Monday, March 20, 2006

BH #39

I've been in a bit of a daze lately because of all of the setting. I think I've said enough.

1 An iconic figure of the New York 80s scene, which jewellry designer, art director and producer created Madonna's "Boy Toy" and "Like a Virgin" looks?
2 Nicknamed "Lofty", who is the author of the SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea?
3 Which rock musician spent six months writing a "cybernovella" at the blog The Boy Who Heard Music?
4 What did Sabeer Bhatia invent and sell for $400 million that helped job-seeking workers who had previously been forced to use their employer's computer system?
5 On what TV show are candidates by the names of Vinick and Santos battling it out?
6 The Republican Irishman who founded the "syndicate" that bore his name and controlled the literary output of such sportsmen as Babe Ruth, Christy Welsh coined what term in 1921 that is common parlance for an arrangement?
7 Born in Sonobe Town, Kyoto on November 16, 1952, who is the creator of Donkey Kong, Mario and Legend of Zelda game series?
8 Made of four bamboo slats called take held together by two pieces of leather, the tsuka-gawa (handle) and saki-gawa (tip, and a string (tsuru), what is the name of the practice sword that is used primarily in Kendo and Kumdo (Korean Kendo)?
9 Which two men created TV comedy Drop the Dead Donkey?
10 Which Brazillian-born man directed the 1942 war film Went the Day Well?
11 Which English composer is responsible for writing the Mastermind theme tune Approaching Menace?
12 The first literal diagraph substitution cipher, which manual symmetric technique was invented in 1854 by Charles Wheatstone and was named after the Lord who promoted its use?
13 Bearing the surname of the violinist Irvine, which string quartet was founded in 1974 when he was a student at the Royal Academy of Music and whose other current members include violinist Ashot Sarkissjan, viola-player Ralf Ethers and cellist Lucas Fele?
14 Which late comedian's son, who was called Simon, was found dead of a heroin overdose in a Bangkok hotel room in 2001?
15 Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan were founders of Pyra Labs, the company that launched which tool in August 1999?
16 Which well known British comedian made his cinema debut playing the role of Horace in the 1960 movie And the Same to You?
17 Which famous literary character was based on the creator's friend, Edmund Ironside, who he knew during his time in South Africa?
18 Enos Lives was the slogan of an ad campaign used to promote what when they first came out?
19 Involving boiling and the use of bleach, maceration is a technique used to prepare what for study?
20 Which King of England, Scotland and Ireland first person to use the term "commander-in-chief"?

Answers to BH#38
1 Ido 2 Blessed Hildegarde of Bingen 3 Samadhi 4 Antarctica 5 Freshwater fish 6 Chordata 7 Lethwei or Lethawae 8 Soviet Union or Russia 9 Simbirsk 10 Sardinian 11 Kazan Cathedral 12 Elmore Leonard 13 Transylvania 14 Av 15 Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta 16 Min 17 Aruba 18 Filter 19 16 20 India, Japan, Brazil 21 Jules Bledsoe 22 Buriganga river 23 Coordinated Universal Time 24 Auckland 25 Edinburgh 26 The Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick 27 Cologne 28 Myrrh 29 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) 30 Liberal Bruant 31 Bait and switch 32 Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. 33 Quebec 34 The Pleiades or Seven Sisters 35 Hipparcos (High Precision Parallax Collecting Satellite) 36 Darmstadt 37 Apostles' Creed 38 Pontius Pilate 39 Haifa 40 Berthold 41 Baha'i 42 Donmeh 43 Young Turks 44 Aleksandr Stavre Drenova 45 Yoga 46 400m individual medley 47 Montreal 48 Nellie Kim 49 Rillaton barrow 50 Wilhelm Meister 51 Peter Falk 52 Donkey Kong 53 Kyoto 54 Mink 55 Vitoria 56 Vandals 57 Jordanes 58 NHL 59 Arbil 60 Battle of Frigidus or the Frigid River 61 Luxembourg 62 Treaty of Ryswick 63 Bas-Rhin 64 Borobudur 65 Zagreb 66 Giorgione 67 Spear-Bearer 68 Kritios Boy 69 Cairo or Al-Qahirah 70 Shehnai 71 Rauf Denktas 72 Ditherington 73 Cornwall 74 Staffordshire 75 Bootes 76 The Red Wolf 77 Macadamia nut 78 Korea 79 Garstang 80 Puerto Rico 81 Humberside Airport 82 Katsu 83 World Peace Council or World Council of Peace 84 Evans 85 Saltwater or estuarine crocodile 86 Space shuttles 87 Stomach (epithelium) 88 Eustathius Macrembolites 89 London 90 Adobe 91 Firmin (in Turkish 'ferman') 92 Kikkoman 93 Shochu 94 Sea, Air and Land 95 Wedderburn 96 Mongolia 97 Francois Pinault 98 Christian Dior 99 Louis Althusser 100 Heavy cavalry or heavy armoured horsemen 101 George Rodgers

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