Quiz 44 Flashcards
Of which jazz musician’s death in 1967 did the poet and critic Philip Larkin write: I can’t coneal that it leaves in jazz a vast, blessed silence?
John Coltrane
Phlobotomy and venesection are scientific names for which, now largely obsolete, medical practice?
Bleeding
The world’s smallest mammal, found in Thailand, with individuals typically weighing only 2 grams, is a species of what kind of creature?
Bat
In which EU member state is the town of Schengen, where the Schengen Agreement on border controls was signed in 1985?
Luxembourg
Because of his submission to William the Conquerer in 1066, rather than being replaved by the invaders, Saint Wulfstan was allowed to remain as bishop of which city?
Worcester
The Ampullea of Lorenzini, named after the Italian anatomist who studied them, are minute structures in the snouts of which creatures, enabling them to detect electrical signals?
Sharks
In Walter Scott’s novel The Heart of Midlothian, what is the Heart of Midlothian?
The Edinburgh Tollbooth - prison
The wife of which former Prime Minister, knighted in 2005, is a Dame Commander of the British Empire in her own right, honoured in 1999 for her charity work?
John Major
In mathematics, what is the reciprocal of 2?
Half
In which English county is the Neolithic burial mound known as Hetty Peglar’s Tump?
Gloucestershire
Oscar Wilde wrote that - All women become like their mothers, that is their tragedy. No man does, that is his. In a play by which writer will you find the following parody - All women dress like their mothers, that is their tragedy. No man does, that is his?
Alan Bennett
In the Tom and Jerry cartoons, Tom the cat only got the name by which we know him today in the second cartoon, Midnight Snack. What name did he have in the first, Puss Gets The Boot?
Jasper
Which comet, which was widely sighted from Earth around Christmas 1973 but is now not due to return for another 75,000 years, is named after the Czech astronomer who discovered it?
Kohoutec
William Pratt was the real name of which star of horror films, born in London in 1887?
Boris Karloff
Which 1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell, which became a long running Broadway play, tells the story of Georgia sharecroppers during the Great Depression?
Tobacco Road
Although it was not patented or commercially successful during his lifetime, the inventor Willia Lee pioneered which hand-powered textile machine in Nottinghamshire in the late 16th century?
Stocking Frame