What does the title allude to?
A mathematical equation
A football score and the concept of nothingness
A Latin proverb
Who is Francois Aussemain?
A French philosopher invented by Paterson
A famous footballer
A famous pilot
What does the word zenith mean?
zenith
A Buddhist school of philosophy
The highest point
The correct altitude for fighter aircraft
Who are McGrandle, Visocchi and Spankie?
These are the main footballers of the club.
Sponsors of the football team
Francois Aussemain is the only philosopher featured in the poem.
What does ‘fifty-year slide’ describe?
A famous fairground ride
The slow demise of the football club
The chance of being killed in wartime
Who is so smelly the air seems to quiver above him?
so smelly the air seems to quiver above him
Horace Madden
Francois Aussemain
Alastair Watt
What does Horace ‘back-heel’ into the gutter?
A tennis ball
A football
A gallstone
What is compared to an ‘ash key’?
Bonnets thrown in the air to celebrate a goal
The plunging plane
The socks from the parachute bag
What happens to the ‘fighter-pilot’?
He is shot down
His plane engine fails and he dies
Bad weather makes him crash
What happens to the ‘trail’ in Paterson's final address to the reader?
It leads into the sea
It steadily fades
It becomes clear