Quiz 41 Flashcards
Which Shakespeare play features characters described in the dramatis peronae as A Son that has killed his father, and A Father that has killed his son?
Hentry VI part 3
Science of Logic, completed in 1816, is the work of which German philosopher?
George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Of which Cabinet Minister, one of Margaret Thatcher’s most trusted lieutenants, did John Junor write that he would not be two-faced if there was a third one available?
William Whitelaw
Inpsychology, which term, derived from the Latin for flight, is used to refer to an abnormal state of mind in which some emotional stress compels a sufferer to leave home, usually in a temporary state of amnesia, and sometimes to assume a new identity??
Dissociative Fugue State
Leinster House in Dublic, the seat of the Irish parliament, is said to have been the model for which famous building?
The White House
Which capital city would have hosted the 1916 Summer Olumpic Games but for the First World War?
Berlin
Which figure in English history was known by various unflattering nicknames including Tumbledown Dick and Queen’s Dick, and spent about twenty years in exile in continental Europe using the name John Clarke?
Richard Cromwell
Which weekly literary magazine - first published in 1919 and especially popular between the wars - took its title from the pen name of Wilfred Whitten, its founding editor?
John O’London’s Weekly
What term is widely used in art for the halo around the head of a scred figure?
Nimbus (or Aureole or Glory)
In 1714, which German physicist invented the first merury thermometer?
Gabriel Farenheit
Hisarlik in present day Turkey is generally accepted by acheologists to be the location of which important ancient city?
Troy
Il Milione was the contemporary title of a bestselling book of the 14th century, a record of the travels of which merchant and explorer?
Marco Polo
A dzo is a hybrid of which two mammals
Yak and Cow
The Druid in the Asterix books by Goscinny and Uderzo is known in the English translation as Getafix. What’s his name in the original French version?
Panaramix
According to the book of Proverbs, the price of a virtuous woman is - what?
Above rubies
The tragic heroine of Scott’s Bride of Lammermoor, Miss Westenra, Dracula’s first victim in England and the protagonist and narrator of Charlotte Bronte’s Villette share which forename?
Lucy
Biliary calculi, or cholelithiasis, is a medical condition more colloquially referred to by what name?
Gallstones
Fort Sumpter, whose combardment in April 1861 opened the American Civil War, is a site on an island that protected the harbour of which US city?
Charleston
The actress Melanie Griffith is the faughter of which movie star, noted especially for roles in Alfred Hitchcock films?
Tippi Hedron
Which highly explosive mixture of mostly picric acid - once used by British troops in ordnance shells - is named after the village on Kent’s Romney Marshes where it was first manufactured?
Lyddite
What is the fanciful name for the leathery egg case of the ray, skate or shark, frequently found washed up by the waves on the beach?
Mermaid’s purse
Which literary work, published in 1876, has the subtitle An Agony in Eight Fits?
The Hunting of the Snark
In 1702, which successful English General was appointed the first Duke of Marlborough?
John Churchill
In 1907, which American photographer took the iconic picture people on the decks of the steamer SS Kaiser Willhelm II as it crossed the Atlantic, with the title The Steerage
Alfred Stieglitz
By what name is crystalline sodium carbonate better known when used in the home?
Washing soda
In one of the most famous heckles in musical history, what name was hurled at Bob Dylan by a member of the audience at a concert in Manchester in May 1966, in protest at his use of electric instruments?
Judas!
In the human body the canal of Wirsung connects the duodenum with which organ?
Pancreas
Which three allied leaders met at the Cairo Conference of November 1943?
Churchill, Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-Shek
Where, in 1843, did Sir Robert Peel issue a politicial manifesto credited as having laid down the principles credited as having laid down the principles upon which the modern Conservative party is based?
Tamworth
What name is given to a bridge which has a suspended platform in order to carry vehicles and passengers over water, examples of which have been in use at Newport, Runcorn-Widnes and Middlesborough?
Transporter
Solidus, virgule and shilling are terms used to describe a punctuation mark now more commonly known by which name?
Forward slash
Poll taxes were imposed on the English people in 1377, 1379 and 1380, under which king?
Richard II
What substance is responible for variation in skin, eye and hair colour?
Melanin
Once the tallest building in the world, before it was superseded by American skyscrapers, the Gothic Munster in which south-western German city has a steeple measuring some 161 metres or almost 350 feet?
Ulm
Which American soul singer was the long-standing lead vocalist with the Four Tops, and also provided the voice of the plant in the 1986 Frank Oz film of Little Shop of Horrors?
Levi Stubbs
What branch of theology deals with the last things - death, judgement, heaven and hell, inn short what might be called the Last Judgement?
Eschatology
Which town’s Rugby League team was at one time known as The Chemics, and are now known as The Vikings?
Widnes
What term was coined by Ukrainian-American Nobel laureate Selman Waksman for the bacteria-killing chemicals derived from micro-organisms?
Antibiotics
The Belly of an Architect, A Zed and Two Noughts and The Pillow Book are among the film of which idiosynchratic British director born in 1942?
Peter Greenaway
Horace Lindrum, in 1952, was the first Australian winner of the World Championship of which sport?
Snooker
