Vanderbilt and the Yeggman. Vipers. Vigor, the Hammersmith wonder.

These are the questions for "Silvester":

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Deadline for guesses is 3pm Friday 30th December. Remember, as well as identifying the one you think is my one, also vote for the one which is your favourite. And may God have mercy on your soul...

And the next answer, the deadline for which is 3pm Wednesday 28th, is:

Silvester

As before, suggest in a comment below a question to which that is the (correct) answer. Good luck!

Hope everyone had a good Christmas and is using Boxing Day to recover!

Here are the questions for "Tom Cruise":

1 Which Maverick Actor's break-through into the big time is best remembered by a skid through a doorway, half dressed....
2 Which actor's movies have earnt the most money at the worldwide box office without that actor having won an Oscar?
3 Which former Franciscan seminary student told us to Respect the cock! in a floral 90s movie?
4 Which Hollywood actor was born Thomas Mapother?
5 Which Hollywood movie star appeared in a fake documentary following the work of one of his own stunt doubles?
6 Which Scientologist had an uncredited cameo appearance in the 1988 film Young Guns?
7 Which star recently bought his own sonogram machine to track the progress of the child which his girlfriend Katie Holmes is carrying?
8 Which well-known actor's birth surname was Mapother?
9 Who is William Mapother's more famous cousin?
10 Who lost almost 3 stone in order to look more authentic for his role in the 1990s film of Interview with a Vampire?
11 Who played the vampire Lestat in the film of Interview With a Vampire?
12 Who was Nicole Kidman married to?
13 Who was the first actor to star in five consecutive films that grossed $100 million in the USA?

As before, say in a comment (which will be screened) which you think is the one I chose originally.

The setters were:

bateleur
bibliogirl
brixtonbrood
cuthbertcross
dr_bob
fractalgeek
jiggery_pokery
liriselei
mooism
nickeyb
queenortart
undyingking
wimble


For this round we'll introduce a new feature, which is that as well as guessing the "correct" question, you can also vote for your favourite question. You could like it for being clever, well-phrased, obscure, amsing, or just plain on a basis of whimsy. Whoever gets the most votes as favourite (you can't vote for your own one, of course) gets a bonus point!

Deadline is 3pm on Wednesday.

Here's the next set of questions, looking for the answer "400":

1 How many Members of Parliament are there in the National Assembly of South Africa?
2 How many miles short would you be if you walked three fifths of the distance the proclaimers said they would in the chorus of the song \500 miles\?
3 How many pounds did David Beckenham spend on religious shrines to bring him good luck when he moved to Real Madrid?
4 How many Spartan soldiers defended Greece from the armies of Persia at the battle of Thermopylae, in 480 B.C.?
5 How many Spartans were there at the hot gates?
6 How many years does it take for the Western (Gregorian) calendar to repeat, ignoring Easter?
7 If you add Neneh Cherry's seconds to the number of steps to heaven, and multiply the result by the last track on U2's album \War\, what do you get?
8 What do you get when you multiply 6 by 9?
9 What is 20 squared?
10 What is the highest number of runs scored by an individual batsman in a Test cricket innings?
11 What is the highest score by a batsman in a single test match innings?
12 What is the square of 20? [1]
13 What is the square of 20? [2]
14 What number is represented by the letters CD in Roman numerals?
15 Which Rover series was the biggest loss maker for the British car-maker?

and these are the setters:

bibliogirl
brixtonbrood
cardinalsin
cuthbertcross
dr_bob
fractalgeek
jackfirecat
jiggery_pokery
liriselei
mooism
queenortart
thecesspit
undyingking
verlaine
wimble

So as before, just post in a comment saying which question # you want to vote for. Deadline is 3pm Boxing Day.

OK then, here's the answer for the next question:

400

Same rules as before: anyone can enter, whether or not you did so last time. Deadline is midday tomorrow, as I'm one of those unfortunate people who's tied to the computer all through the Christmas period.

(Next time I'll combine this into the voting for the last turn's questions, unless that looks hideously confusing.)

OK then, here's the first go at this. Let's see how it works out!

So, I've thought of a question which I'll put in a screened comment to this post. The answer to it is:

Gibbon

So your first task now is to think of a question which has that as the correct answer, and which you hope other people will think is the one that I was thinking of in the first place. Add your question in a comment (NB not anonymous), which will also be screened. The deadline is 3pm UK time tomorrow 23rd December.

(Note that quite often people come up with questions similar to the "correct" one, in which case distinguishing between them by studying the grammar, precise wording etc may come into play. So best to phrase your question as a grammatically complete query sentence, as that's what I'll be doing.)

Edit: Better make it midday rather than 3, I think, as I expect you'll all be POETS(&CE)ing this afternoon...