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