BH109: Offcuts, Irrelevance and Rejects You Might Just Like
NB: sterling and starring TV appearance tomorrow, BBC1 5.55pm-6.35pm and 9.25-9.50pm. Remember those times, if I haven't told you about a bloody dozen times already. No doubt, I will do so again. Cos I'm on the telly like. TELLY.
Blimey, I thought, looking back at the increasingly sparse archives of the last few months, I haven't done one of my BH quizzes in bloomin' ages. So, in an incredible act of charity, I thought I'd unleash a decent number of questions that were a) too long for the Paper b) too silly to be asked of any serious quizzer, let alone a normal human being c) and excess stuff faintly similar to subjects I'm putting out in other eagerly awaited outlets such as The 505. It is nearing completion. I just have to stop writing questions for it, which I'm finding really difficult. Call it a positive psychological disorder. Or call it something as nutty as a mountain of praline. I'll agree either way.
Concerning other developments, I will comment and self-indulge on the topic of recent exciting televised and non-televised events. One day. Maybe tomorrow and, yes, I could go on in Bogart-esque fashion. You get the drift.
However, on a totally random note, this always makes me laugh. I used to live in Bow and the thought of being hunted down by Bricktop for being a "syntactic cripple" forces me to use correct grammar every single day. It's Alan Ford's terrifying teeth. The way they jig about. Yikes. But, obviously, not when I'm writing on this here blog and using such abominations of shorthand words as "cos".
Return of the Quiz
1 Similar to the popular Mangalorean dish kori rotti, which Kurdish-Iraqi dish consists of layers of naan in a sauce of green pepper, tomato, onions and chillies?
2 Bette Davis won an Oscar for her performance as a society belle who offends New Orleans' high society by attending the Olympus Ball of 1852 in a scandalous scarlet dress in which 1938 film?
3 A favourite of Indians living in South Africa, what dish is a loaf of bread with the inside hollowed out and a curry gravy poured inside?
4 Which author is said to have 70 million copies of his adventurer Dirk Pitt - the son of a California senator and who has the sidekick Al Giordino - series in print?
5 A friend of the late drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, which Colombian artist (self-titled "the most Colombian of all Colombian artists") became famous for the "fat people" he portrayed in such works as Familia (1989) and has completed over 80 large-scale paintings depicting the torture that Iraqi prisoners suffered at Abu Ghraib and controversially decided to paint the portrait of Colombia's president Alvaro Uribe, despite the leader's links with right-wing death squads?
6 First gaining popularity during the 1930s and sharing its name with an Indian queen and wife of Caonabo (one of five caciques who possessed the island of Santo Domingo when the Spanish discovered it in 1492), which all-girl orchestra from Cuba was comprised of 11 sisters with the surname Castro: Emma, Bola, Ada, Flora, Ondine, Cuchito, Cachita, Alicia, Elsa Rigual, Millo and Ziomara?
7 The first of his operas to be performed, who completed what has been called the "first ever African-American opera" Koanga, which tells the tragic tale of an African prince sold into slavery, in 1897?
8 Which American actress is due to launch her own fashion label Bitten later this year? Sarah Jessica Parker
9 Guy Noves is the long-standing and hugely successful coach of which French rugby union side, whose home ground is the Stade Ernest Wallon?
10 The Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium is the home ground of which football team?
11 Criticised for stifling youth unemployment, what name is given to the crippling levy on any French company introduced in 1987, which sacks anybody over the age of 45?
12 The work of British architect Will Alsop, the Sharp Centre for Design at Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) has been given what nickname due to its black and white spots?
13 The WWF recently announced that numbers of which animal - the world's biggest wild cat and named after a river rendered in Chinese pinyin as Heilong Jiang ("Black Dragon River") - have come back from the brink of extinction to reach its highest population level for at least 100 years?
14 Who wrote the 1928 novel upon which the 1967 film Belle de Jour, starring Catherine Deneuve as housewife-prostitute Severine, was based?
15 Currently exhibiting a series of photographs taken at zoos over all the world, which photographer (b.1970) first made his name in 1996 with domestic scenes of his mum and dad, Liz and Ray, in their council flat in the Black Country?
16 Without the aid of pacemakers, which Kenyan distance runner known for his free-flowing, surging style broke four world records (10,000m, 5,000m, 3000m steeplechase and 3,000m) in the space of 81 days in 1978 and has been described by Steve Cram as "the best steeplechaser there has ever been"?
