BH quiz #27
Hmm, I might make this Collins World Encyclopaedia week. It is interesting enough for me at the moment, despite some silly omissions and too many entries on birds and shrubs (which doesn't stop me from setting questions on there ... if it's there and a possible question, they must be transformed). Pat has mentioned one glaring error out of the lot I've done so far about Djibouti. Obviously, it is bounded by Ethiopia and Tanzania, not "Ethiopia and Djibouti". Duh.
1. Which daughter of the Phoenician king Agenor of Tyre, and sister of Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, was carried off by Zeus?
2. Native to Japan and China, which evergreen tree is also known as the Japan medlar and produces a golden pear-shaped fruit?
3. Which German king’s election as Holy Roman Emperor in 1133, was opposed by the Hohenstaufen family of princes and sparked the feud between the Guelph and Ghibbeline factions?
4. Which son of Sargon II rebuilt the city of Nineveh on a grand scale and sacked Babylon in 689BC?
5. Which province of central China has a name meaning ‘four rivers’ and Chengdu for its capital?
6. What sort of bird is a shoveler?
7. What radioactive isotope of hydrogen, three times as heavy as ordinary hydrogen, consists of one proton and two neutrons?
8. Naradnaya, at 1,894m, is the highest peak in which mountain range?
9. Which country was subjected to the harsh dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gomez from 1908 to 1935, during which time it became the world’s largest exporter of oil?
10. What are either of the two great veins of the trunk that return deoxygenated blood to the right atrium of the heart called?
11. Which ancient capital was founded in 300BC by Seleucus I in memory of his father?
12. What term describes music that exploits directional and canonic opposition of widely spaced choirs or groups of instruments to create perspectives in sound, and was developed in 17th century Venice by Giovanni Gabrieli and in Germany by his pupil Heinrich Schutz and Roland de Lassus?
13. By what name is Mount Cook in New Zealand now known?
14. Billy the Kid was a leader in which 1878 cattle war in New Mexico?
15. Who has Pauline Fowler just got married to on Eastenders?
16. Which French revolutionary has perhaps been falsely credited with formulating the theory of ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ (as used by Marx), and was elected president of the Paris Commune in 1871 despite his being in prison?
17. What ten-syllable line of five stresses was first used by the Italian Gian Giorgio Trissino in his tragedy Sofonisba (1514-15)?
18. As seen in such works as Rubens’s Descent from the Cross, what term in Christian art describes a depiction of Christ’s body being taken down from the cross?
19. In music, what word describes the markings added to show the varying degrees or changes in volume or loudness, e.g. mf for mezzo forte (medium loud)?
20. To which family do eagles belong?
21. At which November 1620 battle was Frederick V, ‘the Winter King’, king of Bohemia and Elector palatine of the Rhine defeated near Prague by the army of the Catholic League, a loss that resulted in his fleeing to Holland?
22. What flowering shrubs, belonging to the saxifrage family, are native to Japan and take their name from the Greek for ‘water vessel’, as in its cuplike seed capsules?
23. What is hydrocyanic acid (HCN) also called?
24. What are the four orders of mendicant friars?
Answers to BH #26
1 Henri Desgrange 2 Cuba 3 Pinkie 4 The Onin War 5 Lake Texcoco 6 Bithynia 7 Omayyads 8 Yarmuk 9 Tula Chico 10 Epicurus (translated as The Garden) 11 Ipsus 12 Ptolemy II 13 Lucius Tarquinius Priscus 14 Woodpecker 15 Kshatriyas 16 Nawab of Bengal 17 Samuel Wallis 18 Philip Carteret 19 Kodiak Island 20 Shahin Girai
1. Which daughter of the Phoenician king Agenor of Tyre, and sister of Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, was carried off by Zeus?
2. Native to Japan and China, which evergreen tree is also known as the Japan medlar and produces a golden pear-shaped fruit?
3. Which German king’s election as Holy Roman Emperor in 1133, was opposed by the Hohenstaufen family of princes and sparked the feud between the Guelph and Ghibbeline factions?
4. Which son of Sargon II rebuilt the city of Nineveh on a grand scale and sacked Babylon in 689BC?
5. Which province of central China has a name meaning ‘four rivers’ and Chengdu for its capital?
6. What sort of bird is a shoveler?
7. What radioactive isotope of hydrogen, three times as heavy as ordinary hydrogen, consists of one proton and two neutrons?
8. Naradnaya, at 1,894m, is the highest peak in which mountain range?
9. Which country was subjected to the harsh dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gomez from 1908 to 1935, during which time it became the world’s largest exporter of oil?
10. What are either of the two great veins of the trunk that return deoxygenated blood to the right atrium of the heart called?
11. Which ancient capital was founded in 300BC by Seleucus I in memory of his father?
12. What term describes music that exploits directional and canonic opposition of widely spaced choirs or groups of instruments to create perspectives in sound, and was developed in 17th century Venice by Giovanni Gabrieli and in Germany by his pupil Heinrich Schutz and Roland de Lassus?
13. By what name is Mount Cook in New Zealand now known?
14. Billy the Kid was a leader in which 1878 cattle war in New Mexico?
15. Who has Pauline Fowler just got married to on Eastenders?
16. Which French revolutionary has perhaps been falsely credited with formulating the theory of ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ (as used by Marx), and was elected president of the Paris Commune in 1871 despite his being in prison?
17. What ten-syllable line of five stresses was first used by the Italian Gian Giorgio Trissino in his tragedy Sofonisba (1514-15)?
18. As seen in such works as Rubens’s Descent from the Cross, what term in Christian art describes a depiction of Christ’s body being taken down from the cross?
19. In music, what word describes the markings added to show the varying degrees or changes in volume or loudness, e.g. mf for mezzo forte (medium loud)?
20. To which family do eagles belong?
21. At which November 1620 battle was Frederick V, ‘the Winter King’, king of Bohemia and Elector palatine of the Rhine defeated near Prague by the army of the Catholic League, a loss that resulted in his fleeing to Holland?
22. What flowering shrubs, belonging to the saxifrage family, are native to Japan and take their name from the Greek for ‘water vessel’, as in its cuplike seed capsules?
23. What is hydrocyanic acid (HCN) also called?
24. What are the four orders of mendicant friars?
Answers to BH #26
1 Henri Desgrange 2 Cuba 3 Pinkie 4 The Onin War 5 Lake Texcoco 6 Bithynia 7 Omayyads 8 Yarmuk 9 Tula Chico 10 Epicurus (translated as The Garden) 11 Ipsus 12 Ptolemy II 13 Lucius Tarquinius Priscus 14 Woodpecker 15 Kshatriyas 16 Nawab of Bengal 17 Samuel Wallis 18 Philip Carteret 19 Kodiak Island 20 Shahin Girai
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