Augus27 Flashcards
“Young peasant having her coffee” and “Boulevard Montmartre” are all famous works by which Impressionist who lived from 1830 to 1903?
Camille PISSARO
The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, the Parliament House in Valetta, Malta and the New York Times building in New York are all the creations of which architect?
Zaha HADID
The works of which British science fiction writer include “Supertoys Last All Summer Long” and the Helliconia Trilogy?
Brian ALDISS
What name has been given to the diplomatic episode of 1850 when Greeks rioted after being asked not to burn an effigy of Judas Iscariot at the time of a visit from James de Rothschild?
DON PACIFICO AFFAIR
The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850 reduced tensions between the US and Great Britain in regard to the plans to build a transcontinental canal through which Central American country?
NICARAGUA
The Menai Bridge first connected the Isle of Anglesey with the mainland, but which other bridge, built 20 years later by Robert Stephenson, provided the first rail link between the mainland and Anglesey?
britannia bridge
What two-word term was the title of the effective head of government within the Ottoman Empire? The title of the modern day Prime Minister of Pakistan in Urdu literally translates into this term
GRAND VIZIER
Regnal name and number please of the man who was twice Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and who conquered Constantinople at the age of 21, bringing an end to the Byzantine Empire in doing so
MEHMET 2
After conquering the city in 1453, Mehmed II made Constantinople the new Ottoman capital, replacing which other city? This city in Thrace is famous for its breaded and deep fried liver
EDIRNE/ADRIANOPLE
The number of times a normal somatic, differentiated human cell population will divide before cell division stops is the BLANK limit. What word fills the blank? It is named after an American Professor of Anatomy who studied the aging process for more than fifty years.
HAYFLICK
the structures within chloroplasts that are the sites of the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis?
THYLAKOIDS
In photosynthesis, structures withing thylakoids
QUANTOSOMES
Which British historian, a well known face on TV, attended the University of Liverpool to study the history of slavery? His TV work includes “A house through time” and 2023’s “Union”
DAVID OLUSOGA
Born on a slave ship in the Atlantic and sold into slavery in New Granada, which man later became a London shopkeeper and the first known British African to have voted in Britain?
IGNATIUS SNACHO
DNA evidence has shown that Thomas Jefferson impregnated what woman many times whilst she was a slave at his Monticello estate?
SALLY HEMMINGS
