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 Charm?
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?
Sweeney 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 county of Ireland is Knock, the village celebrated as the site of a series of visions of the Virgin Mary in August 1879?
County 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 Stheno, 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 because it 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 contact between one neuron 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 generally 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 Borgnine?
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 orbiting Jupiter?
Galilean
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?
Albert Bruce Sabin
Of which larger family of animals is the badger a member?
Weasel
Derived from the Old French for a coin, what word is used to denote the fineness of material such as silk?
Dernier
How many years separated London’s 19th century Great Exhibition, and the 20th century Festival of Britain?
100
Urchin is a Middle English word for which common insectivorous mammal native to mainland Britain?
Hedgehog
Which English king instituted the Order of the Garter in 1348?
Edward III
What name is given to the protecting and nourishing fluid in which a baby develops in the womb?
Amniotic fluid
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?
Parkinson
The Hindu god Ganesh or Ganesha is depicted as having the head of which animal?
Elephant
Dead Cert, published in 1962, was the first novel by which crime writer?
Dick Francis
Batavia, a Roman name for the Netherlands, was the capital of the Dutch East Indies; post independence, how is the city known today?
Jakarta
The Stevie Wonder hit song Happy Birthday was written as a tribute to which public figure?
Martin Luther King
Depending on their activities, which scatologically named insect is grouped into either rollers, tunnelers or dwellers?
Dung beetles
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?
Edgar Allan Poe
Which actress, in a film entitled Klondike Annie, utters the quip “when choosing between two evils, I always pick the one I’ve never tried before”?
Mae West
In the human heart, which membranous sac surrounds the heart?
Pericardium
Which US physicist gave his name to zones of highly energised charged particles, trapped at high altitude in the Earth’s magnetic field?
James Van Allen
The characters Buttons and Baron Hardup traditionally appear in which pantomime?
Cinderella
Jewish people of Sephardic descent have ancestors who 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?
Spain and Portugal
Jody Scheckter, Jacques Lafitte and Jochen Rindt were prominent competitors in the 1970s in which international sport?
Formula One
By what name do we now know the element produced in the 18th century by Henry Cavendish and described by him as inflammable air?
Hydrogen
Which silent film star became known as The Great Stone Face because of his deadpan demeanour?
Buster Keaton
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?
The Great Leap Forward
Arrangement In Grey And Black was the original title, under which it was first exhibited in 1872, of an American painting now much better known by what name?
Whistler’s Mother
