Quiz 35 Flashcards

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1
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Diego Maradona’s infamous Hand of God goal against England was scored in which city?

A

Mexico City

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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?

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Norway

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Fenks, used as a manure and in the synthesis of Prussian blue pigment, is the waste from which animal product?

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Whale Blubber

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Mahatma, the honorific title of Mohandas K Gandhi, means what in Sanskrit?

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Great Soul

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Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman emperor from 37 to 41 AD, is better known by what name?

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Caligula

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Which European politician was quoted in 1990 as saying of Margaret Thatcher that she had the eyes of Caligula and the mouth of Marilyn Monroe?

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Mitterand

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If the chemical elements are arranged in alphabetical order, which comes first?

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Actinium

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What surname is shared by the Danish composer of six symphonies, and an actor whose roles include Frank Drebin in Police Squad?

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Neilson

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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?

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Eddystone Rocks

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Which animals are raced in the Sheikh Zayed International endurance race held at Hughenden in Queensland, Australia?

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Camels

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In which London borough was the Tabard Inn, where Chaucer’s pilgrims set out from in the Canterbury Tales?

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Southwark

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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?

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Werner von Braun

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In Roman Britain, what was the Classis Britannica?

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Fleet in the English Channel

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Batrachophobia is an irrational fear of what kind of animals?

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Amphibians

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The Northumberland National Park and Kielder Forest were given what official designation in December 2013, making them the largest so-designated area in Europe?

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Dark Sky Park

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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?

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League of Gentlemen

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The Mezzotint, The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral, and O Whistle and I’ll Come To You, My Lad, were among the ghost stories of which Biblical authority and Provost of Eton College, who died in 1936?

A

MR James

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In ancient Greece, what was a hoplite?

A

A soldier

19
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The British Labour Peer Baron Thompson, at the time the Secretary of State of Air, perished aboard which aircraft in 1930?

A

R101 Airship

20
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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?

A

Tuilleries

21
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What title is usually given to the poem by Robert Browning which begins “Oh, to be in England/Now that April’s here”?

A

Home Thoughts From Abroad

22
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What was the Canadian airman Roy Brown’s claim to fame in the First World War?

A

Shot down the Red Baron

23
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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?

A

Paternoster

24
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Which is the only one of the five boroughs of New York City that’s on the mainland of the United States?

A

The Bronx

25
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The name of which film character - created in 1982 - might be represented in morse code by a single dot and a single dash?

A

ET

26
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All Human Life Is There was a slogan used to advertise which now-defunct national newspaper?

A

News of the World

27
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The coin known as a groat was minted in England from the 14th century until well into the 17th, and was worth how much money?

A

Fourpence

28
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Which variety of garden plant, a member of the primrose family, is commonly known as sowbread?

A

Cyclamen

29
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Which bestselling book of 1995 has the subtitle: The true story of the lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time?

A

Longitude

30
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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?

A

Triskelion

31
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1313 South Harbor Boulevard, Anheim, California is the postal address of what?

A

Disneyland

32
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Which Italian born queen became, in time, mother to three French kings, namely Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III?

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Catherine de Medici

33
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What device for detecting subatomic particles and radiation was devised by CTR Wilson and first constructed in 1911?

A

Cloud chamber

34
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Which English novelist’s father was a professional cricketer who took four wickets in four balls for Kent against Sussex in 1862?

A

HG Wells

35
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Which American actor played the lead character Tony Soprano in the six seasons of the hit drama series The Sopranos?

A

James Gandolfini

36
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An annual summer folk music festival has been held since 1976 at Copredy in Oxfordshire, founded by which durable British folk band?

A

Fairport Convention

37
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What’s the name of the Japanese animation studio whose international successes have included films My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away and The Red Turtle?

A

Ghibli

38
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What term, meaning to stay or live in the countryside, is used for the dismissal of a student from university on a temporary basis as a punishment?

A

Rusticated

39
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In which English county are the Neolithic flint mines known as Grimes Graves?

A

Norfolk

40
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Whose death was greeted by Spike Milligan with the immortal words, “Now I won’t have to have him singing at my funeral”?

A

Harry Secombe