-1. Foucault's Pendulum demonstrates which scientific fact?
-2. Which country is the setting for the Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
-3. From which European language is the South African ‘Afrikaans’ derived?
-4. The ounce is another name for what animal?
-5. What was the first name of the famous Italian tenor Caruso, who died in 1921?
-6. What would one find in a 'grimoire'?
-7. Where were the 1994 Winter Olympic Games held?
-8. Which musician was known as the "King of Swing"?
-9. What name is given to the art of handwriting?
-10. Which courtier of Dionysius the Elder had to sit beneath a sword hanging by a single thread?
-11. In fencing, what is a ‘balestra’?
-12. Who is this?

8. Benny Goodman

9. calligraphy

6. spells

Three Christmas crackers!

12. Paul McCartney??

Nice one, Remi!

5. Enrico

4. Snow leopard (extremely small animal hence its weight).

Bernie

7. Lillehammer, Norway

flotsam, Bernie, michele - good calls!

10. Damacles

3. Dutch

Mad, manxman - ticking them off nicely!

11 - one of the combatants lunges at the other one

2. Greece (Athens, I think)

1. Earth's rotation.

Excellent finish, y'all!