17 Siosepol Bridge and the 17th century World Heritage Site Nagsh-i Jahan Square (aka Imam Square) are major tourist attractions in which ancient Iranian city, the country's third largest after Tehran and Mashhad and located 200 miles south of Tehran?
18 Syd Millar is the chairman of which sport world governing body?
19 What does acronym for the Microsoft file format WMA stand for?
20 Adrienne Gerhauser, code-named Lea, who has been put on trial after 20 years on the run, was a member of which German militant left-wing feminist group, an offshoot of the Revolutionary Cells, that took its name from a Kurt Held book and started in 1974 bombed sex shops, embassies and clothing factories during which it believed were responsible for female oppression?
21 Meaning "the god's place" in its Old Persian name Bagastana, what name is given to the rock bas-reliefs at a site near the Zagros mountains in Kermanshah province, known for its carving with an inscription ordered by king Darius I, and is said to be to cuneiform what the Rosetta Stone is to Egyptian hieroglyphs?
22 The Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra has announced which flamboyant 26-year-old Venezuelan conductor as its new musical director, despite his never taking to the podium with a professional orchestra until three years ago?
23 Written between 1496 and 1508 and containing the first ever reference to card tricks and guidance on juggling and eating fire, the world's oldest magic text - De viribus quantitatis/On The Powers of Numbers - was written by which Franciscan monk, who shared lodgings with Leonardo Da Vinci and is believed to have helped with The Last Supper?
24 Founded in 1250BC and rediscovered in Iran's Khuzestan province in 1935 by oil surveyors, the ziggurat Tchogha Zanbil is the world's best surviving example of which civilisation's architecture?
25 The 52-year-old Slovenian Martin Strel made history in April 2007 when he became the first person to swim the entire length of which river?
26 Nanni Moretti's latest film, The Caiman/Il Caimano takes its title from a script given to Bruno Bonomo (Silvio Orlando) whose name refers to which real-life person?
27 The wind turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems is based in which country?
28 Identified by her particular blonde hairstyle, which 47-year-old leader of the 2004 Orange revolution was forced out from the office of Prime Minister by her rivalry with President Viktor Yuschchenko?
29 Located just outside the southern Chinese city of Gullin and home to 1300 tigers, which "Bear and Tiger Mountain Village" zoo is the world's biggest battery farm for rare animals and serves tiger under the name of "conquering king" in its restaurant at 500 yuan/£33 a go?
30 Which country's government is proposing to allow the Mehta Group and its local sugar firm Scoul to clear a quarter (30,000 hectares) of the Mabira forest reserve to grow sugar?
31 The Spanish company Grupo Ferrovial specialises in which kind of business?
32 Which Japanese company has produced the "W"-Daiseikai double line-ups of the eco-friendly all-in-one air conditioner, plasma air purifier and air deoderizer system?
33 Described as "the new King of Wall Street" with a fortune of $3.5 billion, Steve Schwarzman heads which huge "private equity" firm he co-founded with Peter G Peterson in 1985?
34 Dropping Harris from her stage name, which "Princess of Crunk" emerged as an R&B star in 2004 as an 18-year-old and has just released her second album The Evolution, featuring such songs as the single Promise as well as Get Up and Make It Last Forever?
35 Which tremendously gifted thirtysomething pianist, composer and bandleader from Cuba, signed to the German jazz label Enja and dressed by the French designer Agnes B, has released the Latin Jazz album Zazuma?
36 Which Florida city shares its name with the Rolex Perpetual Cosmograph watch, a certified chronometer and chronograph, that since 1963 been found by professional divers to be as important as the gauges on their on-board instrument panel?
37 Which Danish group, whose name means reverberation in their native language, have released the albums Tripper (2004) and Under Giant Trees (2007) to which they have added the sounds of Icelandic string quartet Amiina?
38 Which Toronto-born singer-songwriter has been little seen and heard of since the release of her only full length album Miss America in 1988, though she has produced a soundtrack to the film Apartment Hunting and contributed to Johnny Depp and Hal Wilner's 2006 Rogue's Gallery?
39 Which football team eliminated Manchester United in the semi-finals of the 1957-8 European Cup when the English side was still reeling from the Munich plane disaster?
