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A morning shocker. Is Steve Irwin really dead?
The initial reaction is to think it is some sort of joke (and look at the date to check if it is April 1) because of the manner he conducted himself with vast numbers of deadly animals. Dealing with them as if they were soft toys, and all the time wearing a cloak of bluff invincibility.
A barb through the heart. Horrible. Another curiosity killed the cat death.
I'm only mentioning this because I have never heard a quiz question about Steve Irwin. He is after all, when you look at it, perfect fodder for a long starter question. A well known figure across the world (the topper-most article on CNN.com this morning), his shenanigans being broadcast in 130 countries.
It would start something like: " Once described as a 'modern-day Noah',his two children with his American wife Terri Raines are known by the names Bindi and Bob, while his debut as a film star was released in 2002 and was subtitled Collision Course..."
And so on. You will probably hear it in some form someday. I can now envisage people asking when's that Steve Irwin question goin to come up for years and years. Such a thought invites a titter or two.
But like I said: Poor Steve. Nice fella. It seems that death often annihilates all those niggling feelings of irritation with the deceased. Thoughts of battering him to death with a koala have gone away, possibly for ever.
Oh wait, confirmation has come through that even in death he has become a joke. Have you seen the BBC 24 Stingray TV-show tie-in picture? Slightly funny. Could do better though.
TV imposes a kind of fictional quality on its stars. We knew him as a hilarious croc-botherer. He stays one for ever now. Caught in amber. We never knew him in the human context. I mean, can you imagine Irwin buying a pint of milk, doing his driving test or cooking some breakfast? Nope, he was always out in the Bush looking for wildlife he could get jiggy with. Being a sort of safari-suited clown crossed with Crocodile Dundee 24 hours a day. And yes, even in his sleep.
You know, I could have never imagined writing the above about the Crocodile Hunter. I thought I was going to write about the BQC. Funny that. (Don't worry, I will, I will)
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The Observer and The Guardian have yielded many trivia pearls this weekend and today. I have gathered them and laid them on your computer screen. Eat them or something.
So it seems I am already back to setting quiz questions. The compulsion is too strong.
Having said that, it is a lot better than being addicted to heroin, isn't it?
Mmm. heroin.
1 Renowned for his obsession with the weight of his gymnasts and even more so with the achievement of perfection, which controversial figure coached Nadia Comaneci at the 1976 Olympics?
2 Made famous in Arthur C Clarke's 1978 novel The Fountains of Paradise, which Russian scientist originally put forward the idea of a space elevator in 1960?
3 What slang word for a new breed of urban professionals is used to describe young urban females who typically spend more than they earn and normally have two maxed-out credit cards?
4 When taking about the military, what is a Sea Knight?
5 Which actress wrote Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression?
6 What sort of constructions in south west France are palombieres?
7 Petra Nemcova, survivor of the Asian Tsunami and girlfriend of James Blunt, has become the face of which company's womens-wear collection?
8 Which 21-year-old American actress has a twin brother called Hunter who is younger than her by three minutes?
9 Which Empress Dowager and de facto ruler of China from 195BC to 180BC murdered one of her husband's concubines by cutting off her limbs and then had her stepson starved to death because he slighted his wife, who was the empress's niece?
10 Which Empress of Byzantium (752-803) had her own son deposed and blinded, to guarantee her security on the throne, though she was later deposed by the patricians and exiled on Lesbos where she supported herself by spinning?
11 What is Sir Wally Herbert renowned for being?
12 What is the local name for the tidal wave or bore that hurtles up the Amazon tributary at 20mph and at a height of four metres?
13 Known locally as the Silver Dragon, what tidal bore in China is the largest in the world and can reach a height of nine metres?
14 Aviation companies are currently developing what sort of transport vehicle that have become known as the VLJ?
15 Due to open in Liverpool next autumn, what is the name of the world's first ever Beatles-themed hotel?
16 What magazine, seen as the architecture bible, was founded in 1983 by publisher Peter Murray, editor Deyan Sudjic and designer Simon Esterson and is being relaunched this month with a new bespoke headline font?
17 Whose first book, written with Jeremy Paxman, was the 1982 non-fiction work A Higher Form of Killing, an examination of chemical and biological warfare, which he followed up with 1986's Selling Hitler, an investigation into the fake Hitler diaries?
18 Which architecture critic for The Observer wrote Evolution of the House (1975) in which he wrote that a house is "in effect, no more than a background to surround you, a floor to raise you up, a roof to cover you"?
