BH quiz #15
Looks like I totally forgot the answers to quiz number 13. How silly of me. They are pasted below. Maybe I was taken aback by meeting Jesus in my kitchen today. I mean, Jesus Coronado (brilliant name and always reminds me of a certain film and artefact starring an actor who could have done so much more if he hadn't done some intensive plumbing on the smack and crack pipes). He is our new lodger. Nevertheless, meeting any person named Jesus in the British Isles is an event in itself. Worthy of mentioning on, er, a blog. Just like my repeated viewings of Chappelle's Show. I now realise it is like an American coming back from Blighty and raving about this programme called The Fast Show to anyone in close proximity. So I'll stop it. Right now.
It looks like this is turning into some strange quiz-music hybrid blog, where obscure indie lies side by side with French mathematicians and effects in physics. Well, perhaps the world is in need of more incongruity in theme. Perhaps. As part of my unintentional Indie Weekend, I Went off to Portsmouth, city of rum, sodomy and the lash, to see another obscure indie band (obscure that is, to all the trivia people who read this). They were Broken Social Scene, another of the Canadian something-wave, and they were chaotic but brilliant. I mean that was my reaction after 45 minutes, but then they played for another hour and a quarter, if not more. 'My poor knees' is my main reaction, although they didn't feel as bad as when Godspeed You Black Emperor played a gig so long I thought I could have driven to Leeds in the time they allotted themselves (that's if I could drive, but I can't). BSS play catchy indie-rock that is so free-form that you wonder why they they didn't all become jazz musicians. Perhaps listening to The Smiths changed them. It always does. And there are so many of them that even when the 'collective' is depleted by more than half, there are still nine of them getting carried away on stage, making the sort of tuneful maelstrom that invokes involuntary toe-tapping and head-nodding in all. Of course, their album You Forget It In People remains an alternative classic, no matter what the clueless backlashers say. This is a band with two drummers. Bands with two drummers are invariably fantastic.
Anyway, me and new Pompey denizen Jamie (and his mate Dave) became quite enamoured with the girl with big hair that was bunched so ridiculously you wondered about her mental health. Whenever J makes Kristen Dunst references I know he is smitten. Sadly, there was no Feist to gaze longingly at either. Although as I saw via Parallax View that she bothered to turn up doing 4/7 (shoreline) on the Conan O'Brien show. Becoming a big shot eh, milady?
1 Founded in 1248, which European city's name refers to a hunting lodge or king's private enclosure?
2 What phrase for old fashioned gentility comes from the title of a 1902 novel by Myrtle Reed?
3 What is the transparent fold of skin forming a third or inner eyelid that is seen in reptiles and birds?
4 Patron of Thomas a Becket who followed him in the post, which Archbishop of Canterbury recrowned Stephen in 1141 and crowned Henry II in 1154?
5 Celebrated as the founder of the Mali Empire in an eponymous epic, which semi-historical hero of the Mandinka people had a name meaning "Lion King" and lived c.1190 to c.1250?
6 Who wrote the 1976 book of short stories A River Runs Through It?
7 Dr Bela Julez first created what images as a random stereogram dot diagram?
8 Who is known for such photography books as Big Nudes, White Women, Sleepless Nights and World Without Men?
9 What did American engineers Raymond Dolly and Charles Ginsburg first demonstrate in 1956?
10 Made available to buy in 1975, what was the name of the first personal computer?
11 What did Muhammad Ahmed claim to be in 1882?
12 Which gun manufacturer graduated from West Point in 1882 and having joined the Army's Ordnance Department in 1890 and was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General after adapting the British Enfield rifle to a .30 calibre reproducing it as M1917 during World War One?
13 Who composed the opera La Cenerentola when he was 24-years-old?
14 Who designed the engine that powered Alcock and Brown's 1919 non-stop Atlantic flight?
15 Who led the Athenians at the battle of Marathon?
16 Which concert pianist famously played 110 concerts all over the world in 1978 when he was aged 75?
17 In Hindu mythology who is the wife of Vishnu and the mother of the god of young love, Kama?
18 In nuclear physics what name is given to a heavy sub-atomic particle made up of three indivisible elementary particles called quarks?
