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Olly Reston

1. WORD CONNECTIONS - What word connects a type of snake; a pastry; a breakfast cereal; a rapper; a cosmetic applicator; a dragon

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Answer: Puff - Puff adder; puff pastry; Sugar Puffs - or any variation such as Cocoa Puffs; Puff Daddy; powder puff; Puff the Magic Dragon
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2. NEXT IN LINE - God, Long, God, Send, Happy, ?

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Answer: Long - They are the first words of each of the lines in the first verse of God Save Our Queen
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3. ODD ONE OUT - Loos; Ypres; Verdun; Somme; Cambrai

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Answer: Ypres - They are all names of First World War battles fought on French soil, except Ypres which was fought in Belgium
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4. MISSING LINK - Sean 41, George 30, Timothy 43, Pierce 49, Daniel 40 ?

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Answer: Roger 57 - they are the first names of the official Bond actors and the age at which they hung up their official bond boots. That's right - 57.
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5. INITIALLY SPEAKING - WAI, UM, "IMTHYEIIMBB"

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Answer: Withnail & I, Uncle Monty, "I mean to have you even if it must be burglary"
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6. QUIZINE - Which international diplomat's name, if mentioned in an Indian cafe in a suitable accent, may result in you being served a hot beverage and a flatbread?

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Answer: Kofi Annan - Coffee 'n' Naan - just don't expect milk.
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7. MAGIC NUMBER - Lucky flight; Spain; seasonal film; Kansas; West Side Story

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Answer: 34 - QA34 was the lucky Qantas flight that had an engine blow-out mid flight but managed to perform an emergency landing; 34 is the dialling code for Spain; Miracle on 34th Street; Kansas is the 34th US State; West Side Stories won 10 Oscars at the 34th Academy Awards.
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8. LETTERMORPHOSIS - Side; Exist; Baby; End; Freud

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Answer: B; BE; BEL; BELL; BELLA
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9. GLOBALS - Found on 74% of all examples, what is the most popular colour in all the world's flags?

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Answer: Red (followed by white on 71% and blue on 50%)
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10. CODEBREAKER - If France is 12, Russia is 9 and Australia and the UK are both 8, what is China?

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Answer: 1 - It's the number of time zones covered by each country and their dependencies. Ever since China adopted a single national time in 1949, it has held the world's widest spanning time zone.
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