BH #49 ... the Hiatus Begins!
Back from Southampton. Rainsodden and eating peanut butter and honey on toast, with a pint of vodka, no, I jest, some milk. My crazy rock and rock lifestyle is now on hold. Mogwai were flaccid, samey, and frustrating in their choices until their encore rendition of Mogwai Fear Satan, undoubtedly the greatest ever sixteen minute instrumental song ever and ever will be. It is the alpha and the omega of my alternative rock universe and when they brought out this behemouth I was awed by its frankly monster-like proportions and swore never again to doubt their live capabilities. Waves of crashing fear and hope, and cascading melodies swept on by angels and so on in a frankly rock snobbish manner. There was deafening feedback to end with, and when I mean deafening, I can still hear the screaming of a thousand small children ring in my ears.
Last quiz before I go to Worthing hospital to meet my destiny. Only 21 questions but it does mean you can go back and learn the thousand-odd ones I have set from the beginning of time. Or the start of February.
So one week and one day off. I'll be back with that Brain of London report I have promised since civilisation first began. Or last Tuesday.
BYE .... TIL NEXT SATURDAY...APRIL TIME
1 Advocated by many historians and academics in linguistics and source criticism, the "documentary hypothesis" proposes that what is in fact a combination of documents from different sources rather than authored by one individual?
2 The second wife of Gene Roddenberry, who played Nurse Christine Chapel in the original Star Trek series, Lwaxana Troi and was the voice of the computer in all the Star Trek series except for Star Trek: Enterprise?
3 Which US TV western series featured the adventures of Paladin, a gentleman turned expert gunfighter played by Richard Boone?
4 Sometimes called the "father of algebra", which Hellenized Babylonian mathematician who lived during the 3rd century AD in Alexandria is known for giving his name to equations with equations with variables that take on rational values?
5 Known for his Latin translations of Strabo and Plutarch and the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, by what other name is the 16th century German classical scholar William Holtzman known?
6 Which noted Roman historian (c.165- after 229) served as a senator under Commodus and governor of Smyrna after the death of Septimius Severus and published a Roman history in 80 books that spanned 983 years, extending from the arrival of Aeneas in Italy on to a circumspect relating of life under Commodus?
7 Formed in 1986, the Swedish rock trio Persone sing in which language?
8 Sir Henry Haydock became the first man to hold which political post in 1361, though it has currently been vacant since last year?
9 The first recognised star of Soviet cinema, which gifted singer starred in such films as Jolly Fellows, the 1934 film seen as the first Soviet musical comedy and which was directed by her husband Grigori Aleksandrov?
10 Which of her Jolly Fellows co-stars was a famous jazz singer and Odessa-born comic actor was the first pop singer to be awarded the title People's Artist of the USSR in 1965 and was known for performing such hits as Me and My Masha at the Samovar and Tired by the Sun?
11 Planned in 1551 by Ignatius of Loyola, what motherchurch of the Jesuits is home to the famous 15th century painting of Madonna Della Stracha?
12 Pope Paul III was a member of which influential family in Renaissance Italy?
13 What name is given to the Bodhisattva that is the future Buddha in Buddhist eschatology, who some Buddhists believe will eventually appear on earth, achieve complete enlightment and teach the pure dharma; the successor of the historic Sakyamuni Buddha who will unite those who he rules over?
14 At which stadium does the football team Cracovia Krakow play?
15 (I thought this was an easy one) What alliance was formed on December 1, 1126 between 26 cities of north Italy to counter the attempts of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I to assert imperial influence over them?
16 Taking its name from the Greek for "serpent keys", which brass musical instrument was the structural cornerstone of the Romantic orchestra, replacing the outdated serpent (although it was eventually succeeded by the tuba) and is used in Mendelssohn's Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique?
17 Whose principle states that in fluid flow, an increase in velocity occurs simultaneously with decrease in pressure?
18 Which 18th century mathematician and physicist was the first to use the term "function" to describe an expression involving various arguments (e.g. y=f(x)), and also introduced lasting notation for common geometric functions such as sine and tangent?
