Quiz 43 Flashcards
With which orchestra is the conductor Eugene Ormandy most closely associated, having been its music director for more than forty years?
Philadelphia
Where on the anatomy of the whale would you find its flukes?
Tail
Which Roman emperor, the last of the Flavian emperors, succeeded his brother Titus in 81AD and was assassinated in 96AD?
Domition
What is the popular name of the C60 molecule discovered by Sir Harry Kroto, and named after the inventor of geodesic domes, which this allotrope of carbon resembles?
Buckminster Fullerine
A leper from Bethany mentioned in the gospels of Matthew and Mark, the Cyrenian ordered to carry Christ’s cross and a Samarian msgician called Magus are all biblical figures sharing which forename?
Simon
What type of performance venue was probably first built by the British born actor William Chapman, and later celebrated in a musical by Jerome Kern?
Showboat
In which British city is Queen Margaret University?
Edinburgh
Which artist’s canvases of American urban life include Automat, painted in 1927, and Nighthawks, dating from 1942?
Hopper
The words Defend the children of the poor and punish the wrongdoer are carved on the exterior of which London building?
Old Bailey
According to the book of Genesis, how old was Noah when the Flood came on the Earth?
600
Which feminist and writer, born in London in 1759, wrote the book Thoughts on the Educatino of Daughters?
Mary Woolstencroft
Bing Boys, derived from the name of their commanding officer Lord Julian Byng of Vimy, was a nickname given during WW1 to troops from which country?
Canada
Which animated series created by Stephen Hillenburg focuses on characters who work at a fast-food restaurant in the submarine town of Bikini Bottom?
Spongebob Squarepants
The great curassow, the male of which is black and white and can grow up to a meter in length, is found in South and Central america. What kind of creature is a curassow?
Bird
Bas bleu is the French equivalent of which English term for an intellectual woman?
Bluestocking
The Barbados Blackbelly, the Blackhead Persian and the Brazilian Somali are among the breeds of which animal?
Sheep
Named after Gordon Dobson, an Oxford researcher, Dobson units are the standard way of expressing the proportion in the atmosphere of which polluting chemical?
Ozone
Which American writer in 1970 coined the term Radical Chic, describing the tendancy at that time for members of well-off high society to mingle with socialists and revolutionaries?
Tom Wolfe
The 18th century actor Robert Baddeley made a bequest so that cake and wine could be enjoyed every Twelfth Night by the cast members performing at which London theatre?
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Simila similibus curentur is an axion espoused by the German physician Samual Hahnemann, regarded as the founder of which form of alternative medicine?
Homeopathy
The stately home - one of the grandest in England - created for the Earl of Carlisle in 1699 is still owned by his descendants, and still known by the family name? Which stately home is it?
Castle Howard
Based on an Ernest Hemingway novel, which Howard Hawks wartime romance was the first film in which Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall appeared together?
To Have And To Have Not
The Tsukahara, named after the japanese competitor who instroduced it in 1970, is a technique used in which gymnastics discipline?
The vault
At the base of the group of stars known as the Sickle, Regulus is the brightest star in which zodiac constellation of the northern hemisphere?
Leo
Dahomey was the name until 1975 of which West African country, whose capital is Porto Novo
Benin
What word is used in psychology or psychoanalysis to describe the unconscious transformation of an instinctive urge into something more socially acceptable?
Sublimation
What term isused by those of the Mormon faith to describe non-Mormons?
Gentiles
Why is unwanted emails known as spam?
Monty Python
Of which star of MGM musicals was it once said, Wet, she was a star?
Esther Williams
Small mass is the literal meaning of which common scientific term?
Molecule
With music by Stephen Sondheim, and book by Hugh Wheeler, in which country is the show A Little Night Music set?
Sweden
What was signified in Ancient Rome when the gates of the archway of the god Janus were left open?
War
What is the nautical term for a temporary mast to replace one that has been broken on a voyage?
Jury-rigged
Which highly flammable and explosive gas, C2H2, is produced by the reaction of water and calcium carbide?
Acetylene
Which Scottish poet, author of the novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, was known as the Ettrick Shepherd?
James Hogg
Appearing in the sky in the constellation of Taurus, the gas and dust remains of the supernova whose explosion was probably witnessed by Chinese astronomers in 1054 are known by which name?
Crab nebula
Of which fellow writer - in a letter sent to John Murray in April 1821 - did Byron write, I think he took the wrong line as a poet, and was spoilt by Cockneyfying and Suburbing?
Keats
With an area measuring approximately 3,200 square kilometres, which Swedish island is the largest in the Baltic Sea?
Gotland
The Companies Court, the Patent Court and the Bankruptcy Court form part of which division of the High Court of Justice?
Chancery division
The albums of which British rock group, let by guitarist Robert Fripp, include Larks Tongues in Aspic and Starless and Bible Black?
King Crimson
