Captain Kirk's Last Words Were: "It's been fun ... Oh, my". Maybe, you will feel the same way once you have tackled the BH quiz #58
So when I wrote: "Hard drugs can be a gateway to magnificence", I would like to make the point that, in view of journalists and such and such researching me in future that the remark was made in a tongue-in-cheek manner. This comes after prophetic visions of headlines like "Quiz Champ Advocates Smack and Crack For Trivia Glory" coming me into my nightmares and daydreams.
Drugs are bad, m'kay. They rot the brain and the memory banks, and should be avoided if you desire quizmasterdom. Yes, that even includes the quizzer fuel: beer. And yes, I am fully in favour of an ascetic lifestyle where even fags and Coke are to be eschewed. And yes, I have even considered giving up those two evils before my lungs pack up and my teeth turn stumpy and black. (Now thoughts of forming a monastic quiz order in the Scottish Highlands enter my head ... must be the short attention span).
Yup, here's another quiz. (Don't worry, the quizzes will return to their relatively miniature and no doubt palatable size)
1 What is the world's only flightless parrot, the heaviest parrot and the only parrot to have a lek breeding system?
2 What fossil lobe-finned fish with many land vertebrate features has been discovered on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut?
3 What has been made the third official language of New Zealand?
4 Created in 1792 and awarded in five classes, the Virtuti Militari is the highest military decoration of which country?
5 What open star cluster is classified M45?
6 An inhabitant of the tropical forests of Central and South America, what omnivorous animal of the weasel family is the only species in the genus Eira?
7 Lee Jong-Wook is the current Director-General of which specialised agency of the UN?
8 Which athlete has just been succeeded by David de Kretser as governor of the state of Victoria?
9 Famed for its official journal, which society was founded on January 13, 1888, and had Gardiner Greene Hubbard for its first president and his son-in-law Alexander Graham Bell for its second?
10 In which city has the 1500-year-old pyramid, the Hill of the Star, been recently discovered?
11 Where has Judge Anand Satyanand just replaced Dame Sivia Cartwright as the country's Governor-General?
12 Whose birthday is celebrated every April 8 in Japan?
13 Fast of the Firstborn is a unique Jewish fast day that falls the day before which festival?
14 Meaning "completion", what term describes the completion of any unit of Torah study or book of the Mishnah or Talmud in Judaism, and is usually followed by a celebratory meal?
15 In computer security, what term describes an attack or situation in which one person or program successfully masquerades as another by falsifying data and thereby gaining an illegitimate advantage?
16 Abel House is HQ of what executive agency that reports to the Home Office?
17 Which man "and Partners", Architects for Vickers, designed Millbank Tower in the City of Westminster?
18 Opened on July 12, 1932 by King George V, which Geoffrey Groves-designed bridge has Westminster Bridge next downstream and Vauxhall Bridge next upstream?
19 Which famous English historical figure was the son of Gilbert of Thierceville, Normandy, and Rosea or Matilda of Caen?
20 In 1973, which London-born psychologist invented the octave illusion, an auditory illusion produced by simultaneously playing two sequences of two notes that are spaced an octave apart, high to low, and low to high, in separate stereo channels over headphones?
21 What boardsport was formerly called skurfing and is basically water-skiing but with a singleboard?
22 Deriving its name from Zhan Guo Ce, a renowned historical work on the period in the late Western Han Dynasty by Liu Xiang, what term describes the period of the 5th century BC to the unification of China by the Qin in 221BC?
23 What international company was originally founded in Japan on November 6, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to make handmade hanafuda cards for use in a playing card game of the same name?
24 Which international company is the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners baseball team?
25 In a 1931 letter to King George V, from which royal couple did Anthony Hall claim to be descended directly through the male son becaue of an illegitimate son born before their marriage?
26 The 19th century Black War and Black Line contributed to the destruction of which island's indigenous people?
27 Said to have been a foundres of the Romantic movement, which French-speaking Swiss author was born Anne Louise Germaine Necker in Paris in 1766?
28 Which prophet authored such religious works as the Kitab-i-Aqdas and the Book of Certitude?
29 Named after the second largest city of Mozambique, what name was given to the blockade by Royal Navy ships of oil shipments to Rhodesia resulting from UN sanctions and lasted 1966 to 1975?
30 The stories The Mystery of Marie Roget and The Purloined Letter featured which detective?
31 Which author set up a competition offering a reward to any reader who could figure out and describe how the murder in his first book, 1906's The Four Just Men, was committed?
