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| Heralds | Nicknames of Royalty | Nicknames of Politicians |
| Eponyms | Assassinations | Miss World |
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The Three English Kings at Arms
| Garter (Blue) | Principle in England |
| Clarenceaux | Southern England |
| Norroy and Ulster (Purple) | Northern England and N Ireland |
| Somerset | Richmond | Lancaster |
| Windsor | Chester | York |
| Rouge Dragon | Blue Mantle |
| Portcullis | Rouge Croix |
| Lord Lyon | Scotland |
| Albany | Marchmont | Rothesay |
| Unicorn | Carrick | Dingwell (Kintyre) |
| Linlithgow | Falkland |
Nicknames of Rulers and Royalty
| Alfred | The Great |
| Athelstan | The Glorious |
| Canute | The Dane |
| Charles I | King and Martyr |
| Charles II | The Merry Monarch, Old Rowley |
| Charles Edward Stuart | Bonnie Prince Charlie, The Young Pretender |
| Eadwig | The Fair |
| Edgar | The Peaceable, The Peaceful |
| Edmund II | Ironside |
| Edward | The Elder |
| Edward | The Martyr |
| Edward | The Confessor |
| Edward I | Longshanks, Lawgiver, Hammer of the Scots |
| Edward III | King of the Sea |
| Edward VII | Peacemaker, Tum Tum |
| Edward VIII | Our Smiling Prince |
| Edward, Prince of Wales | The Black Prince (son of Edward III) |
| Elizabeth I | The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, Good Queen Bess |
| Elizabeth II | Liz, Brenda (PE) |
| Ethelred II | The Unready, The Redeless |
| Frederick I | Barbarossa |
| Frederick I of Brandenburg | The Great Elector |
| George I | Turnip Head |
| George III | Farmer George |
| George IV | Prinny, The First Gentleman of Europe |
| George V | The Sailor King |
| Harold I | Harefoot |
| Henry I | Beauclerc, Lion of Justice |
| Henry II | Curtmantle |
| Henry IV | Bolingbroke |
| Henry VIII | Bluff King Hal |
| Henry, Prince of Portugal | The Navigator |
| James I | The British Soloman, The Wisest Fool in Christendom |
| James Stuart | The Old Pretender (son of James II) |
| Jane Grey | The Nine Days Queen |
| John | Lackland, Softsword |
| Louis I | The Pious, The Debonaire |
| Louis II | The German |
| Louis IV | The Bavarian |
| Louis V | Le Faineant |
| Louis IX | Saint Louis |
| Louis XIV | The Sun King |
| Louis Philippe | The Citizen King |
| Matilda | Empress Maud |
| Mary Tudor | Bloody Mary |
| Mary Stuart | Mary, Queen of Scots |
| Oliver Cromwell | Crum-hell, King Oliver, Almighty Nose, Old Ironsides |
| Philip IV of France | The Fair |
| Richard I | Couer de Lion - Lionheart |
| Richard III | Old Dick, Crookback |
| Robert I of Scotland | Robert the Bruce |
| Stephen | The Irresolute |
| Temuchin | Genghis Khan |
| Theobald I | The Cheat, The Old |
| Theobald IV | The Troubador, The Posthumous |
| Victoria | Grandmother of Europe |
| Vlad, Prince of Walachia | Vlad the Impaler |
| William I | The Conqueror, The Bastard |
| William II | Rufus - The Red |
| William III | King Billy |
| William IV | Silly Billy, The Sailor King, The Royal Tar |
| John Adams | Atlas of Independence |
| John Quincy Adams | Old Man Eloquent |
| Chester Arthur | The Gentleman Boss |
| Tony Blair | Bambi |
| James Buchanan | Old Buck |
| George Bush | Poppy |
| Rosalyn Carter | The Steel Magnolia |
| Georges Clemenceau | Tiger |
| Calvin Coolidge | Loose Lips, Silent Cal |
| Richard Cromwell | Tumbledown Dick |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Dizzy |
| Dwight D Eisenhower | Ike |
| Millard Fillmore | The American Louis Philippe |
| Elizabeth Fry | The Female Howard |
| Mohandas Gandhi | Mahatma |
| John Nance Garner | Cactus Jack |
| William Ewart Gladstone | The Grand Old Man |
| Ulysees S Grant | Hero of Appomattox, Unconditional Surrender |
