BH quiz #2
1. Who wrote the first novel East Lynne in 1861?
2. What comic did clergyman Marcus Morris found in 1950?
3. Where can Queen Elizabeth's Pocket Pistol be seen?
4. Who wrote the libretto to Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas?
5. Which Benjamin Disraeli novel of 1844 is alternatively titled The New Generation?
6. Which pioneer of British ballet began a fruitful partnership with Alicia Markova in 1935, forming several companies such as the English National Ballet?
7. AJ Ayer's 1936 work Language, Truth and Logic brought into the English language philosophy which approach that was originally developed in Vienna?
8. Acker Bilk founded which jazz band in 1958, playing traditional Dixieland?
9. What 'Minster' is noted for the Percy tomb with its elaborate carved canopy?
10. Pahoehoe and Aa are Hawaiian types of what?
11. The Halloween Documents were alleged proof of whose unethical business practices?
12. Akashi Shiganosuke was the first what in 1632?
13. How many legs does a woodlouse have?
14. On TV who were Harry Rule, the Contessa Caroline di Contini and Paul Buchet?
15. What kind of margarine (or at least used to) "spreads straight from the fridge"?
16. Who was the first BBC announcer?
17. When Yuri Gagarin died in 1968 he was in training for which space mission?
18. Which Moscow-trained Chinese communist politician and president from 1960-65 was the most prominent victim of the Cultural Revolution?
19. What does 'galapagos' mean in Spanish?
20. Who went on the ship Roebuck on his voyage to Australia and New Guinea from 1699-1670?

Answers to BH Quiz #1
1. 1877 2. Menwith Hill 3. Maputo 4. Diamond Necklace affair 5. Ellsworth 6. Anther 7. Goa 8. Computer hacking 9. Norman Coburn 10. Digital camera 11. 28 12. Colonel 13. Devo 14. Austin Seven or Baby Austin 15. St Mellitus 16. Bolventor 17. Browns Seasons Thickens In One 18. The Toppers 19. Beechcraft Bonanza 20. Frederick Cook