32 Also known by the pen name Roger Fairbairn, which American author modelled his most famous creation, the fat and genial lexicographer Dr Gideon Fell, on GK Chesterton's Father Brown?
33 Which English city gives its name to a show jumping obstacle that takes the form of a vertical jump with a small pool of water underneath?
34 For what sum did the USA buy the Philippines from Spain in 1898?
35 Crying or weeping induced by emotional distress is one of three types of tears. What are the other two?
36 What ornamental stone is sometimes called "tears of the Buddha"?
37 The Incas believed what metal to be the "tears of the moon"?
38 The world's tallest free-standing structure on land, what does the CN in the 553.33m-high CN Tower stand for?
39 In which city is the tower known as Borj-e Milad?
40 Nicknamed "der lange Lulatsch" (the lanky lad), what transmitting tower was built between 1924 and 1926 by Heinrich Straumer?
41 Which reserve team coach was promoted to replace Matt Busby as Manchester United manager in 1969, but was fired in December 1970?
42 Which football manager had a famous affair with Mary Brown, the wife of his team's physiotherapist?
43 Which Arsenal manager and club physiotherapist led them to their first European trophy, 1970's Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and the Double in 1971?
44 JH Davies was responsible for which football team's name change after he took over a near bankrupt club in 1902?
45 The active ingredient in Roundup, what is currently the world's most used herbicide?
46 Also known as balancers or poisers, what are the small knobbed structures found as a pair in some two-winged insects like mosquitoes and are used to maintain stability when flying?
47 Elephanta Island, Oyster Rock, Salsetta Island and Middle Ground are islands in the harbour of which major Asian city?
48 What 1339 battle was fought between the Berne and its allies and the Habsburgs and Burgundians resulted in a victory for the Bernese and Swiss against all the odds?
49 From the Greek for "darkness", what is an area or island of loss or impairment of visual acuity surrounded by a field of normal vision?
50 The medical term Mittelschmerz is applied to pain associated with what physiological process?
51 Which US artist topped the UK charts at the start of 1959 with It's Only Make Believe?
52 Born Terence Perkins on the Isle of Wight, which pop singer topped the charts in September 1959 with Only Sixteen?
53 Found on his 1967 album New Masters, who wrote the Rod Stewart hit The First Cut is the Deepest?
54 Located in the Berkshire town of Crowthorne, which public school had Edward White Benson, later Archbishop of Canterbury for its first headmaster?
55 Which Archbishop-elect of York refused to acknowledge the pre-eminence of Canterbury and appealed to Pope Callixtus II who personally cosecrated him and issued a papal bull repudiating Canterbury's supremacy?
56 Which Dean of Lincoln was the first Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury?
57 Who was Archbishop of Canterbury at the turn of the 20th century (1896-1902)?
58 Who became the last Archbishop of Canterbury to die in office, when he died on October 26, 1944?
59 Pope (St) Pius X issued what oath in September 1910, saying "all clergy, pastors, confessors, religious superiors, and professors in philosophical-theological seminaries" should subscribe to it?
60 Gaso, a language game in the form of rhyming slang, is traditionally associated with which South American city?
61 Which company introduced the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) in the 1970s?
62 The marine biologist Professor Pierre Aronnax narrates which 1870 novel?
63 Which Canadian author's novels include Bonheur d'occasion (1945; The Tin Flute), Alexander Chenevert (1954; The Cashier) and La Route d'Altamont (1966; The Road Past Altamont)?
64 Which popular animated movie character's name is taken from the Yiddish word for "fear, terror"?
65 What circular particle accelerator at the Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, is currently the highest energy particle collider in the world?
66 What two-word phrase describes the fashionable manner in which upper and middle class women of the 19th century held themselves whilst walking?
67 Where would you see a number of Wright Eclipse Geminis in action?
68 The Wolseley Motor Company which was founded in 1887 by Frederick York Wolseley in Sydney originally had what device form part of the company's name?
69 What term describes a plant that naturally grows where it is affected by salinity in the root area?
70 Which town is home to the suburb of Branston where Branston Pickle was invented?
71 Which country won the first Men's European Basketball Championship in 1935 and who won the latest in 2005?
72 Which country won the first Men's Basketball World Championship in 1950 and who won the latest in 2002?
73 As seen in musical versions composed by Juan del Encina and Pedre de Escobar, what common lyric form of the Iberian Peninsula in the Renaissance period is a type of poem which as a mote followed by one or more intervening strophes (the volta or copla); the difference between it and cancion depending on it containing two or three lines in its initial part?
