BH81 Straight Up
Words fail me.
This is because I am frantically doing work in advance before I go places. Foreign places. Places where people speak weird. Wish me luck when I depart.
1 The star of 42 mostly musical movies and husband of actor and director Dimitris Papamichail, which singer and actress's movie Ipologhagos Natassa sold 751,000 tickets in Athens, making it the most successful film of all time in Greece, and died of pancreatic cancer in 1996 aged 62?
2 Which feminist artist, author and educator has produced such works as the needlework-based Birth Project (1980-85), the 1993 Holocaust Project and her best known piece, 1979's The Dinner Party, a homage to women's history in the form of a large triangular table with symbolic ceramic plates representing 39 famous feminist guests of honour?
3 Who played George in Drop the Dead Donkey and can now be seen playing Amos Diggory in the Harry Potter films?
4 What band did The Strand evolve into?
5 Which 12th century scholastic theologian and Bishop of Paris wrote the compilation of Biblical texts known as The Four Books of Sentences/Libri Quattuor Sententiarum, the standard textbook of theology at the medieval universities from the 1220s til the 16th century?
6 Independent from c.1078 to 1375, which Armenian Kingdom was a state formed by Armenian refugees fleeing the Seljuk invasion of Armenia and was located on the Gulf of Iskenderun of the Mediterranean Sea in what is now southern Turkey and ruled over by the Rubenid or Roupenid dynasty?
7 Which French chronicler, who belonged to a noble family of Picardy, continued the work of Froissart by writing a two-book Chronique that covered the period between 1400 and 1444 when according to another chronicler, Matthieu d'Escouchy, he stopped writing?
8 Which Duke of Burgundy was assassinated on the Bridge of Montereau in 1419?
9 Considered the greatest Russian poet before Pushkin, which Minister of Justice and personal secretary to Catherine the Great was known for such odes as On the Death of Prince Meschersky (1779), God (1785), Waterfall (1794) occasioned by the death of Potemkin and Bullfinch (1800) an elegy on the death of his friend Suvorov, as well as providing the lyrics for the first Russian national anthem, Let the sound of victory sound!?
10 Appointed to the Prussian court aged 14, which German composer settled in England in about 1700 and wrote the music for The Beggar's Opera in 1728?
11 Which actor was the father of the child, who lived to be only three-days-old and was buried in the Hollywood Memorial Park cemetery under a headstone with the inscription The Little Mouse?
12 Which Frenchman published his long poem La Jeune Parque at 46 years of age and later inspired James Merrill to write his 1974 poem Lost in Translation with his poem Palme?
13 Which French physicist's hypothesis states that "any moving particle or object had an associated wave" and thus created the new field of mecanique ondulatoire or wave mechanics?
14 In which city was Bruce Lee born in 1940, which gave rise to his Cantonese given name, Jun Fan?
15 The poet Okot p'Bitek, who is best known for the English version of his Song of Lawino, which dealt with the tribulations of a rural African wife whose husband has taken up the urban life and wishes everything to be Westernised, hailed from which country?
16 Which American songwriter and Communist Party member set an Alfred Hayes poem to music with the song Joe Hill in 1939 and wrote the Paul Robeson signature song/cantata Ballad for Americans, with lyricist John La Touche, and the musical poem on the life of Abraham Lincoln, Lonesome Train?
17 Which athlete became the first Olympic champion to come from Uganda when he won the 400m hurdles at the 1972 Games?
18 Which TV show's signature tune, Eye Level by the Simon Park Orchestra, was a 1973 UK number one?
19 Who created the fictional housewife Mrs Miniver in 1937 for a series of columns for The Times in 1937 and wrote the hymns Lord of All Hopefulness and When a Knight won his Spurs?
20 Currently falling on the third Monday in July, what Japanese holiday is Umi-no-hi?
21 What word describes the Russian version of the "holy fool" or "idiot" archetype that can be traced back to medieval times, with the Russian Orthodox Church numbering 36 such figures among its saints, including St Basil?
22 Which late Argentinian novelist wrote La traicion de Rita Hayworth/ Betrayed by Rita Hayworth (1968) and Boquitas pintadas/Heartbreak Tango (1973)?
23 Brigitte Bardot married which skier in 1963?
24 Who composed the song La Belle Vie in the Sixties that was turned into The Good Life and was famously performed by Tony Bennett?
