Quiz 10 Flashcards

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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

A

Quarks

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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

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Sweeny Todd

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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?

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Edgar Degas

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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?

A

Country Mayo

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5
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What is a Devon rex?

A

Cat

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The Otto Cycle is the name given to the function of which type of engine?

A

Four stroke internal combustion

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In classical mythology, who, collectively, were Dtheno, Euryale and Medusa?

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Gorgons

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Which fictional group began its adventures On A Treasure Island in 1942 and ended them Together Again in 1963?

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Famous Five

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Which country became known as The Cockpit Of Europe becauseit has so frequently been the battleground of Europe?

A

Belgium

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10
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What is the name for a triangle which has three sides of differing lengths?

A

Scalene

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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?

A

Synapse

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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?

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Objet trouve

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Oeil de boeuf, or bull’s eye, is a French term referring to a 17th century type of which architectural feature?

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Window

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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?

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The Poseidon Adventure

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Which Arabic term is used as a title of respect for one who knows the Koran by heart?

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Hafiz

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What is the collective name for the four largest moons orbitin Jupiter?

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Gallilean

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17
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Given a licence in 1962, the oral vaccine widely used against poliomyelitis takes its name from which Polish-born American microbiologist who developed it in 1955?

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Albert Bruce Sabin

18
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Of which larger family of animals is the badger a member?

A

Weasel

19
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Derived from the Old French for a coin, what word is used to denote the fineness of material such as silk?

A

Dernier

20
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How many years seperated London’s 19th century Great Exhibition, and the 20th century Festival of Britain?

A

100

21
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Urchin is a Middle English word for which common insectivorous mammal native to mainland Britain?

A

Hedgehog

22
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Which English king instituted the Order of the Garter in 1348?

A

Edward III

23
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What name is given to the protectin and nourishing fluid in which a baby develops in the womb?

A

Amniotic fluid

24
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Paralysis agitans is a medical term for a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system, now more usually referred to by the name of which English doctor who published the first detailed description of the condition in 1817?

A

Parkinson

25
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The Hindu god Ganesh or Ganesa is depicted as having the head of which animal?

A

Elephant

26
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Dead Cert, published in 1962, was the first novel by which crime writer?

A

Dick Francis

27
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Batavia, a Roman name for the Netherlands, was the capital of the Dutch East Indies; post independence, how is the city known today?

A

Jakarta

28
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The Stevie Wonder hit song Happy Birthday was written as a tribute to which public figure?

A

Martin Luther King

29
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Depending on their activities, which scatologically named insect is grouped into either rollers, tunnelers or dwellers?

A

Dung beetles

30
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The Tell Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado are amongst the stories collected under the title Tales Of Mystery And Imagination, the best known work of which American author?

A

Edgar Allan Poe

31
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Which actress, in a film entitles Klondike Annie, utters the quip when choosing between two evils, I always pick the one I’ve never tried before?

A

Mae West

32
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In the human heart, which membranous sac surrounds the heart?

A

Pericardium

33
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Which US physicist gave his name to zones of highly energised charged particles, trapped at high altitude in the Earth’s magnetic field?

A

James Van Allen

34
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The characters Buttons and Baron Hardup traditionally appear in which pantomime?

A

Cinderella

35
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Jewish people of Sephardic descent have ancestors that were resident in which part of Europe, from the Middle Ages until their persecution and mass expulsion from those countries in the last decades of the 15th century?

A

Spain and Portugal

36
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Jody Scheckter, Jacques Lafitte and Jochen Rindt were prominent competitors in the 1970s in which international sport?

A

Formula One

37
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By what name do we now know the element produced in the 18th century by Henry Cavendish and described by him as inflammable air?

A

Hydrogen

38
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Which silent film star became known as The Great Stone Face because of his deadpan demaenour?

A

Buster Keaton

39
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What name is given to the unsuccessful attempt by Mao Zedong between 1958 and 1961 to hasten the process of industrialisation and the improvement of agricultural production in China?

A

The Great Leap Forward

40
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Arrangement In Grey And Black was the original title which it was first exhibitied in 1872 of an American paining now much better known by what name?

A

Whistler’s Mother