BH quiz #13
I went to see a far more popular band than Orson last night at the Carling Hammersmith Apollo. The Strokes. Like many others, you feel they may not have the supermagnetic pull they used to possess, but they still hold a unique attraction for me. And I was glad I went last night. It was great fun, aided by all sorts of flashback, mainly to 2001. That year again, 2001. The Strokes were so unbelievably cool (I remember even briefly interviewing them and being exposed to the super-refined New York genes of a band picked from the coolest end of the American immigrant pool - they turned looking dishevelled into an art form). Of course, you now realise that they would have done so much better if they died in a plane crash somewhere in the Midwest at the end of 2001. A legend would have grown and bloomed. They would have kept cool cachet and been worshipped for as long as kids loved wearing leather jackets and Low-Tops, and their hair like an exploded thatch of hay.
Almost four-and-a-half years ago, before the domestic and international world we have become so used to. Things were a lot different then. I remember indulging in a spot of trivia craziness in that after I went straight from the Reading Festival site and the first time I had seen The Strokes to a quiz championship the next day in a spaced-out state at a south London university (I can't remember due to my festival-lag). I came second and came out of the building swinging a large silver Olympiad medal. Granted, there were only eight competitors, but Daphne Fowler came first, so there were some fine competitors in the uppermost quarter of the field. Of course, I know more now, and wonder how well I would have done with all that knowledge and know-how. But that is the curse of hindsight and the onset of time. Before we know it the present is history and the future has become last year. Best not to think of regrets, though I cannot help it myself even though they have also thought of them as fuel. Too many see them as engines of bitterness which they find impossible to turn off for the rest of their lives, whose radiating negativity infects all corners of their life. We have to think of the future as a better place; it is, after all, something that makes the word huge into an infinitesimal speck on the head of a pin and an unimaginable concept that Louis Althusser perfectly crystallised in the name of his memoir The Future Lasts Forever. It has potential, and so gives us the potential to makes ourselves, better, fitter, happier and more knowledgeable people, and that is what matters. We still have to believe in the green light and the orgastic future, despite the faithlessness of the many we lose along the way. You know what else Nick Carraway wrote: "Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms further, and one fine morning - so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
1 Known in German as Reichenberg, which town in the Czech republic is the leading centre of the country's textiles industry and was also the centre of the Sudeten German movement before World War Two?
2 Who created Professor Quartermass?
3 Who won six Open golf championships in 1896, 1898, 1899, 1903, 1911 and 1914, and the 1900 US Open?
4 What is the brightest star in Virgo?
5 What name has been given to the expulsion of the Moors from Spain, which started c.711 AD and ended on January 2, 1492 with the fall of Granada?
6 Which songwriter and musician collaborated with Philip Glass on The Late Great Johnny Ace, a four-part suite that linked the deaths of Johnny Ace, JFK and John Lennon?
7 According to a WB Yeats poem from 1939, whose ghost "is beating on the door"?
8 Who wrote the words to the hymn Good King Wenceslas?
9 Which still-living British biochemist remains th only man to win two Nobel prizes in chemistry: in 1958 for the elucidation of the structure of insulin and one he shared in 1980 for his work on genes and DNA coding?
10 Which French female dramatist wrote Fedora (1882), which was written for Sarah Bernhardt, Robespierre (1902) and La Tosca, the basis for the Puccini opera, in 1887?
11 Who became the first British High Commissioner of Palestine in 1920 who was also the first Jew to govern the Holy Land for 2000 years?
12 At which 1263 battle were Scottish forces fighting in the name of Alexander IV victorious over King Haakon IV of Norway who later took ill and died at Kirkwall, though the word battle might better be described as a skirmish?
13 Famous for its long-limbed figures, which Spanish porcelain factory takes its name from Vicente, Jose and Juan, the three brothers who founded it when they built a little Moorish kiln in the courtyard of their family home in 1953?
14 Keyboard player Joe Zawinul and saxophonist Wayne Shorter founded which jazz-rock fusion group in 1971 and which was known for songs like Birdland and Mysterious Traveller?
15 Though a devastating earthquake destroyed the original Portuguese town in 1755, which African city was immediately rebuilt by Sidi ben Abdallah in the Arab-Muslim style?
16 With which fellow chief, who was killed by Mexican troops on October 15 1880 in a massacre of his warriors, did Geronimo lead the Apache in the last uprising?
17 In Missouri on March 1, 1912, US Army Captain Albert Berry made the first successful what, although this is disputed by those who believe Grant Morton did it in California the year before?
18 Olympic regulations state that a badminton shuttlecock must have what number of feathers?
19 Believed to date back to the 16th century, the Aizkolaris competition in Spain's basque country features which activity?
20 Who was the first person to complete the 1981 Indianopolis 500 by eight seconds, but was pushed into second place after a penalty for passing cars under a yellow caution flag was taken into account, meaning that Mario Andretti was the winner?
