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1. On the cover of the 1994 compilation album The Cream of Clapton there are two pictures of Eric Clapton's guitar. What make of guitar is it?
Fender.
2. While we're on the subject of Cream: who were the other two members? One point for either correct.
Ginger Baker (drums) or Jack Bruce (bass).
3. Who wrote these words?
Things are seldom what they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream.
(The words are sung in Act II by Buttercup in a duet with the Captain.)
W. S. Gilbert, for HMS Pinafore.
4. And what are the French referring to when they talk of 'crème anglaise': what's it called in English? (It's not called 'English cream.')
Custard - or custard cream.
5. When you put on 'English' in billiards or baseball, what do you put on?
Spin (on the ball).
6. What is the title of the film in which this line is spoken by Karin: 'And when the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about the space of half an hour.'
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
7. One of Ingmar Bergman's films featured Ingrid Bergman. What was its name (in English)?
Autumn Sonata.
8. Some Emma Peels have been: Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg and Joanna Lumley. Ralph Fiennes was cast as John Steed in the new film version of The Avengers; who was cast as Emma Peel?
Uma Thurman.
9. Young, beautiful Diana Rigg once performed in a play in which it was asked of her character: 'Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?' Some of the audience laughed at each performance, because no-one was looking at Diana Rigg's face. What is the name of the character she was playing?
Helen of Troy. It was Christopher Marlowe's play Dr Faustus. And Diana Rigg was naked.
10. Who directed the films Universal Soldier (1992) and Stargate (1994)? If that's too hard: he also directed Independence Day (1996).
Roland Emmerich.
11. What WA Govt Dept is at GPO Box R1290 in Perth?
The Department of Transport.
12. What is the English title of the novel of which this is the first sentence (in English translation): 'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.'
One Hundred Years of Solitude (100 Years of Solitude) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
13. What object did Vincent van Gogh paint lying on the seat of the cane-bottomed chair?
A pipe.
14. Who wrote: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'
Oscar Wilde, in 'Leadville', in Impressions of America.
15. What reason does Coleridge give for the Ancient Mariner killing the albatross, in the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
None.
16. After it was formed in 1958 where did the CND repeatedly march to from London?
Aldermaston.
17. The four castes of tradtional Hindu society are Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaisya and Sudra. 'Vaisya' means merchant, or shopkeeper, or tradesman. What does 'Brahmin' mean?
Priest.
18. The 1972 Allman Brothers Band album Eat a Peach was dedicated 'to a brother.' To whom was it dedicated?
Duane Allman.
19. What is the name of the movie in which Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton starred together?
Rhinestone (Bob Clark, 1984)
20. What famous New York thoroughfare stretches from Broadway to the East River?
Wall Street.
21. When the police radar catches you speeding, the measurement is based on 'the change in frequency of a microwave signal reflected from' your car. What is the name for 'the change in the perceived frequency of a wave which results when the source moves relatively to the observer' ?
The Doppler effect (named after the Austrian physicist Christin Johann Doppler, who discovered it in 1842.
22. According to the John Travolta character in the film Pulp Fiction—what do they call a 'quarter pounder with cheese' in France?
A royale with cheese.
23. The label on a bottle of Angostura Bitters mentions one particular plant as the significant ingredient. What is it?
Gentian.
24. Who is/was silverchair's bass player?
Chris Joannou.
25. What is the name of the drummer for the Red Hot Chilli Peppers?
Chad Smith.
26. Gustav Holst wrote the tune of what we know as 'Land of Hope and Glory' as part of a musical suite. What is the name of the suite?
The Planets.
27. Badminton used to have another name -- taken from the old names for the racquet and the shuttlecock, the thing you hit. What was the old word for a badminton racquet?
Battledore.
28. The world's longest running play is The Mousetrap. Who wrote it?
Agatha Christie.
29. After it was formed in 1958 where did the CND repeatedly march to from London?
Aldermaston.
