Quiz 30 Flashcards
Who won her first Best Actress Oscar at the ceremony in 1934 and her last in 1982?
Katherine Hepburn
The Philadelphia-born novelist Owen Wister is credited with the successful creation of which genre of literature
Western
Captain Matthew Webb was the first man to swim the English Channel, but he was drowned many years later in 1883 while attempting what feat?
Niagara rapids
The porcupine is a member of with order of mammals?
Rodents
Informally observed in Ireland on 6th October each year, Ivy Day commemorates the death in 1891 of which nationalist?
Charles Stewart Parnell
Although it’s now acknowledged as historically unreliable, if not pure fiction, the History of the Kings of Britain was for many centuries an important source of information about early British history, and provided Shakespeare with the story of King Lear. Which 12th century churchman was its author?
Geoffrey of Monmouth
The name of which 18th century French finance minister is commemorated in the term used to describe a type of profile portrait, at its peak of popularity immediately prior to the invention of photography?
Silhouette
The study of now force produces motion is known as Dynamics. What is the corresponding word for the study of how forces interact with each other to produce equilibrium?
Statics
Sak’art’velo is the local name for which former Soviet republic?
Georgia
Who is the Greek god of the marriage ceremony, who also appears in the final scene of Shakespeare’s As you Like it
Hymen
Who published his American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828?
Webster
What nickname is shared by the most lucrative opium-growing region of South-East Asia and the part of Cheshire known for the elaborate homes of stockbrokers and Premiereship footballers?
Golden Triangle
Native to Africa and parts of Asia, which horny-plated edentate mammal, the only extant genus of the order Pholidota, is also known as the scaly anteater?
Pangolin
Complete this line from Tom Stoppard’s play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean
Where’s it going to end?
Which position has been held by Trinle Gyatso and Thupten Gyatso, and is currently help by Tenzin Gyatso?
Dalai Lama
A version of the Geneva Bible, first printed in 1579, is often known by which other less refined name?
Breeches Bible