Mr Hedgehog

Correct, but why did it only come in black?

ding.... "Minnesota has 90,000 miles of shoreline, more than California, Florida and Hawaii combined." Lucky guess! Anyway, why is Henry Ford credited with saying you can have any colour you like, so long as it's black? Richard

70000 90000?

Something is nagging at the back of my mind that it is every 25 years. Richard

Judging by the smiley, I think we're probably going the wrong way. So I'll guess at 610,000. Richard

I somehow suspected that was going to be the case.

DING! Richard

Correct, no more than 7 attempts then! Richard

Not that many, he was good, but not that good! Richard

Nope.

Nope. Too many.

Almost correct, Merckx actually won the King of the Mountains twice, and the points jersey 3 times. Absolutely correct with the 13 more than Armstrong, but how many? Richard

I don't follow the sport so a total guess 75 Nope, more than that. Another guess: 85 More still.

No problem with Halloween, but it's the kids teenagers trying to extract with petty menaces that gets me. I'm off out tomorrow night to sit in our field and fettle my bonfire for the weekend, definately NO chance of being harassed there! Yes, I probably am a M-O-G, bit do I care??? Not a bit!!! Richard

I don't follow the sport so a total guess 75 Nope, more than that.

Continuing on the sporting theme, how many Yellow Jerseys did Eddy Merckx win during his Tour de France career? Richard

1992

A Comet??

Not exactly a discovery, but it was the first day of the Act of Union, bringing together Great Britain and Ireland to form The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Richard

DING!! So what was special about it? apart from it (& not the Spitfire) being the deciding factor in the Battle of Britain. The Hawker Hurricane was the first fighter monoplane to join the Royal Air Force and the first combat aircraft adopted by that arm capable of exceeding 300 mph in level flight.

DING!!

Still on the aviation theme, what had its first flight on November 6th, 1935, and what was special about it?

Wasn't that one of these super light aeroplanes, a bit like the Gossamer Albatross that flew the Channel about 25 years ago?

What was James Bond's (007) favourite drink? Vodka Martini, shaken, not stirred.

Isn't the oldest ship HMS Trincomalee, which I seem to remember is up north somewhere. No idea what the connection is though.