BH quiz #32
Right. This gots to be quick. I cam seventh in tha Brain of London qualify'n n shit. Kathryn came top n fizzy BHs padded out tha top ten. Last night I tizzy part in tha Qiz Showdowns on da fone where the sun be shinin and I be rhymin'. I gots 20, whizzay gots me fifth, just afta Pat n before Tim Westcott . Aint no killin' everybodys chillin'. My brain had gizzle AWOL due ta a chronic lack of sleep n I dropped a few eazy ones, but I thizzink I did okay. Instead of steppin' that sleep I had stayed up ta be a Phone a Friend fo` Who Wants ta Be a Millionizzles but tha ciznall rappa came. Instead I spiznent two hours weed-smokin' the first of The Invisibles graphic novels, So You Wizzant a Revolizzles n was left want'n more. Its J-to-tha-izzust as good as they say it is, n if tha Wachowski brotha didnt somehow steal every basic idea in it, tizzy mah name is Napoleon Bonaparte Dynamite where the sun be shinin and I be rhymin'. Time ta go ta tha pizzle tha English Moulin , chill yo. I hizzy you enjoyed this report friznom tha frontlines of quiz . Relax, cus I'm bout to take my respect. Peter'n out, right now...
1 Whose e-mail address is chunkylover53@aol.com?
2 Mark Webber will be driving for Williams this F1 season, but who was the last Aussie to win the world championship 26 years ago?
3 Jerome Kern's song Smoke Gets In Your Eyes comes from which 1933 musical?
4 Nom are the Chinese-style characters used in writing which language?
5 Louis Armstrong joined the Creole Jazz Band in Chicago in 1923, which was led at the time by which cornet player?
6 Which New Zealand aviator made the first return solo-flight by a woman from Australia to Britain in 1935?
7 Separated from each other by joints called grykes, what are the flat-topped limestone blocks that make up a limestone pavement?
8 Which Nicaraguan poet's major work is 1888's Azul ( meaning 'azure')?
9 Discovered by French chemist Paul Lecoq de Boisbaudran in 1886, which metallic element of the lanthanide series has a Greek narrow meaning 'dfficult to get near'?
10 Derived ultimately from the Latin for 'domestic servant', what West African word denotes a storyteller native to the region who perpetuates the oral tradition and history of a village or family?
11 What c.g.s. unit of permeability, used in mainly in geology when applying it to such things as rocks, has the symbol D?
12 Texel is the largest and westernmost of which European islands?
13 The Holstentor, built in 1477, and its twin towers is the emblem of which German city and seaport?
14 Which playwright played the role of General Smuts in the 1982 film Gandhi?
15 David Atchison was US President for the day, because which man refused to be sworn in on a Sunday?
16 Which company made the U-2 spy plane?
17 Which TS Eliot poem begins: "In my beginning is my end"?
18 What was Wham called when they had Paul Ridgeley and David Mortimer in the line-up?
19 Tokyo Slicer, King of the Ridge and Buschcrop are types of which vegetable?
20 Which founder of the Vienna Circle created the Isotype language for visual education?
Answers to BH quiz #311 Ivor Cutler 2 Montreal 3 Ginger 4 Chaturanga 5 Norman Brookes 6 Fred Daly 7 Pollens and spores in raw honey 8 Holometabolism 9 Tasmania 10 Canaima National Park 11 The Tepuis 12 Blue Nile 13 James FM Prinsep 14 1969 Dodge Charger 15 The Weald 16 General Robert E Lee 17 Moirae or Moerae 18 Harry James 19 Fendi 20 Feast of San Fermin 21 Super Tuscan 22 Maritz Rebellion 23 PSV Eindhoven 24 Balducci Levitation or Balducci Move 25 Cosmas of Prague 26 Prebendary 27 British Mountaineering Council 28 Crag or Craig 29 Azeotrope 30 Medway, Kent 31 Joseph Kabila 32 The Koshanis 33 Wayne Hussey 34 Argos 35 TSR, Inc or Tactical Studies Rules 36 Tirant lo Blanc 37 Alkanes 38 Deira 39 The Harrying (or Harrowing) of the North 40 Destroyer 41 Kaohsiung City 42 Leicester 43 Eisreisenwelt 44 Where Eagles Dare 45 Starfleet Academy in Star Trek 46 Cirencester 47 Optimates 48 Canada ("Peace, order and good government") 49 Exeter 50 Tobago 51 Ayshea (Hague) 52 Satan in The Passion of The Christ 53 Mandaeism (as in Mandaeans) 54 Viral/virus 55 St Monica of Hippo 56 Thyme 57 Jean Arthur (birth name Gladys Georgianna Greene) 58 Toronto 59 Cordoba 60 Ludwig Boltzmann 61 Josiah Willard Gibbs 62 James Burbage 63 Collie Eye Anomaly 64 Art Brut 65 Franking 66 Flute 67 Suizen 68 Sao Paolo 69 Practical Extraction and Report Language 70 Ukraine 71 Polynesian, specifically Fiji 72 Total 73 Euronext 74 Philippe Starck 75 Pierre Cardin
1 Whose e-mail address is chunkylover53@aol.com?
2 Mark Webber will be driving for Williams this F1 season, but who was the last Aussie to win the world championship 26 years ago?
