A different kind of fun: BH91
A Face from the Past
Weird. Reading about the Prince Harry stolen photograph fiasco, I noticed that the girl at the centre of it all looked quite familiar. Then I googled her and found this and realised - ye gods - that Natalie was in my halls of residence at Nottingham University during my first year. I never actually looked at the photograph properly, which just goes to show, my powers of observation can be quite pathetically weak at times.
Being the most stunning looking person in Derby Hall, I always thought she was one of those people who inhabit a different social universe. And, obviously, you have to be to get members of the royal family to squeeze your breasts and suck your neck. Who would have thought that in ten years time she was going to be seen getting fondled on the frontpage of The Sun? Like I said, weird.
Of course, back then her otherworldliness was enhanced by the fact that she was going out with England rugby union stalwart and Question of Sport captain Matt Dawson. One person, who played table tennis against him in the aforementioned halls of residence, described him as "a dick". Just thought I'd slip that piece of slanderous gossip in there.
Realising that I am endowing myself with wild self importance, I seem to be separated from people in the news by a single degree. As I might have mentioned before, I have shared acquaintances with both Preston of The Ordinary Boys and BB7 winner Pete Bennett, and played cricket against two members of Keane throughout my youth. I realise I'm now getting to the age when people of my generation make their mark, and it feels slightly strange when they do so.
Anyway, I voted for Pete to win. He deserved it. Ya-boo-sucks to all those who got so sick of his tics that they thought he was putting it on. It's Tourette's syndrome, you bunch of dimwits. That's what they do.
I have it on reliable authority that he is a great bloke and a joy to smoke illegal drugs and share a Brighton squat with. I have also heard what one television production company plans to do with Pete and let's just say, I am very very scared for him.
1 Said to be the porcine equivalent of Kobe beef, what Japanese pork has a name meaning "black pig" and is made from similarly cossetted beef and is therefore darker, richer and better flavoured than normal varieties?
2 In the UK Tin Pan Alley was based around London's Denmark Street, but what is the New York City equivalent?
3 Which orphan, known for getting up to japes at her Paris boarding school, was created by Ludwig Bemelmans in 1939?
4 What name has been given to the period of liberalisation and the party atmosphere it engendered in Madrid after Franco's death?
5 In 1994, the music act The KLF burned one million pounds on which Scottish island?
6 The term "Chiantishire", as used to describe Tuscany, is said to have been first used by John Mortimer in which book, later adapted into a TV series starring John Gielgud?
7 The Istanbul delicacy midyetava is a sandwich filled with fried what?
8 The Imperial palace estate the Tsarskoye Selo ("Tsar's village"), built by Rastrelli for the the Empress Elisabeth and including the Catherine Palace and the Alexander Palace, is now part of which town south of St Petersburg?
9 Home venue of the Montreal Canadiens, what is the biggest venue in the NHL?
10 What historic town in the Yaroslavl Oblast was first documented in 1148 with a name meaning "Corner Field" and thought to allude to the turn the Volga and is home to the Assumption three-tented church (1628) of the Alexeievsky monastery and the graceful Church of Nativity of St John the Baptist, built in 1689-90 by a local merchant to commemorate the spot where his son had drowned?
11 According to recent research by Informa Telecoms and Media, the most popular non-English speaking language TV show in the world is Te Voy a Ensenar a Querer/I'm Going to Teach You To Love, which tells the story of a father and son who are both in love with the same woman. From which country does it come?
11 Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe founded which hugely popular website?
12 Who famously took the photo of a dead Confederate soldier at Gettysburg in 1863, which it was discovered he had posed for dramatic effect?
13 Centring around a paranoid and reclusive writer called Bill Gray who is tempted out of seclusion when a famous poet is kidnapped in Lebanon, which prescient Don DeLillo novel features the line "Terror makes the future possible" and is named after an Andy Warhol work?
14 The actress Helen Mirren has a tattoo of what small South American Indian design of interlocking crosses that means equal but opposite located on her left hand between thumb and forefinger?
15 Also the name of a currently popular English indie band who are known as The Raisin Boys in their hometown of Brighton, what is surfing slang for a useless or rubbish surfer?
