BH138 & 137: Bamboozling you by putting the quizzes in reverse order no less! That's enigmatic me
No, you're right. I accidentally wrote the blurb below on the wrong numbered quiz file, but couldn't be arsed to do a switcheroo
I am typing - or should I say thumping - my computer keyboard so much at the moment, doing work of several different yet essentially time-consuming varieties that my poor left index finger is bruised and makes me go "YOUCH!" every time it comes into contact with any surface with the minimum pressure. Oh poor me. Pray my finger gets better and have a look of a few more of these quizzes I am burning off in a hasty fashion, as a US television network would want to do with remaining shows of a series it cancelled mid-season and doesn't quite know what to do with, apart from get rid of and place out of sight or, I mean, remove from my darn desktop at last ...
BH138
1 Having served four years in the Russian army, which Polish-born entrepreneur (c.1872-1938) opened a small shop in Ryazan, near Moscow, making and selling his own creams, fragrances and wigs, before decamping to New York in 1904 where he opened a barber's shop and, in 1909, founded an eponymous company selling his own line of theatre make-up products?
2 Lovat is a muted shade of which colour, often seen in tweed and woollen garments?
3 Which loveable literary and TV rogue, who never reveals his first name, features in a series of novels that includes The Judas Pair (1977), Gold from Gemini (1978), Spend Game (1980), The Vatican Rip (1981), Firefly Gadroom (1982) and The Gondola Scam (1984)?
4 Taking a name from the 1960s that presumably derives from the Italian word "to play", what is the proprietary name of a type of bat-and-ball game in which the ball is attached to the bat with a long length or rubber cord?
5 Joe Dimaggio's brother Dom, nicknamed the "Little Professor" established a successful career with which major league baseball team?
6 Far less well known by his first three names John Christopher Timothy, which fictional schoolboy attended Linbury Court preparatory school and is known as "Bennett" in French, "Fredy" in Germany and "Stompa" in Norwegian?
7 Adapted into a 1944 film, which woman is the title character of a 1943 Vera Caspary mystery novel and has the surname Hunt?
8 What infamous, though some might say legendary, newspaper headline appeared on May 4, 1982?
9 The first ever best feature film awarded in the history of which film festival went jointly to John Cassavetes' Gloria (1980) and Louis Malle's Atlantic City (1980)?
10 Opened in 1960, which London theatre partly derived its name from the names of the original purchasers, ballet dancer Margot Fonteyn and Donald Albery?
11 Joan Perry, the second wife of the film company founder in question, provided the face of the statue that serves as which studio's logo on pictures?
12 Which 1949 play begins with a seemingly convivial gathering of friends hosted by Edward Chamberlayne shortly after his wife Lavinia has left him, but ends with another social occasion with the couple reunited?
13 Where in Berkshire is the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment?
14 Meaning "finger counting" in Korean, what is the proprietary name of a system of calculating by using fingers and thumbs that was invented by mathematician Sung Jin Pai in the 1970s and has since been adopted for the teaching of basic arithmetic?
15 Originating in the US, BVDs is the abbreviated name given to what kind of male clothing item that was popular during the first half of the 20th century?
16 Which literary anti-hero, whose first of whose adventures were first published in 1920 in a novel subtitled The Adventures of Demobilised Office Who Found Peace Dull, was allegedly based on the soldier and writer Gerard Fairlie (c.1900-83)?
17 Who did Winston Churchill nickname a "Boneless Wonder" on January 28, 1931?
18 Which famous 1930 film was adapted by Carl Zuckmayer from the novel Professor Unrat (1905) by Thomas Mann's brother Heinrich?
19 The Black Sox scandal of 1919 saw the aforementioned team throw the World Series, thus making which team champions?
20 Counting Joseph Mkasa, who reproached the ruler Mwanga for debauchery and murdering missionary bishop James Harrington in 1885 among its number, the "Black Martyrs" is the general name given to 22 Africans who died for their Christian faith in the late 1880s. In which country did this occur?
21 Forever harangued by his wife with the cry of "Lorst yer job?", which henpecked husband features in a series of comic novels by Herbert Jenkins that began with the one bearing his name in 1916?
22 Which anarchic US TV comedy first featured its eponymous real-life star first playing his career-defining role in You'll Never Get Rich, later renamed for its highly successful 1955-9 run?
