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HERE are the answers to this years Superbrain competition which appeared with The Northern Echo on December 27, 2010.

The internet has been alive with people trying to ferret out the answers - there has even been a false rumour that someone has hacked into The Northern Echo's computer systems and discovered some of the answers.

The marking of entries is now beginning, and we hope to be able to announce the winner next Saturday.

 
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1. Meryl Streep
2. Vivien Leigh
3. Karen Gillan
4. Angelina Jolie
5. Mae West
6. Hayden Panettierre
7. Clare Buckfield
8. Melissa George
9. Dani Harmer
10. Virginia Madsen
11. Doctor Who
12. Only Fools and Horses
13. Melinda Gordon (The Ghost Whisperer)
14. Wild at Heart
15. George and Mildred
16. The Champions
17. HMP Larkhall
18. Alan Partridge
19. Just Good Friends
20. Plastic Surgeons (Nip/Tuck)
21. Emma Peel
22. Dragonfly
23. The Daleks (donated to,and retrieved from, Barnados in 1964)
24. Red Dwarf
25. Charity Dingle (When stealing car keys)
26. Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
27. The Clangers
28. Miss Piggy
29. 45 Cromwell Road
30. Springfield (in the Simpsons)
31. Michael/Mick
32. 84 Charing Cross Road
33. Flubber
34. Phil Connors (Groundhog Day)
35. Doc s DeLorean in Back to the Future
36. Carry On Up the Jungle
37. Looney Tunes (Warner Bros cartoons)
38. Charlize Theron
39. The Scary Movie series
40. Michelle Yeoh (also Maggie Cheung)
41. Kate Thornton
42. Lassie
43. Bill and Ted
44. Die another Day
45. Gremlins
46. Halloween
47. The Human Torch (Johnny Storm)
48. Elvis Presley (in Jailhouse Rock)
49. My own private Idaho
50. Speed

 
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1. Katie Price
2. Jilly Cooper
3. Anne Fine
4. PD James
5. Ian McEwan
6. David Nobbs
7. Hans Christian Anderson
8. Martina Cole
9. Phillip Larkin
10. Anna Ralph
11. Stepford
12. Charles Pooter
13. O Henry (William Sydney Porter)
14. Erik, the Phantom of the Opera
15. Emerald City
16. Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel
17. Matilda Wormwood
18. Leopold Bloom
19. Red Pepper
20. Mrs Dalloway
21. Daisy Buchanan
22. Schnauzer
23. Admiral of the Fleet
24. Pigs in Animal Farm (Napoleon, Squealer and Pinkeye)
25. Billy Bunter
26. Susan Pevensie
27. William S Burroughs
28. Ralph Ellison
29. Dolores Haze (Lolita)
30. Sylvia Plath
31. Farmer Hill (before being bought by Cruella de Vil s ancestors)
32. Toms Midnight Garden
33. Titus Groan
34. Science Fiction
35. T homas Ewen High School, Maine
36. Watermouth
37. Roots (also accepted The Overton Window)
38. Anna Madrigal
39. A Camel
40. Biology
41. Father Brown
42. Hannibal Lector
43. Isabel Allende
44. Adrian Mole
45. Herge (Georges Remi)
46. Oscar and Lucinda
47. Andrea Levy
48. Harold Pinter
49. Muriel Spark (Also accepted Alexander Wilson)
50. Fred Weasley

 

1. Jackie Kennedy Onassis
2. Cynthia Payne
3. Martin Luther King
4. Monica Lewinsky
5. Mary Quant
6. Thomas Edison
7. Bessie Braddock
8. Charles Manson
9. Anna Chapman
10. Steve Biko
11. Five Hundred
12. Grapes
13. Baden-Württemberg
14. Red phone boxes
15. Bel
16. Sturgeon/Caviar
17. Daylight Robbery
18. The motion of Sunspots
19. New Zealand
20. Elizabeth I
21. Grover Cleveland
22. Goat
23. 250,000 French Francs
24. Pablo Picasso
25. White
26. Robert the Bruce
27. Theodore Roosevelt
28. Colonel Muammar Gadaffi
29. Sequoia trees
30. Anne, the Princess Royal
31. Harold Wilson
32. Brandy
33. Niagara Falls
34. Captain William Kidd
35. VOID
36. Winston Churchill
37. Alexander La Valley (An unofficial passage, made before both the Cristobal and the Ancon)
38. Yugoslavia
39. Galapagos Tortoises
40. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
41. Four
42. Yellow
43. Earl Kitchener
44. Asbestos
45. Paraguay
46. Igor Stravinsky
47. Daniel Hopfer
48. 344 (although one was overturned)
49. Starlings on the minute hand
50 The Chihuahua