40 Cite de Soleil has been described as the poorest neighbour in the poorest country in the western hemisphere. In which country is situated?
41 Set on the eve of World War One, which 1914 novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman features a society entirely comprised of Aryan women being discovered by a trio of male explorers?
42 Sharing its name with a famous cinematic fish, which record label has been launched by albino Malian musician Salif Keita to promote the music of such debut acts as Sina Sinayoko, Ibrahim Nabo and Adama Coulibaly?
43 Which directorial debut by Florian von Donnersmarck concerning the activities of East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film this year?
44 While her latest book Nineteen Minutes concerning a school massacre has topped the New York Times fiction bestseller list, which 2004 Jodi Picoult novel first brought her mass market attention in the UK and concerned two siblings: Kate who has leukaemia and the other, Anna, with a bone marrow match?
45 Which Chinese-American designer, who trained as a figure skater when she was a girl but failed to make the US Olympic team and so turned to fashion, has produced the fragrance Truly Pink?
46 Which reliever became the first Japanese-born baseball player in the majors in 1964 when he played for the San Francisco Giants?
47 The creation of Simon Beckett, which world expert in forensics turned humble GP solves murders in the Norfolk village of Manham and first features in the 2006 novel The Chemistry of Death?
48 Which Hamburg-based Uzbek boxer overcame an 11-inch height disadvantage to take the WBA world heavyweight title from Nikolay Valuev in Stuttgart in April 2007?
49 Also author of Unabomber: A Desire to Kill and The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved, which true-crime author, played on film by Jake Gyllenhaal, wrote the books Zodiac (1986) and the follow-up Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Exclusive Serial Killer about the 1960s West Coast serial killer?
50 Which Kurt Vonnegut novel (1982), having depicted the accidental destruction of an Ohio town by a neutron bomb, closes with the words: "You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages - they haven't ended yet"?
51 Which sportsman's 2006 divorce from his wife Juanita may eventually cost him $150 million?
52 In 1616 who became the first dramatist to be honoured with burial in Westminster Abbey, beside the tombs of Chaucer and Edmund Spenser?
53 Which animal gives its name to Apple's latest version of the Mac OS X line, now due to be launched in October?
54 Heimaey is the only inhabited island of the 15 in which small Icelandic archipelago?
55 Located in London, who designed the St Pancras railway station shed, which was completed in 1868?
56 Which Swedish polemicist (b.1932) wrote about imperial genocide in Africa in his book Exterminate All Brutes/Utrota varenda javel and now historical crimes against Australia's Aborigine people in Terra Nullius?
57 Which US novelist was a bestselling erotic novelist before making his name as a crime writer with Power of the Dog, and has since followed it up with The Winter of Frankie Machine, the film rights to which have been snapped up by Robert De Niro, who may play the eponymous retired hitman?
58 What name is given to the assertion made 90 years ago by Einstein and predicted by general relativity, that spinning, moving objects such as the Earth and other planets and stars distort and curve the fabric of space and time?
59 Which English dramatist's latest play is Landscape with Weapon?
60 Which England resort on the south coast has the motto "Progress"?
61 Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary died with which teenage mistress at the Mayerling hunting lodge in January 1889?
62 The late Austrian musician Falco composed the controversial song Jeanny on the subject of the life of which charismatic Austrian serial killer and author, who hanged himself on the night he was sentenced on June 29, 1994?
63 Which British director's only true failure is considered to be 1979's Black Jack, a children's adventure story set in the 18th century?
64 June Fewett, wife of Clement Freud, is said to have inspired which CS Lewis character?
65 Which famous multinational US company, founded in 1953, manufactures veterinary products under its "Hill's brand?
66 Shortly after his birth, which Roman emperor was given the cognomen Thurinus possibly to commemorate his victory over a group of rebellious slaves at Thurii?
67 A classic example of entropy increasing, which German mathematician and physicist described ice melting in 1862 as an increase in the disgregation of the molecules of the body of ice?
68 Built in 1811, what is London's oldest private psychiatric hospital?
69 Which philosopher's Enneads, aka The Six Enneads, were collected by his student Porphyry c.270AD?
70 Also known as Maladie de Charcot, Lou Gehrig's disease or motor neurone disease, what do the initials in ALS stand?
71 Which Sherlock Holmes short story, first published in February 1892, did Arthur Conan Doyle think was his best in a 1927 list in The Strand?
