Monday, April 10, 2006

They're Getting Smaller, But This BH quiz #52 Is Still HEEE-YOOGE

I feel like the beginning of Keats's Ode to a Nightingale without the opium assistance. Sadly, all I'm giving is is quiz, quiz and more quiz at the moment. Stuff that will strengthen the brain, but which certainly does not feed the heart or tickle the funny bone. I have to up and off back to the city in a minute. There I will reacquaint myself with urban living, outrageously priced beer and possibly a pub quiz. Tis Monday: one option is obvious...

As for this quiz, I used to italicise the titles because it makes it look pretty like, but then I looked at the time and my faulty no good double-clicking mouse, and thought, maybe another day. Lazy have I become, though it may just be the last residue of cabin fever leaving my body...

1 Seen by many as its heart, the shooting of musician and songwriter Al Jackson preceded the closure of which Memphis, Tennessee-based Southern soul record label by less than a year in 1976?
2 As in Booker T Jones's backing band, what did the name MGs stand for?
3 Nicknamed "Sir", who wrote the song Mustang Sally?
4 Featuring the singer-songwriter David Hidalgo, which American rock band had their first major label album success with 1984's T-Bone Burnett-produced, How Will the Wolf Survive?
5 Which city in Tennessee is home to the Dolly Parton theme park, Dollywood?
6 Which Oscar-winning actor's first film role was as Shorty in 1935's The Murder Man and his last, voicing Wylie Burp in 1991's An American Tail: Fievel Goes West?
7 Who composed the score to the documentary series The World at War?
8 Produced by Thames Television for ITV from 1968 to 1973, which sitcom starred Patrick Cargill as divorced British novelist Patrick Glover and Ann Holloway and Natasha Pyne as his daughters Karen and Anna?
9 Famed for his four-bout series with Willie Pep, which two-time featherweight champion of the world scored 103 knockouts over his 12-year career (1944-56, retiring due to an eye injury received when his taxi got into a traffic accident) and was nicknamed "Sandy"?
10 Which musical theatre star has been with his partner, the British architect Scott Gill since 1991?
11 Which musical features the songs Movie in My Mind, The Last Night of the World, I Still Believe and Why God, Why?
12 Matador, the 1987 musical by Mike Leander and Edward Seago, tells the story of which man?
13 Nominated for the Oscar for Best Song, the Cole Porter song I've Got You Under My Skin was introduced in which Eleanor Powell MGM musical where it was performed by Virginia Bruce?
14 Which jazz, blues and gospel singer was born Ruth Jones in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1924?
15 The New Orleans-born sisters Martha, Connie (who was idolised by Ella Fitzgerald) and Helvetia "Vet" made up which singing group that rose to fame in the 30s?
16 Said by Ian Fleming to resemble James Bond in his novels Casino Royale and Moonraker, who wrote the songs Riverboat Shuffle, Rockin' Chair, Chimes of Indiana, Judy, The Object of My Affections, Washboard Blues and Heart & Soul?
17 The 10th longest in the world at 2,734 miles, which Russian river has its soure in the Baikal Mountains south of the Central Siberian Plateau and has the unusual distinction of appearing to be the longest river in the world when viewed on a map using a Mercator projection?
18 Which of the nine states in Austria is largest and has had Sankt Polten for its capital since 1986, making it the most recent capital town in the country?
19 Starring Paul Muni, the 1945 Charles Vidor film A Song to Remember is about which musician?
20 The Polonaise is always a first dance at what Polish equivalent of the senior prom which gets its name from the fact that it happens 100 days before exams?
21 The German name for a region in Slovenia that partially extends to Italy and which rests on a limestone plateau, what term describes a landscape of distinctive dissolution patterns often marked by underground drainages?
22 As applied in adult medicine, what term is defined as a resting heart rate of under 60bpm, though it is seldom symptomatic until the rate drops below 50?
23 Given the scientific name Aquila nipalensis, which large bird of prey is named so because it favours open dry habitats, such a desert or savannah?
24 The Kodiak Bear and Alaskan Coastal Bear are the largest subspecies of which bear?
25 Which ethnic group, indigenous to NW Africa, are also called Imazighen, meaning "free men" (singular Amazigh)?
26 Which US monthly music magazine was founded as a newsletter in 1988 by Dave Mays and Jon Shecter, the former of whom was sacked as CEO in 2006?
27 What seawater fish is Scomber scombrus?
28 Which fish called the Japanese amberjack is greatly appreciated in Japan where it is called mojako when they are small wild fry, hamachi until they reach 3kg and or 5kg called buri?
