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Quiz 32 Flashcards

1
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The St Scholastica’s Day Massacre in 1355 took place in which English City?

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Oxford

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The violinst and conductor Charles Williams composed Devil’s Gallop, a piece used as the title music for which radio series, first broadcast in 1946?

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Dick Barton, Special Agent

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3
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Which Mediterranean island’s south-eastern tip is Cape Carbonara

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Sardinia

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4
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The tilt of the Earth’s axis is referred to by the phrase - the obliquity of the ?

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Ecliptic

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5
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What was the bandleader Count Basie’s actual first name?

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William

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In which country will you find the Spitzkoppe, a mountain known locally as the Matterhorn of Africa?

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Namibia

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Which type of plant, popular as a flowering houseplant, is named after a US Minister to Mexico, who introduced it to the United States?

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Poinsettia

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The words Cormac MacCarthy fortis me fieri fecit AD 1446 are inscribed on what?

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Blarney Stone

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Only Connect, now the name of a TV quiz show, is also the epigraph to which novel by EM Forster?

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Howard’s End

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Which African country takes its name from a portuguese word for shrimps?

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Cameroon

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Which medical affliction that results in perceptual distortions of the size and shape of objects was identified by the psychiatrist John Todd in 1955, and named after a novel first published in 1865

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Alice in Wonderland

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12
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail, is a quote attributed to which American author who died in 2012 aged 86?

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Gore Vidal

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13
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Which opera ends with Azucena’s revelation that she threw the wrong baby into the fire?

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Il Trovatore

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Whih flower, because of its strong smell, has a name meaning nose-twister

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Nasturtium

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Otorhinolaryngology is the full title of the branch of medicine and surgery that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the head and neck, but derives its name from which three specific parts of the body?

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Ear, Nose and Throat

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16
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All That Fall is a radio play first broadcast in 1957, commissined by the BBC from which playwright who was later awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?

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Samuel Beckett

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17
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In which major European art gallery will you find the 1812 Gallery, the Malachite Hall and the Hall of St George?

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Hermitage

18
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What should you expcet to find inside a Warden pie?

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Pears

19
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In which city did Sally Gunnell win her Olympic 400m hurdles gold medal?

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Barcelona

20
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What name is given to the civilistion known to have flourished in Southern Mexico, generally considered the first Meso-American civilisation?

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Olmec

21
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Which record label, founded in New York in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis, had its first success with a recording by Sidney Bechet, and went on to become associated with the 1950s be-bop of Thelonius Monk, Horace Silver, the Jazz Messengers and the MJQ?

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Blue Note

22
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Christmas Island in the South Pacific - the site, from 1957 of various nuclear tests - is now represented on maps with a spelling more closely reflecting its native name. What is the revised name?

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Kiritimati

23
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Which 1836 battle saw the capture of the Mexican General Santa Anna and effectively marked the end of the Texas Revolution?

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San Jacinto

24
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What does the abbreviation TNT stand for, when applied to the widely used explosive?

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Trinitrotoluene

25
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Which 1859 historical novel features chapters called Knitting, Still Knitting and The Knitting Done?

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A Tale Of Two Cities

26
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Which city, the capital of the Philipines between 1948 and 1976, is named after the country’s president between 1935 and 1944?

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Quezon

27
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What five-word phrase is a recommended form of greeting to be used at the beginning of a letter written directly to the Queen?

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May it please your Majesty

28
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A dubstance known as C90 is often used on film sets, for what purpose?

A

Fake snow

29
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Which anarchic theatrical character was created by the French dramatist Alfred Jarry in the 1890s, his name being adopted by an alternative rock group from Ohio in the 1970s?

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Devo

30
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Which was the first professional football club for which Sir Stanley Matthews played?

A

Stoke City

31
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Which British chemist, particularly noted for his work on plant pigments, alkaloids and other natural products, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1947?

A

Robert Robinson

32
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In astronomy, which term is used to describe the observable lengthening of the wavelength of light from an object as a result of that object’s motion away from it?

A

Red shift

33
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Lake Wenham in Massachusetts became the most famous supplier of what commodity to Victorian Britain?

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Ice

34
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Which adjective, meaning completely honest and just, derives from the name of the son of Zeus and Europa?

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Rhadamanthine

35
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The genre of Japanese painting called Ukiyo-e, characterised by screen paintings and wook block prints, which flourished during the Tokugawa period, is sometimes known in English as art of the - what?

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Floating world

36
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Named after the 19th century French scientist Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille, the poise is a standard unit used to measure which physical property of a liquid?

A

Viscocity

37
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The book Ten Days That Shook The World by the American journalist John Reed, is an account of which event?

A

The Russian Revolution

38
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An LED display has been a familiar feature of electronic devices over the past fifty years or so. What do the letters LED stand for?

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Light Emitting Diode

39
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Malin Head, the northernmost point of the mainland Ireland, is not in Northern Ireland. In which county of the Republic does it lie?

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Donegal

40
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An Aubade, often found in the form of a love song or poem about lovers, refers to shich specific time of day?

A

Dawn

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