It's Just Another BH quiz #59 ... Well, What Did You Expect? Pearls of Wisdom? Not On Your Nelly? This Be Trivia and More Trivia. Amen.
Am in KX internet cafe. Man, I love this place. Don't know why. Don't ever ask me why. Came back from a pub quiz. Came 5th. A bloody disgrace. I will flagellate myself in a minute just like an Opus Dei albino assassin. Shamefully, I am now making DaVinci Code references. Must be the pintage. I have questions. Answer them and you will feel as if you were filled with heaven-sent bliss and loveliness. Don't answer them and go away to the books and quiz sites and just learn some more. I leave you now, to return home to wallow in my own crapulousness.
1 Honey (I Miss You) became which American country singer's only US number one in 1968?
2 What German city has been selected to be the European Capital of Culture of 2010 by an EU jury?
3 Bernardo Provenzano, the captured boss of the Sicilian Mafia, has what five-word Italian title?
4 What name did inventor Norman A MacLeod give his M18A1 antipersonnel mine?
5 What notorious biker gang are linked with the Shedden Massacre in Ontario, which took place on April 8?
6 Which country celebrates the Birthday of the Great Leader on April 15?
7 Which country's rugby union team performs the Cibi war dance?
8 A Duro was a Spanish coin for what amount?
9 The fictional nobleman, the Marquiz de Carabas, features in which fairy tale?
10 Published in 1827, what was the debut novel of Benjamin Disraeli that centred on an eponymous young man of rank?
11 Stumptown is a nickname for which US city, coined in a period of phenomenal growth after 1847? Other nicknames include Bridgetown and Rose City.
12 The largest engine-maker in the world, what manufacturers began when its titular founder began making piston rings in November 1937, before founding the "Motor Company" on September 24, 1948?
13 Founded by a Spanish monk in the early 13th century, what religious order is the Order of Preachers or Ordo Praedicatorum and has for its current head, Master of the Order, brother Carlos Azpiroz Costa?
14 What name was given to the 1713 legal mechanism designed to ensure the Austrian throne and Habsburg lands would be inherited by Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI's daughter Maria Theresa?
15 What plane, named Jason by its pilot, was used by Amy Johnson to fly 11,000 miles to Australia?
16 Abbreviated KHI, what phenomenon occurs when velocity shear is present within a continuous fluid or when there is sufficient velocity difference across the interface between two fluids?
17 Which character of the main trio in Kipling's 1899 book Stalky & Co. is parly based on the author himself?
18 The River Suck is the main tributary of which European river?
19 What popular name is given to the Barrow, Nore and Suir rivers, an extensive network which drains a large part of Ireland?
20 Albert Finney's most recent TV credit was playing the title role in which series about a Cornish country gentleman which ran from 2000 to 2002, and again for a 2003 mini-series?
21 Guitarist Ricky Wilson and his sister, singer Cindy Wilson, are members of which US rock band founded in 1976?
22 The word "orange" comes from the word "narang" in which language?
23 Usually pale green and yellow when ripe, what fruit is Citrus maxima?
24 Formerly called Irian Jaya, Jayapura is the capital of which Indonesian province?
25 Sometimes called The Beach Boys of heavy metal for their melodic songs, which British rock band was formed in 1969 when record producer Gerry Bron invited keyboardist Ken Hensley to join Spice, a group he signed to his own label Bronze Records, and went on to record albums like Salisbury (1971), The Magician's Birthday (1972) and Firefly (1977)?
26 Currently head of Lucent Technologies' System Research Centre, which Bronxville, New York-born computer scientist is credited with developing The C Programming Language in the early 70s for use on the Unix operating system?
27 Beginning with a tunnel being dug under the walls of a castle, what siege tactic used since antiquity against walled settlements is also called "undermining"?
28 Which Greek historian, c.203BC-120BC, wrote The Histories or The Rise of the Roman Empire covering the period of 220BC to 146BC?
