BH118: The Lost Quiz
It had totally flown my mind that I had a BH quiz done, dusted and primed to go during the middle of last month, then somehow I was hit by a super duper dose of priority amnesia that has fogged me all July and the back end of that horrible month of Juuu ... June (ugh), which may have something to do with all the mentally and physically shattering festival action and sleeping in fields on rocky bits and ants nests and either almost drowning in lakes of liquid Somerset mud or getting burnt to a disturbing shade of browny orange by the harsh-but-lovely-all-the-same weekend Sun that beats down on Suffolk. Whatever. What was lost is now found: I discovered it hidden underneath BH117. Call it providence and rejoice in a suitably restrained fashion. Okay, don't then. You know eating a nice biscuit would have sufficed.
Excuse me if you think a few questions are a bit out of date, but it is a month late and I can't really be boffed about making pernickety amendments at the moment. After all, I have my fourth Eggheads audition tomorrow! NUMBER BLOODY FOUR. But funnily enough, the first time I will have met the production company in person. How shall I behave? Who knows? Though the temptation to be rawkus and loud, a bit like Alexis Arquette but not utterly and completely pointless, is nestling in full view of in my mind's eye, winking seductively. Whatever happens, it will be very very interesting. Especially when I am called upon to sell myself to the producers and researchers and say why I should be on the show:"BECAUSE IT'S ALL A LOAD OF..." Mwaha-ha-ha-ha and so on in a villain's overblown mock laugh until the smokers' cough kicks in and I collapse on the fall drowning in my own silliness and then rise up in giggles when I am reminded of Kevin Eldon's evil hypnotherapist mwa-ha-ha-haing even more and swirling those cheeks like a wheel of mental fortune ... which is, of course, my true lifelong ambition. I may buy a cottage in the country and rename it My Own Silliness and yeah, you get the idea. But anyhoo, like Dr Strangelove, or at least someone somewhere in that particular Kubrick jalopythingameejig, oh film that's it; I have learned to love the Bomb aka Eggheads. It sturdy, character-driven quiz with one or two questions every episode capable of furrowing my brow in exquisite puzzlement. Suffice to say, there's not a sodding chance in hell or hades or any unbearable underworld that they will let me on. If not the first time, then NEVER. Still, it's always nice to go back. You see Thomas Wolfe? You can. And get a strange contentment from the same, repeated result.
Quizzalicious ... Oh Yeah
1 Which French actress has been highly acclaimed for her role as Edith Piaf in the biopic La Vie en Rose?
2 A recent convert to MySpace, "His Holiness Karmapa Trinlay Thaye Dorje" is also known by which religious title?
3 Which 51-year-old French conceptual artist has made waves at the Venice Biennale thanks to her being inspired to create an artwork in which she passed on the email her boyfriend used to dump her (signed off "Take care of yourself") to 107 women professionals, who were each photographed as they read it and were invited to analyse the said missive according to their job; the piece being aptly titled Prenez soin de vois?
4 In which make of car did Giuseppe Farina win the first F1 championship in 1950?
5 Which 1887 H Rider Haggard novel is subtitled A History of Adventure?
6 What does the word "doner" as in doner kebab mean?
7 Whose 1957 play Beat Generation, a story of railway workers and drinkers, was rediscovered in a warehouse in 2005?
8 Who composed the theme to Channel 4's Countdown?
9 Also starring Kirk Douglas, which 1965 Otto Preminger war film features John Wayne playing a character called Rock stuck in the middle of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and its aftermath?
10 In 1936, Owensboro in Kentucky became the last ever place to host what kind of outdoor event in the US?
11 Which English racetrack features the Craner Curves?
12 On which remote Orkney island does the Master of the Queen's Music Peter Maxwell Davies live?
13 Which culinary movement was founded by Carlo Petrini in Italy in 1989?
14 Which private equity firm, whose managing partner is 45-year-old Leicester-born Damon Buffin, owns such businesses as the AA, Homebase, Travelodge and Birds Eye?
15 Which University of Kentucky professor is the author of the multi-million selling Down's Syndrome themed novel The Memory Keeper's Daughter?
16 The spectacular migration of millions of which orange-and-black butterflies thousands of miles across North America to the mountains of Mexico is apparently being threatened by illegal logging?
17 Winner of the 2007 Man Booker International Prize, Chinua Achebe is a member of which Nigerian ethnic group?
18 Which bright grey metallic element (no.24) was discovered by the French chemist Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin in 1797?
19 Which Dutch town or city is home to the Frans Hals museum?
20 Who is the female author of the crime thriller Through a Glass Darkly, which features the hero detective Guido Brunetti?
21 Derived from the Hebrew for "pioneer", what name was given to a member of a group of immigrants to Israel who established the first agricultural settlements or kibbutzim?
22 The highest-ranking Soviet KGB defector ever, which former double agent has been made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George?
23 Roman Catholics are up in arms because which composer's newest piece, The Beautiful Names, will premiere in Westminster cathedral and sets the 99 sacred names Muslims give to Allah to music?
