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1. In a story in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes", the eponymous detective reveals the existence to Dr Watson of his older brother, Mycroft. By how many years is Mycroft the elder of Sherlock?

From Quiz Brother Mine - Mycroft Holmes

Answer: Seven years

Sherlock Holmes reveals the existence of his brother to Watson when discussing the question of whether an individual's particular talents were the result of heredity or training. Holmes points out that there must be something to the former as Mycroft possesses the talents of observation and deductive reasoning to an even greater extent than does Sherlock. Upon their meeting, Watson describes Mycroft as "a much larger and stouter man than Sherlock. His body was absolutely corpulent, but his face, though massive, had preserved something of the sharpness of expression which was so remarkable in that of his brother." The two brothers then proceed to undertake an exercise, describing a man they they observe through the window and across the street.

From Quiz The Last of Its Kind

Answer: Chingachgook

In the novel, Chingachgook and his son, Uncas, are the last of their tribe, living on the New York frontier of the 1750s. Magua is a Huron, enemy of the British and the Mohicans. Nathaniel Bumppo, hero of five of Cooper's novels known as "The Leatherstocking Tales", is a frontiersman who has been adopted by Chingachgook. Bumppo is known as "Hawk-eye." At the end of the book, Magua kills Uncas, thus making Chingachgook the last of his people.

From Quiz Studio Ghibli Experts Unite!

Answer: "Spirited Away"

Chihiro opts to work for Yubaba, who gives her the name Sen. She works to save her parents, who have been turned into pigs!

From Quiz I Prefer my Batmen to be Live-Action

Answer: Dr. Daka

Dr. Daka, played by J. Carroll Nash, was created for the serial. He was a prince of the Order of the Rising Sun and lived in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles. Decades later the character was adapted into the comics, making his first appearance in 1985 in "All-Star Squadron" #42.

From Quiz Elegance

Answer: Colin Cowie

Colin Cowie, born in Zambia and raised in South Africa, is an event planner for parties and weddings. Colin Cowie has appeared in television shows such as "Oprah Winfrey Show" and "The Early Show" and has written books such as "Wedding Planner" and "Dinner After Dark". Robin Leach hosted the "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous". Robin Van Persie is a Dutch football player and Colin Cowdrey was an English cricket player.

From Quiz That's Entertainment?

Answer: Senet

Senet in ancient Egyptian means "the game of passing." It was played on a board with three rows of ten spaces each. Some spaces had symbols on them. The exact rules are not known, but it seems to have been similar to backgammon. People are often portrayed playing senet on the walls of their tombs, and many game boards have been found. Tutankhamun's tomb contained four complete senet boards, and parts of two others. Senet dates back to at least 3100 BC. Senet wasn't the only board game the Egyptians played; another popular game was "hounds and jackals," which seems to have resembled the children's game, "Chutes and Ladders."

From Quiz Imaginary Sports

Answer: Croquet, from in "Alice in Wonderland"

Using a live flamingo as a mallet to hit an unwilling hedgehog (the "croquet ball") is a terrible way to play croquet, as Alice learned at the Queen of Heart's party. It also did not help when the Queen screamed "Off with his head!" to resolve every question about the rules or as a means of removing slow players. "Alice in Wonderland" was written by Lewis Carroll (1865).

From Quiz Age of Entertainment

Answer: Quest for Fire

"Quest for Fire" is a French movie made in 1981 and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. The original French title is "La Guerre du Feu". Remarkable about the movie is that not a single word of an existing language is spoken. The members of the different tribes express themselves through a made-up language and sign language. The movie is set in paleolithic Europe, about 80,000 years ago. A human tribe has possession of fire but doesn't yet know how to make it. After an attack by another hominid tribe the fire is accidentally put out. The tribe sends out three men to look for another source of fire. They come across a tribe of man-eating Neanderthals where they rescue a girl from the Ivaka tribe. She brings them to her tribe where they learn the craft of making fire. With that knowledge they then return to their own tribe. The Ivaka girl chooses to leave her tribe and join them. The three wrong answers are titles of novels set in prehistory.

