"D"rop in the Word Starting with "D". Quiz

Answer: Doctor Zhivago

"Doctor Zhivago" was set in Russia during the early 20th Century during Russia's turmoil leading up to and including the Russian Civil War to 1922. It was beaten for Best Picture by "The Sound of Music".

"Dances with Wolves" (1990) was an epic Western war film which was nominated for 12 Academy Awards winning seven. "Doctor Dolittle" (1967) was an American musical film starring Rex Harrison and Samantha Eggar. The film won two Academy Awards. "Darling" was a 1965 British drama film starring Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde. The film received five Academy Award nominations, winning three, one being Best Actress for Julie Christie.

Answer: dingo

The dingo's ancestry is debatable but it has a wild lifestyle. Its territory ranges from deserts to grasslands and edges of forests. They feed on rabbits, kangaroos and rats and are sometimes pests to livestock. There have been the odd reported attacks on humans.

The drongo is a bird which are mostly black or dark grey with short legs and an upright stance when perched. The word "drongo" is used in Australia and New Zealand meaning an idiot or stupid person. The desert kangaroo rat is a rodent species and is mainly found in the southwestern areas of North America, such as Death Valley, Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert. The duiker is a medium sized antelope native to sub-Saharan Africa.

Answer: Douglass, Dorothea

Dorothea Douglass (1878-1960) was a British tennis player and won the Ladies Singles title on seven occasions (1903, 1904, 1906, 1910-14). Her last four victories were under her married name Dorothea Chambers. She was runner-up on four other occasions and she also won the gold medal for singles at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.

Lottie Dod (1871-1960) was an English sportswomen who won the Wimbledon Ladies Singles Championship on five occasions (1887, 1888, 1891-3). She also won the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship and also won a silver medal at the 1908 Olympics in archery.
Reginald Doherty (1872-1910) was a British tennis player who won the Wimbledon singles title four consecutive years (1897-1900). He also won ten Grand Slam doubles titles.
Laurence Doherty (1875-1919) was the younger brother of Reginald and was a Wimbledon singles winner five consecutive times (1902-06). He also won ten Grand Slam doubles titles.

Answer: Do Wah Diddy Diddy

The song was originally recorded in 1963 as "Do-Wah-Diddy" by an American group called the Exciters. Manfred Mann's version was far more successful and also topped the UK Singles charts.

"Dizzy" by Tommy Roe topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in March 1969. "Daydream Believer" topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for The Monkees in December 1967. "Dominique" was the number one hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 for the Singing Nun (Jeanne Deckers) in December 1963.

Answer: Donkey's Tail

The Donkey's Tail plant is native to Mexico and has long hanging stems covered with thick heavy blue-green leaves that overlap like a donkey's tail. Donkey's Tail is also a Russian artistic group influenced by the "cubo-futurism" movement.

Dogwood makes up about 30-60 species of woody plants which are usually distinguished by their blossoms and berries. Dalmatian Cransbill is native to Dalmatia, Croatia, an is a hardy flowering perennial plant. Duckweed is an aquatic plant that floats on or just under the surface of slow moving freshwater and wetlands.

Answer: Duvall, Robert

Robert Duvall won the Best Actor Award for his role in the 1983 film "Tender Mercies". His other two Best Actor nominations were for "The Great Santini" (1979) and "The Apostle" (1997).

Robert De Niro won Academy Awards for Best Actor in "Raging Bull" (1980) and Best Supporting Actor in "The Godfather Part II" (1974). Michael Douglas won an Academy Award for Best Picture "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" (1976) and an Academy Award for Best Actor in "Wall Street" (1988). Richard Dreyfuss won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in "The Goodbye Girl" (1977).

Answer: Datsun

All Datsun cars from 1958-1986 were exported by Nissan. Although the brand name was phased out in 1986 it was re-launched in 2013 as a low-cost vehicle for emerging markets.

Dacia is an automobile manufacturer in Romania that was founded in 1966. In 2014 it produced over 500,000 cars. Duster is one of the current models manufactured by Dacia. Ducato is the model of a van by the manufacturer Fiat.

Answer: Doyle, Arthur Conan

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) introduced us to Sherlock Holmes in 1887 in "A Study in Scarlet". Prior to this he was a 25 year old ship's surgeon in 1884 when he wrote about the mystery of the Mary Celeste, the ship that was discovered in December 1872 off the Azores Islands with nobody on board and the lifeboat missing. No one from the ship has been seen or heard of since. Doyle wrote the article based on his own theories as to what happened and this article popularised the disappearance of the ship.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) needs no introduction as his numerous novels and short stories have enjoyed lasting popularity. He did introduce us to Oliver Twist, Ebenezer Scrooge, Bill Sykes, The Artful Dodger, David Copperfield, Samuel Pickwick and many more lovable characters.
Len Deighton is a British author known for his novels on spies , military history and cookery. One of his earliest novel of "The IPCRESS File" was adapted into a film starring Michael Caine.
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was a French writer who introduced us to "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo".

Answer: Dall, William Healey

William Healey Dall (1845-1927) was an American naturalist and was for many years the most prominent authority on living and fossil mollusks. He also carried out meteorological observations in Alaska for the Smithsonian Institute.

Isaac Davis (1726-1810) was a British seaman and sole survivor of the massacre of the crew of The Fair American. He became an advisor to Kamehameha I and helped form the Kingdom of Hawaii. Semyon Dezhnev (1605-1673) was a Russian explorer of Siberia and sailed through the Bering Strait actually 80 years before Vitus Bering. Bartolomeu Dias (1451-1500) was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southern tip of Africa in 1488 from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean, thus becoming the first European to do so.

Answer: Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with another country, Haiti. Our population is ten million and Santo Domingo has a population of one million. Christopher Columbus landed on our island in 1492 which the Taino people had inhabited since the seventh Century.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is located in Central Africa and from 1971 to 1997 was known as Zaire. The population is over 80 million and the capital city in Kinshasa.
Dominica is an island nation in the Caribbean with a population of just over 72,000 and the capital city is Roseau.
Denmark's capital city is Copenhagen.