( ) % of correct answers (including tie breakers) when section attempted
- Juliet Prowse (95) born Bombay Film debut in 1960 in "Can Can" (Sinatra) and also "G I Blues" (Presley)
- Juliet Mills (99) elder sister of Hayley Their distinguished father is Sir John Mills
- Giulietta Masina (93) Italian actress, married to Federico Fellini Starred in "Juliet of the Spirits" (1965)
- Norma Shearer (99) starred opposite Leslie Howard in "Romeo and Juliet" (1936)
- Sandra Dee (95) played "Juliet" in Peter Ustinov's "Romanoff and Juliet" (1961)
- Anna Carteret (98) born Bangalore Played "Inspector Kate Longton" in the 1980's TV series "Juliet Bravo"
- Clueless (99) 1995 film loosely based on Jane Austen's "Emma"
- Leonard (98) leotard, leopard
- Owen Wingrave (80) based on the 1892 short story which, like the 1898 "The Turn of the Screw", was a ghost story adapted by Myfanwy Piper for a Britten opera
- Crown (70) which begins with a type of bird (crow), the others all end with a bird (owl, ousel, rail, lory, roller)
- Arsenal (95) It "arsenale" from Arabic "dar" + "sinah"
- Monopsony (95) which is the answer required (rather than "monopoly") in the way the question was worded
- Korak (92) "Jack Clayton" is the son of "John Clayton", ie "Tarzan" In Edgar Rice Burroughs' fourth novel, "The Son of Tarzan", he is given the nickname "Korak" (le "killer") by "Akut" the king of the Apes
- James IV (85) king of Scotland Flodden 1513 Use of "British" indicated that Richard III was not the answer required
- Paparazzi (100)
- Oh! My Papa (98)
- Papadopoulos (95)
- Constantine Kollias (88) was made PM in April 1967 after the junta led by Georgios Papadopoulos had wrested control of the country Papadopoulos then took over in December after King Constantine went into exile in Rome
- Baby Doc (95) whose even nastier father Francois was known as Papa Doc
- Papagena (90) he being the bird catcher "Papageno" in Mozart's "The Magic Flute"
- Arnold Ridley (95) "Charles Godfrey" in "Dad's Army" His elderly "sisters" were "Dolly" (Amy Dalby) and "Cissy" (Nan Broughton)
- Cat (75) all follow "cat" to make words, some better known than others, "catabasis", "catacomb", "catacorolla" "catamite" etc
- Rudolf Hess (85) was "Pnsoner Number 7" in Spandau McGoohan was "Number 6" in the classic TV series "The Prisoner"
- Justine Henin-Hardenne (98) who beat compatriot Kim Clysters this year Also accepted Nelly Landry (see newsletter)
- Chase (90) "The Chase" (1966), "Chase a Crooked Shadow" (1957) Barne Chase
- Gray's Anatomy (85)
- 6210001000 (88) only answer possible
- The Bunsen Grease Spot Photometer (90) Robert Bunsen is probably better remembered for the Bunsen Burner (1855)
- Andy Garcia (70)
- Liverpool (80) which will be European Capital of Culture in 2008
- Rio de Janeiro (95)
- Emperor Hirohito of Japan (97)
- Epee (99) French duelling sword used in fencing
- Albert Hornby (82) 1882 Rugby v Scotland and cricket v Australia A E Stoddart was later
- Dan Dare (99) Eagle comic
- La Gioconda (99) "proper" name of the Mona Lisa, title of opera whose ballet sequence is the famous "Dance of the Hours"
- Manganese (97) chemical symbols equating to the abbreviations of those states as used in the USA Ga = Gallium = Georgia, Md = Mendelevium = Maryland etc Mn = Manganese = Minnesota
- Gooseberry (99)
- TNT (100)
- Guy Trundle (98) ie Trundle Hill and Goodwood racecourse
- Mr Cruelty (99) in John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress"
- 1st Baron Burghclere (75) Evelyn Waugh, the well-known author, confusingly married another Evelyn in 1928 She was the Hon Evelyn Gardner, the daughter of Herbert Coulston Gardner, the Liberal MP and Cabinet Minister They soon divorced
- Mr Holland's Opus (90) this being the life work of the title character Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss) in the 1995 film
- Mensa (95) being latin for "a table"
- Ottawa (98) he was Yousef Karsh, the great photographer, generally known as "Karsh of Ottawa" The very famous photograph he took of Churchill scowling (because his cigar had been snatched from him) made his reputation
- Town and Country (70) made in 2001 it will lose an estimated $70-80 million Beatty's "Ishtar" (1987) lost a mere $40 million!
- Busch Gardens Theme Park, Tampa Bay, Florida (95) they are the seven so called "Lands" you can visit there
- Auburn (80) in August 1890 Kemmler was the first man to face execution by electric chair in what appears to have been a badly botched up affair at Auburn Prison, New York Goldsmith's "The Deserted Village" was called Auburn
- Spider (98)
- Anne Perry (96) formerly Juliet Hulme who as a 15 year-old in New Zealand in 1954 helped kill the mother of her friend Pauline Parker I came across this interesting story while investigating the possibility of including Kate Winslet in the opening pictures! She played Juliet Hulme in the 1994 film "Heavenly Creatures" which was based on the murder
- Action in the North ATLANTIC (100)
- DRAGON School, Oxford (100)
- Arthur Garfield DOVE (100)
- The CUCKOO Waltz (98) Lewis Collins was "Bodie" in "The Professionals" The Cuckoo Song Laurel + Hardy
- SALAMANDER (96)
- The Hunting of the SNARK (100) Lewis Carroll
- Bringing Up Baby (98) Cary Grant + Katharine Hepburn "Baby" was a pet leopard and the "actor" was called Nissa
- The BEE Gees (100) Robin Gibb
- Ebenezer COBHAM Brewer (100) good old Brewer's!
