BH #65 ... the return of the # key
(Nope, my Powerbook lacks an obvious # key. The geniuses at Apple have come up way short in this regard. People who set BH quizzes are sorely disappointed and will not resort to the beautifully designed manuals.)
Nothing to do with the pain Wayne's broken metatarsal has unleashed in Englishmen's hearts
Wait a minute, stop. Hammer time. Been working most of the night and I almost forgot to update the blog. Nevertheless, the blog always calls with its silent siren in my brain which gets louder and louder until I yield to Blogger, so it does get updated eventually. Out of guilt.
I had been updating my CV for the first time in three years (sorry for this career talk) and it might be overdoing it a bit to have one that is three pages. I seem to remember career advisers warning me about having one that was more than two as if any more would result in its immediate flinging into the Human Resources hearth, but I've already chucked out the six months of work placements, my pre-university history and whole rafts of cool-looking stuff. Well, stuff that made me feel a tinsy bit proud all those years ago. But a CV is not about sentiment, it's about "look at me, prancing like a peacock with the finery of my experience, take me on. NOW. You cannot resist etc". And, you know what, it appears that I actually did some work in the intervening period. I have to emphasise the "some" though; I feel I could have done a lot more. Never mind.
Quiz does bare its weird head in it, of course. A friend who recently applied to get a new job, sprayed it like fertilising muck all over his CV because, quite frankly, his quiz achievements merited it. Because it is one way of making your head pop up above the masses of normals (sorry, is that offensive, but far less offensive than the old patronising term I formerly used: CIVILIANS). So I've got almost half a page of the trivial stuff on it. I couldn't resist. Quiz forces my hand yet again. It's like a darn imp on my shoulder, forever bending my ear and telling me to seal myself up in a room and learn facts. Possibly, whilst doing an impersonation of Howard Hughes in the milk bottle years.
As the aforementioned friend bellowed, while thumping a pub table: "Why not!" Yeah, WHY NOT? WTFN? So there. It is there in black and white with cardinal positions and names of places. Even my appearance on One-to-Win. Actually, I should take that off. Bloody irrelevant isn't it and depressing to remember. It's all bloody irrelevant. Sophistry comes to the fore again. Must stick to people's expectations. Must be a normal for normality's sake.
(But what about Wayne? And why is the metatarsal the only bone in the human body that seems to have been created for the sole purpose of destroying the hopes and dreams of England's football fans? We're looking at the heavens for answers and don't tell me Jermaine Defoe or that a now classic Arsenal goes to Europe five-man midfield are the answers to our prayers, because believe me all of us are now praying at this very minute and for the next six weeks. I know what we should do. Hang, draw, quarter and burn effigies of Paulo Ferreira. That will make us all feel so much better.)
1 Born Gaetano dei Conti di Tiene in 1480, which Catholic saint founded the order of the Clerics Regular, better known as the Theatines?
2 Who is the current Metropolitan and Patriarch of Moscow, who began his tenure in 1990?
3 Nicknamed Jeromin, which illegitimate son of burgher's daughter Barbara Blomberg and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and military leader had his most famous victory at Lepanto in 1571?
4 Which German scholastic philosopher (1547-1628) is credited with the invention of the terms psychology (1590) and ontology (1613)?
5 Also known as Matteo da Lecce, which Italian painter studied under Michelangelo whilst working at the Sistine Chapel and is perhaps best known for 13 frescoes showing the events of the great siege of Malta by the Turks in 1565 at the Hall of St Michael and St George in the Grandmaster's Palace at Valletta?
6 Who was crowned King of France at Noyon, Picardie on July 3, 987, the first of the Capetian dynasty to rule the country?
7 Which English racecourse is home of The Centaur, an auditorium capable of seating over 2,000 people for conferences and 4,000 standing for concerts?
8 What name is given to the apparent path of the Sun traced out along the sky in the course of a year?
9 The Delphic Sybil gave prophecies in the sacred precinct of Apollo at Delphi, located on the slopes of what mountain?
10 Taking its name from the Greek for "wave", what ancient Greek settlement lying to the NW of Naples was the site of the most famous Sibyl?
