Good evening. Yesterday marked five years of quizzing on the thread

We start this week with another new quiz.
1.What sharp pointed object along a rose stem is an anagram of north?
2.North and south is Cockney rhyming slang for which part of the body?
3.Which British actor starred as Nicky Hutchinson in the TV series Our Friends In The North?
4.Which two members of The Housemartins formed the group The Beautiful South in 1988?
5.North is a collection of poetry by which Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet who died in August of this year, aged 74?
6.What is the capital of North Korea?
7.What links a diet plan and a neighbourhood in Miami, Florida?
8.Which duo composed the 1949 musical South Pacific?
9.Who is the heroine of Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey?
10.South Shields or Shields is a coastal town in which metropolitan county of England?
11.Commonly known as the north star, which is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor?
12.What name was given to the famous financial collapse of 1720?