29 A barangay is the smallest local government unit in which country and is the native term for a village, district or ward?
30 Ternary or three-valued or trivalent is a type of what, which contrasts with the traditional Aristotlean kind which only provides for True and False?
31 Hunab K'u is which pre-Columbian indigenous American people's word for God?
32 Considered a defining moment in the non-violent struggle to drive the British out of India, the massacre of the Qissa Khwani bazaar took place in which Pakistani city on April 23, 1930?
33 The endothelium is the innermost surface of which part of the eye?
34 Cesar Romero played which fictional cowboy creation of O. Henry in six westerns between 1939 and 1941?
35 What son of Shiva and Parvati is worshipped as the supreme god of wisdom in Hinduism?
36 Now corresponding to UTC+0.30, what name is given to the idiosyncratic alterations that King Edward VII made to the timekeeping at one of his royal estates?
37 Meaning "Supreme Ultimate", what Taoist and Neo-Confucian concept was introduced in the Zhuang Zi and is related to the idea of a universal dialectic?
38 A native of a city in Ionia, now western Turkey, which pre-Socratic philosopher and one of the Seven Sages of Greece is regarded by many as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition and the father of science?
39 One of the most ancient on record, what civilisation was centred in the far west and southwest of Iran and lasted from 2700BC to 539BC, historical records mentioning its conquest by Enmebarageshi of Kish in 2700BC?
40 Which European region is known for producing the world's thinnest cookies, eponymous "Spice Cookies", a blend of the finest spices and purest molasses rolled paper thin?
41 What Arizona city is home to the Lowell Observatory?
42 The Hungarian-born Adolph Zukor founded which film studios with the May 1912 creation of the Famous Players Film Company?
43 Headquartered in Draper, Utah, 1-800 Contacts is the world's largest supplier of what?
44 The murderer Ronald Clark O'Bryan, who killed his son Timothy on Halloween, 1974 in order to claim a $20,000 life insurance pay-out, was given what horror movie epithet?
45 What military decoration was established on June 3, 1918, shortly after the formation of the RAF, and has a ribbon that is white with purple broad diagonal stripes?
46 Discovered by film producer Nat Levine in 1934, which US performer was given his first starring role by Levine in 1935 in the 12-part serial The Phantom Empire?
47 The Islamic conquest of Persia, from 637-651CE, led to the end of what empire?
48 John Shipp was the first person of what occupation to be commissioned into the British army when he joined the 11th Light Dragoons on June 25, 1796?
49 David Hampton created which toy that was introduced in 1998 by Hasbro?
50 The English entrepreneur William Dockwra created the first of what services in the 1680s which served London and the surrounding area to a distance of 10 miles?
51 Commemorated in the name of a strett which runs NW from Chelsea Embankment, which architect son of a Russian merchant rebuilt the Royal Exchange (opened in 1844) and designed many early railway stations such as Carnforth and the Citadel station at Carlisle?
52 Based on the drama of the same name by Lev Mey, which Rimsky Korsakov opera was premiered on October 22, 1899 and features the characters of the Novgorod merchant Vasily Stepanovich Sobakin, oprichnik Grigory Gryaznoy, Lubyasha and the royal physician Yelisey Bornelius and is set in the Alexandrovsky settlement of Moscow during the autumn of 1572?
53 Signed for £6,000 in 1949, what was the first English club that Danny Blanchflower played for?
54 Who was the first female inductee into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002?
55 What is France's highest administrative court?
56 Formed as The Lebanese Resistance Detachments as a military wing of The Movement of the Disinherited in 1975, what popular name meaning "hope" in Arabic has been applied to one of the most important Shi'ite Muslim militias?
57 What is the TV station of the Lebanese organisation Hezbollah?
58 Which one of the three pretenders to the Russian throne, whose real name may have been Grigory Otrepyev, claimed to be the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible and was crowned tsar on July 21, 1605, before being shot by conspirators ten months later?
