Another Enormous BH quiz #51
I was going to write a silly amount of stuff today and I kinda did but not for this blog, which is what I aimed to do. I'm feeling drained and possibly in need of a fresh fruit diet. Maybe the words and that feature I was going to write will come out tomorrow. They may not due to high chances of me being in transit, but I assure you, I will do my numbskull best to unbreak my promises.
Nevertheless here is a big slab of quiz I prepared earlier...
1 Who played Dr John Forrest in the soap The Young Doctors?
2 Finishing his Olympic career at Berlin in 1936, the gymnast Leon Stukelj won six Olympic medals including two golds in Paris and one in Amsterdam. For which country did he compete?
3 Named after the Zurich-born chemist considered to be the founder of modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry, which "Classification" groups the chemical elements according to their preferred host phases into siderophile (iron-loving), lithophile (silicate-loving), chalcophile (sulphur-loving) and atmophile (gas-loving)?
4 What is Cheshire's largest town, although about half of it lies to the north of the Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal and is traditionally part of Lancashire?
5 Which Cheshire town is set in an area exploited for its salt pans since Roman times when the settlement was called Condate, its historical salt links being celebrated with its Salt Museum, currently located in the town's old workhouse?
6 Also referred to as the ammonia-soda process, what industrial process used in the production of soda-ash (sodium carbonate) produces sodium carbonate from salt and limestone?
7 Consisting of a weak acid and its conjugate base, what are solutions which resist change in hydronium ion concentration and consequent pH upon addition of small amounts of acid or base, or upon dilution?
8 Which French chemist (1850-1936) devised the principle used by chemists to predict the effect of change in conditions on a chemical equilibrium and which can be summarised as: "If a chemical system at equilibrium experiences a change in concentration, temperature or total pressure, the equilibrium will shift in order to minimise that change"?
9 Also given the prefixes 'chemical' and 'reaction', what chemistry term describes the amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction?
10 Named for the Greek for "element measure", which branch of chemistry is the study and calculation of quantitative relationships of the reactants and products in chemical reactions?
11 The track Willin' is said to have led Frank Zappa to sack which guitarist and harmonica-playing vocalist from The Mothers of Invention, who later reworked it and put it on Little Feat's album Sailin' Shoes?
12 What name, from the in-house coachbuilder which began producing the car company's custom bodies years earlier, was used on the top of the Cadillac line since 1927?
13 Originally a religious ritual, the Baris is a traditional dance of which Asian island in which a solo dancer depicts the feelings of a young warrior before battle?
14 The left's candidate against Roy Hattersley in the 1983 Labour party deputy leadership election, who is MP for Oldham?
15 Situated within the Western Rift of the Great Rift Valley, what is the deepest lake in Africa and holds the greatest volume of freshwater and is estimated to be the second largest lake in the world by volume after Lake Baikal?
16 The Australian sportsmen Troy Wilson is renowned for participating in which two markedly different sports?
17 Put forward by the US company RSA Laboratories on March 18, 1991, what challenge is designed to encourage research into computational number theory and the practical difficulty of the decomposition of large integers?
18 What term describes numbers with exactly two prime numbers?
19 The Crown Group is a famous UK company in what area?
20 Designed by Sir Herbert Baker to replace the original building, what building serves as the HQ of the Church of England and occupies the south end of Dean's Yard next to Westminster Abbey?
21 Where would you find the buildings known as the Mappin Terraces which include the Round House and the North Gate Kiosk?
22 Which people's assembly traditionally met under an oak tree called the Gerknikako Arbola?
23 WW2's Operation Bernhard was the subject of which 1980 BBC comedy drama that starred Michael Elphick and Ian Richardson?
24 What was the surname of SS Major Bernhard who directed the plan to flood the UK with forged Bank of England notes?
25 If they are deemed to be "non-conventional", what may therefore be visible signs such as colours, shapes or moving images, or non-visible, such as sounds, scents and tastes?
26 Also known by the generic term "chorded zithers", which musical string instruments have a series of chord bars attached to dampers which, when depressed, mute all the strings other than thsoe that form the desired chord, and have been a register trademark (since 1927) currently owned by the US Music corporation whose Oscar Schmidt division manufactures them under the name?
27 The Biblical "harp" was actually which type of lyre with 10 strings?
28 Depicted in Irish tales as a figure of immense power who is armed with a magic club and is associated with a cauldron, which god in Irish myth has a name meaning The Good God (as in good at everything) and is the father figure and protector of the tribe whose other name is Eochaid Ollathair or Eochaird All-Father?
29 He was also the High King of which supernatural beings who inhabited Ireland prior to the coming of the Celts?
30 Which composer first gained international recognition with the premiere of the works Strophen, Psalm of David and Emanations at the 1959 Warsaw Autumn Festival and also wrote the St Luke Passion (1963-66) and 1980's Symphony No. 2, Christmas?
