Great Brain Quiz 128

7. Which alliteratively named television DIY expert whose programme attracted around seven million viewers in his heyday would say "This is how not to do it" on the occasions when things went awry in his early live shows?
8. What is the capital city of the country in which all genuine Panama hats are principally manufactured?
9. Which bay has the most obvious connection with "WASP", whose puppet HQ was in "Marineville"?
10. If <>b1b is red; <>b2b is blue; <>b3b is white; <>b4b is black; and <>b5b is orange, then what colour is <>b6b in the same context?
11. Ignoring the shapes of the countries in question, and just concentrating on their respective areas, how many whole times can the UK fit into Sudan?
12. Who is the most recent British Prime Minister to have married a person who had previously been divorced?
13. And which general word is used to describe a deputy Prime Minister of the Irish Republic?
14. Which same word can precede "cherry", "dog", "pepper", "spider", and "strike" to make two word phrases which may or may not be hyphenated, depending where you look?
15. * Gene Clark, Michael Clarke, David Crosby, Chris Hillman. and Jim (later Roger) McGuinn performed under which collective name when they had a massive No 1 pop hit in 1965?
16. Which screen thriller, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, had its exterior shots filmed at Palos Verde and Point Lobos in California, and was inspired by a Daphne du Maurier story?
17. What is Harold's surname whose best score in first class cricket was 181*, achieved in 1959 when playing for Yorkshire versus Glamorgan?
18. Which novel by Louis de Bernieres is set in the early 20th century with characters, a mix of Greek and Turkish, Christian and Muslim, whose world is torn apart by the onset of Turkish nationalism during WW1?
19. In a 1960's stage musical starring Dick Van Dyke and Dick Gautier among others, what was Gautier's character name in his role as a publicity seeking rock star about to be drafted into the US army?
20. * Which word derived from the greek for "time" is a somewhat pejorative term for a person's intimate friend or companion?
21. What links Sir Arthur C Clarke, Mia Farrow, Jack Nicklaus, Wilma Rudolph, Sir Walter Scott, and Lord Snowdon?
22. I think this type of puzzle is called a rebus! You know the thing where you have to identify a well known phrase from a diagram or punning placing of various words. For example "Tit Tat Tat Tat Tat" is "Tit for tat" and "Often Often Not" is "More often than not". So on that basis what is "Hell 4 - 2 Heaven"?
23. Who, most famously, around 100 years ago, lived at 49 Kramgasse in Berne, Switzerland?
24. Who was the father of the gods in Irish myth, his name effectively meaning "The Good God"?
25. * Which American admiral, nicknamed "Bull", commanded the Third Fleet which played a vital role in defeating the Japanese navy at Leyte Gulf in 1944?
26. When was the most recent occasion (I will accept month and year) on which all 11 members of a Test side made a double figure score in the same innings?
27. Just generally what, among other possible descriptions, can be classified as "greasy", "pearly", "silky" and "waxy"?
28. Which current sporting champion is known to family and friends as "Masha"?
29. Which US President married a lady who shared her middle name with a European city?
30. * Which sportsman fronts a huge business, principally based in Australia and the USA, that has an obvious link with "Carcharodon carcharias"?
31. Which 12 letter profession is made up of four consecutive three letter words, one of which is a type of animal?
32. What is the real name of the character, usually found up the "Faraway Tree" in the "Enchanted Wood", who once suffered the indignity, while asleep, of having an acorn popped into his mouth by the mischievous "Moon-Face"?
33. What number follows next in this logically mathematical series
    1 4 8 13 21 30 36 45 54 63 73 85 95 ?
34. Which trace element, a vital part of the body's antioxidant enzyme defences, is found in the soil, the best sources being brazil nuts, yeast, and wheat grains?
35. * Name the actress, created a DBE in the 1980's, who was very much involved with the "Marcia Blaine School for Girls" in a 1960's film.
36. Which very famous 19th century structure was referred to in his diary by the man principally responsible as "My first love, my darling"?
