Great Brain Quiz 117

ALL the pictures in this month's quiz are of REAL LIFE persons of past and present who have been portrayed in films that won Hollywood Oscars in the BEST FILM category. The people shown are not necessarily the main subject of the film concerned so, for example, if a movie called "Victoria" had won the "Best Film" Oscar, there could be a picture of Prince Albert and/or Gladstone (assuming, of course, they were portrayed in the film!) Let the cameras roll! Pictures for Q's 1-6

Which native wild fruit of north America is the first name of a character who made his debut in an 1876 novel by the man born Samuel Langhorne Clemens?
Which same word can go with all the following to make two word phrases, some of which are usually hyphenated? "berry", "clay", "hole", "pair", "post"", "stool", and "wing"
Name the legendary cinema star who once said "I am, at heart, a gentleman".
Which fabled animal possessed a human head; the body of a lion; the quills of a porcupine; and a scorpion's tail?
In a word what links Norma Sykes, the river Severn, and Audrey Hepburn?
Which, highly controversial British politician's surname is a slang term in Australia for a flashy lout or show-off with limited intelligence?
Which letter is the odd one out?
B C D I J L M N O P R S T U V W Z
(Only one acceptable answer!)
Which word precedes "Court House" in the name of an American Civil War battle that was fought in Virginia in the mid 1860's?
* In which English county can you visit Legoland?
In an imaginary match in the Gentlemen's Singles Championships of 1975 at Wimbledon, a total of 100 games were played. The first set was 6-3, and the next three sets all went to tie breaks. What was the score in the fifth and final set?
How many of the following creatures lay eggs?
Crocodile, Duck-billed platypus, Echidna, Ostrich, Peacock, Tuatara, Turkey.
Talking about laying eggs, Ben Affleck has recently starred as Gigli in a much panned film about the great Italian tenor. True or false?
According to Greek myth what was the correct one word answer (in English!) to the "Riddle of the Sphinx"?
* Which famous enterprise began life in a Leeds market in 1884 as the "Penny Bazaar"?
Who earlier this year became the first Westerner since the late 1970's to appear on advertising hoardings in Iran?
The singing cowboy born Leonard Slye will forever be associated with a palomino whose stuffed body is on display in a Californian museum. In which 1938 film did this famous horse make his screen debut?
What was the sporting claim to fame of Charles, the nephew of the poet William Wordsworth?
Which area of London is known (in slang, at least) as "Kangaroo Valley"?
* Who was Frank Muir's rival team leader in the first series of the TV programme "Call My Bluff"?
For which "saintly" school did Ronald Searle provide the illustrations in a series of books which were first published in the early 1950's?
Which famous classical composer shared the unused part of his first name with "Hercule Poirot"s brother?
What was the character surname of the married couple who lived in Apartment 3D at 623 East 68 Street, New York in a very popular TV series first seen in the 1950's?
Who promoted his very successful second UK hit single dressed as a clown?
* With one throw of two dice, what are the odds of the combined total of the dice equalling seven?
Which 2000 Guineas and St Leger winner of the 1850's shared his name with a district of south London?
In a 1997 film based on a John Grisham novel of the same name "Dot and Buddy Black"s son "Donny Ray" desperately needs a bone marrow transplant to save his life. A corrupt insurance company repeatedly denies the family's legitimate claim, and he dies. Which actor played the judge who tries the case in which "Rudy Baylor" and "Deck Shifflet" win substantial damages from the company despite the best efforts of a powerful firm of defence lawyers headed by "Leo Drummond"?
And what was the surname of the 19th/20th century British composer whose middle names were Edward Drummond?
What was the title of the final book in the "Bulldog Drummond" series which I will helpfully tell you was written after WW2?
* Which popular holiday resort has a name of Punic origin meaning "Island of Perfumes"?
Which character in a very famous collection of tales weighed 16 stone; sported a red beard; had a wart on his nose; told bawdy jokes; and was a dab hand with the bagpipes?
Which number should replace the question mark so that each group of four numbers has the same logical mathematical property:
2240 3534 4451 8765 994?
Who has been amorously associated in the past with actor Robert Lowe and Manchester United goalkeeper Fabien Barthez, and last month (September) secretly married a Portuguese circus acrobat called Adans Lopez Peres?
And which storybook princess had her name used in the 1960's in an experiment to test the possibility of there being intelligent life in outer space?
Which unit of weight is used to measure the fineness of yarns?
Which French writer and film director died of a heart attack shortly after learning of the death that day of his close friend Edith Piaf?
Which same word, among other meanings, can be a unit of currency; a movement in gymnastics; an incline in a mine passage; and the hide of a calf?
Take a word that appears in an earlier question in the quiz and alter one letter. Now, by rearranging all the letters, you can spell the so called "day of doom" in Scandinavian myth, the equivalent of "Armageddon" or "Gotterdammerung" in other cultures. What was this doleful day called?
The BBC is to make a film at a cost of around £2 million about the fairly recent adventures of Butch and Sundance. What will be the title?
During the Falklands War what was the colourful nickname of the field hospital at Ajax Bay?
During the recent heatwave in Europe, Britain achieved its hottest temperature since records began. Where was this? (Just the town or city will do!)
Which Tuscan town's quarries have provided fine marble for generations of sculptors over the years, including the likes of Michelangelo?
"Here we go, here we go, here we go!", a popular chant of British football supporters, is normally sung to which well known tune?
What is the modern English name of the stretch of water where "Hiawatha"s singer and musician friend "Chibiabos" drowns when evil spirits cause its covering of ice to break in the famous poem by Longfellow?
When a certain recently composed work was performed in Birmingham in the 1840's the audience sprang to their feet during the last chorus, so stunned were they by the brilliance of the music. Who was its composer?

