Great Brain Quiz 136

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  1. Cary Grant (100) married to Virginia Cherrill 1934-1935
  2. Lana Turner (100) married to Lex Barker, a screen "Tarzan", 1953-1957
  3. Lex Barker (97)
  4. Ginger Rogers (95) married to Lew Ayres 1934-1940
  5. Lew Ayres (95) seen here in the great 1930 film "All Quiet on the Western Front"
  6. Virginia Cherrill (100) best known as the blind flower girl in "City Lights"
  7. Samson (99) by Handel
  8. Effendi (99)
  9. Cotillion (70) can't accept "Prom(enade)"
  10. Achille Varzi (99) in 1948. "Achille" is "Hercule Poirot"s twin brother
  11. Hilary Swank (100) they are the only five actresses to date to have received the "Best Actress" Oscar for the only two films for which they were nominated. Outstanding in "Million Dollar Baby"
  12. Kanchenjunga (96) not Everest
  13. High Altitude Cerebral Edema (99)
  14. Patter (99) from "Paternoster" = "Our Father"
  15. Sebastian Newbold Coe (100)
  16. Le Sphinx; Francois Popy (40) 1874-1928. Played by the orchestra on the Titanic as she was sinking. Many went for "Valse Septembre" by Felix Godin (Goon) who was in fact English
  17. St David's (90) in Wales. Awarded city status in 1995. Population is c 1,500
  18. 67921 + 61053 = 128974 (95)
  19. Mother Hubbard's Dog (99)
  20. Mahogany (99)
  21. Crown of India (98) Elgar's masque celebrating the Delhi Durbar after the coronation of George V and Queen Mary on 22 June 1911
  22. Sir Robert ("Bobby") Frederick Chelsea Moore (95)
  23. Google (99) easy to "google" no doubt!
  24. E (45) this is the Marx Bros film "Animal Crackers" (1930) in which Groucho plays the bizarre explorer Jeffrey T Spaulding. In a dialogue with "Roscoe W Chandler", Groucho tells him that the "T" stands for Edgar!
  25. Mount Rushmore (99) President's faces carvings. Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt
  26. John Buchan (95)
  27. P G Wodehouse (80)
  28. Somerset Maugham (75) as a young lad, of course!
  29. Oscar Wilde (85) written and directed by the former DJ Mike Read, it ran for one performance only at the Shaw Theatre on 19 October 2004 before he took it off due to non-existent sales and dire reviews
  30. The egg (85) as dinosaurs, for example, laid them long before chickens were around
  31. 55 (80) by Lisa Sthalekar, bom Poona in August 1979. She played for the winning Australian team
  32. Tenderising; Ingredients (90)
  33. Edward Heath (97) whose mother was Edith Annie Pantony
  34. Poilu (95) literally "hairy one"
  35. Ramsay MacDonald (100) by Winston Churchill
  36. Arthur (75) in "The Third Man" (1959-1964) which bore no resemblance to the novel or film save for the "Harry Lime" character and the theme music, Davies played Inspector Arthur Shillings of Scotland Yard for a year or so before taking on the role of Jules Maigret. That series ran from 1960-1963 in 52 episodes
  37. Davy Crockett (99) his sidekick, played by Buddy Ebsen, was "Georgie Russell"; "Old Betsy" was his rifle
  38. Comb of a fowl such as a chicken (99)
  39. Lyric Suite; Lyric Pieces (85) Opus 54 by Grieg. March of the Trolls
  40. Condoleeza Rice (98) America's Secretary of State and the world's most powerful woman
  41. Borstal (100)
  42. C (99) the lions would have starved long ago
  43. To hang their sword from (99)
  44. Freaks (98) Tod Browning's 1932 horror film centred round a travelling circus whose exhibits included real life mistakes of nature, microcephalies, Siamese twins, quadruple amputees etc. Among the more normal members of the cast were Harry and Daisy Earles (bom Schneider) and their sister Elly, aka Tiny Doll. Daisy, Tiny, and another sister, Gracie, appeared as "Munchkins" in "The Wizard of Oz" while Harry had a grander role as one of the "Lollipop Guild". All four were, of course, midgets
  45. Never Dream of Dying (95) by Raymond Benson who has written a few novels based on the Ian Fleming characters and, in my view, better than some of the originals. Father-in-law was Marc-Ange Draco whose daughter Tracy was married to Bond in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" before being killed by Blofeld
  46. 1892/3 (80) the play-offs were called Test Matches when they were introduced following the creation of Division 2. The bottom three Div 1 teams played off against the top three Div 2 teams. This system was changed to automatic relegation/ promotion for two teams later in the decade
  47. Das Rheingold (95) Wagner. The giants "Fafner" and "Fasotf". "Fafner" kills his brother
  48. King Richard and the Crusaders (98) 1954 in which Virginia Mayo, as "Lady Edith" has the dubious pleasure of saying to Richard I (George Sanders) "Fight. Fight. Fight. That's all you think of Dick Plantagenet"!