19 Which Steve Reich work is to be premiered during the Barbican's week-long tribute to him in October?
20 Which British novelist's latest work, The Mission Song, is to be published in October?
21 Kevin Spacey is reuniting with director Howard Davies for which Eugene O'Neill play concerning three Connecticut outsiders next month at the Old Vic?
22 Biographer Claire Tomalin's next book is about Thomas Hardy. What appropriate title has it been given?
23 Whose folk opera Tobias and the Angel is to be premiered at the newly refurbished Young Vic with the help of two community choirs?
24 Promising "fun and fascination", which Belgian is the latest artist to fill the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern?
25 Tom Waits will soon release a trilogy of albums, Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards. What collective name has it been given?
26 Which Italian diva is to star in the Royal Opera's first staging of Carmen for 12 years?
27 In which film did the late Glenn Ford play a sympathetic US officer in occupied Japan opposite Marlon Brando's interpreter?
28 What is the title of Roddy Doyle's 10-year updating of his novel The Woman Who Walked Into Doors?
29 What is the name of Gordon Ramsay's upcoming autobiography?
30 The Heinrich Heine Prize was withdrawn from which Austrian author this year due to moral misgivings about his support for Slobodan Milosevic?
31 By what name are the works Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street collectively known?
32 Seen as his most important work, which Naguib Mahfouz book of 1959 was banned for alleged blasphemy and led to his being stabbed outside his home in 1994 because a blind Egyptian theologian named Omar Abdul claimed that if Mahfouz had been punished for writing Children of Gebelwai Salman Rushdie would never have risked publishing The Satanic Verses?
33 Inspired by his time in the British secret service, which Somerset Maugham book concerns a West End playwright with the first name John who is drawn into the world of espionage?
34 In which 1954 Lewis Gilbert film, also starring Stanley Baker and Gloria Grahame, does society layabout Laurence Harvey gather together a gang of Anglo-American drop-outs in a bit to carry out the perfect robbery?
35 Now ranked fifth in the world, Vicky Botwright controversially posed semi-naked to drum up publicity for which sport in 2001?
36 Which rugby league team in the Super League play at The Jungle?
37 In which sport are the Americans Kirby Chambliss and Mike Mangold, the Briton Paul Bonhomme and the 50-year-old Hungarian Peter Besenyi famous names?
38 A one-time apprentice to George Stephenson, which railway engineer was responsible for the Grand Junction Railway that was completed in 1837 that linked Birmingham to Manchester and Liverpool, and who went on to build rail-links all across Europe including the Paris-Rouen railway?
39 Lyndon Lynch is manager of which England team?
40 Which 19-year-old 6ft 10in centre from Aldershot was picked in the first round of the NBA draft by the Portland Trailblazers in June?
41 For which NBA team does Britain's Pops Mensah-Bonsu play?
42 In the US, what four-word term has been given to putting your car into drive mode (as in an American automatic) then getting out and dancing on the bonnet or roof or on the road alongside it as it keeps moving?
43 What top-security underground installation, an hour's drive from Washington DC, is officially called the Emergency Operations Centre of the Federal Emergency Management Authority (Fema)?
44 In which US state is Frank Lloyd Wright's house Fallingwater? And which practice, still in business, did he found?
45 Which 78-year-old French filmmaker made the documentaries Black Panthers (1968), Jacquot (1991) and The Gleaners and I (2000)?
46 Lorraine Candy is editor of which publication, said to be "the world's biggest-selling fashion magazine"?
47 Which magazine publisher has brought out the book How to Get Rich?
48 What was the name of Prunella Scales's overbearing and patronising character in the Tesco TV adverts?
49 What two-word name has been given to the life-size cut-out photographs of serving family members that the US National Guard has given to help them through the strain of overseas deployment?
50 What already highly controversial but unreleased video game from Rockstar is to be renamed Canis Canem Edit for the European market after the featured school's motto "dog eat dog"?
51 What did an abbott named Bernard draft in 1320?
52 Which Italian fencer held the record for most gold medals - five in 1920 - in a single Olympic games until Mark Spitz won seven in 1972?
53 Who was the flamboyant, bowler hat-wearing manager of Kendo Nagasaki?
54 Scarlett Johansson recently signed up to be the face of which sports company, famous for its shoes?
55 Which East German athlete amassed 16 outdoor world records including the 400m in 1984, but was discovered to have been one of the DDR athletes to whom steroids were administered in 1991 by German police?
