Quiz 10 Flashcards
Which elementary particles, believed to be one of the basic building blocks of matter, are divided into six types: Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange and Charmed
Quarks
Which fictional villain, later the subject of a musical by Stephen Sondheim, made his first appearance in The String of Pearls, a story which first appeared in The People’s Periodical in 1846
Sweeny Todd
Marie van Goetham - a 14 year old dance student at the Palais Garnier in Paris - became the subject of an iconic work by which French artist?
Edgar Degas
In which country of Ireland is Knock, the village celebrated as the site of a series of visions of the Virgin Mary in August 1879?
Country Mayo
What is a Devon rex?
Cat
The Otto Cycle is the name given to the function of which type of engine?
Four stroke internal combustion
In classical mythology, who, collectively, were Dtheno, Euryale and Medusa?
Gorgons
Which fictional group began its adventures On A Treasure Island in 1942 and ended them Together Again in 1963?
Famous Five
Which country became known as The Cockpit Of Europe becauseit has so frequently been the battleground of Europe?
Belgium
What is the name for a triangle which has three sides of differing lengths?
Scalene
In biology, what is the name for the point of contat betweek won neurone and another, the junction across which a nerve impulse passes from an axon terminal to a neuron, muscle cell or gland cell, also known as a neuronal junction?
Synapse
In art, what is the genrally used French term for an object found by an artist and displayed as it is, or sometimes with minimal alteration?
Objet trouve
Oeil de boeuf, or bull’s eye, is a French term referring to a 17th century type of which architectural feature?
Window
Rehearsal for Disaster is the title of the first chapter of which novel by Paul Gallico, filmed in 1972 with a cast including Gene Hackman, Shelley Winters and Ernest Borgine?
The Poseidon Adventure
Which Arabic term is used as a title of respect for one who knows the Koran by heart?
Hafiz
What is the collective name for the four largest moons orbitin Jupiter?
Gallilean