Quiz 03 Flashcards

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Exhibited in 1849, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s first majo canvas The Girlhood of Mary, Virgin, bore his signature, the date and the letters PRB. What did PRB stand for?

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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

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Which prolific female novelist who died in the year 2000 was married twice, both times to men with the surname McCorquodale?

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Barbara Cartland

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What’s the name of the gorge, descending to more than 36,000 feet below sea level, that marks the lowest point of the Marianas Trench in the north-western Pacific, and is thus the deepest point anywhere on the Earth’s surface?

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Challenger Deep

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The Seven Lamps of Architecture and The Stones of Venice are among the works of art criticism by which writer, who died in 1900?

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John Ruskin

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Which writer, himself a noted theatre critic, defined a critic as a man who knows the way but cannot drive the car?

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Kenneth Tynan

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Obtained from the tree of the species Quercus suber, what material forms the centre of the best quality cricket balls?

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Cork

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Night-Writin - a letter code devised in 1819 by the French army captain Charles Barbier for passing secret messages silently in the dark - gave rise to which form of communication still in use today?

A

Braille

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The words Mistah Kurtz - he died, used by TS Eliot as an epigraph for his poem The Hollow Men are taken from which novel first novel first published in 1899?

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Heart of Darkness

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The same novel in turn inspired a movie of 1979, in which the character played by Dennis Hopper refers back to the final works of Eliots The Hollow Men. Which film is it?

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Apocalypse Now

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The hungarian ballerina Romola de Pulsky married a dancer and choreographer in Buenos Aires in 1913, and publised a biography in 1952 chronicalling the latter years of her husband’s life. Who was he?

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Nijinsky

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Which Greek sculptor, active in the 5th century BC, created the huge Statue of Zeus at Olympia which was named one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and also supervised the friezes for the Parthenon which are now preserved as the Elgin Marbles?

A

Phidias

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12
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Which two seas are connected by the Suez Canal?

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Mediterranean and Red

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Which American broadcaster, who died in 2009, used to sign off his news programmes with the phrase And that’s the way it is?

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Walter Cronkite

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In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which character does Alice encounter sitting on a mushroom and smoking a hookah?

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Caterpillar

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In seventeenth and eighteenth century London, Garraways, Johnathan’s and Lloyd’s were all famous what?

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Coffee shops

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16
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How many oxygen atoms are there in a single molecule of sulphuric acid?

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Four

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17
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Ansel Adams is a renowned name in which of the arts?

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Photography

18
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Having written many of their biggest hit songs, including Easy, Still and Three Times A Lady, the soul singer Lionel Ritchie left which group to pursue a solo career in the 1980s?

A

Commodores

19
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What’s the common English name for the species of small bird whose taxonomic name is Troglodytes troglodytes?

A

Wren

20
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Which Arabic word meaning benefits or a source of improvement has come to be widely used in Indian coookery to mean a mixture of spices, and can be preceded in familiar phrases by the words garam or tikka

A

Masala

21
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In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, what forename did she give to Dr Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus?

A

Victor

22
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How is the artist born in Crete in 1541, and named Domenikos Theotokopoulus, better known?

A

El Greco

23
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Which term, originally a nonsense word invented by Edward Lear, is now used for a three pronged fork, shaped like a spoon with one sharp edge?

A

Runcible

24
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A 22 storey triangular shaped tower on the corner of Broadway and 23rd St in Manhattan, built by the architect Danial H Burnham in 1902, is Manhattan’s oldest remaining skyscraper, and was added to the US National Register of Historic Places in 1979. By what name is it commonly known?

A

Flatiron Building

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The last recorded words of a certain British monarch were My dear boy, this is death. Who made this astute utterance and then died, on 26th June 1830

A

George IV

26
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The 19th century Edinburgh anatomist Robert Knox is said to have been the principal client of which notorious pair of Irishmen

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Burke and Hare

27
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Which two sports are named in the full title of the All England Club at Wimbledon?

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Tennis and Croquet

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CITES is an acronym for the agreement between nations sometimes referred to as the Washington Convention, regulating international trade in plant and animal species considered to be rare or at risk. What do the letters CITES stand for?

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Convention for International Trade in Endangered Species

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The first ten amendments to the constitution of the United States, passed in 1791, are collectively known by what name?

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Bill of Rights

30
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Which former child actor, whose best known roles include Richie Cunningham in the teen comedy series Happy Days, became one of Hollywood’s top director with successes such as Frost/Nixon, The DaVinci Code and Apollo 13 among his credits?

A

Ron Howard

31
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What would or could result from a casus belli?

A

War

32
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Which three word name is most commonly used in the UK for the game sometimes known as Rochambeau in the United States and as Jan Ken Pon in Japan?

A

Stone Paper Scissors

33
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What’s the equivalent decimal value of eight shillings and sixpence?

A

42.5 p

34
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In Charles Dickens’ Nicholas Nickelby, what’s the full name of the wicked headmaster at the grim Yorkshire school Dotheboys Hall at which Nicholas is employed as a schoolmaster?

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Wackford Squeers

35
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In which continent would you find Wilkes Land, Queen Maud Land and Marie Byrd Land?

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Antartica

36
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Which famous sports team, founded in the late 1920s, originally featured members from a semi-professional team known as the Savoy Big Five?

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Harlem Globetrotters

37
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What name is given to the peninsula that forms the detached former northern portion of Lancashire, preserved in the name of a borough in what is now Cumbria?

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Furness

38
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Which word is used to mean both a pidgin language which has become the native speech of a particular people, and a style of cuisine typical of New Orleans and the Mississipi delta?

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Creole

39
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In a film of 2015, the actor Alex Jennings played two aspects of the personality of which writer, in a device which allowed the character to by portrayed having arguments with himself?

A

Alan Bennett

40
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The more common name for calcium magnesium carbonate is also the name of a range of Alps in north-eastern Italy. What is it?

A

Dolomite