Go Ogle 2011

Part Three

The 31 questions fall into 5 themes thus:

Theme 1: 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, 26, 31

Theme 2: 2, 7, 12, 17, 22, 27

Theme 3: 3, 8, 13, 18, 23, 28

Theme 4: 4, 9, 14, 19, 24, 29

Theme 5: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.

If you don’t like thinking about numbers, you can also follow the framing of the questions.

Theme 1 is framed with left and right directions, Theme 2 questions end with exclamation-marks , Questions in Theme 3 begin with the word ‘And’, all questions in Theme 4 use the word ‘Gimme’, and Theme 5’s questions require you to ‘Identify’.

1. Something in the top end was once named after the man R administering the beating. So, two names. (2)

ANSWER

British PM Lord Palmerston chastising John Chinaman, Punch

cartoon.

Darwin, in Australia’s Top End, was originally named Palmerston.

2. Say something! (1)

ANSWER

Jesus Wept!

Since this is a short skirt.

3. And she had a scrap about a book. (1)

ANSWER

Arthur Golden based his novel Memoirs of a Geisha on conversations he had with Mineko Iwasaki, seen in pic. She sued him later for breach of contract—he had promised her anonymity but went on to mention her name and thank her and so on. They settled out of court.

4. Abbreviated poster. Gimme film. (1)

ANSWER

Sugarland Express

5. Identify. This one’s a may-be for the theme. (1)

ANSWER

Isaach de Bankole

6. L once nearly fought a banger duel with R but later collaborated with him on a struggle, and even gave it a snazzy name. Identify both and the name. (3)

ANSWER

I got L and R mixed up in the question, but doesn’t really matter. Now corrected.

Bismarck in the cartoon and Rudolf Virchow in the portrait. Bismarck once challenged Virchow to a duel,

whereupon the latter chose a pair of sausages in which only one was infected with cholera bacillus as

weapons.

Despite being Bismarck’s political opponent, Virchow supported him in the bid to diminish the influence of the Church in matters of State and coined the term Kulturkampf to describe the Chancellor’s attempt.

7. Visuals here. Question in 7a.

7.A

One is not quite a desert, and the heart of someplace. Another is an old and complicated idea. The third is a book about something also called Joseph!

(3 points plus 1 for connecting all three)

ANSWER

A: Registan in ancient Samarkand

B: Ptolemy’s Geocentric theory

C: Murray Rubenstein’s The Book of Joseph inspired by the story of Rabbi Low who created a Golem to save the Jews of Prague. The shadow in the cover is the Golem himself, sometimes called Joseph.

Samarkand, Golem and Ptoelmy should normally yield Jonathan Stroud’s Bartimaeus Trilogy.

8. And here we must look a hundred times in what he wrote. (1)

ANSWER

James Michener. One of the books he wrote was titled

Centennial.

9. Name from chemistry textbooks helped set up a company. Gimme both. (2)

ANSWER

Charles Hall, who took his aluminum expertise to a company

that eventually became Alcoa.

10. Identify (1)

ANSWER

TOM WAITS

11. The flower L is believed to attract X and is thus a gardener’s favourite. L and X ( 2)

ANSWER

Zinnia and butterflies.

12. Think of them together! (Some sloping off happened after) (1)

ANSWER

A Roman Legion.

13. And the meadows top-left will lead us closer. (1)

ANSWER

Prairie, from the Latin word for meadow.

14. Name lady. Gimme film (2)

ANSWER

Barbara Hershey in Boxcar Bertha.

15.

Identify subject. (1)

ANSWER

The singer Nick Cave

16. X, literally First Mould, is a name credited to the man L. Check him out and give both ( 2)

ANSWER

Czech biologist Jan Purkinje, who coined the term ‘protoplasm’.

17. Chemistry trick. Fifteen letters in the answer! (1)

ANSWER

The use of phenolpthalein in a solution containing some NaOH.

Commonly called the ‘water into wine’ trick.