72 Dedicated in 306, whose "Baths" were the largest and grandest of the imperial baths in Rome and remained in use until the aqueducts that fed them were cut by the Goths in 537?
73 Coined by Oliver Heaviside in July 1886, what term describes a measure of opposition to a sinusoidal alternating electric current?
74 Who gave Alice Roberts the short violin and piano piece Salut d'amour as an engagement present?
75 What is rugby union's Heineken Cup known as in France due to alcohol advertising laws?
76 The American personality psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Oregon, Lewis R. Goldberg, is closely associated with which taxonomy or descriptive model of personality traits, discovered through empirical research in 1993?
77 What German term, examples of which include cumin, ginger and tea, describes a word that has spread among numerous languages and cultures usually in connection with trade, so that it becomes impossible to establish its original etymology or even its original language?
78 A student of Jean-Martin Charcot just like Sigmund Freud, which Polish neurologist is best known for his 1896 description of an eponymous sign, a pathological plantar reflex indicative of corticospinal tract damage?
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1 Tashreeb 2 Jezebel 3 Bunny chow 4 Clive Cussler 5 Fernando Botero 6 Anacaona 7 Frederick Delius 8 Sarah Jessica Parker 9 Toulouse 10 Seville 11 Taxe Delalande 12 The Dalmatian 13 Amur tiger 14 Joseph Kessel 15 Richard Billingham 16 Henry Rono 17 Isfahan 18 International Rugby Board 19 Windows Media Audio 20 Rote Zora 21 Bisotun or The Behistun Inscription 22 Gustavo Dudamel 23 Luca Pacioli 24 Elamite 25 Amazon 26 Silvio Berlusconi 27 Denmark 28 Yulia Tymoshenko 29 Xiongsen 30 Uganda 31 Construction 32 Toshiba 33 Blackstone Group 34 Ciara 35 Roberto Fonseca 36 Daytona 37 Efterklang 38 Mary Margaret O'Hara 39 AC Milan 40 Haiti 41 Herland 42 Wanda Records 43 The Lives of Others/Das Leben der Anderen 44 My Sister's Keeper 45 Vera Wang 46 Masanori Murakami 47 David Hunter 48 Ruslan Chagaev 49 Robert Graysmith 50 Deadeye Dick 51 Michael Jordan 52 Francis Beaumont 53 Leopard 54 Westman Islands or Vestmannaeyjar 55 William Barlow 56 Sven Lindqvist 57 Don Winslow 58 Geodetic effect 59 Joe Penhall 60 Littlehampton 61 Mary Vetsera 62 Jack Unterweger 63 Ken Loach 64 Lucy in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe 65 Colgate-Palmolive 66 Augustus 67 Rudolf Clausius 68 The Priory 69 Plotinus 70 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 71 The Story of the Speckled Band 72 Diocletian 73 Impedance or electrical impedance 74 Edward Elgar 75 The H Cup 76 Big Five personality traits (Neuroticism, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness and Openness to Experience) 77 Wanderwort 78 Joseph Babinski
Blimey, I thought, looking back at the increasingly sparse archives of the last few months, I haven't done one of my BH quizzes in bloomin' ages. So, in an incredible act of charity, I thought I'd unleash a decent number of questions that were a) too long for the Paper b) too silly to be asked of any serious quizzer, let alone a normal human being c) and excess stuff faintly similar to subjects I'm putting out in other eagerly awaited outlets such as The 505. It is nearing completion. I just have to stop writing questions for it, which I'm finding really difficult. Call it a positive psychological disorder. Or call it something as nutty as a mountain of praline. I'll agree either way.
Concerning other developments, I will comment and self-indulge on the topic of recent exciting televised and non-televised events. One day. Maybe tomorrow and, yes, I could go on in Bogart-esque fashion. You get the drift.
However, on a totally random note, this always makes me laugh. I used to live in Bow and the thought of being hunted down by Bricktop for being a "syntactic cripple" forces me to use correct grammar every single day. It's Alan Ford's terrifying teeth. The way they jig about. Yikes. But, obviously, not when I'm writing on this here blog and using such abominations of shorthand words as "cos".