Take the word for the shelter that Roman soldiers made by joining their shields as protection against falling missiles, and remove one letter. You should now have the surname of Sandrine, a top class French tennis player who was in action at Wimbledon in 2002. What surname?
* Which word completes the phrase "The Great -—" which can be used in a derogatory fashion to describe the general population and presumably has its origins in the unhygienic habits of our ancestors?
Which metallic element derives its name from a European river and is valuable as a constituent of alloys owing to its very high melting point of around 3180 degrees Centigrade?
Which island, in the 1850's, became the new home for the descendants of the mutineers on the Bounty and their families?
What was the surname of the Italian general who had been governor of Libya in the 1930's and who signed an armistice with the Allies in Malta following the demise of Mussolini?
Which 19th century opera, based on a tragedy by Victor Hugo, ends (after plot ramifications which need not detain us!) with an outlawed Spanish nobleman stabbing himself to death when a horn sounds during his wedding festivities?
* Which work by Rachmaninov has several variations of which the 18th is undoubtedly the best known, being possibly one of the most popular pieces ever written?
Which town in Germany where many houses are made from red bricks and tiles has given its name to a breed of large dog used originally for guarding and herding cattle?
According to the words of a very popular 1920's song what (as in the song title) does a Greek fruit store proprietor say to customers as he pockets their cash?
And for two more points, what links your answers to the last nine questions? Please note that, in this case, you are not looking for one or more words in each answer with a common connection/theme!
Which composer's "Prometheus" required for its performance an instrument that projected coloured shafts of light in synchronisation with the music?
* Which British artist was described by Punch in the 1890's as "Daubaway Weirdsley"?
The actor principally associated with the "Theatre of Cruelty" played which historical murder victim in an enormously famous silent film of the 1920's?
Who eventually became famous for her racy novels but had begun her literary career somewhat more sedately with a book about her pet dog? And I can helpfully tell you that the title of this book has a connection with the principal character portrayed in the film alluded to in Q66!
At the end of September 2003, if Somerfield was 200; National Express 175; Carphone Warehouse 150; ICAP 125; LogicaCMG 100; Granada 75; Alliance + Leicester 50; Prudential 25; Lloyds TSB 10; Royal Bank of Scotland 5; GlaxoSmithKline 4; Vodafone 3; and HSBC 2; then what was 1?
Which firm's products were endorsed by two leading Hollywood actresses in a series of 1950's advertisements as being "just what the doctor ordered"?
* Permitting me a small amount of question setter's license, if Charles Adams was resolute; and Ted Hood and Ted Turner were courageous; and Emil Mosbacher and Bill Ficker were intrepid; and William Hansen was vigilant; then who, in the same context, was puritan?
On air for much of WW2 on BBC radio what was the name of the programme chaired by Professor Victor Murray that was effectively a religious version of "The Brains Trust"?
And staying with radio, what same "rank" was shared by a pet cat belonging to a female character in "Mrs Dale's Diary" and a pet dog belonging to a male character in "The Archers"?
Status Quo provides a clue as to the identities of two pieces of land, for one point each. The first is an area of Hampshire that became the title of a best selling book; the second, in Dorset, was the subject of a political scandal in the 1950's which led to the resignation of a government minister.
Which flag consists of a red St George's cross on a white background with five white stars symmetrically placed, one in the centre, the others at each extremity of the cross; a Union Jack in the top left quarter; and four horizontal blue bars, the two in the top right quarter being half the length of the others?
Which was the first English county side to field 11 Test match cricketers in the same inter-county match? (No substitutes were involved by the way!)
Name the all round sportsman who represented Cambridge University at cricket, real tennis, rackets, and athletics; was an England cricket and football international; played in an F A Cup Final; became a barrister; and served as Secretary of State for the Colonies in a Conservative administration.
And which rather more recent sportsman scored an "albatross" at a 516 yard par 5 hole at Kingsbarns during the 3rd round of the Dunhill Links Championships in Scotland last month (September)?
On being informed that Claire Booth Luce (the diplomat wife of the founder of "Time Magazine") was always kind to her social inferiors, which US writer and wit said "And where does she find them"?
Work out what these letters represent in this post WW2 incomplete sequence and say which two letters replaced the question marks.
PS DL OA SP GF CG DP CH GG DP ??
* In a word what links the actor Alan Rickman and the former TV character "Amy Turtle"?

