Quiz 31 Flashcards

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The Boathouse in Laugharne, on the Taf estuary in Camarthenshire, is now a museum dedicated to which writer?

A

Dylan Thomas

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2
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How is the colour silver referred to in heraldary

A

Argent

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3
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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?

A

28

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4
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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?

A

Kenneth Grahame

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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?

A

Neville Chamberlaine

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6
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Kibo (or Uhuru), Mawenzi and Shira are the three most prominent peaks of which extinct volcanic mountain whose summit was first reached in 1899?

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Kilimanjaro

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7
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The town of Fray Bentos, best known for the industrial production of meat extract, is located in which South American country?

A

Uruguay

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8
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Which town on the river Wansbeck is the seat of the local government headquarters of Northumberland?

A

Morpeth

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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?

A

Marlon Brando

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10
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At King Arthur’s rount table, for whom was the seat called Siege Perilous reserved?

A

The knight who found the Holy Grail

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11
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I was born in the the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, are the opening words of which novel?

A

Robinson Crusoe

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12
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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?

A

Praetorian Guard

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13
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Which word, from the French for light of hand, means cunning deception or trickery?

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Legerdemain

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14
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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?

A

Vermont

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The Barbary Ape, much loved by visitors to Gibraltar, is not actually an ape, but a tailless species of which genus of monkey?

A

Macaque

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16
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What was the name of the peerage which Anthony Wedgewood Benn disclaimed in 1963?

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Stansgate

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17
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In sotires by Norman Hunter, what is the name of the absent-minded professor who is always building crazy impracticle machines?

A

Brainstorm

18
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Rm Das, the 16th century religious leader and the 4th gugu of Sikhism, founded which holy city around the pool of nectar?

A

Amritsar

19
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Which fluid, deriving its name from the Latin word for egg, lubricates and cushoins joints in the human body during movement?

A

Synovial

20
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Which football manager is credited with saying - A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing?

A

Bill Shankley

21
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The congenital condition protanopia affects which of the senses?

A

Sight

22
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The scientific name of which cultivated vegetable is Allium porrum?

A

Leek

23
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The Jewish Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, commemorated the re-dedication of the temple after the victory of which army?

A

Macabees

24
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The 1956 summer Olympic Games were held in Melbourne, but because of Australian quarantine laws the equestrian events were held somewhere else. Where?

A

Stockholm

25
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Which British rap star first came to international prominence when his first album Boy In Da Corner won the 2003 Mercury Music Prize?

A

Dizzee Rascal

26
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What is the modern English name for the headland that Bartolomeu Dias originally called Cabo das Tormentos, or Cape of Tempests, when rounding it for the first time in 1488?

A

Cape of Good Hope

27
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Which well-known and much anthologised 18th century poem is believed to have been partly written in the graveyard of the church at Stoke Poges in Buckinghamshire?

A

Gray’s Elegy (Written In A Country Churchyard)

28
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Sfax is the second largest city in which African colony?

A

Tunisia

29
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Who, in 52BC, united to Gauls in an ultimately unsuccessful revolt against Roman forces during the last phase of Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars?

A

Vercingetorix

30
Q

Okhrana is an informal name for the organisation founded in 1881 as the secret police force of which imperial power?

A

Tsarist Russia

31
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In the Albert Memorial, designed by George Gilbert Scott and standing opposite the Royal Albert Hall, which book is Prince Albert holding on his knee?

A

Catalogue of the 1851 Exhibition

32
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Which globally popular cartoon strip had its origins in an earlier strip called Li’l Folks that first appeared in a Minnesota newspaper in 1947?

A

Peanuts

33
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Troglodytes troglodytes is the taxonomic name for the wren. But which mammal has the designation Pan troglodytes?

A

Chimpanzee

34
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What is the name of the 18 mile long shingle bank in Dorset that separates the Fleet Lagoon from the sea?

A

Chesil Beach

35
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With words by Samuel F Smith, which enduring US patriotic song shares its melody with the British national anthem?

A

My Country ‘Tis of Thee

36
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Which major road - one of the highest paved roads in the world - connects Islamabad in Pakistan to Kashkar in China?

A

Karakorum Highway

37
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On the Rowley Mile racecourse in Newmarket there stands a statue of a horse who was unbeaten in 18 races and whose name lives on in racing. What was the horse’s name?

A

Eclipse

38
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Since 1984 an annual festival has been staged at the Cornish town of Cambourne, in celebration of the acheivements of which engineer who was born nearby?

A

Richard Trevithick

39
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Which team game, invented in the earlt 1900s by Nico Broekhuysen, derives its name from the Dutch word for basket?

A

Korfball

40
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Which agricultural system sees the seasonal movement of people with their livestock over relatively short distances, typically to higher pastures in summer and to lower valleys in winter?

A

Transhumance