Thursday Quiz 28 March 2019 Picture Quiz

[Mi-Amigo]

Welcome to the Thursday Quiz

As promised, this Thursday is a Picture Quiz. There are three pictures and one question on each.

Q1 What is the first and surname          Q2 What were the last words          Q3 What is the name

of this famous person?                           of this famous person?                     of this famous painting?

                                                     

Rules: no googling, wiki, social media seaches for the answers.

Please answer all three questions in the same post as - Q1 = [answer]; Q2 = [answer]; Q3 = [answer].

You may submit two separate posts with answers. You may submit one post with one, two, or three answers as given by another member but must credit the member - e.g. "I agree with.... answer to Q2 is .....

The quiz will be open until 12 noon on Friday 29 March 2019. The results and answers will be given after 1pm.

Incoorect answers will reeive the * klaxon * .  Correct answers will be awarded

Good luck

[Mi-Amigo]

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@jonsie wrote:

1.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

2.That's [Removed] on their French chips... croak

3.Florence Nightingale's Mother's Mother

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Brilliant Only @jonsie could come up with that I reckon it should be sent off to BBC`s QI - Alan Davis would love it. No surprise @jonsie got the 02 award for 2018.

[TallTrees]

Hi @Mi-Amigo 

Mahatma Ghandi   (I hope first name is spelt correctly ~ sorry Ghandi if not!)

I see no ships

don't know

[Mi-Amigo]

                             THURSDAY QUIZ - 29 MARCH 2019 - ANSWERS AND RESULTS

Q1 Correct answer is Mohandas Ghandi

      @MI5   @Cleoriff   @Glory1  @ComaChameleon  @jonsie 

      @jonsie also gets a credit for knowing his middle name was Karamchand

      incorrect answer is Mahatma - Sanskrit for "high souled" or "venable" first applied to Ghandi, born 1869, in South Africa in 1914 = @Bambino * klaxon * ; @TallTrees * klaxon *

Q2 Correct answer is Nelson`s last words were "Drink, drink; fan. fan; rub, rub. Nelson, as he lay dying, complained of being thirsty and said "drink, drink" and was given lemonade and watered wine; felt hot and said "fan, fan" and was fanned by his steward; and with pains in his chest said "rub, rub" and his chest was rubbed by the ship`s chaplain, Dr Scott

       incorrect answers are Kiss Me Hardy - he did say that [not Kismet Hardy - so well done no-one said that] = @Bambino * klaxon * ; @MI5 * klaxon * ; @Glory1 * klaxon * .

      incorrect answer is "now I`m satisfied" = @Cleoriff * klaxon * .

      incorrect answer is "I see no ships", said after losing eye = @TallTrees * klaxon *

      incorrect answer "that`s [Removed] on their French chips" = @jonsie * klaxon * bit for giving us all the best laugh in any Thursday Quiz so far, I`m giving @jonsie a special award.

      @ComaChameleon did not give an answer, so no *klaxon * or 

Q3 correct answer is Arrangement In Grey and Black No 1 by James McNeill Whistler in 1871. When the painting was exhibited in 1872 at the Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Art in London, the Academy added to the catalogue "Portrait of the Painter`s Mother" and afterwards became colloquially known as "Whistler`s Mother"

   incorrect answer "Whistler`s Mother = @Bambino *klaxon* ; @MI5 *klaxon*; @Cleoriff *klaxon*;

@Glory1*klaxon*.

   incorrect answer "Florence Nightingale`s Mother`s Mother = @jonsie = *klaxon*, but again for giving us a laugh, another "one-off" award  

   @TallTrees did not know, so no *klaxon* or 

Thanks everyone for playing along

The next THURSDAY QUIZ will be on 4 April 2019.

The subject will be "Characters" and won`t be as daunting as it may seem. You will definitely have heard of the characters.

I hope all of you will join in again.