23 At which manufacturer's works were the large WW1 "Big Bertha" howitzers made, though they were mistakenly assumed to have been manufactured by German armament firm, Krupp?
24 Which well-known floral-themed song was written by Jimmy Harper, Tommie Connor and Will E Haines in 1938?
25 Originally an island in the Arctic that was then transported to the English Channel where it became attached to the Brittany coast, Alca is the titular location of which satirical novel of 1908?
26 Which Handley Page aircraft of 1939 was named after a historic Yorkshire city?
27 What term, describing the purveying of left-wing/communist propaganda by means of theatre, cinema and art, was first used by the Marxist writer Georgy Plekhanov (1856-1918), and was also the name given to the bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR responsible for propaganda?
28 Which well-known, present-day pressure group evolved from the Old People's Welfare Committees that were first set up in 1940 to cope with the problem of the elderly during WW2?
29 Certainly of concern to anyone worried about their personal hygiene and those of other people who happen to be in close proximity, which euphemistic abbreviation was invented and promoted by the manufacturers of Lifebuoy soap in the 1930s?
30 The artificial surface Har-Tru usually plays host to matches in which sport?
31 Deriving its structure from each of the acts occurring on one day of an ongoing week, which 1931 play by Italian dramatist Eduardo De Filippo concerns a warring Neapolitan family presided over by the matriarchal Rosa, who eventually restores peace by the last day's end?
32 What were the first names of Steptoe & Son in the TV series?
33 Composed in 1925, which monothematic tone poem by Sibelius derives its name from a god of the forests in Finnish mythology and is considered to be his last great orchestral work as he gave up composition for the last 30 years of his life?
34 Which US President used the phrase "watchful waiting" to describe his policy of non-recognition of the Mexican government of General Huerta, though it did not last long since the Americans occupied Vera Cruz soon after?
35 The term "peristeronic" means of or relating to which birds?
36 The adjective "paludal" refers to what natural terrain?
37 Characterised by whitish diarrhoea, pullorum disease is an acute bacterial disease of which young creatures?
38 What form of complementary medicine bases diagnoses on the analysis of energy supposedly emitted from items, such as hair belonging to the patient?
39 Having made his Formula One debut in the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix, which British driver won his first F1 race at the 1962 Dutch Grand Prix?
40 Racing for the Surtees team in 1976 and for Hesketh in 1978, who is the only British woman to have raced in Formula One?
41 The sport of lawn tennis was patented under the name "Sphairistike" in 1874. Derived from the Greek, what does it mean?
42 Surjeevani, Amar and Gaminee are the three main forms of which team sport?
43 Before transferring to Spurs in 1964, goalkeeper Pat Jennings began his career at which club and then joined which English club in 1963?
44 Aged 23, which American cartoonist began drawing the classic comic strip Mutt and Jeff in 1907?
45 Namik Kemal was a leading figure of which 19th century reform movement?
46 Which 23-year-old architect's victory in the competition to design the Pantheon on Oxford Street in 1770 would lead to many more commissions?
47 Suleyman the Magnificent, head of the Ottoman empire, assumed the throne on the death of his father Suleyman at the age of 25. His father had a highly contrasting epithet attached to his name. What was it?
48 Richard M. Hoe invented a press that revolutionised the speed of printing in 1846. What was this printing press called?
49 What did the poet Walt Whitman describe as "essentially the greatest poem"?
50 Which James Watt invention improved the steam engine?
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1 Max Factor (b. Faktor) 2 Green 3 Lovejoy (by Jonathan Gash, real name John Grant) 4 Jokari 5 Boston Red Sox 6 Jennings (created by Anthony Buckeridge) 7 Laura 8 Gotcha! 9 Venice (Golden Lion being the prize) 10 Donmar Warehouse 11 Columbia Pictures (her hubby being Harry Cohn) 12 The Cocktail Party by TS Eliot 13 Aldermaston 14 Chisanbop 15 Lightweight long underwear (Bradley, Vorhees and Day Co.) 16 (Hugh) "Bulldog" Drummond 17 Ramsay MacDonald 18 The Blue Angel 19 Cincinnati Reds 20 Uganda 21 Bindle 22 The Phil Silvers Show/Bilko 23 Skoda 24 The Biggest Aspidistra in the World 25 Penguin Island (by Anatole France) 26 Halifax 27 Agitprop 28 Age Concern 29 B.O. (yes, body odour) 30 Tennis 31 Saturday, Sunday, Morning/ Sabato, domenica e lunedi 32 Albert & Harold 33 Tapiola 34 Woodrow Wilson 35 Pigeons 36 Marshes/fens 37 Chickens 38 Radionics 39 Graham Hill 40 Davinia Galicia 41 Ball playing 42 Kabaddi 43 Newry Town & Watford 44 Bud Fisher 45 Young Turks 46 James Wyatt 47 The Grim 48 Rotary printing press 49 "The United States themselves" 50 The separate condenser
