It's BH #62, and yes I am thinking about the headline for the old sixty-niner ... so you've been warned
Here's the quiz. The one you have been waiting for all your life; if, that is, you happened to be a mayfly with Methusaleh-like longevity.
I am also reminded that Masoquizm is scheduled for May 27, NOT May 28, which is a Sunday. As you know, it is against the law to have buzzerquizzes on Sunday. Should one take place on the Sabbath, who knows what the terrible consequences may be. We may, for instance, spontaneously combust or turn into natterjack toads. Perhaps, it is better if we never know.
However, it may be that I am actually riddling this blog with factual inaccuracies just to draw my readership out of the woodwork, so they can be exposed in the plain light of day and enable me to make a raft of in-jokes and sly winks with them in mind. Ha ha, you fell into my trap. Let the japes begin...
(By the way, I've had a haircut and the enormous weight that has been shifted off my head may be making me feel a bit strange or at least make me write like one who has flown over a cuckoo's nest. But you know, it was the winter hair. Now I feel emboldened enough to leave the house with a mere polo shirt and jeans on - whoops forgot the shoes - AFTER 7.30pm in the evening. I did happen past the Silver Jews queue a minute ago and asked a couple of touts for a few prices and they both £30. They must have a hive mind. I am tempted to go but realise I have an gigantic raft of work to do. Who knows. I might change my mind in the next half an hour and miss University Challenge. Lord have mercy.)
1 Who was the principal editor of the Vedomosti, the first newspaper printed in Russia?
2 What parliament was dissolved by Oliver Cromwell on April 20, 1653 and was reassembled after the Protectorate on May 7, 1659?
3 With whom did Louis Pasteur complete the first tes on pasteurization in April 1862?
4 Who succeeded Lester B Pearson as Prime Minister of Canada in 1968?
5 Sverre Sigurdsson was king of what country from 1184 to 1202?
6 George W Bush met which Chinese President at the White House on April 20?
7 Which country's army recently freed three ministers taken hostage by villagers in El Mutun, the world's largest iron ore deposit?
8 What country is currently home to the PMU-18 (Project Management Unit) scandal, a multi-million dollar political corruption scandal at its Ministry of Transport?
9 What international airport was once widely known as Lod Airport, due to its location 15km SE of Tel Aviv?
10 Relations governing what two countries are to be implemented using the new "Fifteen Favourable Policies"?
11 Given the scientific name Bos taurus indicus, what animals are sometimes known as "humped cattle" and are better adapted to tropical environs than domestic breeds?
12 What large, dark-coated ox of the hilly areas of S Asia and SE Asia are also called seladang or Indian bison, which is technically incorrect?
13 The Sweetbay flower is a member of which family?
14 Dr Tom J Honeyman, a director of the Glasgow Art Gallery, became famous in 1952 for his purchase of what Salvador Dali work?
15 The Beer-Lambert law is concerned with what field of science?
16 Who arrived in Durban on September 1, 1870 with £3000 his aunt had lent him?
17 The Oppenheimer family became the major shareholders in which world famous companies, Sir Ernest, his son Harry and grandson Nicky all holding the chairmanship?
18 What is the largest tributary of the Orange River in South Africa?
19 Where did a massacre of five anti-KKK Maoist Comunist Workers Party activists happen in North Carolina on November 3, 1979?
20 Abbreviated SOC, what is the idea of integrating all components of a computer into a single integrated circuit?
21 What two-word term describes the region at the back of the head where the base of the skull meets the spine?
22 What is the homogenous, clear jelly-like substance that fills cells?
23 What name was given to the civil war in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the years 1648-1654 that took its name from the Ukrainian Cossack leader?
24 Potop in the native language, what term is assigned in the history of Poland to the series of 17th century wars which left the country in ruins?
25 The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) was formed by a merger of which two unions in 1990?
26 Who is the current general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union?
27 The Mystical model and the Phasing model, the latter defined by Robert Moore, are the two general schools of thought on the nature of what New Age and occult phenomenon?
28 Ry Tanindraza nay malala o (Oh, our Beloved Fatherland) is the national anthem of what country?
29 What system of rapid calculation, similar to Vedic mathematics, was developed by an eponymous Russian engineer in order to keep his mind occupied in a Nazi concentration camp?
30 The Millenium Bridge, a cable-stayed bridge over the Moraca river, was officially opened on July 13, 2005 on what country's National Day?
31 Which Jewish-Italian physicist, an early assistant of Fermi, became notorious for his voluntary move to the USSR in 1950 where his continued his research on the decay of the muon and on neutrinos, and had a prestigious prize instituted in his memory in 1995?
32 Which village in France's Ain departement is known for its pink sparkling wine and for its copper factory, the only one of its kind in France?
33 What is a Mowag Piranha?
34 Co-author of the book Seven Summits, which owner of Snowbird Ski Resort in Utah was the first person to climb to the summits of the tallest peaks on all seven continents and is the oldest person to have climbed Mount Everest?
35 At which battle on April 24, 1547, did Emperor Charles V defeat the forces of the Schmalkaldic League under Elector John Frederick of Saxony?
Answers to BH #62
1 Konigstein Castle 2 Treaty of Maguan 3 Quecha 4 Tacitus 5 Quaestor 6 Eos 7 Amilcare Ponchiellli 8 Chippendales dancers 9 Montserrat 10 Kammhuber Line 11 Superfecundation 12 Gerhard von Scharnhorst 13 Ge'ez or gez 14 Halite 15 Michael Faraday 16 Dante Gabriel Rossetti 17 Ardashir I or Artaxerxes 18 Miss Jean Brodie 19 Toyen 20 Max Ernst
I am also reminded that Masoquizm is scheduled for May 27, NOT May 28, which is a Sunday. As you know, it is against the law to have buzzerquizzes on Sunday. Should one take place on the Sabbath, who knows what the terrible consequences may be. We may, for instance, spontaneously combust or turn into natterjack toads. Perhaps, it is better if we never know.