59 Published in 1910, what semi-autobiographical work addressing existential themes was Rainer Maria Rilke's only novel?
60 What small Dumfries and Galloway village south of Thornhill probably has the shortest place name in the British Isles and is situated within a Forest of the same name?
Answers to BH #58
1 Kakapo 2 Tiktaalik 3 New Zealand Sign Language 4 Poland 5 The Pleiades 6 The Tayra 7 World Health Organisation 8 John Landy 9 National Geographic Society 10 Mexico City 11 New Zealand 12 Buddha's 13 Passover 14 Siyum 15 Spoofing attack 16 Her Majesty's Prison Service 17 Ronald Ward 18 Lambeth Bridge 19 Thomas Becket 20 Diana Deutsch 21 Wakeboarding 22 Warring States Period 23 Nintendo 24 Nintendo 25 Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn 26 Tasmanian Aboriginals 27 Madame de Stael 28 Baha'u'llah, or Mirza Husayn-Ali 29 Beira Patrol 30 Auguste Dupin 31 Edgar Wallace 32 John Dickson Carr 33 Liverpool 34 $20 million 35 Basal tears, reflex tears 36 Jade 37 Silver 38 Canadian National (Railway) 39 Tehran 40 Berliner Funkturm or Funkturm Berlin (Radio Tower Berlin) 41 Wilf McGuinness 42 Tommy Docherty 43 Bertie Mee 44 Manchester United 45 Glyphosate 46 Halteres (singular halter) 47 Mumbai 48 The Battle of Laupen 49 Scotoma 50 Ovulation 51 Conway Twitty 52 Craig Douglas 53 Cat Stevens 54 Wellington College 55 Thurstan 56 Matthew Parker 57 Frederick Temple 58 William Temple 59 Anti-Modernist oath 60 Rosario (a.k.a Rosarigasino) 61 General Dynamics 62 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 63 Gabrielle Roy 64 Shrek 65 Tevatron 66 Grecian bend 67 Streets of London (double-decker bus) 68 Sheep Shearing Machine 69 Halophyte 70 Burton-upon-Trent 71 Latvia and Greece 72 Argentina, Yugoslavia 73 Villancico or in Portuguese, Vilancete 74 Oliver Goldsmith 75 Bobo doll experiment
1 Honey (I Miss You) became which American country singer's only US number one in 1968?
2 What German city has been selected to be the European Capital of Culture of 2010 by an EU jury?
3 Bernardo Provenzano, the captured boss of the Sicilian Mafia, has what five-word Italian title?
4 What name did inventor Norman A MacLeod give his M18A1 antipersonnel mine?
5 What notorious biker gang are linked with the Shedden Massacre in Ontario, which took place on April 8?
6 Which country celebrates the Birthday of the Great Leader on April 15?
7 Which country's rugby union team performs the Cibi war dance?
8 A Duro was a Spanish coin for what amount?
9 The fictional nobleman, the Marquiz de Carabas, features in which fairy tale?
10 Published in 1827, what was the debut novel of Benjamin Disraeli that centred on an eponymous young man of rank?
11 Stumptown is a nickname for which US city, coined in a period of phenomenal growth after 1847? Other nicknames include Bridgetown and Rose City.
12 The largest engine-maker in the world, what manufacturers began when its titular founder began making piston rings in November 1937, before founding the "Motor Company" on September 24, 1948?
13 Founded by a Spanish monk in the early 13th century, what religious order is the Order of Preachers or Ordo Praedicatorum and has for its current head, Master of the Order, brother Carlos Azpiroz Costa?
14 What name was given to the 1713 legal mechanism designed to ensure the Austrian throne and Habsburg lands would be inherited by Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI's daughter Maria Theresa?
15 What plane, named Jason by its pilot, was used by Amy Johnson to fly 11,000 miles to Australia?
16 Abbreviated KHI, what phenomenon occurs when velocity shear is present within a continuous fluid or when there is sufficient velocity difference across the interface between two fluids?