Return of the Quiz
1 Similar to the popular Mangalorean dish kori rotti, which Kurdish-Iraqi dish consists of layers of naan in a sauce of green pepper, tomato, onions and chillies?
2 Bette Davis won an Oscar for her performance as a society belle who offends New Orleans' high society by attending the Olympus Ball of 1852 in a scandalous scarlet dress in which 1938 film?
3 A favourite of Indians living in South Africa, what dish is a loaf of bread with the inside hollowed out and a curry gravy poured inside?
4 Which author is said to have 70 million copies of his adventurer Dirk Pitt - the son of a California senator and who has the sidekick Al Giordino - series in print?
5 A friend of the late drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, which Colombian artist (self-titled "the most Colombian of all Colombian artists") became famous for the "fat people" he portrayed in such works as Familia (1989) and has completed over 80 large-scale paintings depicting the torture that Iraqi prisoners suffered at Abu Ghraib and controversially decided to paint the portrait of Colombia's president Alvaro Uribe, despite the leader's links with right-wing death squads?
6 First gaining popularity during the 1930s and sharing its name with an Indian queen and wife of Caonabo (one of five caciques who possessed the island of Santo Domingo when the Spanish discovered it in 1492), which all-girl orchestra from Cuba was comprised of 11 sisters with the surname Castro: Emma, Bola, Ada, Flora, Ondine, Cuchito, Cachita, Alicia, Elsa Rigual, Millo and Ziomara?
7 The first of his operas to be performed, who completed what has been called the "first ever African-American opera" Koanga, which tells the tragic tale of an African prince sold into slavery, in 1897?
8 Which American actress is due to launch her own fashion label Bitten later this year? Sarah Jessica Parker
9 Guy Noves is the long-standing and hugely successful coach of which French rugby union side, whose home ground is the Stade Ernest Wallon?
10 The Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium is the home ground of which football team?
11 Criticised for stifling youth unemployment, what name is given to the crippling levy on any French company introduced in 1987, which sacks anybody over the age of 45?
12 The work of British architect Will Alsop, the Sharp Centre for Design at Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) has been given what nickname due to its black and white spots?
13 The WWF recently announced that numbers of which animal - the world's biggest wild cat and named after a river rendered in Chinese pinyin as Heilong Jiang ("Black Dragon River") - have come back from the brink of extinction to reach its highest population level for at least 100 years?
14 Who wrote the 1928 novel upon which the 1967 film Belle de Jour, starring Catherine Deneuve as housewife-prostitute Severine, was based?
15 Currently exhibiting a series of photographs taken at zoos over all the world, which photographer (b.1970) first made his name in 1996 with domestic scenes of his mum and dad, Liz and Ray, in their council flat in the Black Country?
16 Without the aid of pacemakers, which Kenyan distance runner known for his free-flowing, surging style broke four world records (10,000m, 5,000m, 3000m steeplechase and 3,000m) in the space of 81 days in 1978 and has been described by Steve Cram as "the best steeplechaser there has ever been"?
17 Siosepol Bridge and the 17th century World Heritage Site Nagsh-i Jahan Square (aka Imam Square) are major tourist attractions in which ancient Iranian city, the country's third largest after Tehran and Mashhad and located 200 miles south of Tehran?
18 Syd Millar is the chairman of which sport world governing body?
19 What does acronym for the Microsoft file format WMA stand for?
20 Adrienne Gerhauser, code-named Lea, who has been put on trial after 20 years on the run, was a member of which German militant left-wing feminist group, an offshoot of the Revolutionary Cells, that took its name from a Kurt Held book and started in 1974 bombed sex shops, embassies and clothing factories during which it believed were responsible for female oppression?
21 Meaning "the god's place" in its Old Persian name Bagastana, what name is given to the rock bas-reliefs at a site near the Zagros mountains in Kermanshah province, known for its carving with an inscription ordered by king Darius I, and is said to be to cuneiform what the Rosetta Stone is to Egyptian hieroglyphs?
22 The Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra has announced which flamboyant 26-year-old Venezuelan conductor as its new musical director, despite his never taking to the podium with a professional orchestra until three years ago?
23 Written between 1496 and 1508 and containing the first ever reference to card tricks and guidance on juggling and eating fire, the world's oldest magic text - De viribus quantitatis/On The Powers of Numbers - was written by which Franciscan monk, who shared lodgings with Leonardo Da Vinci and is believed to have helped with The Last Supper?
