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Each answer starts with the first letter of a UK postcode and (where the postcode is of 2 letters) ends with the second letter of the same UK postcode.  The sequence of postcodes used follows the journey of an envelope from Manchester to Torquay moving up, down or diagonally from postcode area to adjacent postcode area (as per the UK Post Code map shown below).  Ten postcode areas are used excluding the start and destination areas.  The course of the envelope does not necessarily follow the most direct route.

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1.

Which river runs through Ipswich and flows out into the North Sea at Felixstowe?

OrwelL

2.

Which chemical element used to be known as natrium?

Sodium

3.

For which Manchester constituency was Winston Churchill MP between 1983 and 1997?

DavyhulmE

4.

Which Beatles song, written by Paul McCartney, was inspired by a dream he had of his mother who died of cancer when he was 14?

Let It BE

(“Mother Mary come to me”)

5.

Of which Asian country is Thimphu the capital?

Bhutan

6.

In which southern English cathedral is Jane Austen buried?

WinchesteR

7.

Who won the Formula 1 World Drivers Championship in 1962 and again in 1968?

Graham HilL

8.

Which term is derived from an old lottery game in which players placed their bets in a piece of headwear placed in the centre of a ring?

HandicaP

(hand in cap)

9.

Until he retired from the House of Commons in 2001 Edward Heath was MP for the constituency of Old Bexley and which other Kent town?

SidcuP

10.

What is the name of the actor currently playing the title role in Hamlet at the RSC’s Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon? 

David TennanT