30. Who is the patron saint of Scotland, Russia and Greece?
St Andrew.
31. What are the only kind of leaves which the fussy little silkworm called 'bombyx mori' is prepared to eat?
Mulberry leaves.
32. Which 1971 movie was based on a play by David Williamson?
Stork. The play was called The Coming of Stork.
33. Who was the Scottish entertainer whose theme song was Roamin' in the Gloamin'?
Harry Lauder.
34. For what form of painting is the Wynne Prize awarded each year?
Landscape painting.
35. What is the name of the Western Australian playwright whose plays John Boyle O'Reilly, Eugene and Carlotta, and Meekatharra have all been performed here: the first one in one of the sheds on the Fremantle wharf?
Lois Achimovich.
36. Napoleon met his Waterloo in 1815. What country was he in at the time?
Belgium.
37. There are at least two well-known Wedding Marches. Who wrote one of them in 1845?
Richard Wagner.
38. Who is the first Peeping Tom supposed to have been watching?
Lady Godiva of Coventry.
39. A British film called Peeping Tom was released in 1960. Nigel Davenport, Miles Malleson, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer were in it. The director was also in charge of The Elusive Pimpernel in 1950, and The Red Shoes in 1948. Who directed Peeping Tom?
Michael Powell.
40. Who played Tom Jones in the 1963 film of that name directed by Tony Richardson?
Albert Finney.
41. Where did Tom Brown spend his Schooldays?
At Rugby.
42. Who or what is Great Tom of Oxford.
Great Tom of Oxford is the great bell of Christ Church. It hangs in Tom Tower, which was built by Christopher Wren.
43. What studio has been responsible for the Tom and Jerry cartoon series since 1937?
Metro Goldwyn Mayer, or MGM.
44. Who directed Casablanca?
Michael Curtiz.
45. My favourite Shakespearean stage direction, I guess, is 'Exit pursued by a bear.' But it's hard to forget this direction: 'Enter ... Lavinia, ravished, her hands cut off and her tongue cut out.' What play is this from?
Titus Andronicus.
46. What is the popular name for nitrous oxide?
Laughing gas.
47. In what English shire is the village of Gotham? -- as in
Three wise men of Gotham
Went to sea in a bowl
If the bowl had been stronger
My story would have been longer.
Nottinghamshire.
48. Everyone knows that Gotham City is another name for New York (as in Superman). But who was the American author who gave this name to the city in his Salmagundi in 1807?
Washington Irving.
49. Cam is the river on which Cambridge is situated; what is Oxford's equivalent river?
Isis.
50. Who is the former Federal political party leader who played for Fitzroy?
Don Chipp.
51. What part does Desmond Llewellyn play in James Bond movies?
Q.
52. To celebrate their 125 years in business in 1993, Arnott's had their Rosella biscuit tin redesigned: who did they get to do it?
Ken Done.
53. Who was the first sitting member of Federal Parliament to become a mother, in 1983?
Ros Kelly.
54. What have Sportsters, Knuckleheads, Flatheads, Panheads and Fat Boys got in common?
They're all Harley Davidson motorcycles.
55. You probably associate 'Budweiser' with Americans. But the name actually comes from the name of a city which is not in the USA. What country is it in? If you're desperate for a clue: it's the same country that the Pilsener style of beer comes from.
The Czech Republic.
56. A cryptic crossword clue: two words (9, 4): the clue is S G E G. What is the solution?
Scrambled eggs.
57. Speaking of cryptic crosswords: I only found out this year that there's a special term for the answer to a cryptic crossword clue: what is the word?
It's called the 'light'.
58 Mescal is drunk by Mexicans and made from the agave plant. You might be more familiar with another drink made partly from the same plant. What is its name?
Tequila.
59. What is Bombay duck?
A small fish (Harpodon nehereus) of South Asian coasts.
60. You probably know that the taste of a particular cake was one of the inspirations for what is undoubtedly one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu). It's at least an important moment in the early part of the novel. What is the name of the cake?
