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1. In 'Bo Geesty', Dand MacNeill was anxious to get back to his first independent command at Fort Yarhuna, as second lieutenant Keith had been left in charge. Keith was only twenty years old and heaven knew what 'youthful folly he might commit' without Dand's greater age and judgement. How old and what rank was Dand?
2. When the Highlanders got to Fort Yarhuna, it was a real 'Beau Geste' fort in North Africa, a fact that was not lost on McAuslan, who was evidently a great fan of the Gary Cooper film. What was the reaction of Dand (nicknamed Darkie) to McAuslan's remark 'Hey, mebbe Darkie'll prop up wir deid bodies like that ( ) o' a sergeant in the pictur'?
3. In 'Johnnie Cope in the Morning', Dand described his recruit training, when he was woken from a sound sleep at 5.30 by a villainous orderly sergeant and made to scrub a six-foot wooden table with cold water. He used to contrast his ordeal with that of Louis XIV, who was woken by a velvet-soled shoed valet drawing the curtains back and whispering 'It is my humble duty and profound honour to inform your majesty that it is eight-thirty of the clock'. Dand used to dream of the orderly sergeant being transported back to old Versailles. What did he think would happen then?
4. According to 'Johnnie Cope in the Morning', what was an effect of 'Johnnie Cope' played at six a.m. from approximately six feet away, through a thin shutter, full blast, 'with twenty pipers tearing their lungs out and a dozen side-drums crashing into the thunderous rhythm' on a 'refined and highly-strung subaltern' who was 'dreaming of Rita Hayworth'?
5. 'General Knowledge, Private Information' told of the story of an inter-battalion quiz. Dand was apparently a fund of esoteric knowledge. What was not something he quoted as knowing?
6. In 'General Knowledge, Private Information', Dand was asked 'What were the names of the five seventeenth-century statesmen whose initials made up the word "Cabal"?'. In a magnificent effort he got four of them. What was the one he missed?
7. In 'Parfit Gentil Knight, But' the unsavoury McAuslan was smitten with the beautiful Ellen Ramsay, a colonel's daughter, after rescuing her from ruffians in the Old Suk. What was not a description of McAuslan from this story?
8. In 'Fly Men', Dand had to round up 800 soldiers from an Arab town on a Saturday night with the threat of a smallpox epidemic, and mused on the strange things he'd had to do. What was not a duty Dand had been previously been detailed for in his brief army career as a subaltern?
9. The new Colonel of the battalion organised a golf match against the Royals - and McAuslan was a caddy. What was not something McAuslan did during the match?
10. In 'His Majesty Says Good-Day' Dand and McAuslan were returned to civilian life. What did Dand say would be served at the War Office?
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