Weekend Blockbuster BH quiz #38
Having shown you what happens what complaint letters go wrong but thankfully kept from being sent and end up being used a material grounds for sectioning, I am now returning with the main feature for all the quiz-fundamentalists out there: many cold, hard, beautifully obscure but dare I say, useful facts arrayed in thousands of words or more accurately, 101 questions.
It's my little sop to my faithful blog readership who will log on over the weekend and find that I have turned into an abject slacker and not posted since ... yesterday (what a slacker, Slacky Slackerson from Slackton), but I think I need a rest and have other work to wrap up, like the NQSL starters and bonuses I promised to write because it wouldn't be a normal buzzerquizzer without some token history, science and geography (I'm doing it for all those bemused by trash, my beloved trash). And a long overdue book proposal.
I'm absolutely cream crackered after doing all the indie questions for April 1 ... yes, I think I did them in one night, last night. That's why my brain has transmogrified into whirlpool of useless goo, neurons turned to milky vapour, solid grey matter slumped without structural support as if into an unsavoury bowl of porridge. Plus, when I walk anywhere at the moment I seem to feel myself undergo a slight out-of-body experience that doesn't really help me unmask the secrets of the afterlife nor figure out the landscape of the undiscovered country, but instead makes me feel a tad nauseous. Ooh, is that a bit of acid reflux? Excuse me.
So I'm keeping my powder dry till Monday when I will come back with news of the last President's Cup game of the season, a report that may well be soaked in so much rank bitterness at the biased question-setting (you just expect it of me know ... like a version of the Punch and Judy show) that a brewery (you see? ... IRONY) will stick a pump in me and start produced Not So Mighty Bitter, the bitterest of the bitters, there is no bitter, nobody does it bitter, bitter man (that last one was a Pearl Jam reference if it puzzled thee). No, not really. The questions will be fine. I've found peace with practically every other Prescup set. And I will be stoic anyway. Even if we have ended up as the league's Sunderland looking at everyone soar into the point-pickled rafters. We have merely picked up the beginner's portion of the learning curve.
(I would italicise all the titles for the sake of prettiness and with respect to Manutius but my mouse does an infuriating thing in double-clicking when all I want is one.)
1 Which language was created in 1907 by reformist Esperanto speakers and is with Esperanto and Interlingua the only constructed language with a large body of literature and a relatively large speaker base?
2 Most associated with a place that lies on the junction of the Rhine and Nahe rivers, which mystic, magistra, musical composer and monastic leader wrote Ordo Virtutum (Order of the Virtues or Play of the Virtues), a kind of early oratorio for women's voices with the single male part reserved for the role of the Devil, and such visionary theological studies as her work 1150-63 Liber vitae meritorum (Book of Life's Merits)?
3 What term, used in Hindu and Buddhist Yogic meditation, comes from the Sanskrit for the practice which produces complete meditation and denotes a state of being completely focussed and being totally aware of the present moment? It is also the Hindi word for a cenotaph.
4 The first commonly accepted sighting of what occurred in 1820 by the Russian expedition of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev?
5 What is a "neon tetra"?
6 To which phylum do human beings belong?
7 Which martial art is also called Burmese Boxing and Myanmar Traditional Boxing, and allows headbutts unlike its Thai cousin Muay Thai?
8 Taking its name from the abbreviation of the words "self-defence without a weapon" in its native language, the modern martial art Sambo was founded in the early 20th century in which country?
9 Now called Ulyanovsk, in which Russian city on the Volga river was Lenin born in 1870?
10 Logudorese is a standardised dialect of which language, often considered the most conservative of all the Romance languages?
11 Erected in the 1630s to mark the liberation of a city from Polish aggressors by the Russian volunteer army, which Russian Orthodox church at the north-east corner of Moscow's Red Square was destroyed in 1936 and restored between 1990 and 1993?
12 Born in New Orleans in 1925, which novelist made his debut with The Bounty Hunters in 1953?
13 What former principality is called Erdely in Hungarian and Siebenburgen in German, and has Cluj-Napoca for its historical capital?
14 The eleventh month of the ecclestiastical year and the fifth month of the civil year on the Hebrew calendar, which summer month of 30 days has a name that is Babylonian in origin and is the only month not named in the Bible?