BH137
1 Miz Lillian was the nickname of the much-respected mother of which US president?
2 Which American tennis player had the media nickname "Miss Frigidaire"?
3 During WW2, what sort of German weapon was nicknamed the "Moaning Minnie"?
4 What became the first American opera to be staged at La Scala, Milan in 1955?
5 What derogatory term for the jargon of popular psychology dates from the 1970s and was popularised by the title of a RD Rosen book, subtitled Fast Talk and Quick Cure in the Era of Feeling (1977)?
6 Later to become a Conservative health minister and chairman of the Independent Television Authority, which man was the BBC's "Radio Doctor" from 1942-50?
7 Formed in 1963, what is the freefall display team of the Parachute Regiment called?
8 Which style of popular music, originating in Jamaica, perhaps derives its name from a Jamaican-English word meaning "row", "quarrel", literally "ragged clothes" from the casual dress of its performers?
9 At which Parisian venue was Stravinsky's ballet Rite of Spring first performed by Diaghilev's Ballet Russes in 1913?
10 The Rite of Spring is divided into two parts. What are their respective names?
11 Which US writer and illustrator invented the doctorate for himself, though his alma mater, Dartmouth, conferred an authentic version on him in 1955?
12 Terrence Rattigan's pair of plays, Separate Tables (comprised of Table by the Window and Table Number 7), concerns the hidden lives of a variety of guests in a hotel located in which seaside resort?
13 The title of which 1928 Sean O'Casey play, in which he lamented the devastating loss of life in WW1, takes its name from the titular trophy brought home in victory by Dublin footballer Harry Hegan in the first act?
14 Which 1989 Jewish family saga novel by the Canadian, Mordechai Richler has a title referring to the titular character's apparent death when a Gypsy Moth plane disappears in 1934 during the trial of his two brothers for bootlegging?
15 Becoming the 46th state of the USA in 1907, which state is nicknamed the Sooner State, derived from the "Sooners", who aimed to get into Government territory in the West before the time was appointed for settlement?
16 What was the meaning of the name of space dog Laika?
17 Featured in a popular musical, the constituent meanings of which nonsensical word can perhaps be divided into constituents meaning "boiling hot", "inclined to fragility" and "inclined to explode?
18 Founded in 1925, which official news agency had a name whose initials stood for (translated into English) "Telegraphic Agency of the Soviet Union", but before an independent commercial news agency, renaming itself ITAR (Information Technology Agency of Russia), although the original name was preserved for the domestic wire service?
19 In biological nomenclature, what term indicates a taxonomic name in which the generic repeats the specific (e.g. Martes martes), the pine marten?
20 F Scott Fitzgerald's novel Tender is the Night takes its title from which Keats poem?
21 Which Australian leg-spinner named his autobiography Ten for 66 and All That, thus aping the Sellar and Yeatman book 1066 and All That, but justifiably doing so since it commemorated the 10 for 66 he took for the Australians v. Gloucestershire in 1921?
22 Whose series of 50 crime novels by John Creasey, begun with Introducing the ____ (1938), centred on title character Honourable Richard Rollison, a young man "down from Cambridge with half a million and a hatred of dullness"?
23 Who played the housekeeper Mrs Bridges in the TV series Upstairs and Downstairs?
24 Who won the Turner Prize for his work The Adoration of Captain Shit and the Legend of the Black Star Part Two?
25 Bella and Fizz are the two females who love ballet and dressing-up and feature in which puppet show aimed at the 3-to-5 year-old primary school demographic?