From Quiz The Naked Truth

Answer: Minsky's Burlesque

According to legend Gypsy Rose Lee started striptease by accident when a strap on her gown gave way and it fell to her ankles. The audience response encouraged her to do it on purpose, and it became a feature of her act. She was the star of Minsky's Burlesque for some years, and was arrested several times during police indecency raids. The 1968 film "The Night They Raided Minsky's" is a fictionalised account of a famous raid that took place in 1925.

From Quiz All Along the Watchtower

Answer: Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan first recorded "All Along the Watchtower" on November 6, 1967, and the song was released by Columbia Records on December 27. Hendrix recorded his version during the summer of 1968 and released it September 21, 1968. The song reached #20 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was admitted to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. "All Along the Watchtower" has been covered by many artists over the last forty years. Some of the most prominent include Richie Havens, The Dave Matthews Band, U2, Neil Young, the Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh and Pearl Jam. For the record, Hendrix did not write the song, but did do the famous cover of it. Following Hendrix's cover, Dylan would perform it in the style of Hendrix. "John Wesley Harding" was the name of the Dylan album the song first appeared on and Albert Grossman was Bob Dylan's agent.

From Quiz A "Legally Blonde" Extravaganza!

Answer: Forrest

It was Forrest in the musical. In the film, his name was Emmett Richmond. Luke Wilson played Emmett in the movie, and Christian Borle originated the role of Emmett on Broadway. Emmett was an assistant to Professor Callahan. He graduated from Harvard a few years before Elle and knew the ropes, so he attempted to help her through the difficult courses.

From Quiz The Shadow Knows!

Answer: Orson Welles

After the great "War of the Worlds" panic catapulted Welles to international celebrity he abruptly left "The Shadow" to concentrate on "Mercury Theater of the Air". Bill Johstone replaced him. John Archer portrayed The Shadow for part of one season. Bret Morrison portrayed The Shadow for many years until the program left the air. Frank Readick portrayed The Shadow as the introducer of "True Detective Mysteries" but not as a character in the program.

From Quiz Sal's Sob Story

Answer: Keith West

"A Teenage Opera" was commissioned by EMI as a series of songs based in a fantasy village. "Grocer Jack" was the first song to be released, followed by "Sam", which didn't do so well. EMI then cancelled the project. Producer Mark Wirtz continued with it on his own, and a CD of the completed work was finally released in 1996.

From Quiz More Stories of the American Dream

Answer: George and Martha

Edward Albee's tale of curious people and even more curious relationships. Much of the tension in the plot derives from George's failure to rise in his career.

From Quiz The American Dream

Answer: Lee J. Cobb

Cobb (more than any other actor)is associated with the character of "Willy Low-man".

From Quiz Dramatic Letters in Fiction

Answer: Joan Crawford

Interesting idea and movie.

From Quiz Tales of Revenge

Answer: ''The Cask of Amontillado'

What's a Poe story without a little touch of madness?

From Quiz Brother Mine - Mycroft Holmes

Answer: Pall Mall

Mycroft is a man of such set habits that when he sends a telegram to his brother advising that he will call at Baker Street later the same day, Sherlock expresses astonishment at the prospect, stating that it would be "as if you met a tram-car coming down a country lane. Mycroft has his rails and he runs on them. His Pall Mall lodgings, the Diogenes Club, Whitehall - that is his cycle." Sherlock points out that Mycroft has only once before been to Baker Street, on which occasion the elder brother again caused amazement by arriving at 221b before Sherlock and Watson, despite their having left Mycroft at the Diogenes Club.

From Quiz And, The Winter Is

Answer: Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Maria Schneider was the winning composer in this Best Contemporary Classical Composition category. Dawn Upshaw won Best Classical Vocal Solo for this album, an album which also won Best Engineered Album, Classical at the 56th Grammys. David Frost, Brian Losch & Tim Martyn, were the engineers with Tim Martyn as mastering engineer.

From Quiz The Last of Its Kind

Answer: Mickey Mantle

"The Mick" had a fabulous career that was cut short by injury and hard living. After a brief stint in the majors in 1951, Mantle replaced the great Joe DiMaggio in center field the next season and the comet blazed from there. Blessed with great foot speed and tremendous power from both sides of the plate, Mantle retired in 1968 having amassed 7 World Series titles, 3 MVP Awards, and 20 All Star appearances.

From Quiz Studio Ghibli Experts Unite!

Answer: "Magic Pengel"

"Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color," (pronounced pen-jell) was about an item called the Pengel, which you could use to create a "Doodle," much like in the "Drawn to Life" games.

From Quiz Imaginary Sports

Answer: Rollerball

The original movie version of "Rollerball" (1975) was based upon an SF short story by William Harrison called "Rollerball Murder." This violent sport is vaguely similar to Roller Derby. Two teams skate or drive around a circular banked track shaped like a shallow funnel. Players try to catch a steel ball fired from a cannon, then throw it into a magnetic cup (the goal) to score points. Skaters could grab motorcycles from their team to speed up and attack other players, but motorcycles could attack the other team as well.

From Quiz Age of Entertainment

Answer: W. Michael Gear & Kathleen O'Neal

Both Michael and Kathleen are archaeologists. They got married in 1982. Although they are best known for the 'First North American' books both have also published individually. Michael started writing his first (unpublished) novel in 1978 because he was dissatisfied with the many historical inaccuracies he saw in other historical novels. Kathleen has authored over a hundred non-fiction books. After working on an archaeological project in Utah their editor asked if they could write a novel that chronicled the migration of humans into North America. Because of the lengthy time span of the subject they found this impossible to cover in one book and the 'First North American' series was born. The first book of the series, "People of the Wolf", was published in 1990. It tells the adventures of the members of the first tribes that crossed the Bering Strait to settle in North America. Several novels followed, not always written in chronological order as each book tells a separate story and can be read in any kind of order. Because of the gigantic scope of the subject and new discoveries that are made from time to time the series in an ongoing effort. Nicci French is the pseudonym of another husband and wife team of authors, Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. The two other wrong answers are also authors that are married to each other.

From Quiz The Naked Truth

Answer: The reverse strip

Lili St. Cyr reversed the striptease and put her clothes on, very slowly, instead of taking them off. She also often stripped in a bubble bath. Another move for which she was famous was the "Flying G." With the aid of some fishing line and a stage hand her G. string would fly off and end up in one of the boxes overlooking the stage.

From Quiz All Along the Watchtower

Answer: Two Riders were Approaching

Two Riders Were Approaching details how Nite Owl and Rorschach discover that Adrian Veidt is behind the conspiracy, including the murder of The Comedian. It ends with them approaching the lair of Ozymandias in Antarctica. "Watchmen" is the widely regarded as the greatest graphic novel ever published, and was on "Time Magazine's" List of 100 Best Novels.

From Quiz A "Legally Blonde" Extravaganza!

Answer: Wexler

Her name in the movie was Enid Wexler, but they changed it to "Hoopes" for the musical. Natalie Joy Johnson played Enid in the musical, and Meredith Scott Lynn played Enid on screen. Enid was a student at Harvard Law. She is a total hippie and was very much for women's rights.

From Quiz Sal's Sob Story - Part 2

Answer: Old Shep

Old Shep's master died in Fort Benton and his body was taken to the station to be transported to his relatives. Old Shep kept watch at the station, greeting every train that arrived, until 1942, when he fell onto the tracks and was hit by a train. Apparently he was no relation of the Old Shep immortalised in Elvis Presley's song of the same name.

From Quiz More Stories of the American Dream

Answer: Mike Nichols

Burton, Liz Taylor, George Segal and Sandy Dennis. Long, but interesting.

From Quiz The American Dream

Answer: When he's shooting pool

Clift makes an impressive shot as Liz watches. Good movie.

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