15 Which three Canadian provinces make up the Prairie Provinces?
16 Seen as the constellation Orion and therefore in charge of the sky, which ithyphallic Egyptian god and patron of travelling caravans was identified with Horus until the Middle Kingdom when he became a fertility deity, who was later associated by the Greeks with Pan?
17 Which Caribbean island has a flag design featuring a base of light blue colour, symbolising its skies and waters, two parallel yellow stripes in the bottom half and a four-pointed, white-fringed red star, symbolising the island, in the upper left corner?
18 In mathematics, what special subset of a partially ordered set were introduced by Henri Cartan in 1937 and used by Nicolas Bourbaki in their book Topologie Generale, an equivalent notion being EH Moore and EL Smith's nets?
19 How many states make up the federal republic of Germany?
20 Germany and which three nations form the G4 alliance aimed at supporting each other's attempts to gain a permanent seat on the UN Security Council?
21 The baritone who first gave the first ever performance of the song Ol' Man River in December 1927 and created the role of Joe in Showboat, who was the first African-American artist (1903-1940) and opera singer to gain regular employment on Broadway?
22 On which highly polluted river and a channel of the Dhaleshwari, is the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka situated?
23 What does UCT, or Zulu Time as it is otherwise called, stand for?
24 Three Kings, Balmoral, Mount Eden, Newmarket, Epsom and One Tree Hill are suburbs in which city?
25 Rockstar North, the developers of such infamous video games as Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, is based in which city?
26 Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, who died in 1974, was the last surviving knight of which order of chivalry that was founded by George III in 1783?
27 Maternus was the first Christian bishop of which German city who, in the 4th-century, commissioned the building of a Roman temple on the present day site of its Gothic cathedral?
28 What is the more familiar name of Chrism or Holy Oil?
29 Gordon B Hinckley has been the president of which church or religious denomination since 1995?
30 Although it is now dominated by Jules Mansart's dome, who designed the Hotel des Invalides in Paris?
31 What three-word phrase describes a form of fraud in which the perpetrator lures in customers by advertising a good at an unprofitably low price, but then reveals to potential customers that the advertised good is not available, but a substitute good is?
32 Known for having such initial partners as Prescott S Bush, what is the oldest and largest partnership bank in the US and was created in a 1931 merger?
33 What province underwent a rapid period of societal change in the 60s called The Quiet Revolution?
34 Also known as M5, what open star cluster in Taurus is the best known and most striking to the open eye?
35 Named in honour of a 2nd-century BC Nicaean-born astronomer and mathematician, which astrometry mission of the European Space Agency was launched in 1989 and is dedicated to the measurement of stellar parallax and the proper motions of stars?
36 In which German city in Hessen is the ESA's mission control (ESOC) based?
37 Which early statement of Christian belief, possibly from the 1st or 2nd century, begins: "Credo in Deum, Patrem omnipotentum, Creatorem caeli et terrae" - "I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth"?
38 According to legend which New Testament figure had a wife called Procula, whom Orthodox Christianity has canonised as a saint?
39 Which city is partially located on Mount Carmel, along with such smaller towns as Nesher and Tirat Hakarmel?
40 Believed to have died after 1185 and to have been either a pilgrim or crusader, who is said to have founded the Carmelite order on Mount Carmel?
41 Which global religion works from scriptures called Kitab-i-Aqdas, Kitab-i-Iqan and The Hidden Words and has a House of Worship in India, also called the "Lotus Temple", that attracts 3.5 million visitors a year?
42 What is a Turkish word for a religious convert and refers to a group of Jews from the Near East who followed the claimed Messiah and Kabbalist Sabbatai Zevi and, were perhaps forcibly, converted to Islam in 1666?
43 Who were officially known as the Committee of Union and Progress and rose up in rebellion against Sultan Abdul Hamid II?
44 Which Albanian poet published his first collection of 99 poems (Rreze dielli - Sun rays) in 1904 and wrote the words to Hymni i Flamurti, Albania's national anthem, which was first published in an Albanian newspaper in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1912?
45 The four basic practices of what in Hinduism are Jnana, Raja, Bhakti and Karma?
46 Although the victor, East Germany's Petra Schneider, won by more than ten seconds in world record time, Sharron Davies still won a silver medal in which swimming event at the 1980 Moscow Olympics?
47 French architect Roger Taillibert's daring design of which city's Olympic Stadium eventually surmounted problems such as not being completed on time?
48 The second woman to receive a perfect ten after Nadia Comaneci, which Soviet gymnast won three gold medals and a silver at the 1976 Olympics, and added two more golds four years later?
