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