19 Born Pierre Culliford, which Belgian cartoonist created the Smurfs?
20 The home of Gaumont Pictures, which film studios in La Villette were the largest in the world from 1905 to 1914?
21 Which Gaumont employee is considered the first female director to have worked in the motion picture industry and was the first filmmaker to systematically develop narrative filmmaking in such movies as her first full length feature film debut The Life of Christ in 1906?
Answers to BH #48
1 Bayer designations 2 David McKee 3 Parsifal 4 Red Deer 5 Madagascar 6 Jayavarman VII 7 Seamus Heaney 8 Martin Beck 9 Neuro-linguisitic programming 10 Eunice Barber 11 Amur leopard 12 Vasily Grossman 13 Jacques Chirac, because he spoke English 14 The Big Life 15 Thomas Kinkade 16 George Graham 17 The Rezillos 18 Bus 174 19 Candelaria massacre 20 Guns of the Magnificent Seven 21 The Children's Hour 22 The School for Scandal 23 The Jerwood Drawing Prize 24 Fingers 25 The Process Church of the Final Judgment 26 Mies van der Rohe 27 Heaven's Gate 28 Alexander Rodchenko 29 Architecture 30 Jonathan Swift 31 Marcel Duchamp 32 Barcelona 33 Max Biaggi 34 Camel Yamaha 35 Dave Gallaher 36 Chilblains 37 Gustav Metzger 38 First Faberge egg 39 Fluxus 40 Lye 41 Samuel Guthrie 42 (Scone) Scottish coronations 43 Cheeses 44 Nina Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck 45 Wetlands conservation 46 John Jacques II 47 Proa 48 Elston Howard 49 Fujara 50 Boogaloo 51 Double Bass 52 Carpaccio 53 Kibbeh 54 Blenheim Palace 55 Ramilies 56 Edward Elgar 57 Moore's Law 58 Tian Shan 59 The Agoge 60 Rose (Rosaceae) 61 Lamech 62 The Torah 63 Leuctra 64 Gytheio or Gythium 65 William Morris 66 Ophiuchus 67 Leader of the Greater London Council 68 David Agnew 69 Ibn Warraq 70 Aarti 71 Wing Chun 72 Canudos 73 Francoise Hardy 74 Freising manuscripts 75 Baked Alaska 76 Kevlar 77 The Wallace Line 78 Lombok Strait 79 Sparta Rotterdam 80 Shrews
Last quiz before I go to Worthing hospital to meet my destiny. Only 21 questions but it does mean you can go back and learn the thousand-odd ones I have set from the beginning of time. Or the start of February.
So one week and one day off. I'll be back with that Brain of London report I have promised since civilisation first began. Or last Tuesday.
BYE .... TIL NEXT SATURDAY...APRIL TIME
1 Advocated by many historians and academics in linguistics and source criticism, the "documentary hypothesis" proposes that what is in fact a combination of documents from different sources rather than authored by one individual?
2 The second wife of Gene Roddenberry, who played Nurse Christine Chapel in the original Star Trek series, Lwaxana Troi and was the voice of the computer in all the Star Trek series except for Star Trek: Enterprise?
3 Which US TV western series featured the adventures of Paladin, a gentleman turned expert gunfighter played by Richard Boone?
4 Sometimes called the "father of algebra", which Hellenized Babylonian mathematician who lived during the 3rd century AD in Alexandria is known for giving his name to equations with equations with variables that take on rational values?
5 Known for his Latin translations of Strabo and Plutarch and the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, by what other name is the 16th century German classical scholar William Holtzman known?
6 Which noted Roman historian (c.165- after 229) served as a senator under Commodus and governor of Smyrna after the death of Septimius Severus and published a Roman history in 80 books that spanned 983 years, extending from the arrival of Aeneas in Italy on to a circumspect relating of life under Commodus?
7 Formed in 1986, the Swedish rock trio Persone sing in which language?
8 Sir Henry Haydock became the first man to hold which political post in 1361, though it has currently been vacant since last year?