49 Excavated in 1837, which Bronze Age round barrow on Bodmin Moor was found to contain a centrally-placed buried body location beneath the 25m wide barrow and also contained a Gold Cup that is now in the British Museum?
50 In a 1795 Goethe novel, which eponymous character centres upon his attempts to escape the constraints placed upon his life and become a writer and actor, althouh he actually ends up becoming a surgeon?
51 Which well-known TV star was twice nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the films Murder Inc, and Pocketful of Miracles?
52 The work of first-time game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and Nintendo's chief engineer, Gunpei Yokoi, in pioneering the use of cut scenes to advance plot and integrating multiple stages into gameplay in a bid to break the North American market, saw them produce which smash-hit 1981 video game in which you played as a carpenter called Jumpman?
53 Which new city, then called Heiankyo or 'Heian capital', became the seat of Japan's imperial court in 794, although it was later redubbed "capital city" and was also formerly known to the West by the name Meaco?
54 The two best-known extant species of which carnivorous mammal are the American and the European, which is sometimes known as the marsh-otter?
55 Called Gasteiz in Euskara and located in the province of Alava, what is the capital city of the Basque Country autonomous region?
56 Which East Germanic tribe were divided into two tribal groups, the Silingi, who lived in Magna Germania or modern day Silesia, and the Hasdingi, led by King Raus and Rapt, who ventured south in the 2nd-century AD, attacking the Romans and eventually settling in Dacia and Hungary?
57 Which 6th-century historian of Moesia (modern Bulgaria) had a name meaning 'bold as a boar' and wrote a History of the Goths?
58 A meeting at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal led to the founding of what in 1917?
59 What is the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan known in Kurdish as Hewler?
60 Fought between September 5 and 6, 394, which battle in modern Slovenia was the result of a revolt by a Frank called Arbogast, who had risen to become the most important Roman military commander in the west, along with the Senate in Rome, against the Eastern Emperor, Theodosius the Great; the latter's victory being seen as a vindication of the Christian God?
61 The military engineer Marshal Vauban's formidable fortifications for which city were meant to transform it into "the Gibraltar of the North"?
62 Named after a modern-day suburb of The Hague, which peace treaty was signed on September 20, 1697, and settled the War of the Grand Alliance that had pitted France against England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the United Provinces?
63 Strasbourg is the prefecture or capital of which departement?
64 One of Indonesia's most popular tourist attractions, which World Heritage Site in the province of Central Java and stupa is the biggest Buddhist monument on earth and was built between 750BCE and 850BC by the Javanese rulers of the Sailendra dynasties?
65 Situated between the southern slopes of the Medvednica, which European capital is home to a medieval urban complex called Kaptol, the Vitroslav Lisinski concert hall and the Mimara Museum?
66 Which figure of the Venetian Renaissance painted the Castelfranco Madonna, Sleeping Venus (1505-9) and (his most famous work) The Tempest (c.1508)?
67 As in the title given to the best-known work of the classical Greek sculptor Polykleitos, what does Doryphoros mean?
68 What famed sculpture of a "Boy" is seen as the first Greek statue to exhibit the analytical technique of contrapposto ("counterpoise")?
69 Which capital city has an Arabic name that means The Subduer, although it is often translated as The Victorious, and is said to derive its name from the appearance of the planet Mars during the city's foundation?
70 Thought to bring good luck and, therefore, used widely in north India for marriages and processions, which tube-like aerophonic instrument employs two sets of double reeds (making it a quadruple reed woodwind) and is said to have been created by improving on the snake charmer's pungi or been? Bismillah Khan is a well-known player of it.
71 Succeeded by Mehmet Ali Talat, which ardent nationalist was President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus from 1975 to 2005?
72 Which district within the Shropshire town of Shrewsbury was the site of the construction of The Flaxmill or locally known as the Maltings, the world's first iron framed building, in 1797?
73 Which county was given the ancient name Belerion, which has been translated as both The Shining Land and Seat of Storms, and may well be the first place named in the British Isles?
74 Which landlocked county was historically divivided into the five hundreds of Cuttlestone, Offlow, Pirehill, Seisdon and Totmonslow?
75 The small northern constellation Canis Venatici is meant to represent the "hunting dogs", Chara and Asterion, that are held on a leash by which other constellation?
