BH quiz #19
Have I been doing this for 19 days? It seems so. I do feel different, in that I'm far more tired yet feeling far more satisfied, since it stops me from watching Doctors on BBC1, the curse of all freelance habitues of Grub Street (nothing happens on it, I don't know any character names, but still I watch it). Anyway, welcome to all my new readers, this blog is about quizzes and the British quiz scene, basically. I ramble a lot as well. Bully for you.
Not sure, if I'll post again today ... hmm ... I really have to get on with sorting the trash tourney into twenties and will do so soon. If not soon, then right now, not later. And I certainly shan't start tomorrow.
The following quiz questions are from a little test I tried three years ago. I learnt 2000 testing questions for a control, then I would learn another 2000 while chugging down handfuls of a supposedly memory-enhancing substance called lemon balm. I did the questions, but never really carried my experiment through to its conclusion and I now think I may as well have gone into my garden and started eating some random shrubs. If I had a garden that is.
1 Which Brazilian overthrew the Republic in 1930 and in 1937 set up a totalitarian, pro-fascist state known as the Estado Novo, but was ousted by a military coup in 1945, returned as president in 1951, but committed suicide in 1954?
2. Which Chinese novelist of the 14th century is credited with writing such popular tales as The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and editing The Water Margin (or Outlaws of the Marshes), the latter a favourite of Mao Zedong?
3 The 1939 Ernst Lubitsch film Ninotchka was made into what 1957 musical?
4 Which French poet wrote the autobiographical novel La Fanfarlo in 1847?
5 Discovered in 1506 which four-island colony includes Gough, Inaccessible and Nightingale, and were named after the Portugese admiral who found them?
6 Which Archbishop of Canterbury of the 18th century published Antiquities of Greece or Archaeologia Graeca?
7 Though its name was invented by Captain Bruce Ingram, editor of The Sketch, it was George E Studdy who created which comically shaped puppy who first appeared on November 8, 1922?
8 Born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, who was the longest reigning ever Pope (over 31 years)?
9 What Danish King was prisoner of the Nazis in Copenhagen from 1942-45?
10 In history the name of a family who attained great power under the Abbasid caliphs, what wealthy Persian nobleman in The Arabian Nights served a beggar a feast of imaginary food and gives his name to the adjective for ‘seemingly plentiful’?
11 Literally from the French for 'caper' from its resemblance to the foreleg of a capering animal what word describes a chair leg of an 18th century style where it curves outwards near the top and then inwards to an ornamental foot?
12 From the Greek "to separate", what term describes the gradual destruction of bacteria by an antibody and the gradual lessening of the severity of a symptom or disease?
13 The son of a glover, who painted The Progress of Love in 1770 for Madame du Barry and on fleeing Paris during the French revolution ended up at the house of his friend Maubert at Grasse which he decorated with panels entitled Roman d'amour de la jeunesse?
14 Which French philosopher, who called time ‘duration’ and said it could not be analysed as a set of moments but is instead unitary, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927?
15 When Boccaccio lived in Naples 1328 – 41, he fell in love with which unfaithful woman, the inspiration of his early poetry?
16 Successors of the Sui, the reign of which Chinese dynasty from 618-906AD saw the invention of gunpowder and printing?
17 Sharing its name with a famous 19th century battle, what city of Samaria (now in Jordan), was where Hannah brought her son Samuel to dedicate him to God in the temple when Eli was priest of the Ark of the Covenant, and was the traditional sanctuary of the Ark until the Philistines destroyed the city and captured the Ark in the mid-11th century BC?
18 In 1807 which British ship enraged the US by taking deserters from the USS Chesapeake?
19 Known as 'the Terrible' to his detractors and famed for his sole quality of blind bravery, which Burgundy ruler died fighting the Swiss at the battle of Nancy in 1477?
20 A later costume designer for the Madrid Opera, which French artist’s work Windows (1912) is believed to be the first Cubist painting in colour?
21 Invented in Missouri in 1920 by Mr Griggs in 1920, what popular soft drink was originally called Howdy?
22 Which musician became Marquis of Salobrena in 1981?
23 From the Persian for ‘eagle bird’, what enormous fabulous bird of Persian mythology had the ability to think and speak, and was capable of carrying an elephant or camel?
24 The monastery of San Marco in Florence is the museum of which artist, where he produced devotional frescoes in 50 of the cells, and who is often and inaccurately termed "Fiesole" which is merely the name of the town where he first took vows?
25 What does an omophagic creature eat?
26 What ‘discoverer’ of fire was uncovered by Eugene Dubois on Java and was a hominid living contemporarily with homo habilis, and whose modern species name was initially proposed by Ernst Mayr in order to unify the classification of Asian fossils?
27 Rukbat is the brightest star in which constellation that also contains the Lagoon, Triffid and Horseshoe Nebulae?
28 Built to designs by James Paine for Sir Matthew Lamb c.1760, which building in Hertfordshire is famous for being the home of Palmerston and Melbourne?
29 Which town in Orissa, India is famous for its Jaggannath temple and the associated juggernaut, a statue of Krishna which is annually taken in procession on a larger vehicle, as well as the annual Ratha Yatra or 'Festival of Chariots'?
30 Which two breeds of deer do not have antlers?
Answers to BH #18
1. Lobuk 2. Sardinia 3. Claes Oldenburg 4. Pancrator 5. Juan de Pareja 6. Nicola and Giovanni Pisano 7. Camille Pissarro 8. Admiral Keppel 9. The Wanderers 10. Naum Gabo (born Naum Pevsner) 11. Jan van Eyck 12. Dosso Dossi 13. Donatello 14. David Hockney 15. Augustus John 16. Donald Judd 17. Woman Holding a Vase 18. Piero della Francesca 19. Louis Francois Roubillac 20. Scumbling 21. Décollage (opposite of collage) 22. Stuart Davis
Not sure, if I'll post again today ... hmm ... I really have to get on with sorting the trash tourney into twenties and will do so soon. If not soon, then right now, not later. And I certainly shan't start tomorrow.