31 Which Austrian composer and constant reviser of such works as Symphony No. 6 in A Major (the Philosophic) and Symphony No 8 in C minor (The German Michel, or Apocalyptic) never married and apparently proposed to a long list of astonished teenage girls, and had a morbid interest in dead bodies, in one instance cradling the head of Beethoven in his hands when he was exhumed?
32 Who originally wrote the later Blondie and Atomic Kitten number one The Tide is High in 1967, it being performed by his band with him as lead singer?
33 Which Football League Two English team play at York Street and are nicknamed The Pilgrims?
34 What Welsh word for parliament or senate has been applied to the Welsh national assembly building that was opened in March 2006?
35 Four members of which cycling club were killed in a road accident near Aberglee in Wales on January 8 this year?
36 For which team did the Welsh footballer Roy Clarke, who died in March 2006, score 73 goals in 349 league matches for?
37 Dafydd Elis-Thomas holds which prominent political position (as of April 2006)?
38 Which food retailer, the 5th largest in the UK as of 2005, can trace its origins back to 1875 when a small grocers was opened in Bristol by JH Mills?
39 Called "the man of steel", which two-time world middleweight champion is best remembered for the brutal and exciting three bouts he fought in over a 21-month period with Rocky Graziano for the middleweight crown, which he won in the last New Jersey fight but then lost to Marcel Cerdan?
40 Which Baron and former Chief of the Defence Staff became the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in 2004?
41 Sometimes called the father of English natural history, whose 1686 work Historia Plantarum was an important step towards modern taxonomy which rejected the system of dichotomous division by which species were previously classifed?
42 Author of the atlas of botany called Historia Plantarum, what native of Eressos in Lesbos (b. c.372BC) was the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school had the given name Tyrtamus but became known by the nickname given to him, it is said, by Aristotle to indicate the grace of his conversation, and also released the first recorded message in a bottle?
43 Who designed the first Air Jordan trainer which was released in 1985?
44 Which classic novel features a hunting expedition that uses unusual glass bullets called Leyden balls?
45 In Japan what kind of actor is a seiyu?
46 First heard in 1945 on a pedal steel guitar created by Leo Fender, the first recorded use of what effects pedal was by Chet Atkins on his 1961 recording Boo Boo Stick Beat?
47 Founded as The Jennings Organ company by Tom Jennings after WW2, what British musical equipment manufacturer is most famous for making the AC30 guitar amplifier?
48 MINOS is geared towards researching what elementary particle and recently implied they have mass, which would require a substantial revision to the Standard Model of particle physics?
49 The known elementary types of which particle with half-integer spin are divided into two groups: quarks and leptons?
50 In the 1969 spaghetti western Sabata who played the title hero who was ranged against William Berger's villain Banjo?
51 Which car company released the Cinquecento to replace the 126?
52 What social dance of French origin for two persons, usually in 3/4 time, has a name adapted from the French for small or delicate possibly referring to the short steps taken in the dance?
53 Which Italian-born French composer left his opera Achille & Polyxene unfinished on his death in 1687 and wrote "Bisogna morire, peccatore" (You must die, sinner) on his deathbed?
54 The art of what was taught in the Libri Tagetici, a collection of texts attributed to Tages, a childlike being from Etruscan mythology?
55 Which city in Emilia-Romagna is called the Palaces City for the great numbers of historical palaces like the Palazzo Farnese and Palazzo Gotico?
56 What kind of individuals attended the Havana Conference in the week of December 22, 1946, at the Hotel Nacional?
57 What hotel was built when, in 1962, a cabana motel owner called Jay Sarno used $10 million lent to him by a Teamsters pension fund to begin plans for a hotel on land owned by Kirk Kerkorian?
58 Now on display at the archaeological museum of Heraklion on Crete, what curious 15cm diameter and 1cm thick archaeological artefact, likely dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age, was discovered by Luigi Pernier in 1908 in the basement of room eight in building 101 of the Minoan palace-site near Hagia Triada that gives its name?
59 In electronics, what is usually taken as the mean ratio of the signal output of a system to the signal input of the system?
60 Wembley Stadium was built in 1924 at a cost of £750,000 (!!!) on the former site of which partially-built "Folly" that was named after the MP who proposed its construction shortly after the Eiffel Tower was completed?
61 Who contested the first FA Cup final on April 28, 1923?
62 What was the actual name of the white horse that gave its name to the 1923 FA Cup final and which was ridden by Police Constable George Scorey?
63 How many European Cup Finals has Wembley hosted?
64 Which football club did the British expatriate Herbert Kilpin found on December 16, 1899?
65 What word for a piece of sporting equipment describes the set of colliding galaxies, a barred spiral galaxy and an irregular galaxy, about 30 million light years away in the constellation Canes Venatici?
66 The discovery of infrared radiation is commonly ascribed to which astronomer in the 19th century, who used a prism to refract light from the sun and detected the infrared through an increase in the temperature recorded in a thermometer?
67 Introduced as a term by Gustav Kirchhoff in 1862, in physics what is an object that absorbs all electromagnetic radiation that falls into it, with no radiation passing through it and none being reflected?
