie Pepper story “Absent Treatment”, which was first collected in My Man Jeeves.

3. That conscientious French civil servant Nicolas Jules St Xavier Auguste, the Marquis de Maufringneuse et Valerie-Moberanne or “Old Nick” for short, (E), didn’t know it yet but he was about to get the push from his position of employé attaché à l’expédition de troisième bureau (or “clerk” for short) at the Ministry de Dons et Legs. From Chapter Two of French Leave.

4. In the short story “Three From Dunsterville” collected in The Man Upstairs and Other Stories newly hired secretary Mary Hill, (F), couldn’t help but be impressed by the business acumen of her new employer and old Dunsterville friend Joe Rendal, (G).

5. Unfortunately the engagement of Cyril Mulliner, (H), and his beloved Amelia Bassett was unlikely to gain the consent of Amelia’s big-game hunting mother, who wanted something a little more manly and less pipsqueaky than an interior decorator for a son-in-law. From the short story “Strychnine in the Soup” which was first collected in Mulliner Nights.

Round 328 - 13 September 2007

1. You didn’t think we’d compose a quiz about acts of kindness going wrong without featuring at least one example of that blighted boy scout Edwin, (A), did you? In this extract, from Chapter Twelve of Joy in the Morning, Boko Fittleworth had the sympathy of Nobby Hopwood, (B), and Bertie Wooster when he recalled the time Edwin attempted to mend the Fittleworth egg-boiling machine.

2. After being jilted by his American fiancée in Chapter XIII of Bill the Conqueror Bill West’s, (C’s) attempts to dispose of a brown-paper parcel containing twelve of the girl’s framed photographs were frustrated by the highly trained retrieving skills of first a small girl in a print frock and then by an “enormous dog with long black hair and an expression of genial imbecility.”

3. When Homer Pyle, (D), transferred a valuable Gainsborough miniature owned by Willoughby Scrope, (E), from the latter’s mantelpiece to his desk drawer in Chapter Five of The Girl in Blue it was done with the best of intentions. And Willoughby might even have appreciated the act of kindness if only it hadn’t taken another eight chapters for him to be informed of the transfer.

4. In Chapter Two of Mike, AKA Mike at Wrykyn, Mike Jackson’s (F’s) train journey to school was enlivened when a fellow passenger left his luggage behind when he apparently got off the train. Mike saved the day by alertly hurling the stranger’s luggage on to the station platform as the train was pulling out, but began to regret his action at the next stop when the fellow returned to Mike’s compartment and began to make a fuss about his missing bag. The disposition of the fellow-passenger (whose named turned out to be Gazeka Firby-Smith) wasn’t improved when Mike made the mistake of grinning as he recalled the expression on the face of the railway porter Robinson, (G), when the flying luggage took him in the small of the back.

5. Joe Pickering, (H), was a sore as a sunburned neck in Chapter Eleven of Bachelors Anonymous when he learned that the mysterious illness the previous night which had caused him to miss a date with Sally Fitch was the result of his consuming a well-intentioned Mickey Finn administered by Ephraim Trout, (I).

Round 329 - 22 September 2007

1. The two snail-discussers are Lord Uffenham and Mortimer Bayliss. (Something Fishy, US title The Butler Did It, Chapter 20)

2. B is Amy, the "canine cocktail". (Sam the Sudden, US title Sam in the Suburbs, Chapter 17)

3. The trespassers are Bill West and Flick Sheridan. (Bill the Conqueror, Chapter 11)

4. Reading from left to right, E, F, G, and H are Colonel Wyvern, Hugo Carmody, John Carroll and Pat Wyvern. (Money for Nothing, Chapter 7; the other snail passage is in chapter 10.)

5. The speakers are Ephraim Trout and Mrs Amelia Bingham. (Bachelors Anonymous, Chapter 9. There is a legal precedent: Ernest William Pilbeam of East Dulwich sued his neighbour for throwing snails over the fence into his back garden, as recorded in Chapter 12 of Heavy Weather.)

Extra Credit: Anne Benedick informs her uncle, Lord Uffenham, that she hopes he will be bitten by wild snails. (Money in the Bank, Chapter 7)

Round 330 - 1 October 2007

1. Wilhelmina Shannon threatens to put worms down her sister Adela's back. (The Old Reliable, Chapter 6)

2. Millicent Threepwood and Ronnie Fish both kick at an unfortunate worm. (Summer Lightning, US title Fish Preferred, Chapter 3)

3. John Carroll, on learning that Hugo Carmody has proposed to Pat Wyvern, contemplates treading on "an offensively cheerful worm". (Money for Nothing, Chapter 15)

4. A breakfast-deprived Bertie Wooster envies a bird who is feasting on a large, succulent worm. (Thank You, Jeeves, Chapter 17)

5. Huxley Winkworth gives Wilfred Allsop the third degree. (Galahad at Blandings, US title The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood, Chapter 8)

Extra Credit: Wally Mason put a worm down Jill Mariner's back (not recently, but in their youths). (Jill the Reckless, US title The Little Warrior, Chapter 4)