56 Which late developing, heavily muscled Czech athlete suspiciously hit peak form in 1983 when she broke the 800m world record?
57 Who is the husband of the American model Kristen Pazik?
58 Chemmy Alcott is considered to be the UK's best female practitioner of what sport?
59 Whose novel, entitled Silk, is the tale of two lovers who never speak or touch?
60 Called the "ultimate chic beach resort on the Normandy Riviera" by The Guardian, which Calvados town is nicknamed the "21st arrondissement" for the Parisians who swell the population of 4,500 to 30,000 and was where Coco Chanel opened her first boutique?
61 Europe's first foray to the Moon, which dishwasher-sized probe slammed into its surface at 6.42am on September 4 at 2km a second on the moon's earthward side called the Lake of Excellence?
62 Currently featuring at the Venice Film Festival and starring Clive Owen, Alfonso Cuaron's future dystopia movie Children of Men is based on whose novel?
63 What was the significance of the 87-year-old Nellie Connally recently dying of natural causes?
64 What animal name is given to Moscow's winter swimmers?
65 What is the meaning of Hezbollah's TV station Manar's name?
66 Which Texan shoe company has patented the idea of wheeled footwear and uses the slogan "freedom is a wheel in your sole" to appeal mainly to children aged six to 14?
67 Letts and Lonsdales are names most associated with what kind of books?
68 Which man, considered one of the great Welsh artists, recently died aged 88 having gained iconic status in his home country for his dark, monumental landscapes of Snowdonia, and for painting such works as Cottages, Penmynydd and Coast at St David's?
69 At which British cycling event was a police motorcycle marshal killed in 1998?
70 Sponsored by Ladbrokes, which English classic horse race is to take place on the second Saturday of September?
71 Harold Salomon, John Bruchi, Howie Hammer and perhaps the greatest of them all, Robert Sostre, are all top players in the history of which game that is derived from handball and racquetball?
72 Which African country won the first ever women's Olympic hockey tournament in 1980?
73 Nicknamed "Floh", which 34-year-old German hockey player scored 143 goals in 39 international matches between his first international cap in March 1994 and the 2002 World Cup?
74 At whose home do the Burghley Horse Trials take place?
75 What is the nickname of Gloucestershire country cricket club's one-day team?
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Answers to BH99
1 Bela Karolyi 2 Yuri Artsutanov 3 Yuffers 4 Type of helicopter 5 Brooke Shields 6 A kind of treehouse with a platform or platforms from which hunters shoot migrating doves (or other birds) 7 John Lewis 8 Scarlett Johansson 9 Lu 10 Irene 11 An adventurer/explorer 12 The pororoca 13 The Qiantang river tidal bore 14 Very Light Jet 15 The Hard Day's Night Hotel 16 Blueprint 17 Robert Harris 18 Stephen Gardiner 19 Daniel Variations 20 John Le Carre 21 A Moon for the Misbegotten 22 Wessex Man 23 Jonathan Dove 24 Carsten Holder 25 Orphans 26 Anna Caterina 27 The Teahouse of the August Moon 28 Paul Spencer 29 Humble Pie 30 Peter Handke 31 The Cairo Trilogy (by Naguib Mahfouz) 32 Children of Gebelwai 33 Ashenden 34 The Good Die Young 35 Squash 36 Castleford 37 Air racing (as in the recent Red Bull Air Race) 38 Joseph Locke 39 Learning-disability football team 40 Joel Freeland 41 Dallas Mavericks 42 Ghost-riding the whip 43 Mount Weather 44 Pennsylvania, Taliesin Architects 45 Agnes Varda 46 Elle 47 Felix Dennis 48 Dotty 49 Flat Daddies 50 Bully 51 The Declaration of Arbroath (he was abbot of Arbroath Abbey) 52 Nedo Nadi 53 Gorgeous George Gillette 54 Reebok 55 Marita Koch 56 Jarmila Kratochvilova 57 Andriy Shevchenko 58 Skiing 59 Alessandro Bericco 60 Deauville 61 Smart-1 (Small Mission for Advanced Research and Technology) 62 PD James 63 She was the last surviving occupant of JFK's death-limousine 64 Walruses 65 The Beacon 66 Heely's 67 Revision guides 68 Sir Kyffin Williams 69 The PruTour 70 St Leger 71 Paddleball 72 Zimbabwe 73 Florian Kunz 74 Marquess of Exeter 75 The Gladiators
The initial reaction is to think it is some sort of joke (and look at the date to check if it is April 1) because of the manner he conducted himself with vast numbers of deadly animals. Dealing with them as if they were soft toys, and all the time wearing a cloak of bluff invincibility.