74 Which Irish writer and physician was called the "Inspired Idiot" by Horace Walpole due to his literary work and dissolute lifestyle?
75 What inflatable toy is especially associated with an eponymous experiment coducted by Albert Bandura in 1961 that studied patterns of behaviour associated with aggression?
Answers to BH#57
1 Ernest Bevin 2 Tony Woodley 3 "Blunderstone Rookery" 4 The "Tempest" chapter featuring the story of Ham and the shipwreck 5 Satis House 6 Sharif 7 Dual cone roller bit 8 Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur 9 Telephone 10 The Social War (from Socii "allies") 11 Jane Russell 12 Ralph Richardson 13 Sgt. Eugene Tackleberry in Police Academy 14 Beef 15 Farinata 16 Small shark 17 Huss 18 Frankie Laine 19 Dragonfly 20 Paul Celan 21 Theodor Adorno 22 Giant Steps 23 Sonny Rollins 24 Plato 25 Guernsey 26 Duchy of Normandy 27 Drake Passage 28 Robert Louis Stevenson 29 Trevena 30 Egypt 31 Brisbane 32 Jejunum 33 Creeping Barrage 34 Claire Goose 35 Teatro Argentina 36 Ptolemy XII Auletes 37 Pothinus 38 Taekwondo 39 Screwjob 40 Hulk Hogan (born Terrence Gene Bollea) 41 Larne 42 March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombings 43 Yad Vashem 44 Peterborough 45 Cyclists 46 National Police Memorial 47 Battle of Mactan 48 Volgograd 49 Pink noise 50 Carmen Electra 51 High Speed Anti-Radar missile 52 Scrooge McDuck 53 Slaughtering animals 54 Goodyear 55 Saint Peter and Paul Rocks (Penedos de Sao Pedro e Sao Paulo) 56 Monterrey 57 The Choroid or choroid coat 58 Konkokyo 59 Photographer 60 Cape Verde 61 Ben Black 62 Chelsea 63 Spurs 64 Real Madrid 65 Schalke O4 66 Oban 67 Initial Public Offering 68 Mr Olympia 69 Jim Jannard 70 Gulfstream 71 Atlantis 72 Endeavour 73 Motorola 74 The orca or Killer Whale 75 Albion Motors
Drugs are bad, m'kay. They rot the brain and the memory banks, and should be avoided if you desire quizmasterdom. Yes, that even includes the quizzer fuel: beer. And yes, I am fully in favour of an ascetic lifestyle where even fags and Coke are to be eschewed. And yes, I have even considered giving up those two evils before my lungs pack up and my teeth turn stumpy and black. (Now thoughts of forming a monastic quiz order in the Scottish Highlands enter my head ... must be the short attention span).
Yup, here's another quiz. (Don't worry, the quizzes will return to their relatively miniature and no doubt palatable size)
1 What is the world's only flightless parrot, the heaviest parrot and the only parrot to have a lek breeding system?
2 What fossil lobe-finned fish with many land vertebrate features has been discovered on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut?
3 What has been made the third official language of New Zealand?
4 Created in 1792 and awarded in five classes, the Virtuti Militari is the highest military decoration of which country?
5 What open star cluster is classified M45?
6 An inhabitant of the tropical forests of Central and South America, what omnivorous animal of the weasel family is the only species in the genus Eira?
7 Lee Jong-Wook is the current Director-General of which specialised agency of the UN?
8 Which athlete has just been succeeded by David de Kretser as governor of the state of Victoria?
9 Famed for its official journal, which society was founded on January 13, 1888, and had Gardiner Greene Hubbard for its first president and his son-in-law Alexander Graham Bell for its second?
10 In which city has the 1500-year-old pyramid, the Hill of the Star, been recently discovered?
11 Where has Judge Anand Satyanand just replaced Dame Sivia Cartwright as the country's Governor-General?
12 Whose birthday is celebrated every April 8 in Japan?
13 Fast of the Firstborn is a unique Jewish fast day that falls the day before which festival?
14 Meaning "completion", what term describes the completion of any unit of Torah study or book of the Mishnah or Talmud in Judaism, and is usually followed by a celebratory meal?
15 In computer security, what term describes an attack or situation in which one person or program successfully masquerades as another by falsifying data and thereby gaining an illegitimate advantage?
