Quiz 21 Flashcards
What kind of performer would be most likely to use a swazzle?
Punch and Judy man
LHOOQ is a bawdy title given to an artwork of 1919 by Marcel Dauchamp, consisting of a reproduction of a very famous portrait on whose face he had drawn a beard and a moustache. Which portrait?
Mona Lisa
The dormant Mount Ranier and the National Park that bears its name are to be found in which US state?
Washington
The 1896 novel Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz and the film adaptation of 1951 are set in Rome in the time of which emperor?
Nero
Which former journalist on the Atlanta Constitution in Georgia wrote the stories which provided the basis for the 1946 Disney film Song Of The South?
Joel Chandler Harris
Which criminal sounding name is given to the broad nose marsh crocodile, found in parts of India and Sri Lanka and traditionally venerated in the Hindu religion?
Mugger
In the binary system, what conventional number is expressed as 1111
15
What is the name of the faun, the first inhabitant of the land of Narnia to be introduced in the novels of CS Lewis?
Mr Tumnus
The ancient mathematician Euclid, the chemist and chrystallographer Dorothy Hodgkin and Naguib Mahjouz, the Nobel prize winning novelist, were all born in which country?
Egypt
In a dramatic monologue by J Milton Hayes, whose grave is tended by a broken hearted woman beneath the gaze of a one eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu?
Mad Carew
How many sides does a hendecagon have?
11
Whose acclaimed 2009 play Jerusalem centres around Johnny Rooster Byron, a defiant drop-out living in a ramshackle mobile home, played in the original production by Mark Rylance?
Jez Butterworth
According to a widely quoted comment by the polyglot Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, he supposedly spoke Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men. Which language did he speak to his horse?
German
Playes of which game compete for the Bermuda Bowl and the Venice Cup?
Bridge
Whose 1966 recording of the song Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) was memorably used on the soundtrack of the Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill Vol 1, and also sampled by the Audio Bullys in the hit Shot You Down?
Nancy Sinatra
Hoopes Process is an alectrolytic technique of refining which metallic element, achieving a purity level as great as 99.99 per cent?
Aluminium