37. In which 1950's film can be seen, in addition to the main star, his wife and five of his children?
38. Which winner of a Formula One World Championship was born in East London?
39. Apart from being her husband what relation is the Duke of Edinburgh to the Queen?
40. "Most of the --- I've visited recently were full of --- ---" said my friend George, who is nothing if not xenophobic. Which three words, all anagrams of one another, should replace the three blanks so that the previous sentence reads logically?
41. Performances of which Gilbert and Sullivan opera, and the playing of excerpts from it by bands and the like, were banned for six weeks in 1907 by the Lord Chamberlain?
42. Mickie, who died in 2003, was one of pop music's most successful record producers and was born in the 1930's with which surname?
43. What was the claim to infamy during 1915 of a certain Walther Schweiger?
44. Take the eight letter word which basically describes an ornithologist who delights in watching rare species, and remove one letter. You now have the middle name of which famous 19th/20th century British politician?
45. In mathematics, which number is the harmonic mean of 30 and 60?
46. Which is the oldest thing still alive on Earth?
47. It hasn't been around as long as the answer to the above question but which play holds the world record for the longest uninterrupted run on the same stage?
48. If James Stewart equates to Leslie Banks; and Doris Day equates to Edna Best; and Daniel Gelin equates to Pierre Fresnay; then, in the same context, who equates to Christopher Olsen?
49. Which British Prime Minister was associated with "Tadpole" and "Taper"?
50. What was the rather appropriate name of a 1930's song for which Jack Lumsdaine provided the words bearing in mind the identity of the man who composed the music?
Tantalising 30 opens up with an all male batch of "feathered friends"! in no particular order they are three sportsmen, one a golfer, one a legendary basketball star, and one a UK Open Champion of his day; a former Hollywood leading man; a medical man who gave his name to an "equilibrium"; and one half of a successful stage partnership.

Into the link round now with, for a change, TWO separate "themes". The answers to Q's 57-66, or part of them, whole words, of course, are connected in TWO different ways, with FIVE answers applying to each group.
57. What links "Sound 9418", "Shadow", and Clark Gable?
58. James Robert, who gave his surname to a 1910 Act in the USA that was supposed to curb immorality, shared this surname with which Lubeck-born author who, after a period of exile from Nazi Germany, settled in the USA where he died in the 1950's?
59. In a short story by a great humorous novelist, after her eyes had been opened, as it were, during a meeting of her local Literary Society, "Adeline" later had to be restrained from giving her first-born son the names "Abe Mitchell Ribbed-Faced Mashie" before settling for something more sensible. Anyway, what was the name of her husband?
60. * For his performance in which film did a brave man who had suffered dreadful injuries while training paratroopers during 1944 receive two Oscars?
61. Who prosecuted someone who sounded like a well known fictional villain after he had perpetrated an outrageous intrusion in London SW1 during 1982?
62. Name the London-born actress who shared her character surname with a real life murderer in a long-running TV series and who, shortly before taking that role, played a fictional character in another TV series who had a link with one of the picture questions!
63. Who provided the "whale noises" for "Orca" in a 1977 film?
64. Which Yorkshire-born artist, who shared his first two forenames with the first name and surname of a leading 19th century poet, was greatly influenced by the Fauves and joined the London Group in the 1920's shortly after painting one of his best known works, "Lilies and Apples on a Dish"?
65. * What was the best known name of the Nez Perce leader who made a very famous surrender speech in the 1870's? If it helps, his native Indian name roughly translated as "Thunder arising over the land from the water".
66. Whose best (and just about only) cinematic role was in a 1960's film where he played an underprivileged teenager who did poorly at school; got regularly beaten up at home; and found some sort of solace for a time when he raised an unusual pet?
67. And for one point each what are the TWO links in your answers to Q's 57-66?
68. In astronomy what two word name is given to the period of around 19 years after which the Moon's phases recur on the same days of the year?
69. Whose poem was the basis for a Cantata for Contralto and Orchestra by Elgar which included several excerpts of music he had composed previously?
70. * You will almost certainly find variations of where this may or may not have occurred and to whom this applies but, according to legend, what did Edward III say to a certain Countess in 1348 after she had suffered a minor mishap while dancing with him at a ball held at Windsor Castle?
Competitor's Comer is next on the agenda with the five following posers all kindly provided by your rather devious fellow GBQuizzers!
