Great Brain Quiz 111

6. What is the abbreviated form of the two word latin term which means that a motion, vote etc has been carried unanimously?
7. Alter the first letter of the surname of a current male test cricketer and you should now have the surname of a world famous male flat race jockey who mainly rides in Britain. The two surnames, please.
8. Which fairly recent film that may not be to everyone's taste includes an operatic scene with music set to words from Dante's "La Vita Nuova". Its composer has a link with the actor William Boyd, if that helps?
9. According to J R R Tolkien what is the seven letter surname of "Bilbo", the son of "Samwise" and "Rose"?
10. What is the collective noun for a group of flying geese?
11. Which nursery rhyme, according to some references but not all, originated during the London plague of the 1660's, the opening line alluding to the rash-like areas that spread over the bodies of those affected?
12. Name the goddess of health in greek myth who was a daughter of Asclepius.
13. Which musical with oceanic connections staged at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in the 1940's starred Larry Hagman's mother?
14. Which Agatha Christie novel is set in Egypt during the age of the Pharaohs?
15. * Which major planet is closest in size to Earth?
16. What was the real name of the person who christened his daughter Tulip in memory of his success with a 1960's record?
17. Which flower gets its name from the Turkish word for a turban?
18. Which 1930's film starred two Olympic gold medal winners in the two principal roles?
19. As of 1 January 2003 one of the world's longest-serving Presidents has a surname whose first three letters are the last three letters, in the same order, as his country. Which country?
20. * Who died a few months after being shot by Charles Guiteau?
21. Which member of a famous pop group said, after listening to a symphony by Beethoven, "I've just realized I'm a musical midget"? (I've been unable to verify my source elsewhere, so I will tell you that he is now in his 60's and that his father had the rather unsavoury habit of punishing his children by removing his glass eye and forcing them to peer into the socket!)
22. Which former verger of Lincoln Cathedral, with an inappropriate first name in the circumstances, was at the centre of a laughable 1990's trial brought about by her alleged affair with the Dean which he strenuously denied?
23. Which great London-born pianist performed professionally using just his first name?
24. In which Book, in some editions of the Bible, can you read about the decapitation of one of Nebuchadnezzar's generals?
25. * Which three letter word ending, not necessarily a word in itself, can be prefixed by D, H, K, L, N, P, R, S, T, Dr, Gr, and Sk to make every day English words?
26. Who shared her surname with a prominent biblical character and painted a thanksgiving turkey?
27. Which name links Hugh Grant and the music hall performer Marie Lloyd? (I'm looking for something a bit more subtle than "entertainer"!)
28. A Count, a Duke, an Earl, and a King were famous figures in the world of.....what?
29. Where, prestigiously, for the last 100 years or so, would you be most likely to find a metallic button embossed with an elephant? Be precise!
30. * Which member of the Royal Family had parents called Prince Andrew and Princess Alice?
31. What causes the white smoke that emerges from a chimney in the Vatican after the election of a new Pope?
32. What was actress Melissa Joan Hart's character surname in the popular American TV sitcom series in which she plays a high school student who has frequent arguments etc with her somewhat unusual parents?
33. Which is the world's highest airport? Just the place name will be fine.
34. Which same name links a real life seven foot plus showbiz python and the composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari?
35. * Who died on 23 April 1616 and gave the world the expression "Every dog has his day"?
36. It certainly wasn't this chap's day when he became the second person in first class cricket to have six sixes hit off him in the same over! His name please.
37. Nothing to do with cricket (or feeble-mindedness either!) but in which opera does a country girl sing to her beloved "Batti, batti, o bel Masetto"?
38. Certain literary characters or works created by Montague Barstow and his wife; Leo Baxendale; a man born Richard Lloyd; D H Lawrence; and Anna Sewell can all be linked in a certain way, but who is missing?
39. Alter the first letter of a word which can mean the rung of a ladder or the wheel of a wheelbarrow and you have the name of an English public school. In which county is this school?
40. Which same word can precede "beetle", "cat", "deer", "duck", "mallow", "melon", "orchid", "rat", "rose" and "turtle" to make two word terms in nature. (Depending where you look, some may appear as one word or be hyphenated. )
41. Which well known expression was coined in the late 17th century by a member of the Irish Exchequer who was vehemently opposed to the Act of Settlement? (Any phrasing of your answer which shows you know what I'm after will get the mark!)
