Round 51 -  6 July 2000

1. Bertie's thoughts on Rugby were only too horribly realised when Tuppy Glossop played for Upper Bleaching against Hockley-cum-Meston. At half-time, Bertie felt "To fit him to take his place once more in polite society, he would certainly have to be sent to the cleaner's. Indeed, it was a moot point whether it wouldn't be simpler just to throw him away." The Ordeal of Young Tuppy, Very Good, Jeeves!.

2. Major Plank has taken over the running of Hockley-cum-Meston, and is asking Bertie if he knows a curate who is also a good prop forward. This subsequently turns out to be the Reverend Stinker Pinker (Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves). As L&S Kaschke point out, we can only wonder what might have happened had Tuppy and Stinker met each other on the field.

3. The inarticulate speaker was Ginger Kemp, in The Adventures of Sally. The conversation took place as they were trapped in a French lift.

Round 52 -  15 July 2000

1. Monty Bodkin had failed at his task of editing Wee Tots. His betting tips did not go down well with the proprietor and he lost his job, which was the key to him winning Gertrude Butterwick. Heavy Weather, chapter five.

2. Bertie and Nobbie Hopwood were discussing the behaviour of Boko Fittleworth. Boko was attempting to ingratiate himself with Nobbie's guardian by protecting him from burglary. However, due to an unfortunate concatenation of circumstances, Boko ended the night by calling Lord Worplesdon a silly ass and stalking off. Joy in the Morning, chapter 15.

3. This pure-minded author was Kay's brother, Biffy. Kay had mislaid him and was making inquiries at a French Police station.

Round 53 -  28 July 2000

1. a) Bertram Wilberforce Wooster, of course. The name itself is mentioned on multiple occasions, with provenance being revealed by Aunt Dahlia in Much Obliged, Jeeves, ch. 9: "'Wilberforce,' she murmured, as far as a woman of her outstanding lung power could murmur. 'Did I ever tell you how you got that label? It was your father's doing. The day before you were lugged to the font looking like a minor actor playing a bit part in a gangster film he won a packet on an outsider in the Grand National called that, and he insisted on you carrying on the name. Tough on you, but we all have our cross to bear. Your Uncle Tom's second name is Portarlington, and I came within an ace of being christened Phyllis.'"

b) [the truly obscure instance the Quizmistress cannot claim to have noted] Samuel Wilberforce Gosling from A Prefect's Uncle; "a long thin dayboy ... known to his friends and admirers as Sammy," a fast bowler for Beckford College's first eleven; "one of those rare individuals who cultivate bowling at the expense of batting, a habit the reverse of what usually obtained in schools."

2. Ronald Overbury Fish. As the Mixer reports, "We learn his middle name in Part 3 of Chapter 4 of Money for Nothing, in which Ronnie has a small supporting role before going on to play the male romantic lead in Summer Lightning and Heavy Weather." Its only significance that I know of is that the reference to one "RO Fish" in The Luck of the Bodkins upon a recent rereading started me on this train of thought, since my brain, giving quicker service than you might have expected, immediately supplied both given names.

3. John SFE Mulliner, Mr. Mulliner's cousin-to-be, in "The Story of William".

4. a) William Galahad 'Blister' Lister, in Full Moon.

b) Samuel Galahad Bagshott, in Galahad at Blandings (in which Bill Lister is also mentioned, just to make everything symmetrical).

Round 54 - 5 August 2000

1. William Mulliner despairs of setting up housekeeping with Myrtle Banks, in "The Story of William".

2. Mike Jackson and Psmith agree that their new digs will compensate, in some small way, for their toil at the bank. Psmith in the City, ch. 8.

3. Bertie Wooster checks out Wee Nooke, the cottage he is to occupy for such a short time, in Joy in the Morning (a.k.a. Jeeves in the Morning), ch. 9.

4. Mr Cornelius, that loyal Valley Fields house-agent, gives a nice sales pitch to the Biscuit (a.k.a. Godfrey, Lord Biskerton), in Big Money, ch. 5. Anne-Marie Chanet pointed out the companion quotation: Later on, when the Biscuit did get to his new home, he saw that "there were flowers bordering the short snail-walk which Mr Cornelius would most certainly have described as a sweeping carriage drive" and had "a nature-lover's eagerness to set his eyes roaming over the park-like grounds".

Round 55 - 14 August 2000

1. Lord Emsworth seeks refuge from the stresses of urban life in Kensington Gardens (little realising that he is shortly going to cause himself more stress by picking flowers under a constable's outraged eye); in "Custody of the Pumpkin."

Round 56 - 22 August 2000

Country Estates

1. Mrs Spenser Gregson, also known as Aunt Agatha, owns the estate, Bertie provides the favorable critique, and the Right Hon. A. B. Filmer absorbs the rain on top of the Octagon, in "Jeeves and the Impending Doom".

Round 58 - 10 September 2000

1. This excerpt is from Muriel Singer's masterpiece, The Children's Book of American Birds, which was actually ghost-written by Bruce Corcoran's friend Sam Patterson on the suggestion of Jeeves. Unfortunately, the great man's scheme blew a fuse and Miss Singer jilted Corky to marry his wealthy uncle. With Jeeves at his side, Corky would get his revenge by using the couple's first-born son as his artist's model for his new comic strip, The Adventures of Baby Blobbs. This story appeared under two different titles, first as "Leave it to Jeeves" in the early collection My Man Jeeves and then, slightly re-written, under the title "The Artistic Career of Corky" in Carry On, Jeeves!

