1. The last three words in the title of which 1997 comedy-film could also be what the aviator Roland Garros rejected — when he chose instead to attend the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly?

2. One was found dead in a hotel in Rennes in April, 1806, with six stab-wounds to the left lung and one to the heart — all of them deemed to be self-inflicted.
One of them was pronounced dead in Leeuwen in 1982.
In 2017, a third provided Ford with the same job that he’d enjoyed thirty-five years earlier.
The fourth is the only man from his nation to be offered the choice “Whole, two-per-cent, or skim?” on a Memorial Day weekend.
What surname?

3. In a song first heard in 1959, the words “remote“, “throat“, “moat“, “tote“, “table d’haute“, “afloat“, “coat“, and “gloat” all rhyme with which word?

4. Picture question: as well as being comic greats, these four are all associated with what song?

5. What happened five times in the United States of America, between 1972 and 1975; but didn’t happen in the United Kingdom until 1990? The only time it happened in both countries simultaneously was seven years later, as a result of human tragedy.

6. Picture question: What’s going on here?

7. Picture question: for a number of years, I’ve been in love with the Irish actor Cillian Murphy. Which fellow Irishman am I channelling to let him know?

8. 1989: Ulaanbaatar and Springfield, Illinois.
1991: no airports whatsoever.
2020: New Orleans and Salzburg.
What’s the connection?

9. Arguably the second-most-famous song ever to be sung by a Rolf — with a title almost, but not quite, as dodgy — which song is approximated by 0.94117647058?