Quiz 15 Flashcards
What name is given to the zone, or those parts of the Earth and its atmosphere, able to support life?
Biosphere
The architect Frank Matcham specialised in the design of what sort of building?
Theatres
Which two words, mearning the image of a King, formed the title of the collection of writings supposedly composed by the incarcarated Charles I and published on the day of his burial in 1649?
Eikon Basilike
Which British racing driver was killed in a road accident off the racing track just months after winning the world driver’s championship in 1958?
Mike Hawthorn
Which branch of mathematics takes its name from the Latin word for a pebble?
Calculus
How many gallons of beer are there in a firkin?
Nine
The koala bear is not a bear. To which family of animals does it belong?
Marsupials
Discovered in 1787 by William Herschel, what’s the largest moon of Uranus?
Titania
The mythological lovers Pyramus and Thisbe, whose story is performed by the mechanicals in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, belonged to which ancient civilisation?
Babylon
In which borough of New ork will you find the city’s Botanical Gardens, and the Poe Cottage, the last home of the write Edgar Allen Poe before his mysterious death in 1849?
The Bronx
In Poe’s story, The Cask of Amontillado, what is the not-very-fortunate fate of the character Fortunato?
Bricked up in a cellar
What was the title of the film western, directed by John Huston and released in 1961 that featured Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, both in the final roles of their careers?
The Misfits
Violet Gibson was known for her attempt to assassinate which prominent figure in 1926?
Benito Mussolini
In an allusion to his ancestor Edward the Confessor, which of the eight later King Edwards was nicknamed Edward the Caresser?
Edward VII
Describing whose funeral in New York in 1974 did Alistair Cooke write - when the ten thousand people inside were asked to stand and pray () Carlsbad caverns in New Mexico at the first blush of dawn?
Duke Ellington
In which German city will you find a statue by Gerhard Marcks which shows a cock standing on a cat standing of a dog standing on a donkey?
Bremen