E: 09/01 FT quiz of the year/champagne

thingamaBob

MaineBlue wrote: »

10 Olympic swordsman Bob Anderson, whose death aged 89 was announced in January, was the stunt double for which screen villain’s fight scenes in a 1970s blockbuster and its sequel?

The Empire Strikes Back & Return of The Jedi

The question asks for the name of the screen villain - Darth Vader

nursey71

33: Virginia Woolf (here)

34: Verdi (here)

35: On The Road (here)

36: Vertigo (here)

37: Rihanna (here)

38 (i) Kurt Vonnegut (here)
38 (ii) James Joyce (here)
38 (iii) Charlotte Bronte (here)

39: Virgin Mary (here)

40: Zosia Mamet who plays Shoshanna Shapiro in "Girls" is the daughter of David Mamet the playwright who wrote Glengarry Glen Ross (not sure if this is enough of a connection?)

echofalls

38-
(i) Kurt Vonnegut
(ii) James Joyce
(iii) Charlotte Bronte

cestlavie

updated with your contributions above - with thanks to all who offered them.

happy new year and good luck to you all

bossladysal

14-
Swastika
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/spiegel-interview-with-opera-singer-evgeny-nikitin-on-his-tattoo-a-848510.html

18-
India
http://www.thecsf.org/home.html

19-
Spain
http://planetsave.com/2012/06/15/oldest-cave-paintings-date-back-at-least-40800-years/

21-
Phantom of the Opera
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/09/lion-king-box-office-record_n_1412592.html

29-
Beethoven
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No._15_(Beethoven)

nilo

24 (i) LLCool J (From NCIS Los Angeles)
(ii) Ladies Love Cool James http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LL_Cool_J

angieanguk

31 - I think the answer to this one might be Romania - from here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/30/herta-muller-life-in-books

angieanguk

23 - semicolon from here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/9095739/Cormac-McCarthy-the-book-editor.html#

cestlavie

thanks all
i wonder is q2 has anything to do with disney world which opened in 1971 and which has an avengers themed monorail and a ride called mission (space) to mars... can't discover a connection to the sun though!

Soosieboo

22 - George Orwell (here)

25 - They are walking back across the road from right to left AND Paul McCartney has footwear on. (here)

30(i) a Garbage (here) not the same picture but can tell its the same peeps..
b - Black Sabbath (recognise Ozzy!) see link below.
c - Stone Roses (here)

32 a - Le Corbusier (here)
b - Moscow (here)