Quiz 45 Flashcards
Which English king raised the land based tax the Danegeld in 991?
Ethelred the Unready
In which US city will you find the Mob Museum, the Neon Museum and the Atomic Testing Museum?
Las Vegas
the town of Coober Pedy in central South Australia produces over half the world’s supply of which semiprecious stone?
Opal
Under what name does the future wife of the broadcasting administrator Harold Wycliffe Jackson appear in a celebrated poem of 1941?
Mis Joan Hunter Dunn
The River Leven carries water southwards to the Clyde estuary from which Scottish loch?
Lomond
A character called Alice, played by Milla Jovovich, is the central figure in which science-fiction film franchise, originally based on a Japanese video game?
Resident Evil
Which pioneer of telegraphy, news reporting and news agencies was born Israel Beer Josephat is Kassel, Germany in 1816?
Reuter
Three British Prime Ministers, Harold Wilson, Ramsay McDonald and Gordon Brown, were all given the same first name, which they all chose not to use. What name was that?
James
Pitchblende is the chief ore of which metallic element?
Uranium
How many balls of almond paste usually feature on a Simnel cake, traditionally eaten on Mothering Sunday or at Easter?
Eleven
Which figure in Russian history is the subject of the Polish writer Isaac Deutscher’s biographical trilogy comprising The Prophet Armed, The Prophet Unarmed and The Prophet Outcast, published between 1954 and 1963?
Trotsky
Which British writer and journalist, extremely well known for a series of children’s novels, married Leon Trotsky’s secretary after they had met while he was in Russia covering the revolutions of 1917?
Arthur Ransome
In which sport could you play a Stableford competition?
Golf
The rivers Wye and Severn have their sources on the eastern slopes of which peak of the Cambrian mountains?
Plynlimon
Saint-Saens Third Symphony is sometimes nicknamed the What symphony because of its prominent part for a particular instrument?
Organ
Eugenol, used in perfumes, antiseptics and analgesics, is an essential oil derived from which intensely aromatic spice, which gives it its alternative name?
Cloves
Mount Ossa is the name of the highest peak on which island in the Southern hemisphere?
Tasmania
The flat, rectangular, hand-held tool used by a plasterer to hold his mortar as he works, is usually known by the name of what type of bird?
Hawk
With which inventor did Elisha Grey fight a protracted legal battle, beginning the in 1870s, having filed a patent for the same device at the same time?
Alexander Graham Bell
In geography, what is an arete?
This ridge of rock formed by glacial erosion
Which heraldic device links the flags of Wales, Bhutan and Malta?
Dragons
What name was given to men conscripted to work in the mines rather than serve in the armed forces at the end of the Second World War?
Bevan Boys
How many Brandenburg Concertos did JS Bach write?
Six
Which infectious and potentially fatal disease, characterised by extreme and painful cramps, results from the effect on the nervous system of a toxin produced by bacteria of the genus Clostridium?
Tetanus
The church of St George the Martyr in Borough High Street in London, contains a stained glass window commemorating the title character from which of Charles Dickens’ novels?
Little Dorrit
The last recorded individual of a particular species of large bird was shot in a turnip field in Cornwall in 1843, and it became extinct in Britain after that date, but is now the subject of a re-introduction scheme using birds from the steppes of southern Russia. Which bird is this?
Bustard
In the BBC TV comedy series The Good Life, Good was the name of the lead characters Tom and Barbara. What was the surname of Margo and Jerry who lived next door?
Ledbetter
Lying at an altitude of 1,518 feet, the village of Flash claims to be the highest village in England. In which of the National Parks would you find it?
Peak district
The Curragh, home of the Irish Derby, is in which county of the Republic of Ireland?
Kildare
Olga da Polga, Monsieur Pamplemousse and Paddington Bear are among the characters created by which British children’s author?
Michael Bond
In 1837, which Russian poet died of his wounds after a duel ith his brother-in-law Baron George d’Anthes, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife Natalya Goncharova?
Pushkin
What would a 17th century sailor have done with galligaskins?
Worn them
In the UK in the 1960s radio frequencies were commonly given in metres. When the BBC launched Radio 1 in 1967, what much publicised medium wave frequency did it use?
247
Which carribean island, the southernmost of the Windward Islands, has St George’s as it’s capital?
Grenada
What is the literal meaning of the name of the Jewish festival Rosh Hashanah?
Head of the year
Which organisation, formed following the publication of a Peter Benenson article in 1961, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977?
Amnesty International
The Margay, native to some parts of Central and South America, belongs to which family of mammals?
Cats
Who was the first footballer to be voted BBC SPOTY?
Bobby Moore
Founded in 1994, the website Jerry and David’s Guide To The Worldwide Web was given which new name later in the same year?
Yahoo
Which hard, lustrous, greyish-white metal is, alphabetically, the last chemical element of the periodic table?
Zirconium
