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It's been a while since we had a quiz so get stuck into this nice short easy one 


1. Which quotidian entity:

a. Was known as ?Daddy Rich??
b. Was awarded two Medals of Honor (but not a commission)?
c. Feared ?er indoors?
d. Provides Kal-El?s cover?
e. Is the American home of Bnei Yizrael?
f. Held da Mare?s office for longer than anyone else?
g. Set tongues wagging by celebrating her Emmy with ?Harvey??
h. Obscured an ex-flame?s name with a tarsal tool?
i. Won the PGA Championship despite starting as ninth alternate?
j. Emulated Mathias by winning the Big G?

2. Similarly, who or what:

a. Is notable for not using the word ?zombie??
b. Was the eighth vehicle for the SCUMM engine?
c. Describes the high-flying pursuit of the Dreamstar?
d. Explores the perils of Lysenkoism and astronomy?
e. Saw a Gallic embrace foil an assassin?
f. Included the first appearance of a female Klingon?
g. Is celebrated every December ? but not by pirates?
h. Marked the failure of the Red Eminence?s detractors?
i. Inspired Walter Cartier?s change of career?
j. Sees the hero pursued by L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies and assisted by a Gladiator?

3. And specifically who or what:

a. Was the archetypal faithful retainer?
b. Started her career with the Wrong Man, dated the King, and divorced a Dud?
c. Are known to ?the Blades? as ?the Pigs??
d. Was intended for Apollonia 6, and used by the erstwhile Supersonic Bangs?
e. Links Barbara Harris, Shelley Long, and Jamie Lee Curtis?
f. Works with the Swindon branch of SO-27?
g. Describes the events of Feb 15th, 2003?
h. Saw a catastrophic 22.6% decline?
i. Has been unsatisfactorily examined by Widgery and Saville?
j. Was Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones? most successful product?

4. Now, which feline:

a. Was the luckless understudy who succumbed to the Kaiser in Mexico?
b. Brought with him two Things, over piscine objections?
c. Was suspected of crimes including smothering Pekingeses and cheating at cards?
d. Protected To-Mehu?
e. Never met a lasagna he didn?t like?
f. Watches over Figueroa Street?
g. May have been inspired by a church carving from Croft-on-Tees?
h. After conversion, found himself on a ?no-fly? list?
i. Was overshadowed by Lee Marvin (and Lee Marvin)?
j. Replaced Wilberforce at Number Ten?

5. And which feline:

a. Indicates susceptibility to hypnosis?
b. Describes the motion of Anguilla?
c. Contains objects, morphisms, and composition of morphisms?
d. Gives religious instruction by rote?
e. Is an enormous and unforeseeable disaster?
f. Contains an organized and enumerated list of items?
g. Was avoided by a divinely-inspired boatwright?
h. Is generally, unlike a malapropism, intentional?
i. Is a unisexual wind-pollinated flower cluster?
j. Lived in a water tower with a toad?

6. And which feline:

a. Was a purr-fect replacement for Julie Newmar?
b. Was voiced by an uncredited William Daniels?
c. Witnessed a pioneering fraternal voyage?
d. Is synonymous with the unauthorized biography?
e. Was known as ?Rope Thrower??
f. Is as tall as five apples, and as heavy as three?
g. Was a dark dress with white collar and cuffs?
h. Nightspot employed Sally Bowles?
i. Instrument fits in a poche?
j. Resort challenges athletes on the Streif?

7. 100 years ago:

a. What title became official after 185 years?
b. Where did the fifth largest earthquake of the 20th Century strike?
c. Who described disestablishmentarianism as 'false' and 'pernicious'?
d. What byword for excellence resulted from a meeting in Manchester's Midland Hotel?
e. What devastating event recalled the end of Pliny the Elder?
f. Who was pardoned following Zola's accusation?
g. Which forward-thinking sportsman revolutionized gridiron?
h. Who borrowed $6000 to prepare "girls for the leading women's colleges"?
i. Which impostor's antics were to provide inspiration for Carl Zuckmayer?
j. What familiar trio were introduced with the Ruhezeichen and Suchzeichen?

8. What:

a. Is the more famous counterpart to Donato Montorfano's Crucifixion fresco?
b. Orders military men to sleep, or marks those that will not wake?
c. Brings to a jingoistic close each year's homage to Henry Wood?
d. Has described high jinks in Homefirth for a record length of time?
e. Was 'a Tale of 1757'?
f. Earned John Stone $500 in 1829?
g. Was loosely (and belatedly) based on Caleb Carr's "Devil Soldier"?
h. Fittingly recorded the Band finishing where they started?
i. Might induce cameline paralysis?
j. Saw Mary Poppins reimagine the scourge of the Oompa Loompas?