16 Sharing its name with a Caribbean island, which Cuban town in the province of Sancti Spiritus has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1988 due to its colonial buildings and was founded in 1514 by Diego Velazquez de Cuellar in 1514?
17 What mountain in the central French Alps in the same-named commune is possible the most famous of the mountain climbs on the Tour de France?
18 At the beginning of 1417 Frederick Hohenzollern bought which of the seven electorates of the Holy Roman Empire for the sum of 400,00 Hungarian guilders?
19 Organised in 1970 as a multi-ethnic, multi-national club act, what Senegalese band was put together by saxophonist Baro N'Diaye and are known for such albums as 2002's Specialist in All Styles, which was produced by Youssou N'dour?
20 Renowned for their live performances, what French pop-rock husband-and-wife duo was formed in 1979 by guitarist Fred Chichin and singer Catherine Ringer and have released such albums as The No Comprendo and Marc et Robert, which were both produced by US record producer Tony Visconti?
21 Which German communist wrestler planned to win the wrestling event at the 1936 Olympics and make a vulgar gesture at Hitler, but instead came in fourth and was later executed on October 24, 1944, in Brandenburg prison for supposed treason?
22 Winner of the 100m backstroke at the 1932 Olympics, which American swimmer was famously suspended from the 1936 Olympics for excessive behaviour owing to her acute alcoholism?
23 Once the fourth largest inland lake in the world, which body of water between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has lost 90 per cent of its volume over the last 40 years due to what has been called "the worst man-made ecological disaster on the planet"?
24 Which citadel in souther Iran had stood for 2000 years before a December 26, 2003 earthquake which destroyed 60 per cent of the ancient city and killed 43,000 people?
25 The first of which stores was opened in 1971 by three partners: English teacher Jerry Baldwin, history teacher Zev Siegel and writer Gordon Bowker?
26 Which Russian composer (1855-1914) composed the short tone poems The Enchanted Lake/Volshebnoye ozero and Kikimora in 1909, as well as A Musical Snuffbox/Muzikalnaya tabakerka for the piano (1893) and the 1910-12 symphonic picture for orchestra, From the Apocalypse?
27 The acupuncture points known as Darwin's Point and Shen Men, known in Chinese medicine as "the gate of godliness", are found where on the body?
28 Aston Villa's prospective buyer, the credit card millionaire Randy Lerner, owns which NFL team?
29 On which river is the Italian city of Padua?
30 What flower was given to the name of the supposed revolution seen in Kyrgyzstan last year?
31 Which Bond film actor wrestled under the name Tosh Togo?
32 In Japanese cinema, the term "chambara" refers to what genre of films?
33 What battle, which took place in Gloucestershire on May 4, 1471, put a temporary end to Lancastrian hopes of regaining the throne of England and saw forces led by Edward IV defeat Edmund Beaufort, Margaret of Anjou and her 17-year-old son, Edward of Westminster?
34 What Islamic term refers to an inalienable religious endowment typically devoting a building or plot or land for Muslim religious or charitable purposes, and is used to refer to the Muslim administrative body responsible for the Haram al-Sharif or Temple Mount in the old city of Jerusalem?
35 First appearing on screen in the 1928 film Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery and later in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, what two-word term describes a code of chivalry, mystical martial arts and freedom of the spirit?
36 Written during the 1930s, the fourth part of whose five-part novel, known in China as the Crane-Iron Pentalogy, served as the basis for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?
37 Which 1842 poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson features the line: "Kind Hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood"?
38 Herman Leonard is famed for photographing what or whom?
39 Published in September 1957, Religion and the Rebel was the flop sequel to which well-known English novel?
40 What is the appropriate name of the 13th and last of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events books?
41 Written by Pat Ballard and published in 1954, which song was a US number one for The Chordettes that reached number 11 in the UK, where it was also a top 20 hit for The Four Aces (#9) and Max Bygraves (#16)?
42 One of the current pre-eminent African novelists, which Ivorian author's books include what has been described as the "African Lord of the Flies", Allah is Not Obliged (2001) and Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote (1998)?
43 What did North Carolina businessman Malcolm McLean invent in 1953 that had a revolutionary effect on world trade? There are an estimated 300 million of them.