24 Named after a shop she opened in 1971, which fashion designer's new perfume is called Let It Rock?
25 Having left Paramount, the Marx Brothers made which film their first MGM production?
26 Who directed the French comedy classic Le Million (1931)?
27 Who co-designed the cover of the album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with artist Peter Blake (who himself was paid only £200 for the job)?
28 The 14-year-old actor Thomas Turgoose plays the lead role of Shaun in which 2007 film?
29 Who composed La donna del lago, the first Italian opera to be based on a Walter Scott novel, which would inspire 25 more in the 20 years after its 1819 premiere, among them Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor?
30 Gala, the Russian-born wife of Salvador Dali, had previously been married to which French poet?
31 Based on his dispatches from Africa, Travels with Herodotus is the last book of reportage from which acclaimed foreign correspondent and writer, who died earlier this year?
32 What three-letter abbreviation, whose full name is translated into English as "from the founded city", referred to the time in Roman dates from the foundation of Rome, this being 753BC, a year that was set arbitrarily by Varro?
33 Which effervescent mineral water from a spring in the Ahr valley derives its name from a place near Bonn in western Germany?
34 Named after an early pioneer in the field, what production role does a "Foley artist" perform on a film?
35 The name of which 1615 comedy by George Ruggle satirising lawyers may be the origin for a word used to describing a person in a derogatory way?
36 In which 1931 film did James Cagney describe another character as a "dirty, double-crossing rat"?
37 Whose famous quotes include: "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies" and "Shit has its own integrity"?
38 The college founded by a group of Jesuits who had walked up the Serro do Mar in 1554 and aimed to convert the natives was the basis for which major South American city?
39 A 19th century French pastry cook, with the surname Paulmier, apparently gave her first name to which small sponge cake that is often coated with jam and coconut?
40 Deriving its name from the French for "sloe" due to its dark colour, which smooth silk or woollen cloth is used for making the uppers of shoes and gaiters and was formerly used in clergymen's and barristers' gowns?
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Answers to BH118
1 Marion Cotillard 2 Black Hat Lama 3 Sophie Calle 4 Alfa Romeo 5 She 6 Rotating 7 Jack Kerouac 8 Alan Hawkshaw 9 In Harm's Way 10 Public hanging 11 Donington Park 12 Sanday 13 Slow Food movement 14 Permira 15 Kim Edwards 16 Monarch butterfly 17 Igbo 18 Chromium 19 Haarlem 20 Donna Leon 21 Chalutz 22 Oleg Gordievsky 23 John Tavener 24 Vivienne Westwood 25 A Night at the Opera 26 Rene Clair 27 Jann Haworth (his then wife) 28 This is England 29 Rossini 30 Paul Eluard 31 Ryszard Kapuscinski 32 AUC (ab urbe condita) 33 Apollinaris 34 Sound effects creator 35 Ignoramus 36 Blonde Crazy 37 Gore Vidal 38 Sao Paulo 39 Madeleine 40 Prunella
Excuse me if you think a few questions are a bit out of date, but it is a month late and I can't really be boffed about making pernickety amendments at the moment. After all, I have my fourth Eggheads audition tomorrow! NUMBER BLOODY FOUR. But funnily enough, the first time I will have met the production company in person. How shall I behave? Who knows? Though the temptation to be rawkus and loud, a bit like Alexis Arquette but not utterly and completely pointless, is nestling in full view of in my mind's eye, winking seductively. Whatever happens, it will be very very interesting. Especially when I am called upon to sell myself to the producers and researchers and say why I should be on the show:"BECAUSE IT'S ALL A LOAD OF..." Mwaha-ha-ha-ha and so on in a villain's overblown mock laugh until the smokers' cough kicks in and I collapse on the fall drowning in my own silliness and then rise up in giggles when I am reminded of Kevin Eldon's evil hypnotherapist mwa-ha-ha-haing even more and swirling those cheeks like a wheel of mental fortune ... which is, of course, my true lifelong ambition. I may buy a cottage in the country and rename it My Own Silliness and yeah, you get the idea. But anyhoo, like Dr Strangelove, or at least someone somewhere in that particular Kubrick jalopythingameejig, oh film that's it; I have learned to love the Bomb aka Eggheads. It sturdy, character-driven quiz with one or two questions every episode capable of furrowing my brow in exquisite puzzlement. Suffice to say, there's not a sodding chance in hell or hades or any unbearable underworld that they will let me on. If not the first time, then NEVER. Still, it's always nice to go back. You see Thomas Wolfe? You can. And get a strange contentment from the same, repeated result.
Quizzalicious ... Oh Yeah
1 Which French actress has been highly acclaimed for her role as Edith Piaf in the biopic La Vie en Rose?
2 A recent convert to MySpace, "His Holiness Karmapa Trinlay Thaye Dorje" is also known by which religious title?
3 Which 51-year-old French conceptual artist has made waves at the Venice Biennale thanks to her being inspired to create an artwork in which she passed on the email her boyfriend used to dump her (signed off "Take care of yourself") to 107 women professionals, who were each photographed as they read it and were invited to analyse the said missive according to their job; the piece being aptly titled Prenez soin de vois?
