BH quiz #35
Why do I get the feeling I have no idea what I'm writing about? Because I don't. I do not understand, I merely add a question mark and tear up the rules of grammar. Also, I'm living in fear for my previous post. I'm not mad and neither am I an upstart poo-pooing the grand efforts of certain people and rabidly nailing a few theses to a blog in cyberspace. Only hot feelings must be vented sometimes. And my making Martin Luther references is, admittedly, intentional. What's the moral of this sad tale? Oh yeah. Rant in haste, repent at leisure and for the forseeable future, and let your paranoia take over once and for all. I'm so so sorry... I will surely fetch up in Bedlam before the decade is out.
1 Which 6th century Dacian monk translated from Greek into Latin 401 eccelesiastical canons, including the decrees of the councils of Nicaea and Constantinople, and attempted to pinpoint the number of years since Jesus' birth, arriving at a figure of 753 years after Rome's founding, and set his birth as being December 25, 1 ACN (Ante Christum Natum)?
2 Which Russian mathematician, who had "spaces" named after him that can be defined by growth conditions on Fourier transforms, first introduced generalized functions (later called distributions) in 1935 for weak solutions?
3 Disputed by many paleoanthropologists who subscribe to the Savanna Theory, which hypothesis in evolutionary biology concerning human ancestors can be abbreviated as AAT or AAH?
4 Arturo Vaccari created which alcoholic drink in 1896 when he blended star anise and vanilla, naming it after a hero of the East African wars at the end of the 19th century?
5 What name is given to the figurative and ceremonial head of Scotland's four principal cities, though the post has higher status than a Lord Mayor in England?
6 Which younger brother of Joseph Haydn composed such sacred choral works as the Missa Hispanica, and a Lauda Sion, and had his Symphony No. 26 misidentified as Mozart's Symphony No. 37 for many years until 1907?
7 What element of the lanthanide series comes last of the 15 with an atomic number of 71?
8 Founded in 1935 by TL Williams, what car manufacturer was based at Tamworth in Staffordshire and moved to Cannock in 2001?
9 One of about 20,000 species of plants, what vascular plants with true leaves or megaphylls are also called pteridophytes?
10 What is unique about the human rights organisation Machsom Watch, its name meaning "checkpoint" referring to the Israel Defense Forces checkpoints in the West Bank?
11 What manufacturing company did George G Blaisdell found in Bradford, Pennsylvania, in 1932?
12 Which Scot and Lieutenant in the 1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers started the Boys' Brigade on October 4, 1883 at Free Church Mission Hall, North Woodside Road, Glasgow?
13 Which river gives its name to two French departements, has its source at the western slope of the Ballon d'Alsace in the Vosges mountains and joins the Rhine at Koblenz?
14 What boundary zone in Africa between the Sahara to the north and the Sudan, the more fertile region to the south, gives its name to a drought of the 1970s and 1980s that killed more than a million people and was probably caused by over-consumption of natural resources?
15 Which county's total economy, worth some £22.9 billion, is the largest economy in England outside London and provides almost 3 per cent of total GDP for the UK as a whole?
16 Technically containing between 0.5 and 30 grams of salt per litre, what term describes water that is saltier than freshwater but not as salty as seawater?
17 Frequently used in soups, what Italian word meaning 'barley' refers to rice-shaped pasta, slightly smaller than a pine nut and can also be a hot drink made from roasted barley?
18 Which Polish-born French mathematician coined the term 'fractal' in 1975 to describe a geometric object that satisfies a specific technical condition, namely having a Hausdorff-Besciovitch dimenstion greater than its topological dimension?
19 Born in Berlin in 1931, which British figurative painter has continually used his personal friends as subjects, three in particular including his wife Julia (as in 1960's Head of Julia), the professional model Juliet Yardley Mills (J.Y.M in titles) and his personal friends Stella West (referred to as E.O.W.)?
20 Called the "Queen of Reggae", who is Jamaica's most famous female singer who worked with Bob Andy in a group from 1970-74 and was then a member of the I-Threes, a background group which supported Bob Marley & the Wailers, her song Electric Boogie making the line-dance the Electric Slide an global dance craze?
