In the interest of good neighbourliness I’ll restrict my answers to only one!
Heck Boa, you’ve made my evening, I normally get nil, zip, none, nothing or I’m too late, not this time though! 🙂
Good Morning Soutie! Oh dear – it’s almost but not quite right! Better tell me the other one! 🙂
10.Suzi Quatro
9.Mary Quant
Tocino
10. Suzi Quatro (1950), born Susan Kay Quatro in Detroit, Michigan, is a singer, bassist, radio personality and actress. Her father, Art Quatro, was of Italian descent and her mother, Helen Rebel, was of Hungarian ancestry. She began her musical career with the Pleasure Seekers and Cradle with her sisters Patti and Arlene. She moved to England in 1971 after being discovered in Detroit by record producer Mickie Most. Quatro’s first single “Rolling Stone” was a flop everywhere except Portugal, where it made Number one. Her early recordings met with little success in her native USA, despite efforts to remedy this through tours in the mid-1970s. Quatro has performed as an actress in roles as varied as Annie Oakley in a 1986 London production of Annie Get Your Gun and, most famously in the United States, as Leather Tuscadero in the TV show Happy Days. She currently lives both in England and Germany.
8.Quincy Delight Jones
Tocino
9. Mary Quant (1934) is an English fashion designer, one of the many designers who took credit for inventing the miniskirt and hot pants. Quant studied illustration at Goldsmith’s College before taking a job with a couture milliner. In October 1955, she teamed up with her husband Alexander Plunkett-Greene, and an accountant Archie McNair, to open a clothes shop on the Kings Road in London called Bazaar. Following the positive reaction to a pair of “mad house pyjamas” designed for the opening, and dissatisfied with the variety of clothes available to her, Quant decided to make her own range of clothing. Initially working solo, she was soon employing a handful of machinists, and by 1966 she was working with 18 different manufacturers concurrently. Bazaar was a popular haunt for the fashionable “Chelsea Set” of “Swinging London”. By 1961, Quant had opened a second Bazaar in Knightsbridge and by 1965 she was exporting to the USA. To keep up with demand, Quant went into mass-production, setting up the Ginger Group. Quant’s popularity was at its peak in the mid 1960s, during which time she produced the dangerously short micro-mini skirt, “paint-box” make-up, and plastic raincoats. She was described as being the leading fashion force outside Paris. In 1966, Quant was appointed an OBE for services to the fashion industry. In the late 1960s, Quant launched hot pants, which was her last big fashion development. Through the 1970s and 1980s she concentrated on household goods and make-up.
Tocino
8. Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American music conductor, record producer, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is best known as the producer of the album Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson, which has sold over 110 million copies worldwide, and as the producer and conductor of the charity song “We Are the World”.
Oh, Bugger, I had no.9 as well, I’ll try again 😦
Soutie, one N short. ANthony Quinn. 🙂
Boa, deep joy. Just back from shopping for tomorrow’s lunch for unexpected Southron guests who have appeared from nowhere to do the Festival. I did explain to Mrs M. that I was waiting for your quiz but I know my place.
Anyhow, Number 6 – Quintin Hogg. One of the main reasons for my being a Conservative. In about 1963,and aged 13/14. I bought a second hand copy of his Penguin paperback, ‘The Case for Conservatism’ which, I think, was first published in the year that I was born, aka 1949. Worked for me and still does.
Sorry Tocino – that’s not right either!!
