Quiz 13 Flashcards
The British singer Brinsley Forde, who fronted the reggae band Aswad, began his showbusiness career as a teenager as part of the ensemble cast of which children’s TV programme?
The Double Deckers
The vineyards of Chateauneuf-du-pape are in the valley of which major French river?
The Rhone
The world’s first purpose built airport, officially opened in 1920, was located in, and named after, which London suburb?
Croydon
In the human body, the masseters are pairs of muscles, located where?
The face
Which Scottish born novelist, who died in 2006, based her best-known fictional character on a real person named Christina Kay, who was her schoolteacher when she was eleven?
Muriel Spark
Which name is shared by the 18th century author of The State of the Prisons in England and Waled and the man who served at the Prime Minister of Australia between 1996 and 2007?
John Howard
What name was given between 1925 and 1961 to the Russian city which had previously been known as Tsaritsyn and would later be called Volgograd?
Stalingrad
Which American journalist and sage, in a publication entitled A Book Of Burlisque, defined Puritanism as the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy?
HL Mencken
Shostakovich’s opera Katerina Ismaylova, produced in 1962, was a revised version of which earlier work, which had been condemned and banned by Stalin in the 1930s?
Lady Macbeth of Mtensk
In physics, what name is given the the principle, formulated by Werner Heisenberg, that states the impossibility of specifying precisely both the position and simultaneous momentum of a particle?
Uncertainty Principle
If something is described a amygdaloid, it means it is shaped like what?
Almond
A John Masefield novel of 1926, called Odtaa, is an adventure story set in a South American state during a revolution. What do the five letter of its title, ODTAA, stand for?
One Damned Thing After Another
Which character in Shakespeare has the most lines in a single play without being the character named in its title?
Iago
In a survey in the early 2000s to find the most frequently played pop songs ever on British radio, both the tope place and the runner up spot were taken by songs containing the word Fandango in their lyrics. Can you name them both?
Bohemian Rhapsody, Whiter Shade of Pale
Which one of the castles that form the group known as the Iron Ring, built in the 13th century by Edawrd I on the Welsh coast, stands on the island of Anglesey?
Beaumaris
The last two individuals of which species of seabird were thought to have been discovered in June 1844 on Eldey Island, south west of Iceland, by a group of Icelandic fisherman who subsequently killed them?
Greak Auk
The word myriad is derived from the ancient Greek for a specific number. Which number?
10,000
Which Finnish athlete, nicknamed the Flying Finn, won gold medals in both the men’s 5,000m and 10,000m, at two successive Olympic Games in 1972 and 1976?
Lasse Viren
Someone called Mr Chicken was the last known private resident of which famous address?
10 Downing St
Which Italian fashion designer coined the term shocking pink?
Elsa Schiaparelli
In a 1946 newspaper article, who wrote about an imaginary pub called Moon Under Water, which for him summed up the ideal features of an English public house?
George Orwell
Cardiac Arrest, Bodies and Line of Duty are amonth the TV series created by which British TV writer, producer and former doctor?
Jed Mercurio
Which Johannesburg suburb - the location of Lilliesleaf Farm, where African National Congress leaders were arrested in 1963 - lent its name to the trial of Nelson Mandela and others, who were charged with 221 acts of sabotage?
Rivonia
Where in the human body would you find Bowman’s capsules, named afer the 19th century English surgeon and histologist Sir William Bowman?
Kidneys
Eustacy is a phenomenon currently much occupying oceanographers and environmentalists. What is Eustacy?
Changes in sea levels
When it started as a single division in 1888, how many teams contested the very first English Football League?
12
Dirty, Snoopy, Biggo-Ego and Awful are among the names considered, but rejected, for which group of cartoon characters?
Seven dwarfs
Which actress, having the good fortune to be bilingual, was able to dub her own voice for her character, Fiona, in the French release of the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral?
Kirsten Scott Thomas
According to the American humorist Will Rogers, The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American People than what?
Golf
What were Eric Morecombe and Ernie Wise’s real surnames?
Bartholomew and Wiseman
The ornate pink 18th century palace known as Hawa Mahal, or The Hall of the Winds, is a landmark of which Indian city?
Jaipur
The pioneering scientists Sir Joseph Banks, Sir William Herschel and Sir Humphrey Davy all dies within a few years of one another - in which decade?
1820s
Which bestselling novel, first published in 1972, includes chapters entitled The Departure, The Crow and the Beanfield, and The Story of the King’s Lettuce?
Watership Down
The sum of the internal angles of a triangle is 180 degrees. What is the sum of the internal angles of a hexagon?
720 degrees
This first winner of the Booker Prize, on its inauguration in 1969, was a writer who also happened to be the controller of BBC Radio Three at the time. The winning novel was called Something to Answer For. Who was the writer?
PH Newby
Arundel Castle in West Sussex is the principle seat of which member of the nobility?
Duke of Norfolk
On a standard grand piano keyboard of 88 keys, how many are black?
36
If Eros is no 433, Vesta is no 4, Matildhe is 253 and johncleese is no 9618 - what are they all?
Asteroids
In botany, the adjective nyctanthous describes what type of plants?
Night-flowering
The 1980s TV sitcom, Allo Allo, parodied characters and situation from which slightly earlier BBC drama series, set in Nazi occupied Belgium?
Secret Army
