Postal, Text and Phone Competitions - Part 11

west18

Books and Films
1. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
2. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
3. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
4. Mary Poppins, P.L.Travers
5. The Spy who came in from the Cold, John Le Carre
6. Love Story, Erich Segal
7. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
8. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
9. Notes on a Scandal, Zoe Heller
10. The Reader, Bernhard Schlink

Gemsie

Bizarre words

(a) Apteryx
8. A flightless bird, such as the penguin.

(b) boanthrop
4. Someone who acts like, or thinks he is, an ox.

(c) cuckquean
7. A female cuckold.

(d) diglot
1. Someone who can speak two languages.

(e) ephebe
3. Greek for an adolescent, a young man.

(f) frass
9. The dung of insect larvae.

(g) gynotikolobomassophile
10. Someone who loves to nibble women’s earlobes.

(h) hyetologist
6. A rainmaker.

(i) idylatry
2. The worship of nature.

(j) lobdotterel
5. A gullible fool.

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I cannot find a source for lobdotterel, but it was the only one left over...any ideas, or have I got one wrong?
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Found one, it's in Gargantua and Pantagruel, but written lob-dotterel.

west18

It was a very good year
1. Peter Mayle
2. Daniel Defoe
3. Margaret Atwood
4. John Irving
5. George Orwell
6. Anthony Burgess
7. Alasdair Gray
8. David Peace
9. Gore Vidal
10. Arthur C. Clarke

west18

Writers on Writing
1. William Hazlitt
2. Frederic Raphael
3. Robert Frost
4. Robert Graves
5.
6. William Butler Yeates
7. François-Marie Arouet (aka Voltaire)
8. Gore Vidal
9.
10. Katherine Mansfield

Lakshmi7

Heart Crawley

Make sure you're tuned in to Heart Weekend Breakfast with Paul Hollins on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th January as he'll be giving you the chance to win a years membership to The Sovereign Centre.

Listen for the cue to call the studio on 0845 102 103 for your chance to play and win.

fatbottomedgirly

It says answers on a postcard but I think its going to be impossible to write all the answers on one!!!!

Gemsie

From the pages of the Daily Mail

1. (a) Warren Beatty
2. (c) Graham Farmelo’s life of quantum physicist Paul Dirac. ????
3. (a) Keith
4. (b) David Willetts
5. (a) Margaret Cook (former wife of Robin Cook)
6. (c) Tammy Wynette
7. (b) Howard Hughes
8. (c) Roger Lewis
9. (a) E.M. Forster
10. (a) Smuggled in a laundry bag

MrNotty

Your starters for 10
1. Hugh Grant
2. Ernest Hemingway (1920 debut novel The Sun Also Rises), associated with the Daiqiri haven't found direct link to t-shirt
3. Ernst Stavro Blofeld
4. Frank McCourt http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3347.Frank_McCourt
5. Zooey Deschanel
6. Evelyn Waugh (married Evelyn Gardner 1928)
7. Byron http://www.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?p=153333
8. J. K. Rowling
9 Peter Rabbit http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/prints_books/features/potter/books/tale-tale/
10. An exclamation mark - i.e. !

MrNotty

Oops - missed the answers by OneTreeHillGrrl - sorry

edda

All answers now in for the Daily Mail 2 day break at Champneys.

See posts #837 and #838 for the details of this write in comp (and good luck with fitting it on a postcard!).

Thanks to everyone who helped get all the answers. :beer: