Quiz 03 Flashcards
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?
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Which prolific female novelist who died in the year 2000 was married twice, both times to men with the surname McCorquodale?
Barbara Cartland
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?
Challenger Deep
The Seven Lamps of Architecture and The Stones of Venice are among the works of art criticism by which writer, who died in 1900?
John Ruskin
Which writer, himself a noted theatre critic, defined a critic as a man who knows the way but cannot drive the car?
Kenneth Tynan
Obtained from the tree of the species Quercus suber, what material forms the centre of the best quality cricket balls?
Cork
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?
Braille
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?
Heart of Darkness
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?
Apocalypse Now
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?
Nijinsky
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?
Phidias
Which two seas are connected by the Suez Canal?
Mediterranean and Red
Which American broadcaster, who died in 2009, used to sign off his news programmes with the phrase And that’s the way it is?
Walter Cronkite
In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which character does Alice encounter sitting on a mushroom and smoking a hookah?
Caterpillar
In seventeenth and eighteenth century London, Garraways, Johnathan’s and Lloyd’s were all famous what?
Coffee shops
How many oxygen atoms are there in a single molecule of sulphuric acid?
Four