Quiz 28

Question 1

In which sport would you find a peg, a rover and a baulk line?

Answer 1

Croquet

Question 2

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?

Answer 2

Lost Generation

Question 3

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?

Answer 3

Eyam

Question 4

Which branch of philosophy concentrates on questions of right and wrong, good and bad, virtues and vices and rights and obligations?

Answer 4

Ethics

Question 5

Species of which bird of prey include the black shouldered, the brahmin, the hook-billed, the letter-winged and the red, the last of those being the only species in Britain?

Answer 5

Kite

Question 6

The South Pacific island group that was named the New Hebrides by Captain Cook, and was known as such until 1980, now has what name?

Answer 6

Vanuatu

Question 7

William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair originally appeared in monthly parts, beginning in 1847, with illustrations by whom?

Answer 7

Thackeray himself

Question 8

Which Italian painter, in 1334, became city architect and surveyor of Florence Cathedral, for which he designed the free-standing bell tower or camanile?

Answer 8

Giotto di Bondone

Question 9

What word, now with a more general usage, is used to describe decoration in classical and later architecture consisting of representations of fruit and flowers suspended in swags?

Answer 9

Festoon

Question 10

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?

Answer 10

Martian

Question 11

Which Saracen military leader commanded the victorious forces at the Battle of Hattin in 1187?

Answer 11

Saladin

Question 12

Living wild in small herds in parts of South America, guanacos belong to which genus of mammals?

Answer 12

Llamas

Question 13

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?

Answer 13

Tropical Fresh

Question 14

The composer Franz Lehár, whose works include the light operas The Land of Smiles and The Merry Widow, was born in which country?

Answer 14

Hungary

Question 15

Which controversial American novelist shot and killed his wife Joan Vollmer, supposedly during a drunken game in Mexico City in 1951?

Answer 15

William S Burroughs

Question 16

Which is the only lake in the English Lake District actually to have the word Lake as part of its name?

Answer 16

Bassenthwaite

Question 17

Bengal Gram, a staple pulse of the Indian subcontinent, is more commonly known in the west by what name?

Answer 17

Chickpeas

Question 18

Which female MP, the member for Jarrow-on-the-Tyne, led the so-called crusade from that town to London to protest about the lack of jobs in October 1936?

Answer 18

Ellen Wilkinson

Question 19

Which British track athlete, a native of Jarrow, set new world records in no fewer than three distance events within nineteen days in 1985, the 1,500m, the mile and the 2,000m?

Answer 19

Steve Cram

Question 20

Anna Mary Robertson, an American artist who began painting seriously at the age of 67 after a life as a farmer’s wife, is remembered by what more familiar name?

Answer 20

Grandma Moses

Question 21

Which term describes a gemstone, particularly a diamond, that has been cut, usually with a total of 58 facets?

Answer 21

Brilliant

Question 22

Lt Col Arthur Martin-Leake, Capt Noel Chevasse and Capt Charles Upham are the only people to have achieved what military distinction?

Answer 22

Two VCs

Question 23

“Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales” - which best selling book on 1988 was its author describing?

Answer 23

A Brief History of Time

Question 24

Who, together, were George and James Loveless, James Hammett, James Brine and Thomas and John Stanfield?

Answer 24

Tolpuddle Martyrs

Question 25

In a suit of armour, which part of the body is protected by a vambrace?

Answer 25

Forearm

Question 26

Which Roman building, commissioned by the Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD, became the first pagan temple in Rome to be rededicated as a Christian church in the year 609?

Answer 26

The Pantheon

Question 27

Which well-known exhibit in the British Museum did a drunken member of the public smash to pieces in 1845?

Answer 27

The Portland Vase

Question 28

The name of the man who, in 1873, became land agent for an absentee landlord in County Mayo, has entered the language. What was his name?

Answer 28

Charles Cunningham Boycott

Question 29

In which calendar year was the national lottery in its current form first introduced in the UK?

Answer 29

1994

Question 30

Thought to derive from the Latin word for a magpie, what name is given in medicine to a compulsion to eat unconventional or normally inedible substances?

Answer 30

Pica

Question 31

The town of Blenheim, the site of a battle fought in August 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession, is now in Germany but was, at the time, in which European state?

Answer 31

Bavaria

Question 32

Who said in the year 2000, “I’m doing pretty well considering in the past, when anyone left the Royal Family, they had you beheaded”?

Answer 32

Sarah Ferguson

Question 33

What is the surname of the American father and son - Eliphalet and Philo - who are credited with the 19th century invention and manufacture of repeating rifles and the first typewriter?

Answer 33

Remington

Question 34

A gurdwara is the name for a place of worship in which religion?

Answer 34

Sikhism

Question 35

The firework display in 1749 to celebrate the peace of Aix-La-Chapelle, for which Handel wrote the Musick for the Royal Fireworks, took place in which of London’s parks?

Answer 35

Green

Question 36

Which two actors played the unlikely Twins in the 1988 Hollywood comedy of that title directed by Ivan Reitman?

Answer 36

Arnold Schwartzenegger and Danny DeVito

Question 37

The Upsalla Pass, which has been overlooked since 1904 by a statue called Christ of the Andes is the principle route through that mountain range between which two countries?

Answer 37

Chile and Argentina

Question 38

What was the stage name of the dancer Marie Dolores Eliza Roseanna Gilbert, mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria?

Answer 38

Lola Montez

Question 39

In which modern French region, celebrated in the title of a First World War song, are the departments of Aisne, Oise and Somme?

Answer 39

Picardy