Week 1 M3 Flashcards
What was the most ancient of the title events in Edward Shepherd Creasys 1851 work Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World? Fought between the Athenians and thePersians in 490 BC it also names a long-distance running event.
Battle of Marathon
In 1997 the number 42 was retired across Major League Baseball in honour of which Brooklyn Dodgers player who broke the colour barrier by becoming the first African-American to play in MLB?
Jackie Robinson
The Tortoises movement of The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns in thequotes at a comically slow speed the melody of the Galop infernal from which UnderworldJacques Offenbach operetta?
Orpheus
In financial derivatives what type of option can only be exercised at the expiry of the contract?
European option
Which actor whose other roles include those in Not Another Teen Movie and Sunshine played the Human Torch in the 2000s Fantastic Four films and CaptainAmerica in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Chris Evans
Theravada and Mahayana are two of the major schools of which religion?
Buddhism
What specific metabolic disorder is characterised by an inability of the pancreas to produce insulin caused by autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells? It is alsoknown as the insulin-dependent form in contrast to another type of this disorder.
Diabetes mellitus type1[prompt on diabetesdo not accept answersmentioning Type 2 ordiabetes insipidus]
A meme commonly used to represent embarrassment depicts what character shown moving slowly backwards and disappearing into bushes?
Homer Simpson
What German-American entrepreneur who became the first outside investor inFacebook is a co-founder of the companies PayPal Palantir Technologies andFounders Fund?
Peter Thiel
Visited by the spacecraft Mariner 10 and MESSENGER which rocky planet is theclosest to the Sun?
Mercury
Also known as Doctor Robotnik Doctor Eggman is the main antagonist of whichseries of video games developed by Sega named for a blue spiny mammal?
Sonic the Hedgehog
Zheng was the first emperor of a unified China and was the founder of what Imperialdynasty in 221 BCE of which he had previously been merely king? It was replacedby the Han dynasty just 15 years later.
Qin (do not acceptQing)
Despite being the largest city in the country Santa Cruz de la Sierra is neither of thetwo official capital cities of what South American country?
Plurinational State ofBolivia
Including the songs Happy Talk There Is Nothin Like A Dame and Some EnchantedEvening the soundtrack to what Rodgers and Hammerstein musical has spent mostweeks at No. 1 in the UK albums chart with 115 weeks in total?
South Pacific
In the Odyssey Odysseus is held captive on Ogygia [oh-jy-jee-ah] for seven years bywhat nymph generally said to be the daughter of Atlas and Pleione?
Calypso
Often disguised as a chicken what sinister penguin is the antagonist of the 1993stop-motion short film The Wrong Trousers the second in Aardman Animationsseries featuring the characters Wallace and Gromit?
Feathers McGraw(accept either part)
What hydroelectric gravity dam on the Yangtze River in Hubei Province has been the worlds largest power station in terms of capacity since 2012 and generatedthe second-most energy in a calendar year in 2018 with 101.6 terrawatt-hours?
Three Gorges Dam
What fictional character is the credited artist of the No. 1 single Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You) technically a one-hit wonder although the vocalist who is also the voice actor for the character has had several hits under their ownname?
Chef (do not acceptIsaac Hayes)
Dating from the 1480s what Italian artist painted The Birth of Venus?
Sandro Botticelli
In the context of the British public service broadcaster what does the C standfor in the initialism BBC?
(British Broadcasting) Corporation
What gastronomic author and television presenter whose works have included How to Cook and How To Cheat At Cooking is a joint majority shareholder atNorwich City FC? They memorably attempted to rally that clubs supporters athalf-time in one match with “Where are you? Lets be avin you”?
Delia Smith
What form of spectroscopy provides information about the chemical bonds present in a sample by using radiation from the namesake section of the electromagnetic spectrum to excite certain vibrational and rotational modes of thebonds and measuring the corresponding absoprtion?
Infrared or IRspectroscopy
Later winning a gold medal at the same Games who lit the stadium cauldron at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney?
Cathy Freeman
The first of two Presidents with the surname who became President of the United States upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln? Both names required.
Andrew Johnson
