Quiz 46 Flashcards

1
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What was the name of the Swiss educationist whose teaching method was first propounded in a work of 1801 entitled How Gertrude Teaches Her Children?

A

JH Pestalozzi

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Can you name wither of the West Germany’s goal-scorers in the football World Cup Final of 1974, in which they defeated Holland 2-1?

A

Muller

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3
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The paddymelon is most commonly found in coastal areas of Australasia. What is a paddymelon?

A

Wallaby

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4
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Which pair of lovers are the subject of the only known work by Greek writer Longus, which was later turned into a ballet with music by Ravel?

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Daphnis and Chloe

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The works of which writer, who committed hari-kiri in 1970 and whose story was told in a cult film of 1985, include The Temples of The Golden Pavilion and Confessions of a Mask?

A

Mishima

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By office boys, for office boys, was the dismissive verdict of Lord Salisbury on which national newspaper, at the time of its foundation in 1896?

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Daily Mail

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The region of southern France known as the Languedoc derives its name from a particular feature of the language spoken there in the middle ages. What feature is that?

A

Yes was Oc

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Corradino d’Asciano, chief engineer of the Italian company Piaggio, designed which iconic form of transport first soldin 1946?

A

Motor scooter

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9
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The Celsius temperature scale is named after the 18th century Swedish scientist who invented it, Anders Celsius. But the scale used today differs from Celsius’s original in one important respect. How?

A

Reversed

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10
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The small daughter of Beale and Ida Farange is the eponymous protagonist of which novel by Henry James?

A

What Maisie Knew

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11
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Which was the first of the Labours of Hercules?

A

Killing the Nemeun lion

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12
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Dating from around 1170, the Jew’s House, near the bottom of Steep Hill, is thought to be one of the oldest houses still in use anywhere in Britain. In which English cathedral city will you find it?

A

Lincoln

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13
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According to Greek Mythology, which people of fabled virtue and prosperity were said to live beyond the North wind?

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Hyperboreans

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14
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You Only Live Twice is a James Bond film, with a screenplay by Roald Dahl, originally released in 1967. Thirty Years earlier, which great director - an Austrian who fled Nazism to work in Hollywood - made a film called You Only Live Once?

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Fritz Lang

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The name of which Argentinian city was used as a codeword for the invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982?

A

Rosario

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16
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Which US President was born on exactly the same day as Charles Darwin?

A

Lincoln

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17
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If a written sentence has what Is termed an Addisonian termination, how does it end?

A

With a preposition

18
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Which American born painter, a protegee of Degas, worked in Paris and exhibited at the Impressionist shows of 1879, 1880 and 1881, and is known particularly for her studies of mothers and children?

A

Mary Cassett

19
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Heather McKay played hockey for Australia as a schoolgirl, but later took up the sport for which she would win the British Open in sixteen successive years, and the World Championship in 1976 and 1979. Which sport was that?

A

Squash

20
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Which charcter in a Charles Dicken novel often used the saying “when found, make a note of”?

A

Captain Cuttle in Dombey and Son

21
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Etudes sur le vin, in 1866 and Etudes sur le vinaigre, in 1868, are, as their titles suggest, major studies of wine and vinegar respectively, by which French scientist?

A

Pasteur

22
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If you saw the abbreviation VS on a piece of music, probably written in pencil by a previous performer of the piece, what would it be telling you to do?

A

Volti Subito - turn page quickly

23
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Which pianist and conductor, the founder of a great British orchestrea, was the inventor of a mechanical device to help pianists turn the pages of sheet music quickly without having to lift their hands from the keys?

A

Charles Halle

24
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Why is Lake Malawi known is the Calendar Lake?

A

365 miles long, 52 miles wide

25
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Although the ancestral home was in Nottinghamshire, the poet George Gordon was the Sixth Baron Byron of which town in Lancashire?

A

Rochdale

26
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What name was given to the instrument, devised in 1849 by a French engineer, used for measuring pressure, and often fitted to cylinders of compressed gas used in industry and in hospitals?

A

Bourdon Gauge

27
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In the classically-based medieval theory of bodily humours, yellow bile came to be identified with choler. With which disposition was black bile associated?

A

Melancholy

28
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit was the first of Beatrix Potter’s children’s stories to be published, in 1902. Her publisher Frederick Warne issued her next two books both at once. Can you name either of them?

A

Squirrel Nutkin, Tailor of Gloucester

29
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In which state of the USA did the notorious Scopes monkey trial of 1925, in which the teaching of evolution in schools was contested, take place?

A

Tennessee

30
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Welcome Stranger, was the name given by John Deason and Richard Oates to the object they discovered near Ballarat in Australia in 1869. What was it?

A

Gold nugget

31
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The Indian film industry is often referred to as Bollywood, because of its traditional base in Bobmay, now of course renamed Mumbai. But which country’s film industry is colloquially known as Nollywood?

A

Nigeria

32
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The psychologist and physician William Sheldon classified the human body into three distinct body shapes: Endomorph, typically fleshy and rounded; Ectomorph, meaning someone of lean build; and which other the type tha can easily put on muscle and lose weight relatively quickly?

A

Mesomorph

33
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In order of civic precedence, which is the first of the City of London livery companies?

A

Mercers

34
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In the classic TV comedy series Dad’s Army, what job was held by Timoth Farthing?

A

Vicar

35
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Heath’s Keepsake of 1833 is generally accepted as the first book to include which now common feature?

A

Dust jacket

36
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Of which piece of English classical music did George Bernard Shaw write - I sat up and said Whew! I knew we had got it at last?

A

Enigma variations

37
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Which moon of Neptune orbits in the opposite direction to its parent planet’s rotation, and has one of the coldest surfaces of any object in the solar system?

A

Triton

38
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What was Bing Crosby’s real first name?

A

Harry Lillis Crosby

39
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The presence of small amounts of which metal gives an emerald its distinctive green colour?

A

Chromium

40
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Best Friend of Charleston, completed in 1831, was the first example of what to be built in the USA?

A

Locomotive