Quiz 23 Flashcards

1
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Which British Labour politician once defined his foreign policy as being able to take a ticket at Victoria Station and go anywhere I damn well please?

A

Ernest Bevin

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2
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In which field of the arts is the Prix Goncourt awarded?

A

Literature

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3
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The Scottish football club long known simply as Morton Football Club now acknowledges its home town in its name: which town?

A

Greenock

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4
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What is the British term for what an American would call a Plantar Wart?

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Verucca

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5
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Warren Casey and Jim Jacobs were the writers of a stage musical first performed in 1971 which became one of the most performed musicals in the world, especially in schools. What is it called?

A

Grease

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6
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Which small animal, brought to Europe from South America where is was domesticated for its meat, has been used since the mid 18th century in scientific research, being Robert Koch’s chosen model in experiments that produced the first TB vaccine?

A

Guinea pigs

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7
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Which rank of the British Army, awarded to junior officers in cavalry regiments, shares its name with a brass band instrument commonly pitched in b flat?

A

Cornet

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8
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Wittern, whitty, wiggen and quickbeam are all dialect names for which species of tree?

A

Rowan, or Mountain Ash

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9
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What is the motto of the Salvation Army?

A

Blood and fire

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10
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Which novel by Robert Graves did Alexander Korda attempt to film in 1937, with Charles Laughton in the title role, although the project was abandoned after a few weeks shooting?

A

I Claudius

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11
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The signing of which treaty in 1902 ended the Second Boer War?

A

Vereegining

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12
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Which Greek word, meaning union, refers to the proposed union of the island of Cyprus and Greece?

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Enosis

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13
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Which American musician, who remained unaware for decades that his records had made him a huge star in South Africa, was the subject of the 2012 documentary film Searching For Sugarman?

A

Sixto Rodriguez

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14
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Which British resevoir was created in the 1970s by damming the river Gwash?

A

Rutland Water

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15
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In the original 1982 book by Sue Townsend, how old specifically was Adrian Mole?

A

13 3/4

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16
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Which Canadian prairie province lies between Ontario to the east and Saskatchewan to the west?

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Manitoba

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17
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Blacksmith is a general term for a worker in iron, but what specific name is given to someone who shoes horses?

A

Farrier

18
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In jazz, what adopted forename is common to the drummer and bandleader born William Henry Webb and the pianist whose real name is Armando Corea?

A

Chick

19
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Hippoglossus hippoglossus is the Latin name for which common flatfish found in the North Atlantic?

A

Halibut

20
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Which town on the River Tweed has a ruined Cistercian abbey that is supposedly the burial place of the heart, though not the rest of the remains, of Robert the Bruce?

A

Melrose Abbey

21
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In the 1400s, John Holland, Duke of Exeter, became Constable of the Tower of London. What instrument of torture is he credited with introducing there?

A

The rack

22
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Which term, coined by Ludwig von Rochau in the 19th century describes pragmatic politics based on material needs rather than moral ideals?

A

Realpolitik

23
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The Eastern European city known in German as Laibach is more widely known by what name?

A

Ljubljana

24
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the 15th century Chateau des Milandes in the Dordogne region of France, was the home from the 1940s onward of which American singer and dancer, also prominent in the civil rights movement?

A

Josephine Baker

25
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Who wrote the short story on which the much-admired film The Shawshank Redemption was based?

A

Stephen King

26
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What is the scientific name for a plant that grows on another, but not parasitic?

A

Epiphyte

27
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Which Italian footballer, the 1993 World and European Player of the Year, was known as the Divine Ponytale?

A

Roberto Baggio

28
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In tectonics, the oceanic plate on the Pacific coastline of South America is named after which ancient culture?

A

Nazca

29
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EP and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley are personae adopted in each of two sections of a long work of 1920, itself named Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, by which American-born poet?

A

Ezra Pound

30
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In legend, Leodegrance, King of Cameliard, is the father of which queen, whose marital infidelity is said to have brought her a life of penitence at an Amesbury nunnery?

A

Guinevere

31
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The conductor Bernard Haitink, a former music director at both Glyndebourne Opera and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, was born in which country?

A

Netherlands

32
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What creature does someone fear is he or she suffers from Ailuraphobia?

A

Cats

33
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According to the Beaulieu National Motor Museum, which term should properly be used only to designate those vehicles manufactured between 1919 and 1930

A

Vintage

34
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Who once wrote of the Holy Roman Empire - to give the standard English translation - This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire?

A

Voltaire

35
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Found in tea, nuts, cocoa and spinach, which chemical compound of hydrogen, carbon and oxygen is present at toxic levels in the leaves of the rhubarb plant?

A

Oxalic acid

36
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What is the name of the niche or slab in a Mosque that is used to indicate the direction of Mecca?

A

Mihrab

37
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Can you name both of Bertie Wooster’s aunts who appear regularly in the novels of PG Wodehouse?

A

Agatha and Dahlia

38
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Which London building, demolished in 1902, was known, with great irony, as the City College?

A

Newgate Prison

39
Q

Paradise Regained, which John Milton published as a sequel to Paradise Lost in 1671, deals with which episode in the New Testament?

A

The Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness

40
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When the first Penguin paperbacks were published, their jackets were colour coded as to subject matter: orange for general fiction, blue for biography. What specific category was covered by the green-coloured paperbacks?

A

Crime fiction