BH quiz #22
It's Trash week isn't it? I should really get those questions sorted, primped etc. Lest we forget tomorrow's crucial match against Allsorts and the written qualifying for Brain of London. I must admit, I quite like it when it gets hectic. It's when everything winds down and no major event is in sight that I get bored and sullen about such matters. Frenetic activity is the most pleasing and stimulating thing.
In other news here's another quiz, while I indulge in some serious brain-rest:
1 Founder of the travel book publishers that bear his name, who published his first book in 1936, a guide to Europe called Travel On the Continent - The Entertaining Annual?
2 Consisting of a spike and a hook that resembles a short-handled boat-hook, an ancus is used to goad which animals?
3 What hymn came about on Xmas Eve in 1818, when a Father Joseph Mohr asked his organist Franz Xavier Gruber to set a poem to music?
4 Also known for her work on the film version of Hair, which choreographer created the jazz ballets Raggedy Dances and The Bix Pieces during the seventies?
5 What body renowned for its renunciation of war was organised by Canon Dick Shepherd of St-Martin-in-the-Fields in 1936?
6 Who created the comic strip character Jane?
7 As featured in a Gluck opera and Euripides play, what was the name of the husband for whom Alcestis offered to give up her life so that he would never die?
8 What weight was originally intended to be exactly equal to the mass in a vacuum of one cubic cm of pure water at maximum density?
9 Madame de Maintenon founed which institute in 1686 for the purpose of educating the daughters of poverty-stricken gentlefolk?
10 Which country has undergone civil wars called the War of a Thousand Days and La Violencia?
11 Which galaxy is in the constellation Virgo ia edge-on to the Milky Way and has a large central bulge which may have inspired its name?
12 What musical instrument, with a range of three octaves, is called a fagotto in Italian, its name meaning a bunch of sticks?
13 Who voiced the Grinch in the much-loved (by Americans mainly) cartoon film How the Grinch Stole Christmas?
14 Considered to be the first Sophist, which philosopher is associated with the phrase "Man is the measure of all things" and whose promotion of agnosticism in Concerning the Gods resulted in his books being burned?
15 Which prolific Hungarian mathematician founded the field of discrete mathematics, thus paving the way for modern computer science, and often talked about The Book, an imaginary book in which God had written down the best and most elegant proofs for mathematical theorems?
16 Sometimes called "the father of algebra", which mathematician lived in Alexandria and wrote his most famous work Arithmetica in about 250, a work that comprised 13 Greek books and dealt with algebraic equations?
17 Built from 1789-93, who designed the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin?
18 The Cretaceous, Jurassic and Triassic periods make up which era?
19 Hideki Yukawa become the first Japanese person to ever win a Nobel, when he won the 1949 Prize for Physics for predicting the existence of which subatomic particle, a strongly interacting boson?
20 Mytilene is the capital of which island, the third largest Greek island and the seventh largest in the Mediterranean Sea?
21 Derived from the Hebrew for "consecrated" or "separated", what name was given to those like Samson in the Bible who were "holy unto the Lord" and had to keep themselves ritually unclean, thus pledging not to break certain rules until a vow was fulfilled?
22 First running on October 4, 1883, the original route of the Orient Express started in Paris and finished in which place in Romania?
23 What sea capital, the third largest Bulgarian city after Sofia and Plovdiv, was called Stalin between 1949 and1956?
24 Which US President gave his name to the doctrine that set out a commitment to send US troops to the Middle East to counter the threat of communism?
25 Cut into such images as ships, farmhouses and horses, which Dutch shortcrust biscuit is traditionally baked for St Nicholas's Eve on December 5 and derives its name from the Latin for 'mirror'?
Answers to BH quiz #21
1 Stafford Crips 2 Hinoki 3 E.ON 4 Ballantyne (Cashmere) 5 Barbra Streisand 6 Nucleotides 7 Louis Kahn 8 Dubai 9 Everything is Illuminated 10 Square Kilometre Array 11 Eye to the Telescope (KT Tunstall) 12 Undershaw 13 Martin Kippenberger 14 Rosicrucians 15 Vredefort 16 Bristol 17 Luther Burbank 18 Juneteenth 19 "The Weekend Starts Here" 20 Chaim Soutine 21 Arthur Honegger 22 World of Warcraft 23 Tlachtli 24 Barbara Millicent Roberts 25 New York Jets 26 A Scanner Darkly 27 Landsberg 28 Surimi 29 Two heads or a parasitic twin 30 United Grand Lodge of England 31 Olivo Barbieri 32 The Kahuna 33 Jean-Baptiste Chardin 34 Brentford 35 Denmark (her spouse was Christian VII) 36 Prodrome 37 El Laguito 38 Palatine 39 Hegel 40 Bordeaux 41 Old Tom Morris 42 Herbert Samuel 43 Formaldehyde 44 Hock 45 A Study in Scarlet 46 Taipan 47 Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honour (When Kelsey tries to put on some Washingtonian gravitas, you will have one of two spontaneous reactions: paralysing laughter or the kind of cringing that makes your skin crawl)
In other news here's another quiz, while I indulge in some serious brain-rest:
1 Founder of the travel book publishers that bear his name, who published his first book in 1936, a guide to Europe called Travel On the Continent - The Entertaining Annual?
