Quiz 08 Flashcards
The phrase BRIC Nations refers to a group fo countries whose economies and influents are growing and predicted to keep growing during the 21st century. What do the letters BRIC stand for?
Brazil, Russia, India, China
Decaying uranium finally becomes an isotope of which metal?
Lead
Le Manege Enchante was the originaly French title of which classic children’s TV programme?
The Magic Roundabout
Which financial enterprise began in a coffee house in Tower Street London, in the 1680s before moving to bigger premises near Lombard Street?
Lloyds
Which itinerant ballet company, directed by Sergei Diaghilev and widely regarded as the greatest ballet company of the 20th century performed in many countries between 1909 and 1929?
Ballet Russes
In which range of hills are the Wookey Hole caves?
Mendips
Which British actor and comedian directed his first Hollywood feature in 2009, called The Invention of Lying?
Ricky Gervais
What is the chemical formula for Ozone?
O3
In 1981 a book by twelve year old Patrick Bossert became one of the fastest selling books of all time. Its contents provided a means of solving which problem?
Rubik’s cube
Recorded as an entry in his diary, God grant my eyes may never behold the like is a sentiment reflecting John Evelyn’s response to which historical event?
Great Fire of London
The Rainbow Bridge, a natural arch of pink sandstone crosses Lake Powell in which US state?
Utah
In the Hindu religion, what is a Sadhu?
Holy man, sage
Bob Paisley steered which football club to six league titles and three European Cups during nine years as manager?
Liverpool
According to the humourous book of British history 1066 And All That by Sellar and Yeatman, which parliament was so-called because it had been sitting for such a long time?
Rump Parliament
The sequel to Rovert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped takes its title from the girl the hero David Balfour falls in love with. What is its title?
Catriona
What stretch of water seperates the Isle of Anglesey from the Welsh mainland?
Menai Straits
The host used in the sacrement of Holy Communion, the indian chapati and the matzo traditionally eaten during the Jewish feast of the Passover are all forms of what type of bread?
Unleavened
Which old fashioned phrase for nudity, familiar from a song featured in a film with Danny Kaye, is though to have been first popularised by its use in George Du Maurier’s novel Trilby in 1890s?
Altogether
Which chemical element has as its symbol the single letter P?
Phosphorus
Delphi, home of the Oracle of legend, lies on the slopes of which Greek mountain, which was itself sacred to the Muses?
Mount Parnassus
The Treaty of Paris in March 1856 formally ended which war?
Crimean
The Morrison Formation, a geological feature of the western United States, is the American continent’s richest sourse of fossil remains of what type of creatures?
Dinosaurs
The swimwear known as a bikini acquired its name because the word bikini was in the news at the time of its introduction in 1946. Can you explain why?
Nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll
Buteo buteo is the taxonomic name of which large bird of prey, widespread in Britain and Europe
Buzzard
The film known simply as Star Wars on its first release in 1977 became Episode 4 in the eventual sequence of films and acquired a subtitle. Can you give the subtitle?
A New Hope
What two-word term is used for a synthetic androgen that selectively enhances the growth of skeletal muscle?
Anabolic Steroid
The branch of chemistry known as organic chemistry involves the study of the compounds of which element?
Carbon
In popular fiction what profession is common to both Irene Adler the New Jersey born beauty who outwits Sherlock Holmes in Conan Doyle’s A Scandal in Bohemia, and Bianca Castafiore, the victim of jewel theft in the Tintin adventure The Castefiore Emerald?
Opera singers
Which body was created in the UK in 1995 to assume many of the roles and responsibilities formerly undertaken by the National Rivers Authority, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Pollution and the waste regulation authorities of England and Wales
Environment Agency
The carbonated soft drink generally known in the US as cream soda is flavoured with pods from plants of which genus?
Vanilla
In 1964 the American theoretical physicist Murray Gell-Mann coined which word for a group of subatomin particles regarded, along with leptons, as basic constituents of matter?
Quarks
Bhadrapada, Asvina and Kartika are months in the calendar of which religion?
Hinduism
For what sort of even would an epithalamium be written?
Wedding
What two word term is widely used as the US equivalent to what the British would call positive discrimination?
Affirmative Action
Jane Eyre is the best known of Charlotte Bronte’s four published novels. Can you name any one of the other three?
The Professor/Shirley/Vilette
Two of the United States of America have names which, in common pronounciation, end with a silent S. Which two?
Arkansas/Illinois
What was the traditional subject of the type of wall painting, often seen in medieval churches, known as a Doom
The Last Judgement
Known for his drawings in black in, influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts and emphasising the grotesque, the decedant and the erotic, who was the first art editor of The Yellow Book an influential literary periodical published in London in the 1890s
Aubrey Beardsley
In English folklore, a tod is a traditional name for which animal?
Fox
The name of which Italian dairy product means recooked
Ricotta
