Alas, It is Another Excruciating BH quiz #56
I did go to Chris's club night in Worthing last night. I drank snakebite and was a bit ill by a bench that sits outside the church located just down the road at about one this morning. The taste of blackcurrant permeated my nostrils, pharynx and mouth for quite some time.
There was a time, back in the life of another blog or two I may have penned when I would have elaborated on that, but not now. This is a tasteful place for tasteful readers. I will keep technicolor descriptions of my social life away from here. And to think, I could have stayed in and learnt quiz questions. It was a difficult choice, I tell you. Once I am done writing this, I will eat my pork cacciatore and perhaps read a book. Not a quiz book might I hasten to add, but Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta. Coincidentally, it has lots of facts about Mumbai in it. Which may be why I'm reading it.
It's another quiz. Another quiz that would register as a diamond on the Mohs scale. Enjoy... or suffer... whatever takes your fancy.
1 Not far from Lough Neagh, what new town in County Armagh is located between Portadown and Lurgan?
2 Though he was developed by writer Fran Striker, which Detroit man created the character of The Lone Ranger?
3 Once the best-selling German writer of all time, who is chiefly remembered for Wild West novels featuring the tales of Old Shatterhand and Chief Winnetou, and being the composer of two famous romantic German songs, Forget Me Not and a version of Ave Maria?
4 The shipbuilding company Swan Hunter, famed for building the Blue Riband-holding RMS Mauretania and RMS Carpathia, was based where in the NE of England?
5 Named after the Sheffield steel-maker that took it over in 1899, what Clydebank-based shipyard was founded by James and George Thomson?
6 Which 18th century admiral and Viscount gave his name to the Royal Navy's last completed battlecruiser?
7 The British manufacturer Vickers was formed in Sheffield in 1867, but was traditionally based in which Cumbrian town?
8 Launched in December 1942, the HMS Indefatigable was what kind of vessel?
9 Operation Tungsten was one of the first attempts to destroy which German battleship, named after the Admiral and Commander of the Kaiserliche Marine in WW1 from 1914-1916 and called the "Lonely Queen of the North" by Norwegians?
10 Launched on November 30, 1944, what "Fully Armoured Battlecruiser" was the last battleship to be built for the Royal Navy and also the last in the world?
11 What 50ft-long Royal Yacht was acquired in 1660 by King Charles II and was the first of 26 yachts he owned?
12 HMY Britannia, the 83rd Royal Yacht since Charles II's restoration, is now permanently moored as an exhibition ship at what Edinburgh shopping centre in Leith harbour?
13 Designed by John Trumpy Sr and retrofitted with a lift for Franklin D Roosevelt, which presidential yacht was the location for Harry S Truman's decision to bomb Hiroshima, Nixon's SALT I arms treaty talks with Brezhnev and some of JFK's stategy meetings during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
14 Which country's royal yacht is called the Fortuna?
15 Designed by the Scottish civil engineer and roadbuilder Sir William Arrol, which historic crane at the John Brown & Company Clyde shipyard may be restored in plans the make the Clydebank shipyard more accessible to the public?
16 Who served as member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1964 until his death under the name Aixinjueluo Xuantong?
17 Meaning "the leader" in Greek, what title for the head of a monastery of the Eastern Orthodox Church is similar to an abbot?
18 What islands in the White Sea are home to the same-named monastery founded in the 1420s by the monks Zosima and Savvatiy and seen as the greatest citadel of Christianity in the Russian North?
19 Insituted in 1970, what body is unique in that it is the only one to which Parliament has delegated the power to pass Measures which become part of English law?
20 The English barrister Thomas Hare is generally credited with creating the concept of what preferential voting system, designed to minimise wasted votes and provide proportional representation while ensuring that votes are explicitly for candidates rather than party lists, in the 19th century?
21 The poet Anton Buttigieg was president of which European country from 1976 to 1981?
22 Every first week of October, Albuquerque in New Mexico hosts an International Fiesta, the largest gathering of its kind in the world for enthusiasts of what?
23 What Renaissance musical woodwind instrument, made in Europe from the late 13th century to the 17th, was developed from the oriental zurna and is the ancestor of the modern oboe?
24 Irene Khan has been Secretary General of which international, non-governmental organisation since August 2001?
25 Which architect designed the Octagon concert hall in Buxton, Derbyshire, that was first opened to the public in 1876?
26 Sited in modern day Bulgaria, the Siege of Pleven happened during which war of 1877-78?
27 At the 2004 Olympics Gal Fridman became the first Israeli gold medallist in history, winning in which sport?
28 Featuring the red sandstone cliffs of St Bees Head, what 150-mile footpath goes from Silverdale in Lancashire to Gretna?
29 Named after the Dragley Beck-born Admiralty's Second Secretary, what Alaskan town is the most northerly town in the US?
30 Ulverstonian, as in the Cumbrian town, Maude Green was the mother of which famous musician?
31 As featured in Frederick Forsyth's novel Avenger, what two-word term described the US, Australian and NZ soldiers who performed underground search and destroy missions armed only with a M1911 handgun and flashlight during the Vietnam War?
32 What sort of weapon was the Makarov PM?
33 Designed by Charles B Atwood and EC Shankland and built between 1890 and 1895, what Chicago building was the first skyscraper to have large plate glass windows make up the majority of its surface area?
34 The second longest in Poland, what 854-km central Europe river ultimately flows into the Szczecin Lagoon north of Stettin, and then empties with three branches, Dziwna, Swina and Peene into the Batic Sea?
35 The Firth of Thames and Coromandel Peninsula are in which country?
36 The German woman Hanna Reitsch was famous for doing what during WW2?
37 Ghana, pronounced "anna", is the traditional folk music of which country and has five main types: bil-Qamsa, fil-Gholi, tal-Fatt and makjetta?
38 The Mentawai Islands belong to which Asian country?
39 Also featured on the old pfennig, what plant symbol is featured on the German one cent coin?
40 The US musician Tommy Shepard played what instrument?
41 Created between 1943 and 1949, what record label was produced during the WW2 era by special arrangement between the US government and various private US record companies?
42 Sharing international borders with Bhutan and Bangladesh, what T-shaped Indian state has its capital at Dispur and its largest city and commercial capital at Guwahati?
43 Published anonymously in 1792, which German poet's Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation was first mistaken thought by scholars to be written by Immanuel Kant, his other famous work being Foundations of Natural Right in which he stated that self-consciousness was a social phenomenon?
44 What term, meaning "thing in itself", was used by Kant to describe the unknowable, indescribable reality that in some way underlies observed phenomena?
45 Named after a Greek colony in Lucania, Italy, what school of pre-Soctratic philosophers was founded in the 5th century BC by Parmenides?
46 Working under a pseudonym with the first name Thomas for safety, what bible was produced by John Rogers in 1537?
47 Which artist was born Paolo di Dono in Florence in 1397 and acquired his nickname from his fondness for painting birds?
48 Originally created as a manga by Naoko Takeuchi in 1992, what series is generally credited with popularising the concept of a sentai or team of magical girls rather than one girl working alone, as well as helping the re-emergence of the popularity of mahou shoujo or Magical Girl anime?
49 Said to have been the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition inside his own country, which composer based his 1848 symphonic poem Karaminskaya on Russian folk tunes and also wrote the Spanish works A Night in Madrid (1848, 1851) and Jota Aragonesa (1845)?
50 Who did Francois Ravaillac famously kill?
51 Signed on May 8, 1360 between Edward III and King John II "the Good" of France, what treaty took its name from a village near Chartres and marked the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War?
52 Nicknamed "the Wise", which king of France from 1364 to 1380, had previously been the first French prince to be called Le Dauphin?
53 Which son of Henri, comte de Paris, has been the Dauphin of France since 1999?
54 The 1972 Summit Series was the first competition between the professional ice hockey players of which two countries?
55 What kind of grapes are intended for consumption while they are fresh, as opposed to grapes grown for wine production?