76 With only 270 or so remaining, which wolves were once found in an area spreading from Pennsylvania to Texas, but are now the rarest and most endangered of all wolves?
77 Native to eastern Australia and the island of Sulawesi, what popular nut is also known as the Queensland nut and has indigenous Aussie names like Kindal Kindal and Jindilli?
78 Queen Min, the last empress of the country in question, is seen as a national heroine and Joan of Arc-like figure by which people?
79 In May 2000, which place in Lancashire declared itself the "world's first Fairtrade town"?
80 A number of islands and keys that include among them Mona, Vieques and Culebra, come under the jurisdiction of which Caribbean "Commonwealth"?
81 The abandoned base of RAF Kirmington is now which regional aiport?
82 As seen on a Wagamama restaurant menu, which Japanese word refers to the general cooking method of deep frying meat that is encased in breadcrumb?
83 The communist Frederic Joliot-Curie was the founding president of which organisation that was founded in 1949 and has long been condemned as a Soviet intelligence front organisation by the west and especially the US?
84 What common Welsh surname is the anglicised form of the Welsh form of "Johns"?
85 Which potentially man-eating species of crocodile, Crocodylus porosus, is the largest reptile in the world; the longest specimen ever recorded being a 29ft croc found on the Norman river in Australia?
86 The Thermal Protection System or TPS is a crucial protecting barrier found on which vehicles?
87 Parietal cells, a.k.a. oxyntic cells, are to be found where in the human body?
88 Owner of a Latin surname meaning "living near the long bazaar", which medievalist revivalist of Greek romance and supposed ecclesiastical archivist of the second half of the 12th century wrote Protonobilissiumus and The Story of Hysmine and Hysminias in 11 books?
89 Where does the International Maritime Organisation or IMO have its HQ?
90 Based in San Jose, California, which US computer software company was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, after they left Xerox PARC to develop the Postscript page description language, and took its name from a creek that ran behind one of their houses?
91 From the Persian for 'decree' or 'order', what word described a royal mandate issued from a sovereign in such Western Asian countries (e.g. the Shah of Iran or Ottoman rulers)?
92 Though based in Noda, which Japanese company actually makes its famous soy sauce in a factory in the Netherlands due to the high quality of ground water?
93 Literally "burned liquor", which alcoholic beverage is often called "Japanese Vodka" in English and can be distilled from barley, sweet potato or sugar cane?
94 What does the SEALs in the US Navy SEALs stand for?
95 James, John and Robert were the Christian names of which Scottish religious reformers, poets and brothers, the last of whom (John) died in exile in 1556?
96 Written in 1604, the Altan Tobchi (The Golden Story) is a national chronicle and set of judicial laws that is regarded as classic literature in which country?
97 PPR, the French multinational holding company specialising in luxury brands that includes among its subsidiaries Gucci, the Le Printemps department stores and furnishing retailer Conforama, is run by which founder, billionaire businessman and close friend of Jacques Chirac?
98 Born the heir to a fertiliser fortune, in 1957 which fashion designer reputedly died of a heart attack while undergoing a weight-loss cure at the Italian spa at Montecatini that he believed might make himself more desirable to his young lover, singer Jacques Benita?
99 Known for a history of mental instability that included his receiving electroconvulsive therapy in 1947, which French Marxist philosopher strangled his wife, Helene Rytman, to death on November 16, 1950, but was spared jail on grounds of diminished responsibility?
100 Meaning "camp oven" in Latin, the Clibanarii was a term used to describe what kind of soldiers seen in the late Roman, Sassanid Persian and Byzantine armies?
101 Born in Hale, Cheshire in 1908, which photojournalist and war correspondent for Life magazine started his career at The Listener magazine in 1936 and became renowned for his work in Africa, but was most famous for being the first photographer to enter the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945?
Answers to BH #37
1 Humphry Davy 2 Alcohol 3 Portland Cement 4 Dudson 5 Dee-dars 6 Interlingua 7 Vodafone 8 Well 9 Leo X 10 Exabyte 11 Liberty Bell 12 Black Sabbath 13 Smack 14 Napoleon Bonaparte 15 Dale Way 16 Bombardier 17 V10 18 Algeria 19 Ark Royal 20 Venezuela 21 Sark 22 Chad 23 Korea 24 Wolfgang Kapp 25 Leipzig 26 Fourviere 27 UNESCO 28 Singapore (it was a lion) 29 Barnacle 30 Slim Jim 31 Gretna 32 Mazda 33 New South Wales 34 Annatto 35 New Zealand 36 The Victoria and Albert Museum (est. as the South Kensington Museum)
It's my little sop to my faithful blog readership who will log on over the weekend and find that I have turned into an abject slacker and not posted since ... yesterday (what a slacker, Slacky Slackerson from Slackton), but I think I need a rest and have other work to wrap up, like the NQSL starters and bonuses I promised to write because it wouldn't be a normal buzzerquizzer without some token history, science and geography (I'm doing it for all those bemused by trash, my beloved trash). And a long overdue book proposal.
