BH quiz #7
1 Where did Queen Victoria marry Prince Albert on February 10, 1840?
2 Who wrote in her poem Valentine: “My heart has made its mind up/ And I’m afraid it’s you”?
3 What name is given to the force-feeding process used to fatten geese to make pate de foie gras?
4 What cheese was first promoted by publican and entrepreneur Cooper Thornhill?
5 Which tenor saxophonist released Focus in 1961?
6 Which American composer of the Pocahontas ballet and 1944’s Holiday Overture turned 97 in December 2006?
7 Which country was ranked top of a world environmental league table produced by scientists and researchers from Yale and Columbia Universities in January 2006?
8 What is the more common name of Pan troglodytes or the common chimpanzee’s less aggressive but astonishingly promiscuous cousin (also known as Pan Paniscus)?
9 Elected in 1613, who was the first Romanov Tsar?
10 Handel’s aria ‘Where’er you walk’ comes from which secular oratorio of 1744, which was set to words by Congreve?
11 Who remains the oldest British sportsman to win Olympic gold, when he did so aged 60 in 1908 in shooting?
12 Governor-general of Canada in the late 1800s, Lord Frederick Arthur gave his name to which sporting trophy?
13 The Teutonic Knights were decisively defeated at which July 15, 1410 battle by Lithuanian and Polish forces?
14 Born in 1945, which German’s artworks include Parsifal III (1973), Innenraum (1982) and Lilith (1989)?
15 Which New Zealand speedway star won the world individual title a record six times between 1968 and 1979?
16 Which three-word nickname was given to US striptease artiste of the 1940s, Phyllis Dixon, and the comedian Max Miller?
17 What wind from the Sahara and over North African coast is also called The Doctor?
18 What art term describes a mixture of plaster and glue used to coat a surface before painting it?
19 Philip VI, who succeeded to the throne in 1328, was the first French king of which house?
20 The word vampire comes from which language?
Answers to BH quiz #6
1. Snow owls 2. Stephan Eberharter 3. Sondre Nordheim 4. Erika Hess 5. Hermann Maier 6. Christel Cranz 7. Sweden 8. Finland 9. St Moritz 10. Vladislav Tretiak 11. Jaroslav Drobny 12. Switzerland 13. Monaco 14. Georg Hackl 15. Armin Zoeggeler 16. Skeleton Bob 17. Claudia Pechstein 18. Sarah Hughes 19. Ulrich Salchow 20. Kazuyoshi Funaki 21. Matti Nykanen
2 Who wrote in her poem Valentine: “My heart has made its mind up/ And I’m afraid it’s you”?
3 What name is given to the force-feeding process used to fatten geese to make pate de foie gras?
4 What cheese was first promoted by publican and entrepreneur Cooper Thornhill?
5 Which tenor saxophonist released Focus in 1961?
6 Which American composer of the Pocahontas ballet and 1944’s Holiday Overture turned 97 in December 2006?
7 Which country was ranked top of a world environmental league table produced by scientists and researchers from Yale and Columbia Universities in January 2006?
8 What is the more common name of Pan troglodytes or the common chimpanzee’s less aggressive but astonishingly promiscuous cousin (also known as Pan Paniscus)?
9 Elected in 1613, who was the first Romanov Tsar?
10 Handel’s aria ‘Where’er you walk’ comes from which secular oratorio of 1744, which was set to words by Congreve?
11 Who remains the oldest British sportsman to win Olympic gold, when he did so aged 60 in 1908 in shooting?
12 Governor-general of Canada in the late 1800s, Lord Frederick Arthur gave his name to which sporting trophy?
13 The Teutonic Knights were decisively defeated at which July 15, 1410 battle by Lithuanian and Polish forces?
14 Born in 1945, which German’s artworks include Parsifal III (1973), Innenraum (1982) and Lilith (1989)?
15 Which New Zealand speedway star won the world individual title a record six times between 1968 and 1979?
16 Which three-word nickname was given to US striptease artiste of the 1940s, Phyllis Dixon, and the comedian Max Miller?
17 What wind from the Sahara and over North African coast is also called The Doctor?
18 What art term describes a mixture of plaster and glue used to coat a surface before painting it?
19 Philip VI, who succeeded to the throne in 1328, was the first French king of which house?
20 The word vampire comes from which language?
Answers to BH quiz #6
1. Snow owls 2. Stephan Eberharter 3. Sondre Nordheim 4. Erika Hess 5. Hermann Maier 6. Christel Cranz 7. Sweden 8. Finland 9. St Moritz 10. Vladislav Tretiak 11. Jaroslav Drobny 12. Switzerland 13. Monaco 14. Georg Hackl 15. Armin Zoeggeler 16. Skeleton Bob 17. Claudia Pechstein 18. Sarah Hughes 19. Ulrich Salchow 20. Kazuyoshi Funaki 21. Matti Nykanen
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