| PHIBETAKAPPA | Oldest academic honour society in the US, founded in 1776 and a secret society until 1831 (3,4,5) |
| IRONCHEF | Japanese TV game show where contestants go up against one of three famous chefs and a secret ingredient (4,4) |
| YALE | One of the oldest universities in the US, founded in 1701 (4) |
| PHI | ___ Beta Kappa (U.S. honour society) |
| EQUITY | Actors' trade union in the US founded in 1913 (6) |
| GLEECLUB | A society in the US for the singing of choral music (4,4) |
| BALLIOLCOLLEGE | In Oxford University the oldest academic institution in the English speaking world still on its original site (7,7) |
| HIQ | What is the oldest academic quiz competition in the U.S. (since 1948)? |
| PLASTICBAG | Fake academic honour with legend is taxed in Ireland (7,3) |
| SCHOLARLY | Academic honour the Sun's extremely leery about |
| PHILADELPHIA | City in Pennsylvania, US, that saw the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 (12) |
| UNIVERSAL | --- Pictures, the oldest surviving film studio in the United States, founded in 1912 (9) |
| PRINCETON | Fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded as the College of New Jersey in 1746 (9) |
| GARY | City in Indiana, US, founded in 1906 on the southern shore of Lake Michigan |
| GEORGIA | Last and southernmost of the 13 original British colonies that became the United States, founded by James Oglethorpe in 1732 (7) |
| ILLUMINATI | Any of various groups claiming special religious enlightenment, especially a secret society founded in Bavaria in 1776; Latin, 'the enlightened ones' (10) |
| FORSTER | Author of novels including A Room with a View, Howards End and A Passage to India who was a member of a secret society known as the Cambridge Apostles (7) |
| SPODE | A pauper's son, orphaned aged six, who founded a porcelain and pottery factory in 1776 that developed bone china and produced blue-and-white overglaze bat-printed wares still sold and collectable toda |
| AANDW | Oldest restaurant chain in America, founded in 1919 |
| SANDWICH | Originally perceived as a food men shared while gaming and drinking at night, this meal began appearing in polite society in the 19th Century |