3 Jerome Kern's song Smoke Gets In Your Eyes comes from which 1933 musical?
4 Nom are the Chinese-style characters used in writing which language?
5 Louis Armstrong joined the Creole Jazz Band in Chicago in 1923, which was led at the time by which cornet player?
6 Which New Zealand aviator made the first return solo-flight by a woman from Australia to Britain in 1935?
7 Separated from each other by joints called grykes, what are the flat-topped limestone blocks that make up a limestone pavement?
8 Which Nicaraguan poet's major work is 1888's Azul ( meaning 'azure')?
9 Discovered by French chemist Paul Lecoq de Boisbaudran in 1886, which metallic element of the lanthanide series has a Greek narrow meaning 'dfficult to get near'?
10 Derived ultimately from the Latin for 'domestic servant', what West African word denotes a storyteller native to the region who perpetuates the oral tradition and history of a village or family?
11 What c.g.s. unit of permeability, used in mainly in geology when applying it to such things as rocks, has the symbol D?
12 Texel is the largest and westernmost of which European islands?
13 The Holstentor, built in 1477, and its twin towers is the emblem of which German city and seaport?
14 Which playwright played the role of General Smuts in the 1982 film Gandhi?
15 David Atchison was US President for the day, because which man refused to be sworn in on a Sunday?
16 Which company made the U-2 spy plane?
17 Which TS Eliot poem begins: "In my beginning is my end"?
18 What was Wham called when they had Paul Ridgeley and David Mortimer in the line-up?
19 Tokyo Slicer, King of the Ridge and Buschcrop are types of which vegetable?
20 Which founder of the Vienna Circle created the Isotype language for visual education?
Answers to BH quiz #311 Ivor Cutler 2 Montreal 3 Ginger 4 Chaturanga 5 Norman Brookes 6 Fred Daly 7 Pollens and spores in raw honey 8 Holometabolism 9 Tasmania 10 Canaima National Park 11 The Tepuis 12 Blue Nile 13 James FM Prinsep 14 1969 Dodge Charger 15 The Weald 16 General Robert E Lee 17 Moirae or Moerae 18 Harry James 19 Fendi 20 Feast of San Fermin 21 Super Tuscan 22 Maritz Rebellion 23 PSV Eindhoven 24 Balducci Levitation or Balducci Move 25 Cosmas of Prague 26 Prebendary 27 British Mountaineering Council 28 Crag or Craig 29 Azeotrope 30 Medway, Kent 31 Joseph Kabila 32 The Koshanis 33 Wayne Hussey 34 Argos 35 TSR, Inc or Tactical Studies Rules 36 Tirant lo Blanc 37 Alkanes 38 Deira 39 The Harrying (or Harrowing) of the North 40 Destroyer 41 Kaohsiung City 42 Leicester 43 Eisreisenwelt 44 Where Eagles Dare 45 Starfleet Academy in Star Trek 46 Cirencester 47 Optimates 48 Canada ("Peace, order and good government") 49 Exeter 50 Tobago 51 Ayshea (Hague) 52 Satan in The Passion of The Christ 53 Mandaeism (as in Mandaeans) 54 Viral/virus 55 St Monica of Hippo 56 Thyme 57 Jean Arthur (birth name Gladys Georgianna Greene) 58 Toronto 59 Cordoba 60 Ludwig Boltzmann 61 Josiah Willard Gibbs 62 James Burbage 63 Collie Eye Anomaly 64 Art Brut 65 Franking 66 Flute 67 Suizen 68 Sao Paolo 69 Practical Extraction and Report Language 70 Ukraine 71 Polynesian, specifically Fiji 72 Total 73 Euronext 74 Philippe Starck 75 Pierre Cardin
posted by That Quiz Guy at 12:59 PM
1 Comments:
Your answer to 74 is wrong, because the question was wrong - PS has not been commissioned to build the Virgin Galactic spaceport, or even design it - he is, however, VG's art director.
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