Here's the next set of questions. It will be a general quiz again.
1. Connect (no clues for this one)
2. Connect the three novels with the two men shown below. (Hint - September 10)
3. Complete this verse by Alexander Pope. (Hint - 'My Darling, Clementine !')
“How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.”
4. "Don't know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal—you sockdologizing old man-trap..."
During a 19th century rendering of this line by the actor Harry Hawks, playing Asa Trenchard, the audience broke into laughter. What ensued ?
5. One from the Olympics. What is special about the medal won by the person seen in the picture ?
6. Set in 1960s Rome, this film features a journalist called Marcello. Working with him is a photographer played by the actor Walter Santesso. The name of the photographer has now passed onto the worldwide lexicon. Scholars believe that the character was named after the Italian word for a 'large and bothersome mosquito'. Name the word.
7. Connect the two men.
8. Where would one find these words ?
9. What marquee brand name would complete this logo ?
10. X wrote that the title was a reference to an old Cockney expression, "as queer as Y". X also wrote in an introduction to Y that a creature who can only perform good or evil is "Y — meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with color and juice, but is in fact only a toy to be wound up by God or the Devil; or the almighty state." Name X and Y.
Have fun !
Zed
