Still Too Lazy to Italicise: Hope You Won't Get Sick Of Another Substantial BH quiz #53
What is the matter with me? I'm slowly adjusting to talking to strange people and not those who share my flesh and blood, but I am still getting up at 4pm. It must stop. I am not a vampire. Though I think my hospital trip has had strange, unforeseen and lethargic consequences I thought I had long since conquered.
Yet again, I have found that time has constrained my efforts to change the quizzy quiz quiz nature of this blog. This is a consequence of the above paragraph. My feelings of discombobulation must be blamed and blamed they have been and stricken like a scapegoat, that quite frankly is a bit lame and wants to stick around a bit.
Tim makes a good comment, and yes, I knew that when I wrote the question Cornel Wilde was the star, but I remember Oscar-winning Pasteurising Paul Muni. I do indeed. Even if George Raft was on the cover of my much-loved original Scarface video and he was not. I was trying to trick you. I'm a prankster quiz god - mwah ha ha ha hee ha ho.
As you can see with this quiz,; I hardly want to make it easy for you...
1 The man who taught Myra Hess, Eunice Norton and Harriet Cohen, who was professor of advanced piano at the Royal Academy of Music from 1876 to 1925 and published such books of technique as The Act of Touch in All Its Diversity, First Principles of Piano Playing and The Child's First Steps in Piano Playing?
2 From the Sanskrit "sons of the Earth", Bumiputra or Bumiputera is an official definition used in which country, embracing members of the dominant ethnic group as well as other indigenous ethnic groups?
3 Known for his partnership with Magoo, which rapper and producer was born Timothy Z Mosley?
4 Responsible for five Top 20 UK hits in the late 90s, which American R&B singer was born Elgin Baylor Lumpkin?
5 Presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which awards have been presented to the world's best websites since 1996?
6 Kijiro Nambu (1869-1949) was a prolific designer of what?
7 What kind of creature is the Long-toed Stint?
8 The MRLA and Min Yuen fought in which 20th century "Emergency" against the British and native administration during the 20th century?
9 Which Indian-American author made her critically acclaimed novel debut with The Namesake, the film of which is to be released in 2006?
10 Which Paris-born former NBA player and one of its greatest ever forwards was nicknamed Nique as in The Human Highlight Film?
11 Known for its first king and founder of its capital Tula, Chalchiuh Tlatonac, what Pre-Columbian Native American people dominated much of central Mexico between the 10th and 12th century AD, when its empire is believed to have been annihilated by the nomadic warriors of the Chichimecs?
12 The parody religion Iglesia Maradoniana or Church of Maradona was created by fans of the footballer on his 30th birthday on October 30, 1990, in which city, the largest of the province of Santa Fe and located on the western shore of the Parana river?
13 Which jazz fusion guitar player from Yorkshire has adopted the name Mahavishnu and before moving to the US where he came to prominence with the electric group of Miles Davis on Bitches Brew recorded Extrapolation with Tony Oxley and John Surman in 1969?
14 In botany, what type of fruit has an outer fleshy part surrounding a shell of hardened endocarp with a seed inside and is produced by coffee, mango, olive and all members of the genus Prunus?
15 What fruit is produced by a small deciduous tree by the name of Prunus dulcis or Prunus amygdalus?
16 Meaning "Iron Jaws", Isenmouthe or Carach Angren was the inner gate of which fictional kingdom that guarded the southern end of the valley Udun?
17 Which artist's house in Chiswick, his country retreat from 1749 until his death in 1764, was opened to the public in 1904 by its then owner, an enthusiast of his called Lieutenant-Colonel Shipway?
18 Which suitably named pedestrian bridge that crosses the Seine links the Institut de France and the Louvre?
19 As in the largest British rail freight company what does EWS stand for?
20 Located in Hampton, Virginia, Langley Research Center is the oldest of which organisations field centres?
21 Who was credited by the ancient Egyptians as the inventor of writing and is also considered to have been the scribe of the underworld?
22 In Roman mythology, which knowledge deity or god taught children to speak and received an offering when the child spoke its first words?
23 In the Discworld novels what is the centre of magical learning?
24 As in the name of the Discworld city what is a morpork?
25 Home to Mount Lidgbird and Mount Gower, which peer gives his name to a small island in the Pacfic Ocean 375 miles east of Australia and was discovered on February 17, 1788, by HMS Supply, commanded by Lieutenant Ball, who was on his way from Botany Bay to Norfolk Island with convicts to start a penal settlement there?