| Hjalmar Hammarskjold | Dag |
| Rutherford Burchard Hayes | The Dark Horse President |
| Benjamin Harrison | Kid Gloves |
| William Henry Harrison | Old Tippecanoe |
| Michael Heseltine | Tarzan |
| Andrew Jackson | Old Hickory |
| Thomas Jefferson | Man of the People |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson | LBJ |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy | JFK |
| Abraham Lincoln | Honest Abe, Old Abe |
| William McKinley | The Idol of Ohio |
| Harold Macmillan | Supermac |
| James Madison | Father of the Constitution |
| James Monroe | The Last Cocked Hat |
| Benito Mussolini | Il Duce |
| Napoleon (I) Bonaparte | Boney, The Little Corporal |
| Napoleon II | The King of Rome |
| Richard Neville (Earl of Warwick) | The Kingmaker |
| Richard Milhous Nixon | Tricky Dicky |
| Robert Peel | Orange Peel, The Runaway Spartan |
| Franklin Pierce | Young Hickory |
| William Pitt (The Elder) | The Great Commoner |
| James Knox Polk | Young Hickory |
| Nancy Reagan | The Iron Butterfly |
| Ronald Reagan | Dutch |
| John Redwood | Spock |
| Cardinal Richelieu | The Red Eminence |
| Derek Robinson | Red Robbo |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | FDR |
| Theodore Roosevelt | TR, The Trust Buster |
| Dennis Skinner | The Beast of Bolsover |
| Zachary Taylor | Old Rough and Ready |
| Norman Tebbit | The Chingford Skinhead |
| Margaret Thatcher | The Iron Lady, Maggie |
| Harry S Truman | Give 'em Hell Harry |
| John Tyler | The Accidental President |
| Martin van Buren | The Little Magician |
| George Washington | Father of his Country |
| Woodrow Wilson | The Schoolmaster in Politics |
| Dan Ackroyd | Canada | Bryan Adams | Vancouver |
| Patrick Allen | Malawi | Ursula Andress | Berne |
| Francis Bacon | Dublin | George Baker | Bulgaria |
| Roseanne Barr | Salt Lake City | Shirley Bassey | Tiger Bay, Cardiff |
| Ingrid Bergman | Stockholm | Irving Berlin | Temus, Siberia |
| Isla Blair | India | Lionel Blair | Montreal, Canada |
| Yul Brynner | Sakhalin, Siberia | Buddha | Lumbini, Nepal |
| Joe Bugner | Hungary | Billy Butlin | South Africa |
| Maria Callas | New York | Frank Capra | Bisacquino, Sicily |
| Claudia Cardinale | Tunis | Judy Carne | Northampton |
| Barbara Carrera | Managua | Jim Carrey | Canada |
| Anna Carteret | Bangalore | Charlie Chaplin | London |
| Julie Christie | Chukua, Assam, India | Winston Churchill | Officially Blenheim Palace |
| Leonard Cohen | Motreal | Francis Ford Coppola | Detroit |
| Colin Cowdrey | Pulumala, India |
| Olivia de Havilland | Tokyo | Frederick Delius | Bradford |
| Marlene Dietrich | Berlin | Robert Donat | Manchester |
| Deanna Durbin | Winnipeg | Gerrald Durrell | Jamshedpur, India |
| Glynn Edwards | Malaya | Anita Ekberg | Malmo |
| Britt Ekland | Stockholm | Edward Elgar | Broadheath, Worcestershire |
| Jacob Epstein | New York | Eusebio | Mozambique |
| Dame Edna Everage | Wagga Wagga, Australia |
| Pam Ferris | Germany | Errol Flynn | Hobart |
| Joan Fontaine | Tokyo | CS Forester | Cairo |
| Michael J Fox | Edmonton, Alberta | Mariella Frostrup | Oslo |
| Fioan Fullerton | Kaduna, Nigeria |
| Zsa Zsa Gabor | Budapest | Sandy Gall | Penang, Malaya |
| Greta Garbo | Stockholm | Kelsey Grammer | Virgin Islands |
| Stewart Granger | London | Cary Grant | Bristol |
| Dulcie Gray | Kuala Lumpur | El Greco | Crete |
| Richard Harris | County Limerick | Rolf Harris | Perth, Australia |
| Will Hay | Stockton-on-Tees | Audrey Hepburn | Brussels |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Leytonstone | McDonald Hobley | Falkland Islands |
| Buddy Holly | Lubbock, Texas | Bob Holness | Vryheid, Natal |
| Gustav Holst | Cheltenham | Gordon Honeycombe | Karachi |