17 Which character of the main trio in Kipling's 1899 book Stalky & Co. is parly based on the author himself?
18 The River Suck is the main tributary of which European river?
19 What popular name is given to the Barrow, Nore and Suir rivers, an extensive network which drains a large part of Ireland?
20 Albert Finney's most recent TV credit was playing the title role in which series about a Cornish country gentleman which ran from 2000 to 2002, and again for a 2003 mini-series?
21 Guitarist Ricky Wilson and his sister, singer Cindy Wilson, are members of which US rock band founded in 1976?
22 The word "orange" comes from the word "narang" in which language?
23 Usually pale green and yellow when ripe, what fruit is Citrus maxima?
24 Formerly called Irian Jaya, Jayapura is the capital of which Indonesian province?
25 Sometimes called The Beach Boys of heavy metal for their melodic songs, which British rock band was formed in 1969 when record producer Gerry Bron invited keyboardist Ken Hensley to join Spice, a group he signed to his own label Bronze Records, and went on to record albums like Salisbury (1971), The Magician's Birthday (1972) and Firefly (1977)?
26 Currently head of Lucent Technologies' System Research Centre, which Bronxville, New York-born computer scientist is credited with developing The C Programming Language in the early 70s for use on the Unix operating system?
27 Beginning with a tunnel being dug under the walls of a castle, what siege tactic used since antiquity against walled settlements is also called "undermining"?
28 Which Greek historian, c.203BC-120BC, wrote The Histories or The Rise of the Roman Empire covering the period of 220BC to 146BC?
29 A barangay is the smallest local government unit in which country and is the native term for a village, district or ward?
30 Ternary or three-valued or trivalent is a type of what, which contrasts with the traditional Aristotlean kind which only provides for True and False?
31 Hunab K'u is which pre-Columbian indigenous American people's word for God?
32 Considered a defining moment in the non-violent struggle to drive the British out of India, the massacre of the Qissa Khwani bazaar took place in which Pakistani city on April 23, 1930?
33 The endothelium is the innermost surface of which part of the eye?
34 Cesar Romero played which fictional cowboy creation of O. Henry in six westerns between 1939 and 1941?
35 What son of Shiva and Parvati is worshipped as the supreme god of wisdom in Hinduism?
36 Now corresponding to UTC+0.30, what name is given to the idiosyncratic alterations that King Edward VII made to the timekeeping at one of his royal estates?
37 Meaning "Supreme Ultimate", what Taoist and Neo-Confucian concept was introduced in the Zhuang Zi and is related to the idea of a universal dialectic?
38 A native of a city in Ionia, now western Turkey, which pre-Socratic philosopher and one of the Seven Sages of Greece is regarded by many as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition and the father of science?
39 One of the most ancient on record, what civilisation was centred in the far west and southwest of Iran and lasted from 2700BC to 539BC, historical records mentioning its conquest by Enmebarageshi of Kish in 2700BC?
40 Which European region is known for producing the world's thinnest cookies, eponymous "Spice Cookies", a blend of the finest spices and purest molasses rolled paper thin?
41 What Arizona city is home to the Lowell Observatory?
42 The Hungarian-born Adolph Zukor founded which film studios with the May 1912 creation of the Famous Players Film Company?
43 Headquartered in Draper, Utah, 1-800 Contacts is the world's largest supplier of what?
44 The murderer Ronald Clark O'Bryan, who killed his son Timothy on Halloween, 1974 in order to claim a $20,000 life insurance pay-out, was given what horror movie epithet?
45 What military decoration was established on June 3, 1918, shortly after the formation of the RAF, and has a ribbon that is white with purple broad diagonal stripes?
46 Discovered by film producer Nat Levine in 1934, which US performer was given his first starring role by Levine in 1935 in the 12-part serial The Phantom Empire?