26 In Laurie Lee's autobiographical book Cider with Rosie, what is Rosie's surname?
27 Which volcanic peak in Alaska's Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes erupted on June 6, 1912?
28 Who directed the 1979 film adaptation of Gunter Grass's debut novel The Tin Drum (1959)?
29 The Bob Dylan song Only a Pawn in Their Game refers to the assassination of which civil rights leader in 1963?
30 Designed by Edwin Lutyens, the Thiepval memorial is the "Memorial to the Missing" of which famous 20th century battle?
31 In Swedish massage, what is a) "effleurage" and what is b) "petrissage"?
32 What operatic device was invented in 1983 by John Leberg as part of a move to popularise opera generally?
33 The title of Duke Ellington's Shakespearean suite, Such Sweet Thunder (1957), takes its name from which play?
34 Which once popular table-top game was created by Peter Adolph in about 1947?
35 Nicknamed "Little Bill", which US tennis player had the misfortune to lose six times to Bill Tilden in US championships finals?
36 Which type of women's shoe, fashionable from the forties, is so called because it it held in place by a strap around the ankle above the heel?
37 The name of which fictional paradise was adopted in 1942 as a codename for the US aircraft carrier Hornet, from the massive Tokyo air raid launched on April 14, and was further applied by President Roosevelt to a well-known retreat in order to avoid identifying its location?
38 The largest cache of early Roman coins ever discovered in Britain (some 9000 silver denarii) came to light in a Somerset field in 1999 when dairy farmer's son Kevin Elliott tried out a metal detector with his cousin, Martin Elliott, a self-employed welder. What name has it been given?
39 Which planet gave its name to the Soviet offensive that trapped the German 6th Army in Stalingrad in November 1942?
40 Operation Source was the codename given to the September 22, 1943 attack by British midget submarine on which German battleship in northern Norway that succeeded in seriously damaging it?
41 Founded in 1911, which American movement takes for its motto "Service above Self"?
42 Which 1945 novel, published in the US as The Renegade in 1951, is subtitled A Novel of Cornwall 1783-1787?
43 Route 66's fame was no doubt helped by which musician's 1946 song Route 66?
44 Formed in 1982, which chart-topping band took its name from a lyric "his face is ___, ___ with tears" featured in the Scritti Politti song Gettin', Havin' and Holdin' (1982)?
45 In which county is Quorn (or Quorndon), known for it famous hunt and the type of textured vegetable protein?
46 Which US actress, born in 1921, had the real name Tula Ellice Finklea?
47 William Walton's concert overture Portsmouth Point, first performed in 1926, was based on a print depicting a crowded scene at the quayside produced by which caricaturist?
48 What did the USA agree to supply the UK thanks to the 1962 Nassau Agreement, a deal that led to Charles de Gaulle vetoing Britain's application to join to Common Market in 1963?
49 How many named Pokemon models are there, at least in the original incarnation of the multimedia-spawned card game, TV series and video game?
50 DH Elliott gave the vital financial support to his then floundering business partner, whose "constructive" brainchild he devised at the turn of the 20th century would eventually become one of the greatest successes in the history of children's toy. Who was that man and under what name did his toy kit achieve widespread fame?
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1 Jimmy Carter 2 Chris Evert 3 Six-barrelled mortar 4 Porgy and Bess 5 Psychobabble 6 Dr Charles Hill 7 Red Devils 8 Reggae 9 Theatre des Champs-Elysees 10 The Adoration of the Earth/The Sacrifice 11 Dr Seuss 12 Bournemoth 13 The Silver Tassie 14 Solomon Gursky Was Here 15 Oklahoma 16 Barker 17 Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 18 TASS 19 Tautonym 20 Ode to a Nightingale 21 Arthur Mailey 22 The Toff 23 Angela Baddeley 24 Chris Ofili 25 Tweenies 26 Burdock 27 Mount Katmai 28 Volker Schlondorff 29 Medgar Evans 30 Somme 31 a) Stroking b) Kneading and squeezing 32 Surtitles 33 A Midsummer Night's Dream 34 Subbuteo 35 William Johnson 36 Slingback 37 Shangri-La 38 Shapwick Hoard 39 Uranus 40 Tirpitz 41 Rotary Club 42 Ross Poldark (by Winston Graham) 43 Bobby Troup 44 Wet. Wet, Wet 45 Leicestershire 46 Cyd Charisse 47 Thomas Rowlandson 48 Polaris missiles 49 150 50 Frank Hornby/Meccano
I am typing - or should I say thumping - my computer keyboard so much at the moment, doing work of several different yet essentially time-consuming varieties that my poor left index finger is bruised and makes me go "YOUCH!" every time it comes into contact with any surface with the minimum pressure. Oh poor me. Pray my finger gets better and have a look of a few more of these quizzes I am burning off in a hasty fashion, as a US television network would want to do with remaining shows of a series it cancelled mid-season and doesn't quite know what to do with, apart from get rid of and place out of sight or, I mean, remove from my darn desktop at last ...
