More mind-stretchinghere are the answers to the gazette/SOLICITORS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION'S christmas quizThe quiz was published in [2000] Gazette, 15 December, 28(a)1 Cardinal Wolsey2 Sir Thomas More3 Lord Macclesfield4 Lord Hardwickei5 Lord Cottenham

(b)6 George Loveless, one of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, charged with administering unlawful oaths, 1834 (Quoted in Lord Denning : Landmarks in the Law, Butterworths 1984)

7 Clarence Darrow, on trial in Los Angeles in 1912 for attempting to bribe a juryman (Quoted in Irving Stone : Clarence Darrow for the Defence, The Bodley Head 1949)

8 Mahatma Ghandi, on trial for sedition, 1922 (Quoted in Louis Blom-Cooper, The Law as Literature, The Bodley Head 1961)

9 Wing Commander HMA Day, facing a charge of espionage at a Nazi court martial after escaping (this time by tunnelling out of Sachsenhausen concentration camp) 1944 (Quoted in, Sydney Smith: "Wings" Day, William Collins Sons & Co Ltd 1968)

(c)10 He was hanged, in Old Palace Yard, Westminster

11 He was the first transported convict to practise law in Australia

12 Eamon de Valera, Sean McGarry and Sean Milroy

13 Herbert Rowse Armstrong, Hay-on-Wye

14 Setting fire to the Reichstag

15 Brendan Behan

16 They were hanged - he last judicial executions in England17 Nine (d)18 The exile of George Loveless, see 6 above

19 The Tichborne trial, the longest in English history until the McLibel case (see 22, below)

20 Prohibition in USA

21 Administration of the Legal Aid Scheme by The Law Society

22 The McLibel case (McDonalds Corporation v Morris and Steel)

23 Jury deliberations in R v Dr H F Shipman

(e)24 St Paul, Epistle to the Romans

25 A butcher, speaking to John Cade, in Shakespeare's Henry VI part II

26 Mr Bumble, in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

27 Abraham Lincoln, speech on 8 September 1858

28 The Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe by Gilbert and Sullivan

29 Sherlock Holmes, in The Norwood Builder by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

30 A.

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Herbert, Uncommon Law (All quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 2nd Edition)

The Solicitors Benevolent Association thanks Wine Rack and the Gazette for sponsoring the prizes and to all those who entered.

The prizewinners:The winning entry came from retired solicitor Andrew Watt of Lincoln, with 21 correct answers out of a possible 30.

He wins 100 of Wine Rack vouchers.

The two runners-up were Conrad Shaw, of Wiltshires, Great Yarmouth, and Nina Lathar of Mills & Reeve, Birmingham, who each win 50 of Wine Rack vouchers.