Quiz 42 Flashcards

1
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In Norse mythology, Balder, the son of Odin, was killed by which plant?

A

Mistletoe

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2
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The 1970 Top Ten hit Up the Ladder to the Roof was significant in the career of The Supremes for what particular reason?

A

First without Diana Ross

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3
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The Cambridge landmark The Bridge of Sighs, built across the River Cam in 1831, belongs to which college?

A

St Johns

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4
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In computing, what does the acronym MIPS stand for?

A

Millions of Instructions Per Second

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5
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Ike’s Pond and the Eisenhower Tree, both named after the 34th President of the United States, are the notable features of which major American gold course?

A

Augusta

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6
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Marie Laveau, who died in 1881, was a hairdresser with a salon in New Orleans. But what other, more sinister role did she play in the life of the city?

A

Voodoo priestess

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7
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In 1876, Sir Henry Wickham brought seeds from the Amazon to Kew Gardens that subsequently were shipped to Sri Lanka and Malaysia to establish plantations producing which crop?

A

Rubber

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8
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A progestogen is any of a group of steroid hormones that can maintain which condition in humans and other mammals?

A

Pregnancy

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9
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In simple terms, if an object is described as Quaquaversal, in which direction does it point?

A

Every direction

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10
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Samphire, also known as glasswort, pickleweed, marsh or rock samphire among the other names, has a name in French that associates it with which saint?

A

St Peters

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11
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Which Hebridean island has three distinctly-shaped rocky mountains rising from its western side, known as The Paps?

A

Jura

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12
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Who was the father of Henry IV of England?

A

John of Gaunt

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13
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Although the first of the official Carry On series of movies was Carry On Sergeant in 1958, a year earlier a British comedy film was a nautical theme had appeared with the words Carry On in the title, featuring David Tomlinson, Ronald Shiner and Joan Sims. What was it called?

A

Carry on Admiral

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14
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Following the break-up of the USSR, which city in Belarus was designated as the administrative centre of the alliance of twelve former Soviet republics known as the Commonwealth of Independent States?

A

Minsk

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15
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Captain Bill Turner was the last captain of which vessel?

A

Lusitania

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16
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Which Latin term is used to refer to that form of logical fallacy when an argument is attacked or rebutted essentially on the grounds of some perceived personal flaw or circumstance of its proponent?

A

Ad Hominem

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17
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Which fishing village in eastern Germany was the location for German rocket development under Wernher von Braunn during World War II?

A

Peenemunde

18
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The works of which Victorian artist, confined for much of his life to aylums, include The Fairy Feller’s Masterpiece?

A

Richard Dadd

19
Q

The pair of giant sculpures by Andy Scott at Falkirk in Scotland, The Keplies, were inspired by water spirits in Scottish folklore reputed to haunt rivers and lakes - and taking the form of which creature?

A

Horses

20
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Which grey-white metal, discovered in 1803 by the English chemist Smithson Tennant, is the densest natually occurring element?

A

Osmium

21
Q

Which snooker player, one of the two brothers who dominated the game from 1927 until 1956, won the World Billiards Championship in 1980 and 1981 in his late 60s?

A

Fred Davis

22
Q

In co-ordinate geometry, which concept is conventionally repeated by the algebraic equation y=mx+c

A

Straight line, slope m, intersection with y axis at c

23
Q

Which present day African capital city was named Fort Salisbury by the British, after the Prime Minister who was in office when it was founded?

A

Harare

24
Q

Which practice - sometimes used in alternative medicine to induce analgaesia - was given its modern name by the British physician and surgeon James Braid in the mid 19th century?

A

Hypnotism

25
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Known variously as the Little Magician and the Sly Fox, among other nicknames, who was the first US President to be born a citizen of the United States?

A

Van Buren

26
Q

Which Greek god granted Midas his wish that everything he touched would turn to gold?

A

Dionysus

27
Q

In the sixth Harry Potter novel and film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, when Dumbledore and Harry call at the home of the former Hogwarts Potions master Horace Slughorn, they find him trying to hids by desguising himself as what?

A

Chair

28
Q

Used as a pigment, vermillion is a bright red sulphide of which element?

A

Mercury

29
Q

A huge plaster monument on the site of the Bastille in Paris, which stood for more than thirty years in the early 19th century and plays a role in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, was in the shape of what animal?

A

Elephant

30
Q

Who said in 1945, The war has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage?

A

Emperor Hirohito

31
Q

For what is the biennial Laura Ingalls Wilder Award given in the USA?

A

Children’s literature

32
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What name is given to the cheaper spectator benches at an American sports stadium, a name derived from the fact their occupants often sit uncovered and in sunshine?

A

Bleachers

33
Q

The Fosse Way and Ermine Street are Roman roads that were built to run northwards from the South of England to meet at which city?

A

Lincoln

34
Q

What was the name of the US space station launched into Earth orbit in May 1973?

A

Skylab

35
Q

Prominent in Gothic buildings of the Middle Ages, the curved angle formed by the intersection of two vaults of arches is usually known by which architectural term?

A

Groin

36
Q

Edith Head, who died in 1981, holds the record as the woman who has won most oscars, with a total of eight - in which category were her successes?

A

Costume

37
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Which dog breed, originating in Germany, shares its name with the german name for a moustache, more accurately as a walrus moustache?

A

Schnauzer

38
Q

In the verse by Rudyard Kipling in Just So Stories, I keep six honest serving men/They taught me all I knew - can you name them?

A

How what why when how who

39
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Which general and politician was in charge of Poland during the 1981 crisis involving the trade union Solidarity, placing the country under martial law, outlawing Solidarity and ordering the arrest of its leaders?

A

Jaraselski

40
Q

Which of the Beatles was the youngest?

A

George