25 Kicki Hakansson was the first what?
26 Coincidentally celebrated as Pi Day, what is Albert Einstein's birthday?
27 According to the 2001 UK Census, what London borough is the most ethnically diverse district in the country?
28 Synonymous with Shakti, the female aspect of divinity, what is the Sanskrit word for "Goddess"?
29 Famous for its investigations, the weekly satirical magazine Academia Catavencu is published in which country?
30 Released on March 27, 1970, what was Ringo Starr's first solo album?
31 Meaning "hit-hit" in Hebrew, Ga-ga is a form of which sport thought to have originated in Israel?
32 The five large islands Sylt, Fohr, Amrum, Nordstrand and Pellworm and the ten islets collectively called Halligen comprise which group?
33 Lager Sylt was the name of the World War Two concentration camp that operated on which Channel island between March 1943 and June 1944?
34 The Fire Temple or Dar-e Mihr or Atash Kadeh is a place of worship for which religion?
35 What term describes a Shinto shrine and its surrounding national area designed solely for the enshrinement and worship of a kami which has a gate in the form of a torii leading to it, and in common usage, refers to the buildings of a shrine?
36 What kind of organ transplantation is denoted by the acronym LDLT?
37 What is the collective corpus of Jewish religious law, including biblical law (the 613 mitzvot or commandments) and later talmudic and rabbinic law as well as customs and traditions?
38 What is defined as a biological molecule that catalyzes a chemical reaction?
39 Which Peruvian journalist, socialist and political philosopher, who died aged 35, is best known for his 1928 work Seven Interpretaive Essays on Peruvian Reality, which is still widely read in South America?
40 Kriol, a form of Creole, is the most commonly spoken language in which Central American country?
41 Originally called "Government Metalworks", what company was formed in 1951 when Finland decided to group together various factories working on war reparations for the USSR under one company and is also the name of an "Automotive" mechanical production company in Uusikaupunki that has produced vehicles for Saab?
42 In Spanish-speaking countries, the character of a little mouse named Ratoncito Perez is the equivalent of what in English-speaking cultures?
43 What nationality are the pair of golfers who won the last men's WGC-World Cup in 2005?
44 The Italian town and commune of Lombardy, Campione d'Italia, occupies an enclave within which Swiss canton?
45 Cupid, the natural satellite of Uranus that was discovered by Mark Showalter and Jack Lissauer in 2003 using the Hubble Space Telescope, was named after a character in which Shakespeare play?
46 Which Dan Brown novel introduced the character Robert Langdon in 2000?
47 What does the word "ta'anit" denote when used to describe a Jewish holiday or festival?
48 What Italian city's name was given to the Nineteenth Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church held from December 13, 1545, to December 4, 1563, which was convened as a response to the challenges posed by the Protestant Reformation?
49 Who wrote the 1975 Nebula and 1976 Hugo Award-winning sci-fi novel The Forever War and its sequels Forever Free and Forever Peace?
50 What victory on September 5, 1781 of the Rear Admiral Comte de Grasse and French fleet over the British fleet led by Rear Admiral Thomas Graves was the only major defeat for the Royal Navy in the 18th and 19th centuries?
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Answers to BH81
1 Aliki Vougiouklaki 2 Judy Chicago 3 Jeff Rawle 4 Sex Pistols 5 Peter Lombard 6 Cilicia 7 Enguerrand de Monstrelet 8 John the Fearless 9 Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin 10 Johann Christoph Pepusch 11 Charlie Chaplin (by Mildred Harris) 12 Paul Valery 13 Louis(, 7th duc) de Broglie 14 San Francisco (Jun Fan meaning "invigorate San Francisco") 15 Uganda 16 Earl Robinson 17 John Akii-Bua 18 Van der Valk 19 Jan Struther 20 Marine Day 21 Yurodivy 22 Manuel Puig 23 Francine Breaud 24 Sacha Distel 25 Miss World 26 March 14 27 Newham 28 Devi 29 Romania 30 Sentimental Journey 31 Dodgeball 32 North Frisian Islands 33 Alderney 34 Zoroastrians 35 Jinja 36 Living Donor Liver Transplantation 37 Halakha 38 Enzyme 39 Jose Carlos Mariategui 40 Belize 41 Valmet 42 Tooth fairy 43 Welsh (Stephen Dodd & Bradley Dredge) 44 Ticino 45 Timon of Athens 46 Angels and Demons 47 Fast 48 Council of Trent 49 Joe Haldeman 50 Battle of the Chesapeake
This is because I am frantically doing work in advance before I go places. Foreign places. Places where people speak weird. Wish me luck when I depart.
