BH quiz #5
Having spent the night fighting with my bed (I guess the blue-sheeted bastard won again ... one day), I feel a nasty cold descending on me and so there will be no report or in-depth ruminations today. Nose is runny, brain is clouded. Everything seems to be a shade darker too. But don’t worry: all in good time, all in good time.
1. Tirthankaras are holy men in which religion?
2. Karl Lake, the set dresser on Chappelle’s Show, is famous for doing what on every episode of the second series?
3. What Spanish lyric-dramatic genre is believed to take its name from a hunting lodge near Madrid where, in the 17th century, this type of performance first occurred before the Spanish royal court?
4. What Hamburg football team runs out to AC/DC’s Hell’s Bells?
5. Roy Raymond, who jumped off Golden Gate Bridge in 1993, founded which lingerie company?
6. The world’s highest battlefield is to be found on which glacier in Kashmir?
7. Pinpeat is the classical music of which Asian country?
8. What ‘bad mixture’ was an imbalance of the four humours that was once believed to be the direct cause of all diseases?
9. What were Diego Maradona’s first and last ever clubs?
10Who is the creator of comedy show Arrested Development?
11 What folk song has the famous refrain: “O, don’t deceive me/ O do not leave me!/ How could you use a poor maiden so”?
12 Hilda Lessways, These Twain and Roll Call are books in which series?
13. Who wrote in his book Noa Noa: “I have escaped everything that is artificial and conventional”?
14. Which Irishman painted the ‘conversation piece’ Homage to Manet?
15. Which President of Poland once worked as an illegal barman in Highbury, London?
16. What was the UK’s first Eurovision Song Contest entry in 1957 (it finished 7th)?
17. What term describes the Islamic practice of kneeling down and touching the ground with the forehead?
18. Who wrote the infamous headline in The Times: “Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead”?
19. Richard Parker led a naval mutiny where in 1797?
20. What is Iceland’s second city?
21. Which country’s national football team is nicknamed Los Celestes or “heavenly bodies”?
Answers to BH # 4
1. Wakefield 2. Veronica Lake 3. Fish 4. Krebs cycle 5. Roger Sessions 6. Hubert Booth 7. National Systems Television Committee 8.Agnes Varda 9. Montoneros 10. Ted Williams 11. Arthur Balfour 12. Indy Cars 13. Tony 14. South Africa 15. Mount Paricutin 16. Proconsul 17. John Byrom 18. Afghanistan 19. Bearnaise 20. Paul Lukas 21. (Sony) Walkman 22. The Cornishman 23. Chase 24. Geoff Duke 25. Douglas Scott 26. Benjamin Caunt 27. The Bachelors 28. Maybug or beetle 29. Algernon Swinburne 30. Duarte
1. Tirthankaras are holy men in which religion?
2. Karl Lake, the set dresser on Chappelle’s Show, is famous for doing what on every episode of the second series?
3. What Spanish lyric-dramatic genre is believed to take its name from a hunting lodge near Madrid where, in the 17th century, this type of performance first occurred before the Spanish royal court?
4. What Hamburg football team runs out to AC/DC’s Hell’s Bells?
5. Roy Raymond, who jumped off Golden Gate Bridge in 1993, founded which lingerie company?
6. The world’s highest battlefield is to be found on which glacier in Kashmir?
7. Pinpeat is the classical music of which Asian country?
8. What ‘bad mixture’ was an imbalance of the four humours that was once believed to be the direct cause of all diseases?
9. What were Diego Maradona’s first and last ever clubs?
10Who is the creator of comedy show Arrested Development?
11 What folk song has the famous refrain: “O, don’t deceive me/ O do not leave me!/ How could you use a poor maiden so”?
12 Hilda Lessways, These Twain and Roll Call are books in which series?
13. Who wrote in his book Noa Noa: “I have escaped everything that is artificial and conventional”?
14. Which Irishman painted the ‘conversation piece’ Homage to Manet?
15. Which President of Poland once worked as an illegal barman in Highbury, London?
16. What was the UK’s first Eurovision Song Contest entry in 1957 (it finished 7th)?
17. What term describes the Islamic practice of kneeling down and touching the ground with the forehead?
18. Who wrote the infamous headline in The Times: “Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead”?
19. Richard Parker led a naval mutiny where in 1797?
20. What is Iceland’s second city?
21. Which country’s national football team is nicknamed Los Celestes or “heavenly bodies”?
Answers to BH # 4
1. Wakefield 2. Veronica Lake 3. Fish 4. Krebs cycle 5. Roger Sessions 6. Hubert Booth 7. National Systems Television Committee 8.Agnes Varda 9. Montoneros 10. Ted Williams 11. Arthur Balfour 12. Indy Cars 13. Tony 14. South Africa 15. Mount Paricutin 16. Proconsul 17. John Byrom 18. Afghanistan 19. Bearnaise 20. Paul Lukas 21. (Sony) Walkman 22. The Cornishman 23. Chase 24. Geoff Duke 25. Douglas Scott 26. Benjamin Caunt 27. The Bachelors 28. Maybug or beetle 29. Algernon Swinburne 30. Duarte
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