- BUFFALO Bill (98) "The Silence of the Lambs"
- WW1 makes of Sopwith aircraft (88)
- Franklin Pierce (96) nicknames of US presidents Harrison, George H W Bush, Carter, and Harding respectively
- Hickok Belt (96)
- Catch 22 (96) Joseph Heller
- Cocoa (98) "Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis" by Wendy Cope
- Mamie Eisenhower (98) wife of the president Nautilus launched 21 January 1954
- Quarter (90) whose first and last letters run consecutively in the alphabet
- Jumping the Queue (96) Mary Wesley Her other well-known novels include "The Camomile Lawn"
- Travel on the Titanic (100) she was nine weeks old at the time Born Elizabeth Gladys Dean, she is one of four on that fateful voyage of 1912 who is still alive Her father drowned but mother and her two year-old brother also survived
- Browning (98) play "The Browning Version", full name of George Oswald Browning Allen, always known as "Gubby", Tod Browning was the director of the extremely bizarre and really rather shocking film "Freaks"
- They are "venues" at the 2003 Edinburgh Fringe Festival (96 )
- Tower of London (100) they are ravens
- Flora Sandes (94) she served with the Serbian army with whom she sympathised from early in the war Her fighting service ended when she was badly wounded in 1916 Received Serbian bravery awards and served with that country until retiring
- Wilson (98) "634-5789" was a hit record in 1966 for the R + B singer Wilson Pickett
- Move the 2 to the extreme right end and think Roman numerals (88) I IV IX VI I V X IV II
- Andre Agassi (66) whose sister Rita was the sixth wife of tennis legend Ricardo "Pancho" Gonzales Son is called Skylar To "skylark" is to behave boisterously or in a frivolous kind of way, ie to frolic about
- Chet Baker (100) in Amsterdam in May 1988
- Anything Can Happen At Backgammon (60) in general use by the gambling clientele at Brooks
- Bodhran(100)
- Blanche (98) "Blanche Hudson" ("Whatever happened to Baby Jane" in 1962), "Blanche Dubois" in "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1951, the actress Blanche Yurka in "A Tale of Two Cities" in 1935, opera "La Dame Blanche"
- Frank Capra (98) "It's a Wonderful Life", "Lost Horizon", "It Happened One Night", "Mr Deeds Goes to Town"
- Stanley Kubrick (96) "Dr Strangelove", "A Clockwork Orange", "2001 A Space Odyssey", "Paths of Glory"
- Ernst Lubitsch (96) "Trouble in Paradise", "To Be or Not To Be", "The Shop Around the Corner" "If I Had a Million"
- Joseph L Mankiewicz (96) "The Philadelphia Story", "All About Eve", "Julius Caesar" "Sleuth"
- Lewis Milestone (96) "All Quiet on the Western Front", "Of Mice and Men", "Les Miserables", "Mutiny on the Bounty"
- Billy Wilder (96) "Double Indemnity", "The Lost Weekend", "Sunset Boulevard", "Some Like it Hot", "The Apartment"
- Sam Wood (96) "Gone With the Wind" (co-), "Goodbye Mr Chips", "The Pride of the Yankees", "King's Row"
- Zarzuela (96)
- Tandems (94) which is an anagram of Amends + "t", the others are anagrams of capitals cities Maseru, Male, Rome, Seoul, Oslo, and Paris all with a "t" added A good hint in the wording!
- Hon. Alfred Lyttelton (80) he was the wicket keeper in the Oval test versus Australia in August 1884 All eleven English players eventually bowled and he mopped up the tail with the Aussie score at 530 for 6, taking 4 for 19 in 12 four ball overs
- Sir Martin Conway; Aconcagua (100)
- Malaya; Singapore (66) 1941/2 Tomoyuki Yamashita was the Japanese commander known as "The Tiger of Malaya", the "Rabbit", whom he completely outmanoeuvred, was the nickname of the somewhat ineffectual General Arthur Percival As stated on the query line for last 10 days or so, anything to do with the Chinese Calendar was disallowed
- Octavia Estelle Butler (98 ) Skoda African-American author and winner of various Hugo and Nebula awards
- JL (82 ) James Leonard Winners of UK Amateur Singles title at Rackets from 1946 to 1961 This event is played at the Queen's Club, in London John Paule, David Milford, Geoffrey Atkins, John Thompson
- Family Crackers (70) starring Harry Tate Jr whose father popularised the catchphrase
- Chepooka; Craftiness; Bloodhound (66 all OK) anagram, means "nonsense" in the Nadsat language in Anthony Burgess novel "A Clockwork Orange", Alex being the main character, adverb meaning "cunning", craft + I + (Eliot) Ness, a "blood" was a word for a dandy sort of person, "hound" can means a nasty piece of work
- Humphrey Lestocq (96) best known for "Whirligig" and introducing us to "Goody Goody Gumdrops", 1834 opera by Auber
- M1 (96) the others are Messier objects classified in the constellation Sagittarius
- Walter Trier (96) illustrated Erich Kastner's "Emil" books Worked for "Lilliput", "Die Zeitung", "Life" and "New York Times"
- Oxford (60) names of Colleges or Halls In order Regents Park College (London Zoo), Green College (Cluedo), Kellogg College Wycliffe Hall, Merton College, Mansfield College Blackfriars Linacre College Campion Hall (Billy Bunter)
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