| Bob Hope | London | Barry Humphries | Melbourne |
| Olivia Hussey | Buenos Aires |
| Michael Jackson | Gary, Indiana | Bianca Jagger | Nicaragua |
| Clive James | Sydney | David 'Kid' Jensen | Victoria, Canada |
| Stratford Johns | South Africa | Grace Jones | Jamaica |
| Boris Karloff | London | Kenneth Kendall | South India |
| Ben Kingsley | Snaiton, Yorkshire | Klaus Kinski | Danzig |
| Natassja Kinski | Berlin | Rudyard Kipling | Bombay |
| Bert Kwouk | Manchester |
| Hady Lamarr | Vienna | Lillie Langtry | Jersey |
| Angela Lansbury | London | Charles Laughton | Scarborough |
| Stan Laurel | Ulverston, Cumbria | Le Corbusier | La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland |
| Vivian Leigh | Darjeeling | Penelope Lively | Cairo |
| Margaret Lockwood | Karachi | Sophia Loren | Rome |
| Peter Lorre | Rosenberg, Hungary | Bela Lugosi | Lugos |
| Joanna Lumley | Srinagar, Kashmir |
| David McCullum | Glasgow | Trevor McDonald | San Fernando, Trinidad |
| John McEnroe | Weisbaden, Germany | Patrick McGoohan | New York |
| Leo McKern | Sydney | Ruth Madoc | Norwich |
| Magnus Magnusson | Reykjavik, Iceland | Manfred Mann | Johannesburg |
| Marco Polo | Venice or Korcula, Croatia | Bob Marley | Jamaica |
| Karl Marx | Trier, Germany | James Mason | Huddersfield |
| Nellie Melba | Melbourne | Melina Mercouri | Athens |
| Freddie Mercury | Zanzibar | Bette Midler | Honolulu |
| Spike Milligan | Ahmaddnagar, India | Joni Mitchell | McLeod, Alberta |
| Kylie Minogue | Melbourne | Eves Montand | Monsumagno, Italy |
| Van Morrison | Belfast |
| Martina Navratilova | Prague | Liam Neeson | Ballymena |
| Sam Neill | N Ireland | Leslie Neilsen | Canada |
| Rudolf Nureyev | On a train in Siberia |
| Claire Oberman | Netherlands | Merle Oberon | Bombay |
| George Orwell | Bengal | Maureen O'Sullivan | Boyle, Ireland |
| Peter O'Toole | Kerry, Connemara |
| Al Pacino | New York | Nicola Pagett | Cairo |
| Susan Penhaligon | Manila | Pablo Picasso | Malaga |
| John Pilger | Sydney | Christopher Plummer | Toronto |
| Roman Polanski | Paris | Elvis Presley | Tupelo, Mississippi |
| Victoria Principal | Japan |
| Anthony Quinn | Chihuahua, Mexico |
| Basil Rathbone | Johannesburg | Keanu Reeves | Beirut |
| Cliff Richard | Lucknow, India | Edward G Robinson | Bucharest |
| Sigmund Romberg | Nagykanizsa, Hungary | Dante Gabriel Rosetti | London |
| Salman Rushdie | Bombay |
| Sabu | Karapur, Mysore | Andrew Sachs | Berlin |
| Leonard Sachs | Roodeport, Transvaal | Saki | Akyab, Burma |
| George Sanders | St Petersburg | Telly Savalas | New York |
| John Schlesinger | London | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Graz, Austria |
| Martin Scorsese | New York | Omar Sharif | Alexandria |
| William Shatner | Montreal | Willie Shoemaker | Fabens, Texas |
| Simone Signoret | Wiesbaden, Germany | Carmen Silvera | Toronto |
| Peter Snow | Dublin | Victor Spinetti | Cwm, South Wales |
| Pamela Stephenson | Auckland, NZ | Nigel Stock | Malta |
| Cat Stevens | London | Donald Sutherland | St John, Canada |
| Joan Sutherland | Sydney |
| Elizabeth Taylor | London | Rod Taylor | Sydney |
| Kiri Te Kanawa | Gisbourne, New Zealand | WM Thackeray | Calcutta |
| Debbie Thrower | Nairobi | Richard Todd | Dublin |
| JRR Tolkien | Bloemfontein, South Africa |
| Liv Ullman | Tokyo | Peter Ustinov | London |
| Rudolph Valentino | Castellaneta, Italy | Jean-Claude van Damme | Brussels |
| Erich von Stronheim | Vienna |
| Zoe Wanamaker | New York | David Warner | Manchester |
| Amanda Wenban | Sydney | Alan Whicker | Cairo |
| Roger Whittaker | Nairobi | Billy Wilder | Sucha, Austria |
| David Yip | Liverpool | Neil Young | Toronto |
