Welcome to our first quiz of 2012! This little teaser is quite straightforward. All the answers to the clues and definitions either begin with BE- or end with –BE ... As usual, there are several ways of entering, including online (at our website), by post or handing this entry form to any member of RBBG. The closing date is not until Sunday, March 11th, 2012. Good Luck!

Clues and Definitions
 
  1 “Ee, ba gum,” said the Zimbabwean president. “It’s all upside down!”
  2 Very strong verbal attack
  3 Sit-com, spin off of ‘Soap’, where a butler was the eponymous character
  4 Bad base let four northern lads get back and help
  5 Prolific American composer and lyricist, whose creations include “Blue Skies”,
  “Alexander’s Rag Time Band” and “White Christmas”
  6 Short underground journey
  7 Country from which sprouts may have originated?
  8 English author of Peter Rabbit and other children’s stories
  9 Ernie Wise was one half of a popular English comedy act
  of which the other was _______?
10 Film version of a story by Dick King Smith, about the sheep-pig
11 French hat
12 German composer who wrote nine symphonies and several
  piano pieces, one of which was the Moonlight Sonata
13 Was it the Yeomen Warders who gobbled all the meat?
14 Incumbent is sixteenth user of this name
15 Microscopic organism
16 One of Australia’s greatest all-round cricketers and commentator
17 Prince wakes princess - with kiss!
18 English actor, known for roles in “Lady Chatterley”, “Sharpe” and
  “Lord of the Rings”
19 Capital, mein Herr, Capital!
20 Solid shape, ice?
21 Sounds like the dog makes noise at a dear US pop star, in this county?
22 Theatre in the round?
23 Two characters, in children’s TV programme, Ernie and __________ are
  friends of Big Bird ?
24 146 is a very good score, in a game of snooker, but it is ?
25 Storage for dresses, skirts, shirts and trousers