 
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1. Winston Churchill
2. Lynda Bellingham
3. Stella McCartney
4. Paul Heaton
5. Beryl Bainbridge
6. George Lazenby
7. Brandon Flowers
8. George Hardwick
9. Stanley Kubrick
10. Elsa Lanchester
11. Mo Mowlem
12. Pigeon Racing
13. Ripon
14. York Railway Museum director of Fun
15. Shildon
16. Princess Anne
17. Whitby
18. Alf Wight/James Herriott
19. Seven Stories
20. Space
21. Alnwick Rum
22. Room at the Top-John Braine
23. Josef Heu
24. Bainbridge
25. Causey Arch
26. Wood engraving
27. The Devil
28. Mary Hutchinson
29. Emily Davison
30. Jarrow
31. The Swale
32. Laurence Sterne
33. White
34. Byerley Turk
35. Great Ayton
36. Wensleydale
37. 1854
38. HMS Badger
39. The Lindisfarne Gospels
40. Kirby Hill
41. Ursula Southeil/Mother Shipton
42. Lucozade
43. Chester-le-Street
44. Coquet
45. Arthur
46. Captain Pugwash
47. Leyburn
48. Northallerton
49. Butter
50. The Real Radio Renegade

 
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1. Lady Gaga
2. Grace Jones
3. Enya
4. Pixie Lott
5. Katy Perry
6. Dolly Parton
7. Nicole Scherzinger
8. Marina Diamandis (and the Diamonds)
9. Nenah Cherry
10. Kim Appleby
11. When Love comes to town
12. Scritti Politti (Woodbeez)
13. Madonna (Sweet and Sticky tour)
14. She s Leaving Home
15. The Funboy Three (Summertime)
16. Zodiac Mindwarp
17. The Zutons
18. Rumer
19. OMD/Propaganda
20. The Boo Radleys
21. Howard Jones
22. Strawberry Fields Forever
23. The Bellestars
24. Lily was here
25. Orange Juice
26. Moonlight Shadow (Mike Oldfield)
27. The Lightning Seeds
28. Kraftwerk
29. Ballad of Tom Jones (Space and Cerys Matthews)
30. Suede
31. Betty Boo
32. New Kids on the Block
33. My Life Story
34. Ke$ha
35. Rasputin
36. Massive Attack (dropped the Attack)
37. Weezer
38. Zoe
39. Stiff Records
40. Rihanna
41. Fade to Grey (Visage)
42. Carter -USM
43. The Primitives
44. Julian Cope
45. Dodgy
46. Marina (and the Diamonds)
47. Another Brick in the Wall (Pink Floyd)
48. Bobby Bluebell
49. London Boys
50. Buddy Holly

 
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1. Andy Carroll
2. Neil Robertson
3. Sue Barker
4. Brett Lee
5. Ricky Hatton
6. Usain Bolt
7. Ruby Walsh
8. Rory McIlroy
9. Ana Ivanovic
10. Collis King
11. Roger Bannister
12. Calcutta Cup
13. Sebastien Vettel
14. Olga Korbut
15. Black, white and blue
16. 2002
17. Harry Vardon
18. Birmingham Barons
19. Geoff Allott
20. Toytown
21. Valderrama (1997)
22. VOID
23. Maria Sharapova
24. Harris County Dome, Houston (the Astrodome)
25. Five
26. Sweden
27. Harlem Globetrotters
28. Goldikova
29. Speedway
30. Dick Button (a triple loop)
31, Speed Skating
32. Miguel Indurain
33. Tanni Grey Thompson
34. Judo
35. Billie Jean King (39 years 209 days old)
36. Australia
37. Bettina Hoy
38. VOID
39. Women’s high jump
40. Everton (1890/91 season, won with 29 points)
41. James Dobb (World Motocross 125 cc class)
42. Jimmy Greaves
43. Monica Seles
44. Gary Player (also Craig Stadler, in a play-off)
45. Sugar Ray Robinson
46. Shaktar Donetsk
47. Allen Condon
48. Argentina (1978)
49. Cardiff City v Swansea City
50. Billy Hughes


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