F8. This variety of crab, Ovalipes ocellatus, gets its colloquial name from a type of cheap printed fabric that its patterned shell resembles. The textile originated in India and was quite the bone of contention between British importers of the cloth and the English manufacturers of similar fabric from the early 18th century till well over a century afterwards. What textile?

A. Calico

A6. General Electric is the largest manufacturer of aircraft engines in the world. With more than 50,000 engines in service with 500 airlines, 2,400 corporate and utility operators and more than 100 armed forces, which company is the second largest?

A. Rolls-Royce

E4. In 1573, the Italian painter Paolo Veronese delivered this painting to the Dominicans of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice for their refectory. The subject of the painting caused Veronese to be called before the Inquisition to explain why the work contained "buffoons, drunken Germans, dwarfs and other such scurrilities" as well as extravagant costumes and settings. He was asked to change the painting appropriately within three months. His solution was to rename the painting, calling it 'The Feast in the House of Levi', which is how it continues to be known. What was the original subject and title of the painting?

A. The Last Supper

G6. What Mervyn Bunter was to Lord Peter Wimsey, Figaro to the Count of Almaviva, Georges to Hercule Poirot and Passepartout to Phileas Fogg.

A. Valet. That was an easy one. And seriously, there's no way you can't get this theme now!

C7. This deity, whose temple dates back to 1675, gets her name from the Sanskrit for 'great mother'. She was in particular a patron of the Agri and Koli peoples. Name her.

A. Mumba Devi, whose name purportedly comes from 'maha amba'.

B10. So, what was the happy bridegroom's name? Please read the question carefully and answer appropriately. 

A. That's Yousuf Youhana, one of the few cricketers from the religious minorities that Pakistan could boast of. Now, of course, he's joined the majority, calls himself Mohammad Yousuf and looks like this:

F7. This is a London pub that dates from the 1530s (it was rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666). It was a favourite of many writers, from Oliver Goldsmith and Tennyson to Arthur Conan Doyle and G.K. Chesterton. Charles Dickens even mentioned the pub by name in 'A Tale of Two Cities'. It takes its name from the type of cheese shown in the picture below. It is one of England's oldest known cheeses, available in white, red and blue varieties, the white being the commonest. Name the cheese.

A. Cheshire cheese. 

The pub is called Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, and is considered to be the prototype for the name of all the 'Ye Olde...' establishments in Britain and since then in other parts of the world.

A5. The man in this picture was a Wall Street banker who served as a US Senator in the 1950s and early 1960s. The couple named their second son, born in 1924, after the woman's father, unusually using his full name. What surname, as a result, became the middle name of two US Presidents?

A. Walker, as in George Herbert Walker Bush and George Walker Bush.

Dorothy Walker, who married Senator Prescott Bush, was the daughter of George Herbert Walker. The couple named their second son in honour of his maternal grandfather. George H.W. Bush went on to become the 41st President of the United States, and his son, who also carried the surname Walker as a middle name (and was nicknamed 'Dubya' because of his pronunciation of the resulting middle initial), became the 43rd.

E3. Here's a description of a card game from Wikipedia. Name the game (the name is the same as the blanked-out word in the second para):

Using a standard 52-card deck, five cards are dealt to each player, or seven if there are four or fewer. The remaining card pack is shared between the players, usually sprawled out in a non-orderly pile referenced as the "ocean" or "pool".

The player whose turn it is to play asks another player for his or her cards of a particular rank. For example, "Bim, do you have any threes?" The player who is asking must have at least one card of the rank he asked for in his hand. The recipient of the request must then hand over a card of that rank, if he has any. If the recipient of the request has none, he tells the player to "go _____," and the player draws a card from the pool and ends his turn. If the player receives the card he wanted (through either means), he may take another turn. If the player is now holding a pair of one rank, he may place the cards face up in front of himself.

Winning: When one player runs out of cards, or the pool is empty, the game ends. The player with the most piles in front of him or her wins.

A. Fish. The game is also called 'Go Fish' or other variants of this theme. 

G5. He's had such an eventful and variegated life, one could do an entire quiz with questions only on him. But this is not the forum for that, so let's stick to a meta-question -- one on his quizzing credentials. Who, then, appeared for Queen's College, Cambridge, on the University Challenge quiz show in 1981 and later in life said it was the quiz show he'd most like to host, calling it "a window on the weirdness and wonder of studentry"? A quiz show that he does host is the very popular QI, currently into its 10th season on BBC, for which he won the Rose d'Or award for "Best Game Show Host" in 2006.

A. Stephen Fry