Beer challenge answers

(With apologies for the delay in posting)

Harking back to Frank’s “challenging” beer round of 23 August which appears to have had a mildly traumatising effect on teams, you may recall that one had to identify the overlapping entry that can fit in both lists. Here are the answers:

1. TRACY BEAKER, MIKE MILLIGAN, CAM LAWSON… […?…] …THELONIOUS MONK, COUNT BASIE, DAVE BRUBECK

Answer: DUKE ELLINGTON (Care worker and head chef in Tracy Beaker and jazz pianist and composer)

2. MEERKAT, SPRINGBOK, TREK… […?…]  NATELY, ORR, SNOWDEN

Answer: AARDVARK (Words of Afrikaans origin and characters in Catch -22)

3. HEDWIG, SCABBERS, FLUFFY …[…?…]…  FANNY PRICE, SIR THOMAS BERTRAM, MARY CRAWFORD

Answer: MRS NORRIS (Animal (Cat) in Harry Potter and character in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park)

4. T20, JOHN PLAYER LEAGUE,  ROYAL LONDON ONE DAY CUP…[…?…]… CORKSCREW, SWAN, BOOMERANG

Answer: THE HUNDRED (Both an English cricket format/competition and a Pilates exercise)

5. CROSSGATE, GILESGATE, NORTH BAILEY…[…?…]…LION’S HEAD, CASTLE ROCK, PULPIT ROCK

Answer: WHINN(E)Y HILL (Both an area in the city of Durham and a volcanic feature in Edinburgh near Arthur’s Seat)