19 To which family does cinnamon belong?
20 Mount Damavand is the highest peak of which Iranian mountain range?
21 What does the word ross mean in a British place name?
22 Which Middle Eastern capital has a name meaning The Wells?
23 Which Hungarian lake is the largest in central Europe?
24 As modified by the 381 Council of Constantinople, what is the only confession of faith used by the Orthodox Church?
25 What polymer did US chemist Roy J Plunkett invent on April 6, 1938?
Answers to BH #14
1 Freemason 2 Jackie Pallo 3 Mervyn Griffith-Jones 4 Jonathan Kaplan 5 Buddy Bolden 6 Pixie Day 7 Triumph-Palace 8 Hot dog 9 Dog Day Afternoon 10 Flamsbana (a circular mark goes over the a ... I really don't know what it is and can think of no way of looking it up, even if half of me hails from the land called Norge and think that pathetic) 11 Castelli Romani 12 Norman Green 13 Having a convict ancestor 14 Sidney Paget 15 Puma 16 Toni Morrison 17 Echizen kurage 18 Kenenisa Bekele 19 Chatsworth 20 Sir Aston Webb
Answers to BH #13
1 Liberec 2 Nigel Kneale 3 Harry Vardon 4 Spica 5 Reconquista 6 Paul Simon 7 Roger Casement 8 John Mason Neale 9 Sanger 10 Victorien Sardou 11 Viscount Herbert Samuel 12 Largs 13 Lladro 14 Weather Report 15 Casablanca 16 Victorio 17 Parachute jump 18 14 19 Wood chopping 20 Bobby Unser
It looks like this is turning into some strange quiz-music hybrid blog, where obscure indie lies side by side with French mathematicians and effects in physics. Well, perhaps the world is in need of more incongruity in theme. Perhaps. As part of my unintentional Indie Weekend, I Went off to Portsmouth, city of rum, sodomy and the lash, to see another obscure indie band (obscure that is, to all the trivia people who read this). They were Broken Social Scene, another of the Canadian something-wave, and they were chaotic but brilliant. I mean that was my reaction after 45 minutes, but then they played for another hour and a quarter, if not more. 'My poor knees' is my main reaction, although they didn't feel as bad as when Godspeed You Black Emperor played a gig so long I thought I could have driven to Leeds in the time they allotted themselves (that's if I could drive, but I can't). BSS play catchy indie-rock that is so free-form that you wonder why they they didn't all become jazz musicians. Perhaps listening to The Smiths changed them. It always does. And there are so many of them that even when the 'collective' is depleted by more than half, there are still nine of them getting carried away on stage, making the sort of tuneful maelstrom that invokes involuntary toe-tapping and head-nodding in all. Of course, their album You Forget It In People remains an alternative classic, no matter what the clueless backlashers say. This is a band with two drummers. Bands with two drummers are invariably fantastic.
Anyway, me and new Pompey denizen Jamie (and his mate Dave) became quite enamoured with the girl with big hair that was bunched so ridiculously you wondered about her mental health. Whenever J makes Kristen Dunst references I know he is smitten. Sadly, there was no Feist to gaze longingly at either. Although as I saw via Parallax View that she bothered to turn up doing 4/7 (shoreline) on the Conan O'Brien show. Becoming a big shot eh, milady?
1 Founded in 1248, which European city's name refers to a hunting lodge or king's private enclosure?
2 What phrase for old fashioned gentility comes from the title of a 1902 novel by Myrtle Reed?
3 What is the transparent fold of skin forming a third or inner eyelid that is seen in reptiles and birds?
4 Patron of Thomas a Becket who followed him in the post, which Archbishop of Canterbury recrowned Stephen in 1141 and crowned Henry II in 1154?
5 Celebrated as the founder of the Mali Empire in an eponymous epic, which semi-historical hero of the Mandinka people had a name meaning "Lion King" and lived c.1190 to c.1250?
6 Who wrote the 1976 book of short stories A River Runs Through It?
7 Dr Bela Julez first created what images as a random stereogram dot diagram?
8 Who is known for such photography books as Big Nudes, White Women, Sleepless Nights and World Without Men?
9 What did American engineers Raymond Dolly and Charles Ginsburg first demonstrate in 1956?
10 Made available to buy in 1975, what was the name of the first personal computer?
11 What did Muhammad Ahmed claim to be in 1882?
12 Which gun manufacturer graduated from West Point in 1882 and having joined the Army's Ordnance Department in 1890 and was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General after adapting the British Enfield rifle to a .30 calibre reproducing it as M1917 during World War One?
13 Who composed the opera La Cenerentola when he was 24-years-old?
14 Who designed the engine that powered Alcock and Brown's 1919 non-stop Atlantic flight?
15 Who led the Athenians at the battle of Marathon?
16 Which concert pianist famously played 110 concerts all over the world in 1978 when he was aged 75?
17 In Hindu mythology who is the wife of Vishnu and the mother of the god of young love, Kama?
18 In nuclear physics what name is given to a heavy sub-atomic particle made up of three indivisible elementary particles called quarks?
19 To which family does cinnamon belong?
20 Mount Damavand is the highest peak of which Iranian mountain range?
21 What does the word ross mean in a British place name?
22 Which Middle Eastern capital has a name meaning The Wells?
23 Which Hungarian lake is the largest in central Europe?
24 As modified by the 381 Council of Constantinople, what is the only confession of faith used by the Orthodox Church?
25 What polymer did US chemist Roy J Plunkett invent on April 6, 1938?
Answers to BH #14
1 Freemason 2 Jackie Pallo 3 Mervyn Griffith-Jones 4 Jonathan Kaplan 5 Buddy Bolden 6 Pixie Day 7 Triumph-Palace 8 Hot dog 9 Dog Day Afternoon 10 Flamsbana (a circular mark goes over the a ... I really don't know what it is and can think of no way of looking it up, even if half of me hails from the land called Norge and think that pathetic) 11 Castelli Romani 12 Norman Green 13 Having a convict ancestor 14 Sidney Paget 15 Puma 16 Toni Morrison 17 Echizen kurage 18 Kenenisa Bekele 19 Chatsworth 20 Sir Aston Webb
Answers to BH #13
1 Liberec 2 Nigel Kneale 3 Harry Vardon 4 Spica 5 Reconquista 6 Paul Simon 7 Roger Casement 8 John Mason Neale 9 Sanger 10 Victorien Sardou 11 Viscount Herbert Samuel 12 Largs 13 Lladro 14 Weather Report 15 Casablanca 16 Victorio 17 Parachute jump 18 14 19 Wood chopping 20 Bobby Unser
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