Quiz 04 Flashcards
The surname Fletcher specifically refers to a person who makes and sells what?
Arrows
Mons Meg, a siege gun presented to King James the Second of Scotland in 1457, is now housed in which castle?
Edinburgh
Which American poet, who died in 1886, was known as the nun of Amherst?
Emily Dickinson
Known as the master endocrinal gland, which gland at the bottom of the brain secrets hormones that regulate a number of bodily processes, including growth, reproductoin and other metabolic activities?
Pituitary
In literature, theatre and film, who is hounded throughout his life by Inspector Jalvert?
Jean Valjean
The song Here In My Heart, as sung by Al Martino, holds what particular distinction in the history of the British pop charts?
First number one
Wood-spack, hood-awl, eccle and yaffle are all local names for which bird?
Woodpecker (Green)
The jazz musician Eroll Garner is most closely associated with which instrument?
Piano
The National Library of Wales is to be found in which coastal town?
Aberystwyth
Can you name either of the two other Patricians who, along with Julius Caesar, formed what’s often called the First Triumvirate to rull Rome in 60BC?
Crassus and Pompey
Which American cartoonist born in 1954, whose first success was the syndicated strip-cartoon Life In Hell, is also the creator of The Simpsons?
Matt Groening
The job of publishing a verbatim record of the proceedings of parliamen was taken over by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office from which family, whose established job it had been for much of the 19th century?
Hansard
Which civil engineer born in 1832 became known as the Magician of Iron?
Eiffel
The Eiffel Tower was built to celebrate the centenery of which event?
The French Revolution
The use of which chemical, at the time begin used to treat sewage in Carlisle, was pioneered from 1866 by Joseph Lister as an antiseptic, in solution, at Glasgow Royal Infirmary?
Carbolic Acid/Phenolhlorine
Jenkins Hill in Washington DC is now better known by a name referring to a building, begun in the 1790s, which stands upon it. What name is that?
Capital Hill
The conspiracy to murder all the members of the cabinet in 1820 is known by the name of a street in the Marylebone area of West London: what is it called?
Cato Stree
Which is the only English city whose name begins with T?
Truro
In geometry, what name is given to any angle that is greate than 180 degrees (but smaller than 360)?
Reflex
The Austrian monk Gregor Mendel derived his genetic theories from his experiments during the 1860s wih what kind of plants?
Peas
What type of star, the smallest and densest known, is produced when a massive star explodes as a supernova, exceeding what’s called the Chandresekhar Limit, and then collapses on itself?
Neutron star
Which fictional report made his debut appearance in a story called Land Of The Soviets in 1929?
Tintin
The Land Of Green Ginger is the name of a street in which Northern British city?
Kingston upon Hull
Ginger You’re Barmy! Is a comic novel based on the author’s own experience of national service in the 1950s, by a writer and academic best known for novels set on university campuses. Who is he?
David Lodge
Which isotope of Hydrogen is the principal component of heavy water?
Deuterium
Gimme a viskey, ginger ale on the side - and don’t be stingy, baby - was the first line ever spoken on film by which star?
Greta Garbo
In which decade was Switzerland admitted to membership of the United Nations?
2000s
What two word term describes the temperature at which air becomes saturated and unable to hold any more water vapour?
Dew point
What forename was shared by Jane Austen’s mother and older sister?
Cassandra
Which English logician gave his name to diagrams of mathematical sets in which intersecting areas denote elements that are common to the sets represented?
John Venn
Who wrote the much anthologised English poem that opens with the lines So we’ll go no more a-roving / So late into the night / Through the heart be still as loving / and the moon be still as bright?
Byron
The winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1978 and the inventor of the domenstic sewing machin in the 19th century share the same forename and surname. What are they?
Isaac Singer
Which inland sea is bounded by Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan?
Caspian
Although unrelated, the pop singers Joe Cocker and Jarvis Cocker both came from which British city?
Sheffield
The name of which artistic movement is thought to have originated in a less-than-complimentary comment by the critic Louis Vauxcelles, reviewing an exhibition of the work of Georges Braque in 1908?
Cubism
The man who was Surveyor of the King’s, and later the Queen’s, pictures between 1945 and 1972, and Director of the Courtald Institute of Art from 1947 to 1974, later became known to the general public for other reasons entirely. Who was he?
Anthony Blunt
Which branch of mathematics is concerned with the motion of objects under the actions of forces?
Dynamics
First published in 1982, the anthology The Rattle Bag is a collection of the favourite poems of the two poems who edited it. They were Ted Hughes and - who else?
Seamus Heaney
The rock and roll song Blue Suede Shoes, recorded most famously by Elvis Presley, was written by which performer, another Sun Records recording artist?
Carl Perkins
In the familiar equation E=mc^2, which is the constant represented by c?
Speed of light, approx 300k m/s