TASK DEFINITION: Given an trivia question precisely answer the question with a word/phrase/name. External resources such as Wikipedia could be used to obtain the facts.
PROBLEM: Which actor, a former hospital patient in the T.V. comedy series 'Only When I Laugh' went on to play the Irish R.M.?

SOLUTION: peter bowles

PROBLEM: Who wrote the music commonly known as 'The Funeral March', it comes from his Piano Sonata No.2 written in 1837?

SOLUTION: frederic chopin

PROBLEM: In September 1937, the first edition of which J R R Tolkien novel was published?

SOLUTION:
the hobbit