1999 Christmas Quiz

Everything about the 1999 quiz

Contents

• Winsome - This years winners
• Best of - Best of the tie-breakers
• Section 1 - Expose
• Section 2 - Where, in the garden of England
• Section 3 - Draw ... (carriages)
• Section 4 - Uncover
• Section 5 - Link
• Section 6 - Catch
• Section 7 - Unite
• Section 8 - Special?
• Section 9 - Identify
• Section 10 - In 1999

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Winsome

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                    *     Winners of Christmas Quiz      *
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  With two points for a fully correct answer, the top scorers were :
    John Fellows & supporters with 188
    Pete Fulton & Glyn Brown  with 183
    Mike Ovenden & spouse     with 182
  For those of you wondering, John Fellows is an ex-Macro 4 employee,
  a previous winner and section contributor - I will be shipping him
  a couple of bottles of claret.
  Thanks to others who put in entries and to all for some occasional
  entertaining answers
  High score = 188, low score = 95, average = 160
  I also got a very creditable 'out of competition' 172 from a CSC (was
  Mobil) collective headed by Murray Wright.
  Question 10.7 beat everyone - rest had at least two correct answers.
  See tie-break section for the odd chuckle

                           Happy New Year
                             Brian Jordan

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Best Of

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                 * The following will be considered by the  *
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   * Linford Christie's lunchbox
   * David Gower's curlers
   * Des Lynam
   * Bobby Charlton's hair-piece
   * The broken Welsh outside-half mould
   * The Ashes of English Cricket
   * Posh Spice's thong
   * Long John Silver's football boots
   * Casanova's cricket box
   * Duncan Goodhew's hair mousse
   * Alex Fergusson's sense of humour

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Section 1 - Expose

 
  1  a player in a 'most lamentable comedy'.
     (Nick) Bottom, the Weaver - Midsummer Night's Dream
  2  England's longest-serving manager.
     Walter Winterbottom - soccer
  3  what the printer's devil had, according to Dr. Johnson.
     'a bottom of good sense'
  4  a screen debutant alongside Ben Johnson.
     Timothy Bottoms - Last Picture Show
  5  the nadir.
     rock bottom
  6  the hit of "George White's Scandals" in 1926.
     the Black Bottom
  7  the World Health Organization's home.
     Foggy Bottom - Washington, DC
  8  the promoter of the Victory Bond Club.
     Horatio Bottomley - MP imprisoned for fraud
  9  the fairies' whereabouts.
     at the bottom of our garden
 10  chez Dobereiner.
     Pratt's Bottom - in Kent (Peter D., golf writer)

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Section 2 - Where, in the garden of England

 
  1  was the Sandwalk conducive to thought?
     Down House, Downe - Darwin
  2  did Vita and Harold bed out?
     Sissinghurst
  3  is locomotion at third scale?
     Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch (Railway)
  4  is the duckpond a listed building?
     Otford
  5  is a theatrical Dame commemorated?
     Small Hythe (Smallhythe Place) - Ellen Terry
  6  does an intrusive lime tree need a special rule?
     Canterbury - St. Lawrence cricket ground
  7  can you see the Time Machine and its creator?
     Bromley - mural at the end of the High Street.
  8  does the Italian Garden stage summer plays?
     Hever Castle
  9  has seen more than three centuries of pastoral brewing?
     Faversham - Shepherd Neame
 10  is Powhatan's daughter buried?
     Gravesend - Pocahontas

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Section 3 - Draw ... (carriages)

         (Set by Hugh Sweeney and Brian Mulvaney)

  1  Bela Lugosi and Mission: Impossible.
     (Martin) Landau - roles in movie 'Ed Wood' & TV series
  2  "I have the body of but a weak and feeble woman..." Where?
     Tilbury - Elizabeth's speech to the troops,1588 (Armada)
  3  Empire, re-opened on 9th December 1986.
     Hackney
  4  Mother of good fortune.
     Diligence - Don Quixote, Cervantes
  5  Once walled German city.
     Berlin
  6  Patron saint of French gardeners.
     Fiacre
  7  Cross-eyed lion.
     Clarence (TV series Daktari)
  8  Ripper district.
     Whitechapel
  9  Pettish
     Sulky
 10  Son of Apollo and Clymene.
     Phaeton

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Section 4 - Uncover

  1  Edmund's successor.
     Ethelred the Unready (I meant 'precursor' - sorry!)
  2  Humpty Dumpty's cravat.
     an un-birthday present - Through the Looking-Glass
  3  Doolittle's class.
     the undeserving poor - Pygmalion
  4  Mr. Woodhouse's soft-boiled egg.
     not unwholesome - Emma, Jane Austen
  5  Shelley's avian strains.
     unpremeditated art - To a Skylark
  6  Brutus' coup de grace.
     the (most) unkindest cut of all - Julius Caesar
  7  Debbie Reynolds' survivor.
     The Unsinkable Molly Brown - film
  8  Brooke's hedgerow adornment.
     an (English) unofficial rose - Old Vicarage, Grantchester
  9  Wilde's huntsman.
     the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable
 10  Kipling's sixty seconds.
     the unforgiving minute - 'If'

