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Guilding the Lily

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Introduction:
"Take one phrase "Guilding the Lily", toss the idea to a group of dedicated quizsmiths and wait for their responses. Join me now with the Quizmakers' Guild and discover the diversity of "Lily" related questions which resulted."


1. My claim to (fictional) fame, comes from the manner in which I died to protect my son. In sacrificing my life to protect his, the love that I passed on to him, invoked an ancient magic, making him the only wizard who has ever survived the killing curse. Who am I?
    Answer: (First and last name or last name only)


2. "They remind me of the lilies of the field," said Mr. Spock of one improbably menacing alien species: "they toil not, neither do they spin." What is the name of this furry, fecund species, at once a favorite pet of humans and an enemy of the Klingon Empire?
    Tribble
    Breen
    Horta
    Organian


3. British actress Lily Langtry, known to fans as the "Jersey Lily", rose to fame in the late19th century as the fashionable consort of Prince Edward. Her style and charisma made her one of the most sought after women of her time, until a disagreement with Edward ended her "guilded" existence. Turning to acting, Lily became a success on the stage as well. Her fans included a famous American lawman whose life was made into a 1970's movie starring Paul Newman. Which "Wild West" figure was so enarmored of Lily Langtry that he kept a picture of her in his house?
    Bat Masterson
    Judge Roy Bean
    Doc Holiday
    Wyatt Earp


4. What U.K. rock group recorded a song in 1967 entitled "Pictures Of Lily"?
    The Move
    The Kinks
    The Who
    Pink Floyd


5. While a cowboy might bawl, “You lily-livered, yellow-bellied, chicken-hearted snake,” at a coward in a 20th century western, such imprecations pale by Elizabethan standards of insults. In which of Shakespeare’s plays does the following inimitable rant occur: “A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited,hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a LILY-LIVERED, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue”?
    The Merchant of Venice
    Macbeth
    King Lear
    Hamlet


6. Lilly, or Eli Lilly, has been one of the top grossing pharmaceutical companies on the planet. Many of their products have reached the status of being household names. Which of the following is an antidepressant medication manufactured by Eli Lilly?
    Prozac
    Vioxx
    Lipitor
    Cialis


7. The often spotted ‘fleur-de-lys’ symbol is said by many to be closer to a stylized iris than a lily or even a spearhead in heraldry. Regardless of the origin of this flower sign, which of these groups has NOT used it as a symbol?
    The province of Quebec
    French monarchy
    French revolutionaries in 1789
    Boy Scouts movement


8. Lilly Berry is a small writer determined to write big books. She and her spectacularly quirky siblings constantly remind each other to “keep passing the open windows”, but eventually – perhaps even predictably - Lilly gives way to the temptation of
auto-defenestration. In which of John Irving’s novels do we meet the terribly damaged Berry family?
    A Prayer for Owen Meany
    Setting Free the Bears
    The Hotel New Hampshire
    The Cider House Rules


9. This nineteenth-century French artist is credited as being one of the creators of the Impressionist movement. Possibly his best-known works are a series of paintings entitled "Water Lilies", completed between 1899 - 1917. The last fourteen paintings of this series were donated to the state, and have been on display in the Musee de L'Orangerie in the Tulieries since 1927, the year after his death.
    Camille Pissaro
    Claude Monet
    Pierre Auguste Renoir
    Edgar Degas


10. Australian cricket's fast bowler Dennis Lillee dominated the opening attack for Australia throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. Which other Australian cricketer was an invaluable partner in his astonishing success?
    Rodney Marsh
    All of these
    Max Walker
    Jeff Thomson


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