Answers to Ewan's Quiz No. 1

Answers to Ewan's Quiz Number 1

Who Am I?

1) Maya Angelou

2) Aleister Crowley

3) Woody Harrelson

4) Samuel Beckett

5) Ambrose Bierce

6) Principal Seymour Skinner  (The Simpsons)

7) Shephard Fairey

8) Abel Ferrara

9) Charles Baudelaire

10) “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias

Siamese Twins

1) Woodrow Wilson Pickett

2) Henri Paul Verhoeven

3) David Emmanuel Radnitzky

4) George Eliot Ness

5) Tommy Lee Strasberg

6) Herbert Spencer Perceval

7) Tom Ford Kiernan

8) Roger Dean Morairty

9) Upton Sinclair Lewis

10) Millicent Martin Crane

11) Charles Taylor Hackford

12) Peter Andre Geim

13) Jason Alexander Hamilton

14) Wyclef Jean Baudrillard

Hanging on the Telephone Photo Round

1) Dial M for Murder

2) Midnight Run

3) Breakfast at Tiffany’s

4) Casablanca

5) Pillow Talk

6) Dr. Strangelove

7) Local Hero

8) American Gigolo

9) Marty

10) The Matrix

11) The Birds

12) It’s a Wonderful Life

13) The Godfather

Transportation Blues

1) Tram

2) Casey Jones

3) Jackson Pollock

4) Togo

5) Sri Lanka

6) Sony Bono

7) T. E. Lawrence

8) Gloria Jones

9) Percy Bysshe Shelley

10) Albert Camus

Going Out Together and First Lines

Going Out Together

1) C. S. Lewis & Aldous Huxley

Note: Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, died on 22^nd November 1993.

2) David Niven & Luis Buñuel 

3) Thomas Jefferson & John Adams

Note: President James Monroe died on 4^th July 1831, so 3 of the first 5 Presidents of the United States died on 4^th July. A 4^th President, Calvin Coolidge, was born on this date in 1872.

4) Michelangelo Antonioni & Ingmar Bergman

First Lines

1)  Manhattan – Woody Allen

2) Howl – Allen Ginsberg

3) The Communist Manifesto - Marx & Engels

4) The Lovesong of Alfred J. Prufrock – T.S. Eliot

5) The Catcher in the Rye  – J.D. Salinger

Bouquets of Barbed Wire & Grand Theft Art

1) Beethoven

2) Arnold Schoenberg

3) Ayn Rand

4) Katherine Hepburn

5) Cleopatra

6) Leonardo da Vinci

7) Johannes Brahms

8) Amedeo Modigliani

9) Gustav Klimt

10) Daniel Libeskind

11) Paul Gauguin

Cool Covers Music Round

1)The Love Cats

Cover by Paul Anka (2 points)

Original by The Cure (1 point)

2) Common People

Cover by William Shatner (2 points)

Original by Pulp (1 point)

3) Frontin’

Cover by Jamie Cullum (2 points)

Original by Pharrell Williams (accept Pharrell) (1 point)

4) Hey Ya!

Cover by Will Young (1 point)

Original by OutKast (2 points)

5) Take Me to the River

Cover by Talking Heads (1 point)

Original by Al Green (2 points)

6) (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

Cover by Devo (2 points)

Original by Rolling Stones (1 point)

7)Ticket to Ride

Cover by Hüsker Dü (2 points)

Original by The Beatles (1 point)

8) Mrs Robinson

Cover by The Lemonheads (2 points)

Original by Simon & Garfunkel (1 point)

9) She’s Not There

Cover by Santana (1 point)

Original by The Zombies (2 points)

10) Jump

Cover by Aztec Camera (2 points)

Original by Van Halen (1 point)

11) Money

Cover by Flying Lizards (1 point)

Original by Barrett Strong (2 points)

12) Tiny Dancer

Cover by Ben Folds (2 points)

Original by Elton John (1 point)

13) Thinking of You

Cover by Paul Weller (1 point)

Original by Sister Sledge (2 points)

Namesakes and Elementary, My Dear Watson

Namesakes

1)  First Wimbledon Gentlemen’s Singles Champion.

2)  Albert Einstein

3)  Jon Favreau

4)  Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry – Friends)

5)  Michael Douglas

6)  Konigsberg (Königsberg)

7)  George Clinton

8) The Day of the Locust

Elementary, my Dear Watson

1) Phosphorus

2) Isaac Asimov

3) 1) Nigel Bruce 2) Martin Freeman 3) Jude Law 4) Lucy Liu

Death and Taxis

1) Andy Kaufman

 2) H.P. Lovecraft

3) Gene Vincent

4) The Guillotine

5) Upper Slaughter

6) Bez (Happy Mondays)

7) Margaret Mitchell (the novel is Gone with the Wind)

8) Perfume

9) Académie Française

10) Brian Cox, Anthony Hopkins and Mads Mikkelsen

Sage and Time

1) Warren Buffett

2) Thomas Carlyle

3) H.L. Mencken

4) Thomas Jefferson

5) Alan Coren

6)Foula

7) Mount Athos

8) 2001, A Space Odyssey

9) Christiaan Huuygens

10) a) The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick b) The Plot Against America – Philip Roth.

The Final Shootout

1) Aleksandr Pushkin

2) Gertrude Stein

3) Stendahl

4) Robert Schumann

5) Luther Blissett

6) Donna Tartt

7) Frederic Sanger

8) Frank Sinatra

9) Mark Rothko

10) Fred (Astaire) & Ginger (Rogers)

11) Michael Phelps (2012), Terry Wogan (1981)

12) Laura

13) Veep

14) Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef and Clint Eastwood

Top Scorers:

1) Lorcan Duff (Ireland) with a remarkable 214

2) Kathryn Johnson (England) 167

3) David Stainer (England) 159 - an excellent score considering David didn't submit answers for the Picture Round or the Music Round (which comprised 78 points of the total).

Winners of the various rounds were as follows:

Who Am I?

David Stainer 14/20

Siamese Twins

Lorcan Duff 24/28

Hanging on the Telephone Picture Round 

Lorcan Duff 26/26 (full house!)

Transportation Blues

Lorcan Duff 20/20 (another full house!)

Going Out Together & First Lines

Kathryn Johnson 16/18

Bouquets of Barbed Wire and Grand Theft Art

Kathryn Johnson 18/22

Cool Covers Music Round

Lorcan Duff 29/52

(2nd Kirstie Holden 24/52)

Namesakes and Elementary, My Dear Watson

Kathryn Johnson & Lorcan Duff (1=) 18/24

Death and Taxis

David Stainer 19/21

Sage & Time 

David Stainer 22/22 (full house!)

The Final Shootout

Lorcan Duff 26/29