Quiz 21 Flashcards

1
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What kind of performer would be most likely to use a swazzle?

A

Punch and Judy man

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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?

A

Mona Lisa

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3
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The dormant Mount Ranier and the National Park that bears its name are to be found in which US state?

A

Washington

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4
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The 1896 novel Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz and the film adaptation of 1951 are set in Rome in the time of which emperor?

A

Nero

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5
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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?

A

Joel Chandler Harris

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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?

A

Mugger

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7
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In the binary system, what conventional number is expressed as 1111

A

15

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What is the name of the faun, the first inhabitant of the land of Narnia to be introduced in the novels of CS Lewis?

A

Mr Tumnus

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9
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The ancient mathematician Euclid, the chemist and chrystallographer Dorothy Hodgkin and Naguib Mahjouz, the Nobel prize winning novelist, were all born in which country?

A

Egypt

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10
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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?

A

Mad Carew

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11
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How many sides does a hendecagon have?

A

11

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12
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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?

A

Jez Butterworth

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13
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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?

A

German

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14
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Playes of which game compete for the Bermuda Bowl and the Venice Cup?

A

Bridge

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15
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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?

A

Nancy Sinatra

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16
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Hoopes Process is an alectrolytic technique of refining which metallic element, achieving a purity level as great as 99.99 per cent?

A

Aluminium

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17
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In the musical Wicked, based on the 1995 book by Gregory Maguire, in turn inspired by characters from L Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, what’s the name of the character known originally only as the Wicked Witch of the West?

A

Elphaba

18
Q

In the human body, the tongue is attached at the floor of the mouth to which U shaped bone in the upper part of the throat?

A

Hyoid

19
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Almond kernels, the stones of apricots and apple pips all contain traces of acidic compounds of which poison?

A

Cyanide

20
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The physicist and astrnomer Georges Lemaitre, who was also a Roman Catholic priest, proposed which theory in 1933 which has since become widely accepted?

A

Big Bang

21
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Popularised by an 1834 novel entitled Ayesha, a Turkish work for something worthless or empty came into common English usage, often as an exclamation ridiculing another person’s words as contemptible nonsense. Which word?

A

Bosh

22
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Ben Macdui, Braeriach and Cairn Toul are summits rising to more than 4,000 feet, in which much visited Scottish mountain range?

A

Cairngorms

23
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The composer Rossini is said to have composed the overture to which of his operas in a mad rush on the day of its premiere after being locked in a room at La Scala by the opera’s infuriated director?

A

La Gazza Ladra

24
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Why has a horse called The Chase, which came first in a race at Haydock Park in August 1948, entered racing history?

A

First victory by Lester Piggott

25
Q

With a density more than seven times that of air, which is the heaviest of the noble gases?

A

Radon

26
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Which voice-over artist, who died in 1985, provided the voice of Donald Duck in Walt Disney cartoons for over fifty years?

A

Clarence Nash

27
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What term, derived from a Hindi word for spotted, was originally used for painted or stained calico imported from India, but is now commonly used for cotton cloth printed with coloured designs and then usually glazed?

A

Chintz

28
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Which navel figure, who commanded the vessel The Glatton at the Battle of Copenhagen under Nelson in 1801, is better known to posterity for his part in an event that took place more than ten years earlier?

A

Captain Bligh

29
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What name was used for any of the shanty towns built by the unemployed and destitute during the American depression of the 1930s, a famous example having been in New York’s Central Park?

A

Hoovervilles

30
Q

The motor car designer for the Morris Minor and the Mini, Sir Alec Issigonis was born in 1906 in which country?

A

Turkey

31
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Which island nation has, at apporximately 2.4m the lowest maximum point of elevation of any country?

A

Maldives

32
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Its name derived from the name of the third wife of the emporer Claudius, the Messalina Complex is a synonym for which more common term for a form of manic behaviour?

A

Nymphomania

33
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Traditionally served in umble pie, umbles are most usually the entrails of which animal?

A

Deer

34
Q

In the Super Mario series of video games, what’s the name of Mario’s brother?

A

Luigi

35
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In botany, what term is given to a variety of plants, all of which share the feature of their leaves being orientated in a north-south direction, to take advantage of early and late sun while avoiding the stronger midday sunlight?

A

Compass plants

36
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At the court of King George I, who or what were nicknamed the Maypole and the Elephant and Castle?

A

Mistresses

37
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For which London bank was TS Eliot working in 1922 when he published his great poem The Wasteland?

A

Lloyds

38
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In the classic Morecombe and Wise sketch featuring the conductor Andre Previn, what piano piece was Eric Morecombe playing with all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order?

A

Grieg Piano Concerto

39
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In which capital city was Andre Previn born in 1929?

A

Berlin

40
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The Hostage and The Quare Fellow are plays by which irreverent 20th century Irish playwright who died in 1964?

A

Brendan Behan