Quiz 47

Question 1

According to the Notebooks of the 19th century novelist Samuel Butler, life is one long process of getting - what?

Answer 1

tired

Question 2

The church of Kirkbean in the Solway Firth contains a memorial font presented by the US Navy, because the man regarded as the founder of that Navy, a hero of the American War of Independence, was born nearby. What was his name?

Answer 2

John Paul Jones

Question 3

In which city could you visit the establishment known as Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem, reputed to be England’s oldest pub?

Answer 3

Nottingham

Question 4

What is the main distinguishing feature of a piece of writing known as a lipogram?

Answer 4

Avoids using a particular letter

Question 5

We’re familiar with the term long wave in connection with radio frequencies, but what wavelength must a radio wave exceed in order to be called a long wave?

Answer 5

1,000m

Question 6

Who was the last British monarch not to succeed either a parent of a sibling?

Answer 6

Victoria

Question 7

The catchphrase Very interesting but stupid was a feature of which American TV comedy series which ran from 1968 to 1973?

Answer 7

Rowan and Martin’s Laugh In

Question 8

According to Alvin Toffler in his book The Culture Consumer, the law that the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it must becoe is known as the Law of what?

Answer 8

Raspberry Jam

Question 9

Where in the body would you find Glisson’s capsule?

Answer 9

Liver

Question 10

Henderson’s Model, the Roy Model and the Roper-Logan-Tierney Model are recommended frameworks or programmes intended to assist members of which profession in their practice?

Answer 10

Nursing

Question 11

Prior to Barack Obama, three other US Presidents have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, either during or after their term of office. Can you name two of them?

Answer 11

Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter

Question 12

In the sequence of year names in the Chinese calendar, which animal follows the snake and precedes the sheep?

Answer 12

Horse

Question 13

The spiny Eurasion shrub Ribes grossulaia produces which edible fruit?

Answer 13

Gooseberries

Question 14

In which town, then in Kent, but now in the London Borough of Bromley, did the French Emperor Napolean II die in 1873?

Answer 14

Chislehurst

Question 15

Which Scottish born scientist, whoc lived from 1892 to 1973, was knighted in 1942 for his role in the development and introduction of Radar?

Answer 15

Sir Robert Alexander Watson Watt

Question 16

What’s the name of the valley dividing the Mount of Olives from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which was crossed by Jesus when retiring with his disciples after the Last Supper?

Answer 16

Kidron valley

Question 17

Stephen Frank, a frontiersman killed in a native Indian skirmish at a river ford in 1780, lends his name to the capital of which US state?

Answer 17

Kentucky

Question 18

Who is the New Zealand born screenwriter and director who won an an Academy Award for The Piano in 1994 and co-created the TV series Top Of The Lake?

Answer 18

Jane Campion

Question 19

In 1942, which comedian and musician was the first ever guest on BBC Radio’s Desert Island Discs?

Answer 19

Vic Oliver

Question 20

The name of the rock band The Doors was inspired by a 1954 book of philosophy by which British writer?

Answer 20

Aldous Huxley

Question 21

Sisyphus, who was punished in the underworld by being forced perpetually to push a rock to the top of a hill was, in life, the first king of which Greek city?

Answer 21

Corinth

Question 22

Morketiden is a Nordic term referring to which perdiod of the year?

Answer 22

Winter - months of darkness

Question 23

The autobiography Without Stopping by a 20th century American writer and composer who had spent much of his life in North Africa was scathingly nicknamed Without Telling by William S Burroughs because of the amount of personal revelations it withheld. Who was his author?

Answer 23

Paul Bowles

Question 24

Blapharitis is a medical term describing inflammation of which specific part of the body?

Answer 24

Eyelid

Question 25

James Stuart, one of the key architects of the so-called Greek revival in Britain in the 18th century, was popularly known by a nickname reflecting this trend in his designs. What was it?

Answer 25

Athenian

Question 26

It Wasn’t All Velvet was the title of the 1988 autobiography of which American singer, nicknamed The Velvet Fog?

Answer 26

Mel Torme

Question 27

Which British traveller and archeologist was dubbed The Uncrowned Queen of Iraw because of her influence in the creation of that country following the First World War?

Answer 27

Gertrude Bell

Question 28

Which novelist, working as a film critic in the 1930s, was sued for libel for his review of a film starring Shirley Temple?

Answer 28

Graham Greene

Question 29

In Dante’s Inferno, the Devil is depicted as having three faces, and in each of his jaws chews three figures from history, Brutus, Cassius, and which character from the Bible?

Answer 29

Judas Iscariot

Question 30

The name of which abbey, near Dumfries in Scotland, commemorates the love of the foundress Lady Dervorguilla of Galloway for her husband John Balliol?

Answer 30

Sweetheart Abbey

Question 31

Since 1908 the emergency Morse Code signal has been SOS. Which three letter signal was used before 1908?

Answer 31

CQD

Question 32

Writing in the New Scientist in 1964, what did the American behavioural psychologist BF Skinner define as what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten?

Answer 32

Education

Question 33

What’s the proper term for a female octopus?

Answer 33

Hen

Question 34

Passed as a response to the Jacobite Risings, the 1715 Riot Act laid down a minimum number of people that could be considered to constitute a riot. How many people is that?

Answer 34

Twelve

Question 35

I had the upper part of her body in my hands, and I did kiss her mouth. Thus did Samuel Pepys describe his encounter at Westminster Abbey with the embalmed body of which English queen?

Answer 35

Catherine de Valois

Question 36

Rotating on its axis once every 9.84 Earth hours, which planet of the solar system has the shortest day?

Answer 36

Jupiter

Question 37

Irishman Willie John McBride, captain of the most successful Lions rugby union team, which toured South Africa in 1974, actually isn’t Willie John, although his first name is William. What is his actual middle name?

Answer 37

James

Question 38

Workers in which industry used to be susceptible to the condition known as phossy jaw, a disfiguring illness involving the onset of gangrene in the face?

Answer 38

Matchmaking

Question 39

What’s the two word name used by geographers for the debris and rubble deposited at the end snout of a melting glacier, usually marking the furthest point of its advance?

Answer 39

Terminal morraine

Question 40

Which African capital city takes its name from the Arabic for an elephant’s trunk?

Answer 40

Khartoum