18. And this was the solution to what small inconvenience? Look at the wings. (1)

ANSWER

The Vistaliner, created to allow comfortable rubbernecking for people interested in the Grand

Canyon.

19. Gimme old, gimme new. (2)

ANSWER

Hoover Dam, once called Boulder Dam.

20. Identify (1)

ANSWER

The musician John Lurie

21. The person L observed them first, but our absent hero named them after hair and filled a gap in the idea presented by R. L, hero, R and name. (4)

ANSWER

L: da Vinci

Hero: Marcello Malphigi

R: John Harvey

Malphigi coined the term capillary and thus accounted for the missing bits in Harvey’s theory of circulation.

22. Both people So she was a famous photo! (2)

ANSWER

John Paul Getty Jr. and his wife Talitha Getty in a photo-shoot set

in Marrakesh for Vogue .

23

And a happy name for legislation that promotes openness. (1)

ANSWER

Sunshine Laws

24. Go ahead, gimme an actor, gimme bad man. (2)

ANSWER

Robert Newton , playing Bill Sikes in the film version of Oliver Twist.

25. Identify (1)

ANSWER

Writer and actor Richard Boes

26. Blow-out at L is now thought to have led to idea X by Y. L, X and Y. (3)

ANSWER

Santorini, whose destruction may have inspired the idea of Atlantis

as described by Plato.

27. As old as Egypt. I plait a hieroglyph! (1)

ANSWER

Tilapia.

‘I plait a’ anagram.

The Tilapia has a hieroglyph all to itself—commonly called K1.

28. And a sculptor to see you home and dry. (1)

ANSWER

Gutzon Borglum statue of Abe Lincoln.

29. Ignore child. Gimme actor. (1)

ANSWER

Gary Cooper with Shirley Temple, a lady who could do with some

ignoring.

30. Identify. (1)

ANSWER

The director Jim Jarmusch on the sets of Dead Man.

31. Famous before and after L and R. Who he? Who or what is the missing hero? (2)

ANSWER

This is Leonard Thompson, diabetes sufferer and famous

guinea-pig on whom Banting and Best tested their insulin extract.

He lived to be 27 as a result.

THEME 1

People after whom parts of the human body are

namedDarwin's TubercleVirchow's nodeZonule of ZinnPurkinke CellsMalphigi has a long list of things named after himInsulin takes its name from the Islets of Langerhans—named after Paul Langerhans

THEME 2

Miracles performed by Christ1. Tilapia: Coin in the Mouth of the Fish.2. Talitha Getty's name comes from the phrase Talitha cumi (Rise,

little girl) used by Christ will bringing back Jairus' daughter from the dead. One of the few Aramaic phrases to survive translation.

3. Turning Water into wine was Christ's first miracle, at a wedding in Cana.

4. When Christ exorcises a group of demons who say "My name is Legion', he causes them to enter a herd of swine--known thereafter as the Gadarene Swine

5. Bartimaeus, according to tradition, is the name of the blind beggar healed by Christ.

6. Jesus wept, the shortest verse in the Bible occurs a little after he hears of the death of Lazarus, and a little before he raises him from the dead.

Theme 3

Nicknames of American states.

South Dakota: Mt. Rushmore State

Florida: Sunshine State

Arizona: Grand Canyon State

Colorado: Centennial State

Illinois: Prairie State

Golden State: California

THEME 4

Company Towns

Communities set up and run by American companies

.Sugarland, Texas, built by the Imperial Sugar Company.Alcoa, TennesseeHershey, PennsylvaniaBoulder City, Nevada was built for workers putting up Hoover Dam.Newton set up by Maytag in Iowa.Gary Cooper took the name Gary from Gary, Indiana. Set up by US Steel.

THEME 5

The Sons of Lee MarvinA closed society of prognathous types who sit around looking like the legendary actor, organised by Jim Jarmusch. John Lurie, Tom Waits, Richard Boes and Nick Cave are members—there is speculation about Bankole being part of the group.