71. What was searched for but never found by Peter Ustinov and Peter Jones in a BBC comedy series of the 1950's?
72. Who holds the record for the most strokes taken on the shortest hole on the (British) Open golf circuit during an Open?
73. Which 13 letter word derived from latin means "the day before yesterday"?
74. Name the 20th century wildlife artist, specialising particularly in birds, who was employed by the government to illustrate its "Dig For Victory" campaign posters in WW2.
75. "Capt" W E Johns of "Biggles" fame found himself sitting in the RAF recruitment office in Covent Garden after WW1 where, in his own words, he met "a thin pale-faced chap with something so off-hand about his manner, almost amounting to insolence, that I took an instant dislike to him". This person, who I will call "X", was considered unfit for service by the medics at the recruitment centre but the Air Ministry stepped in and sent a special doctor along to sign "X"s medical form. When Johns complained to the CO about this irregular procedure, he received the reply. "Watch your step. This man is 'X'. Get him in, or you'll get your bowler hat". So the question is, who was "X"? Back to me you may or may not be relieved to learn!
76. Which "English county" was very possibly the inspiration for the novel "Moby Dick"?
77. Consider the numbers 9 17 21 45 51 65 85 93 153 and 219 and say which of the following words has the most obvious link with them. Morning, Noon, Afternoon, Evening, Night, or Midnight?
78. Name the 16th/17th century poet and playwright whose translation of a great work dating from the 8th century BC inspired a famous 19th century sonnet.
79. Which character in fiction named her black cormorant after the actor David Niven?
80. * Which gemstone, mainly found in Sri Lanka, is named after an Irish count who shared his surname with a jockey who was associated with one of the greatest racehorses of all time?
Into Tormenting 20 with the final "avian" sextet. In no particular order, they are the author of a famous 1890's novel; a famous inventor; and four more members of the acting profession, one of them from the silent screen era.

87. Back in the 1930's a certain person was inspired to invent something after he grew tired of the difficult journey home (while probably under the influence) from his local pub in the Bradford area. As in the title of a 1960's TV documentary about the man and his invention, who was the landlady at this hostelry?
88. If Nice = 6; and Marseille = 13; and Toulouse = 31; and Nantes = 44; then, in the same context, what number does Toulon equate to?
89. In mythology, whose blood led to the death of Hercules?
90. Which bravery award in the realm of law and order is in the gift of the Goldsmiths Company and is named after a person who died while attempting to thwart a robbery in the 1940's?
91. Which country failed to win a single match in 16 attempts in the final stages of the first five Football World Cups they contested, scoring 11 goals and conceding 35?
92. In a few words what links Don Juan, Helen of Troy, Henry VIII, Samuel Pepys, and Sherlock Holmes?
93. A member of a nomadic biblical tribe in the Jordan area; a type of explosive; an extinct species of mollusc. What same word can all these be?
94. Who recently wrote a novel, something of a commercial flop it would seem, which is set in London, Italy, and New York, and tells of how "John", an impoverished art dealer, meets "Laura", a glamorous TV producer, and how they become embroiled in a world of intrigue involving art thefts, Nazis, and murder?
95. What was the derogatory nickname applied to the steamer River Clyde after she had run aground during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915?
96. After listening to whatever Harry Mooney had to say in their 1930's variety act, what was the standard response of his partner, Harry Murray?
97. What name was given to the custom observed on Whit Tuesdays every few years until the mid 19th century by boys from Eton College whereby they collected gratuities from passers by near Slough which were used to help pay the tuition and accommodation fees of the senior scholar at King's College, Cambridge?
98. Cryptic crossword time! One point for each.
    1. Saw dog in lead (7)
    2. Shipping line installed bunting to assist erstwhile sailors (9)
    3. No can do (6, 5)
99. Diarmaid, who I would imagine is no longer with us, went to school in England but emigrated to New Zealand in the 1930's where he worked as a marine biologist. Something of an oddball, eccentric and boisterous, he was the inspiration for a well known character in fiction. What was Diarmaid's surname?
100. And an appropriate poser in the context of the quiz to terminate the proceedings! Back in the 1940's who started a craze for personalised car number plates by securing FLY 1?

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