BH quiz #47
Disaster. Titanic disaster. I came last in my first round Brain of London game with a score of ten. I made some pitiful mistakes. I will write more about this tragedy, the equal of King Lear (possibly), tomorrow when I will have thought of more outrageous and self-deprecating things to say. Kudos to fellow BHs Jesse and Ian for making it to the finals though. No, I'm not jealous. Not at all. But here are some real questions. (Only joking; tonight's questions were okay)
1 Which wife of the poet Alexander Pushkin was rumoured to have had an after with Tsar Nicholas I after her husband's death?
2 Th long-running TV show Aktenzeichen XY ... ungelost is the only German TV format to have been aired in the US. Under what name did the Fox network broadcast it?
3 Which Indian shooting star has been adjuged Best Athlete of the 2006 Commonwealth Games and given the David Dixon award for winning five golds, a silver and a bronze?
4 Which director, responsible for such big Hollywood films as The Vikings, Fantastic Voyage, Dr Dolittle and Tora! Tora! Tora!, has just died aged aged 79?
5 Taken care of by the Lord Chancellor, what institution is used by the monarch to authorise official documents without having to sign each document individually
6 Who holds the position Lord President of the Council?
7 Charles Brandon was the first person to hold the position of Lord President from 1530. He was the first duke of what?
8 The family seat of which dukedom is situated at Bowhill, three miles outside Selkirk, the current holder being the largest private landowner in the UK and chairman of an eponymous "Group" that is a holding company with interests in commercial property, food, beverages and rural affairs?
9 From the Greek for "fleshy growth", what kind of cancer affects the connective or supportive tissue, including bones, muscles and blood vessels?
10 Which company has created the Microbus Concept Car?
11 Apparently related to no other language (a language isolate), what language is spoken in Outer Manchuria in the basin of the Amur tributary, the Amgun, along the lower reaches of the Amur, and on the northern half of Sakhalin island, and is given the Manchu appellation Gilyak?
12 The remains of which prehistoric man were discovered on a bank of the Columbia river near the city in Washington it was named after in July 1996, and has been the cause of court action over Native American's right to bury it?
13 Popular in modern Pubjab music and used in bhangra, what kind of musical instrument is a dhol?
14 In bhangra, what name is give to the accompanying songs that are small couplets written in Punjabi?
15 Particularly plentiful in chocolates, oats and bananas, what essential amino acid is formed from proteins during digestion by the action of proteolytic enzymes and is necessary for normal growth and development and is the precursor of several substances including serotonin; its presence in turkey meat causing drowsiness according to popular belief?
16 The artist Salvador Dali claimed that which French commune or town is the centre of the universe, its train station having a sign proclaiming ".... CENTRE DU MONDE"?
17 Condemned in a synod at Alexandria under St Athanasius in 362, which heresy was propagated by a bishop of Laodicea in Syria proposed that Jesus had a human body but a divine mind and was subdivided into several different heresies, the chief of which were Potelemians and the Antidicomarianites?
18 Given the scientific name Stipa tenacissima, what perennial plant is grown in NW Africa and southern Spain for paper making and is also called halfah grass and needle grass?
19 Applied to 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees, what large trees of the genus Picea has a name from the Polish for "from Prussia"?
20 On the summit of a hill 1100m above the level of the Dead Sea, which fortress 15 miles SE of the mouth of the Jordan was originally built by the Hasmonean king Alexander Jannaeus in c.90BC and was destroyed by Pompey's general Gabinius in 57BC and later rebuilt by Herod the Great?
21 Meaning "the country beyond", what name was given to a portion of Herod the Great's kingdom that occupied the eastern side of the Jordan river valley from about one third the way down from the Sea of Galilee to about one third the way down the eastern shore of the Dead Sea?
22 Ian Patrick Martyn Cundy is the 37th Lord Bishop of where?
23 Named after the town in Colorado where the first specimens were discovered by Arthur Lakes in 1877, what body of rock in the western US and Canada has been the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America?
24 Named after the man who founded it, what aircraft company noted for its production of Bomber aircraft for the Luftwaffe was established at Warnermunde in 1922 as the restrictions imposed on German imposed by Versailles were relaxed and had its first great success with a Blitz high-speed mailplane and airline for Lufthansa in 1932?
25 Which European city airport began operations in 1992 and is officially named Franz Joseph Strauss International Airport?
26 Managed by CEO Jaan Albrecht, what airline alliance was launced on May 14, 1997, was the first and remains the largest airline alliance in the world?