| Lena Zavaroni | Isle of Bute | Franco Zeffirelli | Florence |
| Fred Zinnemann | Vienna |
| Year | Winner | Runner-up |
| 1951 | Kiki Haakonson (Sweden) | Laura Ellison-Davies (United Kingdom) |
| 1952 | May Louise Flodin (Sweden) | Sylvia Muller (Switzerland) |
| 1953 | Denise Perrier (France) | Alexandra Ladikou (Greece) |
| 1954 | Antigone Constanda (Egypt) | Karin Hultman (United States) |
| 1955 | Carmen Duijm Zubillaga (Venezuela) | Margaret Haywood (United States) |
| 1956 | Petra Susana Shurmann (Germany) | Betty Cherry (United States) |
| 1957 | Marita Lindahl (Finland) | Lilian Madsen (Denmark) |
| 1958 | Penelope Anne Coelen (South Africa) | Claudine Oger (France) |
| 1959 | Corine Rottschafer (Netherlands) | Maria Rossel (Peru) |
| 1960 | Norma Gladys Cappagli (Argentina) | Gila Golan (Israel) |
| 1961 | Rosemarie Frankland (United Kingdom) | Grace Lee (Free China) |
| 1962 | Catharina Lodders (Netherlands) | Kaarina Leskinen (Finland) |
| 1963 | Carole Joan Crawford (Jamaica) | Elaine Miscall (New Zealand) |
| 1964 | Ann Sydney (United Kingdom) | Ana Maria Soria (Argentina) |
| 1965 | Lesley Langley (United Kingdom) | Diana Batts (United States) |
| 1966 | Reita Faria (India) | Mikica Marionovic (Yugoslavia) |
| 1967 | Madeline Hartog Bell (Peru) | Maria Sabliauskas (Argentina) |
| 1968 | Penelope Plummer (Australia) | Kathleen Winstanley (United Kingdom) |
| 1969 | Eva von Reuber Staier (Austria) | Gail Rensaw (United States) |
| 1970 | Jennifer Hosten (Grenada) | Pearl Jansen (Africa South) * |
| 1971 | Lucia Tavares Petterle (Brazil) | Marilyn Ward (United Kingdom) |
| 1972 | Belinda Green (Australia) | Ingeborg Sorensen (Norway) |
| 1973 | Marjorie Wallace (United States) | Evangeline Pascual (Philippines) |
| 1974 | Helen Morgan (United Kingdom) * | Anneline Kriel (South Africa) |
| 1975 | Wilnelia Merced (Puerto Rico) | Marina Langner (Germany) |
| 1976 | Cindy Breakspeare (Jamaica) | Karen Jo Pini (Australia) |
| 1977 | Mary Stavin (Sweden) | Ineke Berends (Netherlands) |
| 1978 | Silvana Suarez (Argentina) | Ossie Carlsson (Sweden) |
| 1979 | Gina Swainson (Bermuda) | Carolyn Seaward (United Kingdom) |
| 1980 | Gabriella Brum (Germany) ** | Kimberly Santos (Guam) |
| 1981 | Pilin Leon (Venezuela) | Nina Johanna Soto Gonzales (Colombia) |
| 1982 | Mariasela Alvarez (Dominican Republic) | Sari Kaarina Aspholm (Finland) |
| 1983 | Sarah-Jane Hutt (United Kingdom) | Rocio Isabel Luna Florez (Colombia) |
| 1984 | Astrid Carolina Herrera (Venezuela) | Connie Fitzpatrick (Canada) |
| 1985 | Holmfriour Karlsdottir (Iceland) | Mandy Shires (United Kingdom) |
| 1986 | Giselle LaRonde (Trinidad and Tobago) | Pia Larsen (Denmark) |
| 1987 | Ulla Weigerstorfer (Austria) | Albani Lozada Jimenez (Venezuela) |
| 1988 | Linda Petursdottir (Iceland) | Yeon He-Choi (Korea) |
| 1989 | Aneta Kreglicka (Poland) | Leanne Caputo (Canada) |
| 1990 | Gina Marie Tolleson (United States) | Siobhan McClafferty (Ireland) |
| 1991 | Ninibeth Leal Jiminez (Venezuela) | Leanne Buckle (Australia) |
| 1992 | Julia Kurotchkina (Russia) | Claire Smith (United Kingdom) |
| 1993 | Lisa Hanna (Jamaica) | Jacqueline Mofokeng (South Africa) |
| 1994 | Aishwarya Rai (India) | Basetsane Julia Makgalemele (South Africa) |
| 1995 | Jacqueline Aguilera Marcano (Venezuela) | Anica Martinovic (Croatia) |
| 1996 | Irene Skliva (Greece) | Carolina Arango Corrales (Colombia) |
| 1997 | Diana Hayden (India) | Lauralee Martinovich (New Zealand) |
| 1998 | Linor Abargil (Israel) | Veronique Caloc (Martinique/France) |
| 1999 | not available yet |
**Gabriella Brum resigned after one day
| Copyright Quibs 1999 |
Last Updated 25/3/1999
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