Which two word term, the first a nationality (ie Persian), was used to describe pointed stakes embedded in the ground to protect musketeers from cavalry?
What were first mentioned in the Bible in Exodus and, so he claimed, were used by a religious leader to help him translate ancient Egyptian texts thus enabling him to write the Book of Mormon?
Which saying that has been around for a long time is an anagram of
I LIST GRAND ATOMIC RUINS?
25 year-old "Katherine" married an older man in a famous novel and died in childbirth, as did her baby, on 1 April 1898. What was her married surname?
Which alliteratively named character made his film debut in 1935 when he recited "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" at school?
This is an INsertion question! You must place the letters "in" (as consecutive letters in that order) into the surname of the first person in the question to arrive at the surname of the second person, for example Jenks to Jenkins. One point for each pair of correct surnames.
1. The pseudonym of a famous American detective story writer: a record-breaking English racehorse trainer now in the USA
2. A US explorer and surgeon who made two Arctic expeditions in the 1850's; a currently very successful European jockey
3. A 19th century composer whose works are very national in character; one of the greatest ever competitors in the Winter Olympics
Which (not very) common expression, one that certainly applies to some of you more than others!, entered the language thanks to a greek called Angelo Vergecto whose proficiency in a certain skill earned the admiration of Francis I of France in the 16th century?
Replace the letters of GOOSEN + LANGER = CLARKE using ALL the digits from 0 to 9 so that the equation works. Clearly, if say the "E" in GOOSEN is 4, then the "E"s in LANGER and CLARKE must also be 4.
Name the character, in a work which parodied "Gulliver's Travels", who lives on a planet that circles Sirius and is the best part of 23 miles tall. In his adventures he journeys to Saturn, Jupiter and Mars; consumes a mountain for breakfast on his visit to Earth; and, when picking up a ship in his hand, is astounded at how intelligent the tiny humans on it appear to be.
Designated "290" she left Liverpool with an Italian first name; was sometimes referred to as a major European city; and finished up as a state at the bottom of the Channel in the 1860's. Which state?
Where would one be most likely to have heard "Asteroid" for the last 50 years or so?
How are the Bugge sisters Anna, Edle, Hjordis, and Ruth collectively described in the title of a 1902 painting?
Cryptic crossword clue time! One point for each correct answer.
1. Muddling race almost gets up your nose! (10)
2. Redundancy order which can be blown up? (4)
3. That music by Hummel is making my head spin. Contains lots of notes! (7)
His father was taken prisoner by the English in the Peninsular War but nothing daunted he married a Scottish lass and settled in London. His son was a bit of a lad with four marriages to his name, the first at Gretna Green and the last, in his mid 50's, to his teenage nurse. In between he pursued a successful career as a concert pianist and composer but very little of his output is performed today save one sparkling work, part of a symphonic concerto, that is (or certainly used to be) an extremely popular "encore" which requires the talents of a virtuoso pianist. On an old "45" record that I have before me the music's title is described in two words, one of which is the composer's surname. What is this surname?

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