I'm absolutely cream crackered after doing all the indie questions for April 1 ... yes, I think I did them in one night, last night. That's why my brain has transmogrified into whirlpool of useless goo, neurons turned to milky vapour, solid grey matter slumped without structural support as if into an unsavoury bowl of porridge. Plus, when I walk anywhere at the moment I seem to feel myself undergo a slight out-of-body experience that doesn't really help me unmask the secrets of the afterlife nor figure out the landscape of the undiscovered country, but instead makes me feel a tad nauseous. Ooh, is that a bit of acid reflux? Excuse me.
So I'm keeping my powder dry till Monday when I will come back with news of the last President's Cup game of the season, a report that may well be soaked in so much rank bitterness at the biased question-setting (you just expect it of me know ... like a version of the Punch and Judy show) that a brewery (you see? ... IRONY) will stick a pump in me and start produced Not So Mighty Bitter, the bitterest of the bitters, there is no bitter, nobody does it bitter, bitter man (that last one was a Pearl Jam reference if it puzzled thee). No, not really. The questions will be fine. I've found peace with practically every other Prescup set. And I will be stoic anyway. Even if we have ended up as the league's Sunderland looking at everyone soar into the point-pickled rafters. We have merely picked up the beginner's portion of the learning curve.
(I would italicise all the titles for the sake of prettiness and with respect to Manutius but my mouse does an infuriating thing in double-clicking when all I want is one.)
1 Which language was created in 1907 by reformist Esperanto speakers and is with Esperanto and Interlingua the only constructed language with a large body of literature and a relatively large speaker base?
2 Most associated with a place that lies on the junction of the Rhine and Nahe rivers, which mystic, magistra, musical composer and monastic leader wrote Ordo Virtutum (Order of the Virtues or Play of the Virtues), a kind of early oratorio for women's voices with the single male part reserved for the role of the Devil, and such visionary theological studies as her work 1150-63 Liber vitae meritorum (Book of Life's Merits)?
3 What term, used in Hindu and Buddhist Yogic meditation, comes from the Sanskrit for the practice which produces complete meditation and denotes a state of being completely focussed and being totally aware of the present moment? It is also the Hindi word for a cenotaph.
4 The first commonly accepted sighting of what occurred in 1820 by the Russian expedition of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev?
5 What is a "neon tetra"?
6 To which phylum do human beings belong?
7 Which martial art is also called Burmese Boxing and Myanmar Traditional Boxing, and allows headbutts unlike its Thai cousin Muay Thai?
8 Taking its name from the abbreviation of the words "self-defence without a weapon" in its native language, the modern martial art Sambo was founded in the early 20th century in which country?
9 Now called Ulyanovsk, in which Russian city on the Volga river was Lenin born in 1870?
10 Logudorese is a standardised dialect of which language, often considered the most conservative of all the Romance languages?
11 Erected in the 1630s to mark the liberation of a city from Polish aggressors by the Russian volunteer army, which Russian Orthodox church at the north-east corner of Moscow's Red Square was destroyed in 1936 and restored between 1990 and 1993?
12 Born in New Orleans in 1925, which novelist made his debut with The Bounty Hunters in 1953?
13 What former principality is called Erdely in Hungarian and Siebenburgen in German, and has Cluj-Napoca for its historical capital?
14 The eleventh month of the ecclestiastical year and the fifth month of the civil year on the Hebrew calendar, which summer month of 30 days has a name that is Babylonian in origin and is the only month not named in the Bible?
15 Which three Canadian provinces make up the Prairie Provinces?
16 Seen as the constellation Orion and therefore in charge of the sky, which ithyphallic Egyptian god and patron of travelling caravans was identified with Horus until the Middle Kingdom when he became a fertility deity, who was later associated by the Greeks with Pan?
