BH #36
I made up the question shortfall and now my head aches. It is heavy and must be replenished with leftover Chinese. Hey, I'm a real classy guy...
1 Which brewery is based in .... (nah, only joking!) ... The V-69 or "the Broom", the PFM-1 or the "Butterfly", OGRE F1, R2M2 and ARTISANAL are all types of what weapon?
2 Which car company has just launched "Britain's Latest Power Station", the Impreza, its range including the 2.0R, the WRX and STI Type UK?
3 Headquartered in Moriguchi, Osaka prefecture, which electronics company was founded by a former Matsushiat employee called Toshio Iue in 1947 as a manufacturer of bicycle lamps and has a name meaning "three oceans"?
4 Engaged in the promotion of breastfeeding and the restriction of unethical marketing practices in the alleged case of Nestle, what does IBFAN stand for?
5 In which small Swiss city is Nestle, the world's biggest food and beverage company, headquartered?
6 The novels Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure were inspired by which satirical author's time working as a teacher and social worker in South Africa?
7 Which later Dame played the crofter's wife in the Robert Donat version of The Thirty-Nine Steps and in 1937 also appeared with Greer Garson in a 30-minute excerpt of Twelfth Night on the BBC Television Service, the first known instance of a Shakespeare play to be performed on TV?
8 Abbreviated NEAC, what was founded in London in 1885 as an alternate venue to the Royal Academy and included such artists as John Singer Sargent and Paul Wilson Steer?
9 Some musicologists believe which of Tchaikovsky's symphonies, first performed in St Petersburg in 1893, to be his own Requiem, something he fully intended?
10 Tchaikovsky, along with Borodin, Mussorgsky, Dostoevsky, Petipa and Rimsky-Korsakov, are all interred in which cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St Petersburg?
11 What river is called Kaniatarowanenneh, meaning 'big waterway', in Mohawk?
12 The Canadian Shield or Laurentian Shield being one large example, what term describes an old and stable part of the continental crust that has survived the merging and splitting of continents and supercontinents for at least 500 million years?
13 What branch of geology is the study of rock layers and layering?
14 What title comes from the Old English for 'bread keeper'?
15 What freshwater fish is Alburnus alburnus?
16 Established in the mid-1800s, what club is seen as the 'mother club' of curlers worldwide and has the initials RCCC?
17 Which Irishman won the Hickstead Show Jumping Derby four times consecutively, from 1976-79, on the horse Boomerang?
18 What bicycle was patented by James Starley and William Hillman of Coventry in 1870?
19 What is a forearm pass called in volleyball?
20 First awarded in 1910, which man gave his name to the trophy given to England's most successful swimming and water polo club?
21 What is Britain's most famous annual demonstration of trade union pride and solidarity, established in 1871 and held on the second Sunday in July?
22 Seen in Victoria Dock in Dundee, what frigate that was launched in 1824 is now the oldest British warship still afloat? (My source may be out-of-date on this one)
23 What was Doc Marten's first name?
24 Wolfenstein 3D, launched by Id Software in 1992, started which video or computer game genre?
25 Cyberia was the first of what kind of establishments?
26 Arabic for 'the Golden One', what word describes a houseboat that is used on the Nile?
27 What 29-letter alphabet is also known as Beth Luis or Beth Luis Nion?
28 What was the name of the last broad-gauge passenger train to run, it doing so on May 21, 1892, from Paddington to Penzance?
29 Richard Lawrence attempted to kill which US president in 1835?
30 The largest aircraft ever built in Britain, which plane had its first flight on September 4, 1949?
31 Which country was passed to Adolph of Nassau-Weilburg in 1890?
32 Which Duchy was created in 1545 from part of the Duchy of Milan south of the River Po, as a fief for Pope Paul III's bastard son Pier Luigi Farnese?
33 Which kingdom came into being in 1297 when Pope Boniface VIII, whilst intervening between the Houses of Anjou and Aragon, established on paper a giudicati that would be a fief ot the Papacy, which he offered to the Catalan Jaume II the Just, king of the Crown of Aragon?
34 What has the infamous Children of God movement that started in 1968 in Huntington Beach, California, now been renamed?
35 What word for an eating and drinking establishment is possibly derived from the Russian for 'hurry'?
36 Grape, Pomace and Fruit are the three primary types of which alcoholic drink?
37 Which American writer wrote such detective novels as Sally, one of a series of detective novels starring a Nisei detective with the Beverly Hills police department, under the name EV Cunningham?
