-1. Which dashing fictional character rode a jet black horse named ‘Tornado’?
2. What is the name of the whale with the distinctive unicorn like spiral tusk?
-3. Which tendon pins the calf muscle to the heel bone?
4. What is the Italian expression for a dish that has been baked in the oven?
-5. Wild Bill Hickok’s ‘dead man’s hand’ contained two pairs. Of what values?
-6. Which philosophical theory does one associate with Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre?
-7. What sort of creature is an abalone?
8. Which famous comedian won a Grammy Award in 2009 for Best Bluegrass Album?
9. What name was given to a female broadcaster of Japanese propaganda during WW II?
-10. The US Air Force's top secret plan 'Project A119' aimed to detonate a nuclear bomb where?
11. In a hit song from 1970, which title character makes "me sing like a guitar hummin'"?
12. Which now-defunct film company used this as their logo?

6. existentialism

7. I think an Abalone is an edible sea snail ??

(Not that I would ever fancy eating it 🙄)

You got in before jb, Marian!

Spot on, Mad - and me neither

1. Zorro

I was mowing the lawn in the "fun" heat

9. Mata Hari

3. Achilles tendon

11. Neil Diamond (great songs)

5 - Aces and eights

10. On the Moon.

2. Narwhal

jb - I just sit there and hum "Let it grow, let it grow, let it grow"

Nice try Sue but no. Mata Hati was WW I, and I'm looking for the nickname that was applied to all the Japanese female propagandists ("Oh no, it's ----- ---- again")

And who was the title character, manxman?

OB, SQF - perfect!