Tonight I'm Cleaning Out My Wallet Quiz

Answer: British SF comic "2000AD"

Most reviews agreed that "Dredd: 3D" was much more faithful to the character of of the Dredd of "2000AD", where he first appeared in 1977 and rapidly became the comic's best known creation. The Stallone film was heavily altered to suit its star; Dredd almost NEVER, for example, removes his face-obscuring helmet, whereas Stallone hardly ever wore his in the film. And he had a love interest...Oh dear.

Dredd should also never be confused with another iconic figure of my childhood: Judge DREAD, the stage name of the late UK reggae singer Alexander Minto Hughes. Dread/Hughes had a string of hits in the 1970s with some extremely rude reinterpretations of popular nursery rhymes, in spite of the fact that virtually all of them were banned from radio airplay. I very much doubt that Dredd and his fellow Judges would have permitted them in Mega City One either...

Answer: Little Shop of Horrors

In case she's reading this, I want to stress that my dentist Emma is lovely and kind and not like Orin at all. I'm not nervous about Wednesday at all. Honest.

I played serial killer florist Seymour Krelbourn in a 2006 amateur production of "Little Shop of Horrors", and it remains by far the most fun I've ever had on stage. LSOH has an interesting history. Most people only know of the 1986 film, but that was based on the 1980 stage musical - which was in turn based on another very low-budget 1960 Roger Corman film that is primarily known today because one of Orin's patients was played by Jack Nicholson in one of his first screen roles.

Without going into spoilers, I'll just say that people going to see "Little Shop of Horrors" the musical based solely on having seen the film may have a bit of a surprise!

Answer: George Orwell

There is, of course, far more to George Orwell than "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "Animal Farm". His essay "The Moon Under Water" was published in the London paper "The Evening Standard" in 1946.

Wetherspoon pubs originally set out to emulate as much as possible the ten key points Orwell said any pub should have by having no music, no noisy games machines and plenty of cheap(ish) food - although I doubt that very many have ever sold aspirins or let customers use their telephone! The Court of Requests in Oldbury near Birmingham is located in a former courthouse and meets another Orwell pub requirement - good solid Victorian architecture.

Answer: Smallpox

A picture paints a thousand words, so rather than describe what smallpox did to people, I'd suggest just Googling images of victims. It wasn't nice. It's remarkable that according to the World Health Organisation's stats, smallpox was still killing two million people a year even in the mid-1960s, yet little over a decade later it was gone.

There's a lot less TB and polio about than there was, mainly thanks to vaccination, but they aren't totally beaten. Malaria is a whole different story, alas.

I lost my dearest friend, Bev, to swine 'flu in 2011; she survived the disease itself (albeit after a month in hospital, much of that in intensive care on a ventilator), but it destroyed her health, and she died nine months later. During those months she repeatedly made me promise that if she died, I'd have a 'flu jab every year to reduce the chances of me ending up like she did. So I do.

Answer: Happiness Is a Warm Gun

"The man in the crowd with the multicoloured mirrors on his hobnail boots / Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy working overtime/A soap impression of his wife, which he ate and donated to the National Trust.."

Quite. As with many Beatles tracks, the "true meaning of the song" varies depending on which Beatle people have asked over the years. You can find it on "The White Album".

The National Trust started out in the 1890s with the purchase of a modest thatched house in Alfriston, Sussex, but by 2012 owned over two hundred properties in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (there's a separate NT for Scotland) ranging from large country estates to dovecotes. It also owned nearly a thousand square miles of countryside. You have to pay to visit most of the properties, but NT members (of which there were nearly four million in 2012) can normally visit them for free.

Answer: Dangerously Inebriated Iguana

Tactical Nuclear Penguin is made by Scottish brewery Brew Dog. It's an eye-watering 32% ABV, and has an eye-watering price to match - $50 for a 330ml bottle when launched.

Hopocalypse Vale - "We love the smell of the mash in the morning," it says on the pump clip - is, I kid you not, made with Chinook hops by Vale Brewery of Buckinghamshire.

Thirsty Beaver is a popular Canadian beer from British Columbia, although the pint I drank recently was a version of it brewed specially at Caledonian Brewery in Scotland for a UK beer festival.

As well as promoting the widespread availability of good quality real ale, CAMRA also fights for the continued existence of the UK's pubs as community assets, regardless of whether they sell real ale or not, in the face of the major threats they face from cheap alcohol sold in supermarkets, property developers who want to buy up pubs and replace them with housing, and other issues.

Answer: It was the first FA Cup tie played under floodlights

Another good thing about the Brierley Hill game was that, unlike the Oldham game I went to, the Harriers won - even without the aid of passing birdlife.

Kidderminster Harriers were only a minor non-league team in the early 1950s but were very early adopters of floodlights, well ahead of all the traditional "big" teams, so hold a number of floodlight "firsts."

Substitutes weren't used in the FA Cup until 1967. The cup has only been stolen once - from a shop in Birmingham in 1895. It was never seen again, and the then holders Aston Villa were forced to pay for replacement.

Answer: Jared Fogle

Look, my FT user name is an alternative term for a gannet - you're not going to get away from fowl entirely in one of my quizzes! In the answers, all four first names are popular Mormon names. As for the surnames - Vogel is German for bird, Stieglitz is a curlew, Amsel is a kestrel and Mauersegler is a mallard duck.

Fogle was signed up by Subway in the late '90s after the company learned of the successful Subway-based diet he'd been on whilst at college in Indiana. It's always careful to caveat its Fogle campaigns heavily by stressing that it's also important to exercise a lot.

Fogle is probably best-known to international audiences from the South Park episode in which, after a promotional visit to South Park by Fogle, Cartman attempted to get the local Chinese restaurant, City Wok, to adopt a similar marketing strategy with predictable results.

Answer: The Penny Black

The UK remains the only country that doesn't have to put its country name on postage stamps, because when it started its public postal service in 1840 there wasn't anywhere else that had one so there was no need.

Penny Blacks might have been adhesive but they weren't perforated - the clerk had to cut them from the sheet. Perforations were introduced in the early 1850s starting with the Penny Black's successor the Penny Red, which had been introduced some years earlier but had also been unperforated until that point.

Just to prove that it is indeed a small world, the UK postal service's inventor Sir Rowland Hill was born in Kidderminster - there's a statue of him outside the Town Hall and the main shopping mall is the Rowland Hill Centre - and the JD Wetherspoon pub in the middle of Kidderminster is called The Penny Black...

Answer: Charles Darwin

Eminent figure as Darwin is in his own right, he also appealed to the Bank of England because he has a big flowing beard that's very difficult for counterfeiters to copy!

Dickens - a novelist of course, not a scientist - used to feature on the ten pound note before being replaced by Darwin. Babbage was a Victorian pioneer of the computer, with ideas way ahead of what the technology of the time was able to keep up with. And Dodgson is the mathematician best known to the world as Lewis Carroll of "Alice" fame.