Quiz 35 Flashcards
Diego Maradona’s infamous Hand of God goal against England was scored in which city?
Mexico City
Nevil and Shute were actually the forename and middle name of the author known for novels such as A Town Like Alice. His surname at birth was the name of a European country. Which one?
Norway
Fenks, used as a manure and in the synthesis of prussian blue pigment, is the waste from which animal product?
Whale Blubber
Mahatma, the honofirfic title of Mohandas K Ghandi, means what in Sanskrit?
Great Soul
Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman emperor from 37 to 41 AD, is better known by what name?
Caligula
Which European politician was quoted in 1990 as saying of Margaret Thatcher that she had the eyes of Caligula and the mouth of Marylin Monroe?
Mitterand
If the chemical elements are arranged in alphabetical order, which comes first?
Actinium
What surname is shared by the Danish composer of six symphonies, and an actor whose roles include Frank Drebin in Police Squad?
Neilson
Which rocky location off he south-west coast of England has had lighthouses constructed upon it designed by, in turn, Henry Winstanley, John Rudyard, John Smeaton and James Douglas?
Eddyston Rocks
Which animals are raced in the Sheikh Zayed International endurance race held at Hughenden in Queensland, Australia?
Camels
In which London borough was the Tabard Inn, where Chaucer’s pilgrims set out from in the Catnerbury Tales?
Southwark
The so-called Saturn family of large US rockets was developed for the Apollo project by a team of scientists led by which aerospace engineer?
Werner von Braun
In Roman Britain, what was the Classis Britannica?
Fleet in the English Channel
Batrachophobia is an irrational fear of what kind of animals?
Amphibians
The Northumberland National Park and Kielder Forest were given what offical designation in December 2013, making them the largest so-designated area in Europe?
Dark Sky Park
Mark Gatiss, Jeremy Dyson, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith were the writers and performers of which dark comedy series on British TV in the 1990s?
League of Gentlemen
The Mezzotint, The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral, and O Whistle and I’ll Come To You, My Lad, were among the ghose stories of which Biblical authority and Provest of Eton College, who died in 1936?
MR James
In ancient Greece, what was a hoplite?
A soldier
The British Labout Peer Baron Thompson, at the time the Secretary of State of Air, perished aboard which aircraft in 1930?
R101
Which place, the Paris residence of French kings since the 16th century, of which only the gardens remain today, was destroyed by the Commune of 1871?
Tuilleries
What title is usually given to the poem by Robert Browning which begins Oh, to be in England/Now that April’s here?
Home Thoughts From Abroad
What was the Canadian airman Roy Brown’s claim to fame in the First World War?
Shot down the Red Baron
What name is given to the lift which consists of a chain of open compartments moving continuously in a loop, allowing passengers to get on and off as they wish?
Paternoster
Which is the only one of the five boroughs of New York City that’s on the mainland of the United States?
The Bronx
The name of which film character - created in 1982 - might be represented in morse code by a single dot and a single dash?
ET
All Human Life Is There was a slogan used to advertise which now-defunct national newspaper?
News of the World
The coin known as a groat was minted in England from the 14th century until well into the 17th, and was wort how much money?
Fourpence
Which variety of garden plant, a member of the primrose famile, is commonly known as sowbread?
Cyclamen
Which bestselling book of 1995 has the subtitle: The true story of the lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time?
Longitude
Possibly originating in Norse mythology, what is the correct name for the three legged symbol that appears on the flag of the Isle of Man?
Triskelion
1313 South Horbor Boulevard, Anheim, California is the postal address of what?
Disneyland
Which Italian born queen became, in time, mother to three French kings, namely Francis II, Charles IX and Hentry III?
Catherine de Medici
What device ffor detecting subatomic particles and radiation was devised by CTR Wilson and first constructed in 1911?
Cloud chamber
Which English novelist’s father was a professional cricketer who took four wickets in four balls for Kent agains Sussex in 1862?
HG Wells
Which American actor played the lead character Tony Soprano in the six seasons of the hit drama series The Sopranos?
James Gandolfini
An annual summer folk music festival has been held since 1976 at Copredy in Oxfordshire, founded by which durable British folk band?
Fairport Convention
What’s the name of the Japanese animation studio whose international successes have included films My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away and The Red Turtle?
Ghibli
What term, meaning to stay of live in the coutryside, is used for the dismissal of a student from university on a temporary basis as a punishment?
Rusticated
In which English county are the Neolithic flint mines known as Grimes Graves?
Norfolk
Whose death was greeted by Spike Milligan with the immortal words, Now I won’t have to have him singing at my funeral?
Harry Secombe