  49. Winnie the Pooh (99) Winnie, named for Winnipeg, was a Canadian bear who died in London Zoo in 1934. Pooh was a swan which Christopher Robin Milne used to feed when on holiday
  50. Philip K Dick (97) famed sci-fi writer. His sister was called Jane and his middle name (hint hint!) was Kindred
  51. Ulysses S GRANT (100) Union general and 18th US President
  52. Richard Rodney BENNETT (94) English composer, born 1936
  53. George ARMSTRONG Custer (94) Union general who perished in 1876 at Little Big Horn
  54. Alexander Graham BELL (100) born in Edinburgh but invented the telephone in the USA
  55. Peter Maxwell DAVIES (98) English composer, born 1936
  56. Elijah WOOD (96) American actor who will probably be remembered mainly for "Frodo Baggins"
  57. Mr BROWN (98) in "The Secret Adversary" by Agatha Christie
  58. The Walrus and the CARPENTER (98) consumed their oyster friends in "Alice Through the Looking Glass"
  59. GODFREY Daniels (96) Cardinal Gottfried Danneels of Belgium . .
  60. Nelson Bunker HUNT (100) along with Herbert and Lamar lost a few billion dollars in the silver venture
  61. Winners of the Isle of Man Senior TT (75)
  62. Bidarka (98)
  63. Fou (98) ie a Bishop in chess
  64. Anglican cathedral, Liverpool (100) 9700 pipes
  65. Hillary Waugh (96)
  66. The female lead all received "Best Actress" Oscar nominations in films directed by their husbands (96) Melina Mercouri/Jules Dassin; Gena Rowlands/John Cassavetes; Julie Andrews/Blake Edwards
  67. The Great Gun of Windsor (96) Tom Cannon
  68. A Suitable Boy (94) Vikram Seth
  69. Snegurochka (100) aka "The Snow Maiden" by Rimsky Korsakov. Premiered 1882
  70. Mrs Patrick Campbell (100) as Eliza Doolittle in Shaw's "Pygmalion", at His Majesty's. "Not bloody likely"
  71. Sodalitis convivium (98) Savile Club
  72. Stendhal (94) Stendhal's Syndrome. Symplons can apparently extend from amnesia to temporary madness
  73. Jane Porter (80) the full name of "Jane" in the "Tarzan" stories; Jane Porter (1776-1850) wrote the historical novels "Thaddeus of Warsaw", based on the exploits of the Polish patriot Tadeusz Kosciusko who fought for the colonists in the American revolution; and "The Scottish Chiefs", about William Wallace
  74. Snap (80) in the Dalham Stakes. She was trained by Jack Jarvis
  75. Anita Hart (90) from Pinner whose son, an amateur meteorolgist, had warned her. See Newsletter
  76. 0 (75) fallers, pulled up, unseated rider, brought down etc at those fences in this year's Grand National
  77. Benjamin Gannett (100) Robert Shirtliff was the assumed name of Deborah Simpson, born 1760, who was the first known American woman to masquerade as a man in order to fight in the army
  78. Yabba (100) legendary barracker who insulted incompetent players on the Hill at Sydney Cricket Ground
  79. ACK (80) six letter words are created in each case with the addition of the series ABC, BCD, CDE, DEF, FGH, GHI, and HIJ. Abject, Backed, Cudgel, Deafen, Effigy, Flight, Gothic, Hijack
  80. The Song of Bernadette (98) in which the somewhat promiscuous Linda Darnell played the part of "The Lady", albeit uncredited. The others all played the Virgin Mary in "The Gaucho" (1927), "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965), and "The Thorn" (1974). The most likely explanation for Darnell is that while studio head Darryl F Zanuck was abroad serving in the army he received a memo asking for his advice as to who should play the role, a very sensitive issue, and crossly replied with the most facetious suggestion he could think of. It was taken seriously!