John Mackie
6. Quintin Hogg (1907-2001) was Lord Chancellor 1970 – 4, 1979 – 87. Hogg inherited his father’s love of the law and a family trait of having slightly deformed hands: he was born with a sixth digit (which was quickly removed) attached to the thumb on his right hand. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and was destined for a career in the law and politics, following in the footsteps of his father. He was called to the bar in 1932 and practised as a barrister until elected to parliament in a celebrated by-election in 1938, winning Oxford City as a pro-Chamberlain Conservative. After wartime service in the Rifle Brigade, he served briefly as Under-Secretary for Air in Churchill’s 1945 caretaker government. Seen as a progressive Conservative, he was prominent in the movement to modernize the party and penned an influential book, The Case for Conservatism, published by Penguin in 1947. In 1953 his father died and he moved to the House of Lords as the 2nd Viscount Hailsham, a move he tried to resist, but he was unable to persuade the Prime Minister to change the law. When Macmillan announced his resignation as Prime Minister in 1963, Hailsham used the occasion of the party conference to announce his renunciation of his peerage — made possible by the passage of the 1963 Peerages Act — and in effect campaign publicly for the party leadership. His campaigning apparently resulted in Macmillan withdrawing support from him. His willingness to demonstrate his brilliance, an unwillingness to suffer fools gladly, and a volatile temper did not always commend him to others. Few, though, have doubted his outstanding intellectual capacity. His contribution to politics has combined the practical with the reflective. His writings in his early political life provided intellectual inspiration to a new generation of Conservatives and his 1976 Dimbleby Lecture, advocating the case (which he later refuted) for a written constitution, provided a new phrase to the lexicon of British politics when he warned of the possibility of an “elective dictatorship”.
How stupid, 7, Anthony Quale ex SOE WW2 and actor.
Tocino
7. Anthony Quayle (1913-1989) was born in Ainsdale, Southport in Lancashire to a Manx family. He was educated at Rugby and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After appearing in music hall, he joined the Old Vic in 1932. During the Second World War he was an Army Officer and was made one of the area commanders of the Auxiliary Units. Later he joined the Special Operations Executive and served as a liaison officer with the partisans in Albania. In 1944 he was an aide to the Governor of Gibraltar at the time of the air crash of General Władysław Sikorski’s aircraft on 4 July 1943. From 1948 to 1956 he directed at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, and laid the foundations for the creation of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
How stupid, 7, Anthony Quale ex SOE WW2 and actor.
Best ever movie, Ice Clod In Alex.
I dosen’t get any better either. Ice Cold In Alex. 😦
I am a clod…….Tocino. 😦
Boa, no more Mr nice person, since everybody else (aka Tocino) seems to be trying to scoop up all the answers. To be fair, Mrs M. is off poring through her musical sources for the answer to Number 3.
Anyhow, based solely on the lapel badge and the hairstyle, No 4 has to be Quisling.
John Mackie
4. Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945) was a Norwegian army officer and politician, who served as President of occupied Norway. He worked with Fridtjof Nansen during the famine in the Soviet Union, and served as Minister of Defence in the Bondepartiet government 1931–1933. In 1933 he founded the nationalist party Nasjonal Samling (“National Gathering”), and during World War II, from 1942 to 1945, he served as Minister-President of the collaborationist Norwegian government, after being appointed by the German authorities. After the war he was tried for high treason and executed by firing squad. Today in Norway and other parts of the world, “Quisling” is a synonym for “Traitor”.
JM,
I normally restrict myself to a maximum of three answers if I’m lucky enough to know any at all. Tonight, the extra one was a bit of fun after Soutie’s first. Best advice I can offer is to shop in the afternoon on a Friday or is it cheaper in Jockland in the evening, special offers and all that? 🙂
Just the one more, Boa.
Mrs M. has returned and has assured me that 3. is Johann Joachim Quantz.
Thanks as always for the fun. Got the rest of them, we think, except for No 1.
Mrs Mackie!
3. Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773) was a German flautist, flute maker and composer. He began his musical studies as a child with his uncle. He abandoned the violin and the oboe in order to pursue the flute. It was during his time as musician to Frederick Augustus II of Poland that he began to concentrate on the flute, performing more and more on the instrument. He gradually became known as the finest flautist in Europe, and toured France and England. He became a flute teacher, flute maker and composer to Frederick II of Prussia in 1740. He was an innovator in flute design, adding keys to the instrument to help with intonation, for example. He often criticized Vivaldi for being too wild when he played.
Tocino, just joshing and no slight intended. When do you depart for Soutieland?
Me too JM. In a couple of weeks time.
