Quiz 31 Flashcards
The Boathouse in Laugharne, on the Taf estuary in Camarthenshire, is now a museum dedicated to which writer?
Dylan Thomas
How is the colour silver referred to in heraldary
Argent
A perfect number is a number the sum of whose integral divisors including 1 but excluding itself, is that number itself. The smallest perfect number is 6. What is the only other perfect number less than 100?
28
Pagan Papers and The Golden Age are among the early works of which Scots born children’s writer, whose most enduring book was first published in 1908?
Kenneth Grahame
In 1635 Cromwell dismissed MPs of theLong Parliament with the words - You have sat here for too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go! 287 yars later, in 1940, which individual was the target of Leo Amery when he used the same words?
Neville Chamberlaine
Kibo (or Uhuru), Mawenzi and Shira are the three most prominent peaks of which extinct volcanic mountain whose summit was first reached in 1899?
Kilimanjaro
The town of Fray Bentos, best known for the industrial production of meat extract, is located in which South American country?
Uruguay
Which town on the river Wansbeck is the seat of the local government headquarters of Northumberland?
Morpeth
US Patent no 6,812,392, filed in 2002, describes a machanised device for tightening the heads of conga drums, and thus tuning them. According to the paten, the inventor of the device was a legendary Hollywood actor who was also, in his spare time, a keen exponent of the conga drum. Who was that actor?
Marlon Brando
At King Arthur’s rount table, for whom was the seat called Siege Perilous reserved?
The knight who found the Holy Grail
I was born in the the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, are the opening words of which novel?
Robinson Crusoe
Which branch of the Roman Army, originally a small escort which accompanied an army commander, was established as a permanent force under Augustus and became closely involved in imperial politics, their support of crucial important for any new emperor?
Praetorian Guard
Which word, from the French for light of hand, means cunning deception or trickery?
Legerdemain
Following the territorial disputes between New York and New Hampshire, in the 1770s, the Green Mountain Boys became the militia of which newly declared republic which was ultimately allowed into the United States as the 14th state in 1791?
Vermont
The Barbary Ape, much loved by visitors to Gibraltar, is not actually an ape, but a tailless species of which genus of monkey?
Macaque
What was the name of the peerage which Anthony Wedgewood Benn disclaimed in 1963?
Stansgate