4 In which make of car did Giuseppe Farina win the first F1 championship in 1950?
5 Which 1887 H Rider Haggard novel is subtitled A History of Adventure?
6 What does the word "doner" as in doner kebab mean?
7 Whose 1957 play Beat Generation, a story of railway workers and drinkers, was rediscovered in a warehouse in 2005?
8 Who composed the theme to Channel 4's Countdown?
9 Also starring Kirk Douglas, which 1965 Otto Preminger war film features John Wayne playing a character called Rock stuck in the middle of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and its aftermath?
10 In 1936, Owensboro in Kentucky became the last ever place to host what kind of outdoor event in the US?
11 Which English racetrack features the Craner Curves?
12 On which remote Orkney island does the Master of the Queen's Music Peter Maxwell Davies live?
13 Which culinary movement was founded by Carlo Petrini in Italy in 1989?
14 Which private equity firm, whose managing partner is 45-year-old Leicester-born Damon Buffin, owns such businesses as the AA, Homebase, Travelodge and Birds Eye?
15 Which University of Kentucky professor is the author of the multi-million selling Down's Syndrome themed novel The Memory Keeper's Daughter?
16 The spectacular migration of millions of which orange-and-black butterflies thousands of miles across North America to the mountains of Mexico is apparently being threatened by illegal logging?
17 Winner of the 2007 Man Booker International Prize, Chinua Achebe is a member of which Nigerian ethnic group?
18 Which bright grey metallic element (no.24) was discovered by the French chemist Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin in 1797?
19 Which Dutch town or city is home to the Frans Hals museum?
20 Who is the female author of the crime thriller Through a Glass Darkly, which features the hero detective Guido Brunetti?
21 Derived from the Hebrew for "pioneer", what name was given to a member of a group of immigrants to Israel who established the first agricultural settlements or kibbutzim?
22 The highest-ranking Soviet KGB defector ever, which former double agent has been made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George?
23 Roman Catholics are up in arms because which composer's newest piece, The Beautiful Names, will premiere in Westminster cathedral and sets the 99 sacred names Muslims give to Allah to music?
24 Named after a shop she opened in 1971, which fashion designer's new perfume is called Let It Rock?
25 Having left Paramount, the Marx Brothers made which film their first MGM production?
26 Who directed the French comedy classic Le Million (1931)?
27 Who co-designed the cover of the album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with artist Peter Blake (who himself was paid only £200 for the job)?
28 The 14-year-old actor Thomas Turgoose plays the lead role of Shaun in which 2007 film?
29 Who composed La donna del lago, the first Italian opera to be based on a Walter Scott novel, which would inspire 25 more in the 20 years after its 1819 premiere, among them Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor?
30 Gala, the Russian-born wife of Salvador Dali, had previously been married to which French poet?
31 Based on his dispatches from Africa, Travels with Herodotus is the last book of reportage from which acclaimed foreign correspondent and writer, who died earlier this year?
32 What three-letter abbreviation, whose full name is translated into English as "from the founded city", referred to the time in Roman dates from the foundation of Rome, this being 753BC, a year that was set arbitrarily by Varro?
33 Which effervescent mineral water from a spring in the Ahr valley derives its name from a place near Bonn in western Germany?
34 Named after an early pioneer in the field, what production role does a "Foley artist" perform on a film?
35 The name of which 1615 comedy by George Ruggle satirising lawyers may be the origin for a word used to describing a person in a derogatory way?
36 In which 1931 film did James Cagney describe another character as a "dirty, double-crossing rat"?
37 Whose famous quotes include: "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies" and "Shit has its own integrity"?
38 The college founded by a group of Jesuits who had walked up the Serro do Mar in 1554 and aimed to convert the natives was the basis for which major South American city?
39 A 19th century French pastry cook, with the surname Paulmier, apparently gave her first name to which small sponge cake that is often coated with jam and coconut?
40 Deriving its name from the French for "sloe" due to its dark colour, which smooth silk or woollen cloth is used for making the uppers of shoes and gaiters and was formerly used in clergymen's and barristers' gowns?
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Answers to BH118
1 Marion Cotillard 2 Black Hat Lama 3 Sophie Calle 4 Alfa Romeo 5 She 6 Rotating 7 Jack Kerouac 8 Alan Hawkshaw 9 In Harm's Way 10 Public hanging 11 Donington Park 12 Sanday 13 Slow Food movement 14 Permira 15 Kim Edwards 16 Monarch butterfly 17 Igbo 18 Chromium 19 Haarlem 20 Donna Leon 21 Chalutz 22 Oleg Gordievsky 23 John Tavener 24 Vivienne Westwood 25 A Night at the Opera 26 Rene Clair 27 Jann Haworth (his then wife) 28 This is England 29 Rossini 30 Paul Eluard 31 Ryszard Kapuscinski 32 AUC (ab urbe condita) 33 Apollinaris 34 Sound effects creator 35 Ignoramus 36 Blonde Crazy 37 Gore Vidal 38 Sao Paulo 39 Madeleine 40 Prunella
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