Quiz 12 Flashcards
Which English singer-songwrite, who died tragically young in 1974, released only three albums diring his lifetime, Five Leaves Left, Bryter Later and Pink Moon, largely ignored at the time but now all acknowledged as classics?
Nick Drake
A Cream Cracker Under The Settee was the title of the last of Alan Bennett’s acclaimed 1988 series of TV monologues, Talking Heads. Which actress performed it?
Thora Hird
Aqua Fortis the Latin for strong water, was a name used achaically for which acid?
Nitric acid
What common process is known to botanists as positive geotropism
Roots growing downwards
The viral disease epidemic parotitis, most commonly afflicting children between the ages of 5 and 15, is commonly known by what name?
Mumps
What name is given to the long sleeveless out er vestment worn by priests, and normally distinguished by the liturgical colour appropriate to the mass being celebrated?
Chasuble
The Rev Canon Chasuble DD is a vicar in which of Oscar Wilde’s comedies?
The Importance of Being Ernest
Which naturalist and physician was responsible for giving us our biological name Homo sapiens?
Carl Linnaeus
Alphabetically, which is the last book of the Old Testament?
Zephaniah
Which 14th century manuscript, consisting of more than fifty poems, including some attributed to a bard who lived as early as the 6th century, inspired the title of an LP by the rock band Deep Purple?
The Book of Taliesin
Claire Tomalin, who biography of Charles Dicken was published in 2011, is also the author of an acclaimed biography of Dickens’ mistress, published twenty years earlier with the title The Invisible Woman. What was the mistress’s name?
Ellen Ternan
Patrick Troughton, Richard Greene, Michael Praed and Jonas Armstrong have all appeared in TV dramas playing which medieval figure?
Robin Hood
Which London railway terminus is depicted in WP Frith’s painting of 1862 entitled The Railway Station?
Paddington
What term is used in archeology to refer to the physical material - such as soil or sediment - in which culturaly artefacts or fossils are embedded?
Matrix
The organisation CSETI, founded in the USA in 1990 by Stephen M Greer, is dedicated to the furtherance of human understanding of what phenomenon?
Extra-terrestial intelligence
In 1985 the zoologist Dian Fossey was murdered while making a study of mountain gorillas - in which African country?
Rwanda