Boa, sorry for a slight hijack.
Tocino. Enjoy – I know that you will. It’s a great country with great people. Looking forward to hearing about your time there.
No problems John – am also looking forward to Tocino’s account of his trip.
Just got home. 5 is Quentin Crisp.
Papaguinea
5. Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) was born Denis Charles Pratt. He was an English writer and raconteur. He became an icon of homosexuality in the 1970s after publication of his memoir, The Naked Civil Servant, brought to the attention of the general public his defiant exhibitionism and refusal to keep his sexuality private.
Number one is quonfusing me. It can’t be Quonfucious and it certainly aint Quosimodo. Probably something like Qwon Si Yong seeing as it aint Qwinsi Jones.
Papaguinea
5.Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) was born Denis Charles Pratt. He was an English writer and raconteur. He became an icon of homosexuality in the 1970s after publication of his memoir, The Naked Civil Servant, brought to the attention of the general public his defiant exhibitionism and refusal to keep his sexuality private.
D C Pratt! I can see why he changed his name.
No one seems about so I’ll pitch on number two, Dennis Quaid.
Papaguinea
2. Dennis Quaid (1954) is an American actor. He became known during the 1980s after appearing in several successful films including The Big Easy. In addition to acting, Quaid is a musician and plays with his band, the Sharks. Quaid also has a pilot’s license and is a scratch golfer. In 2005, he was named as the top golfer among the “Hollywood set” by Golf Digest. He lends his name to the annual “Dennis Quaid Charity Weekend” (formerly the “Jiffy Lube/Dennis Quaid Charity Classic”) in Austin.
Quaid works with the charity, International Hospital for Children in New Orleans, Louisiana. He makes trips to Central America to help build medical clinics and transport sick children back to the U.S. for treatment they cannot get locally.
It looks like it is done and dusted Boa. Thank you. This has to best quiz going. When it comes Z, give Zen a miss.
Cheers.
Noy sure but was number 1 Qin Shi Huan or something like that. First Chinese Emperor
Noy sure but was number 1 Qin Shi Huan or something like that. First Chinese Emperor
<b?NOT sure
Four-eyed Genius
1. Emperor Shi Huang (259-210 BC) of Qin dynasty of China, also called Qin Shi Huang, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 247 BC to 221 BC, and then the first emperor of a unified China from 221 BC to 210 BC, ruling under the name which means First Emperor of Qin. Having unified China, he and his prime minister Li Si passed a series of major reforms aimed at cementing the unification, and they undertook some Herculean construction projects, most notably the precursor version of the current Great Wall of China. For all the tyranny of his autocratic rule, Qin Shi Huang is still regarded by many today as the founding father in Chinese history whose unification of China has endured for more than two millennia (with interruptions). Qin Shi Huang was buried in his mausoleum, with the famous Terracotta Army, near modern day Xi’an (Shaanxi province), but his burial chamber has yet to be opened.
I went to the Terracotta Army Exhibition at the British Museum. Bit of a clue there 🙂
Thanks Tocino – I’m pleased that you and others enjoy them. 🙂
FEEG: I’ve been to the site itself. It’s an incredible place – it isn’t until one walks in the building that covers the soldiers (and that’s only a fraction of the excavations) that the sheer size of the undertaking hits one.
Noy sure but was number 1 Qin Shi Huan or something like that. First Chinese Emperor
I knew I was close!
Missed this quiz completely… 😦 Boa, could you advertise it next time, please – as you did once before?
Janus
Please pay attention! It was advertised, (top right corner along with the ‘creative comp’) for a good 3 days or so.
Perhaps you’re spending too much time on the battleships pages 😉
😦 Yes, Soutie……. Silly Backside.
Mornin’ Boadicea – Sorry I missed this one. It was Wednesday evening when I logged on and read an unexpected message on my screen which left me wondering who exactly was this Major Disk-Failure chappie and why was he reading my hard drive. That was a few moments before the Major apparently shot my poor ‘pooter in the face and everything went blank.
