Venky

Singular home for dyslexic soldiers” would be the odd one out.

Legendary British king – Arthur (Ashe) – Tennis player [King Arthur of Camelot, the Round Table, Excalibur and Merlin fame]
 Goddess of love (and her calmer sister) – Venus and Serena (Williams) – Tennis players [Venus is the Roman Goddess of love. Serena means serene  calm]
 Isaac Newton's deadly weapon – Lewis (Hamilton) – Formula 1 racer [Isaac Newton Lewis created the Lewis Gun (fondly referred to as “the Lewis”), which was used in the First World War and afterwards. Initially the United States military was not interested in his new gun, but after the British and French had bought more than 100,000 for use in the trenches in France they did purchase them.]
 Singular home for dyslexic soldiers – Barack (Obama) [Home for soldiers = barracks, usually referred to in the plural. So singular home = barrack. Dyslexia is a learning disorder marked by a severe difficulty in recognizing and understanding written language, leading to spelling and writing problems, so for dyslexic soldiers their singular home would be misspelt. = barack]
 Superlative Asian predator – Tiger (Woods) [The tiger is a predator native to the mainland of Asia. Superlative would refer to it being the largest feline species in the world, and of course the largest of the four “big cats” in the Panthera genus – tiger, lion, leopard and jaguar]

All of the above are black (of African lineage, to be PC). However, except Barack (Obama), everyone else is a sportsperson.

Alan

Arthur Ashe, Venus Williams, Lewis Hamilton, Barack Obama, and Tiger Woods are all well-known blacks, people of colour, or whatever the PC term is today. Odd one out is Obama, a politician, while the rest are sporty types.

Neal

All Black champion sportspeople...

    Legendary British king. Arthur (Ashe)

    Goddess of love (and her calmer sister). Venus and Serena (Williams) Roman Gods

    Isaac Newton's deadly weapon. (Lennox) Lewis  (could be Hamilton, but he didn't win the championship) Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis invented the Lewis Machine Gun

    Singular home for dyslexic soldiers. Barack (Obama) - singular, wrong spelling of Barracks
   
    Superlative Asian predator. Tiger (Woods)
   
    Which makes Barack Obama the odd one out, him being a politician and all

Neal

From The End by the Doors
It's a terminal ("the end") musical nightmare with universal infantile madness ("and all the children are insane"), occidental supremacy ("The west is best") and partially stifled Oedipal fantasies ("Father, yes son, I want to kill you, Mother...i want to...fuck you").

It also has "Doing a blue rock On a blue bus". The Baseball logo is the Wilmington Blue Rocks team.

So his only friend is The End ( "My only friend, the end")


"This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end

Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
Ill never look into your eyes...again

Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need...of some...strangers hand
In a...desperate land

Lost in a roman...wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah

Theres danger on the edge of town
Ride the kings highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby

Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake...hes old, and his skin is cold

The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here, and well do the rest

The blue bus is callin us
The blue bus is callin us
Driver, where you taken us

The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and...then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door...and he looked inside
Father, yes son, I want to kill you
Mother...i want to...fuck you

Cmon baby, take a chance with us
Cmon baby, take a chance with us
Cmon baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin a blue rock
On a blue bus
Doin a blue rock
Cmon, yeah

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end

It hurts to set you free
But youll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die

This is the end"

Sergeant Dudfoot

This is the terminal musical nighmare
Beautiful friend

...

Occidental supremacy
Occidental supremacy
Get here, and we'll do the rest

The blue bus is callin' us
The blue bus is callin' us
Driver, where're you takin' us

The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and...then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, yeah
And he came to a door...and he looked inside
"Father?"
"Yes, son"
"I want to kill you"
"Mother...I want to... realise partially stifled Oedipal  fantasies"

...

My only friend, the end

Sergeant Dudfoot

Question 3 indeed. Beethoven's 3rd symphony is known by the  name "Eroica" ("Heroic); Parry's 3rd is the "English" symphony;  Mendelssohn's 3rd is the "Scottish"; Tchaikovsky's is the  "Polish", and Schumann's is the "Rhenish". Shostakovich's 3rd  is known as "The First of May", so there's your date.

