BH quiz #20
Having spent the day planning to go to a party yesterday, I was politely informed that it was not happening until tomorrow, i.e. today - Saturday. My mistake. But one averted. Imagine: me turning up to a party a day early. How catastrophic and funny. Having the evening freed up I got down to sorting the trash buzzer tournament into twenties. Little did I know it would take me eight hours. Eight hours: from half past four to twenty to two. From Noel to Russell Brand releasing his 'brand' of frenetic and homophobic stand-up japes at the NME SHOCKWAVES awards.
I was so incredibly tired by the whole thing (moving, cutting, Prittsticking, scratching my head furiously and so on), only interrupted by a visit to the Food and Wine shop where I bought bread, Kettle chips, a Cornetto, and some Dairylea Dunkers, for several inexplicable reasons, possibly to do with the fact I was looking for some joys that were far more short term than selecting, say fruit and vegetables, vitamins and light, skip to the end ... that I was too mentally tired to actually fall asleep straight away. Next time I set a buzzer quiz tournament I'm not going to write questions in huge subject swathes, thus producing frustrating surplus, but instead writing them into predetermined slots. We live and we learn.
I gave up trying to sleep and instead watched the first three episodes of yet another prematurely axed teen outsiders dramedy Freaks and Geeks on DVD. The My So-Called Life for people who went to six form three or four years after I did. It was brilliant but excruciating and painful to watch due to almost physically going through all the adolescent angst and trying to fit in all over again. The old psychic scars still throb. Now they throb and hum just a little bit more. Launched the careers of Linda Cardellini (ER, Brokeback Mountain), James Franco (Spiderman) and Seth Rogen (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) among many others, back in 1999-2000, doncha know. Which come to think of it, it is six years ago. Blimey. I actually just saw David Warner, who you might know from here or here. Or here. He looked white and windswept. I mean, his hair was very white.
Anyway back to the trash: rereading, proofing and replacing questions for subject spread etc. Soon it will end, and perhaps start again.
1. The simplest of the 20 standard or proteinogenic amino acids, what is the only internal amino acid of a collagen helix?
2. Which Frenchman is the chef and owner of The White Horse in Harpenden?
3. Which Hungarian Marxist philosopher wrote History and Class Consciousness (1923)?
4. Which Titan, daughter of Uranus and Gaia, was the personification of law and order?
5. Who invented the compact disc in 1970?
6. What record label did Brian Eno start in 1975?
7. Rod Serling created which iconic TV show in 1959?
8. Named from the Choctaw for 'warrior of the high bluff', which American Indian people lived along the Gulf of Mexico and lower Mississippi river valley from AD700 to 1730s, their language Muskogean being now extinct?
9. How many members comprise the Welsh Assembly?
10. What on the Tour de France are classified into five somewhat arbitrary categories: 1, 2, 3, 4 and Hors (above)?
11. Donald Budge was the first tennis player to be given what prize: America's top amateur athlete award?
12. Which country's national airline is Aerolineas?
13. What fish is Rutilus rutilus?
14. What was Sir Francis Drake's flagship in the raid on Cadiz that "singed" the King of Spain's beard?
15. Which Scottish king was the last British monarch to die in battle?
16. In which 1934 disaster were 262 miners killed?
17. What name was given to Charles Babbage's first automatic calculator?
18. Which despicable Hun was the arch enemy of Biggles and had a name that sounded suspiciously like a major film director's?
19. Imhotep was the reputed physician, architect and vizier (chief adviser) of which Third Dynasty king?
20. Beloved food of Heather Graham's guest character Molly on the sitcom Scrubs, what is the generic Polish word for sausage?
