Quiz 20 Flashcards
Robert Fitzroy, who commanded HMS Beagle on which Charles Darwin sailed as the ship’s naturalist, served from 1843 as the governor of which British colony?
New Zealand
Which flower, referred to as a gillyflower in works by Shakespeare and Chaucer, was once used as a treatment for fevers and is now the symbol for Mothering Sunday?
Carnation
Le Freak was one of the best-known songs of which group of the disco era, led by musicians Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards?
Chic
Which annual publication that first appeared in 1864 has been edited over the years by Charles Pardon, John Woodcock and Matthew Engel, among others, and featured an entry on the trial of Charles I in its first edition?
Wisden
What’s the name of the mythological snake, also sometimes called a cockatrice, an example of which is killed by Harry Potter in The Chamber of Secrets?
Basilisk
Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax are protozoan parasites that cause which disease, most common in the tropics and sub-tropics?
Malaria
Which jazz trumpeter was the subject of the 1988 film documentary Let’s Get Lost, released the year of his death?
Chet Baker
In 1844, the archtiects Eugene Viollet-le-Duc and Jean-Baptiste Lassus were given the job of restoring which famous building?
Notre Dame
Mount Toubkal, rising to 13,670 feet or 4,167 m, is the highest peak of which mountain range?
Atlas
Which team sport, that can be played indoors or outdoors, was devised by William Morgan in 1895, supposedly for middle-aged men who found basketball too vigorous?
Volleyball
Many German princes were known as Electors, such as the Elector of Hanover - a title that referred to what special privilege or duty?
Choosing the Holy Roman Emperor
In which English country is the prehistoric monument known as the rollright stones?
Oxfordshire
Harald, son of Gorm the Old, who was King of Denmark in the 10th Century, was known by what name?
Bluetooth
In a painting is described as tondo, what shape must it be?
Round
Which publis school educated policeman, who also made his debut of radio, also appeared in the Eagle comic in the 1950s?
PC 49
A mobius strip is a band with only one face. What name is given to a bottle which is formed by passing the neck through the side to join a hole in the base, thus effectively creating a single side with neither an inside or outside
Klein bottle