Anyway, and to cut a long story short, my good friend Marco, top bloke and ace computeramable wrangler, has done lots and lots of obscure fettling in the past couple of days and breathed life back into the old girl who has just been returned to me.
Boadicea's Chariot 
7 Anthony Quin
Hee he, I know another one! 😉
In the interest of good neighbourliness I’ll restrict my answers to only one!
Heck Boa, you’ve made my evening, I normally get nil, zip, none, nothing or I’m too late, not this time though! 🙂
Good Morning Soutie! Oh dear – it’s almost but not quite right! Better tell me the other one! 🙂
10.Suzi Quatro
9.Mary Quant
Tocino
10. Suzi Quatro (1950), born Susan Kay Quatro in Detroit, Michigan, is a singer, bassist, radio personality and actress. Her father, Art Quatro, was of Italian descent and her mother, Helen Rebel, was of Hungarian ancestry. She began her musical career with the Pleasure Seekers and Cradle with her sisters Patti and Arlene. She moved to England in 1971 after being discovered in Detroit by record producer Mickie Most. Quatro’s first single “Rolling Stone” was a flop everywhere except Portugal, where it made Number one. Her early recordings met with little success in her native USA, despite efforts to remedy this through tours in the mid-1970s. Quatro has performed as an actress in roles as varied as Annie Oakley in a 1986 London production of Annie Get Your Gun and, most famously in the United States, as Leather Tuscadero in the TV show Happy Days. She currently lives both in England and Germany.
8.Quincy Delight Jones
Tocino
9. Mary Quant (1934) is an English fashion designer, one of the many designers who took credit for inventing the miniskirt and hot pants. Quant studied illustration at Goldsmith’s College before taking a job with a couture milliner. In October 1955, she teamed up with her husband Alexander Plunkett-Greene, and an accountant Archie McNair, to open a clothes shop on the Kings Road in London called Bazaar. Following the positive reaction to a pair of “mad house pyjamas” designed for the opening, and dissatisfied with the variety of clothes available to her, Quant decided to make her own range of clothing. Initially working solo, she was soon employing a handful of machinists, and by 1966 she was working with 18 different manufacturers concurrently. Bazaar was a popular haunt for the fashionable “Chelsea Set” of “Swinging London”. By 1961, Quant had opened a second Bazaar in Knightsbridge and by 1965 she was exporting to the USA. To keep up with demand, Quant went into mass-production, setting up the Ginger Group. Quant’s popularity was at its peak in the mid 1960s, during which time she produced the dangerously short micro-mini skirt, “paint-box” make-up, and plastic raincoats. She was described as being the leading fashion force outside Paris. In 1966, Quant was appointed an OBE for services to the fashion industry. In the late 1960s, Quant launched hot pants, which was her last big fashion development. Through the 1970s and 1980s she concentrated on household goods and make-up.
Tocino
8. Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American music conductor, record producer, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is best known as the producer of the album Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson, which has sold over 110 million copies worldwide, and as the producer and conductor of the charity song “We Are the World”.
Oh, Bugger, I had no.9 as well, I’ll try again 😦
Soutie, one N short. ANthony Quinn. 🙂
Boa, deep joy. Just back from shopping for tomorrow’s lunch for unexpected Southron guests who have appeared from nowhere to do the Festival. I did explain to Mrs M. that I was waiting for your quiz but I know my place.
Anyhow, Number 6 – Quintin Hogg. One of the main reasons for my being a Conservative. In about 1963,and aged 13/14. I bought a second hand copy of his Penguin paperback, ‘The Case for Conservatism’ which, I think, was first published in the year that I was born, aka 1949. Worked for me and still does.
Sorry Tocino – that’s not right either!!