68 Mast is the fruit of which large evergreen tree found in New Zealand that has the scientific name Dacrydium cupressinum and was first named "red pine" by European colonists?
69 In sailing what is a vessel with two masts at least one of which is square-rigged, and in modern parlance, a ship that is square-rigged on both masts?
70 Derived from an Old Norse phrase meaning "to express a thing in terms of another" and prevaletn throught Norse, Anglo-Saxon literature and Celtic literature, what term describes a compound poetic phrase or figure of speech substituted for the usual name of a person or thing?
71 As heard in a famous 80s film, what is the transliteration of the Cantonese word meaning ghost or evil spirit or demon?
72 The name of a Scottish record label, what did Stooges drummer Scott Ashton have his name changed to?
73 The Golden North Salmon Derby, the object of which is to catch the largest Chinook or Coho salmon over three days, is held in which US state capital every August?
74 Which Pacific salmon is also called the dog salmon or Keta salmon?
75 The last of the Syrian emperors, which Roman emperor from 222 to 235 was born at Arca Caesarea in Palestine and died fighting German invaders in Gaul not far from Mainz?
76 The Metsasissit or Forest Guerillias were a resistantce movement in which country in the early 20th century?
77 Which country endured the Baigais Gads or the Year of Horror during the first half of WW2?
78 Which alkali metal, atomic number 37, was discovered in 1861 by Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff in the mineral lepidolite through the the use of a spectroscope?
79 Used by Keith Moon and Phil Collins, which Leicestershire-based manufacturer of drums and similar instruments was founded in 1922 by London drummer Albert Della Porta and drum-builder George Smith?
80 Phil Collins professional career began as a drummer with which obscure rock group who released just the one album Ark 2 in 1969?
81 Abbreviated TR, what red fluorescent dye is used in histology for staining cell specimens and is a sulphonyl chloride derivate of sulphorhodamine 101?
82 Which eastern rival did Septimius Severus defeat at the 193 Battle of Nicaea, ending his bid for the Roman Empire the next year at Issus?
83 Also called lambrequin, what in heraldry is drapery tied to the helmet above the shield and which forms the shield's backdrop?
84 Named so because it will clear the are of pollution, what is the local name for the strong southeast wind that blows on the South African coast?
85 Which American astronomer published the discovery of gaps in the distances of asteroids from the sun in 1866, thus giving such gaps their name, and was also the first to suggest that meteor showers are debris from comets?
86 Which Northern Ireland football team plays at Windsor Park?
87 What pale cream English cheddar cheese is made using pasteurised cow's milk marbled with wine, often a Bordeaux or a blend of port and brandy?
88 The Noah's Ark water park, the largest in the world, is located in whiuch American city that prides itself on being the "Water Park Capital of the World" with 18 indoor water parks?
89 Generally called the Spanish Game outside of English-speaking countries, what chess opening is characterised by the moves 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5?
90 The eight deities known as the Ogodad feature in which mythology?
91 In which cathedral city is the Royal Green Jackets Museum?
92 Which renegade MI6 spy wrote the book The Big Breach?
93 What 1995 autobiography is the only non-fiction work that ex-SAS soldier Andy McNab has published apart from Bravo Two Zero?
94 Ram-air, ribbon and ring, pull down apex, and round are modern types of what?
95 The Cornerstone, Ichthus and Sonshine festivals are all devoted to which particular field of the arts?
96 Altamont, the Californian venue of the infamous 1969 Rolling Stones concert, was what kind of open-air venue?
97 The Tama river is a major river in and near which capital city?
98 Which Democratic Party politician is president of Serbia and Montenegro?
99 The surname McInerney is derived from the Irish, Mac an Oirchinnigh, or son of the holder of which medieval Irish office responsible for receiving parish revenue from tithes and rents, building and maintaining church property and overseeing the termon lands that generated parish income?
100 The White City is the name given to a section of which city on the Mediterranean Sea coast due to its high concentration of Bauhaus-style buildings?
101 What unit of area originally derived its name from the Ottoman Turkish "to turn", it being the amount of land one could till in one day?
102 What dining chain was founded in 1971 by Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton when they opened a London restaurant at in a former car showroom close to Hyde Park Corner and has the motto Love All, Serve All?
103 Tim Boswell is Tory MP for which Northamptonshire constituency, named after a market town whose natural landmarks include the 653-ft high Borough Hill that overlooks it?
104 Supposed to replace King James I on the English throne with Arabella Stuart, which Spanish-aided conspiracy by English Catholics was allegedly led by Lord Cobham and involved George Brooke and Lord Grey of Wilton?
105 Performed with a scalpel that immediately produces holes with large diameters and which is therefore a more rapid method than stretching, Scalpelling is a procedure used to make what?
106 One of the pioneers in his field who claimed to be the only one remaining in the 1950s, H. Gordon Tidey was a British photographer renowned for taking pictures of what?
107 The Haiduti rebels, whose leaders were called voevodes, revolted against the Ottoman Empire. From which country did they come?
