-1. Which US novelist created the detective Philip Marlowe?
-2. What is the common name of the poisonous plant hyoscyamus niger which yields the drug hyoscyamine?
-3. Who was the first chancellor of West Germany?
-4. By what name was jazz composer and pianist Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe better known?
-5. Which animal is the national emblem of South Africa?
-6. Who was the first boxer to defeat Muhammad Ali?
-7. Which US science fiction writer founded the Church of Scientology?
-8. What name is given to a star that explodes and increases in brightness by a million times or more?
-9. Which hand tool was used for threshing grain until the mid-19th century?
-10. Who painted The Laughing Cavalier?
-11. What are the ingredients that go to make up a Manhattan?
-12. Who is this?

12. Nina Simone

7. L. Ron Hubbard

Like chalk and cheese, those two!

Love her songs...

1. Raymond Chandler

Me too, soot!

Good one, Marian!

2. Henbane

5. I assume it's the Springbok as their rugby team is The Springboks

Bernie

michele, Bernie -

8. supernova

10. Frans(z?) Hals

6. Joe Frazier

Three more hits!

3. Adenauer

I think 9 was called a flail

Good call, Fil!

4. I think that's Jelly Roll Morton ??

11. whiskey, vermouth and bitters

Lex, Mad, Cheryl - good finish!