161. The mark of Gilgamesh.....

Sometimes referred to as “the mark of Gilgamesh”, approximately 1% to 2% of the human population has this condition. Titian, Botticelli, Modigliani and Gustav Klimt have frequently depicted this condition in their paintings. In the Indian medicinal practice of Ayurveda, they are seen as most likely to have a Pitta temperament.

What is being referred to here?

160. Filmspotting?

In 2002, Jean d'Ormesson, Lia Van Leer, Raymond Chirat, Dieter Kosslick, Alberto Barbera and Férid Boughedir watched the following movies, following which they declared the first one in the list to be the winner:

Union Pacific
Boefje
The Four Feathers
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Lenin in 1918
La Loi du nord
The Wizard of Oz

What exactly was happening?

159. Italy vs Switzerland!

“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The ______ ______.”

Fill in the blanks.

158. Cliched...

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was a prolific author often called the American Agatha Christie. She 'has been and continues to be' the most important American woman mystery writer and is also considered to have invented the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing.

One of her novels - “The Door” - is the supposed origin of a popular cliché.

Which one?