24 Founded in 1250BC and rediscovered in Iran's Khuzestan province in 1935 by oil surveyors, the ziggurat Tchogha Zanbil is the world's best surviving example of which civilisation's architecture?
25 The 52-year-old Slovenian Martin Strel made history in April 2007 when he became the first person to swim the entire length of which river?
26 Nanni Moretti's latest film, The Caiman/Il Caimano takes its title from a script given to Bruno Bonomo (Silvio Orlando) whose name refers to which real-life person?
27 The wind turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems is based in which country?
28 Identified by her particular blonde hairstyle, which 47-year-old leader of the 2004 Orange revolution was forced out from the office of Prime Minister by her rivalry with President Viktor Yuschchenko?
29 Located just outside the southern Chinese city of Gullin and home to 1300 tigers, which "Bear and Tiger Mountain Village" zoo is the world's biggest battery farm for rare animals and serves tiger under the name of "conquering king" in its restaurant at 500 yuan/£33 a go?
30 Which country's government is proposing to allow the Mehta Group and its local sugar firm Scoul to clear a quarter (30,000 hectares) of the Mabira forest reserve to grow sugar?
31 The Spanish company Grupo Ferrovial specialises in which kind of business?
32 Which Japanese company has produced the "W"-Daiseikai double line-ups of the eco-friendly all-in-one air conditioner, plasma air purifier and air deoderizer system?
33 Described as "the new King of Wall Street" with a fortune of $3.5 billion, Steve Schwarzman heads which huge "private equity" firm he co-founded with Peter G Peterson in 1985?
34 Dropping Harris from her stage name, which "Princess of Crunk" emerged as an R&B star in 2004 as an 18-year-old and has just released her second album The Evolution, featuring such songs as the single Promise as well as Get Up and Make It Last Forever?
35 Which tremendously gifted thirtysomething pianist, composer and bandleader from Cuba, signed to the German jazz label Enja and dressed by the French designer Agnes B, has released the Latin Jazz album Zazuma?
36 Which Florida city shares its name with the Rolex Perpetual Cosmograph watch, a certified chronometer and chronograph, that since 1963 been found by professional divers to be as important as the gauges on their on-board instrument panel?
37 Which Danish group, whose name means reverberation in their native language, have released the albums Tripper (2004) and Under Giant Trees (2007) to which they have added the sounds of Icelandic string quartet Amiina?
38 Which Toronto-born singer-songwriter has been little seen and heard of since the release of her only full length album Miss America in 1988, though she has produced a soundtrack to the film Apartment Hunting and contributed to Johnny Depp and Hal Wilner's 2006 Rogue's Gallery?
39 Which football team eliminated Manchester United in the semi-finals of the 1957-8 European Cup when the English side was still reeling from the Munich plane disaster?
40 Cite de Soleil has been described as the poorest neighbour in the poorest country in the western hemisphere. In which country is situated?
41 Set on the eve of World War One, which 1914 novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman features a society entirely comprised of Aryan women being discovered by a trio of male explorers?
42 Sharing its name with a famous cinematic fish, which record label has been launched by albino Malian musician Salif Keita to promote the music of such debut acts as Sina Sinayoko, Ibrahim Nabo and Adama Coulibaly?
43 Which directorial debut by Florian von Donnersmarck concerning the activities of East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film this year?
44 While her latest book Nineteen Minutes concerning a school massacre has topped the New York Times fiction bestseller list, which 2004 Jodi Picoult novel first brought her mass market attention in the UK and concerned two siblings: Kate who has leukaemia and the other, Anna, with a bone marrow match?
45 Which Chinese-American designer, who trained as a figure skater when she was a girl but failed to make the US Olympic team and so turned to fashion, has produced the fragrance Truly Pink?
46 Which reliever became the first Japanese-born baseball player in the majors in 1964 when he played for the San Francisco Giants?
47 The creation of Simon Beckett, which world expert in forensics turned humble GP solves murders in the Norfolk village of Manham and first features in the 2006 novel The Chemistry of Death?
48 Which Hamburg-based Uzbek boxer overcame an 11-inch height disadvantage to take the WBA world heavyweight title from Nikolay Valuev in Stuttgart in April 2007?