56 Used for eating and in wine production, what cultivar of the North American Vitis labrusca species or fox grape was developed in 1849 by Ephraim Wales Bull in the Massachusetts town that gives them their name?
57 Which US author's houses The Orchard House and The Wayside are now museums?
58 Which 2,877m-high mountain in the French Pyrenees is famous for its astronomical observatory and is home to the Bernard Lyot Telescope, the largest telescope in France?
59 Which origianl Acadian settlement and fishing village on the west coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia is famed for its traditional rug hooking (tapis "hooke") and fiddle music?
60 The winter residence of the rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire, what Vienna palace currently serves as the official residence of the President of Austria?
61 The preferred summer residence of the rulers of Austro-Hungarian empire, what palace has a name meaning "beautiful well" and was designed by Fischer von Erlach for his patron Joseph I?
62 Said to represent the centre of the historic land of Moravia, what second largest city in the Czech Republic is the home of Fischer von Erlach's Parnas Fountain?
63 Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles were chosen by Emperor Justinian I to build what?
64 Running along the city's eastern wall and separating the Temple Mount from the Mount of Olives before continuing east through the Judean Desert towards the Dead Sea, what valley named after the stream which flows through it features significantly in the Bible and is the site of many Jewish tombs, including the Pillar of Absalom and the Tomb of Zachariah?
65 The design of the Pantheon in Rome is largely credited to which Greek architect of the 2nd century who also constructed Trajan's Bridge over the Danube in 104AD?
66 Which famous puppet has a pet worm called Slimey and a pet elephant called Fluffy?
67 What is the widest long-span bridge in the world and the world's largest single-arch bridge, even though it is not the longest, an honour falling to the US's 2.3ft-longer Bayonne Bridge opened four months earlier in November 1931?
68 What Yugoslav army general, in charge of its completion, gave his name to the popular nickname for the line of fortresses begun in 1935 by Yugoslavia along its borders?
69 Generally the smallest military unit capable of independent operations, what usually consists of between two and six companies and is typically commanded by a Lieutenant Colonel?
70 Formed in October 1942, what British army corps was unique in being granted the "Royal" prefix from its inception?
Answers to BH #55
1 Mount Moriah 2 Jebusite (place Jebus) 3 Singapore, Malaysia 4 Mandarin language 5 Maurice Wilks 6 Aluminium, magnesium 7 (Duke of) Saxe-Coburg Gotha 8 Georgetown 9 Rostov 10 Avra or Aura 11 Hillhead 12 Arthur Scargill 13 Kentucky 14 Louis Harold Gray 15 Artificial heart 16 Celine Dion 17 Will Jennings 18 Toots & the Maytals 19 Trachoma 20 Spleen 21 Brodmann areas 22 Heart 23 Circle of Willis 24 Breast 25 Nodes of Ranvier 26 Affenpinscher 27 Delta 28 Neutron stars 29 Hue 30 Cao Dai 31 Annam 32 Dublin 33 409 miles 34 Dere Street 35 Condeep 36 Hibernia 37 Tamworth 38 Algorithm 39 Lambda calculus 40 Cyril Tawney 41 Ben Jonson 42 Song Jiang 43 Lahar 44 Jamaica 45 New Zealand 46 Bliss Carman 47 Terry Pratchett 48 Langur 49 Baboon 50 Gelada 51 Steam locomotive 52 Chilworth 53 New Caledonia 54 Gibraltar 55 Thomas Jefferson 56 Rhododendron 57 Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) 58 Medecins Sans Frontieres 59 Aries 60 Algol 61 Boston 62 Nizlopi 63 Heart of Midlothian 64 Mother Shipton 65 Marmot 66 Luton 67 Soukous 68 Thong 69 Bushmen 70 Thomas Beresford and Prudence Cowley 71 Blood 72 Malaysia 73 The Three Cups 74 Henry Fielding 75 William Vestey 76 OXO Tower 77 Onsen 78 Georgia 79 Vittel 80 Vanuatu
There was a time, back in the life of another blog or two I may have penned when I would have elaborated on that, but not now. This is a tasteful place for tasteful readers. I will keep technicolor descriptions of my social life away from here. And to think, I could have stayed in and learnt quiz questions. It was a difficult choice, I tell you. Once I am done writing this, I will eat my pork cacciatore and perhaps read a book. Not a quiz book might I hasten to add, but Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta. Coincidentally, it has lots of facts about Mumbai in it. Which may be why I'm reading it.
