BH quiz #33
I had a bit too much of the Pernod destructo last night. I would write more, but ... you know how it is. There is a President's Cup match tomorrow. It's against Oxford. Gah.
1 Charles Culliford Boz Dickens, the eldest son of novelist Charles, is mainly remembered for publishing a Dictionary of what in 1879?
2 Called "The Queen of Simple Chic", which navy blue-loving minimalist fashion designer established her own label in 1966, was made a dame in 1984 and died in 1995?
3 Set to become a movie starring Johnny Depp, which Gregory David Roberts bestseller apparently does for Bombay and India, what the Alexandra Quartet did for Egypt?
4 Which hairdresser's new salon The Promise has opened in Mayfair, London?
5 What make are the Green Tomato Taxis that are ferrying the environmentally conscious all over the capital?
6 Built in 1504 for Sultan Amir ibn Abd al-Wahhab, a Yemeni ruler from the Tahirid dynasty and abandoned 13 years later when he was killed fighting invading Egyptians, which building in Rada, Yemen, has been called "the world's most beautiful mosque"?
7 Now seen in the spiralling stairwell of No 1, London, Apsley House, Napoleon commissioned which neoclassicist sculptor to make a naked statue of him?
8 Which Milanese but now London-based artist is known for his bloodletting artworks and making his own body into a canvas to portray "the pain, the love, the hate, the loss, the power and fears of the human condition"?
9 Born in St Etienne in 1947, which female artist is credited with the creation of Carnal Art which has involved her undergoing plastic surgery and such works as Documentary Study: Head of the Medusa in which she displayed her sexual organs during her period under a magnifying glass?
10 Operation Uranus was a key "double envelopement" in which battle of World War Two?
11 One of the first engineers to apply aerodynamics to car design, which Jaguar car designer who died in 1970 was responsible for such models as the C-Type, D-Type, E-Type and XJS?
12 Formerly called Fernando Po island, as in the Portuguese explorer who made the first European discovery of it in about 1472, and called Otcho by the Bubi ethnic group, the island of Bioko is part of which African country?
13 Which 2719-ton steel-hulled steam clipper was wrecked on the east coast of Anglesey on October 26, 1859, and resulted in the loss of about 459 lives, making it the highest death toll of any shipwreck on the Welsh coast?
14 Owners of Primark and brands such as Twinings tea, Ovaltine, Ryvita and Kingsmill bread, which multinational began as a baker and was incorporated in 1925 and has the initials ABF?
15 What new centrist political party was formed by Ariel Sharon after he formally left the Likud party in November last year, and has a name meaning 'forward'?
16 With 1554 of them currently identified in Great Britain, what is a hill with a relative height of at least 150m, regardless of absolute height or other merit?
17 Grown mainly in western India, the alphonso is a cultivar of which fruit, considered by many to be the best in terms of sweetness and flavour?
18 Killed at the height of his fame in a plane crash in Medellin in 1935, which Argentinian tango singer wrote such classic tangos as Mi Buenos Aires querido, Volver and Por una cabeza with his long-term collaborator, the lyricist Alfredo La Pera?
19 All of the Discworld novels up to The Truth had their covers designed by which commercial artist, who died in July 2001?
20 Sometimes called the "Swedish Mozart", which composer (1756-1792) is known for such oratorios as Tod Jesu (Jesus Death) and Geburt Jesu (Jesus Birth) and wrote a funeral cantata and the Symphonie funebre for the assassinated King Gustavus III in 1792, who had himself drafted the libretto for the opera Proserpina?
Answers to BH quiz #32
1 Homer Simpson's 2 Alan Jones 3 Roberta 4 Vietnamese 5 Joe 'King' Oliver 6 Jean Batten 7 Clints 8 Ruben Dario 9 Dysprosium 10 Griot 11 Darcy 12 Frisian 13 Lubeck 14 Athol Fugard 15 Zachary Taylor 16 Lockheed 17 East Coker 18 Executive 19 Cucumber 20 Otto Neurath
1 Charles Culliford Boz Dickens, the eldest son of novelist Charles, is mainly remembered for publishing a Dictionary of what in 1879?