16 Abel House is HQ of what executive agency that reports to the Home Office?
17 Which man "and Partners", Architects for Vickers, designed Millbank Tower in the City of Westminster?
18 Opened on July 12, 1932 by King George V, which Geoffrey Groves-designed bridge has Westminster Bridge next downstream and Vauxhall Bridge next upstream?
19 Which famous English historical figure was the son of Gilbert of Thierceville, Normandy, and Rosea or Matilda of Caen?
20 In 1973, which London-born psychologist invented the octave illusion, an auditory illusion produced by simultaneously playing two sequences of two notes that are spaced an octave apart, high to low, and low to high, in separate stereo channels over headphones?
21 What boardsport was formerly called skurfing and is basically water-skiing but with a singleboard?
22 Deriving its name from Zhan Guo Ce, a renowned historical work on the period in the late Western Han Dynasty by Liu Xiang, what term describes the period of the 5th century BC to the unification of China by the Qin in 221BC?
23 What international company was originally founded in Japan on November 6, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to make handmade hanafuda cards for use in a playing card game of the same name?
24 Which international company is the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners baseball team?
25 In a 1931 letter to King George V, from which royal couple did Anthony Hall claim to be descended directly through the male son becaue of an illegitimate son born before their marriage?
26 The 19th century Black War and Black Line contributed to the destruction of which island's indigenous people?
27 Said to have been a foundres of the Romantic movement, which French-speaking Swiss author was born Anne Louise Germaine Necker in Paris in 1766?
28 Which prophet authored such religious works as the Kitab-i-Aqdas and the Book of Certitude?
29 Named after the second largest city of Mozambique, what name was given to the blockade by Royal Navy ships of oil shipments to Rhodesia resulting from UN sanctions and lasted 1966 to 1975?
30 The stories The Mystery of Marie Roget and The Purloined Letter featured which detective?
31 Which author set up a competition offering a reward to any reader who could figure out and describe how the murder in his first book, 1906's The Four Just Men, was committed?
32 Also known by the pen name Roger Fairbairn, which American author modelled his most famous creation, the fat and genial lexicographer Dr Gideon Fell, on GK Chesterton's Father Brown?
33 Which English city gives its name to a show jumping obstacle that takes the form of a vertical jump with a small pool of water underneath?
34 For what sum did the USA buy the Philippines from Spain in 1898?
35 Crying or weeping induced by emotional distress is one of three types of tears. What are the other two?
36 What ornamental stone is sometimes called "tears of the Buddha"?
37 The Incas believed what metal to be the "tears of the moon"?
38 The world's tallest free-standing structure on land, what does the CN in the 553.33m-high CN Tower stand for?
39 In which city is the tower known as Borj-e Milad?
40 Nicknamed "der lange Lulatsch" (the lanky lad), what transmitting tower was built between 1924 and 1926 by Heinrich Straumer?
41 Which reserve team coach was promoted to replace Matt Busby as Manchester United manager in 1969, but was fired in December 1970?
42 Which football manager had a famous affair with Mary Brown, the wife of his team's physiotherapist?
43 Which Arsenal manager and club physiotherapist led them to their first European trophy, 1970's Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and the Double in 1971?
44 JH Davies was responsible for which football team's name change after he took over a near bankrupt club in 1902?
45 The active ingredient in Roundup, what is currently the world's most used herbicide?
46 Also known as balancers or poisers, what are the small knobbed structures found as a pair in some two-winged insects like mosquitoes and are used to maintain stability when flying?
47 Elephanta Island, Oyster Rock, Salsetta Island and Middle Ground are islands in the harbour of which major Asian city?
48 What 1339 battle was fought between the Berne and its allies and the Habsburgs and Burgundians resulted in a victory for the Bernese and Swiss against all the odds?
49 From the Greek for "darkness", what is an area or island of loss or impairment of visual acuity surrounded by a field of normal vision?
50 The medical term Mittelschmerz is applied to pain associated with what physiological process?
51 Which US artist topped the UK charts at the start of 1959 with It's Only Make Believe?
52 Born Terence Perkins on the Isle of Wight, which pop singer topped the charts in September 1959 with Only Sixteen?
53 Found on his 1967 album New Masters, who wrote the Rod Stewart hit The First Cut is the Deepest?
54 Located in the Berkshire town of Crowthorne, which public school had Edward White Benson, later Archbishop of Canterbury for its first headmaster?