42. What links Chris Evans, Phillip Schofield, David Gower, Debbie Reynolds, Jack Kramer, Sergei Rachmaninov, and Edgar Wallace?
43. What is the ridiculously long name of the station in Gwynedd that was contrived for publicity purposes by the local railway company to upstage a local rival? Just the first eight letters will be ample!
44. Which term that can be applied to a person from Lincolnshire is also a type of Australian freshwater fish? (Depending where you look, you may find this is two words or one word. )
45. When "The Iceman" was sixth; "The Nugget" fifth; "The Lizard" fourth; "Elvis Senior" third; and "The Elegance" second; then, in the same context, who was the winner?
46. Which word for a female prophetess in ancient Greece sounds as if it has an obvious link with Prunella Scales?
47. Who defeated two Scotts on the same day in the 2003 Accenture Match Play Championship at La Costa, California?
48. "Forward", currently edited by Tracey Gurr, is the news magazine of which organization?
49. Which word for a military leader in eastern countries appears in the title of one of a 19th/20th century Russian composer's "Caucasian Sketches"?
50. I think this "fact" is true but, if not, my apologies! Anyway, which author's enormously famous series of books was, according to him, apparently inspired by a lucky glance at a two drawer filing cabinet?
Tantalising 30 begins with 10 questions all linked in TWO different ways with FIVE answers (or part of them, whole words, of course) applying to each link.
51. What is the first name and surname of the fictional character who works for a firm called Grunnings; is married to Petunia; and idolises his overweight son Dudley while heartily disapproving of his nephew?
52. Who lost a Mussolini but won a Volpi in 1938 and perished north of Spain some five years later after being shot down by a German aircraft?
53. Where, more or less all in the same place, can you see masterpieces such as "Journey of Moses", "Punishment of Korah, Dathan and Abirham", "Calling of the First Apostles" and "Last Supper"?
54. Name the former tennis player against whose sportswear company a now virtually retired Wimbledon winner filed a hefty lawsuit in 2001, claiming that her serious foot injury had been caused by defective tennis shoes.
55. * Born in 1930 she is best known in cinema for dubbing the singing voices of the likes of Audrey Hepburn, Deborah Kerr and Natalie Wood. She appeared in her own right, as it were, playing which character in a famous 1960's film?
56. Which popular bandleader of the day married a "White Rajah's" daughter in the 1930's?
57. Which huge Australian cricketer scored over 300 not out versus Somerset before WW1 and holds a record, as captain of his country, which was nearly equalled in 2002?
58. How are Carolyn Baker, Judy Burner and Audrey McLaughlin collectively known in the entertainment world?
59. In which novel do we learn that a famous character in fiction knows nothing of astronomy, literature or philosophy; has a feeble knowledge of politics; a variable knowledge of botany; a practical if limited knowledge of geology; an accurate but unsystematic knowledge of anatomy; and a profound knowledge of chemistry?
60. * Who is the distinguished English conductor seen here?
61. And for two more points, the TWO links in the above questions, please
62. In which publication could you have first read about the adventures of Herge's "Tintin"?
63. Who was the first winner of the British Amateur Golf Championship to win the medal for the lowest overall score by an amateur in the Masters at Augusta?
64. Who was the most recent US president to marry while in office?
65. * Who prepared the Plan, as early as 1905/6, on which Germany based its WW1 military strategy?
66. What did ancient Romans call the simulated sea battles which were enacted on specially constructed artificial lakes?
67. What is the surname of the brothers Daniel, Dirk, and Robert who are among the richest men in the USA?
68. Name the 32 year-old Juventus star who captained the Italian team when they humiliated the USA by 7 goals to 1 in their opening game in the 1934 Football World Cup Finals.
69. According to an early 20th century novel by a Nobel Prize winner for Literature, what does A. B. C. stand for?
70. * What was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866?
Competitors Corner next with five posers, possibly "modified" by yours truly!, kindly sent in by fellow GBQuizzers.
71. Which garnet variety takes its name from an 18th/19th century Russian nobleman who was a mineralogist?
72. Which two teams competed in the first live televised English Football League match?
73. In a choice between TCOC, AG, PSS, CK, P, TC, and NA in early September 2002 which London-born Englishman with a decidedly foreign first name took fourth place?
74. Who posthumously received a prestigious medal for devotion to duty on a jewel of the Royal Navy in 1949?
75. Asides from being well-known actresses what do or did Grace Kelly, Charlotte Rampling, and Jean Simmons have in common?
Here I go again!
76. Which same word can precede "bond", "bromide", "carbonate", "cyanide', "embrittlement", "ion", "sulphite" and "tartrate" to make two word terms that are used in the general field of science, chemistry and engineering?
    
