Quiz 24 Flashcards
Which city was the capital of Pakistan from independence until the late 1950s?
Karachi
According to legend, Captain Venerdecken was in charge of which vessel on its voyage home from the East Indies port of Batavia?
Flying Dutchman
Which medically important chemical was fortuitously discovered by the American chemis and physician Samual Guthrie when, in 1831, he combined alcohol with chlorinated lime in an effort to produce an economically viable pesticide?
Chloroform
Diaphoresis is the technical name for which bodily process?
Perspiration
Which period of geological time, the second period of the Palaeozoic era, is named after an ancient Welsh people because rocks formed in this period were first studied in Wales?
Ordovician
Which Canadian ice-hockey star was voted the Most Valuable Player to his team in the National Hockey League every year between 1980 and 1987?
Wayne Gretsky
From 1932 until the 1990s, Russia’s fifth largest city, Nizhny Novrorod, was named after which writer born there in 1868?
Gorky
Where would you find Humboldt’s Sea and the Lake of Death?
The Moon
In the book Cider with Rosie, by Laurie Lee, what was Rosie’s (suitable bucolic) surname?
Burdock
Which Labour MP, at the time the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasurey, did David Cameron advise to Calm down, dear at Prime Minister’s questions in April 2012?
Angela Eagle
Bernard de Launay became the first prominent casualty of the French Revolution when he was lynched and then decapitated at the hands of a mob on 14th July 1789. Which official post had he held immediately prior to his death?
Governor of the Bastille
According the to title o a children’s book by E Nesbit, who are Robert, Anthea, Jane, Cyril, the Lamb and the Psammead?
Five Children And It
What was the name for the type of ancient Greek galley, usually used for combat because of its comparative power and speed, with three banks of oars on either side?
Trireme
Which of the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, when first presented at the Savoy Theatre in January 1887, was billed as A New and Original Supernatural Opera in Two Acts
Ruddigore
Which 19th century writer was known as the Sage of Chelsea?
Thomas Carlyle
The common at the Surrey village of Outwood is notable as the site of what is said to be the oldest working example in Britain of what type of structure?
Windmill
Which city in the state of Uttar Pradesh was the scene of the first uprising of the Indian Rebellion, once known as the Indian Mutiny, in 1857?
Meerut
The first BBC local radio station was launched on 8th November 1967 in which British city?
Leicester
The French word for French is Francais, and the German for German is Deutsch. Which European language calls itself Shqip
Albanian
In which country does a website originate if the suffix to the URL is .lk
Sri Lanka
Which Spanish city, now better known as a tourist destination, was in 1881 the birthplace of Pablo Picasso?
Malaga
The the Theban Myths, dramatised by Sophocles, who is the father of Antigone?
Oedipus
Laura Jesson and Alec Harvey are the central characters in which 1945 film?
Brief Encounter
Ceratopsian dinosaurs are so named because they had what physical features?
Horns
Which cloaked and hatted crime figure, popular on American radio and in comics during the 1930s, was played on air for a few months by Orson Welles and was associated with such lines as The weed of crime bears bitter fruit?
The Shadow
Tent stitch, a fine, usually diagonal stitching used in embroidery is also known by which French term?
Petit point
Which writer, particularly noted for his portraits of low-life figures in downtown New York City, was on the staff of the New Yorker magazine until his death in 1996, and for the last 32 years of his life went into the office every day without producing a single piece of writing?
Joseph Mitchell
Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is said to have been the work of Chares of Lindos, who worked on it for twelve years?
Collossus of Rhodes
In which city would you find Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon Tiki raft and the reed boat Ra on permanent display
Oslo
The Rosebay Willowherb has another name which relates to the reason it used to be common on bomb sites. What is that other name?
Fireweed
Featuring the cross of Ypres, an oil lamp, known as the Lamp of Maintenance, is the emblem of which international charitable organisation?
TOC-H
Whose statute on Grafton Street in Dublin is known colloquially as The Tart With The Cart?
Molly Malone
Found mostly in Australia, what kind of creature is a taipan?
Snake
According to popular legend, what was the profession of Peeping Tom, the Coventry citizen struck blind for his impudent observation of the naked Lady Godiva?
Tailor
Which writer founded the review Les Temps Modernes with Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Raymond Aron and her life-long companion Jean-Paul Satre?
Simone de Beauvoire
What is the name for the eastern part of the Sahara Desert, lying between the Nile and the Red Sea in north-eastern Sudan?
Nubian Desert
The hormones insulin and glucagon, which regulate blood sugar, are produced by what organ of the body?
Pancreas
Asser, a monk at St David’s in Pembrokeshire, became the counsellor and biographer of which Anglo-Saxon monarch?
Alfred
Famous for his report on the Profumo Affair, who was the Master of the Rolls from 1962 to 1982?
Denning
Which publishing company, specialists in travel guides, began life in Koblenz in 1827, and lent their name (rather against their will) to a series of air raids launched against British cities in the Second World War?
Baedeker
