Quiz 16 Flashcards
Which children’s writer and illustrator whose family fled Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s created the bestselling children’s books The Tiger Who Came To Tea and the series about a forgetful cat called Mog?
Judith Kerr
Based on a folk tune, the orchestral work Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus was written in 1939 by which English composer
Ralph Vaughan-Williams
Lavrentiy Beria, executed in 1953, was the head of which organisation during the Second World War?
NKVD
Which King of England reigned between the years 978 and 1016, succeeding his father Edgar and his half-brother Edward?
Ethelred the Unready
Which journal, still in existence, was founded in 1823 by the Devon born MP, coroner and social health reformer Thomas Wakley?
The Lancet
Lady Jane Grey got married shortly before she became Queen of England in July 1553 - so what was her actual married name at the time of her death?
Dudley
Which Irish Taoseach signed the Hillsborough Agreement in 1985?
Garrett Fitzgerald
In the Spider-Man series of Marvel comics, Peter Parker is a freelance photographer for which newspaper?
Daily Bugle
In the classic game of Cluedo, the plant toxicologist Dr Orchid was introduced to the cast of suspects in 2016, becoming the first new character in the game for more than sixty years. Which of the six original characters did she replace?
Mrs White
The Droeshout engraving, the Janssen bust and the Chandos Portrait are all believed to be the likeness of which historical figure?
William Shakespeare
In Australian Rules football, how many points are awarded for a goal?
6
Which famous 20th Century novel opens with the words: To the red country and the part of the grey country of Oklahoma the last rains came gently and did not cut the scarred earth?
The Grapes of Wrath
In 2008, in genealogical research for the BBC program Who Do You Think You Are, which political figure discovered a hitherto-unsuspected blood tie to the British Royal Family?
Boris Johnson
The villages of Reeth, Gunnerside and Keld are to be found in which of the North Yorkshire Dales?
Swaledale
What is an Eton Crop?
Haircut
The address of a site on the worldwide web is often referred to as a URL. What do the letters URL stand for?
Uniform Resource Locator
What’s the surname of the brother and sister both noted Hollywood actors who played a pair of fictional siblings in the 2001 film thriller Donnie Darko?
Gyllenghaal
In the 1930s, the Nazi regime justified its drive for expansion of its territory by the argument that the country was overcrowded and needed living space to give its people a comfortable life. What German word meaning Living Space was used in this context?
Lebensraum
In a novel of 1889, the best known work of its author who was born in the West Midlands, there is a comical incident in which the protagonists manage to lose their way in Hampton Court Maze. Which novel is it?
Three Men In A Boat
According to legend, the ninth century Pope officially known as Pope John the Eighth was unique in what respect?
Female
Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was to be found at Halicarnassus in present day Turkey, which was also the birthplace of Herodotus
Mausoleum
Somsersby Rectory in Lincolnshire what the birthplace, in 1809, of which English poet
Tennyson
As opposed to plankton - minute aquatic organisms which drift - which word describes the ecological division of acuatic animals that swim actively and by their own efforts
Nekton
What nationality was the 20th century composer Gerald Finzi?
British
The word Pavonine, sometimes applied to a dandy or flamboyantly-dressed person, actually means having the appearance of or being similar to what?
Peacock
In which 19th century novel does the hero meet up with two conmen who call themselves the Duke of Bridgewater and Looy the Seventeenth?
Huckleberry Finn
A classic and much reproduced newspaper cartoon from the First World War features the caption Well if you knows of a beeter ole, go to it - who drew the cartoon?
Bruce Bairnsfather
Which two-word term was coined by Thomas Rymer, the author of Tragedies of the Last Age Considered to describe the idea that in a work of literature, good characters should be rewarded and evil characters punished?
Poetic Justice
What name was given to the first-ever line of the London Underground, opened in January 1863 and running originally from Bishop’s Road and Farringdon St?
Metropolitan
Which silver-white metalloid element, discovered by Franz Joseph Muller von Richtenstein in 1782, has the atomic number 52 and takes its name from the Latin word for earth?
Tellurium
Casey Kasem, in addition to being one of America’s most popular disc jockeys, was also known for providing the voice for which cartoon character created by Hanna-Barbera?
Shaggy
On which of the twenty or so Hawaiian islands will you find the modern state capital Honolulu, as well as the former base of the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbour?
Oahu
The principle that Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity is known by what name?
Occam’s Razor
The Indian-born British physician Ronald Ross was the first to identify the means of transmission of which deadly disease?
Maleria
Which writer’s first published novel The Grass is Singing dates from 1950?
Doris Lessing
Two Italian composers wrote operas called La Boheme, both based on episodes from an 1851 book by Henri Murger. Puccini’s is the better known. Who wrote the other
Ruggero Leoncavallo
In which decade of the 20th century were the following phrases first recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary: nouvelle cuisine, paternity leave, no-go areas and passive smoking?
1970s
Living in Manchester, the Irish sisters Mary and Lizzie Burns became successively the mistresses of which philosopher who married the latter on her deathbed in 1878?
Fredrich Engels
Which artist was commissioned by the Strand Magazine to illustrate the first series of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sidney Paget
Which British pop group had eight Top Ten hits in a row in the early 1970, all of which titles were deliberately misspelled?
Slade