26 Ank-Morpork has two mottoes Merus in pectum et in aquam (Pure in heart and and water) and "Quanti canicula ille in fenestra". What does the latter mean?
27 Ankh-Morpork has a nickname, like that of The Big Apple, referring to what spike-covered fruit, that grows in Howondaland and is the colour of earwax?
28 Two of what animals support the Ankh-Morpork shield?
29 Named after a town in ancient Mygdonia later renamed Thessalonica by Cassander, what gulf of the Aegean Sea is located immediately south of Thesssaloniki, east of Pieria and Imathia and west of Chalkidiki?
30 Which geographical region now divided between northern Poland and Germany on the south coasts of the Baltic Sea between and on both sides of the Vistual and Oder reaching the Recknitz river in the west, takes its name from the Slavic for "the land along the sea"?
31 The Kashubians or Cassubians are a Slavic ethnic group living in the NW of which country?
32 In which part of the body is the Vestibular nerve to be found?
33 Whose lesser known Declaration of 1926 recognised the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire as fully autonomous states?
34 Adnet, a small town in Austria, is famous for what material which is commemorated in a museum in the middle of the town?
35 Meg Jackson, later Morris, is a famous character in which soap?
36 In which Japanese city is the football team Shimizu S-Pulse based?
37 Which city's Niagara Square in New York is the site of a 96-ft obelisk called The McKinley Monument?
38 Author of the autobiography Sculptor in Bucksin in which he seems to be just as excited about bagging his first bear and elk as he is about getting his first major commission, which American sculptor and foremost animalier is responsible for such works as Standing Pumas in Brooklyn's Prospect Park and Theodore Roosevelt As a Rough Rider in Portland, Oregon?
39 Known for roles in Benny & Joon, Parenthood and I Am Sam, which American actress is the mother of Sean Penn?
40 Knighted in 1985, who founded the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields chamber orchestra in 1956 and conducted the Minnesota Orchestra from 1979-86 and also selected and arranged the music used in the film Amadeus?
41 In computing what kind of interface is an API?
42 Among enthusiasts, the original model of which luxury 4-wheel drive vehicles is known as the Classic, the second generation the P38A and the latest, the L322?
43 The Humboldt Current, which extends along the west coast of South America from northern Peru to the southern tip of Chile is an example of an LME. What does LME stand for?
44 The highest point on the Equator is 4,690m on the south slopes of which volcano in Ecuador?
45 What in Dianetics is defined as a painful memory containing unconsciousness stored in the stimulus-response unconscious or the reactive mind?
46 Who plays ginger-haired scamp Bradley Branning in Eastenders?
47 The last Moorish king of Granada, who surrendered his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabelle on January 2, 1492?
48 On March 30, 1492, Ferdinand and Isabella signed which decree expelling all Jews and Black Iadinos from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism?
49 One of the most famous and controversial pictures of the Renaissance, The Flagellation of Christ or simply The Flagellation was painted by whom around 1460?
50 Author of Haft Awrang (Seven Thrones), biographies of the Sufi saints Nafahat al-Uns (Breaths of Fellowship) and Baharistan (Abode of Spring), who was arguably the greatest Persian poet in the 15th century and the last great Sufi poet of Persia?
51 The Cammeraygal are an indigenous people that inhabited which country?
52 Which American author created the best-selling Outlander series, known for its combining elements of romantic, historical and science fiction?
53 Which sunny alpine resort village in Switzerland is home to the International Climbing School?
54 A director of the International Climbing killed by an avalanche while skiing in 1977, which Scottish climber became in 1970, with Don Whillans, the first man to climb the south face of Annapurna and in 1975 was the first to climb Mount Everest by the south-west face, and whose memorial in Edinburgh mistakenly claims he was the first Briton to climb the north face of the Eiger?
55 On which mountain is Harlin's Route, named in honour of the American mountaineer who was killed making an ascent of it in 1966?
56 In which country are there political parties called the Union of Right Forces and Yabloko?
57 Which African capital city was founded in the 18th century by the Ewe people and in 1882, known then as a village called Bey Beach, became a major trading centre with the arrival of Chico and Octaviano Olympio as agents for the British trading firm A. and F. Swanzy?
58 Known as a jazz musician during his early carer, which Welsh composer and co-founder of the jazz-rock group Nucleus and former member of Soft Machine has since preoccupied himself with his innovative crossover project Adiemus, the first album of which, Songs of Sanctuary, was released in 1994?
