Quiz 36 Flashcards
Who or what in the Arthurian legends was Dagonet, later Sir Dagonet?
Arthur’s jester
In which decade was the last Mary Poppins story by PL Travers published?
1980a
Which high-ranking religious office in the Shi-ite sect of Islam means sign, or Token of God?
Ayatollah
What alternative name, referring to its habit of flocking together in groups of twelve is given to the Australian Grey Jumper or Lousy Jack bird, Struthidea cinerea
Apostle
The film tune Song from Moulin Rouge, which became a no 1 hit in Britain in the US in 1953, was composed by which avant-garde French composer?
Georges Auric
During the First World War, the Carlton Hotel in London employed a kitchen assistant who called himself Nguyen That Tanh. He would later become more famous under what name?
Ho Chi Minh
What do the following novels all have in common: The Last Tycoon by F Scott Fitzgerald, Sanditon by Jane Austen, and The Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson?
Unfinished at the author’s death
In which country is Batman airport?
Turkey
The Man from Hell’s River was one of the first films to feature which Hollywood movie star discovered in Europe shortly after World War One by Lee Duncan, a US soldier?
RinTinTin
Which Chilean poet, who won the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, took his pen name from a Czech poet.
Pablo Neruda
An attercop is an Old English word for what type of creature?
Spider
Which was the last ship in the British navy in which sailors slept in hammocks?
Royal Yacht Britannia
Which battle, the bloodiest of the American Civil War, was fought on the 17th September 1862?
Antietam
Which familiar sporting term is thought to have been first used to describe the achievement of HH Stephenson which playing for the All-England cricket XI at Hyde Park in Sheffield in 1858?
Hat-trick
Which name, long associated with exploration and adventure, did Amy Johnson give to the De Havilland Gipsy Moth in which she made her pioneering solo flight from Britain to Australia in May 1930?
Jason
Nut-Crack night is an alternative name for what?
Halloween