It's another quiz. Another quiz that would register as a diamond on the Mohs scale. Enjoy... or suffer... whatever takes your fancy.
1 Not far from Lough Neagh, what new town in County Armagh is located between Portadown and Lurgan?
2 Though he was developed by writer Fran Striker, which Detroit man created the character of The Lone Ranger?
3 Once the best-selling German writer of all time, who is chiefly remembered for Wild West novels featuring the tales of Old Shatterhand and Chief Winnetou, and being the composer of two famous romantic German songs, Forget Me Not and a version of Ave Maria?
4 The shipbuilding company Swan Hunter, famed for building the Blue Riband-holding RMS Mauretania and RMS Carpathia, was based where in the NE of England?
5 Named after the Sheffield steel-maker that took it over in 1899, what Clydebank-based shipyard was founded by James and George Thomson?
6 Which 18th century admiral and Viscount gave his name to the Royal Navy's last completed battlecruiser?
7 The British manufacturer Vickers was formed in Sheffield in 1867, but was traditionally based in which Cumbrian town?
8 Launched in December 1942, the HMS Indefatigable was what kind of vessel?
9 Operation Tungsten was one of the first attempts to destroy which German battleship, named after the Admiral and Commander of the Kaiserliche Marine in WW1 from 1914-1916 and called the "Lonely Queen of the North" by Norwegians?
10 Launched on November 30, 1944, what "Fully Armoured Battlecruiser" was the last battleship to be built for the Royal Navy and also the last in the world?
11 What 50ft-long Royal Yacht was acquired in 1660 by King Charles II and was the first of 26 yachts he owned?
12 HMY Britannia, the 83rd Royal Yacht since Charles II's restoration, is now permanently moored as an exhibition ship at what Edinburgh shopping centre in Leith harbour?
13 Designed by John Trumpy Sr and retrofitted with a lift for Franklin D Roosevelt, which presidential yacht was the location for Harry S Truman's decision to bomb Hiroshima, Nixon's SALT I arms treaty talks with Brezhnev and some of JFK's stategy meetings during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
14 Which country's royal yacht is called the Fortuna?
15 Designed by the Scottish civil engineer and roadbuilder Sir William Arrol, which historic crane at the John Brown & Company Clyde shipyard may be restored in plans the make the Clydebank shipyard more accessible to the public?
16 Who served as member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1964 until his death under the name Aixinjueluo Xuantong?
17 Meaning "the leader" in Greek, what title for the head of a monastery of the Eastern Orthodox Church is similar to an abbot?
18 What islands in the White Sea are home to the same-named monastery founded in the 1420s by the monks Zosima and Savvatiy and seen as the greatest citadel of Christianity in the Russian North?
19 Insituted in 1970, what body is unique in that it is the only one to which Parliament has delegated the power to pass Measures which become part of English law?
20 The English barrister Thomas Hare is generally credited with creating the concept of what preferential voting system, designed to minimise wasted votes and provide proportional representation while ensuring that votes are explicitly for candidates rather than party lists, in the 19th century?
21 The poet Anton Buttigieg was president of which European country from 1976 to 1981?
22 Every first week of October, Albuquerque in New Mexico hosts an International Fiesta, the largest gathering of its kind in the world for enthusiasts of what?
23 What Renaissance musical woodwind instrument, made in Europe from the late 13th century to the 17th, was developed from the oriental zurna and is the ancestor of the modern oboe?
