Great Brain Quiz 111

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( ) % of correct answers (including tie breakers) when section attempted

  1. Ingrid Bergman (99) 1944 + 1956
  2. Renee Zellweger (99) wont be long till she gets one!
  3. Patricia Neal (99) 1963
  4. Luise Rainer (80) 1936 + 1937
  5. Audrey Hepburn (99) 1953
  6. Nem. con (99) for nemine contradicente, ie nobody contradicting
  7. Vettori/ Dettori (98) Daniel the New Zealand all rounder; Lanfranco ("Frankie") the popular Italian-born jockey
  8. Hannibal (99) music by Patrick Cassidy. Boyd was "Hopalong Cassidy"
  9. Gardner (95) son of "Samwise Gamgee" and "Rose Cotton". Bilbo Baggins was the son of Bungo Baggins and Belladonna Took. See newsletter.
  10. Skein (99) "gaggle" when on the ground
  11. Ring a ring o'roses (100)
  12. Hygeia (99) hence "hygiene"
  13. Pacific 1860 (80) by Noel Coward. A flop. Mary Martin starred at the same theatre in 1951 in "South Pacific".
  14. Death Comes As The End (98)
  15. Venus (95)
  16. Herbert Khaury (95) ie Tiny Tim. "Tiptoe Through the Tulips"
  17. Tulip (99)
  18. Tarzan's Revenge (85) 1938. Glenn Morris + Eleanor Holm
  19. Gabon (97) El Hadj Omar Bongo. Assumed power in December 1967
  20. James Garfield (100) shot on 2 July 1881. He died a few weeks later
  21. Brian Wilson (60) Beach Boys
  22. Verity Freestone (95) the exonerated Dean was Dr Brandon Jackson
  23. Solomon (80) Solomon Cutner. Alberto Semprini was a bandleader
  24. Judith (90) in the Apocrypha. She bumps off Holofernes
  25. Ips (100) also "ill"
  26. Grandma Moses (98) 1943 painting "Catching the Thanksgiving Turkey"
  27. Hurley (95) Liz and Alec. Alec Hurley was Marie Lloyd's second husband
  28. Jazz (100) Basie, Ellington, Hines, Oliver
  29. Ear of a Steiff teddy bear (85) famous "Button in Ear" trademark
  30. Prince Philip/ Duke of Edinburgh (99)
  31. The burning of the ballot papers (98)
  32. Darling (70) in "Clarissa Explains it All". In the equally popular "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" she lives with her AUNTS
  33. Bangda (80) in Tibet. 15, 550 feet
  34. Madonna (70) the name of Michael Jackson's albino python given it because he intensely dislikes Madonna. "The Jewels of the Madonna"
  35. Cervantes (100) died on the same day as Shakespeare. See Newsletter
  36. Tilak Raj (99) by Ravi Shastri, in Bombay, in the 1984/5 season
  37. Don Giovanni (100) by Mozart. Zerlina to Masetto. Act 1, Sc 4
  38. Col Mustard (90) Cluedo characters. "The SCARLET Pimpernel", written by Barstow and his wife Baroness Orczy; "Little PLUM, Your Redskin Chum" in the Beano; "How GREEN Was My Valley" by Richard Llewellyn, born Lloyd; "The WHITE PEACOCK"; "BLACK Beauty" (the murder victim)
  39. Northamptonshire (90) Rundle/Oundle
  40. Musk (97)
  41. Drive a coach and horses through something (95) Sir Stephen Rice, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer said he would "drive a coach and six horses through the Act" (rather than see it passed)
  42. Born 1 April (99) except Kramer was 1 August. Corrected on Query Line which said "ignore Jack Kramer". Apologies!
  43. Gorsafaw.....draethceredigion (80) 67 letter name was concocted for publicity purposes by the Fairbourne Steam Railway Co to "overtake" Llanfair... etc (58 letters) and take third spot in world "rankings"
  44. Yellow belly (99)
  45. The Whirlwind (85) snooker player Jimmy White who, in March, won the $150, 000 first prize in the Poker Million Masters Final
  46. Sibyl (99) "Sybil Fawlty"
  47. Tiger Woods (95) beat Scott Hoch in quarter final and Adam Scott in the semi final later that day on 1 March 2003
  48. Guide Dogs for the Blind Association (95)
  49. Sirdar (98) "Procession of the Sirdar" by Ippolitov-Ivanov
  50. L Frank Baum (70) Wizard of Oz books. Cabinet was A-N and O-Z
  51. VERNON Dursley a (96) "Harry Potter" books
  52. Leslie HOWARD a (96) Italian film awards for "Pygmalion"
  53. SISTINE Chapel b (100)
  54. SERGIO Tacchini b (92) Martina Hingis
