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