11 What group of mainly Greek mercenary units was drawn up by Cyrus the Younger to try and wrest the throne of the Persian Empire from his brother, Artaxerxes II, their march to the Battle of Cunaxa (where Cyrus was killed) and back to Greece being recorded by Xenophon in The Anabasis?
12 Known for his main work The Discourses, which Greek Stoic philosopher (c.55-c.135) lived most of his life in Rome until his exile to Nicopolis in NW Greece where he died and had a name meaning "acquired" in Greek?
13 Named after the brewer who first made it in 1791, the beer Kwak comes from which country?
14 The medical condition pancyopenia is a reduction of the number of what in the body?
15 What is the English word for German wine, short for a now obsolete word named after a town on the Main that was the site of a traditional vineyard site in the Rheingau region where wine shipments to England used to originate for many years?
16 What other name is given to the gambrel, a tarsal joint of such digitigrade quadrupeds as the dog or horse?
17 Vincent Huson was the name given to a serial killer who rampaged through an area of which European capital in 1978?
18 The Four Species, Lulav (a frond of the date palm tree), hadass (myrtle), aravah (willow) and etrog (citron) are used in the daily prayer services during what Jewish holiday?
19 Famously covered by Tennesse Ernie Ford in 1955, who wrote the coalminer's lament Sixteen Tons in 1945 and based it on his own family's experience in the mines of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky?
20 What name is given to the sovereign when acting on the advice of the Privy Council?
21 What object does the Lord High Treasurer bear as their symbol of office?
22 Which Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council suddenly died in office in 2003?
23 William de Boneville became the first person to hold which official post in 1277?
24 Ken Macdonald QC was appointed to what post in November 2003?
25 Created by Chris Claremont and Herb Trimpe and first appearing in 1976, physics student Brian Braddock was recruited after a motorcycle accident by Merlyn and his daughter, the goddess Roma, to become which superhero?
26 What is the name of comic character Billy Whizz's younger and slower brother?
27 James Logan's 1831 work Scottish Gael was a list of what?
28 The hybrid loganberry is produced by crossing what two fruits?
29 From the Latin for 'region', what word has been used since the Middle Ages to name districts of central Rome according to the political divisions of that time?
30 What company makes the Bionicle line of toys for 7-16-year-olds that was launched in 2000?
Answers to BH #64
1 The Stewardesses 2 Hyundai 3 Port Arthur 4 Japan 5 French Foreign Legion 6 Transformer 7 Interstitial art 8 Daewoo 9 Weihenstephan 10 James Gregory 11 Bristol 12 Alexander Blok 13 Anastacia 14 Sir William Blake Richmond 15 Order of the Bath 16 The Band Wagon 17 Denmark 18 Hmong 19 Newman 20 Chevaline 21 James Monroe 22 Viktor Astafiyev 23 Dr Bonham's Case 24 The Battle of the River Plate 25 HMS Exeter, Ajax and Achilles
And finally, the answers to BH #62
(NB. There was a typo for #61 answers, which said #62. I'll amend when I get round to sprucing this place up)
1 Peter the Great 2 The Rump 3 Claude Bernard 4 Pierre Trudeau 5 Norway 6 Hu Jintao 7 Bolivia 8 Vietnam 9 Ben Gurion Airport 10 China and Taiwan 11 Zebu 12 Gaur 13 Magnolia 14 Christ of St John of the Cross 15 Optics 16 Cecil Rhodes 17 De Beers 18 Vaal river 19 Greensboro 20 System-on-a-chip 21 Occipital ridge 22 Cytoplasm 23 Chmielnicki Rebellion or Khmelnytskyi Uprising 24 The Deluge 25 National Union of Railwaymen and National Union of Seamen 26 Tony Woodley 27 Astral projection 28 Madagascar 29 The Trachtenberg System 30 Montenegro (in Podgorica) 31 Bruno Pontecorvo 32 Cerdon 33 Swiss-made Light Armoured Vehicle or tank 34 Richard Bass 35 Muhlberg
Nothing to do with the pain Wayne's broken metatarsal has unleashed in Englishmen's hearts
Wait a minute, stop. Hammer time. Been working most of the night and I almost forgot to update the blog. Nevertheless, the blog always calls with its silent siren in my brain which gets louder and louder until I yield to Blogger, so it does get updated eventually. Out of guilt.
