Quizmail - Help

[marje]

Q53 and Q136 - can anyone who's doing this quiz please give really good clues to these questions. I've googled for ages!! Any help gratefully accepted.

[kettledrum]

Marje - We can't help you if you don't give us the questions!

[marje]

Sorry kettledrum, I suppose I was relying on the people who do the Quizmail to answer, but I'll post the questions and hope you, or anyone else can help!
Q53 By what single name, which is now proverbailly applied to any generous patron of the arts, is an ancient Roman politician, diplomat and trusted colleague of Emperor Augustus best remembered today?
Q136 Give the name and regnal number of the 16th century monarch who earned his famous epithet because, according to popular belief, he was born during a thunderstorm?

[shaneystar2]

Is this any help ?
Gaius Cilnius Maecenas (70 � 8 BC) was a confidant and political advisor to Octavian, who was to become the first Emperor of Rome as Caesar Augustus, as well as an important patron for the new generation of 'Augustan' poets. His name has become a byword for a wealthy patron of the arts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maecenas

[marje]

Thanks shaneystar, that's brilliant. I don't think I'd have found that one myself.

[kettledrum]

136. Ivan the Terrible - Ivan iV -Tsar of Russia from 1533 to 1584

[marje]

Thank you kettledrum, I was just working my way through a list of every country's 16th century monarchs! You've saved my sanity!!

[lemondrop1]

Answer to Q53 is the surname of the leader of a band of men who lived in a forest.
Q136 think Irish clergyman as title of TV series - his wife.

In return could you give me clue to Q98 please

Localgirl