27 Sponsored by American Airlines, AAdvantage was the first and is the largest pogram of what kind?
28 Which city lies at the foot of the volcano El Misti and is the second largest in Peru?
29 Named after a New Jersey town, which sporting goods company began in 1970 when Bob McClure invented the first tennis ball machine for home court and took off as a racquet manufacturer with such models as the Oversize and Longbody?
30 Born in Inverurie in 1973, which Scot became the first British player to hold the world number one ranking in squash in 1998?
31 His rivalry with which Canadian, who in May 1999 became the first North American squash player to become world number one, is said to be one of the most famous in the sport's history?
32 Kitty Usher is the Labour MP for which northern market town?
33 Which British backing band was founded with Bob Lang, Ric Rothwell and Eric Stewart in 1963, and had their first successful single with Um Um Um Um Um Um the next year?
34 Born with the surname Tarpley, who hit the top of the US charts at Xmas in 1958 with Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree and was soon dubbed by DJs "Little Miss Razz Matazz" on account of her husky voice?
35 The shooting of what wandering animal at San Juan Island in British Columbia on June 15, 1859 sparked an armed confrontation between Canada and the US that lasted for 12 days?
36 A crisis was sparked by Austria-Hungary's annexation of what country in October 1908?
37 The study of what has three main branches: articulatory, acoustic and auditory?
38 Created under Turkish Khan Sebuk Tigin with a capital that gave it its name, what empire or state in the region of modern day Afghanistan existed from 963 to 1187?
39 The Manych Canal connects which two seas?
40 Which Don Cassock gave his name to the Cossack-serf rebellion, also known as the Astrakhan Rebellion that took place from 1707 to 1709, when he was shot in the brain, and which was fuelled by Peter I's police state government?
41 Called "the Giver", which French king was also nicknamed l'universalle aragne ("universal spider") and was one of the most successful kings of France in terms of uniting the country, his 22-year reign (1461-1483) being marked by his spider-like political machinations?
42 Which Danish squire and national hero is most famous for his killing of Count Gerhard III on the night of April 1, 1340?
43 What world famous company was founded by former US Marine Frederick W Smith in 1971 in Little Rock, Arkansas?
44 Known to have lived at Constantinople in the 12th century, which Byzantine poet and grammarian's most important work is seen as the Book of Histories, usually called Chiliades ("thousands") from the seemingly arbitrary division by its first editor, N Gerbel in 1546, into books containing 1000 lines, though it actually consists of 12,674 lines of "political" verse?
45 The Sahabas, or companions of Muhammad, are divided into which two categories, the people who fled from Mecca and those who welcomed and welcomed and took in them in?
46 Which Buenos Aires opera house opened in 1908 after 20 years under construction and is located on 9 de Julio Avenue, though the first theatre of that name was opened in 1857 with La Traviata, a mere four years after its Italian premiere?
47 Placido Domingo got his international breakthrough by singing the title role of which Alberto Ginastera opera at the New York City opera in 1966, said to be a quasi-historical depiction of the rise and fall of the last Visigoth king?
48 The Lionel Corporation were world famous for making what toys from 1901 to 1969?
49 Which BBC TV adventure hero was frozen in a block of ice in 1902 by his arch-nemesis The Face and revived in 1966 and aided by swinging sixties chick named Georgina Jones?
50 How is Mr Melas described in the title of a Sherlock Holmes story?
Answers to BH #46
1 Scone Palace 2 Alexander III 3 African National Congress 4 River Don 5 Areole 6 Ovary 7 Steroids 8 Maureen O'Hara 9 Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand 10 Bhutan 11 Egret 12 John Kricfalusi 13 Daws Butler 14 Myanmar 15 Assaye (badge says ASSAYE) 16 The Bab 17 Terry Goodkind 18 Yiddish 19 Stane Street 20 Martin Luther King, Jr. 21 Edward the Martyr 22 Helvellyn 23 Yellowcake 24 Musical instruments (guitar manufacturer of choice for Franz Ferdinand apparently) 25 Candide 26 World Confederation of Labour 27 433 Eros 28 Psychology 29 Fjord 30 Indigenous Australians 31 Cyprus 32 Care Bears 33 Chloroform 34 Nomen dubium 35 Natural History Museum 36 Iceland 37 Alexandre Dumas, pere 38 The Grateful Dead 39 Your sight 40 Point Counter Point 41 Retinitis pigmentosa 42 Genetic 43 Chaim Halberstam 44 Carol Vorderman 45 Woolwich 46 Thumbelina 47 Knights Templar 48 Fairey 49 MAC-10 (Military Armament Corporation Model 10) 50 Olives
1 Which wife of the poet Alexander Pushkin was rumoured to have had an after with Tsar Nicholas I after her husband's death?