108 What sea was traditionally called Hokkai ("north sea") in Japanese and is part of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Kamchatka Peninusula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, Hokkaido island to the far south and Sakhalin island along the west, and long Siberian coastline along the west and north?
109 What popular commercial general-purpose computer programming language was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1983 at Bell Labs and appeared in 1985 (it last being revised in 2003)?
110 Who has most career Yellow Jerseys (111) and most career stage wins (33) in Tour de France history?
111 The ranking of riders on the Tour de France is done according to the accumulated time. What term describes the time?
112 What jersey is awarded for sprint points on the Tour de France?
113 Flat stage winners receive how many points on the Tour?
114 Whose Tour win saw him overtake Laurent Fignon's overall lead by just eight seconds, the closest winning margin in the event's history?
115 What are Spain's two exclaves in north Africa?
116 Led by Ian Carr, which pioneering British jazz-rock band in 1969, their first year, won first prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival, released their debut album Elastic Rock and performed at both the Newport Jazz Festival and the Village Gate jazz club?
117 Used in a special waving ceremony during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, what is an etrog?
118 In Jewish writings, it is customary to cite which book of the Torah by its first word "Vayikra" (and He called)?
119 What Hebrew word meaning "portion is the name given to the weekly Torah reading text selection that is also known as the Sidra?
120 Which city in Saxony was founded in 1186 and has been the centre of the mining industry in the Ore Mountains for centuries, a symbol of its history being the "University of Mining and Technology" which was established in 1765 and is the oldest university of mining and metallurgy in the world?
Answers to BH#50
1 Saffron 2 Lycopene 3 Xanthophylls 4 Saints Cyril and Methodius 5 192-193AD 6 Commodus and Septimius Severus 7 Goldberg Variations 8 Glasgow 9 Kanagawa 10 Malta 11 Clement Ader 12 Galician 13 Tonga 14 Brazil 15 Refco 16 Katyusha (aka Stalin's Organ) 17 Robert Tuttle 18 Classify illegal aliens as felons 19 Harp seal 20 Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai 21 The Council of Five Hundred or the Five Hundred 22 Conseil des Anciens (Council of Ancients) 23 Tarika 24 Bektashi order 25 Chittagong 26 Mikhail Bakhtin 27 Francois Rabelais 28 Aston University 29 Codec 30 Digital-to-analog converter 31 Liverpool 32 Massifs 33 Aerosmith 34 San Diego 35 Brazil 36 Benin 37 Guinea-Bissau 38 Henna 39 Edinburgh 40 Tokugawa Yoshinobu 41 Can opener 42 Macedonia 43 Argentina 44 Santa Cruz or Santa Cruz de La Sierra 45 Extremadura 46 Anne Rice 47 Valladolid Controversy 48 Parallel motion 49 The aeolipile 50 Ctesibius (of Alexandria) 51 Christiaan Huygens 52 Julius Axelrod 53 Hypothalamus 54 Nuthatch 55 Spatula 56 John Steinbeck 57 Magic Johnson 58 Philippines 59 Potentially hazardous asteroid 60 Minimum Orbit Intersection (distance) 61 Walker 62 Oliver Reed and Ann-Magret 63 Superb 64 Green Day 65 Cannibalisation 66 Tom Finney 67 Carlisle United 68 Dundee FC 69 Bo Diddley 70 Buttered noodles 71 Hermann von Helmholtz 72 Jules Dumont d'Urville 73 Cimetiere du Montparnasse 74 Jane Bathori 75 Mack the Knife 76 Cote d'Ivoire 77 Brassai 78 Andre Citroen 79 Porfirio Diaz 80 Cesar Franck 81 Jacques Fath 82 Sylvia Lopez 83 Maurice Pialat 84 Francois Rude 85 Jean-Pierre Rampal 86 Tristan Tzara 87 Cesar Vallejo 88 Jean Seberg 89 Claude Sautet 90 Camille Saint-Saens 91 Jean Sablon 92 Man Ray 93 Henri Poincare 94 Maria Montez 95 Symon Petlura 96 Mireille 97 Guy de Maupassant 98 Malaria 99 Juan Gris (born Jose Victoriano Gonzalez-Perez) 100 Film preservation and restoration 101 Joelle Mogensen 102 Johnny Hallyday 103 Eugene Ionescu 104 Assimil 105 Joris-Karl Huysmans 106 Jean-Antoine Houdon 107 Piano 108 Castlereagh 109 119 days 110 Viscount Goderich 111 David Starsky and Ken Hutchinson 112 Talleyrand 113 Madame Recamier or Jeanne Francois Julie Adelaide Recamier 114 Les Apaches 115 Henri Fantin-Latour 116 Marguerite Duras 117 Robert Desnos 118 Les Demoiselles de Rochefort 119 Jules Dalou 120 Antoine Augustin "Cournout competition" 121 Julio Cortazar 122 Jean Carmet 123 Constantin Brancusi 124 Simone de Beauvoir 125 Le Monde (newspaper) 126 Charles Baudelaire 127 Georges Auric 128 Jose Raul Capablanca 129 Supercuts 130 anagram of Our Neighbours
Nevertheless here is a big slab of quiz I prepared earlier...