  55. Sister SOPHIA b (98) Marni Nixon in "The Sound of Music"
  56. Harry ROY a (96) m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke
  57. WARWICK Armstrong a (90) 303* in 1905; won the 1920/1 series in Australia by 5-0
  58. Daughters of the Purple SAGE b (98)
  59. A Study in SCARLET b (96) Sherlock Holmes' pros and cons as itemised by Dr Watson
  60. Sir ANDREW Davis a (96)
  61. Castle connections/Children of Sylvester Stallone (60 all OK)
  62. Le Petit Vingtieme (96) In the children's supplement of the Brussels newspaper "La Vingtieme Siecle". Georges Remi at the time (Jan 1929) was chief editor.
  63. Frank Stranahan (25) an American who, I think, never turned pro. He won the British Amateur titles in 1948 and 1950 and performed with distinction many times in the Masters. The silver cup for low amateur was introduced in 1952 and he won this when 14th with a score of 291 in 1953. Sergio Garcia was the first European in 1999
  64. Woodrow Wilson (92) his first wife died in 1914 and he soon met Edith Boiling Galt, a widow, and married her on 18 December 1915
  65. Count Alfred von Schlieffen (98) ie Schlieffen Plan
  66. Naumachia (98)
  67. Ziff (98) Ziff Investment Co
  68. Virginio Rosetta (66) like Giampiero Combi he was born in 1902 and played for Juventus at the time. He was dropped and Combi took over for the rest of the tournament which Italy went on to win
  69. Aerial Board of Control (92) Kipling's "As Easy as A.B.C."
  70. Ku Klux Klan (98)
  71. Uvarovite (100) Count Sergei Uvarov
  72. Blackpool + Bolton Wanderers (75) 9 September 1960
  73. China Mieville (60) whose PSS, ie "Perdido Street Station" came 4th in the 2002 Hugo Awards for "Best Novel" behind "The Curse of Chalion"
  74. Simon (94) the cat who received the Dickin Medal for services in rat catching in the line of fire on HMS Amethyst
  75. Fathers won Olympic medals (80) Jack Kelly (rowing 1920); Godfrey Rampling (4 x 400m relay 1936); Charles Simmons (gymnastics 1912)
  76. Hydrogen (94)
  77. Ella Strom/Percy Grainger (75) who were married on 9 August 1928 at the Hollywood Bowl after a concert of his music
  78. Will You Stop (80) 1937, starring Tim + Irene Ryan. Married 1922-1942
  79. Billy Hill (75) mobster. Autobiography was "Boss of the Underworld"
  80. 1964 (96) Ian Gillies, the programme's former question setter
  81. Otto Lilienthal (94) 1848-96. Great aviation pioneer
  82. Percy Pilcher (85) 1866-99. Flew gliders but died in his "Hawk"
  83. Octave Chanute (85) 1832-1910 author of "Progress in Flying Machines"
  84. The Mexican Spitfire (94) ie Lupe Velez
  85. Porterhouse (97) in Tom Sharpe's irreverent "Porterhouse Blue"
  86. Escapology (100) Houdini is his role model. Young Lyon is at Eton!
  87. Blue Peter flag (97) in 2000. She worked for the TV programme
  88. Carried that date when it was actually Wednesday 24 February (66)
  89. Carpeviam (66) "Carpe viam et susceptum perfice munus acceleremus".
  90. Ed Masry (94) the lawyer who was portrayed by Albert Finney in the film "Erin Brockovich". Environmental pollution crusaders
  91. 2 Methusalehs in a Balthazar (wine bottles)/ 48 Farthings in an old shilling/ 256 Semihemidemisemiquavers in a Breve (66 all OK)
  92. Yul Brynner (85) in "Home Sweet Homer" as Odysseus and Christopher Looyd in "Cracks", astonishingly, which a few of you found
  93. Machiolation (94)
  94. Soviet submarine (90) which sank the "Wilhelm Gustloff" and the "General Steuben" in the space of a few days in 1945
  95. Zwischenzug (85)
  96. Nernst-Ernst/James-Ames/Savery-Avery (94) apologies for Ames' dates
  97. Joseph Nollekens (82) an 18th/19th century sculptor who made busts of them and others
  98. Jumbo the elephant (88) accidentally killed when sandwiched between his circus train and one being driven by a certain William Burnip during September 1885 near Ontario
  99. Wood/Ford/Coody/Floyd (66) all won the golf "Masters" at Augusta
  100. O-Kee-Pa (88) the Mandan Indians observed this particular ceremony

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