BH Answers #12
1 Le Chiffre 2 Calvin Coolidge 3 Mount Taygetus 4 Giorgio Vasari 5 Glomerulus 6 Henri Poincare 7 Lambert-Fisher 8 Tibia 9 Joseph Maria Olbrich 10 Kakapo 11 Georges Lamaitre 12 El Avila 13 Steak-houses 14 Cecrops 15 Pompeian Assembly Room 16 The Go-Between 17 Karl Barth 18 Georgia 19 Stan Butler 20 Samos
Almost four-and-a-half years ago, before the domestic and international world we have become so used to. Things were a lot different then. I remember indulging in a spot of trivia craziness in that after I went straight from the Reading Festival site and the first time I had seen The Strokes to a quiz championship the next day in a spaced-out state at a south London university (I can't remember due to my festival-lag). I came second and came out of the building swinging a large silver Olympiad medal. Granted, there were only eight competitors, but Daphne Fowler came first, so there were some fine competitors in the uppermost quarter of the field. Of course, I know more now, and wonder how well I would have done with all that knowledge and know-how. But that is the curse of hindsight and the onset of time. Before we know it the present is history and the future has become last year. Best not to think of regrets, though I cannot help it myself even though they have also thought of them as fuel. Too many see them as engines of bitterness which they find impossible to turn off for the rest of their lives, whose radiating negativity infects all corners of their life. We have to think of the future as a better place; it is, after all, something that makes the word huge into an infinitesimal speck on the head of a pin and an unimaginable concept that Louis Althusser perfectly crystallised in the name of his memoir The Future Lasts Forever. It has potential, and so gives us the potential to makes ourselves, better, fitter, happier and more knowledgeable people, and that is what matters. We still have to believe in the green light and the orgastic future, despite the faithlessness of the many we lose along the way. You know what else Nick Carraway wrote: "Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms further, and one fine morning - so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
1 Known in German as Reichenberg, which town in the Czech republic is the leading centre of the country's textiles industry and was also the centre of the Sudeten German movement before World War Two?
2 Who created Professor Quartermass?
3 Who won six Open golf championships in 1896, 1898, 1899, 1903, 1911 and 1914, and the 1900 US Open?
4 What is the brightest star in Virgo?
5 What name has been given to the expulsion of the Moors from Spain, which started c.711 AD and ended on January 2, 1492 with the fall of Granada?
6 Which songwriter and musician collaborated with Philip Glass on The Late Great Johnny Ace, a four-part suite that linked the deaths of Johnny Ace, JFK and John Lennon?
7 According to a WB Yeats poem from 1939, whose ghost "is beating on the door"?
8 Who wrote the words to the hymn Good King Wenceslas?
9 Which still-living British biochemist remains th only man to win two Nobel prizes in chemistry: in 1958 for the elucidation of the structure of insulin and one he shared in 1980 for his work on genes and DNA coding?
10 Which French female dramatist wrote Fedora (1882), which was written for Sarah Bernhardt, Robespierre (1902) and La Tosca, the basis for the Puccini opera, in 1887?
11 Who became the first British High Commissioner of Palestine in 1920 who was also the first Jew to govern the Holy Land for 2000 years?
12 At which 1263 battle were Scottish forces fighting in the name of Alexander IV victorious over King Haakon IV of Norway who later took ill and died at Kirkwall, though the word battle might better be described as a skirmish?
13 Famous for its long-limbed figures, which Spanish porcelain factory takes its name from Vicente, Jose and Juan, the three brothers who founded it when they built a little Moorish kiln in the courtyard of their family home in 1953?
14 Keyboard player Joe Zawinul and saxophonist Wayne Shorter founded which jazz-rock fusion group in 1971 and which was known for songs like Birdland and Mysterious Traveller?
15 Though a devastating earthquake destroyed the original Portuguese town in 1755, which African city was immediately rebuilt by Sidi ben Abdallah in the Arab-Muslim style?
16 With which fellow chief, who was killed by Mexican troops on October 15 1880 in a massacre of his warriors, did Geronimo lead the Apache in the last uprising?
17 In Missouri on March 1, 1912, US Army Captain Albert Berry made the first successful what, although this is disputed by those who believe Grant Morton did it in California the year before?
18 Olympic regulations state that a badminton shuttlecock must have what number of feathers?
19 Believed to date back to the 16th century, the Aizkolaris competition in Spain's basque country features which activity?
20 Who was the first person to complete the 1981 Indianopolis 500 by eight seconds, but was pushed into second place after a penalty for passing cars under a yellow caution flag was taken into account, meaning that Mario Andretti was the winner?
BH Answers #12
1 Le Chiffre 2 Calvin Coolidge 3 Mount Taygetus 4 Giorgio Vasari 5 Glomerulus 6 Henri Poincare 7 Lambert-Fisher 8 Tibia 9 Joseph Maria Olbrich 10 Kakapo 11 Georges Lamaitre 12 El Avila 13 Steak-houses 14 Cecrops 15 Pompeian Assembly Room 16 The Go-Between 17 Karl Barth 18 Georgia 19 Stan Butler 20 Samos
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