Quiz 22 Flashcards
When Sir Alistair Pilkington developed the so-called Float Process for the manufacture of glass, he used a molton bath or river of which metal to float the glass on?
Tin
Which 1760s novel by Horace Walpole is often credited with setting the fashion ofor supernatural romance?
The Castle of Otranto
Kashrut is that body of Jewish law relating to what in particular?
Dietry law
In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Murders In The Rue Morgue, the violent murders of an old woman and her daughter turn out to have been committed by what kind of creature?
Orang-utan
Dippermouth was an early nickname for which jazz musician who died in 1971?
Louis Armstrong
Which golfer in 1988 became the first Briton to win the US Masters?
Sandy Lyle
Which city was proclaimed the first capital of the united kingdom of Italy in 1861?
Turin
Very soon after the English Civil War, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes published his most famous work, a treatise in which he memorably described the life of men as nasty, brutish and short. Wnder what title did that treatise appear?
Leviathon
The bestockinged leg that appears in the foreground on posters for the 1967 film The Graduate was not, in fact, that of lead Anne Bancroft, but belonged to a model and actress who was later to star as Sue Ellen in the hit TV series Dallas. Can you name her?
Linda Gray
The Paris-based American photographer Emmanuel Rudnitsky, who died in 1976, was known professionally by which name?
Manray
In Freudian psychoanalysis, which component of the human personality is responsible for ethics and self-imposed standards of behaviour?
Super-ego
Which Labour MP, born near Halesworth in Suffolk and subsequently a leader of his party, resigned his seat in 1912 to draw attention to the imprisonment of suffragettes?
George Lansbury
An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise is one of the most popular orchestral pieces of which British composer who made his home in Orkney for over forty years and died in 2016?
Peter Maxwell Davies
Betty Ross, who lived between 1752 and 1836, is often credited with making the first what?
Stars and Stripes
Lepenski Vir, now submerged by an artificial lake, is the site of Mesolithic farming settlement in a valley of which European river?
Danube
Occurring throughout Western Europe, what kind of creature is a Devil’s coach horse?
Beetle
Who was the first unseeded player to win the Wimbledon Men’s Singles title?
Boris Becker
The elaborate buildings originally constructed in London for the Franco-British exhibition on 1908 went by a collective nickname that’s still in use, although the buildings are long gone. It’s also remembered as the name of a sporting venue. What name is this?
White City
What was once described by George Orwell as something halfway between a girls school and a lunatic asylum
BBC
Which British rock group recorded a 1972 album with a cover depicting the model Amanda Lear taking a black panther for a walk?
Roxy Music
In medicine, Naegele’s Rule is a method used to estimate the probably date of the onset of which natural process?
Birth
Which 18th Century novelist’s eponymous heroes include Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle and Humphrey Clinker?
Tobias Smollett
Which English painter, a member of the Camden Town Group, was briefly an actor with Sir Henry Irving’s company and has also been suggested, most recently by Patricia Cornwall, as a suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888?
Walter Sickert
In 991AD, Viking Raiders deteated an Anglo-Saxon army at Maldon, on the shores of the Blackwater estuary, in which modern English county?
Essex
The so-called Junius Pamphlet was a letter written in 1916 by which Polish-born Spartacist during a period of imprisonment?
Rosa Luxemburg
The three stars named Delta, Epsilon and Zeta, fairly equally spaced in a straight line, together form which familiar feature of the night sky?
Orion’s belt
The actor Peter O’Toole portrayed the same English king in two very different films, a few years apart, in the 1960s. Which King?
Henry II
Which eponymous Virginia Woolf character changes sex part-way through a novel?
Orlando
Sometimes used in English sentences before a named individual or body, to indicate a respectful contradication, which Latin word of four letters mean in deference to or with due respect?
Pace
In Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, what absurd dispute was at the root of a long running war between the nations of Lilliput and Blefuscu?
Which end to open a boiled egg
In the Bible, who was the third of Noah’s sons after Shem and Ham?
Japheth
In physics, what name is given to the observable effect whereby the course of a moving object appears to be deflected as a result of the rotation of the Earth?
Coriolis Effect
What is the national epic poem of Finland?
Kalevala
What commonlyused religious word derives directly from the Greek adjective meaning anointed
Christ
A Childhood At Green Hedges by Imogen Smallwood is an account of the author’s childhood as the youngest daughter of which children’s writer?
Enid Blyton
Which English scientist developed the method of classifying fingerprints by patterns, a system, improved by the London Police Commissioner Sir Henry R Henry, that was introduced at Scotland Yard in 1901?
Francis Galton
In a mix-up that was reported around the world, the Academy Award ceremony of 2017 was memorable for the wrong movie, La La Land, being announced as winner of the Best Picture Oscar. Which film actually won?
Moonlight
On which temperature scale, proposed in 1730, is the freezing point of water set at 0 degrees and its boiling and its boiling point at 80?
Reaumur
Titus Groan, the first novel in Mervyn Peake’s Ghormenghast trilogy, was first published in 1946. The other two novels followed in the 1950s. Can you name both of those other two?
Gormenghast and Titus Alone
According to a 2011 biography by his daugher Clare, Mervyn Peake was commissioned to create the logo for which publishing firm, best known for their paperbacks?
Pan