2 Th long-running TV show Aktenzeichen XY ... ungelost is the only German TV format to have been aired in the US. Under what name did the Fox network broadcast it?
3 Which Indian shooting star has been adjuged Best Athlete of the 2006 Commonwealth Games and given the David Dixon award for winning five golds, a silver and a bronze?
4 Which director, responsible for such big Hollywood films as The Vikings, Fantastic Voyage, Dr Dolittle and Tora! Tora! Tora!, has just died aged aged 79?
5 Taken care of by the Lord Chancellor, what institution is used by the monarch to authorise official documents without having to sign each document individually
6 Who holds the position Lord President of the Council?
7 Charles Brandon was the first person to hold the position of Lord President from 1530. He was the first duke of what?
8 The family seat of which dukedom is situated at Bowhill, three miles outside Selkirk, the current holder being the largest private landowner in the UK and chairman of an eponymous "Group" that is a holding company with interests in commercial property, food, beverages and rural affairs?
9 From the Greek for "fleshy growth", what kind of cancer affects the connective or supportive tissue, including bones, muscles and blood vessels?
10 Which company has created the Microbus Concept Car?
11 Apparently related to no other language (a language isolate), what language is spoken in Outer Manchuria in the basin of the Amur tributary, the Amgun, along the lower reaches of the Amur, and on the northern half of Sakhalin island, and is given the Manchu appellation Gilyak?
12 The remains of which prehistoric man were discovered on a bank of the Columbia river near the city in Washington it was named after in July 1996, and has been the cause of court action over Native American's right to bury it?
13 Popular in modern Pubjab music and used in bhangra, what kind of musical instrument is a dhol?
14 In bhangra, what name is give to the accompanying songs that are small couplets written in Punjabi?
15 Particularly plentiful in chocolates, oats and bananas, what essential amino acid is formed from proteins during digestion by the action of proteolytic enzymes and is necessary for normal growth and development and is the precursor of several substances including serotonin; its presence in turkey meat causing drowsiness according to popular belief?
16 The artist Salvador Dali claimed that which French commune or town is the centre of the universe, its train station having a sign proclaiming ".... CENTRE DU MONDE"?
17 Condemned in a synod at Alexandria under St Athanasius in 362, which heresy was propagated by a bishop of Laodicea in Syria proposed that Jesus had a human body but a divine mind and was subdivided into several different heresies, the chief of which were Potelemians and the Antidicomarianites?
18 Given the scientific name Stipa tenacissima, what perennial plant is grown in NW Africa and southern Spain for paper making and is also called halfah grass and needle grass?
19 Applied to 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees, what large trees of the genus Picea has a name from the Polish for "from Prussia"?
20 On the summit of a hill 1100m above the level of the Dead Sea, which fortress 15 miles SE of the mouth of the Jordan was originally built by the Hasmonean king Alexander Jannaeus in c.90BC and was destroyed by Pompey's general Gabinius in 57BC and later rebuilt by Herod the Great?
21 Meaning "the country beyond", what name was given to a portion of Herod the Great's kingdom that occupied the eastern side of the Jordan river valley from about one third the way down from the Sea of Galilee to about one third the way down the eastern shore of the Dead Sea?
22 Ian Patrick Martyn Cundy is the 37th Lord Bishop of where?
23 Named after the town in Colorado where the first specimens were discovered by Arthur Lakes in 1877, what body of rock in the western US and Canada has been the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America?
24 Named after the man who founded it, what aircraft company noted for its production of Bomber aircraft for the Luftwaffe was established at Warnermunde in 1922 as the restrictions imposed on German imposed by Versailles were relaxed and had its first great success with a Blitz high-speed mailplane and airline for Lufthansa in 1932?
25 Which European city airport began operations in 1992 and is officially named Franz Joseph Strauss International Airport?
26 Managed by CEO Jaan Albrecht, what airline alliance was launced on May 14, 1997, was the first and remains the largest airline alliance in the world?