47 The Islamic conquest of Persia, from 637-651CE, led to the end of what empire?
48 John Shipp was the first person of what occupation to be commissioned into the British army when he joined the 11th Light Dragoons on June 25, 1796?
49 David Hampton created which toy that was introduced in 1998 by Hasbro?
50 The English entrepreneur William Dockwra created the first of what services in the 1680s which served London and the surrounding area to a distance of 10 miles?
51 Commemorated in the name of a strett which runs NW from Chelsea Embankment, which architect son of a Russian merchant rebuilt the Royal Exchange (opened in 1844) and designed many early railway stations such as Carnforth and the Citadel station at Carlisle?
52 Based on the drama of the same name by Lev Mey, which Rimsky Korsakov opera was premiered on October 22, 1899 and features the characters of the Novgorod merchant Vasily Stepanovich Sobakin, oprichnik Grigory Gryaznoy, Lubyasha and the royal physician Yelisey Bornelius and is set in the Alexandrovsky settlement of Moscow during the autumn of 1572?
53 Signed for £6,000 in 1949, what was the first English club that Danny Blanchflower played for?
54 Who was the first female inductee into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002?
55 What is France's highest administrative court?
56 Formed as The Lebanese Resistance Detachments as a military wing of The Movement of the Disinherited in 1975, what popular name meaning "hope" in Arabic has been applied to one of the most important Shi'ite Muslim militias?
57 What is the TV station of the Lebanese organisation Hezbollah?
58 Which one of the three pretenders to the Russian throne, whose real name may have been Grigory Otrepyev, claimed to be the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible and was crowned tsar on July 21, 1605, before being shot by conspirators ten months later?
59 Published in 1910, what semi-autobiographical work addressing existential themes was Rainer Maria Rilke's only novel?
60 What small Dumfries and Galloway village south of Thornhill probably has the shortest place name in the British Isles and is situated within a Forest of the same name?
Answers to BH #58
1 Kakapo 2 Tiktaalik 3 New Zealand Sign Language 4 Poland 5 The Pleiades 6 The Tayra 7 World Health Organisation 8 John Landy 9 National Geographic Society 10 Mexico City 11 New Zealand 12 Buddha's 13 Passover 14 Siyum 15 Spoofing attack 16 Her Majesty's Prison Service 17 Ronald Ward 18 Lambeth Bridge 19 Thomas Becket 20 Diana Deutsch 21 Wakeboarding 22 Warring States Period 23 Nintendo 24 Nintendo 25 Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn 26 Tasmanian Aboriginals 27 Madame de Stael 28 Baha'u'llah, or Mirza Husayn-Ali 29 Beira Patrol 30 Auguste Dupin 31 Edgar Wallace 32 John Dickson Carr 33 Liverpool 34 $20 million 35 Basal tears, reflex tears 36 Jade 37 Silver 38 Canadian National (Railway) 39 Tehran 40 Berliner Funkturm or Funkturm Berlin (Radio Tower Berlin) 41 Wilf McGuinness 42 Tommy Docherty 43 Bertie Mee 44 Manchester United 45 Glyphosate 46 Halteres (singular halter) 47 Mumbai 48 The Battle of Laupen 49 Scotoma 50 Ovulation 51 Conway Twitty 52 Craig Douglas 53 Cat Stevens 54 Wellington College 55 Thurstan 56 Matthew Parker 57 Frederick Temple 58 William Temple 59 Anti-Modernist oath 60 Rosario (a.k.a Rosarigasino) 61 General Dynamics 62 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 63 Gabrielle Roy 64 Shrek 65 Tevatron 66 Grecian bend 67 Streets of London (double-decker bus) 68 Sheep Shearing Machine 69 Halophyte 70 Burton-upon-Trent 71 Latvia and Greece 72 Argentina, Yugoslavia 73 Villancico or in Portuguese, Vilancete 74 Oliver Goldsmith 75 Bobo doll experiment
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