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The Thorn

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The Thorn game quiz
"This follows on from my quiz "The Rose", but this time I need you to guess the name of these famous men who have a rose cultivar named after them."

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1. Can you scent out which man created the perfumes "Fahrenheit", "Poison" and "J'Adore"?
    Christian Dior
    Calvin Klein
    Coco Chanel
    Jacques Guerlain


2. This man could look down but wouldn't be able to see the forest for trees as he ascended into the clouds to become the first man to fly across the English Channel. Who was this aviator?
    Charles Lindbergh
    Louis Blériot
    Orville Wright
    Chuck Yeager


3. Alexandre Dumas did not use rose tinted glasses when he wrote about this antagonist who was also a thorn in the side to three swashbuckling heroes. Who was this Frenchman?
    Cardinal Richelieu
    Marquis Descartes
    Comte de Bergerac
    Duc de Normandie


4. Hallelujah! This man put the roses in everyone's cheeks when he said he would "reign forever and ever". Who was this composer?
    Johannes Brahms
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    George Frideric Handel
    Ludwig van Beethoven


5. Which actor came up smelling like roses after he had an affair to remember which was notorious while he was "bringing up baby"?
    Marlon Brando
    James Stewart
    Cary Grant
    James Dean


6. This painter would gild the lily by adding very fine details to a certain flower on canvas, but there was not a frog in sight. Who was he?
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir
    Edgar Degas
    Claude Monet
    Paul Cezanne


7. Which writer created something miserable which would later be turned into a musical masterpiece featuring the melancholy "Bring Him Home" and "I Dreamed a Dream"?
    Victor Hugo
    E. E. Cummings
    Aldous Huxley
    Jerome K. Jerome


8. Which politician made a flowery speech which promised to "fight on the beaches, fight on the landing grounds, fight in the fields and in the streets"?
    Sir Winston Churchill
    General Montgomery
    Neville Chamberlain
    Charles De Gaulle


9. This singer and songwriter turned over a new leaf when he went solo and winged his way into the record books after he released the 1973 album, "Red Rose Speedway". Who was he?
    Elton John
    Rod Stewart
    Paul McCartney
    Johh Lennon


10. Which legendary poet wrote these words?

"No more be grieved at that which thou hast done:
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud."
    William Shakespeare
    William Wordsworth
    Lord Byron
    John Milton


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Compiled May 24 13