Quiz 46

Question 1

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?

Answer 1

JH Pestalozzi

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Paul Breitner, Gerd Muller

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Wallaby

Question 4

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?

Answer 4

Daphnis and Chloe

Question 5

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?

Answer 5

Mishima

Question 6

“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?

Answer 6

Daily Mail

Question 7

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?

Answer 7

Yes was Oc

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Motor scooter

Question 9

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?

Answer 9

Reversed

Question 10

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

Answer 10

What Maisie Knew

Question 11

Which was the first of the Labours of Hercules?

Answer 11

Killing the Nemean lion

Question 12

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?

Answer 12

Lincoln

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Hyperboreans

Question 14

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?

Answer 14

Fritz Lang

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Rosario

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Lincoln

Question 17

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

Answer 17

With a preposition

Question 18

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?

Answer 18

Mary Cassatt

Question 19

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?

Answer 19

Squash

Question 20

Which character in a Charles Dickens novel often used the saying “when found, make a note of”?

Answer 20

Captain Cuttle in Dombey and Son

Question 21

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?

Answer 21

Pasteur

Question 22

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?

Answer 22

Volti Subito - turn page quickly

Question 23

Which pianist and conductor, the founder of a great British orchestra, 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?

Answer 23

Charles Halle

Question 24

Why is Lake Malawi known is the Calendar Lake?

Answer 24

365 miles long, 52 miles wide

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Rochdale

Question 26

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?

Answer 26

Bourdon Gauge

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Melancholy

Question 28

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?

Answer 28

Squirrel Nutkin, Tailor of Gloucester

Question 29

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?

Answer 29

Tennessee

Question 30

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?

Answer 30

Gold nugget

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Nigeria

Question 32

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 type that can easily put on muscle and lose weight relatively quickly?

Answer 32

Mesomorph

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Mercers

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Vicar

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Dust jacket

Question 36

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”?

Answer 36

Enigma variations

Question 37

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?

Answer 37

Triton

Question 38

What was Bing Crosby’s real first name?

Answer 38

Harry Lillis Crosby

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Chromium

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Locomotive