Quiz 19 Flashcards
With the chemical formula Fe3O3, which ore is the world’s most important course of iron
Haematite
the BBC Proms, founded in 1895, were held at which London venue until they moved to the Royal Albert Hall?
Queen’s Hall
The 18th Century portrait popularly known as The Skating Minister of the Edinburgh cleric the Reverend Robert Walker skating on Donnington Loch, is by which painter?
Henry Raeburn
Which ocean liner, the first ever to exceed a thousand feet in length, ended her days under the name of Layayette while being converted into a WW2 troopship?
SS Normandie
Which Holy Roman Emperorwas on of the leaders of the Third Crusade in 1189, but drowned in a river before reaching the Holy Land?
Frederick I - Barbarossa
Who was born at 17 Bruton St, London W1 at 2:40 in the morning on the 21st April 1926?
The Queen
A kit is a tiny, high pitched variety of which musical instrument, used widely by dacning masters between the 16th and 18th centuries?
Violin
MacFarlane Burnet, who discovered immunological tolerance, Lawrence Bragg, a pioneer of X Ray crystallography and Howard Florey, who isolated and purified penicillin, are all Nobel Laureates born in which country?
Australia
Which landmark of East Anglia owes its distinctive profile to the 14th Century engineering work of Alan de Walsingham
Ely Cathedral
What’s the present-day name of the capital city known until 1975 as Lourenco Marques?
Maputo
Which form of transport was first developed in Yokohama in 1869 by the Reverend Jonathan Scobie, for use of his invalid wife?
Rickshaw
Which entertainer, whose real name was Daniel Patrick Carroll, was once described by Bob Hope as the most glamourous woman in the world?
Danny La Rue
What is the Latin name for the element Sodium, giving rise to its chemical formula Na?
Natrium
The so-called Wicked Bible was printed in 1631 by Barker and Lucas in Blackfriars in London, and its nickname arises from a misprint of some rather crucial words in Exoduc chapter. What four word phrase, in particular, is responsible for this Bible’s noteriety?
Thou shalt commit adultery
What word for a source of wealth, often associated with a large output from a mine, comes from a Spanish term for good weather
Bonanza
What is the name of the American golfer who, in 1971, became the first to win the UK, US and Canadian open in the same year?
Lee Trevino