Quiz 40 Flashcards

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Which type of cloth is named after a west-central German state with its capital at Wiesbaden?

A

Hessian

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The actor Maurice Gosfield, who played Doberman in Sgt Bilko or The Phil Silvers Show as it was properly known, also featured in a cartoon series of a similar style, in which he provided the voice for a character called Benny the Ball. What was the name of that show?

A

Top Cat

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3
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What was the name of the German spiked helmet worn especially before and during the earlier part of the First World War?

A

Pickelhaube

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4
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What is the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet?

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Tau/Taw

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5
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In the human body, what section of the small intestine lies between the duodenum and the ileum?

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Jejunum

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Which state of India, literally meaning Northern State, has the city of Lucknow as its capital?

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Uttar Pradesh

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What is the name of the island that seperates the two largest waterfalls at Niagara?

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Goat Island

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8
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Which number is referred to by Australian cricketers as a Dorothy?

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Six

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In 1885, nine-year-old Joseph Meister became the first person ever to be treated by a vaccine, administered by Louis Pasteur. Against what illness was he vaccinated?

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Rabies

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10
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The trilogy of books comprising Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz is named collectively after which African capital city?

A

Cairo

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Martha Borthwick Chaney was murdered in 1914, along with six others, at Taliesin - the Wisconsin home she had shared with her lover, an American architect. Who was he?

A

Frank Lloyd Wright

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12
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Chipolopolo, ot the Copper Bullets, is the nickname of which African country’s national football team?

A

Zambia

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What term for a specious line of reasoning in which contradictory arguments lead to the same conclusion, often unpleasant, comes from the tax collection policies of the Archbishop of Canterbury appointed by Henry VII in the latter years of the 15th century?

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Morton’s Fork

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14
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After nitrogen and oxygen, which noble gas is the most abundant element in the Earth’s atmosphere, constituting almost one percent of the total?

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Argon

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Haiti occupies the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Which nation occupies the eastern portion?

A

Domenican Republic

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16
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What would you do with a Munsell Tree?

A

Describe/classify colours

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17
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The sweets known as Pomfret cakes, or Pontefract cakes, are made using the roots of which plants?

A

Licquorice

18
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The play The Two Noble Kinsmen, attributed to William Shakespeare and John Flitcher, concerns the same characters as the story told by which of Chaucer’s pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales?

A

The Knight

19
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Original editions of the 1973 album by Paul McCartney and Wings, red Rose Speeding, included an embossed message in Braille on the sleeve reading WE LOVE Y(A) BABY. For which fellow musician was this tribute intended?

A

Stevie Wonder

20
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Which long distance footpath runs from Ininghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire to Overton Hill in Wiltshire?

A

Ridgeway

21
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Who is the malevolent fairy of the ballet Sleeping Beauty, whose evil curse is changed by the Lilac Fairy?

A

Carabosse

22
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Which South Caribbean island off the Venezuelan coast lends its name to a liquer flavoured with the dried peel of bitter oranges known locally as Laraha?

A

Curacuo

23
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Thought to have been born some time between 2BC and 119AD, Lindow Man or Lindow II - the well preserved corpse of the victim of a possible ritual killing - was discovered in 1984 in a peat bog in which English county?

A

Cheshire

24
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A sulphate of which chemical element is most commonly added to garden soil in order to lower its PH level, sometimes to intensify the colour of blue hydrangea blooms?

A

Aluminium

25
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The murder of Laura Palmer is the focus for the plot of early episodes of which American TV series, first shown in 1990?

A

Twin Peaks

26
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Vectis was the Roman name for which part of the British isles?

A

Isle of Wight

27
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Which word, originally used for a blancmange-like desert of sweetened bran or oatmeal boiled into a jelly, is also used to figuratively mean empty flattery or humbug?

A

Flummery

28
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The ceiling of London’s Banqueting House, a pictorial representation of the Apotheosis of James the First, was commissioned by King Charles I from which artist?

A

Rubens

29
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Whose law of elasticity is an approximation that states that the extension of a spring is in direct proportion with the load applied to it?

A

Hooke’s

30
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A Pagan Place, published in 1970, is a childhood memoir by which Irish writer, whose other books include Girls In Their Married Bliss?

A

Edna O’Brien

31
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Surgically, what is removed in an orchidectomy?

A

Testicles

32
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Which ruler introduced the form of trial known as Wager of Battle or Trial by Combat into England?

A

William I

33
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Maercaptans are an important feature of natural gas production. Can you say why?

A

Added to provide smell

34
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What event is referred to in Russia as the Caribbean Crisis?

A

Cuban Missile Crisis

35
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Which collection of stories was first introduced into Europe in a French translation by Antoine Galland at the beginning of the 18th century?

A

1001 Arabian Nights

36
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Who was the first French driver to win the World Formula ! Championship?

A

Alain Prost

37
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The polecat, the otter, the pine marten, the stoat, the badger and the weasel are the six species native to Britain of which mammal family?

A

Mustelidae

38
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The accolade of Time Magazine Man of the Year was inaugurated in January 1928 when the aviator Charles Lindburgh appeared on the famous front cover. But whom did the magazine name as the first Woman of the Year nine years later?

A

Wallace Simpson

39
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Also called the fennel flower of devil-in-the-bush, by what poetic name is the flowing herb Nigella damascena most commonly known?

A

Love-in-a-mist

40
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In June 1963 who became the first woman in space?

A

Valentina Tereshkova