1 Who played Dr John Forrest in the soap The Young Doctors?
2 Finishing his Olympic career at Berlin in 1936, the gymnast Leon Stukelj won six Olympic medals including two golds in Paris and one in Amsterdam. For which country did he compete?
3 Named after the Zurich-born chemist considered to be the founder of modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry, which "Classification" groups the chemical elements according to their preferred host phases into siderophile (iron-loving), lithophile (silicate-loving), chalcophile (sulphur-loving) and atmophile (gas-loving)?
4 What is Cheshire's largest town, although about half of it lies to the north of the Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal and is traditionally part of Lancashire?
5 Which Cheshire town is set in an area exploited for its salt pans since Roman times when the settlement was called Condate, its historical salt links being celebrated with its Salt Museum, currently located in the town's old workhouse?
6 Also referred to as the ammonia-soda process, what industrial process used in the production of soda-ash (sodium carbonate) produces sodium carbonate from salt and limestone?
7 Consisting of a weak acid and its conjugate base, what are solutions which resist change in hydronium ion concentration and consequent pH upon addition of small amounts of acid or base, or upon dilution?
8 Which French chemist (1850-1936) devised the principle used by chemists to predict the effect of change in conditions on a chemical equilibrium and which can be summarised as: "If a chemical system at equilibrium experiences a change in concentration, temperature or total pressure, the equilibrium will shift in order to minimise that change"?
9 Also given the prefixes 'chemical' and 'reaction', what chemistry term describes the amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction?
10 Named for the Greek for "element measure", which branch of chemistry is the study and calculation of quantitative relationships of the reactants and products in chemical reactions?
11 The track Willin' is said to have led Frank Zappa to sack which guitarist and harmonica-playing vocalist from The Mothers of Invention, who later reworked it and put it on Little Feat's album Sailin' Shoes?
12 What name, from the in-house coachbuilder which began producing the car company's custom bodies years earlier, was used on the top of the Cadillac line since 1927?
13 Originally a religious ritual, the Baris is a traditional dance of which Asian island in which a solo dancer depicts the feelings of a young warrior before battle?
14 The left's candidate against Roy Hattersley in the 1983 Labour party deputy leadership election, who is MP for Oldham?
15 Situated within the Western Rift of the Great Rift Valley, what is the deepest lake in Africa and holds the greatest volume of freshwater and is estimated to be the second largest lake in the world by volume after Lake Baikal?
16 The Australian sportsmen Troy Wilson is renowned for participating in which two markedly different sports?
17 Put forward by the US company RSA Laboratories on March 18, 1991, what challenge is designed to encourage research into computational number theory and the practical difficulty of the decomposition of large integers?
18 What term describes numbers with exactly two prime numbers?
19 The Crown Group is a famous UK company in what area?
20 Designed by Sir Herbert Baker to replace the original building, what building serves as the HQ of the Church of England and occupies the south end of Dean's Yard next to Westminster Abbey?
21 Where would you find the buildings known as the Mappin Terraces which include the Round House and the North Gate Kiosk?
22 Which people's assembly traditionally met under an oak tree called the Gerknikako Arbola?
23 WW2's Operation Bernhard was the subject of which 1980 BBC comedy drama that starred Michael Elphick and Ian Richardson?
24 What was the surname of SS Major Bernhard who directed the plan to flood the UK with forged Bank of England notes?
25 If they are deemed to be "non-conventional", what may therefore be visible signs such as colours, shapes or moving images, or non-visible, such as sounds, scents and tastes?
26 Also known by the generic term "chorded zithers", which musical string instruments have a series of chord bars attached to dampers which, when depressed, mute all the strings other than thsoe that form the desired chord, and have been a register trademark (since 1927) currently owned by the US Music corporation whose Oscar Schmidt division manufactures them under the name?
27 The Biblical "harp" was actually which type of lyre with 10 strings?
28 Depicted in Irish tales as a figure of immense power who is armed with a magic club and is associated with a cauldron, which god in Irish myth has a name meaning The Good God (as in good at everything) and is the father figure and protector of the tribe whose other name is Eochaid Ollathair or Eochaird All-Father?
29 He was also the High King of which supernatural beings who inhabited Ireland prior to the coming of the Celts?
30 Which composer first gained international recognition with the premiere of the works Strophen, Psalm of David and Emanations at the 1959 Warsaw Autumn Festival and also wrote the St Luke Passion (1963-66) and 1980's Symphony No. 2, Christmas?
31 Which Austrian composer and constant reviser of such works as Symphony No. 6 in A Major (the Philosophic) and Symphony No 8 in C minor (The German Michel, or Apocalyptic) never married and apparently proposed to a long list of astonished teenage girls, and had a morbid interest in dead bodies, in one instance cradling the head of Beethoven in his hands when he was exhumed?