Answers to BH #34
1 The Sopranos 2 Henry Rollins 3 David Nobbs 4 Book cover illustrations 5 Arlen 6 The Likely Lads 7 The Yorkshire Ripper 8 Van Morrison 9 Donald Fagen 10 Peter Ackroyd 11 Pink Floyd 12 Adam Ant 13 Buster Keaton 14 M*A*S*H 15 Lauren Laverne 16 Cimarron 17 Ball of Confusion 18 BMW 19 Rod Stewart 20 Do Not Adjust Your Set
1 Which 6th century Dacian monk translated from Greek into Latin 401 eccelesiastical canons, including the decrees of the councils of Nicaea and Constantinople, and attempted to pinpoint the number of years since Jesus' birth, arriving at a figure of 753 years after Rome's founding, and set his birth as being December 25, 1 ACN (Ante Christum Natum)?
2 Which Russian mathematician, who had "spaces" named after him that can be defined by growth conditions on Fourier transforms, first introduced generalized functions (later called distributions) in 1935 for weak solutions?
3 Disputed by many paleoanthropologists who subscribe to the Savanna Theory, which hypothesis in evolutionary biology concerning human ancestors can be abbreviated as AAT or AAH?
4 Arturo Vaccari created which alcoholic drink in 1896 when he blended star anise and vanilla, naming it after a hero of the East African wars at the end of the 19th century?
5 What name is given to the figurative and ceremonial head of Scotland's four principal cities, though the post has higher status than a Lord Mayor in England?
6 Which younger brother of Joseph Haydn composed such sacred choral works as the Missa Hispanica, and a Lauda Sion, and had his Symphony No. 26 misidentified as Mozart's Symphony No. 37 for many years until 1907?
7 What element of the lanthanide series comes last of the 15 with an atomic number of 71?
8 Founded in 1935 by TL Williams, what car manufacturer was based at Tamworth in Staffordshire and moved to Cannock in 2001?
9 One of about 20,000 species of plants, what vascular plants with true leaves or megaphylls are also called pteridophytes?
10 What is unique about the human rights organisation Machsom Watch, its name meaning "checkpoint" referring to the Israel Defense Forces checkpoints in the West Bank?
11 What manufacturing company did George G Blaisdell found in Bradford, Pennsylvania, in 1932?
12 Which Scot and Lieutenant in the 1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers started the Boys' Brigade on October 4, 1883 at Free Church Mission Hall, North Woodside Road, Glasgow?
13 Which river gives its name to two French departements, has its source at the western slope of the Ballon d'Alsace in the Vosges mountains and joins the Rhine at Koblenz?
14 What boundary zone in Africa between the Sahara to the north and the Sudan, the more fertile region to the south, gives its name to a drought of the 1970s and 1980s that killed more than a million people and was probably caused by over-consumption of natural resources?
15 Which county's total economy, worth some £22.9 billion, is the largest economy in England outside London and provides almost 3 per cent of total GDP for the UK as a whole?
16 Technically containing between 0.5 and 30 grams of salt per litre, what term describes water that is saltier than freshwater but not as salty as seawater?
17 Frequently used in soups, what Italian word meaning 'barley' refers to rice-shaped pasta, slightly smaller than a pine nut and can also be a hot drink made from roasted barley?
18 Which Polish-born French mathematician coined the term 'fractal' in 1975 to describe a geometric object that satisfies a specific technical condition, namely having a Hausdorff-Besciovitch dimenstion greater than its topological dimension?
19 Born in Berlin in 1931, which British figurative painter has continually used his personal friends as subjects, three in particular including his wife Julia (as in 1960's Head of Julia), the professional model Juliet Yardley Mills (J.Y.M in titles) and his personal friends Stella West (referred to as E.O.W.)?
20 Called the "Queen of Reggae", who is Jamaica's most famous female singer who worked with Bob Andy in a group from 1970-74 and was then a member of the I-Threes, a background group which supported Bob Marley & the Wailers, her song Electric Boogie making the line-dance the Electric Slide an global dance craze?
Answers to BH #34
1 The Sopranos 2 Henry Rollins 3 David Nobbs 4 Book cover illustrations 5 Arlen 6 The Likely Lads 7 The Yorkshire Ripper 8 Van Morrison 9 Donald Fagen 10 Peter Ackroyd 11 Pink Floyd 12 Adam Ant 13 Buster Keaton 14 M*A*S*H 15 Lauren Laverne 16 Cimarron 17 Ball of Confusion 18 BMW 19 Rod Stewart 20 Do Not Adjust Your Set
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