1 The star of 42 mostly musical movies and husband of actor and director Dimitris Papamichail, which singer and actress's movie Ipologhagos Natassa sold 751,000 tickets in Athens, making it the most successful film of all time in Greece, and died of pancreatic cancer in 1996 aged 62?
2 Which feminist artist, author and educator has produced such works as the needlework-based Birth Project (1980-85), the 1993 Holocaust Project and her best known piece, 1979's The Dinner Party, a homage to women's history in the form of a large triangular table with symbolic ceramic plates representing 39 famous feminist guests of honour?
3 Who played George in Drop the Dead Donkey and can now be seen playing Amos Diggory in the Harry Potter films?
4 What band did The Strand evolve into?
5 Which 12th century scholastic theologian and Bishop of Paris wrote the compilation of Biblical texts known as The Four Books of Sentences/Libri Quattuor Sententiarum, the standard textbook of theology at the medieval universities from the 1220s til the 16th century?
6 Independent from c.1078 to 1375, which Armenian Kingdom was a state formed by Armenian refugees fleeing the Seljuk invasion of Armenia and was located on the Gulf of Iskenderun of the Mediterranean Sea in what is now southern Turkey and ruled over by the Rubenid or Roupenid dynasty?
7 Which French chronicler, who belonged to a noble family of Picardy, continued the work of Froissart by writing a two-book Chronique that covered the period between 1400 and 1444 when according to another chronicler, Matthieu d'Escouchy, he stopped writing?
8 Which Duke of Burgundy was assassinated on the Bridge of Montereau in 1419?
9 Considered the greatest Russian poet before Pushkin, which Minister of Justice and personal secretary to Catherine the Great was known for such odes as On the Death of Prince Meschersky (1779), God (1785), Waterfall (1794) occasioned by the death of Potemkin and Bullfinch (1800) an elegy on the death of his friend Suvorov, as well as providing the lyrics for the first Russian national anthem, Let the sound of victory sound!?
10 Appointed to the Prussian court aged 14, which German composer settled in England in about 1700 and wrote the music for The Beggar's Opera in 1728?
11 Which actor was the father of the child, who lived to be only three-days-old and was buried in the Hollywood Memorial Park cemetery under a headstone with the inscription The Little Mouse?
12 Which Frenchman published his long poem La Jeune Parque at 46 years of age and later inspired James Merrill to write his 1974 poem Lost in Translation with his poem Palme?
13 Which French physicist's hypothesis states that "any moving particle or object had an associated wave" and thus created the new field of mecanique ondulatoire or wave mechanics?
14 In which city was Bruce Lee born in 1940, which gave rise to his Cantonese given name, Jun Fan?
15 The poet Okot p'Bitek, who is best known for the English version of his Song of Lawino, which dealt with the tribulations of a rural African wife whose husband has taken up the urban life and wishes everything to be Westernised, hailed from which country?
16 Which American songwriter and Communist Party member set an Alfred Hayes poem to music with the song Joe Hill in 1939 and wrote the Paul Robeson signature song/cantata Ballad for Americans, with lyricist John La Touche, and the musical poem on the life of Abraham Lincoln, Lonesome Train?
17 Which athlete became the first Olympic champion to come from Uganda when he won the 400m hurdles at the 1972 Games?
18 Which TV show's signature tune, Eye Level by the Simon Park Orchestra, was a 1973 UK number one?
19 Who created the fictional housewife Mrs Miniver in 1937 for a series of columns for The Times in 1937 and wrote the hymns Lord of All Hopefulness and When a Knight won his Spurs?
20 Currently falling on the third Monday in July, what Japanese holiday is Umi-no-hi?
21 What word describes the Russian version of the "holy fool" or "idiot" archetype that can be traced back to medieval times, with the Russian Orthodox Church numbering 36 such figures among its saints, including St Basil?
22 Which late Argentinian novelist wrote La traicion de Rita Hayworth/ Betrayed by Rita Hayworth (1968) and Boquitas pintadas/Heartbreak Tango (1973)?
23 Brigitte Bardot married which skier in 1963?
24 Who composed the song La Belle Vie in the Sixties that was turned into The Good Life and was famously performed by Tony Bennett?