2 Called "The Queen of Simple Chic", which navy blue-loving minimalist fashion designer established her own label in 1966, was made a dame in 1984 and died in 1995?
3 Set to become a movie starring Johnny Depp, which Gregory David Roberts bestseller apparently does for Bombay and India, what the Alexandra Quartet did for Egypt?
4 Which hairdresser's new salon The Promise has opened in Mayfair, London?
5 What make are the Green Tomato Taxis that are ferrying the environmentally conscious all over the capital?
6 Built in 1504 for Sultan Amir ibn Abd al-Wahhab, a Yemeni ruler from the Tahirid dynasty and abandoned 13 years later when he was killed fighting invading Egyptians, which building in Rada, Yemen, has been called "the world's most beautiful mosque"?
7 Now seen in the spiralling stairwell of No 1, London, Apsley House, Napoleon commissioned which neoclassicist sculptor to make a naked statue of him?
8 Which Milanese but now London-based artist is known for his bloodletting artworks and making his own body into a canvas to portray "the pain, the love, the hate, the loss, the power and fears of the human condition"?
9 Born in St Etienne in 1947, which female artist is credited with the creation of Carnal Art which has involved her undergoing plastic surgery and such works as Documentary Study: Head of the Medusa in which she displayed her sexual organs during her period under a magnifying glass?
10 Operation Uranus was a key "double envelopement" in which battle of World War Two?
11 One of the first engineers to apply aerodynamics to car design, which Jaguar car designer who died in 1970 was responsible for such models as the C-Type, D-Type, E-Type and XJS?
12 Formerly called Fernando Po island, as in the Portuguese explorer who made the first European discovery of it in about 1472, and called Otcho by the Bubi ethnic group, the island of Bioko is part of which African country?
13 Which 2719-ton steel-hulled steam clipper was wrecked on the east coast of Anglesey on October 26, 1859, and resulted in the loss of about 459 lives, making it the highest death toll of any shipwreck on the Welsh coast?
14 Owners of Primark and brands such as Twinings tea, Ovaltine, Ryvita and Kingsmill bread, which multinational began as a baker and was incorporated in 1925 and has the initials ABF?
15 What new centrist political party was formed by Ariel Sharon after he formally left the Likud party in November last year, and has a name meaning 'forward'?
16 With 1554 of them currently identified in Great Britain, what is a hill with a relative height of at least 150m, regardless of absolute height or other merit?
17 Grown mainly in western India, the alphonso is a cultivar of which fruit, considered by many to be the best in terms of sweetness and flavour?
18 Killed at the height of his fame in a plane crash in Medellin in 1935, which Argentinian tango singer wrote such classic tangos as Mi Buenos Aires querido, Volver and Por una cabeza with his long-term collaborator, the lyricist Alfredo La Pera?
19 All of the Discworld novels up to The Truth had their covers designed by which commercial artist, who died in July 2001?
20 Sometimes called the "Swedish Mozart", which composer (1756-1792) is known for such oratorios as Tod Jesu (Jesus Death) and Geburt Jesu (Jesus Birth) and wrote a funeral cantata and the Symphonie funebre for the assassinated King Gustavus III in 1792, who had himself drafted the libretto for the opera Proserpina?
Answers to BH quiz #32
1 Homer Simpson's 2 Alan Jones 3 Roberta 4 Vietnamese 5 Joe 'King' Oliver 6 Jean Batten 7 Clints 8 Ruben Dario 9 Dysprosium 10 Griot 11 Darcy 12 Frisian 13 Lubeck 14 Athol Fugard 15 Zachary Taylor 16 Lockheed 17 East Coker 18 Executive 19 Cucumber 20 Otto Neurath
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