Yes, yet another one. A question for each of the twelve days of Christmas.
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CROSS-POLLINATION
Some of the best plants have been developed by breeding from disparate parents. I have done a little genetic juggling to produce some garden designers and pundits. Some are historical, some are more modern. Whom do you get if you cross the following:
1 A conqueror with the Garden of England?
2 A knight of the round table with an ex-PM (adding parenthetical competence)?
3 Hamlet's mother with an unstable Victorian doctor?
4 A Latin life, a dismissal, a French town and a compass bearing?
5 A transatlantic lavatory, professions and humbug?
6 A Duke of Northumberland with one who hurls a discus?
7 Oryctolagus cuniculus with an Irish pint?
8 My French house in Wales with a university academic?
9 Yours truly with a tiny wet place?
10 A man-shaped jug with a dollar and terra firma?
11 A Christmas song with little German?
12 A Nazareth carpenter and a virgin?
Happy puzzling
Midwinter gardening quiz #3
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Morning Monika
Remarkably good going! Number 5 is rather historical and intended as a stinker!
Anyone else got them?
Remarkably good going! Number 5 is rather historical and intended as a stinker!
Anyone else got them?
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I've got number ten, already.
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Impeccably correct answers, Monika! There are actually two answers to Qu. 5, though the names are the same - and you're back in the 16th-17th centuries
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Monika's now got question 5 answered - so all 12 correct. When are the rest of you going to have a go?
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Sorry Alan, it's just too hard for me.
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Thanks Geoff - you join Monika in the winners enclosure