2. This is the work of the struggling poetess Eunice Nugent, a.k.a. Mrs Archibald Ferguson. Unable to make a living as a poet, Eunice earns her daily bread as an advertising copy writer while her struggling artist husband keeps the wolf from the door by drawing the adventures of the Doughnut Family in the comic strip Funny Slices. It's from the early Reggie Pepper story "Concealed Art", which first appeared in a 1915 edition of The Strand magazine and was recently collected by David Jasen in Enter Jeeves, which brings together eight early Jeeves stories and all seven Reggie Pepper yarns in one volume for the first time.

3. This grisly sentence was the work of Rosie M. Banks in her article How I Keep the Love of My Husband-Baby, written for Mrs T. P. Travers' magazine, Milady's Boudoir. Fortunately for the peace of mind of Richard "Bingo" Little, the husband-baby in question, Rosie withdrew her article when her peerless French chef, Anatole, was pinched by Mrs Travers. From the short story "Clustering Round Young Bingo" which appeared in the collection Carry On, Jeeves!

4. Lord Tilbury's blood pressure reaches a new high as he peruses Uncle Woggly's column in his organ, Tiny Tots, currently (but not for long) under the command of assistant editor Monty Bodkin in the absence of the vacationing Rev. Aubrey Sellick. (Heavy Weather, Chapter Two)

For extra points in our Mix And Match Quiz, Question #1 was (b) the work of a ghost writer, Question #2 was (d) printed without a by-line, Question #3 was (a) suppressed and not published, and Question #4 was (c) written under a nom de plume, to wit 'Uncle Woggly'.

Round 59 - 18 September 2000

1. Those appearing on this list were entered in various events at the Twing Village Sports, held in conjunction with the annual School Treat. Most unfortunately Mrs Penworthy, the tobacconist's wife, failed to finish the Mother's Sack Race, Harold the page-boy was a late scratch from the Choir Boys' Hundred Yards Handicap, and Sarah Mills, Jane Parker, Bessie Clay and Rosie Jukes were all disqualified from the Girls' Open Egg and Spoon Race. You will find the details of the Wooster-Little-Jeeves syndicate's attempt to skin pimpled bookie Rupert Steggles in the short story "The Purity of the Turf", collected in The Inimitable Jeeves (U.S. title, Jeeves).

2. Matilda Jervis, Jane Willoughby and Muriel Debenham are the three leading contenders for this year's Women's Singles crown at the Wambledon Lawn Tennis Championships. The Men's Singles title is generally reckoned to be between George Winstanley Murgatroyd, J. Arthur 'Grandpop' Binns, Archibald Twirling and John Jasper Jones although most of the smart money is being wagered on the latter competitor due to his foresight in recently becoming engaged to the sister of tournament umpire Bernard Thistleby, Wambledon's popular sexton. ("Prospects for Wambledon" from Louder and Funnier)

3. The athletes listed in this question were all leading lights with the Manchester United Football Club. After discovering that Comrade Rossiter, his immediate superior at the New Asiatic Bank, was a dedicated supporter of the footer club in q., Psmith set about the task of reading up on the lads' exploits and ingratiating himself with the old boy by talking soccer until he was blue in the mouth. Psmith's co-worker, Mike Jackson, also benefited from Comrade Rossiter's new-found goodwill by being introduced as a distant relative of the goalkeeper, Moger. (Psmith in the City, Chapter 9)

4. Washington McCall upset defending champion Spike O'Dowd to capture the (New York) West Side Pie-Eating Championship held under the auspices of the Clover-Leaf Social Outing Club. (Chapters 21 and 22, The Indiscretions of Archie; the episode was originally published as a magazine short story under the title "Washy Makes His Presence Felt".)

Round 60 - 26 September 2000

1. Bertie Wooster, armed (or so he thought) with the magic word "Eulalie", saved Gussie Fink-Nottle's life by distracting Roderick Spode (X) with a few home truths in Chapter 7 of The Code of the Woosters.

2. Alaric "Ricky" Gilpin (B) found himself on the verge of becoming brusque to his Uncle Alaric, the mad Duke of Dunstable (C), after his dream of buying an onion soup bar was dashed by His Grace's refusal to kick in the necessary £250. (Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Chapter 13)

3. Housemaid Elsie Bean (D) leads a revolt of the Ashenden Manor domestic staff against the tyrannical rule of Sir Mugsy Bostock (C). With a quickness that almost deceived the eye, Mrs Gooch the cook, the parlourmaid Jane and the knives and boots boy Percy followed suit by handing in their respective portfolios. (Uncle Dynamite, Chapter 9)

4. A talent show at the Bottleton Palace of Varieties was disrupted when Jos. Waterbury (Z) infuriated Mr Murphy, a red-haired man who looked like he might be in some way connected with the jellied eel industry, with an apparently harmless question about the price of foodstuffs. Freddie Widgeon, who was attempting to sing "When the Silver of the Moonlight Meets the Love-light in Your Eyes" to Mr Waterbury's accompaniment at the time, was baffled by the apparent incendiary nature of the remark but the thoughtful Crumpet who described the incident to two Beans in the Drones smoking room was inclined to think there must have been some hidden significance in the question. There can be no doubt that Mr Waterbury's question stung the red-haired man to the quick, causing him to shoot to his feet howling like a gorilla, thus effectively ending Freddie's performance and giving the rest of the audience the cue it needed to fill the air with a rich variety of vegetables. ("The Masked Troubadour" from Lord Emsworth and Others (UK) and The Crime Wave at Blandings (US))