Puzzle 19-25

The Correction Centre 

Read the following nine statements.  Each of them is completely untrue.  However, if you change just one word, you can make it a true statement.  Tell us which word is incorrect and what word you would put in its place to make the statement true. 

For example, in the statement “The model Jordan is more than 300 kilometres long” if we take out “model” and replace with “river” we turn a false statement into a true statement.  The answer is Model and River 

Now you try. 

1. In the sitcom Blackadder, Baldrick was played by Smokey Robinson. 

2. The famous author Harper Lee wrote “To Kill a Magpie” in 1960. 

3. Brazil were finalists in the 1998 World Cup but lost to Cowdenbeath. 

4. One of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous works is The Last Cuppa 

5. Ellen DeGeneres is the hero of Ridley Scott’s film Alien. 

6. The 1904 agreement between Britain and France is known as the Elderflower Cordiale. 

7. Roger Daltrey played James Bond in the movie A View to a Kill. 

8. Virginia Woolf won the ladies singles event at Wimbledon in 1977. 

9. The hottest temperature ever recorded in the UK is 40.3 degrees Fahrenheit. 

Submit your answers at HASSRA Puzzle 19-25 before midnight on Sunday  28th September 2025 to be in with a chance of winning one of 14 Love2Shop e-vouchers, one x £100, one x £50 or one of 12 x £20 Love2Shop e-vouchers.