1. It is a large white globe resembling a chinese lantern.
2. Games -- in case it rains.
3. Ash Manor Premium Quality Cheese.
4. "My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure."
5. Ulan Bator
6. Murder. Jean tells Lionel "Don't say it.
7. He's in software and she has a lisp. He didn't know that she lisped because she never said anything that begins with an "S." All she said was "hello," which you can't very well lisp.
8. Vitara
9. a cat. Well, a representation of a cat, anyway.
10. Thimbles. Lionel comments that that's a good word for a woman with a lisp to say.
11. furzes -- and, as a special treat -- here's the definition of furze: See Gorse: gorse (gôrs) noun Any of several spiny shrubs of the genus Ulex, especially U. europaeus, native to Europe and having fragrant yellow flowers and black pods. Also called furze, whin1. [Middle English gorst, gors, from Old English.] Hard as I tried I could not find the definition for flug.
12. The Gulf War
13. He forgot to put the Scrabble tile back.