9 The first recognised star of Soviet cinema, which gifted singer starred in such films as Jolly Fellows, the 1934 film seen as the first Soviet musical comedy and which was directed by her husband Grigori Aleksandrov?
10 Which of her Jolly Fellows co-stars was a famous jazz singer and Odessa-born comic actor was the first pop singer to be awarded the title People's Artist of the USSR in 1965 and was known for performing such hits as Me and My Masha at the Samovar and Tired by the Sun?
11 Planned in 1551 by Ignatius of Loyola, what motherchurch of the Jesuits is home to the famous 15th century painting of Madonna Della Stracha?
12 Pope Paul III was a member of which influential family in Renaissance Italy?
13 What name is given to the Bodhisattva that is the future Buddha in Buddhist eschatology, who some Buddhists believe will eventually appear on earth, achieve complete enlightment and teach the pure dharma; the successor of the historic Sakyamuni Buddha who will unite those who he rules over?
14 At which stadium does the football team Cracovia Krakow play?
15 (I thought this was an easy one) What alliance was formed on December 1, 1126 between 26 cities of north Italy to counter the attempts of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I to assert imperial influence over them?
16 Taking its name from the Greek for "serpent keys", which brass musical instrument was the structural cornerstone of the Romantic orchestra, replacing the outdated serpent (although it was eventually succeeded by the tuba) and is used in Mendelssohn's Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique?
17 Whose principle states that in fluid flow, an increase in velocity occurs simultaneously with decrease in pressure?
18 Which 18th century mathematician and physicist was the first to use the term "function" to describe an expression involving various arguments (e.g. y=f(x)), and also introduced lasting notation for common geometric functions such as sine and tangent?
19 Born Pierre Culliford, which Belgian cartoonist created the Smurfs?
20 The home of Gaumont Pictures, which film studios in La Villette were the largest in the world from 1905 to 1914?
21 Which Gaumont employee is considered the first female director to have worked in the motion picture industry and was the first filmmaker to systematically develop narrative filmmaking in such movies as her first full length feature film debut The Life of Christ in 1906?
Answers to BH #48
1 Bayer designations 2 David McKee 3 Parsifal 4 Red Deer 5 Madagascar 6 Jayavarman VII 7 Seamus Heaney 8 Martin Beck 9 Neuro-linguisitic programming 10 Eunice Barber 11 Amur leopard 12 Vasily Grossman 13 Jacques Chirac, because he spoke English 14 The Big Life 15 Thomas Kinkade 16 George Graham 17 The Rezillos 18 Bus 174 19 Candelaria massacre 20 Guns of the Magnificent Seven 21 The Children's Hour 22 The School for Scandal 23 The Jerwood Drawing Prize 24 Fingers 25 The Process Church of the Final Judgment 26 Mies van der Rohe 27 Heaven's Gate 28 Alexander Rodchenko 29 Architecture 30 Jonathan Swift 31 Marcel Duchamp 32 Barcelona 33 Max Biaggi 34 Camel Yamaha 35 Dave Gallaher 36 Chilblains 37 Gustav Metzger 38 First Faberge egg 39 Fluxus 40 Lye 41 Samuel Guthrie 42 (Scone) Scottish coronations 43 Cheeses 44 Nina Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck 45 Wetlands conservation 46 John Jacques II 47 Proa 48 Elston Howard 49 Fujara 50 Boogaloo 51 Double Bass 52 Carpaccio 53 Kibbeh 54 Blenheim Palace 55 Ramilies 56 Edward Elgar 57 Moore's Law 58 Tian Shan 59 The Agoge 60 Rose (Rosaceae) 61 Lamech 62 The Torah 63 Leuctra 64 Gytheio or Gythium 65 William Morris 66 Ophiuchus 67 Leader of the Greater London Council 68 David Agnew 69 Ibn Warraq 70 Aarti 71 Wing Chun 72 Canudos 73 Francoise Hardy 74 Freising manuscripts 75 Baked Alaska 76 Kevlar 77 The Wallace Line 78 Lombok Strait 79 Sparta Rotterdam 80 Shrews
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