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Section 5 - Link

  1  Anderson ; Monte Cristo ; Bell
     If - Lindsay A's film, Chateau d'If, Steve B's strip cartoon
  2  B B King ; Mrs. Ricardo ; Little Richard
     Lucille - his guitar, Lucille Ball in 'I love Lucy', his song
  3  Barlow ; Littlewood ; Shakespeare
     Stratford - S. Johns, Joan L's theatre at S. East, S. on-Avon
  4  Toad Lane ; Sally ; political heavyweight
     Rochdale - 1st co-op, Gracie Fields' b-place, Cyril Smith MP
  5  Billy the Kid ; artistic Paris ; bubble and squeak
     Left - -handed Gun (Penn film), Left Bank, left-overs
  6  Newcastle ; Rossini ; five for silver
     Magpie(s) - soccer, 'Thieving M.', counting rhyme (one for sorrow)
  7  311, Old Trafford ; Mont Ventoux ; 11,236 yards
     Simpson - cricket(Bobby), cycling(Tommy's death), NFL(OJ's record)
  8  Macabre tales ; Nigella ; computing pioneer
     Love - H P Lovecraft, Love-in-a-Mist, Ada Lovelace
  9  the woman for Holmes ; harmonica ; inferiority complex
     Adler - Irene (Scandal in Bohemia),Larry, Alfred defined
 10  Puffinus puffinus ; T E Brown ; rumpy
     Manx - shearwater, poet, cat

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Section 6 - Catch

Section 6  - Catch
  1  a 1984 Academy Award winner.
     Hal Roach - 'special' award
  2  an operatic hero.
     Albert Herring - Benjamin Britten (or Porgy!)
  3  a master lutenist.
     Julian Bream
  4  a convicted insurance fraudster.
     Darius Guppy - Lloyd's for 1.8 million in 1992
  5  a surgeon/explorer.
     George Bass - Bass and Flinders, Tasman Strait
  6  the survivor from six.
     Catherine Parr
  7  an electromagnetics pioneer.
     William Sturgeon
  8  a former Scottish captain.
     David Sole - Rugby Union
  9  a junior bank clerk at Walmington-on-Sea.
     Private Pike - Dad's Army
 10  a surrealist photographer.
     Man Ray

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Section 7 - Unite

  1  Jacobean dramatist and Western film-maker.
     John Ford
  2  American abolitionist and royal retainer.
     John Brown
  3  Irish novelist and front-row forward.
     Brian Moore
  4  band leader and Prime Minister.
     Ted Heath
  5  deadpan film artist and laconic screen icon.
     Steve McQueen - First was this year's Turner Prize winner
  6  reclusive pop star and beer columnist.
     Michael Jackson
  7  Country and Western singer and trade unionist.
     Jack Jones (I may have been thinking of George Jones - sorry!)
  8  Lord Chancellor and modern artist.
     Francis Bacon
  9  Irish nationalist and astronaut.
     Michael Collins
 10  Football legend and murdered loyalist prisoner.
     Billy Wright

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Section 8 - Special?

  1  eastern market-place
     souk
  2  brown bear
     kodiak
  3  Jewish evil spirit
     dybbuk
  4  Hungarian inventor
     Rubik
  5  pillow stuffing
     kapok
  6  patterned fabric
     batik or damask
  7  triple gold in 1952
     Zatopek
  8  rhino hide whip
     sjambok
  9  Swedish training method
     fartlek
 10  Russian peasant
     kulak or moujik

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Section 9 - Identify

  1  a bank official unexpectedly arrested.
     Joseph K - The Trial, Kafka
  2  Clinton's favourite saxophonist.
     Kenny G (and we all trust his judgement!)
  3  bouncer, bodyguard and team member.
     Mr. T - 'A' Team
  4  a little separationist.
     Malcolm X - originally Malcolm Little
  5  a fashion designer.
     Agnes B
  6  a champion of a violent futuristic sport.
     Jonathan E - James Caan's character in Rollerball
  7  a chronicler of enforced matrimony.
     Roy C - Shotgun Wedding, 60's pop
  8  the bearer of a celtic chain tattoo.
     Mel C - Spice Girls
  9  a houseboat-dwelling detective.
     Harry O
 10  a soul organist.
     Booker T - (& the MGs), 'Green Onions' etc.

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Section 10 - In 1999

  1  where did Mambo no. 5 replace Soul Limbo?
     Channel 4 Test Match coverage - their theme tune and BBC's.
  2  who swapped the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for the Winter Gardens?
     Black Dyke Band - declined Oscar ceremony invitation.
  3  which country doctor's bones were laid to rest?
     DeForest Kelley - Star Trek's Dr. McCoy.
  4  which peacemaker came to the end of the line?
     Colt 45 - ended production.
  5  who fiddled on after his obituary?
     Dave Swarbrick - (Fairport Convention), newspaper error.
  6  which gravy-train was deemed out-dated?
     'Oxo family' adverts on TV.
  7  which 91 year old topped the bill at the Festival Hall?
     Compay Segundo - 'Buena Vista Social Club' musician.
  8  whose centenary was in August, on Friday 13th?
     Alfred Hitchcock
  9  who paddled in the Barry Burn?
     Jean van de Velde (Open Golf)
 10  which adolescent returned in his thirties?
     Adrian Mole (: the Capuccino Years)

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For answers, see answers to ALL sections