9. Who or what:

a. Replaced Maury Paul in homage to Irving?
b. Warned of Epeus' deception but was not believed?
c. Was misidentified as the source of the Mississippi?
d. Is a casqued ratite?
e. Sparked a trade dispute over national standards between France and Germany in 1979?
f. Died enjoying Nilsson's hospitality in an ill-fated Curzon flat?
g. Is traditionally deglazed in the preparation of French bean stew?
h. Is a capeless simar?
i. Boasted of her beauty, and was forced to offer her daughter in sacrifice as a result?
j. Improved cycling performance by replacing the freewheel?

10. Who portrayed whom:

a. Including papillomae?
b. Envisioning "in hoc signo vinces"?
c. Controversially as a mosaic of children's handprints?
d. Clinging, naked, to his wife the day before he died?
e. Twice, each time holding a foxglove?
f. Under a cryptonym and with a repainted shoulder strap, to avoid scandalising Paris?
g. Accompanied by two cardinals?
h. Renouncing a third term?
i. Reflected in a crystal ball?
j. To officially certificate his marriage to Giovanna?

11. Legally, who asserts:

a. The Universe is expanding?
b. The inevitability of an online reductio ad Hitlerum?
c. Integrated circuits double in complexity every two years?
d. Bad money follows good?
e. The cruddiness of almost everything?
f. It is pointless to continue researching outside core publications?
g. "ut tensio, sic vis"?
h. Planets orbit elliptically?
i. Approximately one in three of all statistics start with the digit 1?
j. Evolution is irreversible?

12. Who was supported by:

a. The Crypt Kickers?
b. The Mothers of Invention?
c. The Monsters?
d. The Love Reaction?
e. The Magic Band?
f. The Silver Bullet Band?
g. The Spooky Kids?
h. His Deltones?
i. The Bunnymen?
j. The Dominoes?

13. Who died:

a. After a close encounter with a falling testudinoid?
b. After employing snow as a preservative stuffing for a chicken?
c. After 13 years advocacy for Alaskan grizzlies, when he was mauled by an Alaskan grizzly?
d. In a paupers' hospital after a tram accident, despite his fame as an architect?
e. By drowning in a butt of Malmsey?
f. By "pressing" as a punishment for not revealing the names of witches?
g. Committing suicide during a live news broadcast in 1974?
h. Committing suicide during a live press conference in 1987?
i. Succumbing to "the Force of Destiny" at the New York Met?
j. Laughing at the sight of a donkey eating figs?

14. Whose sign, of what:

a. Referred pain in the epigastrium, upon pressure on McBurney's Point.
b. Scarring on the back of the hands, or knuckles.
c. Axillary freckling.
d. Tenderness on percussion of the frontal part of the tibia.
e. Palpable lymph node in the region of the umbilicus.
f. Blue-black bruising around the umbilicus.
g. Acute pain in the left shoulder when lying with legs elevated.
h. Uncontrollable blinking on percussion of the glabella.
i. Swollen lymph nodes across the back of the neck.
j. Flexion of the hip and knee on flexion of the neck.

15. Collectively, what are:

a. A cete?
b. A tower?
c. A leap?
d. A shrewdness?
e. A yoke?
f. A pitying?
g. A nye?
h. A rhumba?
i. A dule?
j. A smack?

16. Which robot:

a. Was choreographed by Petipa to the music of Delibes?
b. Ran on clockwork, with keys for speech, thought, and action?
c. Rebuilt himself with just one hand and one eye?
d. Formulated, and adapted himself to obey, the Zeroth Law?
e. Danced with an artificial snake for Taffy's customers until her retirement?
f. Proposed the building of a G.O.D. to prevent its termination?
g. Constantly bemoaned the waste of his superior intellect?
h. Was halted by the command "Klaatu barada nikto"?
i. Was bisected by a xenomorph?
j. Was a re-imagining of Ariel?

12.
A. Bobby Pickett
B. Frank Zappa
F. Bob Seeger
G. Marilyn Manson
H. Del Shannon
I. Echo and.....
J.Derek and.....


16.
G. Marvin the Parnoid Android
H. Gort
I. Bishop in Alien

Ben, speaking for myself and, I suspect most of the rest of us, you are massively overestimating our intelligence! However, here's my attempt:

4.e Not sure, but sounds like Garfield
12.b Frank Zappa
12.e Beefheart
12.i Echo
12.j Derek

16c Mark 13 ? (off the film Hardware)
16j Robbie (off the FOrbidden Planet)

I gave up half way down, but a couple I did know off the top of me head ...

1c Arfur Daley
1i Jon Daley
1j Daley Thompson  (are you seeing a pattern here)

3c - Sheffield Wednesday supporters
3g - Stop the war protest march in London ?