59 Purchased by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, what nickname was given to the area in South Kensington between Cromwell Road and Kensington Gore?
60 What was founded in 1837 as the Government School of Design?
61 Knighted in 2001 for "Services to Art and Design Education", which historian and critic has written and presented TV series such as The Art of Persuasion on advertising and Strange Landscaoe on the Middle Ages?
62 Initially part of the South Kensington Museum and separated in 1858 as the Museum of Patents, what museum was founded in 1857 under Bennett Woodcroft from the collection of the Royal Society of Arts and surplus items from the Great Exhibition?
63 Conceived by Danny Hillis in 1986, what mechanical clock is designed to keep time for 10,000 yeas and is also called the 10,000-year clock?
64 Founded by the sixth Imam, what name is given to Shi'ite Islam's own school of law?
65 Considered by Shia Muslims as the First Imam appointed by Muhammad and the first rightful Caliphy, which cousin of Muhammad is seen by Sunni Muslim as the fourth and last of the Khulafa ar-Rashidun (Righlty Guided Caliphs)?
66 Named for a shrine of a 15th century Francican saint who was especially devoted to children, whih branch of the Third Order of St Francis was founded in Warsaw in 1855 by Sophia Truszkowska?
67 Which German surgeon is perhaps best remembered for the "position" in which the patient is placed on a bed which is put into incline such that the patient's head is lower than their feet and his "cannula", a device used during the surgery of the larynx to prevent the patient from swallowing blood during the operation?
68 The great saphenous vein is found in which part of the human body?
69 One of three types of dense connective tissue (the others being ligaments and tendons), what specialised connective tissue layer which surrounds muscles, bones and joints consists of three layers, the superficial, the deep and the subserous?
70 Also known for a monumental diary called the Cahiers, which Frenchman's poem Palme inspired James Merrill's celebrated 1974 poem Lost in Translation?
71 And in his poem Tel Quel, what did he call "the art of stopping people from minding their own business"?
72 Sometimes referred to as pom from the Maya language, what type of resin has a name derived from the Nahuatl for incense and is often used as an amber substitute in jewellry?
73 Named for the French brothers Guillaume and Etienne-Simon, what imitation Chinese laquer, used in interior design, is said to have been made by heating oil and incense and then adding Venetian turpentine?
74 Gwendoline Maud Syrie Barnardo, daughter of Thomas the charity founder and mother of W Somerset Maugham's illegitimate daughter Elizabeth Mary, became well known in what kind of profession from the early 20s until her death in 1955?
75 Known by the first names Gustave and Christian, which brothers formed the famous titular interior decorating firm in 1864 and were especially known for decorating William Henry Vanderbilt's new Fifth Avenue mansion between 1879 and 1882, as well as Darius Ogden Mill's mansion at 634 Fifth Avenue 1880-1882?
76 The theme song to The Beverly Hillbillies, The Ballad of Jed Clampett, was written by producer and writer Paul Henning and originally performed by which Bluegrass artists who had the first names Lester and Earl?
77 The 80-year-old fiddler Jimmy Thompson was the first performer on which radio show on November 28, 1925, then known as the WSM Barn Dance?
78 TVP is which European country's public TV network broadcasting corporation?
79 What medical disorder has varities called "mellitus" and "inspidus"?
80 Also called "search engine spamming", what is the practice of manipulating a search engine to create the illusion of more popularity of a webpage of lesser importance?
81 The de facto standard for email transmissions across the internet, what does SMTP stand for?
82 Abbreviated BIO, what annual computer-programming competition for UK secondary and sixth-form students is currently hosted by Trinity College, Cambridge, and has been sponsored by Lionhead Studios since 2002?
83 In which Swiss canton, also called Grison, is Romansch spoken by around 50,000-70,000 people, of whom 35,000 use it as their first language?
84 Saint-Hubert Airport is situated in Longueuil near which other city?
85 Which Ellesmere Port-born man managed Aston Villa to victory in the inaugural League Cup in 1961 but was sacked in 1964 due to ill-health and went on to enjoy great success as manager with Manchester City between 1965 and 1972, winning the First Division in 1968?
86 What term describes the subgenre of fantasy fiction that is set in invented or parallel worlds?
87 What Japanese word meaning "perverted" is used in many western countries to refer to anime, manga, and computer games with explicit sexual or pornographic content, although the Japanese are more likely to use the terms ju hachi kin, ecchi/H anime, seinen or eroanime?
