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
The New York born illustrator James Montgomery Flagg is best known for which piece of artwork, produced for the American division of Pictorial Publicity under the chairmanship of Charles Dana Gibson?
Uncle Sam
The steamship Stella and the HMS Victory are among the vessels to have foundered on which treacherous rocks off Alderney in the Channel Islands?
The Casquets
What name is given to the general neurological condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognotive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory of cognitive pathway, for example seeing numbers as colours?
Syneasthesia
George Stephenson’s first successful steam locomotive, used for hauling coal at Killingworth Colliery on Tyneside, was named after which major figure of the Napoleonic Wars?
Blucher
According to the title of a 1956 book by AJ Liebling, which sport is The Sweet Science?
Boxing
Which composer, born in 1858, was an activist in the UK women’s suffrage movement and wrote March of the Women, the song adopted as the suffrage anthem?
Ethel Smythe
The formula V=pir^2h give the volume of which three dimensional shape?
Cylinder
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted, persons attempting to find a moral in it will by banished, persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. In which American novel of 1884 will you find this warning?
Huckleberry Finn
Which Dorset town has a harbour wall known as The Cobb, that featured prominently in the film The French Lieutenant’s Woman?
Lyme Regis
The 1944 Education Act is often known by the name of the politician who was President of the Board of Education at the time. Who was he?
RAB Butler
The Sentinel, a short story published in 1951, became the basis of a spectacular science-fiction film made twenty years later. Which film was that?
2001: A Space Odyssey
What name is given to the radiation theoretically emitted from just outside the event horizon of a black hole, first proposed in 1974?
Hawking radiation
In 2014, who became the first person ever to have won both the Turner Prize and an Oscar?
Steve McQueen
Halcyon is a poetic name for which bird?
Kingfisher
NHK is the official public broadcaster of which country?
Japan
The VLT, situated on the mountain Cerro Pranal in Chile, has four 8.2m telescopes named Anty, Kueyan, Melipal and Yepn, which are the names for the Sun, Moon, Southern Cross and Venus in the language of the Mapuce people/ What do the letters VLT stand for?
Very Large Telescope
The name Yorick, most familiar as that of Hamlet’s long-dead jester, is the Danish equivalent of which common boy’s name in English?
George
How are the British TV journalists Peter Snow and Jon Snow related?
Cousins
Which London landmark gave its name to a now-disused underground station located just to the east of Tottenham Court Road on the Central Line?
British Museum
Which Superbowl winning quarterback led the San Francisco 49ers in 1982, 1985, 1989 and 1990?
Jon Montana
Three scientists shared the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics. Marie and Pierre Curie were two of them. Who was the third?
Henri Becquerel
The term for which salad dish of chopped meat, eggs and anchovies in vinegar and oil is also used to refer figuratively to any medley or multifarious mixture?
Salmagundi
The stories of Armistead Maupin, published as Tales of the City, are about which city?
San Francisco
What do you fear if you suffer from Pagonophobia?
Beards
