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 Wales 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 Burlesques, 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 as 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 Edward 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
