201908062 Flashcards
Which car model produced by British Leyland from 1973 to 1982 under its Austin marque was noted for its ?quartic? steering wheel which was rectangular with rounded corners although was phased out by 1974?
Allegro
Which late BBC newsreader co-hosted Treasure Hunt with Anneka Rice between 1982 and 1988?
Kenneth Kendall
Which German footballer a defender known for his elegant style and leadership and nicknamed the Kaiser won the Ballon DOr twice in 1972 and 1976?
Franz Beckenbauer
Which SI derived unit of magnetic induction is named after a Serbian-American engineer?
Tesla
What name is given to the stringed musical instrument traditional to Greece with a flat front usually heavily inlaid with mother-of-pearl? It can have three or four pairs of strings.
Bouzouki
On Ordnance Survey maps what do the letters CG stand for?
Coastguard
What colour are the benches in the House of Commons?
Green
Which mythological creature half bull and half man was slain by Theseus?
Minotaur
Who was the first swimmer to represent the United States in five Olympic Games and at 41 the oldest swimmer to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team when she did so in 2008?
Dara Torres
Modern science has identified many states of matter besides liquid solid gas and plasma. What adjective is applied to states of matter composed of fermions at high states of kinetic energy such that the Pauli exclusion principle is satisfied?
Degenerate
The Downward-Facing Dog is one of the most widely known poses in which form of physical exercise with its roots in Hinduism?
Yoga
Presenters of which BBC TV topical debate programme broadcast on Thursday evenings have included Peter Sissons Robin Day and David Dimbleby?
Question Time
Which leader of the USSR a former Chairman of the KGB died aged 79 in February 1984 less than two years after taking over from Leonid Brezhnev?
Yuri Andropov
Give any year in the life of poet Robert Burns.
1759-1796
Summertime is an aria from which 1935 opera by George Gershwin set in South Carolina?
Porgy and Bess
What is the first US state alphabetically?
Alabama
In an orchestra the trumpet and tuba belong to which family of instruments?
Brass
What is the capital city of the Baltic nation of Latvia?
Riga
Which paddle steamer collided with the Bywell Castle in 1878 at Gallions Reach on the Thames with the loss of over 600 lives? It is thought the location of the disaster beside a raw sewage outflow may have contributed to the death toll.
SS Princess Alice
Which American female impressionist artist?s works include The Child?s Bath The Boating Party and Little Girl in a Blue Armchair?
Mary Cassatt
Which tuberous food crop has varieties including Desiree and Maris Piper?
Potato
In which 1980 Stanley Kubrick film does a character played by Jack Nicholson exclaim Here?s Johnny?
The Shining
Which Barbadian-born England fast bowler who only became eligible to play for England in early 2019 bowled the Super Over in this year?s Cricket World Cup final?
Jofra Archer
Also known as hordeolum which eye condition occurs when an oil gland on the eyelid becomes infected by bacteria giving rise to a red tender bump on the edge of the eyelid?
Stye
Which two-word Latin legal phrase translates as let the buyer beware?
Caveat emptor
Which real-life Milan opera house is the favourite venue for Herg? character Bianca Castafiore in the Tintin stories?
La Scala
Which singer had her first UK top 40 hit in 1976 with Lost in France?
Bonnie Tyler
Running underground for pretty much all of its course which London waterway starts at Hampstead Heath and flows through Camden to the Thames?
Fleet
Rounds featuring which popular game form the basis for the ITV show Bullseye?
Darts
What was the name of the Space Shuttle which broke apart 73 seconds into its flight in 1986 killing all seven members?
Challenger
In which dating app released in December 2014 do female users make the first contact with matched male users?
Bumble
Which French actress became the second French person to win an Academy Award for her role in Room at the Top in 1959? She also had a lead role in 1957s The Crucible alongside her husband Yves Montand.
Simone Signoret
Which England batsman who had scored 59 in the match contributing to a crucial 110-run partnership with Ben Stokes took to the crease alongside Stokes for the start of the cricket World Cup Super Over?
Jos Buttler
Which late BBC newsreader a BBC TV News contemporary of Kenneth Kendall narrated Mary Mungo and Midge and appeared in the 1977 Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show?
Richard Baker
Which root vegetable has varieties including Chantenay and Nantes?
Carrot
The Palais Garnier Opera House forms the setting for which Gaston Leroux novel successfully adapted into a stage musical?
