1. The self-proclaimed bank-cracker is Jimmy Pitt. (A Gentleman of Leisure, US title The Intrusion of Jimmy, Chapter 5)

2. C, the schemer, is Ukridge, Teddy Weeks the actor, and Robert Dunhill the employee of the New Asiatic Bank. ("Ukridge's Accident Syndicate", Ukridge, US title He Rather Enjoyed It)

3. Joe Cardinal recounts to Dinah Biddle his sentence to servitude in the New Asiatic Bank. ("Life with Freddie", Plum Pie)

4. H is Psmith. (Psmith in the City, Chapter 5)

5. Chimp Twist was the recipient of a letter from Mr Finglass, who had robbed the New Asiatic Bank. (Sam the Sudden, Chapter 23)

6. K is J Wilmot Birdsey ("One Touch of Nature", The Man with Two Left Feet)

Round 422 - 13 January 2010

1. Barter, Julia Ukridge’s butler, has been locked in the coal cellar by Stuttering Sam’s accomplice. (“Buttercup Day”, Eggs, Beans and Crumpets)

2. B is Joss Weatherby; C is Mrs Howard Steptoe. (Quick Service, Chapter 19)

3. The prowler locked in a coal cellar by the Marling Hall butler is Lord Emsworth. (“Sticky Wicket at Blandings”, Plum Pie)

4. The magnate is Jacob Z Schnellenhamer; F is Minna Nordstrom, née Vera Prebble. (“The Rise of Minna Nordstrom”, Blandings Castle)

5. Lord Tilbury is the prisoner, facing the awful majesty of the law as represented by Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth. (Heavy Weather, Chapter 17)

Bonus point: Eustace Trumper proposes to Clarissa Cork while they are locked in a cellar. When Lord Uffenham, who releases them, kisses Mrs Cork, Mr Trumper, reacting exactly as Othello would have done in the same situation, throws coal at him. (Money in the Bank, Chapter 28)

Round 423 - 21 January 2010

1. Albert Peasemarch makes Monty Bodkin feel that the curse has come upon him. (The Luck of the Bodkins, Chapter 18 of UK edition, Chapter 20 of US edition)

2. Pat Wyvern informs John Carroll of the curse her father has laid on the Carmody clan (including the dog Emily). (Money for Nothing, Chapter 8)

3. Lord Emsworth is the father of the Curse of the Emsworths, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood. (“Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best”, Blandings Castle)

4. Mervyn Mulliner receives the Curse of the Blotsams by post. (“The Knightly Quest of Mervyn”, Mulliner Nights. As two quiztakers noted, an earlier version of this story appeared in Strand magazine in July 1931 under the title “Quest”. On that occasion, Freddie Widgeon received the Curse of the Blicesters.)

5. JG Anderson gives Mervyn Potter a nasty look. (Barmy in Wonderland, US title Angel Cake, Chapter 1)

6. The fifth Earl of Bodsham is known at The Curse of the Eastern Counties. (“Bramley Is So Bracing”, Nothing Serious and the US edition of Eggs, Beans and Crumpets)

Round 424 - 29 January 2010

1. Lord Tidmouth and Mrs Lottie Higginbotham (his first wife) discuss his subsequent wives. (Doctor Sally, published in the US as “The Medicine Girl” in The Crime Wave at Blandings)

2. Bradbury Fisher shrinks from confessing to his fifth wife that he has lost their butler, Blizzard, in a golf bet. (“High Stakes”, The Heart of a Goof)

3. Alexandra Miller asks Mr Llewellyn about his wives. (Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, US title The Plot That Thickened, Chapter 7)

4. C is Vincent Jopp, who is proposing to make Amelia Merridew “the fourth of the long line of Mrs Jopps”. (“The Heel of Achilles”, The Clicking of Cuthbert, US title Golf Without Tears)

5. D is Mr Chinnery; E is the Princess von und zu Dwornitzchek. (Summer Moonshine, Chapter 1)

Round 425 - 9 February 2010

1. In Chapter Five of William Tell Told Again the title character, (A), had to listen to a certain amount of constructive criticism from his wife, Hedwig, (B).

2. In Chapter Three of Jeeves in the Offing (US: How Right You Are, Jeeves) Roberta Wickham recalled her romantic meeting with Reggie “Kipper” Herring on the ski slopes of Switzerland.

3. In the short story “Farewell to Legs”, published in the American edition of Young Men in Spats and in Lord Emsworth and Others in the UK, Angus McTavish quite naturally disapproved of that ski-ing non-golfer Legs Mortimer, (C ).

4. In this conversation with Eddy Moore, Mary Hill recalled the good old days of childhood, which included ice-skating in the winter. From the story “Three From Dunsterville” collected in The Man Upstairs and Other Stories.

5. In a Feb. 26, 1936 letter to his daughter Leonora, PG Wodehouse made it quite clear that he didn’t enjoy his recent holiday in St Moritz (“the White Hell of St. Moritz”, as he called it), and the ski-ing lessons were the part he enjoyed least of all.

6. We learn in Chapter One of The Little Warrior (US) and the magazine serial of Jill the Reckless (but not in the UK edition of the book) that Jill Mariner met Sir Derek Underhill at a skating rink.