88 Which French critic and man of letters's most famous novel is 1862's Les Jeudis de Mme. Charbonneau, which offered a series of malicious and witty portraits of contemporary writers?
89 What term describes a type of government dominated by the labour and solidarities similar to communist beliefs?
90 Many consider the 1990 book of poetry Omeros, a retelling of the Odyssey, to be the finest work of which Nobel Laureate?
91 Fictionalised in a Glen David Gold novel, which American stage musician known as "the Great" was known for the classic "sawing a woman in half" illusion, "cheating the gallows" and making a live elephant disappear?
92 As of 2005 the most common material globally for the construction of interior walls and ceillings, what low-budget building material consists of gypsum formed into a flat sheet and sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper and has such other names as Wallboard, Plasterboard, GWB and gypsum board?
93 What years did the First Punic War between Rome and Carthage cover?
94 Featuring armies commanded by L. Postumius Megellus and Q . Mamilius Vitulus and Hanno and Hannibal Gisco, what 261BC confrontation on Sicliy was the first pitched battle of the First Punic War and the first large-scale military clash between the Carthaginians and the Republic of Rome, resulting in victory for the latter?
95 Which 1903 Henry James novel follows Louis Lamber Strether and his pursuit of his widowed fiancee's supposedly wayward son?
96 Widely used in business today, what process is abbreviated CM?
97 Having types called "hardware" and "software", what term in computer science describes an asynchronous signal from hardware or software indicating the need for attention?
98 Premiered in the US in 1979, what rockumentary about The Who was primarily the work of American fan Jeff Stein who, despite having no experience in moviemaking convinced the band to support the project and served as the film's director?
99 What setting links the films Evening in Byzantium (1978), Almost Perfect Affair (1979), Grosse Fatigue (1994) and Femme Fatale (2002)?
100 Which French actress is mother of Angelina Jolie?
Answers to BH#52
1 Stax (founded as Satellite Records in 1959 by Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton) 2 The Memphis Group 3 Mack Rice 4 Los Lobos 5 Pigeon Forge 6 James Stewart 7 Carl Davis 8 Father, Dear Father 9 Joseph Saddler 10 John Barrowman 11 Miss Saigon 12 Manuel Benitez "El Cordobes" 13 Born to Dance 14 Dinah Washington 15 The Boswell Sisters 16 Hoagy Carmichael 17 Lena River 18 Lower Austria 19 Frederic Chopin 20 Studniowka 21 Karst (topography) 22 Bradycardia 23 Steppe Eagle 24 Brown Bear 25 Berbers 26 The Source 27 Mackerel 28 Yellowtail 29 Garum 30 Cafe de Paris sauce 31 Pernod 32 Squids 33 Halibut 34 Sea lion 35 Novaya Zemlya 36 Jozef Murgas 37 Luigi Pulci 38 1654 39 Aga Khan (IV) 40 Johnny Buckingham 41 Golden Miller (in 1934) 42 Little Polveir 43 Rosemary Henderson 44 Battleship 45 Burgoo 46 Aristides 47 Thomas Hardwick 48 Sir Nicholas Grimshaw 49 Kashrut or Kashruth 50 Cross pattee or cross patty or cross formy 51 Cascabel 52 Thierry Sabine 53 Pinzgauer 54 Argentina 55 Ceylon 56 Uppsala 57 Trakehner 58 Cadre Noir 59 Uranian poets 60 Javelin 61 Job 62 Gillian Cross 63 (Lord) Rector 64 Dundee 65 Jamal Al-Gashey 66 Bangladesh 67 Leerdammer 68 St Basil's Cathedral on Red Square 69 Battle of Bryn Glas 70 Fencing 71 HMS Resolution 72 Bowline knot 73 Slicing 74 Denmark 75 Rudy Vallee 76 Adelaide 77 Euboea 78 Red sandalwood 79 Malbec 80 James Gurney 81 Lancelot Speed 82 Johann Dirichlet 83 Clam chowder 84 Columbia Records 85 Amphetamine 86 Black Consciousness Movement 87 Henri Chretien 88 Duty Free 89 St Columb's College 90 Phil Coulter 91 Mydriasis 92 Levi Strauss 93 Otto von Guericke 94 Hippolyte Bayard 95 Ewan MacColl 96 Moth 97 Louis VII 98 Wheat beer in which the yeast is not filtered out 99 War of 1812 100 Engel's law 101 Bolton Abbey 102 The Phantom of the Opera 103 Limerick 104 Foxborough 105 Warsaw 106 South Africa 107 The Lorraine Motel 108 C-5 Galaxy 109 Progress spacecraft 110 Pianist
Yet again, I have found that time has constrained my efforts to change the quizzy quiz quiz nature of this blog. This is a consequence of the above paragraph. My feelings of discombobulation must be blamed and blamed they have been and stricken like a scapegoat, that quite frankly is a bit lame and wants to stick around a bit.