I had been updating my CV for the first time in three years (sorry for this career talk) and it might be overdoing it a bit to have one that is three pages. I seem to remember career advisers warning me about having one that was more than two as if any more would result in its immediate flinging into the Human Resources hearth, but I've already chucked out the six months of work placements, my pre-university history and whole rafts of cool-looking stuff. Well, stuff that made me feel a tinsy bit proud all those years ago. But a CV is not about sentiment, it's about "look at me, prancing like a peacock with the finery of my experience, take me on. NOW. You cannot resist etc". And, you know what, it appears that I actually did some work in the intervening period. I have to emphasise the "some" though; I feel I could have done a lot more. Never mind.
Quiz does bare its weird head in it, of course. A friend who recently applied to get a new job, sprayed it like fertilising muck all over his CV because, quite frankly, his quiz achievements merited it. Because it is one way of making your head pop up above the masses of normals (sorry, is that offensive, but far less offensive than the old patronising term I formerly used: CIVILIANS). So I've got almost half a page of the trivial stuff on it. I couldn't resist. Quiz forces my hand yet again. It's like a darn imp on my shoulder, forever bending my ear and telling me to seal myself up in a room and learn facts. Possibly, whilst doing an impersonation of Howard Hughes in the milk bottle years.
As the aforementioned friend bellowed, while thumping a pub table: "Why not!" Yeah, WHY NOT? WTFN? So there. It is there in black and white with cardinal positions and names of places. Even my appearance on One-to-Win. Actually, I should take that off. Bloody irrelevant isn't it and depressing to remember. It's all bloody irrelevant. Sophistry comes to the fore again. Must stick to people's expectations. Must be a normal for normality's sake.
(But what about Wayne? And why is the metatarsal the only bone in the human body that seems to have been created for the sole purpose of destroying the hopes and dreams of England's football fans? We're looking at the heavens for answers and don't tell me Jermaine Defoe or that a now classic Arsenal goes to Europe five-man midfield are the answers to our prayers, because believe me all of us are now praying at this very minute and for the next six weeks. I know what we should do. Hang, draw, quarter and burn effigies of Paulo Ferreira. That will make us all feel so much better.)
1 Born Gaetano dei Conti di Tiene in 1480, which Catholic saint founded the order of the Clerics Regular, better known as the Theatines?
2 Who is the current Metropolitan and Patriarch of Moscow, who began his tenure in 1990?
3 Nicknamed Jeromin, which illegitimate son of burgher's daughter Barbara Blomberg and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and military leader had his most famous victory at Lepanto in 1571?
4 Which German scholastic philosopher (1547-1628) is credited with the invention of the terms psychology (1590) and ontology (1613)?
5 Also known as Matteo da Lecce, which Italian painter studied under Michelangelo whilst working at the Sistine Chapel and is perhaps best known for 13 frescoes showing the events of the great siege of Malta by the Turks in 1565 at the Hall of St Michael and St George in the Grandmaster's Palace at Valletta?
6 Who was crowned King of France at Noyon, Picardie on July 3, 987, the first of the Capetian dynasty to rule the country?
7 Which English racecourse is home of The Centaur, an auditorium capable of seating over 2,000 people for conferences and 4,000 standing for concerts?
8 What name is given to the apparent path of the Sun traced out along the sky in the course of a year?
9 The Delphic Sybil gave prophecies in the sacred precinct of Apollo at Delphi, located on the slopes of what mountain?
10 Taking its name from the Greek for "wave", what ancient Greek settlement lying to the NW of Naples was the site of the most famous Sibyl?