55 Which Archbishop-elect of York refused to acknowledge the pre-eminence of Canterbury and appealed to Pope Callixtus II who personally cosecrated him and issued a papal bull repudiating Canterbury's supremacy?
56 Which Dean of Lincoln was the first Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury?
57 Who was Archbishop of Canterbury at the turn of the 20th century (1896-1902)?
58 Who became the last Archbishop of Canterbury to die in office, when he died on October 26, 1944?
59 Pope (St) Pius X issued what oath in September 1910, saying "all clergy, pastors, confessors, religious superiors, and professors in philosophical-theological seminaries" should subscribe to it?
60 Gaso, a language game in the form of rhyming slang, is traditionally associated with which South American city?
61 Which company introduced the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) in the 1970s?
62 The marine biologist Professor Pierre Aronnax narrates which 1870 novel?
63 Which Canadian author's novels include Bonheur d'occasion (1945; The Tin Flute), Alexander Chenevert (1954; The Cashier) and La Route d'Altamont (1966; The Road Past Altamont)?
64 Which popular animated movie character's name is taken from the Yiddish word for "fear, terror"?
65 What circular particle accelerator at the Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, is currently the highest energy particle collider in the world?
66 What two-word phrase describes the fashionable manner in which upper and middle class women of the 19th century held themselves whilst walking?
67 Where would you see a number of Wright Eclipse Geminis in action?
68 The Wolseley Motor Company which was founded in 1887 by Frederick York Wolseley in Sydney originally had what device form part of the company's name?
69 What term describes a plant that naturally grows where it is affected by salinity in the root area?
70 Which town is home to the suburb of Branston where Branston Pickle was invented?
71 Which country won the first Men's European Basketball Championship in 1935 and who won the latest in 2005?
72 Which country won the first Men's Basketball World Championship in 1950 and who won the latest in 2002?
73 As seen in musical versions composed by Juan del Encina and Pedre de Escobar, what common lyric form of the Iberian Peninsula in the Renaissance period is a type of poem which as a mote followed by one or more intervening strophes (the volta or copla); the difference between it and cancion depending on it containing two or three lines in its initial part?
74 Which Irish writer and physician was called the "Inspired Idiot" by Horace Walpole due to his literary work and dissolute lifestyle?
75 What inflatable toy is especially associated with an eponymous experiment coducted by Albert Bandura in 1961 that studied patterns of behaviour associated with aggression?
Answers to BH#57
1 Ernest Bevin 2 Tony Woodley 3 "Blunderstone Rookery" 4 The "Tempest" chapter featuring the story of Ham and the shipwreck 5 Satis House 6 Sharif 7 Dual cone roller bit 8 Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur 9 Telephone 10 The Social War (from Socii "allies") 11 Jane Russell 12 Ralph Richardson 13 Sgt. Eugene Tackleberry in Police Academy 14 Beef 15 Farinata 16 Small shark 17 Huss 18 Frankie Laine 19 Dragonfly 20 Paul Celan 21 Theodor Adorno 22 Giant Steps 23 Sonny Rollins 24 Plato 25 Guernsey 26 Duchy of Normandy 27 Drake Passage 28 Robert Louis Stevenson 29 Trevena 30 Egypt 31 Brisbane 32 Jejunum 33 Creeping Barrage 34 Claire Goose 35 Teatro Argentina 36 Ptolemy XII Auletes 37 Pothinus 38 Taekwondo 39 Screwjob 40 Hulk Hogan (born Terrence Gene Bollea) 41 Larne 42 March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombings 43 Yad Vashem 44 Peterborough 45 Cyclists 46 National Police Memorial 47 Battle of Mactan 48 Volgograd 49 Pink noise 50 Carmen Electra 51 High Speed Anti-Radar missile 52 Scrooge McDuck 53 Slaughtering animals 54 Goodyear 55 Saint Peter and Paul Rocks (Penedos de Sao Pedro e Sao Paulo) 56 Monterrey 57 The Choroid or choroid coat 58 Konkokyo 59 Photographer 60 Cape Verde 61 Ben Black 62 Chelsea 63 Spurs 64 Real Madrid 65 Schalke O4 66 Oban 67 Initial Public Offering 68 Mr Olympia 69 Jim Jannard 70 Gulfstream 71 Atlantis 72 Endeavour 73 Motorola 74 The orca or Killer Whale 75 Albion Motors
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