Quiz 07

Question 1

Which wall, that marked the northern limits of Roman Britain, was abandoned near the end of the second century AD

Answer 1

Antonine

Question 2

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?

Answer 2

Leeds United

Question 3

Of which household item, chiefly associated with the 1960s, did its inventor once say, If you buy it, you won’t need drugs?

Answer 3

Lava lamp

Question 4

According to the Book of Genesis, what was 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high?

Answer 4

Noah’s Ark

Question 5

Which clergyman, known to posterity through his diaries, lived at Clyro in Radnorshire during the 1870s?

Answer 5

Robert Francis Kilvert

Question 6

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?

Answer 6

Joe Dolce’s Shaddap Your Face

Question 7

What viral disease is known in French as La Rage?

Answer 7

Rabies

Question 8

Strygidae and Tytonidae are the two major families of which order of birds?

Answer 8

Owls

Question 9

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?

Answer 9

European Central Bank

Question 10

At a height 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?

Answer 10

Cross Fell

Question 11

Which standard unit of energy traditionally represents the amount of heat required to warm one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit?

Answer 11

British Thermal Unit

Question 12

The white wines of the appellations Vouvray, Saumur and Sancerre are all produced in the valley of which French river?

Answer 12

Loire

Question 13

Which remote location in Russia suffered an enormously powerful unexplained explosion, possibly from some sort of incoming cosmic fragment, in 1908?

Answer 13

Tunguska

Question 14

The Vitruvian Man, a drawing showing the proportions of the human body, is often reproduced and was used for many years in the title sequence of the Granada TV programme World in Action. Which artist did the drawing?

Answer 14

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 15

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?

Answer 15

Decline

Question 16

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?

Answer 16

Michael Buerk

Question 17

The abbreviation ULCC is used for an ocean going oil tanker measuring around 415 metres in length. What do the letters ULCC stand for?

Answer 17

Ultra Large Crude Carrier

Question 18

“I now pronounce you men and wives” is the closing line of which 1954 film musical?

Answer 18

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Question 19

Who at Tokyo in 1964 became the first British woman to win an Olympic gold medal in a track and field athletics event?

Answer 19

Mary Rand

Question 20

What was Che Guevara’s Christian name?

Answer 20

Ernesto

Question 21

Woolsorter’s Disease is a term first recorded in around 1880 to describe a form of which bacterial infection?

Answer 21

Anthrax

Question 22

Which Russian physiologist wrote Conditioned Reflexes, published in 1927 and Lectures of Conditioned Reflexes of 1928?

Answer 22

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

Question 23

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?

Answer 23

Y-Fronts

Question 24

Dunmore Park in Stirlingshire contains a large folly in the shape of which fruit?

Answer 24

Pineapple

Question 25

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?

Answer 25

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Question 26

Born Saloth Sar in the 1920s, how is the notorious former leader of the Khmer Rouge known to history?

Answer 26

Pol Pot

Question 27

The Brynmor Jones Library, where the poet Philip Larkin worked for thirty years, is at which university?

Answer 27

Hull

Question 28

In Greek legend, Pygmalion was the king of which island?

Answer 28

Cyprus

Question 29

Gaping Ghyll, White Scar Cave and Malham Cove can all be found in which of England’s National Parks?

Answer 29

Yorkshire Dales

Question 30

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 died. What age?

Answer 30

27

Question 31

In music, what does the Italian instruction da capo mean?

Answer 31

From the head/top

Question 32

Which acclaimed film director first came to prominence as the only American-born member of the Monty Python team?

Answer 32

Terry Gilliam

Question 33

The name of which alkaline earth metal derives from the mining location in Scotland where the mineral was discovered?

Answer 33

Strontium

Question 34

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?

Answer 34

Brighthelmstone

Question 35

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?

Answer 35

The Love Song Of J Alfred Prufrock

Question 36

The constellation Crux is more commonly known by what two word English name?

Answer 36

Southern Cross

Question 37

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?

Answer 37

Espalier

Question 38

Which traditional Japanese ceremonial activity is known by the name Cha-no-yu?

Answer 38

Tea Ceremony - Wall Of Tea

Question 39

]What is the name of the geological period during which the coal measures were laid down?

Answer 39

Carboniferous

Question 40

Which characteristic essentially distinguishes those mammals known as monotremes?

Answer 40

Egg-laying