Venky

4. The person in the picture is Michael Manley, who was the fifth Prime Minister of Jamaica (if you can call that his “premier” claim to fame), and was Prime Minister for two terms, 1972 – 1980 and 1989 – 1992. He also wrote the award-winning A History of West Indies Cricket, in which he discussed the links between cricket and West Indian nationalism.

Sergeant Dudfoot

"A History of West Indies Cricket" was written by Michael  Manley, twice Prime Minister of Jamaica. (I've a copy on my shelf.)

Alan

Co-starring...
Joe Penny appeared with William Conrad (Jason Lochinvar 'Fatman' McCabe) in Jake And The Fatman
Humphrey Bogart appeared with Sidney Greenstreet (Kasper Gutman, the Fat Man) in The Maltese Falcon
Paul Newman appeared with an atomic bomb (Fat Man) in Fat Man And Little Boy
Myrna Loy appeared with William Powell (Nick Charles, the Thin Man) in The Thin Man et al.

Tim Matheson appeared with Charles Haid (Fats, The Fatman) in The House Of God

So it is Myrna Loy, after all.

Venky

6. Borderline English River – Dee, Cattle – Ox, Look – See, Cereal grass – Rye, Weapon – Bow, Novel – New, Very heavy soil – Clay, Expression of distaste – Ick, Donkey – Ass, Primal brain – Id

Read together you get Deoxyribonucleic Acid or DNA. Put lots of DNA together, and you get a gene.

Sergeant Dudfoot

Dee Ox See Rye Bow New Clay Ick Ass Id. I did Latin instead  of biology at school, so I'm at a bit of a disadvantage here, but I think I'm in the right area if I say that if you put together lots of DNA you get chromosomes or something like that.

Philbo

Otto (von Bismarck )

Honda Civic

Kayak

F6F (Grumman Hellcat)

So the odd one out is:

Pauline Hanson - a politician from Oz... sort of a Pauline Drone, rather than a palindrome

Nope, she's the Oxley Moron

Venky

9. Between viola and vista, you find violently; violoncello; virago; virility; virtue; viscera; viscid and viscount.

You also find viper, something you would definitely want to dodge, a dodgy character, as well as being a V10 powered sportscar from the Dodge division of Chrysler.

Tommy

Between viola and vista, I find violent, a violoncello, a virago, virility, virtue, viscera, viscid and a viscount.

Based on the descriptions of the two other instruments I would suggest that you would probably also dodge away from a Violin, though some VIPs are a pain, Vipers are also to be avoided, depending on your sexual preference perhaps Virgins too. Virgos are particularly nasty people and Virtual reality could have some serious consequences for the human race. Viruses are most often bad, as are Visa cards. The US Vice (Vise) could have you in a Hugh Grant situation. Visionaries are rarely so, I don't really like visitors and a visor only stops me reading players' eyes in Poker.

Venky

10. The winners are Amy, Dan and Cate in that order. The solution is detailed below:

Commentator #1: Amy will not win first place, nor Ben second place.
Commentator #2: Cate's performance will put her in the top three, but Dan won't win at all.
Commentator #3: Dan and Elizabeth will both place in the top three.
Commentator #4: Dan will not take second place, nor Elizabeth third place.
Commentator #5: Amy will place somewhere in the top three, but Cate won't.

Let Amy = A, Ben = B, Cate = C, Dan = D and Elizabeth = E. And the positions designated as 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5.
#1: For this commentator to be false, either A = 1 or B = 2.
#2: For this to be false, C > 3 or D < 4
#3: For this to be false, D > 3 or E > 3
#4: For this to be false, D = 2 or E = 3
#5: For this to be false, A > 3 or C < 4

From #1, let us assume A = 1, a winner.
Then #5 means C < 4, i.e. C = 2 or 3, a winner.
Now #4 must mean D or E is also a winner. However looking at #2, D must be a winner.
Hence A, C, D should be winners. In particular #4 implies D = 2, so C = 3.
Hence ADC must be the order of the winners, and this satisfies all the conditions.

If we start with the alternate hypothesis from #1, i.e. B = 2, a winner.
Then #4 implies E = 3.
Now #3 implies D > 3.
Now #2 implies C > 3.
Now #5 implies A > 3.
Clearly, A, C and D cannot all be 4 and 5, so we don't have any solution here.

Therefore the winners are Amy, Dan and Cate in that order. Ben and Elizabeth come 4th and 5th but their exact placings cannot be determined with the given information.