BH138
1 Having served four years in the Russian army, which Polish-born entrepreneur (c.1872-1938) opened a small shop in Ryazan, near Moscow, making and selling his own creams, fragrances and wigs, before decamping to New York in 1904 where he opened a barber's shop and, in 1909, founded an eponymous company selling his own line of theatre make-up products?
2 Lovat is a muted shade of which colour, often seen in tweed and woollen garments?
3 Which loveable literary and TV rogue, who never reveals his first name, features in a series of novels that includes The Judas Pair (1977), Gold from Gemini (1978), Spend Game (1980), The Vatican Rip (1981), Firefly Gadroom (1982) and The Gondola Scam (1984)?
4 Taking a name from the 1960s that presumably derives from the Italian word "to play", what is the proprietary name of a type of bat-and-ball game in which the ball is attached to the bat with a long length or rubber cord?
5 Joe Dimaggio's brother Dom, nicknamed the "Little Professor" established a successful career with which major league baseball team?
6 Far less well known by his first three names John Christopher Timothy, which fictional schoolboy attended Linbury Court preparatory school and is known as "Bennett" in French, "Fredy" in Germany and "Stompa" in Norwegian?
7 Adapted into a 1944 film, which woman is the title character of a 1943 Vera Caspary mystery novel and has the surname Hunt?
8 What infamous, though some might say legendary, newspaper headline appeared on May 4, 1982?
9 The first ever best feature film awarded in the history of which film festival went jointly to John Cassavetes' Gloria (1980) and Louis Malle's Atlantic City (1980)?
10 Opened in 1960, which London theatre partly derived its name from the names of the original purchasers, ballet dancer Margot Fonteyn and Donald Albery?
11 Joan Perry, the second wife of the film company founder in question, provided the face of the statue that serves as which studio's logo on pictures?
12 Which 1949 play begins with a seemingly convivial gathering of friends hosted by Edward Chamberlayne shortly after his wife Lavinia has left him, but ends with another social occasion with the couple reunited?
13 Where in Berkshire is the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment?
14 Meaning "finger counting" in Korean, what is the proprietary name of a system of calculating by using fingers and thumbs that was invented by mathematician Sung Jin Pai in the 1970s and has since been adopted for the teaching of basic arithmetic?
15 Originating in the US, BVDs is the abbreviated name given to what kind of male clothing item that was popular during the first half of the 20th century?
16 Which literary anti-hero, whose first of whose adventures were first published in 1920 in a novel subtitled The Adventures of Demobilised Office Who Found Peace Dull, was allegedly based on the soldier and writer Gerard Fairlie (c.1900-83)?
17 Who did Winston Churchill nickname a "Boneless Wonder" on January 28, 1931?
18 Which famous 1930 film was adapted by Carl Zuckmayer from the novel Professor Unrat (1905) by Thomas Mann's brother Heinrich?
19 The Black Sox scandal of 1919 saw the aforementioned team throw the World Series, thus making which team champions?
20 Counting Joseph Mkasa, who reproached the ruler Mwanga for debauchery and murdering missionary bishop James Harrington in 1885 among its number, the "Black Martyrs" is the general name given to 22 Africans who died for their Christian faith in the late 1880s. In which country did this occur?
21 Forever harangued by his wife with the cry of "Lorst yer job?", which henpecked husband features in a series of comic novels by Herbert Jenkins that began with the one bearing his name in 1916?
22 Which anarchic US TV comedy first featured its eponymous real-life star first playing his career-defining role in You'll Never Get Rich, later renamed for its highly successful 1955-9 run?
23 At which manufacturer's works were the large WW1 "Big Bertha" howitzers made, though they were mistakenly assumed to have been manufactured by German armament firm, Krupp?