Tim makes a good comment, and yes, I knew that when I wrote the question Cornel Wilde was the star, but I remember Oscar-winning Pasteurising Paul Muni. I do indeed. Even if George Raft was on the cover of my much-loved original Scarface video and he was not. I was trying to trick you. I'm a prankster quiz god - mwah ha ha ha hee ha ho.
As you can see with this quiz,; I hardly want to make it easy for you...
1 The man who taught Myra Hess, Eunice Norton and Harriet Cohen, who was professor of advanced piano at the Royal Academy of Music from 1876 to 1925 and published such books of technique as The Act of Touch in All Its Diversity, First Principles of Piano Playing and The Child's First Steps in Piano Playing?
2 From the Sanskrit "sons of the Earth", Bumiputra or Bumiputera is an official definition used in which country, embracing members of the dominant ethnic group as well as other indigenous ethnic groups?
3 Known for his partnership with Magoo, which rapper and producer was born Timothy Z Mosley?
4 Responsible for five Top 20 UK hits in the late 90s, which American R&B singer was born Elgin Baylor Lumpkin?
5 Presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which awards have been presented to the world's best websites since 1996?
6 Kijiro Nambu (1869-1949) was a prolific designer of what?
7 What kind of creature is the Long-toed Stint?
8 The MRLA and Min Yuen fought in which 20th century "Emergency" against the British and native administration during the 20th century?
9 Which Indian-American author made her critically acclaimed novel debut with The Namesake, the film of which is to be released in 2006?
10 Which Paris-born former NBA player and one of its greatest ever forwards was nicknamed Nique as in The Human Highlight Film?
11 Known for its first king and founder of its capital Tula, Chalchiuh Tlatonac, what Pre-Columbian Native American people dominated much of central Mexico between the 10th and 12th century AD, when its empire is believed to have been annihilated by the nomadic warriors of the Chichimecs?
12 The parody religion Iglesia Maradoniana or Church of Maradona was created by fans of the footballer on his 30th birthday on October 30, 1990, in which city, the largest of the province of Santa Fe and located on the western shore of the Parana river?
13 Which jazz fusion guitar player from Yorkshire has adopted the name Mahavishnu and before moving to the US where he came to prominence with the electric group of Miles Davis on Bitches Brew recorded Extrapolation with Tony Oxley and John Surman in 1969?
14 In botany, what type of fruit has an outer fleshy part surrounding a shell of hardened endocarp with a seed inside and is produced by coffee, mango, olive and all members of the genus Prunus?
15 What fruit is produced by a small deciduous tree by the name of Prunus dulcis or Prunus amygdalus?
16 Meaning "Iron Jaws", Isenmouthe or Carach Angren was the inner gate of which fictional kingdom that guarded the southern end of the valley Udun?
17 Which artist's house in Chiswick, his country retreat from 1749 until his death in 1764, was opened to the public in 1904 by its then owner, an enthusiast of his called Lieutenant-Colonel Shipway?
18 Which suitably named pedestrian bridge that crosses the Seine links the Institut de France and the Louvre?
19 As in the largest British rail freight company what does EWS stand for?
20 Located in Hampton, Virginia, Langley Research Center is the oldest of which organisations field centres?
21 Who was credited by the ancient Egyptians as the inventor of writing and is also considered to have been the scribe of the underworld?
22 In Roman mythology, which knowledge deity or god taught children to speak and received an offering when the child spoke its first words?
23 In the Discworld novels what is the centre of magical learning?
24 As in the name of the Discworld city what is a morpork?
25 Home to Mount Lidgbird and Mount Gower, which peer gives his name to a small island in the Pacfic Ocean 375 miles east of Australia and was discovered on February 17, 1788, by HMS Supply, commanded by Lieutenant Ball, who was on his way from Botany Bay to Norfolk Island with convicts to start a penal settlement there?
26 Ank-Morpork has two mottoes Merus in pectum et in aquam (Pure in heart and and water) and "Quanti canicula ille in fenestra". What does the latter mean?
