Great Brain Quiz 141

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  1. ROCCO Forte (97) boss of Rocco Forte Hotels, formerly Trust House Forte
  2. Milton OBOTE (99) Ugandan president 1966-1971 and again in the 1980's He died during GBQ141
  3. COCO Chanel (100) French couturier who revolutionised women's fashions in 1920's Pans
  4. BEBE Daniels (100) comedian and actress who married Ben Lyon "Life with the Lyons"
  5. BERT Trautmann (100) German goalkeeper with Manchester City Broke neck in 1956 FA Cup but played on
  6. Umberto ECO (99) Italian novelist and philosopher "The Name of the Rose", "Foucault's Pendulum"
  7. Baghdad (99)
  8. E4 (90) which extends north of N14 and N21
  9. Banana (99) whose latin tag is "Musa sapientum"
  10. Portsmouth (100)
  11. Yankee Doodle Dandy (100) Cagney was born in 1899 his screen mother Rosemary DeCamp in 1910
  12. Counties of N Ireland (99) Fermanagh, Antrim, Tyrone, Londonderry/ Derry, Armagh, Down
  13. Andre Dierickx (90) 1973 + 1975 The more famous cyclist, Eddy Merckx won in 1967, 1970 +1972
  14. Belgian chocolate manufacturers/ brands (99)
  15. Nelson (100) Nelson Prayer which he wrote before the Battle of Trafalgar not long before his death on 21 October 2005
  16. Hornblower (99) C S Forester novels about the British navy during the Napoleonic wars
  17. Campion (99) directed by Jane Campion, manservant to Margery Allingham's gentleman detective Albert Campion, "Billy Bunter" was played many years ago on TV by Gerald Campion
  18. Hachimaki (85)
  19. Carbonek Castle (90)
  20. Coconut (100)
  21. Rabindranath Tagore (98) first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1913 Knighted in 1915 but resigned this in 1919 as a protest against Britain's policy in the Punjab
  22. Void (100) 575 years from 1140 to 1715 was my intended answer but please see Newsletter
  23. L'Assommoir (90) nicknamed "Nana", she also appeared in the rather better known sequel of that name
  24. Alligator (90) terms in nature, alligator is US slang for a (usually white) jazz enthusiast who does not play an instrument
  25. Chanel No 5 (99)
  26. Vanilla (80)
  27. Robert Shaw (97) who was the first husband of Nancy Astor whom, as Nancy Langhorne, she married as an 18 year-old in 1897 before marrying Waldorf Astor The actress Mary Ure who played "Alison Porter" on stage and in the film of "Look Back in Anger" was married to the actor Robert Shaw from 1963 to 1975
  28. Andrew Murray (85) of Great Britain He served 38 aces in 2 matches, 12 v Andrei Pavel and 26 v Arnaud Clement
  29. Viktor Hartmann (95) whose sketches inspired Mussorgsky, in 1874, to compose his "Pictures at an Exhibition" This was originally for piano and acquired its status as a concert piece following Ravel's masterly orchestration in 1922
  30. William Shakespeare (99) who lived there in Stratford-on-Avon from 1597 until his death
  31. Sandra Bullock (98) who married chopper bike manufacturer Jesse James in July 2005
  32. Cleopatra's Needle (90) the London obelisk had been given to Britain in 1819 but the government baulked at paying cost of transportation The benefactor Sir Erasmus Wilson donated £10,000 towards the project that enabled it to be shipped from Alexandria in 1877 Engineer John Dixon designed the cylindrical vessel used during the adventurous voyage
  33. Change first letters to make a boy's name (85) Boris, Allen, Sean, Gary, Clive
  34. Aida (99) Verdi Amneris, Amonasro, Radames
  35. Olecranon (85)
  36. Worth A Guinea A Box (85) Beecham's Pills
  37. Michelangelo's nose (90) Florence sculptor Pietro Torrigiano 1472-1528 As a student c 1492 in a jealous rage
  38. San Miguel (90) a brand of beer "Lonesome Traveller", "Dead or Alive", "Lumbered", "Fort Worth Jail", "The Party's Over", "Have A Drink On Me", "Lively" and "San Miguel" were British hit singles for Lonnie Donegan in the 1950's and 1960's
  39. Arens (85) most of these facts applied to Moshe Dayan (1915-1981) but he was never an Ambassador to the USA
  40. Richard Rosebud Petrie (90) son of the Dick Van Dyke character in the popular Dick Van Dyke Show If you haven't seen "Citizen Kane" I won't give away the significance of "Rosebud" but it was pivotal to the plot and was the Orson Welles character's dying utterance in this extraordinary film
  41. Henry (85) he was William Henry West Betty, a child prodigy actor born in Ulster in 1791 Prunella Scales was in the TV and radio sitcom "After Henry", as the recently widowed "Sarah France" Can't permit "West" as a first name but if anyone with 49 who had "West" disallowed can convince me I am wrong, I will allow them a free entry!
