Quiz 09 Flashcards
What name is given in reproductive biology to a certain type of cell, two of which merging with one another produce a zygote - examples being sperm and egg cells?
Gametes
The five Leatherstocking Tales of the 19th century American novelist James Fennimore Cooper are The Pioneers, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer, and which other novel, first published in 1826?
The Last of the Mohicans
In 1598 the Edict of Nantes finally defined freedom of worship for which French religious group, who had to suffer its revocation in 1685 by Louis XIV?
Huguenots
Which term - first used in 1976 in Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene - is used to refer to a so-called unit of cultural information passed between minds through imitated use?
Meme
At approximately 192km, which is the longest river in Scotland?
Tay
According to Philip Larkin’s poem Annus Miralibis, in which year did sexual intercourse begin?
1963
Which British actor’s prominent roles encompass Lennie Pice in Two Way Stretch in 1960 and Wilf Mott in Dr Who in the 21st century?
Bernard Cribbens
C5H9N3 is a chemical formula for which biogenic compound released bu the immune system during allergic reactions?
Histamene
Which bird, sometimes known as the sea swallow, has varieties including the Sooty, Arctic and Sandwich?
Tern
What name is generally given to the palaeoanthropological theory - advanced by geneticists in the 1980s - that all living humans share a single ancestor, a hypothetical woman living in eastern Africa between 150 and 200 thousand years ago?
Eve Hypothesis
Benjamin Franklin, Percival Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allen Poe and Paul revere were all born in which city, historically known as the Athens of America?
Boston
What was King George IV’s first name?
Albert
What traditional custom takes place in the Derbyshire villages of Tissington and Youlgreave, amongst others, said to be associated with the worship of water deities?
Well dressing
What is the name fo the French village, outside Paris, where Monet spent the last years of his life, painting his famous Waterlillies series?
Giverny
George Bingham was in overall charge of the cavalry charge at Balaclava: he was the 3rd holder of which title that was made infamous by the 7th holder, declared legally dead in the 1990s?
Lord Lucan
Which Austrian physicist is responsible for the naming of the ration of the speed of the body or fluid to the local speed of sound, particularly commonly applied in relation to aircraft?
Ernest Mach