BH quiz #25
Shattered. Brain cells scattered. Dribble, dribble. I feel physically and mentally obliterated. I've just sent off the trash tourney, all done and italicised. If there are errors, then so be it. Seven straight hours staring at questions, most notably one starter which took me 35 minutes to rewrite (even though I wasn't entirely sure it needed it). I have cast it to the river and will meet it up Wallasey way WHERE IT WILL BE BORN. You see. Delirious. Nutty as your local Holland & Barrett. So tired.
I would write more and relate exactly what I got up to in Soho last night, in the silliest detail that I can conjure up, like some wizard of weirdness, but I think I'll save my powder and rest the old noggin. Look! It's the Brain of London questions. I bet you get more than me.
1. Jean Baptiste Denys performed the first successful operation of what type in 1667?
2. Semitar, Hurst Beagle and Little Marvel are types of which vegetable?
3. In music, what is the bass line on which a keyboard player, accompanied by bass-stringed instruments, builds up a harmonic accompaniment?
4. On which island is the Kennedy Space Center situated?
5. Which French mathematician and astronomer theorised in 1796 that the Solar System originated from a cloud of gas in the 'nebular hypothesis' and published the five-volume survey of celestial mechanics Traite de mechanique celeste (1799-1825)?
6. Who defeated Shirley Fry at her first US national championship in 1951 at Forest Hills, New York, at the aged of 16 years, 11 months, becoming the youngest ever winner?
7. Discovered by the German physicist who gave it its name, what is the generation of a voltage in a circuit containing two different metals or semiconductors by keeping the junctions between them at different temperatures?
8. Which Newark-born Nottingham and Leicester full back memorably scored all 19 of England's points against Wales in 1981, but missed an injury time kick that would have prevented them from losing 21-19?
9. Built on the site of Stuart Street power station, what was the UK's first purpose built indoor cycling stadium?
10. Which company invented duct tape?
11. Who first published the word 'nerd' in his book/story If I Ran the Zoo?
12. Which goddess of craft and cunning intelligence was the mother of Athena?
13. What girl's name was given to the first Apple PC?
14. What was Cilla Black's follow-up number one after Anyone Who Had a Heart in the spring of 1964?
15. John O'Groats is separated from the Orkneys by what?
16. Which leader of Republican China from 1911-1916 assumed dictatorial powers in 1912, suppressed Sun Yat Sen's Kuomintang and died soon after proclaiming himself emperor?
17. The BBC TV show Film 71 began with which presenter?
18. What word (Greek for 'sheath') describes either of the two wing cases that protect the thin, membranous hind wings of a beetle?
19. Taking its name from the Greek for 'heroism' and 'virtue', what is the Calabrian mafia called?
20. What musical instrument did Harry Chamberlain invent in 1946?
Answers to BH #24
1 Bertram Mills 2 Chester Kallmann 3 Vosges and Jura 4 Carl Douglas 5 Pierre Renoir 6 Shot put 7 Roxburghe 8 Harry Brearley 9 Xiang Liu 10 Latrobe YMCA 11 Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian 12 Epitasis 13 Westman Islands or Vestmannaeyjan 14 John Hillerman 15 Chantilly 16 Pepin the Short 17 Moravia and Silesia 18 Canoeing 19 Puy lentils 20 St Etheldreda or Audrey
I would write more and relate exactly what I got up to in Soho last night, in the silliest detail that I can conjure up, like some wizard of weirdness, but I think I'll save my powder and rest the old noggin. Look! It's the Brain of London questions. I bet you get more than me.
1. Jean Baptiste Denys performed the first successful operation of what type in 1667?
2. Semitar, Hurst Beagle and Little Marvel are types of which vegetable?
3. In music, what is the bass line on which a keyboard player, accompanied by bass-stringed instruments, builds up a harmonic accompaniment?
4. On which island is the Kennedy Space Center situated?
5. Which French mathematician and astronomer theorised in 1796 that the Solar System originated from a cloud of gas in the 'nebular hypothesis' and published the five-volume survey of celestial mechanics Traite de mechanique celeste (1799-1825)?
6. Who defeated Shirley Fry at her first US national championship in 1951 at Forest Hills, New York, at the aged of 16 years, 11 months, becoming the youngest ever winner?
7. Discovered by the German physicist who gave it its name, what is the generation of a voltage in a circuit containing two different metals or semiconductors by keeping the junctions between them at different temperatures?
8. Which Newark-born Nottingham and Leicester full back memorably scored all 19 of England's points against Wales in 1981, but missed an injury time kick that would have prevented them from losing 21-19?
9. Built on the site of Stuart Street power station, what was the UK's first purpose built indoor cycling stadium?
10. Which company invented duct tape?
11. Who first published the word 'nerd' in his book/story If I Ran the Zoo?
12. Which goddess of craft and cunning intelligence was the mother of Athena?
13. What girl's name was given to the first Apple PC?
14. What was Cilla Black's follow-up number one after Anyone Who Had a Heart in the spring of 1964?
15. John O'Groats is separated from the Orkneys by what?
16. Which leader of Republican China from 1911-1916 assumed dictatorial powers in 1912, suppressed Sun Yat Sen's Kuomintang and died soon after proclaiming himself emperor?
17. The BBC TV show Film 71 began with which presenter?
18. What word (Greek for 'sheath') describes either of the two wing cases that protect the thin, membranous hind wings of a beetle?
19. Taking its name from the Greek for 'heroism' and 'virtue', what is the Calabrian mafia called?
20. What musical instrument did Harry Chamberlain invent in 1946?
Answers to BH #24
1 Bertram Mills 2 Chester Kallmann 3 Vosges and Jura 4 Carl Douglas 5 Pierre Renoir 6 Shot put 7 Roxburghe 8 Harry Brearley 9 Xiang Liu 10 Latrobe YMCA 11 Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian 12 Epitasis 13 Westman Islands or Vestmannaeyjan 14 John Hillerman 15 Chantilly 16 Pepin the Short 17 Moravia and Silesia 18 Canoeing 19 Puy lentils 20 St Etheldreda or Audrey
posted by That Quiz Guy at 8:29 AM
1 Comments:
"Who first published the word 'nerd' in his book/story If I Ran the Zoo?"
Thank you for phrasing it this way. A lot of folks say he "coined" the word, but the n-e-r-d spelling didn't dominate until the 80's, thanks to Nerds candy and the movie "Revenge of the Nerds." K-n-u-r-d was very common right up until the late 70s or so.
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