  42. Will Rogers (30) USA 3c "Honouring Will Rogers" issue of 1948
  43. Hiroo Onada (Onada Hiro) (99) a Japanese officer stationed on Lubang Island during WW2, he refused to believe the war was over and fought on in the jungle until 1974 killing anyone who threatened him Eventually a former commanding officer was sent in to convince him that he could retire from the scene with honour
  44. A putting robot (95) designed by former pro golfer Dave Pelz Made from aluminium, "Perfy" is adjustable at the ankles, knees, hips, spine, and shoulders, and performs a swinging action in a pure pendulum motion Pelz was able to "prove" the optimum putting stroke after "Perfy" hit tens of thousands of balls on varying paced greens, one of the basic facts being that every putt should be hit hard enough to finish 17 inches past the hole to maximize its chance of holding its line and going in
  45. Antigua (95) Mill Reef + Shirley Heights
  46. Paul Lim (99) Darts
  47. Tormentilla (98) in "The Poisoned Kiss" by Vaughan Williams
  48. Marsala wine (95)
  49. Rubik (95) Erno Rubik, who invented the Rubik Cube Brno
  50. Lemuel Gulliver (95) a paraphrase of the opening few paragraphs of "Gulliver's Travels"
  51. Christopher Plummer (100) born in Canada Played Rommel in "The Night of the Generals" 1967
  52. Lola Montez (90) born in Ireland
  53. George Arliss (98) born in England Played Disraeli in "Disraeli" 1929
  54. Benjamin Disraeli (98) born in England
  55. Martine Carol (90) born in France Played Montez in "Lola Montes" 1955
  56. Erwin Rommel (98) born in Germany
  57. Hugh Trevor-ROPER (98)
  58. UNITY Valkyrie Mitford (100)
  59. I Could Have Danced All Night (98) in film "My Fair Lady"
  60. March of the Little LEAD Soldiers (95)
  61. The Cat and Mouse ACT (100) aka Prisoners Temporary Discharge for III Health Act of 1913
  62. Death Comes as the END (95) set in 2000 BC Egypt
  63. And flights of angels sing thee to thy REST (90) "Horatio" after "Hamlet"s death "Hamlet" Act 5, Sc 2, line 374
  64. Cakes and ALE (95) Somerset Maugham
  65. EACH Dawn I Die (98) 1939 James Cagney and George Raft (who played "Hood Stacey")
  66. EL Gran Senor (100) finishing order (just 8 runners) in the 1984 Irish Derby
  67. All can be prefixed with "Imp" to make new words (80)
  68. Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (90) 1857-1941 Ref "The Hill" by Horace Annesley Vachell
  69. Lemon/ Volkswagen Beetle ( both OK 85) Bernbach Agency ad carried the word "Lemon" under an apparently flawed Beetle, the copy stating that this car was not going to be sold as the chrome strip on the glove compartment was defective "We pluck the lemons, you get the plums"
  70. Thais (100)
  71. Lew Wallace (98) "Ben Hur"
  72. Jamie Burnett (95) made a 148 break versus Leo Fernandez at Pontin's Prestatyn on 16 October 2004 in the 2nd round of the qualifying for the UK Championship Awarded a free ball, he took the brown as an extra red, potted brown, then potted all 15 reds with a blue, two pinks and 12 blacks, then the colours
  73. The Big Sleep (100) 1978 James Stewart died 1 July 1997, Robert Mitchum on 2 July 1997