17 Which Caribbean island has a flag design featuring a base of light blue colour, symbolising its skies and waters, two parallel yellow stripes in the bottom half and a four-pointed, white-fringed red star, symbolising the island, in the upper left corner?
18 In mathematics, what special subset of a partially ordered set were introduced by Henri Cartan in 1937 and used by Nicolas Bourbaki in their book Topologie Generale, an equivalent notion being EH Moore and EL Smith's nets?
19 How many states make up the federal republic of Germany?
20 Germany and which three nations form the G4 alliance aimed at supporting each other's attempts to gain a permanent seat on the UN Security Council?
21 The baritone who first gave the first ever performance of the song Ol' Man River in December 1927 and created the role of Joe in Showboat, who was the first African-American artist (1903-1940) and opera singer to gain regular employment on Broadway?
22 On which highly polluted river and a channel of the Dhaleshwari, is the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka situated?
23 What does UCT, or Zulu Time as it is otherwise called, stand for?
24 Three Kings, Balmoral, Mount Eden, Newmarket, Epsom and One Tree Hill are suburbs in which city?
25 Rockstar North, the developers of such infamous video games as Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, is based in which city?
26 Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, who died in 1974, was the last surviving knight of which order of chivalry that was founded by George III in 1783?
27 Maternus was the first Christian bishop of which German city who, in the 4th-century, commissioned the building of a Roman temple on the present day site of its Gothic cathedral?
28 What is the more familiar name of Chrism or Holy Oil?
29 Gordon B Hinckley has been the president of which church or religious denomination since 1995?
30 Although it is now dominated by Jules Mansart's dome, who designed the Hotel des Invalides in Paris?
31 What three-word phrase describes a form of fraud in which the perpetrator lures in customers by advertising a good at an unprofitably low price, but then reveals to potential customers that the advertised good is not available, but a substitute good is?
32 Known for having such initial partners as Prescott S Bush, what is the oldest and largest partnership bank in the US and was created in a 1931 merger?
33 What province underwent a rapid period of societal change in the 60s called The Quiet Revolution?
34 Also known as M5, what open star cluster in Taurus is the best known and most striking to the open eye?
35 Named in honour of a 2nd-century BC Nicaean-born astronomer and mathematician, which astrometry mission of the European Space Agency was launched in 1989 and is dedicated to the measurement of stellar parallax and the proper motions of stars?
36 In which German city in Hessen is the ESA's mission control (ESOC) based?
37 Which early statement of Christian belief, possibly from the 1st or 2nd century, begins: "Credo in Deum, Patrem omnipotentum, Creatorem caeli et terrae" - "I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth"?
38 According to legend which New Testament figure had a wife called Procula, whom Orthodox Christianity has canonised as a saint?
39 Which city is partially located on Mount Carmel, along with such smaller towns as Nesher and Tirat Hakarmel?
40 Believed to have died after 1185 and to have been either a pilgrim or crusader, who is said to have founded the Carmelite order on Mount Carmel?
41 Which global religion works from scriptures called Kitab-i-Aqdas, Kitab-i-Iqan and The Hidden Words and has a House of Worship in India, also called the "Lotus Temple", that attracts 3.5 million visitors a year?
42 What is a Turkish word for a religious convert and refers to a group of Jews from the Near East who followed the claimed Messiah and Kabbalist Sabbatai Zevi and, were perhaps forcibly, converted to Islam in 1666?
43 Who were officially known as the Committee of Union and Progress and rose up in rebellion against Sultan Abdul Hamid II?
44 Which Albanian poet published his first collection of 99 poems (Rreze dielli - Sun rays) in 1904 and wrote the words to Hymni i Flamurti, Albania's national anthem, which was first published in an Albanian newspaper in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1912?
45 The four basic practices of what in Hinduism are Jnana, Raja, Bhakti and Karma?
46 Although the victor, East Germany's Petra Schneider, won by more than ten seconds in world record time, Sharron Davies still won a silver medal in which swimming event at the 1980 Moscow Olympics?
47 French architect Roger Taillibert's daring design of which city's Olympic Stadium eventually surmounted problems such as not being completed on time?
48 The second woman to receive a perfect ten after Nadia Comaneci, which Soviet gymnast won three gold medals and a silver at the 1976 Olympics, and added two more golds four years later?
49 Excavated in 1837, which Bronze Age round barrow on Bodmin Moor was found to contain a centrally-placed buried body location beneath the 25m wide barrow and also contained a Gold Cup that is now in the British Museum?
