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Answers to last week's quiz: Zeus* (½ point to those who answered Uranus. See note below) 1944 M90 Sir Edwin Landseer Mildew A young hawk (especially one taken early from the nest for training) 3 minutes Guadalcanal Hinny Monopoly Dr Christiaan Barnard Somalia New quiz tomorrow. * I also answered Uranus but the correct answer is Zeus. Uranus is primarily known as the God of the heavens. However, he was also, but only for a very short while, the King of the Gods, and therefore ruler of the universe (including the earth). He was a nasty piece of work who refused to let any of his 18 children leave their mother’s womb (imagine that if you can!). His perpetually pregnant and long-suffering wife, Gaea, must have been well fed up with the situation. She plotted with one of the captive sons, Cronos, who castrated his father with a sickle while said father was attempting to excercise his conjugal rights, thus bringing about his downfall. However, it is Zeus, the son of the sickle wielding Cronos, who became, and remained, the Supreme Ruler of the Universe and therefore of the heavens and the earth. Amazingly, Zeus was the only child of Cronos who managed to escape being eaten by his father at birth and that because his mother handed a baby-sized stone, wrapped in swaddling clothes to the famished Cronos who duly ate it, presumably without unwrapping it. I understand that he later spewed the stone up and Zeus set it into a path near Parnassos (I may have walked on it during my travels)! You really couldn’t make this up, could you!