The following quiz questions are from a little test I tried three years ago. I learnt 2000 testing questions for a control, then I would learn another 2000 while chugging down handfuls of a supposedly memory-enhancing substance called lemon balm. I did the questions, but never really carried my experiment through to its conclusion and I now think I may as well have gone into my garden and started eating some random shrubs. If I had a garden that is.
1 Which Brazilian overthrew the Republic in 1930 and in 1937 set up a totalitarian, pro-fascist state known as the Estado Novo, but was ousted by a military coup in 1945, returned as president in 1951, but committed suicide in 1954?
2. Which Chinese novelist of the 14th century is credited with writing such popular tales as The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and editing The Water Margin (or Outlaws of the Marshes), the latter a favourite of Mao Zedong?
3 The 1939 Ernst Lubitsch film Ninotchka was made into what 1957 musical?
4 Which French poet wrote the autobiographical novel La Fanfarlo in 1847?
5 Discovered in 1506 which four-island colony includes Gough, Inaccessible and Nightingale, and were named after the Portugese admiral who found them?
6 Which Archbishop of Canterbury of the 18th century published Antiquities of Greece or Archaeologia Graeca?
7 Though its name was invented by Captain Bruce Ingram, editor of The Sketch, it was George E Studdy who created which comically shaped puppy who first appeared on November 8, 1922?
8 Born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, who was the longest reigning ever Pope (over 31 years)?
9 What Danish King was prisoner of the Nazis in Copenhagen from 1942-45?
10 In history the name of a family who attained great power under the Abbasid caliphs, what wealthy Persian nobleman in The Arabian Nights served a beggar a feast of imaginary food and gives his name to the adjective for ‘seemingly plentiful’?
11 Literally from the French for 'caper' from its resemblance to the foreleg of a capering animal what word describes a chair leg of an 18th century style where it curves outwards near the top and then inwards to an ornamental foot?
12 From the Greek "to separate", what term describes the gradual destruction of bacteria by an antibody and the gradual lessening of the severity of a symptom or disease?
13 The son of a glover, who painted The Progress of Love in 1770 for Madame du Barry and on fleeing Paris during the French revolution ended up at the house of his friend Maubert at Grasse which he decorated with panels entitled Roman d'amour de la jeunesse?
14 Which French philosopher, who called time ‘duration’ and said it could not be analysed as a set of moments but is instead unitary, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927?
15 When Boccaccio lived in Naples 1328 – 41, he fell in love with which unfaithful woman, the inspiration of his early poetry?
16 Successors of the Sui, the reign of which Chinese dynasty from 618-906AD saw the invention of gunpowder and printing?
17 Sharing its name with a famous 19th century battle, what city of Samaria (now in Jordan), was where Hannah brought her son Samuel to dedicate him to God in the temple when Eli was priest of the Ark of the Covenant, and was the traditional sanctuary of the Ark until the Philistines destroyed the city and captured the Ark in the mid-11th century BC?
18 In 1807 which British ship enraged the US by taking deserters from the USS Chesapeake?
19 Known as 'the Terrible' to his detractors and famed for his sole quality of blind bravery, which Burgundy ruler died fighting the Swiss at the battle of Nancy in 1477?
20 A later costume designer for the Madrid Opera, which French artist’s work Windows (1912) is believed to be the first Cubist painting in colour?
21 Invented in Missouri in 1920 by Mr Griggs in 1920, what popular soft drink was originally called Howdy?
22 Which musician became Marquis of Salobrena in 1981?
23 From the Persian for ‘eagle bird’, what enormous fabulous bird of Persian mythology had the ability to think and speak, and was capable of carrying an elephant or camel?
24 The monastery of San Marco in Florence is the museum of which artist, where he produced devotional frescoes in 50 of the cells, and who is often and inaccurately termed "Fiesole" which is merely the name of the town where he first took vows?
25 What does an omophagic creature eat?
26 What ‘discoverer’ of fire was uncovered by Eugene Dubois on Java and was a hominid living contemporarily with homo habilis, and whose modern species name was initially proposed by Ernst Mayr in order to unify the classification of Asian fossils?
27 Rukbat is the brightest star in which constellation that also contains the Lagoon, Triffid and Horseshoe Nebulae?
28 Built to designs by James Paine for Sir Matthew Lamb c.1760, which building in Hertfordshire is famous for being the home of Palmerston and Melbourne?
29 Which town in Orissa, India is famous for its Jaggannath temple and the associated juggernaut, a statue of Krishna which is annually taken in procession on a larger vehicle, as well as the annual Ratha Yatra or 'Festival of Chariots'?
30 Which two breeds of deer do not have antlers?
Answers to BH #18
1. Lobuk 2. Sardinia 3. Claes Oldenburg 4. Pancrator 5. Juan de Pareja 6. Nicola and Giovanni Pisano 7. Camille Pissarro 8. Admiral Keppel 9. The Wanderers 10. Naum Gabo (born Naum Pevsner) 11. Jan van Eyck 12. Dosso Dossi 13. Donatello 14. David Hockney 15. Augustus John 16. Donald Judd 17. Woman Holding a Vase 18. Piero della Francesca 19. Louis Francois Roubillac 20. Scumbling 21. Décollage (opposite of collage) 22. Stuart Davis
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