The Phantom of the Opera
The roll on roll off ferry which sank off the coast of County Down in the January 1953 European storm with the loss of 133 lives was named MV Princess what?
Victoria
On Ordnance Survey maps what do the letters TH stand for?
Town Hall
In an orchestra the bass drum and cymbals belong to which family of instruments?
Percussion
What was the name of the Space Shuttle which disintegrated upon atmospheric entry in 2003 after a piece of foam insulation had broken off during launch? In 1981 it was the first Space Shuttle to go into orbit.
Columbia
The focus of which dating app released in February 2014 is to match users based on locations where they have crossed paths?
Happn
Which French female impressionist artist?s works include The Cradle View of Paris from the Trocadero and Summers Day?
Berthe Morisot
Rounds featuring which popular game form the basis for the BBC TV show Big Break?
Snooker
Presenters of which BBC TV rural affairs programme broadcast on Sunday evenings have included Tom Heap Charlotte Smith and Matt Baker?
Countryfile
Which singer had her first UK top 40 hit in 1978 as the principal vocalist for the group Hot Gossip with I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper?
Sarah Brightman
What name is given to the black spots within your vision which dart away when you try to look at them directly? They consist of protein fibres within the vitreous in the eye.
Floaters
Which three-word Latin phrase used in law but also more generally translates as an equal exchange of goods or services or of money for other goods or services?
Quid pro quo
What is the last US state alphabetically?
Wyoming
What colour are the benches in the House of Lords?
Red
What is the capital city of the Baltic nation of Lithuania?
Vilnius
What name is given to the stringed musical instrument traditional to Japan which has three strings and is played with a plectrum often to accompany Kabuki theatre?
Shamisen
Another relatively recently identified state of matter is which state in which a large number of bosons inhabit a single quantum state in effect becoming a single wave or particle? It only happens in laboratory conditions at very low temperatures.
Bose-Einstein condensate
Which German footballer a striker known for his clinical finishing from short range and nicknamed the Bomber won the Ballon DOr in 1970? He held the all-time record for goals in the FIFA World Cup Finals from 1974 to 2006.
Gerd M?ller
In which 1964 Stanley Kubrick film does a character played by Peter Sellers utter the words The BOMB Dmitri. The hydrogen bomb?
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Which car model produced by British Leyland from 1982 to 1986 under its Austin marque was noted for the ?talking dashboard? information system on its MG and Vanden Plas models?
Maestro
Give any year in the life of the writer Jonathan Swift.
1667-1745
Ol Man River is a song from which 1927 opera by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein set on the Mississippi river?
Show Boat
Which SI derived unit of electrical inductance is named after the American scientist who discovered electromagnetic induction independently and at the same time as the Englishman Michael Faraday?
Henry
Yuri Andropov was succeeded as Soviet leader by which 73 year-old who himself served in the role less than two years before his death? He was succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev.
Konstantin Chernenko
Running underground for pretty much all of its course which London waterway runs from South Hampstead through St Jamess Park to the Thames? It is not to be confused with the Westbourne which has a similar but more westerly route.
Tyburn
Also known as padmasana which yoga pose is adopted by sitting with crossed legs with each foot placed on the opposite thigh and is named after the national flower of India?
Lotus position
Which mythological creature a winged human female with snakes instead of hair was slain by Perseus?
Medusa
Dara Torres is one of three women with 12 Olympic swimming medals. Name either of the other two both Americans who won them between 1992 and 2004 and 2004 and 2012 respectively.
Jenny Thompson or Natalie Coughlin
Which French actress won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Seven Days… Seven Nights in 1960 and is also noted for her lead role in Truffaut?s Jules et Jim?
Jeanne Moreau
The childrens television programme The Magic Roundabout was created by the father of which Oscar winning actress?
Emma Thompson
The name of which toy consisting of an axle connected to two disks and a loop of string is believed to derive from the Filipino language Ilocano?
Yo yo
What surname is shared by a BBC rolling news presenter and a Canadian actor who played jazz pianist Sebastian Wilder in La La Land?
Gosling
Which unlucky US astronaut was lunar pilot on the aborted Apollo 13 mission and then slated to command Apollo 19 before its cancellation in 1970 thus losing two opportunities to walk on the moon?
Fred Haise