11 What group of mainly Greek mercenary units was drawn up by Cyrus the Younger to try and wrest the throne of the Persian Empire from his brother, Artaxerxes II, their march to the Battle of Cunaxa (where Cyrus was killed) and back to Greece being recorded by Xenophon in The Anabasis?
12 Known for his main work The Discourses, which Greek Stoic philosopher (c.55-c.135) lived most of his life in Rome until his exile to Nicopolis in NW Greece where he died and had a name meaning "acquired" in Greek?
13 Named after the brewer who first made it in 1791, the beer Kwak comes from which country?
14 The medical condition pancyopenia is a reduction of the number of what in the body?
15 What is the English word for German wine, short for a now obsolete word named after a town on the Main that was the site of a traditional vineyard site in the Rheingau region where wine shipments to England used to originate for many years?
16 What other name is given to the gambrel, a tarsal joint of such digitigrade quadrupeds as the dog or horse?
17 Vincent Huson was the name given to a serial killer who rampaged through an area of which European capital in 1978?
18 The Four Species, Lulav (a frond of the date palm tree), hadass (myrtle), aravah (willow) and etrog (citron) are used in the daily prayer services during what Jewish holiday?
19 Famously covered by Tennesse Ernie Ford in 1955, who wrote the coalminer's lament Sixteen Tons in 1945 and based it on his own family's experience in the mines of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky?
20 What name is given to the sovereign when acting on the advice of the Privy Council?
21 What object does the Lord High Treasurer bear as their symbol of office?
22 Which Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council suddenly died in office in 2003?
23 William de Boneville became the first person to hold which official post in 1277?
24 Ken Macdonald QC was appointed to what post in November 2003?
25 Created by Chris Claremont and Herb Trimpe and first appearing in 1976, physics student Brian Braddock was recruited after a motorcycle accident by Merlyn and his daughter, the goddess Roma, to become which superhero?
26 What is the name of comic character Billy Whizz's younger and slower brother?
27 James Logan's 1831 work Scottish Gael was a list of what?
28 The hybrid loganberry is produced by crossing what two fruits?
29 From the Latin for 'region', what word has been used since the Middle Ages to name districts of central Rome according to the political divisions of that time?
30 What company makes the Bionicle line of toys for 7-16-year-olds that was launched in 2000?
Answers to BH #64
1 The Stewardesses 2 Hyundai 3 Port Arthur 4 Japan 5 French Foreign Legion 6 Transformer 7 Interstitial art 8 Daewoo 9 Weihenstephan 10 James Gregory 11 Bristol 12 Alexander Blok 13 Anastacia 14 Sir William Blake Richmond 15 Order of the Bath 16 The Band Wagon 17 Denmark 18 Hmong 19 Newman 20 Chevaline 21 James Monroe 22 Viktor Astafiyev 23 Dr Bonham's Case 24 The Battle of the River Plate 25 HMS Exeter, Ajax and Achilles
And finally, the answers to BH #62
(NB. There was a typo for #61 answers, which said #62. I'll amend when I get round to sprucing this place up)
1 Peter the Great 2 The Rump 3 Claude Bernard 4 Pierre Trudeau 5 Norway 6 Hu Jintao 7 Bolivia 8 Vietnam 9 Ben Gurion Airport 10 China and Taiwan 11 Zebu 12 Gaur 13 Magnolia 14 Christ of St John of the Cross 15 Optics 16 Cecil Rhodes 17 De Beers 18 Vaal river 19 Greensboro 20 System-on-a-chip 21 Occipital ridge 22 Cytoplasm 23 Chmielnicki Rebellion or Khmelnytskyi Uprising 24 The Deluge 25 National Union of Railwaymen and National Union of Seamen 26 Tony Woodley 27 Astral projection 28 Madagascar 29 The Trachtenberg System 30 Montenegro (in Podgorica) 31 Bruno Pontecorvo 32 Cerdon 33 Swiss-made Light Armoured Vehicle or tank 34 Richard Bass 35 Muhlberg
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