27 Ankh-Morpork has a nickname, like that of The Big Apple, referring to what spike-covered fruit, that grows in Howondaland and is the colour of earwax?
28 Two of what animals support the Ankh-Morpork shield?
29 Named after a town in ancient Mygdonia later renamed Thessalonica by Cassander, what gulf of the Aegean Sea is located immediately south of Thesssaloniki, east of Pieria and Imathia and west of Chalkidiki?
30 Which geographical region now divided between northern Poland and Germany on the south coasts of the Baltic Sea between and on both sides of the Vistual and Oder reaching the Recknitz river in the west, takes its name from the Slavic for "the land along the sea"?
31 The Kashubians or Cassubians are a Slavic ethnic group living in the NW of which country?
32 In which part of the body is the Vestibular nerve to be found?
33 Whose lesser known Declaration of 1926 recognised the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire as fully autonomous states?
34 Adnet, a small town in Austria, is famous for what material which is commemorated in a museum in the middle of the town?
35 Meg Jackson, later Morris, is a famous character in which soap?
36 In which Japanese city is the football team Shimizu S-Pulse based?
37 Which city's Niagara Square in New York is the site of a 96-ft obelisk called The McKinley Monument?
38 Author of the autobiography Sculptor in Bucksin in which he seems to be just as excited about bagging his first bear and elk as he is about getting his first major commission, which American sculptor and foremost animalier is responsible for such works as Standing Pumas in Brooklyn's Prospect Park and Theodore Roosevelt As a Rough Rider in Portland, Oregon?
39 Known for roles in Benny & Joon, Parenthood and I Am Sam, which American actress is the mother of Sean Penn?
40 Knighted in 1985, who founded the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields chamber orchestra in 1956 and conducted the Minnesota Orchestra from 1979-86 and also selected and arranged the music used in the film Amadeus?
41 In computing what kind of interface is an API?
42 Among enthusiasts, the original model of which luxury 4-wheel drive vehicles is known as the Classic, the second generation the P38A and the latest, the L322?
43 The Humboldt Current, which extends along the west coast of South America from northern Peru to the southern tip of Chile is an example of an LME. What does LME stand for?
44 The highest point on the Equator is 4,690m on the south slopes of which volcano in Ecuador?
45 What in Dianetics is defined as a painful memory containing unconsciousness stored in the stimulus-response unconscious or the reactive mind?
46 Who plays ginger-haired scamp Bradley Branning in Eastenders?
47 The last Moorish king of Granada, who surrendered his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabelle on January 2, 1492?
48 On March 30, 1492, Ferdinand and Isabella signed which decree expelling all Jews and Black Iadinos from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism?
49 One of the most famous and controversial pictures of the Renaissance, The Flagellation of Christ or simply The Flagellation was painted by whom around 1460?
50 Author of Haft Awrang (Seven Thrones), biographies of the Sufi saints Nafahat al-Uns (Breaths of Fellowship) and Baharistan (Abode of Spring), who was arguably the greatest Persian poet in the 15th century and the last great Sufi poet of Persia?
51 The Cammeraygal are an indigenous people that inhabited which country?
52 Which American author created the best-selling Outlander series, known for its combining elements of romantic, historical and science fiction?
53 Which sunny alpine resort village in Switzerland is home to the International Climbing School?
54 A director of the International Climbing killed by an avalanche while skiing in 1977, which Scottish climber became in 1970, with Don Whillans, the first man to climb the south face of Annapurna and in 1975 was the first to climb Mount Everest by the south-west face, and whose memorial in Edinburgh mistakenly claims he was the first Briton to climb the north face of the Eiger?
55 On which mountain is Harlin's Route, named in honour of the American mountaineer who was killed making an ascent of it in 1966?
56 In which country are there political parties called the Union of Right Forces and Yabloko?
57 Which African capital city was founded in the 18th century by the Ewe people and in 1882, known then as a village called Bey Beach, became a major trading centre with the arrival of Chico and Octaviano Olympio as agents for the British trading firm A. and F. Swanzy?
58 Known as a jazz musician during his early carer, which Welsh composer and co-founder of the jazz-rock group Nucleus and former member of Soft Machine has since preoccupied himself with his innovative crossover project Adiemus, the first album of which, Songs of Sanctuary, was released in 1994?
59 Purchased by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, what nickname was given to the area in South Kensington between Cromwell Road and Kensington Gore?
