BH quiz #8
1. All adapted into films, who wrote the novels After Dark, My Sweet, The Getaway and The Grifters?
2. An ecchymosis is a formal name for what?
3. What drink has been advertised with the slogans Brad's Drink in 1898 and Twice as Much for a Nickel in 1938?
4. Which French artist patented his own paint, as in International _____ Blue?
5. Somebody Stole My Girl was the theme tune of which jolly bandleader who died in 1969?
6. In a sixties TV series who was Agent 86 for CONTROL, an intelligence service with its HQ ten storeys underneath Washington DC's Main Street?
7. Immortalised in fiction, who was usually called Billy or Billy Moon throughout his real-life childhood?
8. Who played Blake Carrington in the pilot for Dynasty?
9. Carol Vorderman has had which type of flower named after her, it being called Countdown Carol?
10. Which comedienne and author once unsuccessfully stood for parliament as a member of the Blancmange Thrower party?
11. The hit Russian film Night Watch and its coming sequels Day Watch and Dusk Watch are based on the novels of which author?
12. Once dubbed the Harlem of South Africa and home to such musicians as Hugh Msakela and Miriam Makeba, which township on the western edge of Johannesberg will get its original name back after the apartheid regime demolished it and renamed it Triomf?
13. Where in Puerto Rico is there a 1000-foot curved satellite dish that is the largest such dish in the world, and a radio antenna that is the most sensitive?
14. Which son and heir of Lord Desborough had his best known poem Into Battle published in The Times in 1915, just a few weeks before he was killed in action?
15. Which US President turned down an honorary doctorate of civil law from Oxford University and said: "No man should accept a degree he cannot read"?
16. The chrysanthemum is never grown in which Japanese city due to a legend about a girl called O-Kiku (meaning Chrysanthemum Blossom), who drowned and left behind a restless spirit who could never be settled if the flower was grown in that place?
17. London County Council bestowed its first blue plaque upon which historian's home, Holly Lodge in Campden Hill, Kensington?
18. What word for a form of transport may have come from Lieutenant A D Cunningham of the Royal Navy Air Service in 1915 when he made a comment imitating the sound it made when he flicked its wall?
19. Favourites of Mexican drug cartels and many others, what gun is nicknamed the "cuerno de chivo" because of its resemblance to a goat's horn?
20. Which fruit takes its name from the Cree for 'dried fruit'?
21. Brownies, the junior section of the Guides, were first called what when they were established in 1914?
BH quiz #7 answers
1. Chapel Royal at St James's Palace 2. Wendy Cope 3. Gavage 4. Stilton 5. Stan Getz 6. Elliott Carter 7. New Zealand 8. Bonobo 9. Michael 10. Semele 11. Jerry Milner 12. Stanley Cup 13. Tannenburg 14. Anselm Kiefer 15. Ivan Mauger 16. One and Only 17. Harmattan 18. Gesso 19. Valois 20. Hungarian
2. An ecchymosis is a formal name for what?
3. What drink has been advertised with the slogans Brad's Drink in 1898 and Twice as Much for a Nickel in 1938?
4. Which French artist patented his own paint, as in International _____ Blue?
5. Somebody Stole My Girl was the theme tune of which jolly bandleader who died in 1969?
6. In a sixties TV series who was Agent 86 for CONTROL, an intelligence service with its HQ ten storeys underneath Washington DC's Main Street?
7. Immortalised in fiction, who was usually called Billy or Billy Moon throughout his real-life childhood?
8. Who played Blake Carrington in the pilot for Dynasty?
9. Carol Vorderman has had which type of flower named after her, it being called Countdown Carol?
10. Which comedienne and author once unsuccessfully stood for parliament as a member of the Blancmange Thrower party?
11. The hit Russian film Night Watch and its coming sequels Day Watch and Dusk Watch are based on the novels of which author?
12. Once dubbed the Harlem of South Africa and home to such musicians as Hugh Msakela and Miriam Makeba, which township on the western edge of Johannesberg will get its original name back after the apartheid regime demolished it and renamed it Triomf?
13. Where in Puerto Rico is there a 1000-foot curved satellite dish that is the largest such dish in the world, and a radio antenna that is the most sensitive?
14. Which son and heir of Lord Desborough had his best known poem Into Battle published in The Times in 1915, just a few weeks before he was killed in action?
15. Which US President turned down an honorary doctorate of civil law from Oxford University and said: "No man should accept a degree he cannot read"?
16. The chrysanthemum is never grown in which Japanese city due to a legend about a girl called O-Kiku (meaning Chrysanthemum Blossom), who drowned and left behind a restless spirit who could never be settled if the flower was grown in that place?
17. London County Council bestowed its first blue plaque upon which historian's home, Holly Lodge in Campden Hill, Kensington?
18. What word for a form of transport may have come from Lieutenant A D Cunningham of the Royal Navy Air Service in 1915 when he made a comment imitating the sound it made when he flicked its wall?
19. Favourites of Mexican drug cartels and many others, what gun is nicknamed the "cuerno de chivo" because of its resemblance to a goat's horn?
20. Which fruit takes its name from the Cree for 'dried fruit'?
21. Brownies, the junior section of the Guides, were first called what when they were established in 1914?
BH quiz #7 answers
1. Chapel Royal at St James's Palace 2. Wendy Cope 3. Gavage 4. Stilton 5. Stan Getz 6. Elliott Carter 7. New Zealand 8. Bonobo 9. Michael 10. Semele 11. Jerry Milner 12. Stanley Cup 13. Tannenburg 14. Anselm Kiefer 15. Ivan Mauger 16. One and Only 17. Harmattan 18. Gesso 19. Valois 20. Hungarian
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