27 Sponsored by American Airlines, AAdvantage was the first and is the largest pogram of what kind?
28 Which city lies at the foot of the volcano El Misti and is the second largest in Peru?
29 Named after a New Jersey town, which sporting goods company began in 1970 when Bob McClure invented the first tennis ball machine for home court and took off as a racquet manufacturer with such models as the Oversize and Longbody?
30 Born in Inverurie in 1973, which Scot became the first British player to hold the world number one ranking in squash in 1998?
31 His rivalry with which Canadian, who in May 1999 became the first North American squash player to become world number one, is said to be one of the most famous in the sport's history?
32 Kitty Usher is the Labour MP for which northern market town?
33 Which British backing band was founded with Bob Lang, Ric Rothwell and Eric Stewart in 1963, and had their first successful single with Um Um Um Um Um Um the next year?
34 Born with the surname Tarpley, who hit the top of the US charts at Xmas in 1958 with Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree and was soon dubbed by DJs "Little Miss Razz Matazz" on account of her husky voice?
35 The shooting of what wandering animal at San Juan Island in British Columbia on June 15, 1859 sparked an armed confrontation between Canada and the US that lasted for 12 days?
36 A crisis was sparked by Austria-Hungary's annexation of what country in October 1908?
37 The study of what has three main branches: articulatory, acoustic and auditory?
38 Created under Turkish Khan Sebuk Tigin with a capital that gave it its name, what empire or state in the region of modern day Afghanistan existed from 963 to 1187?
39 The Manych Canal connects which two seas?
40 Which Don Cassock gave his name to the Cossack-serf rebellion, also known as the Astrakhan Rebellion that took place from 1707 to 1709, when he was shot in the brain, and which was fuelled by Peter I's police state government?
41 Called "the Giver", which French king was also nicknamed l'universalle aragne ("universal spider") and was one of the most successful kings of France in terms of uniting the country, his 22-year reign (1461-1483) being marked by his spider-like political machinations?
42 Which Danish squire and national hero is most famous for his killing of Count Gerhard III on the night of April 1, 1340?
43 What world famous company was founded by former US Marine Frederick W Smith in 1971 in Little Rock, Arkansas?
44 Known to have lived at Constantinople in the 12th century, which Byzantine poet and grammarian's most important work is seen as the Book of Histories, usually called Chiliades ("thousands") from the seemingly arbitrary division by its first editor, N Gerbel in 1546, into books containing 1000 lines, though it actually consists of 12,674 lines of "political" verse?
45 The Sahabas, or companions of Muhammad, are divided into which two categories, the people who fled from Mecca and those who welcomed and welcomed and took in them in?
46 Which Buenos Aires opera house opened in 1908 after 20 years under construction and is located on 9 de Julio Avenue, though the first theatre of that name was opened in 1857 with La Traviata, a mere four years after its Italian premiere?
47 Placido Domingo got his international breakthrough by singing the title role of which Alberto Ginastera opera at the New York City opera in 1966, said to be a quasi-historical depiction of the rise and fall of the last Visigoth king?
48 The Lionel Corporation were world famous for making what toys from 1901 to 1969?
49 Which BBC TV adventure hero was frozen in a block of ice in 1902 by his arch-nemesis The Face and revived in 1966 and aided by swinging sixties chick named Georgina Jones?
50 How is Mr Melas described in the title of a Sherlock Holmes story?
Answers to BH #46
1 Scone Palace 2 Alexander III 3 African National Congress 4 River Don 5 Areole 6 Ovary 7 Steroids 8 Maureen O'Hara 9 Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand 10 Bhutan 11 Egret 12 John Kricfalusi 13 Daws Butler 14 Myanmar 15 Assaye (badge says ASSAYE) 16 The Bab 17 Terry Goodkind 18 Yiddish 19 Stane Street 20 Martin Luther King, Jr. 21 Edward the Martyr 22 Helvellyn 23 Yellowcake 24 Musical instruments (guitar manufacturer of choice for Franz Ferdinand apparently) 25 Candide 26 World Confederation of Labour 27 433 Eros 28 Psychology 29 Fjord 30 Indigenous Australians 31 Cyprus 32 Care Bears 33 Chloroform 34 Nomen dubium 35 Natural History Museum 36 Iceland 37 Alexandre Dumas, pere 38 The Grateful Dead 39 Your sight 40 Point Counter Point 41 Retinitis pigmentosa 42 Genetic 43 Chaim Halberstam 44 Carol Vorderman 45 Woolwich 46 Thumbelina 47 Knights Templar 48 Fairey 49 MAC-10 (Military Armament Corporation Model 10) 50 Olives
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