Quiz 01 Flashcards
Pesto, a staple sauce of Italian cooking, combines pine kernels, parmesan cheese and olive oil with which herb
Basil
In the Caribbean, what is a duppy
Ghost
Barbara Millicent Roberts is the full name of which iconic figure of the 20th Century, first introduced to the public by Ruth Handler in 1959 at the New York Toy Fair?
Barbie
On the label of a bottle of wine, the letters DOCG are an indication that it has been granted a stamp of particular quality. In which country will it hae been produced?
Italy
In the world of antiques, the names of William Cookworthy, Samuel Gilbody and Benjamin Lund are associated with high-quality 18th century examples in what field of craftmenship?
Porcelain
Lackland and Softsword are among the nicknames given to which English King, the father of Henry III
John
In the so-called Easter Rising of 1916, which building in Dublin’s Sackvill St was occupied and used as a headquarters by Irish nationalists, until they abandoned it when it caught fire as a reseult of being shelled by the British?
Post Office
Which of the territories of Canada has the city of Yellowknife as its capital?
Nothwest Territories
Ada, Countess of Lovelace, best known for having written the first description of Charles Babbage’s mechanical computer, was the daughter of which English poet?
Byron
Sabrina, The Apartment and Some Like It Hot are among the films of which multiple-Oscar winning director who died in 2002?
Billy Wilder
Which type of wheat, with a name derived from the Latin for hard, is cultivated mainly to make pasta, couscous and macaroni?
Durum
Which fictional detective made his final appearance in a novel called Curtain, published in 1975, and was the first fictional character ever to be honoured with an obituary on the front page of the New York Times?
Hercule Poirot
Which Swiss scultor, born in 1901, is best known for his works in bronze depicting rough textured free standing human figures with extremely thin and elongatedc limbs?
Alberto Giocometti
Which island group in the Indian Ocean, a poluar tourist destination, has the city of Victoria as its capital?
Seychelles
Now considered a classic of cookery writing, the 1984 book An Omelette And A Glass Of Wine is a collectin of articles by which food writer?
Elizabeth David
Which British rock group, formed in the late 1960s, was named after an agriculturalist of the 18th century whose principle work was entitled Horse-Hoeing Husbandry?
Jethro Tull
Which Dublin born actor played the role of Philip E Marlow in Dennis Potter’s television series The Singing Detective?
Michael Gambon
Which organisation has its origins in Pulaski, Tennessee, founded there by Confederate Army veterens in the late 1860s?
The Klu Klux Klan
Vanessa and Jesse, the children of Lorna Luft, are the grandchildren of which singer and actress who died in 1969?
Judy Garland
In 1911, the American politician, explorer and archeologist Hiram Bingham discovered which lost Inca city, on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru?
Machu Pichu
Which spice is derived from the plant whose Latin name is Crocus Sativus?
Saffron
According the the prison warder Mr Mackay in the classic TV comedy series Porridge, “In this prison there are only two rules. One is, you do not write on the walls.” What is the other
You obey all the rules
Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea are four novels written by Lawrence Durrell in the 1950s, which are known by what collective title?
The Alexandria Quartet
Ultra-violet radiation in sunlight helps convert ergosterol, a substance present in the skin, into a form of which vitamin?
D
Which of the American Ivy League universities has its campus in the city of New Haven Connecticut?
Yale
What name is given to the gold-coloured alloy of copper, zinc and sometimes tin, which is used to decorate furniture and ornaments?
Ormalu
By what name do we know the undesirable condition known medically as Pityriasis Capitis?
Dandruff
Can you name the music-hall star born Matlilda Alice Victoria Wood in 1870, who first appeared as Bella Delmere before taking the stage name by which she is best known?
Marie Lloyd
Having formulated a law for the polarisation of light, which is named afre him, the 19th century Scottish physicist David Brewster also invented a scientific instrument that became popular as a children’s toy. What was it?
Kaleidoscope
The 1930s children’s books Peter Duck and Pigeon Post are sequels featuring the same characters to which highly successful novel?
Swallows and Amazons
In chemistry, what name is given to different forms of the same substance which may have different properties, such as carbon in the forms graphite and diamond?
Allotropes
The much recorded country song, composed by Kris Kristofferson, has a refrain which begins with the words Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose?
Me and Bobby McGee
Which highly respected broadcaster, born in 1933, came to prominence as one of the regulars on television’s Late Night Line Up in the 1960, and later presented the ethical investigative series The Heart Of The Matter for many years?
Joan Bakewell
In which hindu text, part of the Mahabharata, does Lord Krishna instruct Prince Arjuna on the importance of absolute devotion?
The Bhagavad-gita
The novel sequence entitled Gargantua and Pantagruel, famously long and rambling and bawdy, is the work of which French Renaissance medic and satirist?
Rebalais
Which Scottish Premier League football club plays its home games at Tynecastle?
Hearts
In the animal kingdom, the family Lepidorae consists of which common British mammals
Rabbits and hares
What word is used in physics to describe an ionised gas produced at extremely high temperatures and, in biology, to the liquid component of blood?
Plasma
A psychopathic killer named Michael Myers is the central villain of a celebrated horror movie of 1978 and its series of sequels. Can you name the movie?
Halloween
Famously celebrated in music, Fingals Cave is a rock formation to be found on which uninhabited Hebridean island?
Staffa
