Pajaholic

Thanks. Staying with the musical theme: Who was the wife of Les Paul (pioneer of the electric guitar and multitrack tape recorder)?

"Richard", "small" -- Little Richard, perhaps?

The issue wasn't that copper was mined more cheaply in Wales (which AFAICT doesn't have any significant copper deposits). The issue was that South Wales had the coal. As more coal than copper ore is required to smelt copper, it made economic sense to ship the ore to Wales rather than import coal into Cornwall -- and the smelters rather than the miners dictated the price of ore. That said, Swansea was indeed nicknamed Copperopolis -- so a very rapid DING to Pharisee and commiserations to dodgydaved!

Thanks. Staying on the subject of copper: Which UK town or city was nicknamed "Copperopolis" in the 18th and 19th centuries?

Depending on variant, copper with up to 30% tin. Some variants have other metals .. e.g. Ni Al Br also has nickel and aluminium in addition to copper and tin. Edited to add: I suspect that my answer might not be complete enough Ni Al Br is only one variant. Other possible metals alloyed with copper and tin to form bronzes are phosphorous, iron, arsenic, silver etc. Even zinc can be included in a bronze (although copper and zinc usually make brass). Basically, copper alloyed with anything other than just zinc is a bronze. If you really meant, "which metals make up the bronze used to make Olympic bronze medals?", IIRC this is usually an alloy of copper and tin with a small amount of zinc added to make the alloy easier to cast.

DING! Over to you ...

I guess that we don't have as many microlight enthusiasts as I at first thought. To keep the thread moving, I'll authorise Googling. Please feel free to use an Internet search engine to help answer this question.

You are correct -- it wasn't Sir Ranulph Fiennes! For info, the flight took 120 calendar days (80 flying days) in 1998 and was documented in a BBC series first aired in 1999 and repeated on Discovery channels several times since. The flight set a world record, beating the previous World record of 175 days for circumnavigation in an open-cockpit, single-engined aircraft set in 1924.

Thanks. Another aviation question: Who was the first person to circumnavigate the World in a microlight?

I'll guess that it was either Charles Rolls or Henry Royce (originators of Rolls-Royce). I can't remember which was the pilot, so I'll plump for Charles Rolls.

Berlin/1916 gets you the DING! Over to koselig ...

Thanks. ... on a related note: Which other Olympic Games (i.e. other than 1940 and 1944) were abandoned because of Word War, and which city was to have hosted them?

IIRC, the 1948 games were in London and that city was the 'de-facto' host because it was one of the two cities that should have hosted the wartime games. The other was Tokyo, which IIRC forfeited the games because of war with China and the games were then awarded to Helsinki, but did not then happen because of the war. Thus immediately before the start of WWII, the two cities intended to host the Summer Olympics were London and Helsinki. However, three cities were supposed to have hosted the games: London, Tokyo and Helsinki (but not necessarily in that order!)

Tony Mason .. or is that the rally driver? If I'm right, I'll pass to Hellfore1917 as I might be off grid for a day or two.

FWIW, the two countries I was looking for were the constitutional 'members' of the Austro-Hungarian empire: Austria and Hungary, who (as Austria-Hungary) declared war on Serbia. So Hellfire1917 gets the DING! Over to you ...

Thanks. Keeping with the WW1 theme ... The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparked the First World War, but which two countries were the first to declare war?

The only other poets I can think of are Rudyard Kipling and Wilfred Owen. ISTR that Kipling survived so I'll try Wilfred Owen.

Hmmm ... In developer mode, that image comes back as "binyon1.jpg" -- so I thought it might be Lawrence Binyon (the poet from whose work is taken the dedication made before the Last Post each Rememberance Day): They shall not grow old as we who are left shall grow old, Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn, At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them. ISTR he wrote that after the Great War, i.e. he survived and so it can't be him. However, it's Armed Forces week and so I'll still take the opportunity to give him a mention.

I'll guess "Mad Jack Churchill" because of him famously saying that people are less likely to shoot at you if you smile at them!

I'll guess at Rene Descartes. However, the protocol is for the person who answered the previous question (i.e. got the "DING") to set the next. So if I'm correct, I'll give way to Hellfire1917...

I checked several sources when setting this question. Although the majority said that Switzerland has the lowest crime rate, some gave the honour to Iceland ... and so the DING goes to martin&lindabryn. Over to you ...

I just googled to check; and a state of happiness apparently does lead to a low rate of crime -- although not as low as for the country I have in mind. Clue: The country is in the continent of Europe.

Thanks. Interestingly, and surprisingly (until you consider the low population and high number of visitors) the Vatican City has the highest per capita crime rate in the World. For the ding, which country has the lowest per capita crime rate?

At first, I thought "small country, probably Monaco or Andorra" but then remembered that there is a very small country with a very small, almost entirely adult population, most of who take a glass of wine once or twice a day for religious purposes: The Vatican City!

It is; DING! Over to Hellfire1917 ...