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Quiz 45 Flashcards

1
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Which English king raised the land based tax the Danegeld in 991?

A

Ethelred the Unready

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In which US city will you find the Mob Museum, the Neon Museum and the Atomic Testing Museum?

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Las Vegas

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The town of Coober Pedy in central South Australia produces over half the world’s supply of which semiprecious stone?

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Opal

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4
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Under what name does the future wife of the broadcasting administrator Harold Wycliffe Jackson appear in a celebrated poem of 1941?

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Miss Joan Hunter Dunn

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5
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The River Leven carries water southwards to the Clyde estuary from which Scottish loch?

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Lomond

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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?

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Resident Evil

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Which pioneer of telegraphy, news reporting and news agencies was born Israel Beer Josephat is Kassel, Germany in 1816?

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Reuter

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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?

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James

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9
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Pitchblende is the chief ore of which metallic element?

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Uranium

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How many balls of almond paste usually feature on a Simnel cake, traditionally eaten on Mothering Sunday or at Easter?

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Eleven

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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?

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Trotsky

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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?

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Arthur Ransome

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13
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In which sport could you play a Stableford competition?

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Golf

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14
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The rivers Wye and Severn have their sources on the eastern slopes of which peak of the Cambrian mountains?

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Plynlimon

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Saint-Saens Third Symphony is sometimes nicknamed the …. symphony because of its prominent part for a particular instrument?

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Organ

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Eugenol, used in perfumes, antiseptics and analgesics, is an essential oil derived from which intensely aromatic spice, which gives it its alternative name?

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Cloves

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17
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Mount Ossa is the name of the highest peak on which island in the Southern hemisphere?

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Tasmania

18
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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?

A

Hawk

19
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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?

A

Alexander Graham Bell

20
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In geography, what is an arete?

A

This ridge of rock formed by glacial erosion

21
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Which heraldic device links the flags of Wales, Bhutan and Malta?

A

Dragons

22
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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?

A

Bevin Boys

23
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How many Brandenburg Concertos did JS Bach write?

A

Six

24
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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?

A

Tetanus

25
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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?

A

Little Dorrit

26
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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?

A

Great Bustard

27
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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?

A

Ledbetter

28
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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?

A

Peak District

29
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The Curragh, home of the Irish Derby, is in which county of the Republic of Ireland?

A

Kildare

30
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Olga da Polga, Monsieur Pamplemousse and Paddington Bear are among the characters created by which British children’s author?

A

Michael Bond

31
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In 1837, which Russian poet died of his wounds after a duel with his brother-in-law Baron George d’Anthes, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife Natalya Goncharova?

A

Pushkin

32
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What would a 17th century sailor have done with galligaskins?

A

Worn them

33
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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?

A

247

34
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Which Caribbean island, the southernmost of the Windward Islands, has St George’s as its capital?

A

Grenada

35
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What is the literal meaning of the name of the Jewish festival Rosh Hashanah?

A

Head of the year

36
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Which organisation, formed following the publication of a Peter Benenson article in 1961, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977?

A

Amnesty International

37
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The Margay, native to some parts of Central and South America, belongs to which family of mammals?

A

Cats

38
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Who was the first footballer to be voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year?

A

Bobby Moore

39
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Founded in 1994, the website Jerry and David’s Guide To The Worldwide Web was given which new name later in the same year?

A

Yahoo!

40
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Which hard, lustrous, greyish-white metal is, alphabetically, the last chemical element of the periodic table?

A

Zirconium

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