Quiz 43

Question 1

With which orchestra is the conductor Eugene Ormandy most closely associated, having been its music director for more than forty years?

Answer 1

Philadelphia

Question 2

Where on the anatomy of the whale would you find its flukes?

Answer 2

Tail

Question 3

Which Roman emperor, the last of the Flavian emperors, succeeded his brother Titus in 81AD and was assassinated in 96AD?

Answer 3

Domition

Question 4

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?

Answer 4

Buckminster Fullerine

Question 5

A leper from Bethany mentioned in the gospels of Matthew and Mark, the Cyrenian ordered to carry Christ’s cross and a Samarian magician called Magus are all biblical figures sharing which forename?

Answer 5

Simon

Question 6

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?

Answer 6

Showboat

Question 7

In which British city is Queen Margaret University?

Answer 7

Edinburgh

Question 8

Which artist’s canvases of American urban life include Automat, painted in 1927, and Nighthawks, dating from 1942?

Answer 8

Hopper

Question 9

The words “Defend the children of the poor and punish the wrongdoer” are carved on the exterior of which London building?

Answer 9

Old Bailey

Question 10

According to the book of Genesis, how old was Noah when the Flood came on the Earth?

Answer 10

600

Question 11

Which feminist and writer, born in London in 1759, wrote the book Thoughts on the Education of Daughters?

Answer 11

Mary Woolstencroft

Question 12

Byng 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?

Answer 12

Canada

Question 13

Which animated series created by Stephen Hillenburg focuses on characters who work at a fast-food restaurant in the submarine town of Bikini Bottom?

Answer 13

Spongebob Squarepants

Question 14

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?

Answer 14

Bird

Question 15

Bas bleu is the French equivalent of which English term for an intellectual woman?

Answer 15

Bluestocking

Question 16

The Barbados Blackbelly, the Blackhead Persian and the Brazilian Somali are among the breeds of which animal?

Answer 16

Sheep

Question 17

Named after Gordon Dobson, an Oxford researcher, Dobson units are the standard way of expressing the proportion in the atmosphere of which polluting chemical?

Answer 17

Ozone

Question 18

Which American writer in 1970 coined the term Radical Chic, describing the tendency at that time for members of well-off high society to mingle with socialists and revolutionaries?

Answer 18

Tom Wolfe

Question 19

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?

Answer 19

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Question 20

“Simila similibus curentur” is an axiom espoused by the German physician Samual Hahnemann, regarded as the founder of which form of alternative medicine?

Answer 20

Homeopathy

Question 21

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?

Answer 21

Castle Howard

Question 22

Based on an Ernest Hemingway novel, which Howard Hawks wartime romance was the first film in which Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall appeared together?

Answer 22

To Have And Have Not

Question 23

The Tsukahara, named after the Japanese competitor who introduced it in 1970, is a technique used in which gymnastics discipline?

Answer 23

The vault

Question 24

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?

Answer 24

Leo

Question 25

Dahomey was the name until 1975 of which West African country, whose capital is Porto Novo?

Answer 25

Benin

Question 26

What word is used in psychology or psychoanalysis to describe the unconscious transformation of an instinctive urge into something more socially acceptable?

Answer 26

Sublimation

Question 27

What term is used by those of the Mormon faith to describe non-Mormons?

Answer 27

Gentiles

Question 28

Of which star of MGM musicals was it once said, “Wet, she was a star”?

Answer 28

Esther Williams

Question 29

Small mass is the literal meaning of which common scientific term?

Answer 29

Molecule

Question 30

With music by Stephen Sondheim, and book by Hugh Wheeler, in which country is the show A Little Night Music set?

Answer 30

Sweden

Question 31

What was signified in Ancient Rome when the gates of the archway of the god Janus were left open?

Answer 31

War

Question 32

What is the nautical term for a temporary mast to replace one that has been broken on a voyage?

Answer 32

Jury-rigged

Question 33

Which highly flammable and explosive gas, C2H2, is produced by the reaction of water and calcium carbide?

Answer 33

Acetylene

Question 34

Which Scottish poet, author of the novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, was known as the Ettrick Shepherd?

Answer 34

James Hogg

Question 35

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?

Answer 35

Crab nebula

Question 36

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”?

Answer 36

Keats

Question 37

With an area measuring approximately 3,200 square kilometres, which Swedish island is the largest in the Baltic Sea?

Answer 37

Gotland

Question 38

The Companies Court, the Patent Court and the Bankruptcy Court form part of which division of the High Court of Justice?

Answer 38

Chancery division

Question 39

The albums of which British rock group, let by guitarist Robert Fripp, include Larks Tongues in Aspic and Starless and Bible Black?

Answer 39

King Crimson