60 What was founded in 1837 as the Government School of Design?
61 Knighted in 2001 for "Services to Art and Design Education", which historian and critic has written and presented TV series such as The Art of Persuasion on advertising and Strange Landscaoe on the Middle Ages?
62 Initially part of the South Kensington Museum and separated in 1858 as the Museum of Patents, what museum was founded in 1857 under Bennett Woodcroft from the collection of the Royal Society of Arts and surplus items from the Great Exhibition?
63 Conceived by Danny Hillis in 1986, what mechanical clock is designed to keep time for 10,000 yeas and is also called the 10,000-year clock?
64 Founded by the sixth Imam, what name is given to Shi'ite Islam's own school of law?
65 Considered by Shia Muslims as the First Imam appointed by Muhammad and the first rightful Caliphy, which cousin of Muhammad is seen by Sunni Muslim as the fourth and last of the Khulafa ar-Rashidun (Righlty Guided Caliphs)?
66 Named for a shrine of a 15th century Francican saint who was especially devoted to children, whih branch of the Third Order of St Francis was founded in Warsaw in 1855 by Sophia Truszkowska?
67 Which German surgeon is perhaps best remembered for the "position" in which the patient is placed on a bed which is put into incline such that the patient's head is lower than their feet and his "cannula", a device used during the surgery of the larynx to prevent the patient from swallowing blood during the operation?
68 The great saphenous vein is found in which part of the human body?
69 One of three types of dense connective tissue (the others being ligaments and tendons), what specialised connective tissue layer which surrounds muscles, bones and joints consists of three layers, the superficial, the deep and the subserous?
70 Also known for a monumental diary called the Cahiers, which Frenchman's poem Palme inspired James Merrill's celebrated 1974 poem Lost in Translation?
71 And in his poem Tel Quel, what did he call "the art of stopping people from minding their own business"?
72 Sometimes referred to as pom from the Maya language, what type of resin has a name derived from the Nahuatl for incense and is often used as an amber substitute in jewellry?
73 Named for the French brothers Guillaume and Etienne-Simon, what imitation Chinese laquer, used in interior design, is said to have been made by heating oil and incense and then adding Venetian turpentine?
74 Gwendoline Maud Syrie Barnardo, daughter of Thomas the charity founder and mother of W Somerset Maugham's illegitimate daughter Elizabeth Mary, became well known in what kind of profession from the early 20s until her death in 1955?
75 Known by the first names Gustave and Christian, which brothers formed the famous titular interior decorating firm in 1864 and were especially known for decorating William Henry Vanderbilt's new Fifth Avenue mansion between 1879 and 1882, as well as Darius Ogden Mill's mansion at 634 Fifth Avenue 1880-1882?
76 The theme song to The Beverly Hillbillies, The Ballad of Jed Clampett, was written by producer and writer Paul Henning and originally performed by which Bluegrass artists who had the first names Lester and Earl?
77 The 80-year-old fiddler Jimmy Thompson was the first performer on which radio show on November 28, 1925, then known as the WSM Barn Dance?
78 TVP is which European country's public TV network broadcasting corporation?
79 What medical disorder has varities called "mellitus" and "inspidus"?
80 Also called "search engine spamming", what is the practice of manipulating a search engine to create the illusion of more popularity of a webpage of lesser importance?
81 The de facto standard for email transmissions across the internet, what does SMTP stand for?
82 Abbreviated BIO, what annual computer-programming competition for UK secondary and sixth-form students is currently hosted by Trinity College, Cambridge, and has been sponsored by Lionhead Studios since 2002?
83 In which Swiss canton, also called Grison, is Romansch spoken by around 50,000-70,000 people, of whom 35,000 use it as their first language?
84 Saint-Hubert Airport is situated in Longueuil near which other city?
85 Which Ellesmere Port-born man managed Aston Villa to victory in the inaugural League Cup in 1961 but was sacked in 1964 due to ill-health and went on to enjoy great success as manager with Manchester City between 1965 and 1972, winning the First Division in 1968?
86 What term describes the subgenre of fantasy fiction that is set in invented or parallel worlds?
87 What Japanese word meaning "perverted" is used in many western countries to refer to anime, manga, and computer games with explicit sexual or pornographic content, although the Japanese are more likely to use the terms ju hachi kin, ecchi/H anime, seinen or eroanime?
88 Which French critic and man of letters's most famous novel is 1862's Les Jeudis de Mme. Charbonneau, which offered a series of malicious and witty portraits of contemporary writers?