Madeleine.
61. I'd be prepared to bet that you have eaten nori - though you may not have known it by this name. As you might guess, it's used in Japanese cuisine. What is nori?
Seaweed.
62. Geodesic domes are lightweight enclosures which are parts of spheres subdivided along lines following Great Circle routes across their surface. Who is the inventor of the geodesic dome?
Buckminster Fuller.
63. The Tonton Macoute (Uncle bagmen) are associated with which country?
With Haiti and the administration of Papa Doc, Jacques Duvalier.
64. Which member of the original Rolling Stones was the first to die?
Brian Jones.
65. How big is a petabyte?
One thousand terabytes.
66. What is this country? According to the latest information available, a certain country has only subsistence agriculture, its only industries are small factories processing passion fruit, lime oil, honey and coconut cream; and the sale of postage stamps is an important source of revenue. It does not have a harbour, but it does have an airport. The whole country is only 100 square miles, or 260 square kilometres in area, and its capital is Alofi. What is this country's name?
Niue.
67. The 1958 Ford Edsel was not perhaps the greatest ever success of the Ford Motor Company. Where did the Edsel get its name?
Edsel Ford was Henry Ford's son.
68. Where was former South Australian premier Don Dunstan born?
Fiji.
69. In one word, what did Australian Maria Ann Smith and American John Chapman have in common in the 1800s?
Apples. (She was Granny Smith and he was Jonny Appleseed.)
70. In a thirty year career, Australian Jack O'Toole won a total of 24 world championships in which sport?
Woodchopping.
71. What is the name of the Australian author who wrote The Harp in the South and also the children's series based on the Muddle-Headed Wombat?
Ruth Park.
72, In what year was Mt Everest first climbed?
1953, by Sherpa Norgay and Kiwi Edmund Hillary.
73. In which Asian country is there an area and a people known as Naga?
Burma, aka Myanmar.
74. Evonne Goolagong won the Wimbledon women's singles tennis final in the same year as another Australian won the men's singles tennis final? Who was the man?
John Newcombe.
75. The Semites are said to be named for the Biblical character Shem. Who was his father?
Noah.
76. What is the highest number on the Beaufort scale for wind speed?
12.
77. What is the name of the river on which Moses is said to have been found among the bulrushes?
Nile.
78. Which Australian author's first book featured a nude female torso on the dust jacket or cover?
Germaine Greer.
79. Who played Harry Palmer in a series of British movies beginning with The Ipcress File?
Michael Caine.
80. Which Melbourne Cup winner had the same name as the First Fleet's flagship?
Sirius (1944).
81. What was the name of the comedy team whose last film was The Story of Mankind in 1957?
The Marx Brothers.
82. To which African country did an Australian expeditionary force embark in 1885?
The Sudan.
83. Which Italian city in Lombardy is famous for the violins made there by the Amati, Guarnieri and Stradivari families?
Cremona.
84. Jeannine Deckers, who had a 1963 hit song 'Dominique,' was better known as whom?
The Singing Nun.
85. Before which naval battle did Nelson issue this signal to the Fleet: 'England expects that every man will do his duty.'
The Battle of Trafalgar (1805).
86. Harry Secombe, Peter Sellars were two of the original four Goons. For one point, what was the name of either one of the others?
Michael Bentine and Spike Milligan . One point for either one correct.
87. For what item of his clothing was Australian Prime Minister Stanley Bruce made fun of in the 1920s?
His spats.
88. What was the name of the French author whose novel inspired the 1957 war movie The Bridge on the River Kwai?
Pierre Boulle.
89. How many colours of the rainbow are matched by the colours of a set of snooker balls?
Four: red, yellow, green, blue.
90. Which Australian company logo evolved from the legend that the wheel was suggested to primitive man by a lion rolling a stone?
Holden's: the logo has a lion with a paw resting on a round object.
91. What is the name of the island in Spencer Gulf where the CSIRO conducted its experiment with the calicivirus disease which was supposed to eliminate rabbits?