A barb through the heart. Horrible. Another curiosity killed the cat death.
I'm only mentioning this because I have never heard a quiz question about Steve Irwin. He is after all, when you look at it, perfect fodder for a long starter question. A well known figure across the world (the topper-most article on CNN.com this morning), his shenanigans being broadcast in 130 countries.
It would start something like: " Once described as a 'modern-day Noah',his two children with his American wife Terri Raines are known by the names Bindi and Bob, while his debut as a film star was released in 2002 and was subtitled Collision Course..."
And so on. You will probably hear it in some form someday. I can now envisage people asking when's that Steve Irwin question goin to come up for years and years. Such a thought invites a titter or two.
But like I said: Poor Steve. Nice fella. It seems that death often annihilates all those niggling feelings of irritation with the deceased. Thoughts of battering him to death with a koala have gone away, possibly for ever.
Oh wait, confirmation has come through that even in death he has become a joke. Have you seen the BBC 24 Stingray TV-show tie-in picture? Slightly funny. Could do better though.
TV imposes a kind of fictional quality on its stars. We knew him as a hilarious croc-botherer. He stays one for ever now. Caught in amber. We never knew him in the human context. I mean, can you imagine Irwin buying a pint of milk, doing his driving test or cooking some breakfast? Nope, he was always out in the Bush looking for wildlife he could get jiggy with. Being a sort of safari-suited clown crossed with Crocodile Dundee 24 hours a day. And yes, even in his sleep.
You know, I could have never imagined writing the above about the Crocodile Hunter. I thought I was going to write about the BQC. Funny that. (Don't worry, I will, I will)
BH details
The Observer and The Guardian have yielded many trivia pearls this weekend and today. I have gathered them and laid them on your computer screen. Eat them or something.
So it seems I am already back to setting quiz questions. The compulsion is too strong.
Having said that, it is a lot better than being addicted to heroin, isn't it?
Mmm. heroin.
1 Renowned for his obsession with the weight of his gymnasts and even more so with the achievement of perfection, which controversial figure coached Nadia Comaneci at the 1976 Olympics?
2 Made famous in Arthur C Clarke's 1978 novel The Fountains of Paradise, which Russian scientist originally put forward the idea of a space elevator in 1960?
3 What slang word for a new breed of urban professionals is used to describe young urban females who typically spend more than they earn and normally have two maxed-out credit cards?
4 When taking about the military, what is a Sea Knight?
5 Which actress wrote Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression?
6 What sort of constructions in south west France are palombieres?
7 Petra Nemcova, survivor of the Asian Tsunami and girlfriend of James Blunt, has become the face of which company's womens-wear collection?
8 Which 21-year-old American actress has a twin brother called Hunter who is younger than her by three minutes?
9 Which Empress Dowager and de facto ruler of China from 195BC to 180BC murdered one of her husband's concubines by cutting off her limbs and then had her stepson starved to death because he slighted his wife, who was the empress's niece?
10 Which Empress of Byzantium (752-803) had her own son deposed and blinded, to guarantee her security on the throne, though she was later deposed by the patricians and exiled on Lesbos where she supported herself by spinning?
11 What is Sir Wally Herbert renowned for being?
12 What is the local name for the tidal wave or bore that hurtles up the Amazon tributary at 20mph and at a height of four metres?
13 Known locally as the Silver Dragon, what tidal bore in China is the largest in the world and can reach a height of nine metres?
14 Aviation companies are currently developing what sort of transport vehicle that have become known as the VLJ?
15 Due to open in Liverpool next autumn, what is the name of the world's first ever Beatles-themed hotel?
16 What magazine, seen as the architecture bible, was founded in 1983 by publisher Peter Murray, editor Deyan Sudjic and designer Simon Esterson and is being relaunched this month with a new bespoke headline font?
17 Whose first book, written with Jeremy Paxman, was the 1982 non-fiction work A Higher Form of Killing, an examination of chemical and biological warfare, which he followed up with 1986's Selling Hitler, an investigation into the fake Hitler diaries?
18 Which architecture critic for The Observer wrote Evolution of the House (1975) in which he wrote that a house is "in effect, no more than a background to surround you, a floor to raise you up, a roof to cover you"?
