BH quiz #28
Ah! The glory of media diaries. This was from March 2 edition of MediaGuardian's Monkey column. Just scroll down to the Ringer runs rings around Heat headline.
I do take issue with the Ringer headline bit though.
According to Dictionary.com, a ringer is defined as:
Slang. A contestant entered dishonestly into a competition.
Dishonesty? It is a stain on our very character. If I was a Regency era dandy I would proffer my gauntler towards some vile cur's wantonly deformed visage.
Since I do earn some of my living from the said publication it's just plain lazy. Bone idle lazy, I tells ya.
And what's with the last sentence, lads? All your capitalisations, indefinite articles and spelling of my name (the introduction of another 'm') - it's gone absolutely haywire! Tut-tut.
Okay, you know what Oscar Wilde said in The Picture of Dorian Grey don't you. Such is life.
1 From the Italian for 'midday', what name describes the hot, impoverished area of sourthern Italy comprising such regions as Campania and Calabria as well as Sicily and Sardinia?
2 In economics, what is the theoretical concept, formulated by John Maynard Keynes, of the effect on national income or employment by an adjustment in overall demand?
3 Nicosia was the residence of which dynasty of Cyprus kings from 1192 to 1475?
4 Who composed the 1899 piano piece Pavane for a Dead Infanta?
5 Astronomer Walter Baade discovered which Apollo asteroid, one mile in diameter, in 1949 that orbits the Sun every 409 days and which was the first asteroid known to approach the Sun closer than does Mercury?
6 What peninsula between the Barents Sea and the White Sea, administratively part of the Murmansk oblast, covers 50,000 sq miles and has the port of Murmansk and the mining centre of Kirovsk for its chief cities?
7 Which Swedish novelist made her debut with the historical romance The Story of Gost Berling in 1891 and also wrote the children's fantasy The Wonderful Voyage of Nils Holgersson (1906-7)?
8 The term 'monoecious' describes what features on a plant?
9 What perennial plant found on sea cliffs in Europe is also called glasswort or sea asparagus?
10 Also known as Cennis Peppi, who is traditionally styled the "father of Italian painting" and has had such works as Maesta (c.1280), a huge Gothic image of the Virgin, attributed to him?
11 Which Iranian philosopher and physician (979-1039) is the most renowned philosopher of medieval Islam, his Canon Medicinae being a standard work for centuries?
12 Mindelo is the major port of which African country?
13 Which Islamic Republic comprises the volcanic islands of Njazidja, Nzwani and Mwali?
14 Heard in Rossini's overture to William Tell and used to portray Sasha the Duck in Peter and the Wolf, what musical instrument is an alto oboe, pitched a fifth lower (in F) than the oboe and has a distinctive tulip-shaped bell?
15 What theatre in Cornwall was carved from the cliff face at Porthcuno?
16 Which US-born bond trader is credited with inventing the method of using junk bonds to finance takeovers normally beyond a company's reach?
17 What Arabic term describes the 'Night Journey' that Muhammad took from Mecca to Jerusalem, whilst guided by the archangel Gabriel?
18 In which lake in Ethiopia does the Blue Nile rise?
19 What word described the leader of the United Provinces of the Netherlands from the 15th to 18th centuries?
20 Located in Suffolk, what was Britian's first pressurised-water nuclear reactor plant?
21 What marine fish is Mola mola and is a term that is also applied to fish of the North American freshwater Centrachidae family?
22 Which legendary Welsh poet, a bard at the court of the king of Rheged in Scotland, allegedly died at the place in Dyfed that is named after him?
23 Used in cameras that fall into two categories, the SLR and the rangefinder, what width of photographic film is the most popular format for the camera today?
24 Formed in 1980, what is Europe's largest artificial lake?
25 The name of the period that is often taken as AD539 to 710, what is the ancient name of Japan and particularly the province of western Honshu where Japanese civilisation began?
Answers to BH quiz #27
1 Europa 2 Loquat 3 Lothair II 4 Sennacherib 5 Sichuan or Szechwan 6 Duck 7 Tritium 8 Urals 9 Venezuela 10 Superior or inferior vena cava 11 Antioch 12 Antiphony 13 Aoraki 14 Lincoln Count cattle war 15 Joe Macer 16 Auguste Blanqui 17 Blank verse 18 Deposition 19 Dynamics 20 Accipitridae 21 White Mountain 22 Hydrangea 23 Prussic acid 24 Franciscans, Carmelites, Dominicans, Augustinians
I do take issue with the Ringer headline bit though.