Wardung Island.
92. Which Australian comic strip, first drawn by Alex Guerney, was in turn handed over to Lionel Lindsay, Alex McCrae and Peter Russell-Clarke?
Ben Bowyang (based on a C. J. Dennis character).
93. In the expression 'a pig in a poke,' what does the word 'poke' mean?
A small bag or sack.
94. Which sign of the Zodiac is for people with birthdays roughly between 24 October and 21 November?
Scorpio.
95. Who was to write the songs for the Disney musical Aida - which has been 'in development' for many years?
Elton John.
96. What is the name of the Irish swimmer who won four medals at the Atlanta Olympics?
Michelle Smith.
97. What is the name of the pianist who is the subject of the Australian film Shine?
David Helfgott.
98. Tommy Lee who was married to Pamela Anderson was the drummer with what band?
Motley Crue. Accept other spellings.
99. What historical character did Mel Gibson play in his film Braveheart?
Sir William Wallace.
100. Which of Shakespeare's plays was the first to be staged at the reconstructed Globe Theatre, in London, in August this year (1996)?
Two Gentlemen of Verona.
These questions were left over from the Port Quiz of 21 August 1996.
101. What is the temperature in centigrade (or Celsius) of absolute zero?
-273.16° C. -273° is acceptable, but it must have the minus sign.
102. Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks?
(Vladimir Ilyich) Lenin.
103. What are the next four numbers in the Fibonacci series beginning with 1, 2?
3, 5, 8, 13.
104. Of the wide variety of mammals that exist, only one lays eggs in a nest and broods them like a bird. What is it?
Platypus.
105. In the 1940 film My Little Chickadee, W. C. Fields played Cuthbert J. Twillie. Who played his little chickadee, Flower Belle Lee?
Mae West.
106. Which American folk-hero was played by Alan Ladd in The Iron Mistress, Sterling Hayden in The Last Command, Jeff Morrow in The First Texan, and Richard Widmark in The Alamo?
Jim Bowie, 'inventor' of the Bowie knife.
107. Kevin Brownlow, a British producer-director published a major book in 1969 called The Parade's Gone By, about the silent era in films, and he dedicated it to a man he called 'the greatest French film director of all', 'one of the giants of the cinema.' It's suggested that his most important film was the one called Napoléon. What was the name of this film director?
Abel Gance.
108. In which film did John Travolta ride a mechanical bull?
Urban Cowboy.
109. Which film star made his debut in the film Steamboat Willie?
Mickey Mouse. 'Micky' is acceptable.
110. Using the binary scale, that is, using the base 2: how is the number 7 written?
111.
111. In a barn in Dunedin there are a number of sheep and a number of New Zealanders. Between them they have 36 heads and 100 feet. How many sheep are there and how many Kiwis?
14 sheep and 22 New Zealanders (not enough sheep to go around).
112. What is the term for the luminous halo of tenuous gas surrounding the sun, which can normally only be seen during a total eclipse?
The corona.
113. You know that a magnum is a large bottle of champagne, equivalent to two ordinary bottles; and that there are other words for even larger bottles. For example a nebuchadnezzar is equivalent to twenty ordinary bottles. What is the term for a bottle equivalent to sixteen ordinary bottles? (If that's too hard, I'll give you this clue: the answer is also the title of a novel by Lawrence Durrell, part of the Alexandria Quartet.)
A balthazar.
114. What name is missing from this alphabetic series: Swubble, Unwin, Vilkins?
Twist. From Oliver Twist (Penguin: p. 52): Bumble the beadle names the foundlings in alphabetical order.
115. What are the real names of Rampaging Roy Slaven and H. G. Nelson?
John Doyle and Greig Pickhaver.
116. Fritz Lang's great silent movie from 1936, Metropolis, was released in 1984 with a new soundtrack. Who was the producer responsible for the music?
Giorgio Moroder.
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