44 Te Atairangi Kaahu, who died on August 15, reigned for 40 years as queen of which indigenous people?
45 In which African country, ranked the most corrupt country in the world in Transparency International's 1999 Corruption Perceptions Index, were 45,000 non-existent "ghost" civil workers costing £5 million a month recently discovered?
46 The 20-year-old son of which Israeli author, known for such books as Be My Knife and Someone to Run With, was recently killed by an anti-tank rocket while serving as an army Staff Sergeant in Lebanon?
47 What was Billy Wright's football club, for whom he made 541 appearances from 1939 to 1959 and was never booked?
48 What sort of Lebanese delicacy is "labneh"?
49 Which bay in Poole, Dorset, is to be home to the £34 million Twin Sails Bridge, the venue for the sailing events at the 2012 OIympics?
50 The first home nation rider to be ranked number one in the world, which Welsh cyclist has twice La Fleche and this year won the Women's Tour de France, also known as the Grand Boucle Feminine?
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1 Kurobuta pork 2 West 28th Street 3 Madeline 4 La Movida (The Movement) 5 Jura 6 Summer's Lease 7 Mussels 8 Pushkin 9 Bell Center 10 Colombia 11 MySpace.com 12 Alexander Gardner 13 Mao II 14 Lakesh 15 Kook (as in The Kooks) 16 Trinidad 17 Alpe d'Huez 18 Brandenburg 19 Orchestre Baobob 20 Les Rita Mitsouko 21 Werner Seelenbinder 22 Eleanor Holm 23 Aral Sea 24 Bam 25 Starbucks 26 Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov 27 The ear 28 Cleveland Browns 29 Bacchiglione 30 Tulip Revolution 31 Harold Sakata (Oddjob) 32 Swordplay 33 Battle of Tewkesbury 34 Waqf 35 Wuxia pian 36 Wang Dulu 37 Lady Clara Vere de Vere 38 Jazz musicians 39 The Outsider (by Colin Wilson) 40 The End 41 Mr Sandman 42 Ahmadou Kourouma 43 Shipping containers 44 Maori 45 Cameroon 46 David Grossman (son Uri) 47 Wolves 48 Cream cheese 49 Holes Bay 50 Nicole Cooke
Weird. Reading about the Prince Harry stolen photograph fiasco, I noticed that the girl at the centre of it all looked quite familiar. Then I googled her and found this and realised - ye gods - that Natalie was in my halls of residence at Nottingham University during my first year. I never actually looked at the photograph properly, which just goes to show, my powers of observation can be quite pathetically weak at times.
Being the most stunning looking person in Derby Hall, I always thought she was one of those people who inhabit a different social universe. And, obviously, you have to be to get members of the royal family to squeeze your breasts and suck your neck. Who would have thought that in ten years time she was going to be seen getting fondled on the frontpage of The Sun? Like I said, weird.
Of course, back then her otherworldliness was enhanced by the fact that she was going out with England rugby union stalwart and Question of Sport captain Matt Dawson. One person, who played table tennis against him in the aforementioned halls of residence, described him as "a dick". Just thought I'd slip that piece of slanderous gossip in there.
Realising that I am endowing myself with wild self importance, I seem to be separated from people in the news by a single degree. As I might have mentioned before, I have shared acquaintances with both Preston of The Ordinary Boys and BB7 winner Pete Bennett, and played cricket against two members of Keane throughout my youth. I realise I'm now getting to the age when people of my generation make their mark, and it feels slightly strange when they do so.
Anyway, I voted for Pete to win. He deserved it. Ya-boo-sucks to all those who got so sick of his tics that they thought he was putting it on. It's Tourette's syndrome, you bunch of dimwits. That's what they do.
I have it on reliable authority that he is a great bloke and a joy to smoke illegal drugs and share a Brighton squat with. I have also heard what one television production company plans to do with Pete and let's just say, I am very very scared for him.
1 Said to be the porcine equivalent of Kobe beef, what Japanese pork has a name meaning "black pig" and is made from similarly cossetted beef and is therefore darker, richer and better flavoured than normal varieties?
2 In the UK Tin Pan Alley was based around London's Denmark Street, but what is the New York City equivalent?
3 Which orphan, known for getting up to japes at her Paris boarding school, was created by Ludwig Bemelmans in 1939?
4 What name has been given to the period of liberalisation and the party atmosphere it engendered in Madrid after Franco's death?
