Quiz 46 Flashcards
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?
JH Pestalozzi
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?
Muller
The paddymelon is most commonly found in coastal areas of Australasia. What is a paddymelon?
Wallaby
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?
Daphnis and Chloe
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?
Mishima
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?
Daily Mail
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?
Yes was Oc
Corradino d’Asciano, chief engineer of the Italian company Piaggio, designed which iconic form of transport first soldin 1946?
Motor scooter
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?
Reversed
The small daughter of Beale and Ida Farange is the eponymous protagonist of which novel by Henry James?
What Maisie Knew
Which was the first of the Labours of Hercules?
Killing the Nemeun lion
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?
Lincoln
According to Greek Mythology, which people of fabled virtue and prosperity were said to live beyond the North wind?
Hyperboreans
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?
Fritz Lang
The name of which Argentinian city was used as a codeword for the invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982?
Rosario
Which US President was born on exactly the same day as Charles Darwin?
Lincoln