38 What infamous TV phenomenon did Sheryl Leach of Dallas, Texas, create in 1987?
Answers to I'm so tired
1 Adolf Anderssen 2 Fujiwara
1 Which brewery is based in .... (nah, only joking!) ... The V-69 or "the Broom", the PFM-1 or the "Butterfly", OGRE F1, R2M2 and ARTISANAL are all types of what weapon?
2 Which car company has just launched "Britain's Latest Power Station", the Impreza, its range including the 2.0R, the WRX and STI Type UK?
3 Headquartered in Moriguchi, Osaka prefecture, which electronics company was founded by a former Matsushiat employee called Toshio Iue in 1947 as a manufacturer of bicycle lamps and has a name meaning "three oceans"?
4 Engaged in the promotion of breastfeeding and the restriction of unethical marketing practices in the alleged case of Nestle, what does IBFAN stand for?
5 In which small Swiss city is Nestle, the world's biggest food and beverage company, headquartered?
6 The novels Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure were inspired by which satirical author's time working as a teacher and social worker in South Africa?
7 Which later Dame played the crofter's wife in the Robert Donat version of The Thirty-Nine Steps and in 1937 also appeared with Greer Garson in a 30-minute excerpt of Twelfth Night on the BBC Television Service, the first known instance of a Shakespeare play to be performed on TV?
8 Abbreviated NEAC, what was founded in London in 1885 as an alternate venue to the Royal Academy and included such artists as John Singer Sargent and Paul Wilson Steer?
9 Some musicologists believe which of Tchaikovsky's symphonies, first performed in St Petersburg in 1893, to be his own Requiem, something he fully intended?
10 Tchaikovsky, along with Borodin, Mussorgsky, Dostoevsky, Petipa and Rimsky-Korsakov, are all interred in which cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St Petersburg?
11 What river is called Kaniatarowanenneh, meaning 'big waterway', in Mohawk?
12 The Canadian Shield or Laurentian Shield being one large example, what term describes an old and stable part of the continental crust that has survived the merging and splitting of continents and supercontinents for at least 500 million years?
13 What branch of geology is the study of rock layers and layering?
14 What title comes from the Old English for 'bread keeper'?
15 What freshwater fish is Alburnus alburnus?
16 Established in the mid-1800s, what club is seen as the 'mother club' of curlers worldwide and has the initials RCCC?
17 Which Irishman won the Hickstead Show Jumping Derby four times consecutively, from 1976-79, on the horse Boomerang?
18 What bicycle was patented by James Starley and William Hillman of Coventry in 1870?
19 What is a forearm pass called in volleyball?
20 First awarded in 1910, which man gave his name to the trophy given to England's most successful swimming and water polo club?
21 What is Britain's most famous annual demonstration of trade union pride and solidarity, established in 1871 and held on the second Sunday in July?
22 Seen in Victoria Dock in Dundee, what frigate that was launched in 1824 is now the oldest British warship still afloat? (My source may be out-of-date on this one)
23 What was Doc Marten's first name?
24 Wolfenstein 3D, launched by Id Software in 1992, started which video or computer game genre?
25 Cyberia was the first of what kind of establishments?
26 Arabic for 'the Golden One', what word describes a houseboat that is used on the Nile?
27 What 29-letter alphabet is also known as Beth Luis or Beth Luis Nion?
28 What was the name of the last broad-gauge passenger train to run, it doing so on May 21, 1892, from Paddington to Penzance?
29 Richard Lawrence attempted to kill which US president in 1835?
30 The largest aircraft ever built in Britain, which plane had its first flight on September 4, 1949?
31 Which country was passed to Adolph of Nassau-Weilburg in 1890?
32 Which Duchy was created in 1545 from part of the Duchy of Milan south of the River Po, as a fief for Pope Paul III's bastard son Pier Luigi Farnese?
33 Which kingdom came into being in 1297 when Pope Boniface VIII, whilst intervening between the Houses of Anjou and Aragon, established on paper a giudicati that would be a fief ot the Papacy, which he offered to the Catalan Jaume II the Just, king of the Crown of Aragon?
34 What has the infamous Children of God movement that started in 1968 in Huntington Beach, California, now been renamed?
35 What word for an eating and drinking establishment is possibly derived from the Russian for 'hurry'?
36 Grape, Pomace and Fruit are the three primary types of which alcoholic drink?
37 Which American writer wrote such detective novels as Sally, one of a series of detective novels starring a Nisei detective with the Beverly Hills police department, under the name EV Cunningham?
38 What infamous TV phenomenon did Sheryl Leach of Dallas, Texas, create in 1987?
Answers to I'm so tired
1 Adolf Anderssen 2 Fujiwara
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