  81. Ruby Keeler (97) married to Al Jolson 1928-1940
  82. Burgess Meredith (100) married to Paulette Goddard 1944-1950
  83. Jessica Tandy (95) married to Hume Cronyn 1942-1994
  84. Al Jolson (97)
  85. Paulette Goddard (100)
  86. Hume Cronyn (95)
  87. Idmon ()
  88. Sergeant Thomas Durrant (85) during "Operation Chariot", the raid on Saint Nazaire in March 1942
  89. Face of E.T. (95) Steven Spielberg used a collage of parts of their faces for E.T. in the 1982 film
  90. 11 = Lover's Leap at Backgammon (with Opening Throw); 12 Episodes of Fawfty Towers; 493 Knuts in a Galleon (75 all OK) the last being "currency" in the "Harry Potter" books
  91. Anagrams of leading Swedish golfers on the USPGA tour or PGA tour in Europe (75) Daniel Chopra, Niclas Fasth, Marten Olander, Jarmo Sandelin, Fredric Jacobson
  92. Stewart (95) John Innes Mackintosh Stewart. As Michael Innes he wrote some 40 stories featuring Insp. John Appleby
  93. Gretry; Richard Coeur du Lion (97) premiered in Paris in 1784. In Tchaikovsky's "Queen of Spades", premiered in St Petersburg in 1890, the Countess sings an air from the Gretry work in Act 2, Scene 2
  94. Grimsdyke; Grim's Dyke (90) in "Doctor in the House" .based on the Richard Gordon books, the amorous doctor was played by Kenneth More and called "Richard"; Leslie Phillips played "Gaston" in "Doctor in Clover" where there was also a relative, "Miles", played by John Fraser. W S Gilbert's Middlesex country house, where he drowned, was Grim's Dyke
  95. Shaun Pollock (85) 2nd innings, 5th test England v South Africa at Centurion Park on 25 Jan 2005, on his way to 26*
  96. Arthur Moyle (60) and Arthur Jenkins were Clement Attlee's parliamentary secretaries. On being raised to the peerage, Attlee remembered them on his coat of arms in the form of two Welsh terriers, as supporters, in sejant proper
  97. 145 (66) call the versatile pair A + B. There are 75 arrangements when all stroke men come from the 5; when A is stroke there are 50; when B is stroke there are 10; when A + B are stroke there are 10. If you put 185, please note when B is stroke, there are the same 40 combinations of 8 rowers as when A was stroke, but A + B are on opposite sides
  98. I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue; Unco; Ripon (85) unco is a Scottish word for a stranger, R.I.P. on
  99. Martha Scott (97) "Design for a Stained-Glass Window", "The Tumbler"; "Ben Hur", "The Ten Commandments"
  100. King Edward IV (85) first and last speakers in Shakespeare's King Henry VI, parts 1, 2, and 3

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