However, it may be that I am actually riddling this blog with factual inaccuracies just to draw my readership out of the woodwork, so they can be exposed in the plain light of day and enable me to make a raft of in-jokes and sly winks with them in mind. Ha ha, you fell into my trap. Let the japes begin...
(By the way, I've had a haircut and the enormous weight that has been shifted off my head may be making me feel a bit strange or at least make me write like one who has flown over a cuckoo's nest. But you know, it was the winter hair. Now I feel emboldened enough to leave the house with a mere polo shirt and jeans on - whoops forgot the shoes - AFTER 7.30pm in the evening. I did happen past the Silver Jews queue a minute ago and asked a couple of touts for a few prices and they both £30. They must have a hive mind. I am tempted to go but realise I have an gigantic raft of work to do. Who knows. I might change my mind in the next half an hour and miss University Challenge. Lord have mercy.)
1 Who was the principal editor of the Vedomosti, the first newspaper printed in Russia?
2 What parliament was dissolved by Oliver Cromwell on April 20, 1653 and was reassembled after the Protectorate on May 7, 1659?
3 With whom did Louis Pasteur complete the first tes on pasteurization in April 1862?
4 Who succeeded Lester B Pearson as Prime Minister of Canada in 1968?
5 Sverre Sigurdsson was king of what country from 1184 to 1202?
6 George W Bush met which Chinese President at the White House on April 20?
7 Which country's army recently freed three ministers taken hostage by villagers in El Mutun, the world's largest iron ore deposit?
8 What country is currently home to the PMU-18 (Project Management Unit) scandal, a multi-million dollar political corruption scandal at its Ministry of Transport?
9 What international airport was once widely known as Lod Airport, due to its location 15km SE of Tel Aviv?
10 Relations governing what two countries are to be implemented using the new "Fifteen Favourable Policies"?
11 Given the scientific name Bos taurus indicus, what animals are sometimes known as "humped cattle" and are better adapted to tropical environs than domestic breeds?
12 What large, dark-coated ox of the hilly areas of S Asia and SE Asia are also called seladang or Indian bison, which is technically incorrect?
13 The Sweetbay flower is a member of which family?
14 Dr Tom J Honeyman, a director of the Glasgow Art Gallery, became famous in 1952 for his purchase of what Salvador Dali work?
15 The Beer-Lambert law is concerned with what field of science?
16 Who arrived in Durban on September 1, 1870 with £3000 his aunt had lent him?
17 The Oppenheimer family became the major shareholders in which world famous companies, Sir Ernest, his son Harry and grandson Nicky all holding the chairmanship?
18 What is the largest tributary of the Orange River in South Africa?
19 Where did a massacre of five anti-KKK Maoist Comunist Workers Party activists happen in North Carolina on November 3, 1979?
20 Abbreviated SOC, what is the idea of integrating all components of a computer into a single integrated circuit?
21 What two-word term describes the region at the back of the head where the base of the skull meets the spine?
22 What is the homogenous, clear jelly-like substance that fills cells?
23 What name was given to the civil war in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the years 1648-1654 that took its name from the Ukrainian Cossack leader?
24 Potop in the native language, what term is assigned in the history of Poland to the series of 17th century wars which left the country in ruins?
25 The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) was formed by a merger of which two unions in 1990?
26 Who is the current general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union?
27 The Mystical model and the Phasing model, the latter defined by Robert Moore, are the two general schools of thought on the nature of what New Age and occult phenomenon?
28 Ry Tanindraza nay malala o (Oh, our Beloved Fatherland) is the national anthem of what country?
29 What system of rapid calculation, similar to Vedic mathematics, was developed by an eponymous Russian engineer in order to keep his mind occupied in a Nazi concentration camp?
30 The Millenium Bridge, a cable-stayed bridge over the Moraca river, was officially opened on July 13, 2005 on what country's National Day?
31 Which Jewish-Italian physicist, an early assistant of Fermi, became notorious for his voluntary move to the USSR in 1950 where his continued his research on the decay of the muon and on neutrinos, and had a prestigious prize instituted in his memory in 1995?
32 Which village in France's Ain departement is known for its pink sparkling wine and for its copper factory, the only one of its kind in France?
33 What is a Mowag Piranha?
34 Co-author of the book Seven Summits, which owner of Snowbird Ski Resort in Utah was the first person to climb to the summits of the tallest peaks on all seven continents and is the oldest person to have climbed Mount Everest?
35 At which battle on April 24, 1547, did Emperor Charles V defeat the forces of the Schmalkaldic League under Elector John Frederick of Saxony?
Answers to BH #62
1 Konigstein Castle 2 Treaty of Maguan 3 Quecha 4 Tacitus 5 Quaestor 6 Eos 7 Amilcare Ponchiellli 8 Chippendales dancers 9 Montserrat 10 Kammhuber Line 11 Superfecundation 12 Gerhard von Scharnhorst 13 Ge'ez or gez 14 Halite 15 Michael Faraday 16 Dante Gabriel Rossetti 17 Ardashir I or Artaxerxes 18 Miss Jean Brodie 19 Toyen 20 Max Ernst
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