77. Name the lady pictured here, AND her composer husband, whose wedding ceremony took place in Hollywood in the 1920's in front of an audience of 20, 000 plus?
78. And in which film, at the time it was made, did a married couple star as "Antony" and "Cleopatra"?
79. Name the notorious 20th century "Boss of the Underworld" whose sister, known as "Queen of the Forty Elephants", led a London gang of overweight female shoplifters?
80. * In which year was "Mycroft" radio's "Brain of Britain"?
And a final attempt at Torment as we enter the torture chamber of Tormenting 20!

Seen below, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, are a 19th century German; a 19th century Englishman; and a 19th/20th century American, engineers all, who each exerted an enormous influence on the future development of the same basic form of transport. Their names please.


81. Picture question
82. Picture question
83. Picture question
84. What was the nickname of the temperamental actress who went from being a "Fuentes" to a "Lindsay" in a film comedy series of the late 1930's/ early 1940's? (And if you are struggling with the theme in the above pictures, the correct answer here may give you some inspiration!)
85. According to a 1970's novel which fictitious Cambridge college had the motto "Dives in Omnia"?
86. Currently studying at a major English public school 16 year-old Tom Lyon, who demonstrated his extracurricular skills two years ago on "Blue Peter" to mark the 75th anniversary of a certain person's death, is regarded as a leading exponent of a certain form of entertainment which he may possibly take up professionally. What is this?
87. When Catharine Hartley and Fiona Thornwill became the first British women to walk to the South Pole which flag was planted there by Ms Hartley?
88. Why was Thursday 25 February 1988 an embarrassing day for the Daily Telegraph management?
89. Which English two-seater car manufactured about 100 years ago had a name which was inspired by a quotation from Virgil's "Aeneid"?
90. Which lawyer, better known now than a few years back, is preparing a lawsuit against the city of Beverly Hills, the Occidental Petroleum Corporation, Chevron Texaco Corporation, and the privately owned Venoco Inc on behalf of some 80 plus cancer patients associated with a high school in the city?
91. Instead of cryptic crossword clues, how about some "Cryptnumbs" for a change!? You know the sort of thing. Statements of fact, fiction etc, anything really, with a number involved, ie 26 L in the A is 26 Letters in the Alphabet; 88 K on a P is 88 Keys on a Piano; 4 F on B B is 4 Faces on Big Ben.
    So for one point each what are
    
    1. 2 M in a B
    2. 48 F in an O S
    3. 256 S in a B
92. Which famous stage and screen actor starred in a disastrous play that ran for just one performance on Broadway in 1976?
93. Similar to a hoard, but made from stone, what was the gallery called that projected from a parapet in medieval castles through which objects could be dropped on unwelcome intruders?
94. Who or what was S-13, responsible for thousands of deaths in the 1940's?
95. Which word is used in chess to describe a tactical or unforeseen move that is played within an anticipated sequence?
96. What's in a letter! Identify the first named person in the following pairs and by removing the FIRST letter of his or her SURNAME you arrive at the SURNAME of the second person, eg Brand to Rand, Horton to Orton etc. One point for each.
    1. A 19th/20th century German physical chemist;
       a 19th/20th century German surrealist painter.
    2. A 20th/21st century English detective story writer;
       a 19th/20th century English test cricketer.
    3. A 17th/18th century Devon-born inventor;
       a 20th century American cartoonist and animator.
97. Who or what linked Oliver Goldsmith; William Pitt the Younger; Sir Thomas and Lady Salisbury; Laurence Sterne; Benjamin West; and the Countess of Yarborough?
98. One of the persons who perished in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 had, some 21 years previously, accidentally caused the death of a hugely famous celebrity. Who was this celebrity?
99. The consonants in the SURNAMES of FOUR people who have all accomplished the same prestigious thing are jumbled up below. I have not included the vowels but there are SIX of them, all the SAME. This is obviously not the case but they could be Presidents, Oscar winning actresses, or Wimbledon winners etc, so who are or were they? C D D D D F F L R W Y Y
100. These last questions may or may not have been torture but are nothing compared to what was endured by braves of a certain Red Indian tribe in the 19th century! Deprived of nourishment for four days they were then ready for the ceremonial torture test. This meant being suspended from beams by thongs attached to skewers thrust through the flesh behind their back muscles. To add to the discomfort heavy weights were attached to their legs. If they came through that ordeal they were then required to chop off the little finger of their left hand with a hatchet before undertaking other ritual tasks. Charming, I'm sure, but all I need to know is what this ceremonial torture was called.

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