50 In a 1795 Goethe novel, which eponymous character centres upon his attempts to escape the constraints placed upon his life and become a writer and actor, althouh he actually ends up becoming a surgeon?
51 Which well-known TV star was twice nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the films Murder Inc, and Pocketful of Miracles?
52 The work of first-time game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and Nintendo's chief engineer, Gunpei Yokoi, in pioneering the use of cut scenes to advance plot and integrating multiple stages into gameplay in a bid to break the North American market, saw them produce which smash-hit 1981 video game in which you played as a carpenter called Jumpman?
53 Which new city, then called Heiankyo or 'Heian capital', became the seat of Japan's imperial court in 794, although it was later redubbed "capital city" and was also formerly known to the West by the name Meaco?
54 The two best-known extant species of which carnivorous mammal are the American and the European, which is sometimes known as the marsh-otter?
55 Called Gasteiz in Euskara and located in the province of Alava, what is the capital city of the Basque Country autonomous region?
56 Which East Germanic tribe were divided into two tribal groups, the Silingi, who lived in Magna Germania or modern day Silesia, and the Hasdingi, led by King Raus and Rapt, who ventured south in the 2nd-century AD, attacking the Romans and eventually settling in Dacia and Hungary?
57 Which 6th-century historian of Moesia (modern Bulgaria) had a name meaning 'bold as a boar' and wrote a History of the Goths?
58 A meeting at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal led to the founding of what in 1917?
59 What is the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan known in Kurdish as Hewler?
60 Fought between September 5 and 6, 394, which battle in modern Slovenia was the result of a revolt by a Frank called Arbogast, who had risen to become the most important Roman military commander in the west, along with the Senate in Rome, against the Eastern Emperor, Theodosius the Great; the latter's victory being seen as a vindication of the Christian God?
61 The military engineer Marshal Vauban's formidable fortifications for which city were meant to transform it into "the Gibraltar of the North"?
62 Named after a modern-day suburb of The Hague, which peace treaty was signed on September 20, 1697, and settled the War of the Grand Alliance that had pitted France against England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the United Provinces?
63 Strasbourg is the prefecture or capital of which departement?
64 One of Indonesia's most popular tourist attractions, which World Heritage Site in the province of Central Java and stupa is the biggest Buddhist monument on earth and was built between 750BCE and 850BC by the Javanese rulers of the Sailendra dynasties?
65 Situated between the southern slopes of the Medvednica, which European capital is home to a medieval urban complex called Kaptol, the Vitroslav Lisinski concert hall and the Mimara Museum?
66 Which figure of the Venetian Renaissance painted the Castelfranco Madonna, Sleeping Venus (1505-9) and (his most famous work) The Tempest (c.1508)?
67 As in the title given to the best-known work of the classical Greek sculptor Polykleitos, what does Doryphoros mean?
68 What famed sculpture of a "Boy" is seen as the first Greek statue to exhibit the analytical technique of contrapposto ("counterpoise")?
69 Which capital city has an Arabic name that means The Subduer, although it is often translated as The Victorious, and is said to derive its name from the appearance of the planet Mars during the city's foundation?
70 Thought to bring good luck and, therefore, used widely in north India for marriages and processions, which tube-like aerophonic instrument employs two sets of double reeds (making it a quadruple reed woodwind) and is said to have been created by improving on the snake charmer's pungi or been? Bismillah Khan is a well-known player of it.
71 Succeeded by Mehmet Ali Talat, which ardent nationalist was President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus from 1975 to 2005?
72 Which district within the Shropshire town of Shrewsbury was the site of the construction of The Flaxmill or locally known as the Maltings, the world's first iron framed building, in 1797?
73 Which county was given the ancient name Belerion, which has been translated as both The Shining Land and Seat of Storms, and may well be the first place named in the British Isles?
74 Which landlocked county was historically divivided into the five hundreds of Cuttlestone, Offlow, Pirehill, Seisdon and Totmonslow?
75 The small northern constellation Canis Venatici is meant to represent the "hunting dogs", Chara and Asterion, that are held on a leash by which other constellation?
76 With only 270 or so remaining, which wolves were once found in an area spreading from Pennsylvania to Texas, but are now the rarest and most endangered of all wolves?
