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Port School Quiz, Wednesday 21 August 1996, Leopold Hotel
Round 1
15 Leake St Fremantle.
Richard Harris; MacArthur Park. [Either correct for one mark.]
Marc Chagall.
Frankenstein, [or, The Modern Prometheus.]
Mary (Wollstonecraft) Shelley.
(Sir John) Forrest.
In Private Eye, the magazine.
Fred's feet.
Round 2
Paul McGann.
Austin.
Alfred Adler.
Swallowing.
Dean Lukin.
Max Schubert. [James Halliday, The Australian Wine Compendium, A&R, 1985: 328, 331, 330.]
Lazarus. [John 11:35.]
Aung San Suu Kyii.
Round 3
A. S. Neill.
Declan McManus.
[Pablo] Picasso.
[Thomas] Gray [in 'Elegy written in a country churchyard'].
That of the Peel family. Thomas Peel, son of Sir Robert Peel, was granted one million acres of land along the coastal plain south of Perth in 1834.
Derek and the Dominoes; the guitarists were Eric Clapton and Duane Allman. Clapton wrote the song with Jim Gordon. (My source is the vinyl record called The Duane Allman Anthology.)
Earth.
Pentecost.
Round 4
Golf.
Zabaglione.
He was a tax collector.
Before 1933, before Royce died. [Accept either answer.]
Brad Pettitt. [In 1996 it was Jenny Archibald.]
Claudio Monteverdi.
The Abbey Theatre.
Arthur Miller.
Round 5
Adolf Hitler.
The Imaginary Invalid; or Le malade imaginaire. [Either.]
(Colonel William) Light. The surname alone will be sufficient.
John Wayne [really shot him, not Jimmy Stewart.]
Cosmo.
Biafra.
The number 13.
142 857. [142 857 x 7=999 999]
Round 6
Darts.
Seaweed.
[King] David.
William Blake [in the Preface to his Milton].
America [books by Baudrillard and Kafka, and a song by Simon.]
(Sir Walter) Raleigh. Accept 'Ralegh' etc.
Barbarella.
Red.
Round 7
The Wailing Wall. [Must have 'Wailing'.]
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. [All five key words must be given for one mark. Accept 'Amplified,' 'Stimulation.']
Easter Island [which is also known as Isla de Pascua or île de Pâques].
Anubis.
[Mr] Bumble, [the Beadle, in Oliver Twist.]
Amazons.
Six: Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Kate Jackson, Jacqueline Smith, Cheryl Ladd, Shelley Hack, Tanya Roberts
Round 8
A computer.
James Miller. [Sergei Bubka.]
Ramadan, or Ramadhan.
Lionel Bart.
Finnegan's Wake. James Joyce, Finnegan's Wake, Faber, London, 1939: 628.
[Fulgiencio] Batista.
Evita.
Reg Livermore.
Round 9
Andy Thomas.
Margaret Mead.
6.25 [6.25/5=6.25-5=1.25]
Diabetes.
Rocky Marciano.
[Bishop] Berkeley.
Smee.
Macbeth; Duncan. [Either correct for one mark.]
Tiebreakers
The Robe [1953].
Solomon Islands.
Miranda [in Shakespeare's play The Tempest].
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