89 What term describes a type of government dominated by the labour and solidarities similar to communist beliefs?
90 Many consider the 1990 book of poetry Omeros, a retelling of the Odyssey, to be the finest work of which Nobel Laureate?
91 Fictionalised in a Glen David Gold novel, which American stage musician known as "the Great" was known for the classic "sawing a woman in half" illusion, "cheating the gallows" and making a live elephant disappear?
92 As of 2005 the most common material globally for the construction of interior walls and ceillings, what low-budget building material consists of gypsum formed into a flat sheet and sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper and has such other names as Wallboard, Plasterboard, GWB and gypsum board?
93 What years did the First Punic War between Rome and Carthage cover?
94 Featuring armies commanded by L. Postumius Megellus and Q . Mamilius Vitulus and Hanno and Hannibal Gisco, what 261BC confrontation on Sicliy was the first pitched battle of the First Punic War and the first large-scale military clash between the Carthaginians and the Republic of Rome, resulting in victory for the latter?
95 Which 1903 Henry James novel follows Louis Lamber Strether and his pursuit of his widowed fiancee's supposedly wayward son?
96 Widely used in business today, what process is abbreviated CM?
97 Having types called "hardware" and "software", what term in computer science describes an asynchronous signal from hardware or software indicating the need for attention?
98 Premiered in the US in 1979, what rockumentary about The Who was primarily the work of American fan Jeff Stein who, despite having no experience in moviemaking convinced the band to support the project and served as the film's director?
99 What setting links the films Evening in Byzantium (1978), Almost Perfect Affair (1979), Grosse Fatigue (1994) and Femme Fatale (2002)?
100 Which French actress is mother of Angelina Jolie?
Answers to BH#52
1 Stax (founded as Satellite Records in 1959 by Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton) 2 The Memphis Group 3 Mack Rice 4 Los Lobos 5 Pigeon Forge 6 James Stewart 7 Carl Davis 8 Father, Dear Father 9 Joseph Saddler 10 John Barrowman 11 Miss Saigon 12 Manuel Benitez "El Cordobes" 13 Born to Dance 14 Dinah Washington 15 The Boswell Sisters 16 Hoagy Carmichael 17 Lena River 18 Lower Austria 19 Frederic Chopin 20 Studniowka 21 Karst (topography) 22 Bradycardia 23 Steppe Eagle 24 Brown Bear 25 Berbers 26 The Source 27 Mackerel 28 Yellowtail 29 Garum 30 Cafe de Paris sauce 31 Pernod 32 Squids 33 Halibut 34 Sea lion 35 Novaya Zemlya 36 Jozef Murgas 37 Luigi Pulci 38 1654 39 Aga Khan (IV) 40 Johnny Buckingham 41 Golden Miller (in 1934) 42 Little Polveir 43 Rosemary Henderson 44 Battleship 45 Burgoo 46 Aristides 47 Thomas Hardwick 48 Sir Nicholas Grimshaw 49 Kashrut or Kashruth 50 Cross pattee or cross patty or cross formy 51 Cascabel 52 Thierry Sabine 53 Pinzgauer 54 Argentina 55 Ceylon 56 Uppsala 57 Trakehner 58 Cadre Noir 59 Uranian poets 60 Javelin 61 Job 62 Gillian Cross 63 (Lord) Rector 64 Dundee 65 Jamal Al-Gashey 66 Bangladesh 67 Leerdammer 68 St Basil's Cathedral on Red Square 69 Battle of Bryn Glas 70 Fencing 71 HMS Resolution 72 Bowline knot 73 Slicing 74 Denmark 75 Rudy Vallee 76 Adelaide 77 Euboea 78 Red sandalwood 79 Malbec 80 James Gurney 81 Lancelot Speed 82 Johann Dirichlet 83 Clam chowder 84 Columbia Records 85 Amphetamine 86 Black Consciousness Movement 87 Henri Chretien 88 Duty Free 89 St Columb's College 90 Phil Coulter 91 Mydriasis 92 Levi Strauss 93 Otto von Guericke 94 Hippolyte Bayard 95 Ewan MacColl 96 Moth 97 Louis VII 98 Wheat beer in which the yeast is not filtered out 99 War of 1812 100 Engel's law 101 Bolton Abbey 102 The Phantom of the Opera 103 Limerick 104 Foxborough 105 Warsaw 106 South Africa 107 The Lorraine Motel 108 C-5 Galaxy 109 Progress spacecraft 110 Pianist
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