24 Which well-known floral-themed song was written by Jimmy Harper, Tommie Connor and Will E Haines in 1938?
25 Originally an island in the Arctic that was then transported to the English Channel where it became attached to the Brittany coast, Alca is the titular location of which satirical novel of 1908?
26 Which Handley Page aircraft of 1939 was named after a historic Yorkshire city?
27 What term, describing the purveying of left-wing/communist propaganda by means of theatre, cinema and art, was first used by the Marxist writer Georgy Plekhanov (1856-1918), and was also the name given to the bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR responsible for propaganda?
28 Which well-known, present-day pressure group evolved from the Old People's Welfare Committees that were first set up in 1940 to cope with the problem of the elderly during WW2?
29 Certainly of concern to anyone worried about their personal hygiene and those of other people who happen to be in close proximity, which euphemistic abbreviation was invented and promoted by the manufacturers of Lifebuoy soap in the 1930s?
30 The artificial surface Har-Tru usually plays host to matches in which sport?
31 Deriving its structure from each of the acts occurring on one day of an ongoing week, which 1931 play by Italian dramatist Eduardo De Filippo concerns a warring Neapolitan family presided over by the matriarchal Rosa, who eventually restores peace by the last day's end?
32 What were the first names of Steptoe & Son in the TV series?
33 Composed in 1925, which monothematic tone poem by Sibelius derives its name from a god of the forests in Finnish mythology and is considered to be his last great orchestral work as he gave up composition for the last 30 years of his life?
34 Which US President used the phrase "watchful waiting" to describe his policy of non-recognition of the Mexican government of General Huerta, though it did not last long since the Americans occupied Vera Cruz soon after?
35 The term "peristeronic" means of or relating to which birds?
36 The adjective "paludal" refers to what natural terrain?
37 Characterised by whitish diarrhoea, pullorum disease is an acute bacterial disease of which young creatures?
38 What form of complementary medicine bases diagnoses on the analysis of energy supposedly emitted from items, such as hair belonging to the patient?
39 Having made his Formula One debut in the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix, which British driver won his first F1 race at the 1962 Dutch Grand Prix?
40 Racing for the Surtees team in 1976 and for Hesketh in 1978, who is the only British woman to have raced in Formula One?
41 The sport of lawn tennis was patented under the name "Sphairistike" in 1874. Derived from the Greek, what does it mean?
42 Surjeevani, Amar and Gaminee are the three main forms of which team sport?
43 Before transferring to Spurs in 1964, goalkeeper Pat Jennings began his career at which club and then joined which English club in 1963?
44 Aged 23, which American cartoonist began drawing the classic comic strip Mutt and Jeff in 1907?
45 Namik Kemal was a leading figure of which 19th century reform movement?
46 Which 23-year-old architect's victory in the competition to design the Pantheon on Oxford Street in 1770 would lead to many more commissions?
47 Suleyman the Magnificent, head of the Ottoman empire, assumed the throne on the death of his father Suleyman at the age of 25. His father had a highly contrasting epithet attached to his name. What was it?
48 Richard M. Hoe invented a press that revolutionised the speed of printing in 1846. What was this printing press called?
49 What did the poet Walt Whitman describe as "essentially the greatest poem"?
50 Which James Watt invention improved the steam engine?
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1 Max Factor (b. Faktor) 2 Green 3 Lovejoy (by Jonathan Gash, real name John Grant) 4 Jokari 5 Boston Red Sox 6 Jennings (created by Anthony Buckeridge) 7 Laura 8 Gotcha! 9 Venice (Golden Lion being the prize) 10 Donmar Warehouse 11 Columbia Pictures (her hubby being Harry Cohn) 12 The Cocktail Party by TS Eliot 13 Aldermaston 14 Chisanbop 15 Lightweight long underwear (Bradley, Vorhees and Day Co.) 16 (Hugh) "Bulldog" Drummond 17 Ramsay MacDonald 18 The Blue Angel 19 Cincinnati Reds 20 Uganda 21 Bindle 22 The Phil Silvers Show/Bilko 23 Skoda 24 The Biggest Aspidistra in the World 25 Penguin Island (by Anatole France) 26 Halifax 27 Agitprop 28 Age Concern 29 B.O. (yes, body odour) 30 Tennis 31 Saturday, Sunday, Morning/ Sabato, domenica e lunedi 32 Albert & Harold 33 Tapiola 34 Woodrow Wilson 35 Pigeons 36 Marshes/fens 37 Chickens 38 Radionics 39 Graham Hill 40 Davinia Galicia 41 Ball playing 42 Kabaddi 43 Newry Town & Watford 44 Bud Fisher 45 Young Turks 46 James Wyatt 47 The Grim 48 Rotary printing press 49 "The United States themselves" 50 The separate condenser