49 Also author of Unabomber: A Desire to Kill and The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved, which true-crime author, played on film by Jake Gyllenhaal, wrote the books Zodiac (1986) and the follow-up Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Exclusive Serial Killer about the 1960s West Coast serial killer?
50 Which Kurt Vonnegut novel (1982), having depicted the accidental destruction of an Ohio town by a neutron bomb, closes with the words: "You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages - they haven't ended yet"?
51 Which sportsman's 2006 divorce from his wife Juanita may eventually cost him $150 million?
52 In 1616 who became the first dramatist to be honoured with burial in Westminster Abbey, beside the tombs of Chaucer and Edmund Spenser?
53 Which animal gives its name to Apple's latest version of the Mac OS X line, now due to be launched in October?
54 Heimaey is the only inhabited island of the 15 in which small Icelandic archipelago?
55 Located in London, who designed the St Pancras railway station shed, which was completed in 1868?
56 Which Swedish polemicist (b.1932) wrote about imperial genocide in Africa in his book Exterminate All Brutes/Utrota varenda javel and now historical crimes against Australia's Aborigine people in Terra Nullius?
57 Which US novelist was a bestselling erotic novelist before making his name as a crime writer with Power of the Dog, and has since followed it up with The Winter of Frankie Machine, the film rights to which have been snapped up by Robert De Niro, who may play the eponymous retired hitman?
58 What name is given to the assertion made 90 years ago by Einstein and predicted by general relativity, that spinning, moving objects such as the Earth and other planets and stars distort and curve the fabric of space and time?
59 Which English dramatist's latest play is Landscape with Weapon?
60 Which England resort on the south coast has the motto "Progress"?
61 Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary died with which teenage mistress at the Mayerling hunting lodge in January 1889?
62 The late Austrian musician Falco composed the controversial song Jeanny on the subject of the life of which charismatic Austrian serial killer and author, who hanged himself on the night he was sentenced on June 29, 1994?
63 Which British director's only true failure is considered to be 1979's Black Jack, a children's adventure story set in the 18th century?
64 June Fewett, wife of Clement Freud, is said to have inspired which CS Lewis character?
65 Which famous multinational US company, founded in 1953, manufactures veterinary products under its "Hill's brand?
66 Shortly after his birth, which Roman emperor was given the cognomen Thurinus possibly to commemorate his victory over a group of rebellious slaves at Thurii?
67 A classic example of entropy increasing, which German mathematician and physicist described ice melting in 1862 as an increase in the disgregation of the molecules of the body of ice?
68 Built in 1811, what is London's oldest private psychiatric hospital?
69 Which philosopher's Enneads, aka The Six Enneads, were collected by his student Porphyry c.270AD?
70 Also known as Maladie de Charcot, Lou Gehrig's disease or motor neurone disease, what do the initials in ALS stand?
71 Which Sherlock Holmes short story, first published in February 1892, did Arthur Conan Doyle think was his best in a 1927 list in The Strand?
72 Dedicated in 306, whose "Baths" were the largest and grandest of the imperial baths in Rome and remained in use until the aqueducts that fed them were cut by the Goths in 537?
73 Coined by Oliver Heaviside in July 1886, what term describes a measure of opposition to a sinusoidal alternating electric current?
74 Who gave Alice Roberts the short violin and piano piece Salut d'amour as an engagement present?
75 What is rugby union's Heineken Cup known as in France due to alcohol advertising laws?
76 The American personality psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Oregon, Lewis R. Goldberg, is closely associated with which taxonomy or descriptive model of personality traits, discovered through empirical research in 1993?
77 What German term, examples of which include cumin, ginger and tea, describes a word that has spread among numerous languages and cultures usually in connection with trade, so that it becomes impossible to establish its original etymology or even its original language?
78 A student of Jean-Martin Charcot just like Sigmund Freud, which Polish neurologist is best known for his 1896 description of an eponymous sign, a pathological plantar reflex indicative of corticospinal tract damage?
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posted by That Quiz Guy at 5:01 AM
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Hi:
I was hoping I might be able to ask you (offline) some brief questions about your participation in Grand Slam--specifically, the format and the types of questions.
I would appreciate it tremendously, and I would strive to be as concise as possible.
Thank you!
Ogi
ogi.ogas@verizon.net
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