Round 426 - 17 February 2010

1. We learn in the short story “Rodney Fails to Qualify” from The Heart of a Goof (US title: Divots) that the lymphatic William Bates, (A), began his courtship of Jane Packard, (B), with gifts of roses and chocolates.

2. Lucille Moffam, (D), struggled to find suitable words to express her appreciation for a birthday present from her husband Archie, (C), in Chapter 25 of Indiscretions of Archie.

3. The stamp album the schoolboy Mike Cardinal received from an uncle as a birthday present would re-enter his life with a good deal of prominence eight years later. From Chapter 13 of Spring Fever.

4. Complications were in the offing when Uncle Percy, (E), made the arrangements for his nephew Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge to present a sundial to Myrtle Bayliss as a birthday present. From “Ukridge and the Old Stepper”, first collected in Eggs, Beans and Crumpets.

5. Marion Wardour was the recipient of a gold cigarette-case that Claude Wooster, (F), had stolen from his Uncle George. From the short story “The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace”, first collected in The Inimitable Jeeves.

6. For the Bonus Point, we were looking for the unnamed magazine editor who accepted for publication the short story “The Coming of Gowf”, later collected in The Clicking of Cuthbert (US title: Golf Without Tears).

Round 427 - 26 February 2010

1. In the opening chapter of Uneasy Money our Bill, William FitzWilliam Delamere Chalmers, Lord Dawlish, (A), was filling in the time with a spot of mental golf while awaiting the arrival of his tardy fiancée Claire Fenwick, (B).

2. Freddie Widgeon, (D), was at a loss to know how to deal with the Alsatian Wilhelm in “Goodbye to All Cats” from Young Men in Spats.

3. In Chapter Two of Service With a Smile Pongo Twistleton, (E), explained to his Uncle Fred, (F), that his old friend Cuthbert Bailey was known as “Bill” because of a popular song lyric in which a Bill Bailey was longed for at home.

4. In Chapter 9 of Leave it to Psmith Eddie Cootes, (G), after learning that Psmith, (H), wasn’t really Ralston McTodd, (I), got into the habit of addressing the book’s title character as “Bill”.

5. A lighting designer named Bill was the centre of attention in this stormy rehearsal for the Broadway musical Ask Dad in the story “Startling Dressiness of a Lift Attendant” from The Inimitable Jeeves (US title: Jeeves), which later appeared in print under the title “Jeeves and the Chump Cyril” in The World of Jeeves omnibus.

6. The heroism and intelligence of the dog William, (J), earned the everlasting gratitude of James Rodman, (K), in “Honeysuckle Cottage”, first collected in Meet Mr Mulliner.

Round 428 - 15 March 2010

1. In Chapter Four of The Small Bachelor the fortune-teller Madame Eulalie accurately summed up the character of her client J Hamilton Beamish, (A).

2. In Chapter 23 of Cocktail Time we find Phoebe Wisdom and Lord Ickenham contemplating the eccentric behaviour of Phoebe's brother, Sir Beefy Bastable, (B).

3. Bertie Wooster and his Aunt Dahlia were in a bit of a spot in Chapter 12 of Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (US title Bertie Wooster Sees it Through) but fortunately Jeeves, (C), was on hand to lend them his ear.

4. In Chapter 3 of Psmith in the City Mike Jackson, (D), arrived in the Metrop., ready to cross the Rubicon by entering the work force and beginning his new career as a bank clerk.

5. Arriving at Market Blandings station under the assumed identity of Sir Roderick Glossop, (E), Lord Ickenham did his best to convince Rupert Baxter, (I), that the person Baxter met on the train calling himself Sir Roderick Glossop was a harmless lunatic suffering from delusions. The parts of (F), (G), and (H) were played by Pongo Twistleton (under the assumed identity of Basil Glossop), Lord Bosham and Lord Emsworth (as themselves). From Chapter 9 of Uncle Fred in the Springtime.

Round 429 - 22 March 2010

1. Arthur Jukes (A) requests the Oldest Member to refrain from farmyard imitations ["The Long Hole", from The Clicking of Cuthbert].

2. Eustace Hignett (C) is not amused by the f. imitations produced by Sam Marlow (B) [The Girl on the Boat, ch. 4].

3. Psmith (D) is not in the mood for farmyard i. coming from Freddie Threepwood (E) [Leave it to Psmith, ch. 8].

4.Bill Banister (G) is annoyed by the f.i. delivered by the maid Marie (H), while the part of F is played by Lord Tidmouth [Doctor Sally, ch. 3].

Round 430 - 30 March 2010

1. Sally Fairmile (B) seems more interested in the local ducks than in Jocelyn Weatherby (A) [Quick Service, ch. 9].

2. Tipton Plimsoll (E) will accompany Freddie Threepwood (C) to Blandings (D) after all [Full Moon, ch. 3].

3. Kate (H), Josephine (J) and Teresa (K) Trent were able to keep chickens, not ducks, at their Bensonburg farm (L) thanks to the royalties their father Edgar (F) earned from his play "Brother Masons" (G) [French Leave, ch. 1].

4. Freddy Mullett (M) and Fanny Welch (Q) are contemplating having a duck farm with room for little Frederick (N), Fanny (O) and William John (P) [The Small Bachelor, ch. 6].

5. The speakers are Bertie Wooster and Madeline Bassett [Right Ho, Jeeves, ch. 10].