Quiz 50 Flashcards
Where would you find the Mohorovicic Discontinuity?
Within the Earth (crust and mantle)
According to Rupert Brooke’s poem, The Soldier, there’s some corner of a foreign field that is forever England. After his own untimely death in 1915, Brooke was himself buried in a foreign field, in which country?
Greece
Which term is used to describe the split in the Church of Scotland when, in 1843, its Evangelical wing formed the Free Church of Scotland?
The Disruption
When Leonidas led his three hundred Spartans to their deaths at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480BC, he was accompanied by four hundred soldiers from Thebes and seven hundred from which other Greek city?
Thespiae
The novel Futility, written by Morgen Robertson and published in 1898, described an event that was to make it seem tragically prophetic a few years later. What was its subject matter?
Titanic
What’s the name of the large bone at the base of the spine which connects at the top with the last lumbar vertebra, and at the bottom with the coccyx?
Sacrum
The author of the book 10 Rillington Place, an account of the Christie murders published in 1961, has been credited with having played a major role in the abolition of capital punishment. Who was he?
Ludovic Kennedy
If you suffer from trichotillomania, what are you compelled irrationally to do?
Tearing your hair out
In 1954, Elvis Presley released his first single, a cover of a song made popular by the blues singer Arthur Big Boy Crudup. What was its title?
That’s All Right Mama
In the ancient process known as encaustic painting, by which Egyptians, Greeks and Romans made paintings on walls, what substance was mixed with the coloured pigments in order to fix the design?
Beeswax
What species was Ota Benga, the star exhibit of the Bronx Zoo in the summer of 1906?
Human
The Bactrian Camel is named after a region in which country?
Afghanistan
Which organisation began life as a body called the Office of Strategic Services?
CIA
John Dryden’s play All For Love, of The World Well Lost, deals with the romance between the same two historical figures as which play by Shakespeare?
Anthony and Cleopatra
One of the first setbacks for Edward Heath’s newly elected Conservative government in 1970 was the death, a month after the election, of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Who was he?
Ian McLeod
Can you name the Austro-Hungarian officer who gained notoriety just before the First World War by betraying military secrets to the Russions. A film about his life, starring Klaus Maria Bransuer, was released in the mid-1980s
Colonel Alfred Redl