BH137
1 Miz Lillian was the nickname of the much-respected mother of which US president?
2 Which American tennis player had the media nickname "Miss Frigidaire"?
3 During WW2, what sort of German weapon was nicknamed the "Moaning Minnie"?
4 What became the first American opera to be staged at La Scala, Milan in 1955?
5 What derogatory term for the jargon of popular psychology dates from the 1970s and was popularised by the title of a RD Rosen book, subtitled Fast Talk and Quick Cure in the Era of Feeling (1977)?
6 Later to become a Conservative health minister and chairman of the Independent Television Authority, which man was the BBC's "Radio Doctor" from 1942-50?
7 Formed in 1963, what is the freefall display team of the Parachute Regiment called?
8 Which style of popular music, originating in Jamaica, perhaps derives its name from a Jamaican-English word meaning "row", "quarrel", literally "ragged clothes" from the casual dress of its performers?
9 At which Parisian venue was Stravinsky's ballet Rite of Spring first performed by Diaghilev's Ballet Russes in 1913?
10 The Rite of Spring is divided into two parts. What are their respective names?
11 Which US writer and illustrator invented the doctorate for himself, though his alma mater, Dartmouth, conferred an authentic version on him in 1955?
12 Terrence Rattigan's pair of plays, Separate Tables (comprised of Table by the Window and Table Number 7), concerns the hidden lives of a variety of guests in a hotel located in which seaside resort?
13 The title of which 1928 Sean O'Casey play, in which he lamented the devastating loss of life in WW1, takes its name from the titular trophy brought home in victory by Dublin footballer Harry Hegan in the first act?
14 Which 1989 Jewish family saga novel by the Canadian, Mordechai Richler has a title referring to the titular character's apparent death when a Gypsy Moth plane disappears in 1934 during the trial of his two brothers for bootlegging?
15 Becoming the 46th state of the USA in 1907, which state is nicknamed the Sooner State, derived from the "Sooners", who aimed to get into Government territory in the West before the time was appointed for settlement?
16 What was the meaning of the name of space dog Laika?
17 Featured in a popular musical, the constituent meanings of which nonsensical word can perhaps be divided into constituents meaning "boiling hot", "inclined to fragility" and "inclined to explode?
18 Founded in 1925, which official news agency had a name whose initials stood for (translated into English) "Telegraphic Agency of the Soviet Union", but before an independent commercial news agency, renaming itself ITAR (Information Technology Agency of Russia), although the original name was preserved for the domestic wire service?
19 In biological nomenclature, what term indicates a taxonomic name in which the generic repeats the specific (e.g. Martes martes), the pine marten?
20 F Scott Fitzgerald's novel Tender is the Night takes its title from which Keats poem?
21 Which Australian leg-spinner named his autobiography Ten for 66 and All That, thus aping the Sellar and Yeatman book 1066 and All That, but justifiably doing so since it commemorated the 10 for 66 he took for the Australians v. Gloucestershire in 1921?
22 Whose series of 50 crime novels by John Creasey, begun with Introducing the ____ (1938), centred on title character Honourable Richard Rollison, a young man "down from Cambridge with half a million and a hatred of dullness"?
23 Who played the housekeeper Mrs Bridges in the TV series Upstairs and Downstairs?
24 Who won the Turner Prize for his work The Adoration of Captain Shit and the Legend of the Black Star Part Two?
25 Bella and Fizz are the two females who love ballet and dressing-up and feature in which puppet show aimed at the 3-to-5 year-old primary school demographic?
