BH quiz #4
You love it really. Remember before I wrote these questions a few months or weeks ago, I didn't actually know the answer, which means that they are very hard. Very very hard. However, as happens with all trivia questions once they are created, set down in text accessible to all and dispersed they are liable to become chestnuts one day. I'm sure much of the stuff in Magnus Magnusson's brilliant quiz books used to be obscure but has been so thoroughly learned by the likes of myself that they are quite well known (among, er, people who read quiz books).
I did 30 today probably because I had a lot of time on my hands.
1. At which battle was Richard, Duke of York, killed in 1460?
2. Which Hollywood actress’s real name was Constance Frances Marie Ockleman?
3. The name Panama means an ‘abundance’ of what?
4. How is the citric acid cycle or tricarboxylic cycle otherwise known?
5. Which US composer, who died in 1985, was known for his international Modernist style and wrote incidental music The Black Maskers and 1971’s Concerto for Orchestra?
6. Which Scotsman invented the vacuum cleaner?
7. What does NTSC as in the NTSC TV system stand for?
8. The wife of director Jacques Demy, which French feminist herself directed the films Five to Seven (1961) and One Sings, The Other Doesn’t (1977)?
9. Founded by Juan Person before his overthrow and exile in 1955, which left wing urban guerrilla group active in Argentina in the 70s set about eliminating the moderate Peronista union leadership and due to political violence became the target of the ‘Dirty War’?
10. In 1995, Boston named a new $2.3 billion tunnel that linked the city and Logan airport after which Boston Red Sox player, the team’s most famous batter?
11. Who resigned as Prime Minister after the Tories split over tariff reform in 1905?
12. George Robertson became the first winner of which championship in 1909?
13. What was Tom Mix’s horse called?
14. Where were the Pass Laws famously enacted?
15. What volcano in Michoacan state, Mexico, was formed in a cultivated field on February 20, 1943, after a week of earth tremors?
16. Believed to be 20 million years old, what prehistoric ape skull was found on Rusinga Island in Lake Victoria by Mary Leakey?
17. Who created the names Tweedledum and Tweedledee to satirise negligibly different schools of musicians?
18. At 688 miles long, the Helmond river is the longest in which Asian country?
19. Named after a southwest region in France, what rich sauce is made from egg yolks, butter, shallot, tarragon, chervil and wine vinegar?
20. Who won the 1943 Best Actor Oscar for Watch on the Rhine?
21. The TPS-L2 was the first of what portable objects?
22. What was the name of the last broad-gauge passenger train to run (on May 21, 1892, from Paddington to Penzance)?
23. In 1967 Ralph Baer wrote what game, the first that could be played on a TV set?
24. Which racing motorcyclist became world champion in 1951-2 riding for Norton (350cc 1951 and 1952, 500cc in 1951) and was 500cc champion in 1953-5 when he rode for the Halian Gilera team?
25. Who designed the Routemaster bus?
26. Which popular heavyweight boxer may have given his name to the clock Big Ben?
27. Which Decca-signed band reached number one in 1964 with Diane, and had other hits like Charmaine and Ramona, all written in the late 1920s?
28. What is a cockchafer?
29. Who first attracted attention with the choruses of his Greek-style tragedy Atalanta in Calydon (1865)?
30. What was Evita’s maiden name?
Answers to BH #3
1. Achaemenid 2. Peltier Effect 3. Minneapolis 4. Sepak Takrow 5. Norman Whitfield 6. Olga Gyarmati 7. Lundy Island 8. Henry Esmond 9. John Tavener 10. Kyudo 11. World’s Strongest Man 12. Fidel Castro 13. John 14. Picture Post 15. Committee of 100 16. Atreus and Aerope 17. Public Execution in Great Britain 18. Bonnie Langford 19. Land of the Giants 20. Altdorf
I did 30 today probably because I had a lot of time on my hands.
1. At which battle was Richard, Duke of York, killed in 1460?
2. Which Hollywood actress’s real name was Constance Frances Marie Ockleman?
3. The name Panama means an ‘abundance’ of what?
4. How is the citric acid cycle or tricarboxylic cycle otherwise known?
5. Which US composer, who died in 1985, was known for his international Modernist style and wrote incidental music The Black Maskers and 1971’s Concerto for Orchestra?
6. Which Scotsman invented the vacuum cleaner?
7. What does NTSC as in the NTSC TV system stand for?
8. The wife of director Jacques Demy, which French feminist herself directed the films Five to Seven (1961) and One Sings, The Other Doesn’t (1977)?
9. Founded by Juan Person before his overthrow and exile in 1955, which left wing urban guerrilla group active in Argentina in the 70s set about eliminating the moderate Peronista union leadership and due to political violence became the target of the ‘Dirty War’?
10. In 1995, Boston named a new $2.3 billion tunnel that linked the city and Logan airport after which Boston Red Sox player, the team’s most famous batter?
11. Who resigned as Prime Minister after the Tories split over tariff reform in 1905?
12. George Robertson became the first winner of which championship in 1909?
13. What was Tom Mix’s horse called?
14. Where were the Pass Laws famously enacted?
15. What volcano in Michoacan state, Mexico, was formed in a cultivated field on February 20, 1943, after a week of earth tremors?
16. Believed to be 20 million years old, what prehistoric ape skull was found on Rusinga Island in Lake Victoria by Mary Leakey?
17. Who created the names Tweedledum and Tweedledee to satirise negligibly different schools of musicians?
18. At 688 miles long, the Helmond river is the longest in which Asian country?
19. Named after a southwest region in France, what rich sauce is made from egg yolks, butter, shallot, tarragon, chervil and wine vinegar?
20. Who won the 1943 Best Actor Oscar for Watch on the Rhine?
21. The TPS-L2 was the first of what portable objects?
22. What was the name of the last broad-gauge passenger train to run (on May 21, 1892, from Paddington to Penzance)?
23. In 1967 Ralph Baer wrote what game, the first that could be played on a TV set?
24. Which racing motorcyclist became world champion in 1951-2 riding for Norton (350cc 1951 and 1952, 500cc in 1951) and was 500cc champion in 1953-5 when he rode for the Halian Gilera team?
25. Who designed the Routemaster bus?
26. Which popular heavyweight boxer may have given his name to the clock Big Ben?
27. Which Decca-signed band reached number one in 1964 with Diane, and had other hits like Charmaine and Ramona, all written in the late 1920s?
28. What is a cockchafer?
29. Who first attracted attention with the choruses of his Greek-style tragedy Atalanta in Calydon (1865)?
30. What was Evita’s maiden name?
Answers to BH #3
1. Achaemenid 2. Peltier Effect 3. Minneapolis 4. Sepak Takrow 5. Norman Whitfield 6. Olga Gyarmati 7. Lundy Island 8. Henry Esmond 9. John Tavener 10. Kyudo 11. World’s Strongest Man 12. Fidel Castro 13. John 14. Picture Post 15. Committee of 100 16. Atreus and Aerope 17. Public Execution in Great Britain 18. Bonnie Langford 19. Land of the Giants 20. Altdorf
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