Quiz 24

1
One sounds like a knot
One is OK in a sport
One is (reputedly) an Australian idiot, perhaps he should be sent to prison to save time?
One is an actress who liked to play cards on her own
One sounds like a Tolkien Character
So who was the ugly one?
Neal
2
He thought his tenacious friend had been given beer goggle laser surgery, but what was the source of his own problems with forming relationships?
3
There is a prolific TV executive producer whose name brings to mind talk of a conspiracy that suggests the King is not dead. Explain.
4
Surprisingly this design didn't make it, what was built instead?
Vicky
5
Going 182.269 Feet per second against the flow is one thing, but they have a lot of other things going for them. Who are these young ladies?
6
Number five represents Mississippi and featured Tom Cruise. Number sixteen represents Oklahoma and was composed by Brian Elias (under a different name). Number eighteen represents Delaware and died with the music. Numbers two and eleven only differ by color -- what two states do they both represent, and what are their colors?
Pete Mitchell
7
Suppose the five top-scoring entrants to quiz 23 all decide to enter quiz 24, and each has a guess about the relative order of their results (all assuming there'll be no ties and no other entrants*), as follows:
Vicky: Alan will be two places higher than Pete
Alan: I will be third
Pete: Venky will be first
Venky: Alan will be second
Mick: Pete will be three places lower than Vicky
Now, if it turns out that only one of these guesses is right, and that it's made by the person who comes first, what will their order be in the quiz results?
Alan
*You pessimist Alan, there will be lots of new entrants.
8
What do the following words have in common?
append
lob
mast
orchid
sigmoid
Vicky
9
In my trusty dictionary between a loss of speech and a shady nook I find a pithy maxim, self possession, dubious scriptures, the Devil, a rhetorical silence, god-making, eagle-nosed, standing on one leg in style and a Semitic language.
What victim of a timely hoax do I also find?
10
What and where is this?
Mick T

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