1) well...i'll start with asterix anyway. G & U dedicate asterix and > obelix at sea to a legendary actor.

who he??? (i think this is an > extremely easy one....but if u want a clue...think of russel crowe) > #######kirk douglas. spartacus. sitter alright. maximum hits. > 2)in the beatles classic "hard day's night", there's this scene when the > 4some are travelling somewhere by train, and there are these two school > girls sitting at a window seat giggling. well.....just name one of them. > (eminently workable....known well enough) >###### patti boyd, later harrison. was tempted to give half's for linda mcartney, but decided not to finally. > 3) movies. antony quinn won a best supporting actor for this character > which was one of the shortest screen appearances ever (6 minutes something > actually...hard to believe). the movie was mostly a biography of a famous > someone. just name the movie and the character quinn played. (its easy > enough actually). >###### it was "lust for life" actually...the kirk douglas classic on van gogh's life (by now u know i'm a big kirk douglas fan...), and the role....u all know. paul gauguin. > 4)"old soldiers never die. they just fade away." very famous lines. who > thus spake??(if u wanna know...HE said it in 1951) >##### it was McArthur, in his speech to the congress. > 5)sitter. in 1943, during the peak of the war, the US government decided > to ration out this material used specifically for a particular type of > garment (in order to keep costs down). this lead to the creation of > what??? (bad clue...baywatch) >##### it was the bikini. i've given half's for nylon...cos technically the question could be answered by that. but nothing else. > 6) mandrake comix. mandrake was brought up by his foster father....Basil. > but he eventually learns that he (and his mortal enemy, Lucifer) have the > same father. Who is mandrake's father??? >##### yep, it was Theron, grandmaster of the college of magic. maybe is should have asked mandrake's mother's name!!! > 7) Sunil Gavaskar dedicated his book "idols" to who(m)? >###### another sitter. all those idols whom he could not include in his book. > 8)Myth. in the oldest strata of belief, a corpse goddess, represented by > the carrion-eating raven. The name means literally, "chooser of the > slain." > They later came to be known as "swan maidens" or "wish maidens". their > chief (i'm not giving her name, it becomes too much of a sitter) would > wear a cloak of falcon feathers to take the form of a falcon. She is also > called "the mistress of the slain". who are they???? > (i think its too easy...but more clues....Jethro tull, and Apocalypse now) >##### i thought it was easy. valkyres!!!! "the mistress of the slain" is freijja. jethro tull.....cold wind from valhalla, apocalypse now....wagner's "ride of the valkyries". only suresh gave details. > 9)another sitter. he was born in Zanzibar. He graduated with a diploma in > Graphic Art and Design. His first band was formed in 1969, called IBEX. > his favourite actress was marylin monroe, and favourite singer was Aretha > Franklin. enough and more in the question. who he? ####### apna F. balsara......better known as freddie mercury.

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10)sitter of the quiz. had to include something from this person's works. this character was said to have been drawn from life (one Rupert D'Oyley Carte, of the Savoy Opera family. he is an expelled Old Etonian, whose delicately attuned nervous system is shocked by loug colours, celluloid cuffs, and the mere mention of an inadequately pressed trouser crease.he

> has his own brand of socilaism, with the common usage of "comrade". who is > this immortal? >###### Ronald Eustace Psmith, the incomparable. special mention of harish tk for indepth analysis. that was...as they say...that. hopefully there wont be too many cribs.... i may not answer to them cos i'm steeped in work. until next time (hopefully), so long and thanx. sunil laxman