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
The French term houille blance and the German Weisse Kohle, both literally meaning White Kohl, refer specifically to what?
Hydro-electric power
In physics, what name is given to a tiny particle emitted from a radioactive nucleus during beta decay that specifically contains no charge?
Neutrino
Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave, is a work of fiction published in London in 1688, about an African prince tricked into slavery and barbarically killed, by a female writer about whom little is known. What was her name?
Aphra Behn
Cyrophytes, a group of organisms which are most likely to be algae and fungi, thrive in which specific type of environment?
Ice and snow
In 1974, after a rock concert in Boston, the music critic John Landau wrote I saw the rock and roll future, and its name is - with which name did he complete the sentence?
Bruce Springsteen
Hydrated magnesium silicate is often used in the home. By what everyday name do we know it in that context?
Talc
Now an archaic poetic term, a Palfrey was a horse meant especially to be ridden by which group of people?
Women
Heard in the US Supreme Court in 1893, the case of Nix v Hedden established that which edible crop was a vegetable and not a fruit
Tomato
Also a musical term for a florid melodic passage in music, what name was given to the posture in ballet where the dancer stands with one leg extended horizontally backwards, the torso extended forwards and the arms outstretched?
Arabesque
In the 2005 Julian Barnes novel Arthur and George, George Edalji is a solicitor accused of mutilating horses. Who is Arthur, the novelist whose investigations help acquit him of the charge?
Conan Doyle
Bernado O’Higgins was the first President of which country?
Chile
Which species of North American pit viper gave its name to a Northerner sympathetic to the South, or opposed to Lincoln’s policies, in the American Civil War?
Copperhead
The term dystrophy, as in muscular dystrophy, literally refers to a fault or defect in what function
Nutrition
Franz Schubert’s Ninth Symphony is known as the Great, but which number is ascribed to his so-called Unfinished Symphony?
Eight
If all of the characters in the Bible were listed alphabetically, who would come first?
Aaron
In the BBC TV Series Yes Minister, by Anthony Jay and Johnathan Lynn, to which fictional government department was Jim Hacker first appointed a minister?
Department of Administrative Affairs
Which popular grape variety is used to produce the wines of Chablis?
Chardonnay
Which humorous artist and musician ofren used to sign his name with a trademark signature in which the double f in his surname was replaced by two trebble clefs?
Hoffnung
It’s being so cheerful that�s as keeps me going was the catchphrase of the character Mona Lott, in which classic radio comedy show popular in the 1940s?
ITMA
Which two-word phrase, indicating the tendency of writers and artists to ascrib human emotions and sympathies to nature, was coined by John Ruskin in the third volume of his word Modern Painters?
Pathetic Fallacy
Which Spanish city has a name that literally means pomegranate?
Granada
What’s the name of the unfeasibly articulate and scheming toddler at the centre of the cartoon series Family Guy?
Stewie
What name describes a mechanical model, usually clockwork, representing the motions of the planets around the sun, an example having been depicted in a famous 18th century painting by Joseph Wright of Derby?
Orrery
Which American woman, who escaped from slavery in Maryland in the 1840 is remembered for helping over 300 Southern slaves to freedom via the so-called Underground Railroad of safe houses?
Harriet Tubman
