Quiz 25 Flashcards
Knockaloe, the site of a major British internment camp for enemy alien civilians living in the UK during both world wars was established in which island off the coast of Britain?
Isle of Man
The Edgeware Road in London lies along the route of which ancient Roman World?
Watling Street
In Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, whom does Figaro marry?
Susannah
The Central Lobby at the heart of the Palace of Westminster, the Globe Theatre erected aournd 1599 ot London’s Bankside and the centrepiece observatory of Wren’s Flamstead House at Greenwich share what unusual architectural distinction?
Octagonal
Wild Life in Suburbia, an LP record released in 1959 consisting of the monologues of Edna and Sandy Stone, two philistine inhabitants of the Australian suburbs, is an early work by which humorist and writer?
Barry Humphries
What do the letters EM stand for in the name of EM Forster, the author of the novels A Passage to India and A Room With A View?
Edward Morgan
Stingray Bay was the original name of which location on the eastern coast of Australia?
Botany Bay
What is the name of the stiff, full, white skirt traditionally worn by men in Albania and parts of Greece
Fustanella
The 2015 film Spotlight is about a real-life investigation conducted by the Boston Chronicle newspaper into what issue?
Child abuse in the Catholic church
Which beatiful youth of Greek legend provided the title of a poem by John Keats and also an 1880 novel by Benjamin Disreali?
Endymion
What is the literal meaning of the Urdu word halal, often encountered in connection with Islam?
Lawful
Which chain of British comedy clubs takes its name from that of a type of medieval wandering minstrel?
Jongleurs
In 1724, as part of the Hannoverian programme to make the still potentially volatile Highlands easier to control, which firld marshall and MP for Bath went there to supervise the construction of numerous bridges and metalled roads?
George Wade
Which two French terms are used to describe the seizures characteristic of both the severe and the less severe forms of epilepsy
Grand Mal/Petit Mal
The lamb in a symbol of which female saint, often placed at her side in religious paintings?
Agnes of Rome
Which American horse breed gets its name from its ability to outdistance other breeds of horses in races of 440 yards or less
Quarter Horse