John Mackie
6. Quintin Hogg (1907-2001) was Lord Chancellor 1970 – 4, 1979 – 87. Hogg inherited his father’s love of the law and a family trait of having slightly deformed hands: he was born with a sixth digit (which was quickly removed) attached to the thumb on his right hand. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and was destined for a career in the law and politics, following in the footsteps of his father. He was called to the bar in 1932 and practised as a barrister until elected to parliament in a celebrated by-election in 1938, winning Oxford City as a pro-Chamberlain Conservative. After wartime service in the Rifle Brigade, he served briefly as Under-Secretary for Air in Churchill’s 1945 caretaker government. Seen as a progressive Conservative, he was prominent in the movement to modernize the party and penned an influential book, The Case for Conservatism, published by Penguin in 1947. In 1953 his father died and he moved to the House of Lords as the 2nd Viscount Hailsham, a move he tried to resist, but he was unable to persuade the Prime Minister to change the law. When Macmillan announced his resignation as Prime Minister in 1963, Hailsham used the occasion of the party conference to announce his renunciation of his peerage — made possible by the passage of the 1963 Peerages Act — and in effect campaign publicly for the party leadership. His campaigning apparently resulted in Macmillan withdrawing support from him. His willingness to demonstrate his brilliance, an unwillingness to suffer fools gladly, and a volatile temper did not always commend him to others. Few, though, have doubted his outstanding intellectual capacity. His contribution to politics has combined the practical with the reflective. His writings in his early political life provided intellectual inspiration to a new generation of Conservatives and his 1976 Dimbleby Lecture, advocating the case (which he later refuted) for a written constitution, provided a new phrase to the lexicon of British politics when he warned of the possibility of an “elective dictatorship”.
How stupid, 7, Anthony Quale ex SOE WW2 and actor.
Tocino
7. Anthony Quayle (1913-1989) was born in Ainsdale, Southport in Lancashire to a Manx family. He was educated at Rugby and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After appearing in music hall, he joined the Old Vic in 1932. During the Second World War he was an Army Officer and was made one of the area commanders of the Auxiliary Units. Later he joined the Special Operations Executive and served as a liaison officer with the partisans in Albania. In 1944 he was an aide to the Governor of Gibraltar at the time of the air crash of General Władysław Sikorski’s aircraft on 4 July 1943. From 1948 to 1956 he directed at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, and laid the foundations for the creation of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Best ever movie, Ice Clod In Alex.
I dosen’t get any better either. Ice Cold In Alex. 😦
I am a clod…….Tocino. 😦
Boa, no more Mr nice person, since everybody else (aka Tocino) seems to be trying to scoop up all the answers. To be fair, Mrs M. is off poring through her musical sources for the answer to Number 3.
Anyhow, based solely on the lapel badge and the hairstyle, No 4 has to be Quisling.
John Mackie
4. Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945) was a Norwegian army officer and politician, who served as President of occupied Norway. He worked with Fridtjof Nansen during the famine in the Soviet Union, and served as Minister of Defence in the Bondepartiet government 1931–1933. In 1933 he founded the nationalist party Nasjonal Samling (“National Gathering”), and during World War II, from 1942 to 1945, he served as Minister-President of the collaborationist Norwegian government, after being appointed by the German authorities. After the war he was tried for high treason and executed by firing squad. Today in Norway and other parts of the world, “Quisling” is a synonym for “Traitor”.
JM,
I normally restrict myself to a maximum of three answers if I’m lucky enough to know any at all. Tonight, the extra one was a bit of fun after Soutie’s first. Best advice I can offer is to shop in the afternoon on a Friday or is it cheaper in Jockland in the evening, special offers and all that? 🙂
Just the one more, Boa.
Mrs M. has returned and has assured me that 3. is Johann Joachim Quantz.
Thanks as always for the fun. Got the rest of them, we think, except for No 1.
Mrs Mackie!
3. Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773) was a German flautist, flute maker and composer. He began his musical studies as a child with his uncle. He abandoned the violin and the oboe in order to pursue the flute. It was during his time as musician to Frederick Augustus II of Poland that he began to concentrate on the flute, performing more and more on the instrument. He gradually became known as the finest flautist in Europe, and toured France and England. He became a flute teacher, flute maker and composer to Frederick II of Prussia in 1740. He was an innovator in flute design, adding keys to the instrument to help with intonation, for example. He often criticized Vivaldi for being too wild when he played.
