Holy Inspirations 2

One of the Sisters removes the rotor arm from a parked patrol car while the troops are searching the Abbey. Answer 1 may be individually valid but the story does not dwell on any one sister expressing such feelings; Answer 3 has no foundation; Answer 4 may well have been true (off-screen, at least), yet there is nothing in the Ten Commandments to forbid the taking of alcohol. (Alcohol only becomes 'sinful' when it becomes an addiction ~ 'in place of God', as it were, as the major focus of someone's life ~ at which stage it may lead to other immoderate and inconsiderate behaviour, such as more certainly would break the Commandments, e.g. lying, sexual and personal violence etc.)

The Italian name probably suggested that Answer 4 might not have been right ... but it's very unlikely Brunelleschi would have travelled to Britain in the mid-15th century. Perhaps you were thinking of Brunel, the railway engineer, a fair few hundred years later?

Karol Wojtyla (as he formerly was) was a student actor and playwright; also a very accomplished linguist.

The patient was supposedly one Hugh of Jervaulx.

The murder in question was that of Thomas a Becket in 1170, to whose tomb our own previous Question refers.

This is Oscar Wilde's famous comedy. A 'chasuble' is the outermost vestment worn by the celebrant at a Eucharist; the clergyman in the J B Priestley play at Answer 4 (the author's name meanwhile being entirely fortuitous) is Mercer.

This was a very young and callow Slater, under the on- and offscreen tutelage of Sean Connery.

This version of the cross is Maltese rather than Sicilian; it was introduced by the Knights of Malta in the mid-16th century (so, roughly between the main development of the Reformation, and the lifetime of Shakespeare).

This is a breathtakingly stupendous structure, whose features prominently include a pair of stone towers built in the late 19th century (and which, of such far heavier material, still stand to half the height of the Eiffel Tower which was built of iron, in Paris, in the late 1880s). Like St Paul's in London, Cologne Cathedral was a conspicuous navigation landmark for incoming enemy bombers, but itself survived largely intact.

This is a vividly dramatic work, often revived for productions in early December around the time of Nicolas' feast-day (for this is 'Santa Claus' in his more original form!).