Quiz 28 Flashcards
In which sport would you find a peg, a rover and a baulk line?
Croquet
Which phrase, referring to the young people who came of age during the First World War, was popularised by Ernest Hemingway who used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his first novel The Sun Also Rises?
Lost Generation
Which Derbyshire village, through the self-sacrificing decisions to isolate itself from the outside world, lost hundreds of its inhabitants to the plague after an infected parcel of cloth was delivered there from London in September 1665?
Eyam
Can you name either of the two cousins who collaborated to write detective fiction under the name Ellery Queen?
Daniel Nathan (Frederic Dannay) and Emanuel Lepofsy (Manfred Lee)
Which branch of philosophy concentrates on questions of right and wrong, good and bad, virtues and vices and rights and obligations?
Ethics
Species of which bird of prey include the black shouldered, the brahminy, the hook-billed, the letter-winged and the red, the last of those being the only species in Britain?
Kite
The South Pacific island group that was named the New Hebrides by Captain Cook, ans was known as such until 1980, now has what name?
Vanuatu
William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair originally appeared in monthly parts, beginning in 1847, with illustrations by whom?
Thackeray
Which Italian painter, in 1334, became city architect and surveyor of Florence Cathedral, for which he designed the free-standing bell tower or camanile?
Giotto di Bondone
What word, now with a more general usage, is used to describe decoration in classical and later architecture consisting of representations of fruit and lfowers suspended in swags?
Festoon
Which short-lived movement in British poetry of the 1970s and 80s, hinging on familiar objects or occurrences being described in unfamiliar terms, got its name from the first book published by the poet Craig Raine
Martian
Which Saracen military leader commanded the victorious forces at the Battle of Hattin in 1187?
Saladin
Living wild in small herds in parts of South America, guanacos belong to which genus of mammals?
Llamas
On a Plimsoll line, on the side of the ship, the two letters TF appear against the line marker at the very top. What do the letters TF stand for?
Tropical Fresh
The composer Franz Legar, whose works include the light operas The Land of Smiles and The Merry Widow, was born in which country?
Hungary
Which controversial American novelist shot and killed his wife Joan Vollmer, supposedly during a drunken game in Mexico City in 1951?
William S Burroughs