Quiz 06 Flashcards
In August 2009 the founders of the internet messaging service Twitter failed in their bid to have which English word officially registered in the United States as a trademark of their own?
Tweet
In 1709 Abraham Darby first successfully smelted iron with coke at his furnace in which Shropshire village, off what is now called the Ironbridge Gorge?
Coalbrookdale
What, when originally discovered in 1781 by William Herschel, was given the name Georgium Sidus in honour of King George the Third?
Uranus
Relapsing fever, trench fever and typhus are diseases transmitted by the parasitic insect Pediculus humanus corporis, which is more commonly known by what name?
The body louse
Which city in the United States was devestaed by a fire started on the the 8th October 1871, supposedly by a cow kicking over a lantern and setting light to its barn?
Chicago
The author of novels such as Cranford and North and South was often just known as Mrs Gaskell. What was her first name?
Elizabeth
The species of which long-armed member of the ape family include the Siamang, the Black Crested and the Hoolock?
Gibbon
Which of the nobel gases takes its name from the Greek for something strange?
Xenon
What title, used by the hereditary spiritual leader of the Nizari sect of Ismaili Muslims, was first conferred on Hasan Ali Shah by the Shah of Persia?
Aga Khan
The 56 pits known as the Aubrey holes are a feature of which English monument?
Stonehenge
Which best selling children’s book, first published in 1960 and written using a volcabulary of no more than fifty words, features the persistently enthusiastic Sam-I-Am?
Green Eggs and Ham
After Everest and K2, which is the third highest mountain in the world?
Kanchenjura
How are Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve referred to in the title of a 1553 canvas by Hans Holbein the Younger?
The Ambassadors
With its origins in the southern states of the USA, zydeco is a traditional style of which art form?
Music
Which Greek goddess, the daughter of the night, was the goddess of divine retribution?
Nemesis
Which British Prime Minister spent his last years in a house called Arundells in Salisbury Cathedral Close?
Edward Heath