BH quiz #29
"Tonight, tonight/ Won't be just any night". Crucial showdowns always get me thinking of West Side Story. An unforeseen consequence of doing it at school (we actually swore our heads off when we did Officer Krupke - how subversive). So it is BHs versus Allsorts for the Division I title. Being a nonchalant fellow with explosivesly scruffy hair, it completely slipped my mind until about three minutes ago, which has obviously compelled me to write summat. If we win, we win, if we lose, we lose and commit ritual seppukku in front of those that have vanquished us. You have to remember we were only promoted to Division I this season. Could we do a Nottingham Forest? Possibly. But then I would start worrying a lot about our long term prospects. Oops, there I go again with the weak football analogies. I don't want to end up as the Ron Manager of quiz do I?
1 Who became Italy's first socialist Prime Minister in 1983?
2 Named after an English theoretical physicist, what device is used in superchips to speed the passage of signals by a phenomenon called electron tunnelling?
3 Which Franco-Flemish composer (1440-1521) is renowned for combining Flemish counterpoint and Italian harmony, learnt while in the service of the Rome papal chapel in 1484-1503, which marked a peak in Renaissance vocal music, and composed Mass on "The Armed Man" (1504) and such secular chansons as El Grillo/The Cricket?
4 What insect gives another name for the carob, a small tree of the Meditteranean region?
5 What earliest form of the lock, the construction used in waterways, was first seen in the East in 1st century-AD China and in the West in the 11th century Holland?
6 What Latin term in mathematics traditionally described the path traced out by a moving point, but is now defined as the set of all points on a curve satisfying given conditions?
7 What is the whole number part of a logarithm called?
8 In Norse myth, which giantess had such children as the Midgard serpent, Jorgmungder, and the goddess of death, Hel, by that mischievous fellow Loki?
9 What thin, secretory membrane covers the lungs and lines the space in which they rest?
10 Which themed gardens in the unitary authority of Poole has water, rock, Japanese, Roman and Italian areas?
11 On which river does Pyongyang lie?
12 From the Greek "adapted meaning", what figure of speech is technically known as paranomasia?
13 In Greek myth, Paphos and Metharme were the children of which king?
14 Who compiles the UK index known as the RPI (Retail Price etc)?
15 The lack of which vitamin leads to the eye disease xerophthalmia?
16 Set up during 1848, the year of revolutions, which short-lived parliament advocated ideas about political unity in Germany?
Turning to sports, of which I need to know so much more...
17 Which NHL team won the Stanley Cup four consecutive times from 1980-83?
18 Which footballer captained England on each of the 13 times he played for his country?
19 Which athlete's four-medal haul at the 1990 European Championships in Split was the most ever won by a male athlete at a single edition of the competition?
20 Which American set the world record for the shot put when he threw 23.12m in 1990?
21 Who was the first goalkeeper to captain England in a football match when they played Italy in 1947?
22 Where was the first Welsh golf club founded in 1888?
23 Which Oswestry-born man became the first Brit to win the World Matchplay Championship in 1987?
24 Owned by the Saudi Arabian prince Khalid Abdullah, which horse became the first Arab-owned English classic winner in 1980 with its victory in the 2000 Guineas?
25 What is the first grade rank or kyu in judo?
26 What were the forenames of motorcycle company founders Harley and Davidson?
27 Santa Pod is the British venue most associated with which sport?
28 Which Hull player was killed single-handedly attacking a German machine gun post at the Battle of Oppy Wood on May 3, 1917, and remains the only rugby league player to be awarded the Victoria Cross?
29 Who became the first rugby union premiership winners in 1988 when they won the Courage League Division One?
30 Skippered by Russell Coutts, which Swiss boat won the 2003 America's Cup?
31 Which snooker player is The Wizard of Wishaw?
32 Aged just 12, Katie Parker became the youngest player ever to represent England at a world championships in Manchester in 1987 in which sport?