5 In 1994, the music act The KLF burned one million pounds on which Scottish island?
6 The term "Chiantishire", as used to describe Tuscany, is said to have been first used by John Mortimer in which book, later adapted into a TV series starring John Gielgud?
7 The Istanbul delicacy midyetava is a sandwich filled with fried what?
8 The Imperial palace estate the Tsarskoye Selo ("Tsar's village"), built by Rastrelli for the the Empress Elisabeth and including the Catherine Palace and the Alexander Palace, is now part of which town south of St Petersburg?
9 Home venue of the Montreal Canadiens, what is the biggest venue in the NHL?
10 What historic town in the Yaroslavl Oblast was first documented in 1148 with a name meaning "Corner Field" and thought to allude to the turn the Volga and is home to the Assumption three-tented church (1628) of the Alexeievsky monastery and the graceful Church of Nativity of St John the Baptist, built in 1689-90 by a local merchant to commemorate the spot where his son had drowned?
11 According to recent research by Informa Telecoms and Media, the most popular non-English speaking language TV show in the world is Te Voy a Ensenar a Querer/I'm Going to Teach You To Love, which tells the story of a father and son who are both in love with the same woman. From which country does it come?
11 Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe founded which hugely popular website?
12 Who famously took the photo of a dead Confederate soldier at Gettysburg in 1863, which it was discovered he had posed for dramatic effect?
13 Centring around a paranoid and reclusive writer called Bill Gray who is tempted out of seclusion when a famous poet is kidnapped in Lebanon, which prescient Don DeLillo novel features the line "Terror makes the future possible" and is named after an Andy Warhol work?
14 The actress Helen Mirren has a tattoo of what small South American Indian design of interlocking crosses that means equal but opposite located on her left hand between thumb and forefinger?
15 Also the name of a currently popular English indie band who are known as The Raisin Boys in their hometown of Brighton, what is surfing slang for a useless or rubbish surfer?
16 Sharing its name with a Caribbean island, which Cuban town in the province of Sancti Spiritus has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1988 due to its colonial buildings and was founded in 1514 by Diego Velazquez de Cuellar in 1514?
17 What mountain in the central French Alps in the same-named commune is possible the most famous of the mountain climbs on the Tour de France?
18 At the beginning of 1417 Frederick Hohenzollern bought which of the seven electorates of the Holy Roman Empire for the sum of 400,00 Hungarian guilders?
19 Organised in 1970 as a multi-ethnic, multi-national club act, what Senegalese band was put together by saxophonist Baro N'Diaye and are known for such albums as 2002's Specialist in All Styles, which was produced by Youssou N'dour?
20 Renowned for their live performances, what French pop-rock husband-and-wife duo was formed in 1979 by guitarist Fred Chichin and singer Catherine Ringer and have released such albums as The No Comprendo and Marc et Robert, which were both produced by US record producer Tony Visconti?
21 Which German communist wrestler planned to win the wrestling event at the 1936 Olympics and make a vulgar gesture at Hitler, but instead came in fourth and was later executed on October 24, 1944, in Brandenburg prison for supposed treason?
22 Winner of the 100m backstroke at the 1932 Olympics, which American swimmer was famously suspended from the 1936 Olympics for excessive behaviour owing to her acute alcoholism?
23 Once the fourth largest inland lake in the world, which body of water between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has lost 90 per cent of its volume over the last 40 years due to what has been called "the worst man-made ecological disaster on the planet"?
24 Which citadel in souther Iran had stood for 2000 years before a December 26, 2003 earthquake which destroyed 60 per cent of the ancient city and killed 43,000 people?
25 The first of which stores was opened in 1971 by three partners: English teacher Jerry Baldwin, history teacher Zev Siegel and writer Gordon Bowker?
26 Which Russian composer (1855-1914) composed the short tone poems The Enchanted Lake/Volshebnoye ozero and Kikimora in 1909, as well as A Musical Snuffbox/Muzikalnaya tabakerka for the piano (1893) and the 1910-12 symphonic picture for orchestra, From the Apocalypse?
27 The acupuncture points known as Darwin's Point and Shen Men, known in Chinese medicine as "the gate of godliness", are found where on the body?