24 Irene Khan has been Secretary General of which international, non-governmental organisation since August 2001?
25 Which architect designed the Octagon concert hall in Buxton, Derbyshire, that was first opened to the public in 1876?
26 Sited in modern day Bulgaria, the Siege of Pleven happened during which war of 1877-78?
27 At the 2004 Olympics Gal Fridman became the first Israeli gold medallist in history, winning in which sport?
28 Featuring the red sandstone cliffs of St Bees Head, what 150-mile footpath goes from Silverdale in Lancashire to Gretna?
29 Named after the Dragley Beck-born Admiralty's Second Secretary, what Alaskan town is the most northerly town in the US?
30 Ulverstonian, as in the Cumbrian town, Maude Green was the mother of which famous musician?
31 As featured in Frederick Forsyth's novel Avenger, what two-word term described the US, Australian and NZ soldiers who performed underground search and destroy missions armed only with a M1911 handgun and flashlight during the Vietnam War?
32 What sort of weapon was the Makarov PM?
33 Designed by Charles B Atwood and EC Shankland and built between 1890 and 1895, what Chicago building was the first skyscraper to have large plate glass windows make up the majority of its surface area?
34 The second longest in Poland, what 854-km central Europe river ultimately flows into the Szczecin Lagoon north of Stettin, and then empties with three branches, Dziwna, Swina and Peene into the Batic Sea?
35 The Firth of Thames and Coromandel Peninsula are in which country?
36 The German woman Hanna Reitsch was famous for doing what during WW2?
37 Ghana, pronounced "anna", is the traditional folk music of which country and has five main types: bil-Qamsa, fil-Gholi, tal-Fatt and makjetta?
38 The Mentawai Islands belong to which Asian country?
39 Also featured on the old pfennig, what plant symbol is featured on the German one cent coin?
40 The US musician Tommy Shepard played what instrument?
41 Created between 1943 and 1949, what record label was produced during the WW2 era by special arrangement between the US government and various private US record companies?
42 Sharing international borders with Bhutan and Bangladesh, what T-shaped Indian state has its capital at Dispur and its largest city and commercial capital at Guwahati?
43 Published anonymously in 1792, which German poet's Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation was first mistaken thought by scholars to be written by Immanuel Kant, his other famous work being Foundations of Natural Right in which he stated that self-consciousness was a social phenomenon?
44 What term, meaning "thing in itself", was used by Kant to describe the unknowable, indescribable reality that in some way underlies observed phenomena?
45 Named after a Greek colony in Lucania, Italy, what school of pre-Soctratic philosophers was founded in the 5th century BC by Parmenides?
46 Working under a pseudonym with the first name Thomas for safety, what bible was produced by John Rogers in 1537?
47 Which artist was born Paolo di Dono in Florence in 1397 and acquired his nickname from his fondness for painting birds?
48 Originally created as a manga by Naoko Takeuchi in 1992, what series is generally credited with popularising the concept of a sentai or team of magical girls rather than one girl working alone, as well as helping the re-emergence of the popularity of mahou shoujo or Magical Girl anime?
49 Said to have been the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition inside his own country, which composer based his 1848 symphonic poem Karaminskaya on Russian folk tunes and also wrote the Spanish works A Night in Madrid (1848, 1851) and Jota Aragonesa (1845)?
50 Who did Francois Ravaillac famously kill?
51 Signed on May 8, 1360 between Edward III and King John II "the Good" of France, what treaty took its name from a village near Chartres and marked the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War?
52 Nicknamed "the Wise", which king of France from 1364 to 1380, had previously been the first French prince to be called Le Dauphin?
53 Which son of Henri, comte de Paris, has been the Dauphin of France since 1999?
54 The 1972 Summit Series was the first competition between the professional ice hockey players of which two countries?
55 What kind of grapes are intended for consumption while they are fresh, as opposed to grapes grown for wine production?