32 Who originally wrote the later Blondie and Atomic Kitten number one The Tide is High in 1967, it being performed by his band with him as lead singer?
33 Which Football League Two English team play at York Street and are nicknamed The Pilgrims?
34 What Welsh word for parliament or senate has been applied to the Welsh national assembly building that was opened in March 2006?
35 Four members of which cycling club were killed in a road accident near Aberglee in Wales on January 8 this year?
36 For which team did the Welsh footballer Roy Clarke, who died in March 2006, score 73 goals in 349 league matches for?
37 Dafydd Elis-Thomas holds which prominent political position (as of April 2006)?
38 Which food retailer, the 5th largest in the UK as of 2005, can trace its origins back to 1875 when a small grocers was opened in Bristol by JH Mills?
39 Called "the man of steel", which two-time world middleweight champion is best remembered for the brutal and exciting three bouts he fought in over a 21-month period with Rocky Graziano for the middleweight crown, which he won in the last New Jersey fight but then lost to Marcel Cerdan?
40 Which Baron and former Chief of the Defence Staff became the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in 2004?
41 Sometimes called the father of English natural history, whose 1686 work Historia Plantarum was an important step towards modern taxonomy which rejected the system of dichotomous division by which species were previously classifed?
42 Author of the atlas of botany called Historia Plantarum, what native of Eressos in Lesbos (b. c.372BC) was the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school had the given name Tyrtamus but became known by the nickname given to him, it is said, by Aristotle to indicate the grace of his conversation, and also released the first recorded message in a bottle?
43 Who designed the first Air Jordan trainer which was released in 1985?
44 Which classic novel features a hunting expedition that uses unusual glass bullets called Leyden balls?
45 In Japan what kind of actor is a seiyu?
46 First heard in 1945 on a pedal steel guitar created by Leo Fender, the first recorded use of what effects pedal was by Chet Atkins on his 1961 recording Boo Boo Stick Beat?
47 Founded as The Jennings Organ company by Tom Jennings after WW2, what British musical equipment manufacturer is most famous for making the AC30 guitar amplifier?
48 MINOS is geared towards researching what elementary particle and recently implied they have mass, which would require a substantial revision to the Standard Model of particle physics?
49 The known elementary types of which particle with half-integer spin are divided into two groups: quarks and leptons?
50 In the 1969 spaghetti western Sabata who played the title hero who was ranged against William Berger's villain Banjo?
51 Which car company released the Cinquecento to replace the 126?
52 What social dance of French origin for two persons, usually in 3/4 time, has a name adapted from the French for small or delicate possibly referring to the short steps taken in the dance?
53 Which Italian-born French composer left his opera Achille & Polyxene unfinished on his death in 1687 and wrote "Bisogna morire, peccatore" (You must die, sinner) on his deathbed?
54 The art of what was taught in the Libri Tagetici, a collection of texts attributed to Tages, a childlike being from Etruscan mythology?
55 Which city in Emilia-Romagna is called the Palaces City for the great numbers of historical palaces like the Palazzo Farnese and Palazzo Gotico?
56 What kind of individuals attended the Havana Conference in the week of December 22, 1946, at the Hotel Nacional?
57 What hotel was built when, in 1962, a cabana motel owner called Jay Sarno used $10 million lent to him by a Teamsters pension fund to begin plans for a hotel on land owned by Kirk Kerkorian?
58 Now on display at the archaeological museum of Heraklion on Crete, what curious 15cm diameter and 1cm thick archaeological artefact, likely dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age, was discovered by Luigi Pernier in 1908 in the basement of room eight in building 101 of the Minoan palace-site near Hagia Triada that gives its name?
59 In electronics, what is usually taken as the mean ratio of the signal output of a system to the signal input of the system?
60 Wembley Stadium was built in 1924 at a cost of £750,000 (!!!) on the former site of which partially-built "Folly" that was named after the MP who proposed its construction shortly after the Eiffel Tower was completed?
61 Who contested the first FA Cup final on April 28, 1923?
62 What was the actual name of the white horse that gave its name to the 1923 FA Cup final and which was ridden by Police Constable George Scorey?
63 How many European Cup Finals has Wembley hosted?
64 Which football club did the British expatriate Herbert Kilpin found on December 16, 1899?
65 What word for a piece of sporting equipment describes the set of colliding galaxies, a barred spiral galaxy and an irregular galaxy, about 30 million light years away in the constellation Canes Venatici?
66 The discovery of infrared radiation is commonly ascribed to which astronomer in the 19th century, who used a prism to refract light from the sun and detected the infrared through an increase in the temperature recorded in a thermometer?
67 Introduced as a term by Gustav Kirchhoff in 1862, in physics what is an object that absorbs all electromagnetic radiation that falls into it, with no radiation passing through it and none being reflected?
68 Mast is the fruit of which large evergreen tree found in New Zealand that has the scientific name Dacrydium cupressinum and was first named "red pine" by European colonists?
