Quiz 33 Flashcards
In the 1982 children’s novel by Michael Morpurgo set before and during the First World War, what is the name of the animal known as the War Horse?
Joey
The sentence Colourless green ideas sleep furiously was invented by which theoretical linguist to demonstrate that a sentence can be grammatically corrent, but completely meaningless?
Chomskey
The first five chapters of which novel by HG Wells are entitled respectively: The Strange Man’s Arrival, MrTeddy Henfrey’s First Impressions, The Thousand And One Bottles, Mr Cuss Interviews The Stranger and The Burglary At The Vicarage?
The Invisible Man
Arizona’s Grand Canyon is the result of millions of years of erosion by which river?
Colorado
The 18th and 19th century artists Paul Sandby, Thomas Girtin and John Sell Cotman are most closely associated with which artistic medium?
Watercolours
Which innovative French film director was responsible for the films J’Accuse in 1918, La Roue in 1922 and what is most often regsarded as his masterpiece, Napolean, in 1927?
Abel Gance
Which scientific process involves the lowering in temperature of a saturated solution without crystallization taking place, which then leads to the formulation of a super-saturated solution?
Supercooling
Which of the shipping forecast areas of British coastal waters shares its name with the state capital of Delaware?
Dover
The Ruffian on the Stair, first broadcast in 1964, is a radio play by which English playwright, who died in 1967?
Joe Orton
One Canada Square at Canary Wharf in London, and the Pertronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, are among the designs of which Argentinian born American architect?
Cesar Pelli
What middle name is shared by the former Conservative politician William Hague and the former US President Bill Clinton?
Jefferson
The Mercedes-Benz Museum on Mercedestrasse and the Porsche Museum on Porscheplatz are in which major German city?
Stuttgart
Which meteorological instrument was the invention of the 17th century Italian scientist Evangalista Torricelli?
Barometer
The member of the animal kingdom thought to have the longest life span of any on Earth, with some specimens thought to be 400 years old, Arctica islandica, is a species belonging to which phylum of invertebrates?
Clam
In which US state is the vast majority of Yellowstone National Park?
Wyoming
The writer JB Priestly, the composer Frederick Delius and the painter David Hockney were all born in which city?
Bradford
Who or what is the Witch of Agnesi?
Mathematical curve
The last prosecution for witchcraft in the UK took place in which decade?
1940s
What are the coronaria dextra and the conoraria sinistra?
Arteries
Which region of France is formed by the delta between the Grand Rhone and the Petit Rhone?
Camargue
In Boswell’s Life of Johnson, which vegetable is being described when physicians in England advise it should be well sliced, and pressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out as good for nothing?
Cucumber
At which summer Olympic games did Dick Fosbury win the gold medal in the high jump - using his revolutionary Fosbury Flop technique - to set a new Olympic record of 2.24m?
Mexico 68
Between the late 1880s and the early 1900s, which major philanthropist oversaw a survey with the unbrella title of Inquiry Into The Life And Labour Of The People Of London?
Charles Booth
The name of which French physicist was given to the radiation he first observed given off by uranium compounds in 1896, the emissions now being distinguished as alpha, beta and gamma rays?
Antoine Henri Becquerel
In which American city would you find the Mystics basketball team, the Nationals baseball team and the Capitals ice hockey team?
Washington DC
In 1782, the English portrait painter Goerge Romney met his muse, and went on to paint over fifty portraits of her a various historical or mythological figures. Who was she?
Emma Hamilton
A Streetcar Named Desire and Death Of A Salesman won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in consecutive years, in which decade?
1940s
Cullet is a waste version, with impurities, of which material?
Glass
The Reverend David Railton, latterly a vicar in Margate, is credited with the idea for what, inspired by his time serviing as a chaplain in the First World War?
Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
In Hindu thought, what are the Krita Yuga, the Treta Yuga, the Dwapara Yuga and the Kali Yuga?
Epoch
Which Ukrainian cossack leader is the title character of an historical tale by Nickolai Gogol and a rhapsody for orchestra by Janacek?
Taras Bulba
Although it’s changed location a few times, which great New York City jazz venue was to be found during its heyday between 1949 and 1965 at 1678 Broadway
Birdland
What is the occupation of Mr Sludge in an 1864 poem by Robert Browning?
Medium
The Spanish name for the percussion instruments known in English as the castanets, castanuelas, is derived from the diminutive form of castana, the Spanish word for which nut?
Chestnut
To what was Benjamin Frankin referring when he claimed that George III and his ministers had made thirteen clocks strike as one?
Declaration of Independence
Which score in darts is known as a bed and breakfast?
26
In which Asian country will you find Tenzing-Hillary, also known as Lukla Airport, sometimes described as the most dangerous airport in the world?
Nepal
According to the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, the lowest depth to which people can sink before God is defined by the word - what?
Journalist
What would you conclude if you saw the name Alan Smithee in the list of credits at the end of a Hollywood movie?
So bad even the director disowns it
Claydon House in Buckinghamshire, once the home of Sir Henry Verney and his second wife Parthenope, contains a room dedicated to the memory of Parthenope’s unmarried sister, who often visited the house. Which extremely well-known person was Parthenope’s sister?
Florence Nightingale