According to Dictionary.com, a ringer is defined as:
Slang. A contestant entered dishonestly into a competition.
Dishonesty? It is a stain on our very character. If I was a Regency era dandy I would proffer my gauntler towards some vile cur's wantonly deformed visage.
Since I do earn some of my living from the said publication it's just plain lazy. Bone idle lazy, I tells ya.
And what's with the last sentence, lads? All your capitalisations, indefinite articles and spelling of my name (the introduction of another 'm') - it's gone absolutely haywire! Tut-tut.
Okay, you know what Oscar Wilde said in The Picture of Dorian Grey don't you. Such is life.
1 From the Italian for 'midday', what name describes the hot, impoverished area of sourthern Italy comprising such regions as Campania and Calabria as well as Sicily and Sardinia?
2 In economics, what is the theoretical concept, formulated by John Maynard Keynes, of the effect on national income or employment by an adjustment in overall demand?
3 Nicosia was the residence of which dynasty of Cyprus kings from 1192 to 1475?
4 Who composed the 1899 piano piece Pavane for a Dead Infanta?
5 Astronomer Walter Baade discovered which Apollo asteroid, one mile in diameter, in 1949 that orbits the Sun every 409 days and which was the first asteroid known to approach the Sun closer than does Mercury?
6 What peninsula between the Barents Sea and the White Sea, administratively part of the Murmansk oblast, covers 50,000 sq miles and has the port of Murmansk and the mining centre of Kirovsk for its chief cities?
7 Which Swedish novelist made her debut with the historical romance The Story of Gost Berling in 1891 and also wrote the children's fantasy The Wonderful Voyage of Nils Holgersson (1906-7)?
8 The term 'monoecious' describes what features on a plant?
9 What perennial plant found on sea cliffs in Europe is also called glasswort or sea asparagus?
10 Also known as Cennis Peppi, who is traditionally styled the "father of Italian painting" and has had such works as Maesta (c.1280), a huge Gothic image of the Virgin, attributed to him?
11 Which Iranian philosopher and physician (979-1039) is the most renowned philosopher of medieval Islam, his Canon Medicinae being a standard work for centuries?
12 Mindelo is the major port of which African country?
13 Which Islamic Republic comprises the volcanic islands of Njazidja, Nzwani and Mwali?
14 Heard in Rossini's overture to William Tell and used to portray Sasha the Duck in Peter and the Wolf, what musical instrument is an alto oboe, pitched a fifth lower (in F) than the oboe and has a distinctive tulip-shaped bell?
15 What theatre in Cornwall was carved from the cliff face at Porthcuno?
16 Which US-born bond trader is credited with inventing the method of using junk bonds to finance takeovers normally beyond a company's reach?
17 What Arabic term describes the 'Night Journey' that Muhammad took from Mecca to Jerusalem, whilst guided by the archangel Gabriel?
18 In which lake in Ethiopia does the Blue Nile rise?
19 What word described the leader of the United Provinces of the Netherlands from the 15th to 18th centuries?
20 Located in Suffolk, what was Britian's first pressurised-water nuclear reactor plant?
21 What marine fish is Mola mola and is a term that is also applied to fish of the North American freshwater Centrachidae family?
22 Which legendary Welsh poet, a bard at the court of the king of Rheged in Scotland, allegedly died at the place in Dyfed that is named after him?
23 Used in cameras that fall into two categories, the SLR and the rangefinder, what width of photographic film is the most popular format for the camera today?
24 Formed in 1980, what is Europe's largest artificial lake?
25 The name of the period that is often taken as AD539 to 710, what is the ancient name of Japan and particularly the province of western Honshu where Japanese civilisation began?
Answers to BH quiz #27
1 Europa 2 Loquat 3 Lothair II 4 Sennacherib 5 Sichuan or Szechwan 6 Duck 7 Tritium 8 Urals 9 Venezuela 10 Superior or inferior vena cava 11 Antioch 12 Antiphony 13 Aoraki 14 Lincoln Count cattle war 15 Joe Macer 16 Auguste Blanqui 17 Blank verse 18 Deposition 19 Dynamics 20 Accipitridae 21 White Mountain 22 Hydrangea 23 Prussic acid 24 Franciscans, Carmelites, Dominicans, Augustinians
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