69 In sailing what is a vessel with two masts at least one of which is square-rigged, and in modern parlance, a ship that is square-rigged on both masts?
70 Derived from an Old Norse phrase meaning "to express a thing in terms of another" and prevaletn throught Norse, Anglo-Saxon literature and Celtic literature, what term describes a compound poetic phrase or figure of speech substituted for the usual name of a person or thing?
71 As heard in a famous 80s film, what is the transliteration of the Cantonese word meaning ghost or evil spirit or demon?
72 The name of a Scottish record label, what did Stooges drummer Scott Ashton have his name changed to?
73 The Golden North Salmon Derby, the object of which is to catch the largest Chinook or Coho salmon over three days, is held in which US state capital every August?
74 Which Pacific salmon is also called the dog salmon or Keta salmon?
75 The last of the Syrian emperors, which Roman emperor from 222 to 235 was born at Arca Caesarea in Palestine and died fighting German invaders in Gaul not far from Mainz?
76 The Metsasissit or Forest Guerillias were a resistantce movement in which country in the early 20th century?
77 Which country endured the Baigais Gads or the Year of Horror during the first half of WW2?
78 Which alkali metal, atomic number 37, was discovered in 1861 by Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff in the mineral lepidolite through the the use of a spectroscope?
79 Used by Keith Moon and Phil Collins, which Leicestershire-based manufacturer of drums and similar instruments was founded in 1922 by London drummer Albert Della Porta and drum-builder George Smith?
80 Phil Collins professional career began as a drummer with which obscure rock group who released just the one album Ark 2 in 1969?
81 Abbreviated TR, what red fluorescent dye is used in histology for staining cell specimens and is a sulphonyl chloride derivate of sulphorhodamine 101?
82 Which eastern rival did Septimius Severus defeat at the 193 Battle of Nicaea, ending his bid for the Roman Empire the next year at Issus?
83 Also called lambrequin, what in heraldry is drapery tied to the helmet above the shield and which forms the shield's backdrop?
84 Named so because it will clear the are of pollution, what is the local name for the strong southeast wind that blows on the South African coast?
85 Which American astronomer published the discovery of gaps in the distances of asteroids from the sun in 1866, thus giving such gaps their name, and was also the first to suggest that meteor showers are debris from comets?
86 Which Northern Ireland football team plays at Windsor Park?
87 What pale cream English cheddar cheese is made using pasteurised cow's milk marbled with wine, often a Bordeaux or a blend of port and brandy?
88 The Noah's Ark water park, the largest in the world, is located in whiuch American city that prides itself on being the "Water Park Capital of the World" with 18 indoor water parks?
89 Generally called the Spanish Game outside of English-speaking countries, what chess opening is characterised by the moves 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5?
90 The eight deities known as the Ogodad feature in which mythology?
91 In which cathedral city is the Royal Green Jackets Museum?
92 Which renegade MI6 spy wrote the book The Big Breach?
93 What 1995 autobiography is the only non-fiction work that ex-SAS soldier Andy McNab has published apart from Bravo Two Zero?
94 Ram-air, ribbon and ring, pull down apex, and round are modern types of what?
95 The Cornerstone, Ichthus and Sonshine festivals are all devoted to which particular field of the arts?
96 Altamont, the Californian venue of the infamous 1969 Rolling Stones concert, was what kind of open-air venue?
97 The Tama river is a major river in and near which capital city?
98 Which Democratic Party politician is president of Serbia and Montenegro?
99 The surname McInerney is derived from the Irish, Mac an Oirchinnigh, or son of the holder of which medieval Irish office responsible for receiving parish revenue from tithes and rents, building and maintaining church property and overseeing the termon lands that generated parish income?
100 The White City is the name given to a section of which city on the Mediterranean Sea coast due to its high concentration of Bauhaus-style buildings?
101 What unit of area originally derived its name from the Ottoman Turkish "to turn", it being the amount of land one could till in one day?
102 What dining chain was founded in 1971 by Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton when they opened a London restaurant at in a former car showroom close to Hyde Park Corner and has the motto Love All, Serve All?
103 Tim Boswell is Tory MP for which Northamptonshire constituency, named after a market town whose natural landmarks include the 653-ft high Borough Hill that overlooks it?
104 Supposed to replace King James I on the English throne with Arabella Stuart, which Spanish-aided conspiracy by English Catholics was allegedly led by Lord Cobham and involved George Brooke and Lord Grey of Wilton?
105 Performed with a scalpel that immediately produces holes with large diameters and which is therefore a more rapid method than stretching, Scalpelling is a procedure used to make what?
106 One of the pioneers in his field who claimed to be the only one remaining in the 1950s, H. Gordon Tidey was a British photographer renowned for taking pictures of what?
107 The Haiduti rebels, whose leaders were called voevodes, revolted against the Ottoman Empire. From which country did they come?
108 What sea was traditionally called Hokkai ("north sea") in Japanese and is part of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Kamchatka Peninusula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, Hokkaido island to the far south and Sakhalin island along the west, and long Siberian coastline along the west and north?