2 Consisting of a spike and a hook that resembles a short-handled boat-hook, an ancus is used to goad which animals?
3 What hymn came about on Xmas Eve in 1818, when a Father Joseph Mohr asked his organist Franz Xavier Gruber to set a poem to music?
4 Also known for her work on the film version of Hair, which choreographer created the jazz ballets Raggedy Dances and The Bix Pieces during the seventies?
5 What body renowned for its renunciation of war was organised by Canon Dick Shepherd of St-Martin-in-the-Fields in 1936?
6 Who created the comic strip character Jane?
7 As featured in a Gluck opera and Euripides play, what was the name of the husband for whom Alcestis offered to give up her life so that he would never die?
8 What weight was originally intended to be exactly equal to the mass in a vacuum of one cubic cm of pure water at maximum density?
9 Madame de Maintenon founed which institute in 1686 for the purpose of educating the daughters of poverty-stricken gentlefolk?
10 Which country has undergone civil wars called the War of a Thousand Days and La Violencia?
11 Which galaxy is in the constellation Virgo ia edge-on to the Milky Way and has a large central bulge which may have inspired its name?
12 What musical instrument, with a range of three octaves, is called a fagotto in Italian, its name meaning a bunch of sticks?
13 Who voiced the Grinch in the much-loved (by Americans mainly) cartoon film How the Grinch Stole Christmas?
14 Considered to be the first Sophist, which philosopher is associated with the phrase "Man is the measure of all things" and whose promotion of agnosticism in Concerning the Gods resulted in his books being burned?
15 Which prolific Hungarian mathematician founded the field of discrete mathematics, thus paving the way for modern computer science, and often talked about The Book, an imaginary book in which God had written down the best and most elegant proofs for mathematical theorems?
16 Sometimes called "the father of algebra", which mathematician lived in Alexandria and wrote his most famous work Arithmetica in about 250, a work that comprised 13 Greek books and dealt with algebraic equations?
17 Built from 1789-93, who designed the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin?
18 The Cretaceous, Jurassic and Triassic periods make up which era?
19 Hideki Yukawa become the first Japanese person to ever win a Nobel, when he won the 1949 Prize for Physics for predicting the existence of which subatomic particle, a strongly interacting boson?
20 Mytilene is the capital of which island, the third largest Greek island and the seventh largest in the Mediterranean Sea?
21 Derived from the Hebrew for "consecrated" or "separated", what name was given to those like Samson in the Bible who were "holy unto the Lord" and had to keep themselves ritually unclean, thus pledging not to break certain rules until a vow was fulfilled?
22 First running on October 4, 1883, the original route of the Orient Express started in Paris and finished in which place in Romania?
23 What sea capital, the third largest Bulgarian city after Sofia and Plovdiv, was called Stalin between 1949 and1956?
24 Which US President gave his name to the doctrine that set out a commitment to send US troops to the Middle East to counter the threat of communism?
25 Cut into such images as ships, farmhouses and horses, which Dutch shortcrust biscuit is traditionally baked for St Nicholas's Eve on December 5 and derives its name from the Latin for 'mirror'?
Answers to BH quiz #21
1 Stafford Crips 2 Hinoki 3 E.ON 4 Ballantyne (Cashmere) 5 Barbra Streisand 6 Nucleotides 7 Louis Kahn 8 Dubai 9 Everything is Illuminated 10 Square Kilometre Array 11 Eye to the Telescope (KT Tunstall) 12 Undershaw 13 Martin Kippenberger 14 Rosicrucians 15 Vredefort 16 Bristol 17 Luther Burbank 18 Juneteenth 19 "The Weekend Starts Here" 20 Chaim Soutine 21 Arthur Honegger 22 World of Warcraft 23 Tlachtli 24 Barbara Millicent Roberts 25 New York Jets 26 A Scanner Darkly 27 Landsberg 28 Surimi 29 Two heads or a parasitic twin 30 United Grand Lodge of England 31 Olivo Barbieri 32 The Kahuna 33 Jean-Baptiste Chardin 34 Brentford 35 Denmark (her spouse was Christian VII) 36 Prodrome 37 El Laguito 38 Palatine 39 Hegel 40 Bordeaux 41 Old Tom Morris 42 Herbert Samuel 43 Formaldehyde 44 Hock 45 A Study in Scarlet 46 Taipan 47 Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honour (When Kelsey tries to put on some Washingtonian gravitas, you will have one of two spontaneous reactions: paralysing laughter or the kind of cringing that makes your skin crawl)
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