26 In Laurie Lee's autobiographical book Cider with Rosie, what is Rosie's surname?
27 Which volcanic peak in Alaska's Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes erupted on June 6, 1912?
28 Who directed the 1979 film adaptation of Gunter Grass's debut novel The Tin Drum (1959)?
29 The Bob Dylan song Only a Pawn in Their Game refers to the assassination of which civil rights leader in 1963?
30 Designed by Edwin Lutyens, the Thiepval memorial is the "Memorial to the Missing" of which famous 20th century battle?
31 In Swedish massage, what is a) "effleurage" and what is b) "petrissage"?
32 What operatic device was invented in 1983 by John Leberg as part of a move to popularise opera generally?
33 The title of Duke Ellington's Shakespearean suite, Such Sweet Thunder (1957), takes its name from which play?
34 Which once popular table-top game was created by Peter Adolph in about 1947?
35 Nicknamed "Little Bill", which US tennis player had the misfortune to lose six times to Bill Tilden in US championships finals?
36 Which type of women's shoe, fashionable from the forties, is so called because it it held in place by a strap around the ankle above the heel?
37 The name of which fictional paradise was adopted in 1942 as a codename for the US aircraft carrier Hornet, from the massive Tokyo air raid launched on April 14, and was further applied by President Roosevelt to a well-known retreat in order to avoid identifying its location?
38 The largest cache of early Roman coins ever discovered in Britain (some 9000 silver denarii) came to light in a Somerset field in 1999 when dairy farmer's son Kevin Elliott tried out a metal detector with his cousin, Martin Elliott, a self-employed welder. What name has it been given?
39 Which planet gave its name to the Soviet offensive that trapped the German 6th Army in Stalingrad in November 1942?
40 Operation Source was the codename given to the September 22, 1943 attack by British midget submarine on which German battleship in northern Norway that succeeded in seriously damaging it?
41 Founded in 1911, which American movement takes for its motto "Service above Self"?
42 Which 1945 novel, published in the US as The Renegade in 1951, is subtitled A Novel of Cornwall 1783-1787?
43 Route 66's fame was no doubt helped by which musician's 1946 song Route 66?
44 Formed in 1982, which chart-topping band took its name from a lyric "his face is ___, ___ with tears" featured in the Scritti Politti song Gettin', Havin' and Holdin' (1982)?
45 In which county is Quorn (or Quorndon), known for it famous hunt and the type of textured vegetable protein?
46 Which US actress, born in 1921, had the real name Tula Ellice Finklea?
47 William Walton's concert overture Portsmouth Point, first performed in 1926, was based on a print depicting a crowded scene at the quayside produced by which caricaturist?
48 What did the USA agree to supply the UK thanks to the 1962 Nassau Agreement, a deal that led to Charles de Gaulle vetoing Britain's application to join to Common Market in 1963?
49 How many named Pokemon models are there, at least in the original incarnation of the multimedia-spawned card game, TV series and video game?
50 DH Elliott gave the vital financial support to his then floundering business partner, whose "constructive" brainchild he devised at the turn of the 20th century would eventually become one of the greatest successes in the history of children's toy. Who was that man and under what name did his toy kit achieve widespread fame?
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1 Jimmy Carter 2 Chris Evert 3 Six-barrelled mortar 4 Porgy and Bess 5 Psychobabble 6 Dr Charles Hill 7 Red Devils 8 Reggae 9 Theatre des Champs-Elysees 10 The Adoration of the Earth/The Sacrifice 11 Dr Seuss 12 Bournemoth 13 The Silver Tassie 14 Solomon Gursky Was Here 15 Oklahoma 16 Barker 17 Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 18 TASS 19 Tautonym 20 Ode to a Nightingale 21 Arthur Mailey 22 The Toff 23 Angela Baddeley 24 Chris Ofili 25 Tweenies 26 Burdock 27 Mount Katmai 28 Volker Schlondorff 29 Medgar Evans 30 Somme 31 a) Stroking b) Kneading and squeezing 32 Surtitles 33 A Midsummer Night's Dream 34 Subbuteo 35 William Johnson 36 Slingback 37 Shangri-La 38 Shapwick Hoard 39 Uranus 40 Tirpitz 41 Rotary Club 42 Ross Poldark (by Winston Graham) 43 Bobby Troup 44 Wet. Wet, Wet 45 Leicestershire 46 Cyd Charisse 47 Thomas Rowlandson 48 Polaris missiles 49 150 50 Frank Hornby/Meccano
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