25 Kicki Hakansson was the first what?
26 Coincidentally celebrated as Pi Day, what is Albert Einstein's birthday?
27 According to the 2001 UK Census, what London borough is the most ethnically diverse district in the country?
28 Synonymous with Shakti, the female aspect of divinity, what is the Sanskrit word for "Goddess"?
29 Famous for its investigations, the weekly satirical magazine Academia Catavencu is published in which country?
30 Released on March 27, 1970, what was Ringo Starr's first solo album?
31 Meaning "hit-hit" in Hebrew, Ga-ga is a form of which sport thought to have originated in Israel?
32 The five large islands Sylt, Fohr, Amrum, Nordstrand and Pellworm and the ten islets collectively called Halligen comprise which group?
33 Lager Sylt was the name of the World War Two concentration camp that operated on which Channel island between March 1943 and June 1944?
34 The Fire Temple or Dar-e Mihr or Atash Kadeh is a place of worship for which religion?
35 What term describes a Shinto shrine and its surrounding national area designed solely for the enshrinement and worship of a kami which has a gate in the form of a torii leading to it, and in common usage, refers to the buildings of a shrine?
36 What kind of organ transplantation is denoted by the acronym LDLT?
37 What is the collective corpus of Jewish religious law, including biblical law (the 613 mitzvot or commandments) and later talmudic and rabbinic law as well as customs and traditions?
38 What is defined as a biological molecule that catalyzes a chemical reaction?
39 Which Peruvian journalist, socialist and political philosopher, who died aged 35, is best known for his 1928 work Seven Interpretaive Essays on Peruvian Reality, which is still widely read in South America?
40 Kriol, a form of Creole, is the most commonly spoken language in which Central American country?
41 Originally called "Government Metalworks", what company was formed in 1951 when Finland decided to group together various factories working on war reparations for the USSR under one company and is also the name of an "Automotive" mechanical production company in Uusikaupunki that has produced vehicles for Saab?
42 In Spanish-speaking countries, the character of a little mouse named Ratoncito Perez is the equivalent of what in English-speaking cultures?
43 What nationality are the pair of golfers who won the last men's WGC-World Cup in 2005?
44 The Italian town and commune of Lombardy, Campione d'Italia, occupies an enclave within which Swiss canton?
45 Cupid, the natural satellite of Uranus that was discovered by Mark Showalter and Jack Lissauer in 2003 using the Hubble Space Telescope, was named after a character in which Shakespeare play?
46 Which Dan Brown novel introduced the character Robert Langdon in 2000?
47 What does the word "ta'anit" denote when used to describe a Jewish holiday or festival?
48 What Italian city's name was given to the Nineteenth Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church held from December 13, 1545, to December 4, 1563, which was convened as a response to the challenges posed by the Protestant Reformation?
49 Who wrote the 1975 Nebula and 1976 Hugo Award-winning sci-fi novel The Forever War and its sequels Forever Free and Forever Peace?
50 What victory on September 5, 1781 of the Rear Admiral Comte de Grasse and French fleet over the British fleet led by Rear Admiral Thomas Graves was the only major defeat for the Royal Navy in the 18th and 19th centuries?
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Answers to BH81
1 Aliki Vougiouklaki 2 Judy Chicago 3 Jeff Rawle 4 Sex Pistols 5 Peter Lombard 6 Cilicia 7 Enguerrand de Monstrelet 8 John the Fearless 9 Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin 10 Johann Christoph Pepusch 11 Charlie Chaplin (by Mildred Harris) 12 Paul Valery 13 Louis(, 7th duc) de Broglie 14 San Francisco (Jun Fan meaning "invigorate San Francisco") 15 Uganda 16 Earl Robinson 17 John Akii-Bua 18 Van der Valk 19 Jan Struther 20 Marine Day 21 Yurodivy 22 Manuel Puig 23 Francine Breaud 24 Sacha Distel 25 Miss World 26 March 14 27 Newham 28 Devi 29 Romania 30 Sentimental Journey 31 Dodgeball 32 North Frisian Islands 33 Alderney 34 Zoroastrians 35 Jinja 36 Living Donor Liver Transplantation 37 Halakha 38 Enzyme 39 Jose Carlos Mariategui 40 Belize 41 Valmet 42 Tooth fairy 43 Welsh (Stephen Dodd & Bradley Dredge) 44 Ticino 45 Timon of Athens 46 Angels and Demons 47 Fast 48 Council of Trent 49 Joe Haldeman 50 Battle of the Chesapeake
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