Wednesday 11 August 2010

What's in a Name?

The winner of the quiz was A. Dobinson of Pelynt and the runner up M. Delage of Valleroy.

  ANSWERS TO WHAT’S IN A NAME?


  1.    Robert Cecil
  2.    Founder of Amazon
  3.    Compiler of Railway timetable
  4.    Founder of IKEA
  5.    Bishop of Sodor and Man
  6.    Invented the idea of Beaujolais Nouveau
  7.    Founder of Australian School of the Air
  8.    Mrs. Beeton
  9.     Meerkat in comparethemarket.com
10.    Indian steel owner
11.    Lady Penelope in Thunderbirds
12.    Bentley Motors
13.    Jimmy Jewel
14.    Vicar of Altarnun
15.    Bass of Four Tops
16.    Lotus Cars
17.    Gracie Fields
18.    Driver of FAB 1 in Thunderbirds
19.    Jimmy Edwards
20.    1st black President of the Republic of South Africa
21.    Lady Gaga
22.    Georgie Fame
23.    Lady Godiva
24.    1st black President of the USA
25.    Wilhelm II -grandson of Queen Victoria
26.    Sweeney Todd’s partner and pie shop owner
27.    Buffalo Bill
28.    Billy the Kid
29.    Archduke assassinated in Sarajevo starting WWI
30.    Angolan leader of UNITA
31.     World’s strongest man
32.    Big Bopper
33.    Brian Aldridge
34.    Cliff Richard
35.    Buddy Holly
36.    Ritchie Valens
37.    Elton John
38.    Eric Morcambe
39.    Buster Keaton
40.    William Shakespeare - midlands direction of weather
41.    Anne Bancroft - The Graduate
42.    Husbands of Marilyn Monroe
43.    Ernie Wise
44.    Mickey Mouse - 1st sound synchronised cartoon
45.    Alsatian theologian, organist, philosopher and physician
46.    Disgraced fiancé of Caroline May
47.    Founder of Rotary
48.    Last hangman
49.    Czech martyr
50.    George Orwell
51.    John Wayne
52.    Protestant reformer
53.    Inventer of football net
54.    John Kennedy
  55.    Mikado’s daughter-in-law elect
  56.    Moved Milton Abbas village   
  57.    Inventor of ERNIE etc.               
  58.    Code breaking bishop of Bath and Wells
  59.    Founder of Littlewoods Pools
  60.    Inventor of the calculator
  61.    Brains
  62.    Walt Disney
  63.    J Arthur Rank gong player
  64.    Inventor of the automatic machine gun
  65.    Mary Baker
  66.    Louis-Philippe of France and His wife Marie Amélie fleeing the       revolution of 1848
  67.    Model for Spirit of Ecstasy
  68.    Son of Henry VIII
  69.    Margaret Steuart Pollard - Ferguson Gang
  70.    Olympic gold for badminton with Jo Goode
  71.    Johnny Rotten
  72.    Dickens - Our Mutual Friend
  73.    Creator of Andy Capp
  74.    Wife of John Lennon - mother of Julian
  75.    With Eliot creator of Barbie
  76.    Jack Higgins
  77.    Mrs. John Major
  78.    Character played by Ronnie Barker in Porridge
  79.    Badly Drawn Boy
  80.    Designer of Sydney Opera House
  81.    Marc Bolan - T. Rex
  82.    Vicar of Warleggan - paper congregation
  83.    Welsh Rugby Union International
  84.    Founder of Cosmopolitan Magazine
  85.    Bionic Woman
  86.    Anthony Royle
  87.    Peanuts
  88.    Just William
  89.    2nd President of the USA
  90.    The Music Man
  91.    Organiser of 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles
  92.    Psycho
  93.    Barney Rubble
  94.    Mr. T
  95.    Pretty Woman
  96.    19th century Prime Minister Henry Temple - 3rd Viscount Palmerston
  97.    “The king of Prussia” - smuggler on Penwith coast and devout Methodist
  98.    Considered himself to be the younger brother of Jesus - Taiping rebellion
  99.    Bought Stonehenge as a birthday present for his wife
100.    Jean-Claude van Damme