19 Which Steve Reich work is to be premiered during the Barbican's week-long tribute to him in October?
20 Which British novelist's latest work, The Mission Song, is to be published in October?
21 Kevin Spacey is reuniting with director Howard Davies for which Eugene O'Neill play concerning three Connecticut outsiders next month at the Old Vic?
22 Biographer Claire Tomalin's next book is about Thomas Hardy. What appropriate title has it been given?
23 Whose folk opera Tobias and the Angel is to be premiered at the newly refurbished Young Vic with the help of two community choirs?
24 Promising "fun and fascination", which Belgian is the latest artist to fill the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern?
25 Tom Waits will soon release a trilogy of albums, Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards. What collective name has it been given?
26 Which Italian diva is to star in the Royal Opera's first staging of Carmen for 12 years?
27 In which film did the late Glenn Ford play a sympathetic US officer in occupied Japan opposite Marlon Brando's interpreter?
28 What is the title of Roddy Doyle's 10-year updating of his novel The Woman Who Walked Into Doors?
29 What is the name of Gordon Ramsay's upcoming autobiography?
30 The Heinrich Heine Prize was withdrawn from which Austrian author this year due to moral misgivings about his support for Slobodan Milosevic?
31 By what name are the works Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street collectively known?
32 Seen as his most important work, which Naguib Mahfouz book of 1959 was banned for alleged blasphemy and led to his being stabbed outside his home in 1994 because a blind Egyptian theologian named Omar Abdul claimed that if Mahfouz had been punished for writing Children of Gebelwai Salman Rushdie would never have risked publishing The Satanic Verses?
33 Inspired by his time in the British secret service, which Somerset Maugham book concerns a West End playwright with the first name John who is drawn into the world of espionage?
34 In which 1954 Lewis Gilbert film, also starring Stanley Baker and Gloria Grahame, does society layabout Laurence Harvey gather together a gang of Anglo-American drop-outs in a bit to carry out the perfect robbery?
35 Now ranked fifth in the world, Vicky Botwright controversially posed semi-naked to drum up publicity for which sport in 2001?
36 Which rugby league team in the Super League play at The Jungle?
37 In which sport are the Americans Kirby Chambliss and Mike Mangold, the Briton Paul Bonhomme and the 50-year-old Hungarian Peter Besenyi famous names?
38 A one-time apprentice to George Stephenson, which railway engineer was responsible for the Grand Junction Railway that was completed in 1837 that linked Birmingham to Manchester and Liverpool, and who went on to build rail-links all across Europe including the Paris-Rouen railway?
39 Lyndon Lynch is manager of which England team?
40 Which 19-year-old 6ft 10in centre from Aldershot was picked in the first round of the NBA draft by the Portland Trailblazers in June?
41 For which NBA team does Britain's Pops Mensah-Bonsu play?
42 In the US, what four-word term has been given to putting your car into drive mode (as in an American automatic) then getting out and dancing on the bonnet or roof or on the road alongside it as it keeps moving?
43 What top-security underground installation, an hour's drive from Washington DC, is officially called the Emergency Operations Centre of the Federal Emergency Management Authority (Fema)?
44 In which US state is Frank Lloyd Wright's house Fallingwater? And which practice, still in business, did he found?
45 Which 78-year-old French filmmaker made the documentaries Black Panthers (1968), Jacquot (1991) and The Gleaners and I (2000)?
46 Lorraine Candy is editor of which publication, said to be "the world's biggest-selling fashion magazine"?
47 Which magazine publisher has brought out the book How to Get Rich?
48 What was the name of Prunella Scales's overbearing and patronising character in the Tesco TV adverts?
49 What two-word name has been given to the life-size cut-out photographs of serving family members that the US National Guard has given to help them through the strain of overseas deployment?
50 What already highly controversial but unreleased video game from Rockstar is to be renamed Canis Canem Edit for the European market after the featured school's motto "dog eat dog"?
51 What did an abbott named Bernard draft in 1320?
52 Which Italian fencer held the record for most gold medals - five in 1920 - in a single Olympic games until Mark Spitz won seven in 1972?
53 Who was the flamboyant, bowler hat-wearing manager of Kendo Nagasaki?
54 Scarlett Johansson recently signed up to be the face of which sports company, famous for its shoes?
55 Which East German athlete amassed 16 outdoor world records including the 400m in 1984, but was discovered to have been one of the DDR athletes to whom steroids were administered in 1991 by German police?