33 What sport is thought to have been created by a YMCA instructor called William G Morgan?
34 What sport was revolutionised by the introduction of the Trudgeon Stroke in the mid-1880s?
Answers to BH #28
1 Mezzogiorno 2 Multiplier 3 Lusignan 4 Ravel 5 Icarus 6 Kola Peninsula 7 Selma Lagerlof 8 Separate female and male flowers on the same plant 9 Samphire 10 Giovanni Cimabue 11 Avicenna 12 Cape Verde 13 Comoros 14 Cor anglais or English horn 15 Minack theatre 16 Michael Milken 17 al-Miraj 18 Lake Tana 19 Stadtholder or Stadholder 20 Sizewell B 21 Sunfish 22 Taliesin 23 35mm 24 Kielder Water 25 Yamato
1 Who became Italy's first socialist Prime Minister in 1983?
2 Named after an English theoretical physicist, what device is used in superchips to speed the passage of signals by a phenomenon called electron tunnelling?
3 Which Franco-Flemish composer (1440-1521) is renowned for combining Flemish counterpoint and Italian harmony, learnt while in the service of the Rome papal chapel in 1484-1503, which marked a peak in Renaissance vocal music, and composed Mass on "The Armed Man" (1504) and such secular chansons as El Grillo/The Cricket?
4 What insect gives another name for the carob, a small tree of the Meditteranean region?
5 What earliest form of the lock, the construction used in waterways, was first seen in the East in 1st century-AD China and in the West in the 11th century Holland?
6 What Latin term in mathematics traditionally described the path traced out by a moving point, but is now defined as the set of all points on a curve satisfying given conditions?
7 What is the whole number part of a logarithm called?
8 In Norse myth, which giantess had such children as the Midgard serpent, Jorgmungder, and the goddess of death, Hel, by that mischievous fellow Loki?
9 What thin, secretory membrane covers the lungs and lines the space in which they rest?
10 Which themed gardens in the unitary authority of Poole has water, rock, Japanese, Roman and Italian areas?
11 On which river does Pyongyang lie?
12 From the Greek "adapted meaning", what figure of speech is technically known as paranomasia?
13 In Greek myth, Paphos and Metharme were the children of which king?
14 Who compiles the UK index known as the RPI (Retail Price etc)?
15 The lack of which vitamin leads to the eye disease xerophthalmia?
16 Set up during 1848, the year of revolutions, which short-lived parliament advocated ideas about political unity in Germany?
Turning to sports, of which I need to know so much more...
17 Which NHL team won the Stanley Cup four consecutive times from 1980-83?
18 Which footballer captained England on each of the 13 times he played for his country?
19 Which athlete's four-medal haul at the 1990 European Championships in Split was the most ever won by a male athlete at a single edition of the competition?
20 Which American set the world record for the shot put when he threw 23.12m in 1990?
21 Who was the first goalkeeper to captain England in a football match when they played Italy in 1947?
22 Where was the first Welsh golf club founded in 1888?
23 Which Oswestry-born man became the first Brit to win the World Matchplay Championship in 1987?
24 Owned by the Saudi Arabian prince Khalid Abdullah, which horse became the first Arab-owned English classic winner in 1980 with its victory in the 2000 Guineas?
25 What is the first grade rank or kyu in judo?
26 What were the forenames of motorcycle company founders Harley and Davidson?
27 Santa Pod is the British venue most associated with which sport?
28 Which Hull player was killed single-handedly attacking a German machine gun post at the Battle of Oppy Wood on May 3, 1917, and remains the only rugby league player to be awarded the Victoria Cross?
29 Who became the first rugby union premiership winners in 1988 when they won the Courage League Division One?
30 Skippered by Russell Coutts, which Swiss boat won the 2003 America's Cup?
31 Which snooker player is The Wizard of Wishaw?
32 Aged just 12, Katie Parker became the youngest player ever to represent England at a world championships in Manchester in 1987 in which sport?
33 What sport is thought to have been created by a YMCA instructor called William G Morgan?
34 What sport was revolutionised by the introduction of the Trudgeon Stroke in the mid-1880s?
Answers to BH #28
1 Mezzogiorno 2 Multiplier 3 Lusignan 4 Ravel 5 Icarus 6 Kola Peninsula 7 Selma Lagerlof 8 Separate female and male flowers on the same plant 9 Samphire 10 Giovanni Cimabue 11 Avicenna 12 Cape Verde 13 Comoros 14 Cor anglais or English horn 15 Minack theatre 16 Michael Milken 17 al-Miraj 18 Lake Tana 19 Stadtholder or Stadholder 20 Sizewell B 21 Sunfish 22 Taliesin 23 35mm 24 Kielder Water 25 Yamato
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