Quiz 07 Flashcards
Which wall, that marked the northern limits of Roman Britain, was abandoned near the end of the second century AD
Antonine
The Scotland international Billy Bremner is associated with which then top-flight football club in the English league, which he captained during the late 60s and early 70s?
Leeds United
Of which household item, chiefly associated with the 1960s, did its inventor once say, If you buy it, you won’t need drugs?
Lava lamp
According to the Book of Genesis, what was 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high?
Noah’s Ark
Which clergyman, known to posterity through his diaries, lived at Clyro in Radnorshire during the 1870s?
Robert Francis Kilvert
At the end of 2012, BBC Radio 2 conducted a poll among its listener to find out their favourite No 2 record of all time. Ultravox’s Vienna won - which song held it down at No 2?
Joe Dolce’s Shaddap Your Face
What viral disease is known in French as La Rage?
Rabies
Strygidae and Tytonidae are the two major families of which order of birds?
Owls
In a sporting context, the letters ECB are the usual abbreviation for the England and Wales Cricket Board. But if a current news report about the financial world refers to the ECB, what do the letters stand for?
European Central Bank
At ta heigh of 893 metres or 2,930 feet above sea level, the summit of which hill in Cumbria is the highest point on the Pennine Way?
Cross Fell
Which standard unit of energy traditionally represents the amount of heat required to warm one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit?
British Thermal Unit
The white wines of the appellations Vouvray, Saumur and Sancerre are all produced in the valley of which French river?
Loire
Which remote location in Russia suffered an enormously powerful unexplained explosion, possibly from some sort of incoming cosmic fragment, in 1908?
Tanguska
The Vitruvian Man, a drawing showing the proportions of the human body, is often reporduced and was used for many years in the title sequence of the Granada TV programme World in Action. Which artist did the drawing?
Leonardo da Vinci
In the study of grammar, when you list the different forms of a verb according to person and tense, you are said to conjugate it. What do you do to a noun which you list its various forms according to case and number?
Decline
Which BBC television reporter’s dispatches from famine-torn Ethiopia in late 1984 prompted Bob Geldof to write and record the song Do They Know It’s Christmas?
Michael Buerk
The abbreviation ULCC is used for an ocean going oil tanker measuering around 415 metres in length. What do the letters ULCC stand for?
Ultra Large Crude Carrier
I now pronounce you men and wives is the closing line of which 1954 film musical?
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Who at Tokyo in 1964 became the first British woman to win an Olympic gold medal in a track and field athletics event?
Mary Rand
What was Che Guevara’s Christian name?
Ernesto
Woolsorter’s Disease is a term first recorded in around 1880 to describe a form of which bacterial infection?
Anthrax
Which Russian physiologist wrote Conditioned Reflexes, published in 1927 and Lectures of Conditioned Reflexes of 1928?
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
What sort of underwear, first introduced to the UK in 1938, was advertised with the slogan Like A Spitfire - Scientifically Built To Fit The Man?
Y-Fronts
Dunmore Park in Stirlingshire contains a large folly in the shape of which fruit?
Pineapple
When the blazing sun is gone / When he nothing shines upon / Then you show your little light - these are the opening lines of the little known second verse of which familiar nursery rhyme?
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Born Saloth Sar in the 1920s, how is the notorious former leader of the Khmer Rouge known to history?
Pol Pot
The Brynmor Jones Library, where the poet Philip Larkin worked for thirty years, is at which university?
Hull
In Greek legend, Pygmalion was the king of which island?
Cyprus
Gaping Ghyll, White Scar Cave and Malham Cove can all be found in which of England’s National Parks?
Yorkshire Dales
Fuelling conspiracy theories of a curse of sorts, especially among rock stars, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse were all the same age when they dies. What age?
27
In music, what does the Italian instruction da capo mean?
From the head/top
Which acclaimed film director first came to prominence as the only American-born member of the Monty Python team?
Terry Gilliam
The name of which alkaline earth metal derives from the mining location in Scotland where the mineral was discovered?
Strontium
The seaside resort of Brighton was known by what name in the 18th century, the name being shortened following the growth in its popularity after regular visits by the future George IV?
Brighthelmstone
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea / By sea girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown / Till human voices wake us and we drown - these are the closing lines of which poem by TS Eliot?
The Love Song Of j Alfred Prufrock
The constellation Crux is more commonly known by what two word English name?
Southern Cross
Which term, derived from the Italian for shoulder, refers to a line of fruit trees whose branches are pruned and trained into formal patterns against a wall or fence?
Espalier
Which traditional Japanese ceremonial activity is known by the name Cha-no-yu?
Tea Ceremony - Wall Of Tea
]What is the name of the geological period during which the coal measures were laid down?
Carboniferous
Which characteristic essentially distinguishes those mammals known as monotremes?
Egg-laying