56 Which late developing, heavily muscled Czech athlete suspiciously hit peak form in 1983 when she broke the 800m world record?
57 Who is the husband of the American model Kristen Pazik?
58 Chemmy Alcott is considered to be the UK's best female practitioner of what sport?
59 Whose novel, entitled Silk, is the tale of two lovers who never speak or touch?
60 Called the "ultimate chic beach resort on the Normandy Riviera" by The Guardian, which Calvados town is nicknamed the "21st arrondissement" for the Parisians who swell the population of 4,500 to 30,000 and was where Coco Chanel opened her first boutique?
61 Europe's first foray to the Moon, which dishwasher-sized probe slammed into its surface at 6.42am on September 4 at 2km a second on the moon's earthward side called the Lake of Excellence?
62 Currently featuring at the Venice Film Festival and starring Clive Owen, Alfonso Cuaron's future dystopia movie Children of Men is based on whose novel?
63 What was the significance of the 87-year-old Nellie Connally recently dying of natural causes?
64 What animal name is given to Moscow's winter swimmers?
65 What is the meaning of Hezbollah's TV station Manar's name?
66 Which Texan shoe company has patented the idea of wheeled footwear and uses the slogan "freedom is a wheel in your sole" to appeal mainly to children aged six to 14?
67 Letts and Lonsdales are names most associated with what kind of books?
68 Which man, considered one of the great Welsh artists, recently died aged 88 having gained iconic status in his home country for his dark, monumental landscapes of Snowdonia, and for painting such works as Cottages, Penmynydd and Coast at St David's?
69 At which British cycling event was a police motorcycle marshal killed in 1998?
70 Sponsored by Ladbrokes, which English classic horse race is to take place on the second Saturday of September?
71 Harold Salomon, John Bruchi, Howie Hammer and perhaps the greatest of them all, Robert Sostre, are all top players in the history of which game that is derived from handball and racquetball?
72 Which African country won the first ever women's Olympic hockey tournament in 1980?
73 Nicknamed "Floh", which 34-year-old German hockey player scored 143 goals in 39 international matches between his first international cap in March 1994 and the 2002 World Cup?
74 At whose home do the Burghley Horse Trials take place?
75 What is the nickname of Gloucestershire country cricket club's one-day team?
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Answers to BH99
1 Bela Karolyi 2 Yuri Artsutanov 3 Yuffers 4 Type of helicopter 5 Brooke Shields 6 A kind of treehouse with a platform or platforms from which hunters shoot migrating doves (or other birds) 7 John Lewis 8 Scarlett Johansson 9 Lu 10 Irene 11 An adventurer/explorer 12 The pororoca 13 The Qiantang river tidal bore 14 Very Light Jet 15 The Hard Day's Night Hotel 16 Blueprint 17 Robert Harris 18 Stephen Gardiner 19 Daniel Variations 20 John Le Carre 21 A Moon for the Misbegotten 22 Wessex Man 23 Jonathan Dove 24 Carsten Holder 25 Orphans 26 Anna Caterina 27 The Teahouse of the August Moon 28 Paul Spencer 29 Humble Pie 30 Peter Handke 31 The Cairo Trilogy (by Naguib Mahfouz) 32 Children of Gebelwai 33 Ashenden 34 The Good Die Young 35 Squash 36 Castleford 37 Air racing (as in the recent Red Bull Air Race) 38 Joseph Locke 39 Learning-disability football team 40 Joel Freeland 41 Dallas Mavericks 42 Ghost-riding the whip 43 Mount Weather 44 Pennsylvania, Taliesin Architects 45 Agnes Varda 46 Elle 47 Felix Dennis 48 Dotty 49 Flat Daddies 50 Bully 51 The Declaration of Arbroath (he was abbot of Arbroath Abbey) 52 Nedo Nadi 53 Gorgeous George Gillette 54 Reebok 55 Marita Koch 56 Jarmila Kratochvilova 57 Andriy Shevchenko 58 Skiing 59 Alessandro Bericco 60 Deauville 61 Smart-1 (Small Mission for Advanced Research and Technology) 62 PD James 63 She was the last surviving occupant of JFK's death-limousine 64 Walruses 65 The Beacon 66 Heely's 67 Revision guides 68 Sir Kyffin Williams 69 The PruTour 70 St Leger 71 Paddleball 72 Zimbabwe 73 Florian Kunz 74 Marquess of Exeter 75 The Gladiators
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