109 What popular commercial general-purpose computer programming language was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1983 at Bell Labs and appeared in 1985 (it last being revised in 2003)?
110 Who has most career Yellow Jerseys (111) and most career stage wins (33) in Tour de France history?
111 The ranking of riders on the Tour de France is done according to the accumulated time. What term describes the time?
112 What jersey is awarded for sprint points on the Tour de France?
113 Flat stage winners receive how many points on the Tour?
114 Whose Tour win saw him overtake Laurent Fignon's overall lead by just eight seconds, the closest winning margin in the event's history?
115 What are Spain's two exclaves in north Africa?
116 Led by Ian Carr, which pioneering British jazz-rock band in 1969, their first year, won first prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival, released their debut album Elastic Rock and performed at both the Newport Jazz Festival and the Village Gate jazz club?
117 Used in a special waving ceremony during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, what is an etrog?
118 In Jewish writings, it is customary to cite which book of the Torah by its first word "Vayikra" (and He called)?
119 What Hebrew word meaning "portion is the name given to the weekly Torah reading text selection that is also known as the Sidra?
120 Which city in Saxony was founded in 1186 and has been the centre of the mining industry in the Ore Mountains for centuries, a symbol of its history being the "University of Mining and Technology" which was established in 1765 and is the oldest university of mining and metallurgy in the world?
Answers to BH#50
1 Saffron 2 Lycopene 3 Xanthophylls 4 Saints Cyril and Methodius 5 192-193AD 6 Commodus and Septimius Severus 7 Goldberg Variations 8 Glasgow 9 Kanagawa 10 Malta 11 Clement Ader 12 Galician 13 Tonga 14 Brazil 15 Refco 16 Katyusha (aka Stalin's Organ) 17 Robert Tuttle 18 Classify illegal aliens as felons 19 Harp seal 20 Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai 21 The Council of Five Hundred or the Five Hundred 22 Conseil des Anciens (Council of Ancients) 23 Tarika 24 Bektashi order 25 Chittagong 26 Mikhail Bakhtin 27 Francois Rabelais 28 Aston University 29 Codec 30 Digital-to-analog converter 31 Liverpool 32 Massifs 33 Aerosmith 34 San Diego 35 Brazil 36 Benin 37 Guinea-Bissau 38 Henna 39 Edinburgh 40 Tokugawa Yoshinobu 41 Can opener 42 Macedonia 43 Argentina 44 Santa Cruz or Santa Cruz de La Sierra 45 Extremadura 46 Anne Rice 47 Valladolid Controversy 48 Parallel motion 49 The aeolipile 50 Ctesibius (of Alexandria) 51 Christiaan Huygens 52 Julius Axelrod 53 Hypothalamus 54 Nuthatch 55 Spatula 56 John Steinbeck 57 Magic Johnson 58 Philippines 59 Potentially hazardous asteroid 60 Minimum Orbit Intersection (distance) 61 Walker 62 Oliver Reed and Ann-Magret 63 Superb 64 Green Day 65 Cannibalisation 66 Tom Finney 67 Carlisle United 68 Dundee FC 69 Bo Diddley 70 Buttered noodles 71 Hermann von Helmholtz 72 Jules Dumont d'Urville 73 Cimetiere du Montparnasse 74 Jane Bathori 75 Mack the Knife 76 Cote d'Ivoire 77 Brassai 78 Andre Citroen 79 Porfirio Diaz 80 Cesar Franck 81 Jacques Fath 82 Sylvia Lopez 83 Maurice Pialat 84 Francois Rude 85 Jean-Pierre Rampal 86 Tristan Tzara 87 Cesar Vallejo 88 Jean Seberg 89 Claude Sautet 90 Camille Saint-Saens 91 Jean Sablon 92 Man Ray 93 Henri Poincare 94 Maria Montez 95 Symon Petlura 96 Mireille 97 Guy de Maupassant 98 Malaria 99 Juan Gris (born Jose Victoriano Gonzalez-Perez) 100 Film preservation and restoration 101 Joelle Mogensen 102 Johnny Hallyday 103 Eugene Ionescu 104 Assimil 105 Joris-Karl Huysmans 106 Jean-Antoine Houdon 107 Piano 108 Castlereagh 109 119 days 110 Viscount Goderich 111 David Starsky and Ken Hutchinson 112 Talleyrand 113 Madame Recamier or Jeanne Francois Julie Adelaide Recamier 114 Les Apaches 115 Henri Fantin-Latour 116 Marguerite Duras 117 Robert Desnos 118 Les Demoiselles de Rochefort 119 Jules Dalou 120 Antoine Augustin "Cournout competition" 121 Julio Cortazar 122 Jean Carmet 123 Constantin Brancusi 124 Simone de Beauvoir 125 Le Monde (newspaper) 126 Charles Baudelaire 127 Georges Auric 128 Jose Raul Capablanca 129 Supercuts 130 anagram of Our Neighbours
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