Tocino, just joshing and no slight intended. When do you depart for Soutieland?
Me too JM. In a couple of weeks time.
Boa, sorry for a slight hijack.
Tocino. Enjoy – I know that you will. It’s a great country with great people. Looking forward to hearing about your time there.
No problems John – am also looking forward to Tocino’s account of his trip.
Just got home. 5 is Quentin Crisp.
Papaguinea
5. Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) was born Denis Charles Pratt. He was an English writer and raconteur. He became an icon of homosexuality in the 1970s after publication of his memoir, The Naked Civil Servant, brought to the attention of the general public his defiant exhibitionism and refusal to keep his sexuality private.
Number one is quonfusing me. It can’t be Quonfucious and it certainly aint Quosimodo. Probably something like Qwon Si Yong seeing as it aint Qwinsi Jones.
D C Pratt! I can see why he changed his name.
No one seems about so I’ll pitch on number two, Dennis Quaid.
Papaguinea
2. Dennis Quaid (1954) is an American actor. He became known during the 1980s after appearing in several successful films including The Big Easy. In addition to acting, Quaid is a musician and plays with his band, the Sharks. Quaid also has a pilot’s license and is a scratch golfer. In 2005, he was named as the top golfer among the “Hollywood set” by Golf Digest. He lends his name to the annual “Dennis Quaid Charity Weekend” (formerly the “Jiffy Lube/Dennis Quaid Charity Classic”) in Austin.
Quaid works with the charity, International Hospital for Children in New Orleans, Louisiana. He makes trips to Central America to help build medical clinics and transport sick children back to the U.S. for treatment they cannot get locally.
It looks like it is done and dusted Boa. Thank you. This has to best quiz going. When it comes Z, give Zen a miss.
Cheers.
Noy sure but was number 1 Qin Shi Huan or something like that. First Chinese Emperor
<b?NOT sure
Four-eyed Genius
1. Emperor Shi Huang (259-210 BC) of Qin dynasty of China, also called Qin Shi Huang, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 247 BC to 221 BC, and then the first emperor of a unified China from 221 BC to 210 BC, ruling under the name which means First Emperor of Qin. Having unified China, he and his prime minister Li Si passed a series of major reforms aimed at cementing the unification, and they undertook some Herculean construction projects, most notably the precursor version of the current Great Wall of China. For all the tyranny of his autocratic rule, Qin Shi Huang is still regarded by many today as the founding father in Chinese history whose unification of China has endured for more than two millennia (with interruptions). Qin Shi Huang was buried in his mausoleum, with the famous Terracotta Army, near modern day Xi’an (Shaanxi province), but his burial chamber has yet to be opened.
I went to the Terracotta Army Exhibition at the British Museum. Bit of a clue there 🙂
Thanks Tocino – I’m pleased that you and others enjoy them. 🙂
FEEG: I’ve been to the site itself. It’s an incredible place – it isn’t until one walks in the building that covers the soldiers (and that’s only a fraction of the excavations) that the sheer size of the undertaking hits one.
I knew I was close!
Missed this quiz completely… 😦 Boa, could you advertise it next time, please – as you did once before?
Janus
Please pay attention! It was advertised, (top right corner along with the ‘creative comp’) for a good 3 days or so.
Perhaps you’re spending too much time on the battleships pages 😉
😦 Yes, Soutie……. Silly Backside.
Mornin’ Boadicea – Sorry I missed this one. It was Wednesday evening when I logged on and read an unexpected message on my screen which left me wondering who exactly was this Major Disk-Failure chappie and why was he reading my hard drive. That was a few moments before the Major apparently shot my poor ‘pooter in the face and everything went blank.
Anyway, and to cut a long story short, my good friend Marco, top bloke and ace computeramable wrangler, has done lots and lots of obscure fettling in the past couple of days and breathed life back into the old girl who has just been returned to me.
So here I am again and looking forward to ‘R’.
OZ