77 Native to eastern Australia and the island of Sulawesi, what popular nut is also known as the Queensland nut and has indigenous Aussie names like Kindal Kindal and Jindilli?
78 Queen Min, the last empress of the country in question, is seen as a national heroine and Joan of Arc-like figure by which people?
79 In May 2000, which place in Lancashire declared itself the "world's first Fairtrade town"?
80 A number of islands and keys that include among them Mona, Vieques and Culebra, come under the jurisdiction of which Caribbean "Commonwealth"?
81 The abandoned base of RAF Kirmington is now which regional aiport?
82 As seen on a Wagamama restaurant menu, which Japanese word refers to the general cooking method of deep frying meat that is encased in breadcrumb?
83 The communist Frederic Joliot-Curie was the founding president of which organisation that was founded in 1949 and has long been condemned as a Soviet intelligence front organisation by the west and especially the US?
84 What common Welsh surname is the anglicised form of the Welsh form of "Johns"?
85 Which potentially man-eating species of crocodile, Crocodylus porosus, is the largest reptile in the world; the longest specimen ever recorded being a 29ft croc found on the Norman river in Australia?
86 The Thermal Protection System or TPS is a crucial protecting barrier found on which vehicles?
87 Parietal cells, a.k.a. oxyntic cells, are to be found where in the human body?
88 Owner of a Latin surname meaning "living near the long bazaar", which medievalist revivalist of Greek romance and supposed ecclesiastical archivist of the second half of the 12th century wrote Protonobilissiumus and The Story of Hysmine and Hysminias in 11 books?
89 Where does the International Maritime Organisation or IMO have its HQ?
90 Based in San Jose, California, which US computer software company was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, after they left Xerox PARC to develop the Postscript page description language, and took its name from a creek that ran behind one of their houses?
91 From the Persian for 'decree' or 'order', what word described a royal mandate issued from a sovereign in such Western Asian countries (e.g. the Shah of Iran or Ottoman rulers)?
92 Though based in Noda, which Japanese company actually makes its famous soy sauce in a factory in the Netherlands due to the high quality of ground water?
93 Literally "burned liquor", which alcoholic beverage is often called "Japanese Vodka" in English and can be distilled from barley, sweet potato or sugar cane?
94 What does the SEALs in the US Navy SEALs stand for?
95 James, John and Robert were the Christian names of which Scottish religious reformers, poets and brothers, the last of whom (John) died in exile in 1556?
96 Written in 1604, the Altan Tobchi (The Golden Story) is a national chronicle and set of judicial laws that is regarded as classic literature in which country?
97 PPR, the French multinational holding company specialising in luxury brands that includes among its subsidiaries Gucci, the Le Printemps department stores and furnishing retailer Conforama, is run by which founder, billionaire businessman and close friend of Jacques Chirac?
98 Born the heir to a fertiliser fortune, in 1957 which fashion designer reputedly died of a heart attack while undergoing a weight-loss cure at the Italian spa at Montecatini that he believed might make himself more desirable to his young lover, singer Jacques Benita?
99 Known for a history of mental instability that included his receiving electroconvulsive therapy in 1947, which French Marxist philosopher strangled his wife, Helene Rytman, to death on November 16, 1950, but was spared jail on grounds of diminished responsibility?
100 Meaning "camp oven" in Latin, the Clibanarii was a term used to describe what kind of soldiers seen in the late Roman, Sassanid Persian and Byzantine armies?
101 Born in Hale, Cheshire in 1908, which photojournalist and war correspondent for Life magazine started his career at The Listener magazine in 1936 and became renowned for his work in Africa, but was most famous for being the first photographer to enter the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945?
Answers to BH #37
1 Humphry Davy 2 Alcohol 3 Portland Cement 4 Dudson 5 Dee-dars 6 Interlingua 7 Vodafone 8 Well 9 Leo X 10 Exabyte 11 Liberty Bell 12 Black Sabbath 13 Smack 14 Napoleon Bonaparte 15 Dale Way 16 Bombardier 17 V10 18 Algeria 19 Ark Royal 20 Venezuela 21 Sark 22 Chad 23 Korea 24 Wolfgang Kapp 25 Leipzig 26 Fourviere 27 UNESCO 28 Singapore (it was a lion) 29 Barnacle 30 Slim Jim 31 Gretna 32 Mazda 33 New South Wales 34 Annatto 35 New Zealand 36 The Victoria and Albert Museum (est. as the South Kensington Museum)
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