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No, but you are extremely close geographically. The house was demolished in the 1930s but has given its name to the district and a roundabout.

Bob Hope was not born in Bloomsbury.

Yes, she was part of a menage a trois. Edith and her husband shared a house with his 'secretary' and she adopted his children from that relationship. To answer the first part of the question, can you say more about the 'house'?

You are on the right lines for one-third of the question. How is such an arrangement usually described, at least in France?

No, nothing to do with Fettes, or any other school.

If it is I open floor, may I ask a railway related question? What is the connection between the author of ‘The Railway Children’ and (a) the American comedian Bob Hope; and (b) Tony Blair? The author also had an unusual domestic arrangement. How is it usually described?

That is correct! Thank you all for your contributions. Gralistair, you are now the 'Big O'.

It was indeed! Now, what was the song with the unique structure?

MacArthur Park is good guess but the song has only four sections, with the fourth reprising the first – and I am not aware that either Richard Harris or Donna Summer (whose version is surely the better) ever joined a super group. In the sense that it tells a story it is, however, similar to...

‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ certainly has an unusual structure but it has two verses and a repeated chorus so is incorrect. It’s not ‘Bits and Pieces’ by Dusty Springfield (neither is it ‘I Only Want To Be With You’ by the Dave Clark Five). Hint: The singer/composer was American; when his solo...

Two of my favourites but, so far as I am aware, neither featured in a 'dark thriller' film. A third guess?

Thank you. Most pop songs in the ‘sixties had a standard format of two verses, a chorus and a third verse but there was one that had a unique structure. A mega hit, it was an operatic ballad with seven seamless movements, none of which is repeated. Two decades later it was used in a dark...

I think it was originally designed to be an entrance to Buckingham Palace, possibly before The Mall was laid out. On its current site it was used as a police station.

I had a feeling Gralistair would know the answers! President Taft was reputed to have got stuck in the bathtub. Gralistair, the Presidential Chain of Office is yours.

Thank you. How well do you know your US Presidents? For full marks, please name: The President who was ambidextrous. It was said he could write with both hands simultaneously. The President who filed a patent for increasing the buoyancy of boats. The only President to have a PhD. For a bonus...

Could this be ‘The idiot who, in railway carriages, scribbles on window panes, We only suffer to ride on a buffer in Parliamentary trains’ as sung by the Mikado in the operetta of the same name by Gilbert and Sullivan?

Litotes is using a double negative to stress a positive so 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum' is not wrong. The floor belongs to SteveM70.

Thank you. 'Litotes' is a grammatical figure of speech. Which 1970's TV sitcom made use of litotes in its title?

Age? I think Clarissa Eden recently celebrated her 100th birthday and I am sure Mary Wilson lived to a great age, over 100. I doubt whether any other wives of PM's reached their centenary.

As John Griffiths has not posted a question, I invoke the 24 hour rule and declare 'Open Floor'.