BH quiz #11
I suppose that one day, when more than a dozen of my hairs have turned white and I am no longer IDed by swiney bouncers, I will drench this quiz in irony and leftist socio-politics thus reflecting the increasing virulence towards the anti-establishmentarism that permeates my political beliefs as well as my blackening cynicism, but not quite yet. Let's stay sane. However, number four does make you think about stuff don't it? On the other hand, the fella really needs to lighten up.
1 Pete Lovering won the first ever world championship of which game in 2002?
2 What is the telephone dialling code for France?
3 Stand-up comedian Al Murray, a.k.a. The Pub Landlord, is the great great great great grandson of which famous novelist?
4 Who pointed to sports and games as a prime example of determined avoidance of issues of substance in his book Manufactured Consent?
5 Who or what links the 20th Prime Minister of Australia and Danni Minogue?
6 Which Bolshevik leader died in suspicious circumstances after a stomach operation in 1925 and had his birthplace of Bishkek in Kyrgyztan renamed in his honour, and also gave his name to one of Russia's most highly respected military academies?
7 Who opened his first store on Oxford Street in 1864 and took 16 shillings and four pence on his first day?
8 Who played the decrepit butler in the sixties TV series of Batman and was also the cousin of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain?
9 Starring Peter O'Toole as a womaniser called Michael James, which 1965 film is alleged to have taken its name from a Warren Beatty telephone greeting?
10 Complete the Morris Udall quote with the two missing words: "The voters have spoken - ..."(he said it after losing a 1976 primary)
11 Author of 1990's Understanding Unemployment and a President of Harvard University, which economist said: "In the history of all humankind, no one has ever washed a rented car"?
12 Who was England's first black rugby union international, whom the touring South Africans refused to play when he appeared for Devon, his county XV, in 1906?
13 What do Indians call shivambu?
14 Which 30-year-old rock singer, musician and producer was born John Anthony Gillis?
15 What two-word term describes the method of mountain climbing in which all the gear is carried with you rather than left in caches established along the route?
16 Winner of 1922's Nobel Prize for Physics, who came up with the principle of complementarity that stated items could be separately analysed as having several contradictory properties?
17 Gerry Thomas, a company salesman with CA Swanson & Sons, took 520,000 pounds of leftover poultry from Thankgiving Day in 1953 and invented what?
18 What name is given to the new year tradition in central Europe where molten lead is poured into water and produces strange shapes that are used to tell your fortune for the coming year?
19 What name did Homer give to the battle fury that made heroes go beserk?
20 In the late 80s which Norwegian became famous for juggling a career as a chess Grandmaster (which he became aged 18) and an international footballer?
21 What is the name of the Royal Horticultural Society's winter garden in Torrington, Devon?
Answers to BH #10
1 Westminster Kennel Club's 2 Chicago 3 Conan O'Brien 4 A Prairie Home Companion 5 Harrison Ford 6 Seneca 7 Quail 8 The Flying Tomato 9 Willie Nelson 10 Quantum leap or quantum jump 11 Phoenix Coyotes 12 Seinfeld 13 Samantha and Ivan and Nancy 14 Stanford White 15 Tiananmen Square massacre (and the related democracy movement) 16 Qinetiq 17 The Sentinelese 18 Eileen Derbyshire (Emily Nugent/Bishop/Swain) 19 Ferrari 20 They poo
1 Pete Lovering won the first ever world championship of which game in 2002?
2 What is the telephone dialling code for France?
3 Stand-up comedian Al Murray, a.k.a. The Pub Landlord, is the great great great great grandson of which famous novelist?
4 Who pointed to sports and games as a prime example of determined avoidance of issues of substance in his book Manufactured Consent?
5 Who or what links the 20th Prime Minister of Australia and Danni Minogue?
6 Which Bolshevik leader died in suspicious circumstances after a stomach operation in 1925 and had his birthplace of Bishkek in Kyrgyztan renamed in his honour, and also gave his name to one of Russia's most highly respected military academies?
7 Who opened his first store on Oxford Street in 1864 and took 16 shillings and four pence on his first day?
8 Who played the decrepit butler in the sixties TV series of Batman and was also the cousin of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain?
9 Starring Peter O'Toole as a womaniser called Michael James, which 1965 film is alleged to have taken its name from a Warren Beatty telephone greeting?
10 Complete the Morris Udall quote with the two missing words: "The voters have spoken - ..."(he said it after losing a 1976 primary)
11 Author of 1990's Understanding Unemployment and a President of Harvard University, which economist said: "In the history of all humankind, no one has ever washed a rented car"?
12 Who was England's first black rugby union international, whom the touring South Africans refused to play when he appeared for Devon, his county XV, in 1906?
13 What do Indians call shivambu?
14 Which 30-year-old rock singer, musician and producer was born John Anthony Gillis?
15 What two-word term describes the method of mountain climbing in which all the gear is carried with you rather than left in caches established along the route?
16 Winner of 1922's Nobel Prize for Physics, who came up with the principle of complementarity that stated items could be separately analysed as having several contradictory properties?
17 Gerry Thomas, a company salesman with CA Swanson & Sons, took 520,000 pounds of leftover poultry from Thankgiving Day in 1953 and invented what?
18 What name is given to the new year tradition in central Europe where molten lead is poured into water and produces strange shapes that are used to tell your fortune for the coming year?
19 What name did Homer give to the battle fury that made heroes go beserk?
20 In the late 80s which Norwegian became famous for juggling a career as a chess Grandmaster (which he became aged 18) and an international footballer?
21 What is the name of the Royal Horticultural Society's winter garden in Torrington, Devon?
Answers to BH #10
1 Westminster Kennel Club's 2 Chicago 3 Conan O'Brien 4 A Prairie Home Companion 5 Harrison Ford 6 Seneca 7 Quail 8 The Flying Tomato 9 Willie Nelson 10 Quantum leap or quantum jump 11 Phoenix Coyotes 12 Seinfeld 13 Samantha and Ivan and Nancy 14 Stanford White 15 Tiananmen Square massacre (and the related democracy movement) 16 Qinetiq 17 The Sentinelese 18 Eileen Derbyshire (Emily Nugent/Bishop/Swain) 19 Ferrari 20 They poo
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