Quiz 11 Flashcards
Which month, known as the windy month, was the sixth month of the French Revolutionary calendar, and lasted from around 20th February to 21st March
Ventose
Alberto Juantorena, Quincy Watts and Michael Johnson are among those who have won Olympic gold in which athletics event?
400m
Which children’s story by Roald Dahl was first adapted for the London stage in 2011 with songs by musician and comedian Tim Minchin?
Matilda
One of the four kings in a standard English pack of cards is depicted without a moustache - supposedly, originally, it ws missed off because of poor copying. Which king is it?
The King of Hearts
Which artist became the first President of the Royal Academy in 1768?
Joshua Reynolds
Of which British Prime Minister is the Labour politician Douglas Jay quoted as saying He never used one syllable where none would do?
Clement Atlee
In a chemistry laboratory, what is the purpose of a Kipp’s aparatus
Production of gases
Which two provinces in the North East of France, annexed by Bismark in 1871, were returned to France by Treaty of Versaille after the First World War?
Alsace and Lorraine
Which is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World whose exact location remains unconfirmed by archeology?
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The adjective pelagic, often used to describe certain types of bird, comes from a Greek word meaning what?
The open sea
Which powerful Italian organised crime ring, whose name is possibly derived from a local word for thief, is based in Calabria but has links and operatives all over the world?
The ‘Ndrangheta
In the children’s TV drama series Grange Hill, what was the name of the long-serving head teacher played by Gwyneth Powell?
Bridget (the Midget) McKluskey
Although it’s used in casual speech to mean the dim and distant past, in law the phrase time immemorial relates very precisely to a particular calendar year. Which one?
1189 (Richard I)
Which Dutch sprinter, who won the 100m and 200m at the 1948 London Olympics, was nicknamed The Flying Housewife?
Fanny Blankers-Koen
Which medal of the Order of the British Empire for gallentry was superceded in September 1940 by the introduction of which other honour?
George Medal
In Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, what is Gulliver’s first name?
Lemuel
What name, also meaning a particular time of day, is sometimes given to the hot and dry southern states of Italy, including the islands of Sicily and Sardinia?
Mezzogiorno
Which North American city is served by George Bush International Airport?
Houston TX
Which novelty swing dance, derived from the Charleston, was named following Charles Lindbergh’s crossing of the Atlantic in 1927?
Lindy hop
Which part of the British Isles has a parliament called the Court of Chief Pleas?
Sark
Which type of theatre derives its name from a Latin word meaning a player of many parts?
Pantomime
Apatosuarus is the name by which scientists now refer to the dinosaur formerly known as the Brontosaurus. The name Brontosausus means Thunder Lizard - but what does the name Apatosaurus mean?
Deceptive Lizard
Windermere is the kargest of the lakes in the English Lake District, and the largest natural lake in England. Which is the second largest?
Ullswater
In Morse Code, the most commonly occuring vowel and the most commonly occuring consonant are represented respectively by a single dot and a single dash. Which letters are these?
E and T
Which athlete and politician became the first person to be named BBC Sports Personality Of The Year in 1954?
Chris Chataway
The comic playwright born Jean Baptiste Poquelin in 1622 is better known by what pen name?
Moliere
Which pioneering jazz pianist, who came to prominence as part of the be-bop movement in the 1940s had the unusual middle name Sphere?
Thelonius Monk
In the care label symbols found on clothes, what is indicated by a square with a circle inside it, crossed out.
Do not tumble dry
A painting of 1599 by Caravaggio depicts a scene from the Old Testament, in which the Hebrew widow Judith beheads an Assyrian commander, after having calculatedly seduced him and made him drunk. What’s his name?
Holofernes
The heavy black-brown mineral cassiterite is the principle ore of which metallic element?
Tin
The toxic quinolizidine alkaloid, that became the suspected agent of poisoning in the Daphne du Maurier novel My Cousin Rachel, is presentin the seeds of which tree, grown for its hanging clusters of golden flowers
Labernum
Which Scottish monarch was killed at the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513?
James IV
In an early printed book, where would you find the explicit?
At the end
Which artist did Gore Vidal call a genius with the IQ of a moron
Andy Warhol
Which Latin phrase meaning come with me is often used to describe a personal handbook, carried for use when needed
Vade Mecum
The cran, equal to 37.5 gallons, is often used commercially to measure the volume of which commodity?
Fish - herring
The comedian Frankie Howerd’s role as Pseudolus, in the London production of Stephen Sondheim’s A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, led to a TV comedy series which was written for him, and directly inspired by that show. What was its title?
Up Pompeii
The four American Presidents whose faces are carved into Mount Rushmore in South Dakota are Lincoln, Washington, Theodore Roosevelt and which other?
Thomas Jefferson
The Canadian physician Frederick Banting won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1923, for his work with his colleague Charles Best, that made possible the treatment of which common condition?
Diabetes
The Drury Lane Theatre, on 28th September 1745, saw the first recorded public performance of which now very popular piece of music?
God Save The King