  74. Antonio Medina-Garcia (85) playing a chess match versus Svetozav Gligoric at Palma de Mallorca during 1968 When he resigned after 29 moves each, all 32 pieces were still on the board
  75. John Tillotson (85) on 22 November 1694 in the arms of his friend Robert Nelson (1656-1715)
  76. Androuet (98)
  77. Pushinka (98) mother was Strelka who, with Belka, orbited the earth 17 times in Sputnik V in August 1960
  78. Point of No Return (85) aka "The Assassin", based on "La Femme Nikita" Shows a short clip from "Deception"
  79. Briareus/ Cottus/ Gyes (85) the Hecatoncheires, giant sons of Uranus and Gaia with 100 arms and 50 heads
  80. HMS Monarch (100) Admiral John Byng, shot on 14 March 1756
  81. Leslie Caron (100) "An American in Paris" 1951 and "Gigi" 1956 Married to Sir Peter Hall from 1956-1965
  82. Vera Zorina (97) German-born ballerina who starred in "Goldwyn Follies" 1938 and "On Your Toes" 1939 Married to George Balanchine from 1938-1946 who choreographed the ballet sequences in those films
  83. Moira Shearer (100) best remembered for "The Red Shoes" 1948 Married Sir Ludovic Kennedy in 1950
  84. George Balanchine (97) great Russian-born choreographer and a huge influence on 20th century dance, first with Diaghilev and much later with the New York City Ballet which he co-founded and directed
  85. Sir Ludovic Kennedy (100) well-known broadcaster and writer
  86. Sir Peter Hall (100) theatre and opera director
  87. Apollo Theatre (100)
  88. Gumboro Disease (95) aka Infectious Bursal Disease
  89. Leslie King (90) born name of Gerald Ford
  90. Margaret Bolsky (95)
  91. Flaneur (100)
  92. 4 Ghosts Appeared to Scrooge/ 54 Towns in Utopia/ 72 Scenes on the Bayeux Tapestry (50 all OK) Other answers for 4 G A to S were accepted
  93. Sophia Peacock (90)
  94. Jean Baptiste de Vaquette Gribeauval (97) 1715-1789
  95. A Sperm Whale (2) "Childhood's End" (1953) Earth has been taken over by aliens called Overlords An Earthman, "Jan Rodricks", travels to their world in a space ship, as a stowaway, by hiding in a giant sperm whale that has been stuffed by "Professor Sullivan" for an exhibition of interesting objects from Earth in the Overlords' museum This question came from a reputable source, and I rejected other answers such as "space elevators" etc which may or may not have been justified See newsletter
  96. Pregnant Elephant (90) Packard Other answers accepted
  97. Rode winners in consecutive races at Salisbury (80) 1st race, an Apprentice Handicap, won by T M "Buck" Jones by sh hd on Hasty Hook, 2nd race, the Bulford Stakes, won by T M's father, D L "Davy" Jones, by 31 on Lemlem
  98. Edinburgh University Solution (90) Eusol
  99. Still-life With An Open Bible (95) Van Gogh On the table can be seen a copy of Emile Zola's "La Joie de Vivre"
  100. Eileen Farrell/ Sally Sweetland (85 both OK) 1943 film "The Constant Nymph" with Charles Boyer, Alexis Smith, and as the young girl of the title, Joan Fontaine Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the song in question being 'Tomorrow' Research shows that 'Tomorrow' was sung twice in the film, once in a chamber version by Sweetland, dubbing for Fontaine, and once as a finale, in a full concert version, by Constance Groves

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