Answers to BH quiz #19
1 Getulio Vargas 2 Luo Guanzhong 3 Silk Stockings 4 Baudelaire 5 Tristan da Cunha 6 John Potter 7 Bonzo 8 Pius IX 9 Christian X 10 Barmecide (Barmecidal) 11 Cabriole 12 Lysis 13 Jean Honore Fragonard 14 Henri Bergson 15 Fiametta 16 Tang 17 Shiloh 18 HMS Leopard 19 Charles the Bold 20 Robert Delaunay 21 7UP 22 Andres Segovia 23 Simurg 24 Fra Angelico 25 Raw meat 26 Homo erectus 27 Sagittarius 28 Brocket Hall 29 Puri 30 Musk deer/ Chinese Water deer
I was so incredibly tired by the whole thing (moving, cutting, Prittsticking, scratching my head furiously and so on), only interrupted by a visit to the Food and Wine shop where I bought bread, Kettle chips, a Cornetto, and some Dairylea Dunkers, for several inexplicable reasons, possibly to do with the fact I was looking for some joys that were far more short term than selecting, say fruit and vegetables, vitamins and light, skip to the end ... that I was too mentally tired to actually fall asleep straight away. Next time I set a buzzer quiz tournament I'm not going to write questions in huge subject swathes, thus producing frustrating surplus, but instead writing them into predetermined slots. We live and we learn.
I gave up trying to sleep and instead watched the first three episodes of yet another prematurely axed teen outsiders dramedy Freaks and Geeks on DVD. The My So-Called Life for people who went to six form three or four years after I did. It was brilliant but excruciating and painful to watch due to almost physically going through all the adolescent angst and trying to fit in all over again. The old psychic scars still throb. Now they throb and hum just a little bit more. Launched the careers of Linda Cardellini (ER, Brokeback Mountain), James Franco (Spiderman) and Seth Rogen (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) among many others, back in 1999-2000, doncha know. Which come to think of it, it is six years ago. Blimey. I actually just saw David Warner, who you might know from here or here. Or here. He looked white and windswept. I mean, his hair was very white.
Anyway back to the trash: rereading, proofing and replacing questions for subject spread etc. Soon it will end, and perhaps start again.
1. The simplest of the 20 standard or proteinogenic amino acids, what is the only internal amino acid of a collagen helix?
2. Which Frenchman is the chef and owner of The White Horse in Harpenden?
3. Which Hungarian Marxist philosopher wrote History and Class Consciousness (1923)?
4. Which Titan, daughter of Uranus and Gaia, was the personification of law and order?
5. Who invented the compact disc in 1970?
6. What record label did Brian Eno start in 1975?
7. Rod Serling created which iconic TV show in 1959?
8. Named from the Choctaw for 'warrior of the high bluff', which American Indian people lived along the Gulf of Mexico and lower Mississippi river valley from AD700 to 1730s, their language Muskogean being now extinct?
9. How many members comprise the Welsh Assembly?
10. What on the Tour de France are classified into five somewhat arbitrary categories: 1, 2, 3, 4 and Hors (above)?
11. Donald Budge was the first tennis player to be given what prize: America's top amateur athlete award?
12. Which country's national airline is Aerolineas?
13. What fish is Rutilus rutilus?
14. What was Sir Francis Drake's flagship in the raid on Cadiz that "singed" the King of Spain's beard?
15. Which Scottish king was the last British monarch to die in battle?
16. In which 1934 disaster were 262 miners killed?
17. What name was given to Charles Babbage's first automatic calculator?
18. Which despicable Hun was the arch enemy of Biggles and had a name that sounded suspiciously like a major film director's?
19. Imhotep was the reputed physician, architect and vizier (chief adviser) of which Third Dynasty king?
20. Beloved food of Heather Graham's guest character Molly on the sitcom Scrubs, what is the generic Polish word for sausage?
Answers to BH quiz #19
1 Getulio Vargas 2 Luo Guanzhong 3 Silk Stockings 4 Baudelaire 5 Tristan da Cunha 6 John Potter 7 Bonzo 8 Pius IX 9 Christian X 10 Barmecide (Barmecidal) 11 Cabriole 12 Lysis 13 Jean Honore Fragonard 14 Henri Bergson 15 Fiametta 16 Tang 17 Shiloh 18 HMS Leopard 19 Charles the Bold 20 Robert Delaunay 21 7UP 22 Andres Segovia 23 Simurg 24 Fra Angelico 25 Raw meat 26 Homo erectus 27 Sagittarius 28 Brocket Hall 29 Puri 30 Musk deer/ Chinese Water deer
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