28 Aston Villa's prospective buyer, the credit card millionaire Randy Lerner, owns which NFL team?
29 On which river is the Italian city of Padua?
30 What flower was given to the name of the supposed revolution seen in Kyrgyzstan last year?
31 Which Bond film actor wrestled under the name Tosh Togo?
32 In Japanese cinema, the term "chambara" refers to what genre of films?
33 What battle, which took place in Gloucestershire on May 4, 1471, put a temporary end to Lancastrian hopes of regaining the throne of England and saw forces led by Edward IV defeat Edmund Beaufort, Margaret of Anjou and her 17-year-old son, Edward of Westminster?
34 What Islamic term refers to an inalienable religious endowment typically devoting a building or plot or land for Muslim religious or charitable purposes, and is used to refer to the Muslim administrative body responsible for the Haram al-Sharif or Temple Mount in the old city of Jerusalem?
35 First appearing on screen in the 1928 film Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery and later in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, what two-word term describes a code of chivalry, mystical martial arts and freedom of the spirit?
36 Written during the 1930s, the fourth part of whose five-part novel, known in China as the Crane-Iron Pentalogy, served as the basis for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?
37 Which 1842 poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson features the line: "Kind Hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood"?
38 Herman Leonard is famed for photographing what or whom?
39 Published in September 1957, Religion and the Rebel was the flop sequel to which well-known English novel?
40 What is the appropriate name of the 13th and last of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events books?
41 Written by Pat Ballard and published in 1954, which song was a US number one for The Chordettes that reached number 11 in the UK, where it was also a top 20 hit for The Four Aces (#9) and Max Bygraves (#16)?
42 One of the current pre-eminent African novelists, which Ivorian author's books include what has been described as the "African Lord of the Flies", Allah is Not Obliged (2001) and Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote (1998)?
43 What did North Carolina businessman Malcolm McLean invent in 1953 that had a revolutionary effect on world trade? There are an estimated 300 million of them.
44 Te Atairangi Kaahu, who died on August 15, reigned for 40 years as queen of which indigenous people?
45 In which African country, ranked the most corrupt country in the world in Transparency International's 1999 Corruption Perceptions Index, were 45,000 non-existent "ghost" civil workers costing £5 million a month recently discovered?
46 The 20-year-old son of which Israeli author, known for such books as Be My Knife and Someone to Run With, was recently killed by an anti-tank rocket while serving as an army Staff Sergeant in Lebanon?
47 What was Billy Wright's football club, for whom he made 541 appearances from 1939 to 1959 and was never booked?
48 What sort of Lebanese delicacy is "labneh"?
49 Which bay in Poole, Dorset, is to be home to the £34 million Twin Sails Bridge, the venue for the sailing events at the 2012 OIympics?
50 The first home nation rider to be ranked number one in the world, which Welsh cyclist has twice La Fleche and this year won the Women's Tour de France, also known as the Grand Boucle Feminine?
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Answers to BH91
1 Kurobuta pork 2 West 28th Street 3 Madeline 4 La Movida (The Movement) 5 Jura 6 Summer's Lease 7 Mussels 8 Pushkin 9 Bell Center 10 Colombia 11 MySpace.com 12 Alexander Gardner 13 Mao II 14 Lakesh 15 Kook (as in The Kooks) 16 Trinidad 17 Alpe d'Huez 18 Brandenburg 19 Orchestre Baobob 20 Les Rita Mitsouko 21 Werner Seelenbinder 22 Eleanor Holm 23 Aral Sea 24 Bam 25 Starbucks 26 Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov 27 The ear 28 Cleveland Browns 29 Bacchiglione 30 Tulip Revolution 31 Harold Sakata (Oddjob) 32 Swordplay 33 Battle of Tewkesbury 34 Waqf 35 Wuxia pian 36 Wang Dulu 37 Lady Clara Vere de Vere 38 Jazz musicians 39 The Outsider (by Colin Wilson) 40 The End 41 Mr Sandman 42 Ahmadou Kourouma 43 Shipping containers 44 Maori 45 Cameroon 46 David Grossman (son Uri) 47 Wolves 48 Cream cheese 49 Holes Bay 50 Nicole Cooke
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