56 Used for eating and in wine production, what cultivar of the North American Vitis labrusca species or fox grape was developed in 1849 by Ephraim Wales Bull in the Massachusetts town that gives them their name?
57 Which US author's houses The Orchard House and The Wayside are now museums?
58 Which 2,877m-high mountain in the French Pyrenees is famous for its astronomical observatory and is home to the Bernard Lyot Telescope, the largest telescope in France?
59 Which origianl Acadian settlement and fishing village on the west coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia is famed for its traditional rug hooking (tapis "hooke") and fiddle music?
60 The winter residence of the rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire, what Vienna palace currently serves as the official residence of the President of Austria?
61 The preferred summer residence of the rulers of Austro-Hungarian empire, what palace has a name meaning "beautiful well" and was designed by Fischer von Erlach for his patron Joseph I?
62 Said to represent the centre of the historic land of Moravia, what second largest city in the Czech Republic is the home of Fischer von Erlach's Parnas Fountain?
63 Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles were chosen by Emperor Justinian I to build what?
64 Running along the city's eastern wall and separating the Temple Mount from the Mount of Olives before continuing east through the Judean Desert towards the Dead Sea, what valley named after the stream which flows through it features significantly in the Bible and is the site of many Jewish tombs, including the Pillar of Absalom and the Tomb of Zachariah?
65 The design of the Pantheon in Rome is largely credited to which Greek architect of the 2nd century who also constructed Trajan's Bridge over the Danube in 104AD?
66 Which famous puppet has a pet worm called Slimey and a pet elephant called Fluffy?
67 What is the widest long-span bridge in the world and the world's largest single-arch bridge, even though it is not the longest, an honour falling to the US's 2.3ft-longer Bayonne Bridge opened four months earlier in November 1931?
68 What Yugoslav army general, in charge of its completion, gave his name to the popular nickname for the line of fortresses begun in 1935 by Yugoslavia along its borders?
69 Generally the smallest military unit capable of independent operations, what usually consists of between two and six companies and is typically commanded by a Lieutenant Colonel?
70 Formed in October 1942, what British army corps was unique in being granted the "Royal" prefix from its inception?
Answers to BH #55
1 Mount Moriah 2 Jebusite (place Jebus) 3 Singapore, Malaysia 4 Mandarin language 5 Maurice Wilks 6 Aluminium, magnesium 7 (Duke of) Saxe-Coburg Gotha 8 Georgetown 9 Rostov 10 Avra or Aura 11 Hillhead 12 Arthur Scargill 13 Kentucky 14 Louis Harold Gray 15 Artificial heart 16 Celine Dion 17 Will Jennings 18 Toots & the Maytals 19 Trachoma 20 Spleen 21 Brodmann areas 22 Heart 23 Circle of Willis 24 Breast 25 Nodes of Ranvier 26 Affenpinscher 27 Delta 28 Neutron stars 29 Hue 30 Cao Dai 31 Annam 32 Dublin 33 409 miles 34 Dere Street 35 Condeep 36 Hibernia 37 Tamworth 38 Algorithm 39 Lambda calculus 40 Cyril Tawney 41 Ben Jonson 42 Song Jiang 43 Lahar 44 Jamaica 45 New Zealand 46 Bliss Carman 47 Terry Pratchett 48 Langur 49 Baboon 50 Gelada 51 Steam locomotive 52 Chilworth 53 New Caledonia 54 Gibraltar 55 Thomas Jefferson 56 Rhododendron 57 Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) 58 Medecins Sans Frontieres 59 Aries 60 Algol 61 Boston 62 Nizlopi 63 Heart of Midlothian 64 Mother Shipton 65 Marmot 66 Luton 67 Soukous 68 Thong 69 Bushmen 70 Thomas Beresford and Prudence Cowley 71 Blood 72 Malaysia 73 The Three Cups 74 Henry Fielding 75 William Vestey 76 OXO Tower 77 Onsen 78 Georgia 79 Vittel 80 Vanuatu
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