29 Made using anchovies, wine, vinegar, pepper oil or water, what fermented fish sauce was a staple of cuisine in Roman times and was an item of long-distance commerce produced in industrial quantities?
30 Often confused with the "butter" of the same name, what butter-based sauce often served with rib steak and chips is said to have been invented by Madame Bourbier and her daughter in the 1930s, the latter marrying the proprietor of the eponymous Geneva restaurant?
31 What was the surname of Henri-Louis, a distiller of Swiss origin who founded a drinks company in Pontarlier, eastern France in 1805?
32 What cephalopods can be bobtail, Ram's Horn or Vampire?
33 A very large example of which fish, which has varieties such as Pacific and California, is known as a "barn door"?
34 What marine mammal is Eumetopias jubatus?
35 Which Russian archipelago, its name meaning New Land, consists of two main islands, Severny (northern) and Yuzhny (southern) in the Arctic Ocean that are separated by the narrow Matochkin Strait?
36 Nicknamed the Radio Priest, which Slovak architect, botanist, painter, patriot and Roman Catholic Pastor received his first two US patents - the Apparatus for wireless telegraphy and The Way of transmitted messages by wireless telegraphy - in 1904 and has therefore been credited with inventing modern wireless telegraphy?
37 Patronised by Lorenzo Medici, which Florentine-born poet (1432-1484) is most famous for his Morgante, an epic story of a giant who is converted to Christianity and follows Orlando (the French equivalent of Roland)?
38 In which year in the 17th century did The Delft Explosion occur?
39 How is Prince Karim El Husseini otherwise known?
40 Who rode Foinavon when it won the 1967 Grand National?
41 What is the only race horse to have won both the Grand National and the Cheltenham Gold Cup?
42 Which horse won the 1989 Grand National at odds of 28-1?
43 Who has been the most successful female Grand National jockey, finishing fifth on 100-1 outsider Fiddler's Pike in 1994?
44 Which US Hall of Fame racehorse, a son of Man O'War, won the American Grand National in 1934 and the Grand National in 1938?
45 What traditional thick stew, of beef, chicken, pork and veg, is served primarily at the Kentucky Derby from massive iron pots into paper cups with crackers?
46 Robert Bordly rode which horse to win the first Kentucky Derby in 1875?
47 Which English architect advised his pupil JMW Turner to concentrate on painting rather than buildings and designed the Shire Hall in Dorchester and the church of St Mary on Marylebone Road (1813-1817)?
48 Which knight and architect, designer of the international railway terminal at Waterloo Station, is the current president of the Royal Academy?
49 What term describes the Jewish dietary laws?
50 The Victoria Cross is takes the form of what cross design?
51 What word describes a knob at the end of a cannon that has been cast into the gunbarrel and to which ropes are attached, a hot chilli pepper, and also a bell attached to a sleigh or sleigh harness?
52 The Paris-Dakar Rally began in 1978 a year after which French racer got lost in the desert and decided it would be a good location for a regular race?
53 Once produced by Steyr-Daimler-Puch in Graz, what high mobility all-terrain 4x4 and 6x6 military utility vehicle is manufactured in Guildford by the Automotive Technik (ATL) and is used widely in the UK as a fire engine in smaller towns and villages?
54 Proposed by the German scientist Ronald Richter in 1948, the secret Huemul Project was a failed attempt to produce nuclear fusion energy before any country from a lithium-deuterium nuclear reaction that was funded by which country?
55 A huge demonstration by the masses, the Hartal happened in which country on August 12, 1953?
56 Famous for a university (founded 1477) that is the oldest and most renowned in Scandinavia, which city is Sweden's ecclesiastical centre as it has been the seat of Sweden's archbishop since 1164?
57 Descended from the now extinct East Prussian Schwaike, a small primitive horse first discovered by the Knights Templar in the 13th century, for which breed of horse did Prussian king Friedrich Wilhlem I establish a "Main Stud"? It is considered the lightest and most refined of the warmbloods and is the purest all because it is the only warmblood breed that has a closed stud book.
58 Founded in 1828 and taking their names from the uniforms they still use today, which equestrian display team in based in the city of Saumur in western France?
59 Including Reverend EE Bradford, Lord Alfred Douglas and several pseudonymous authors writing under names like Philebus, which small and clandestine group of pederastic English poets who wrote between 1870 and 1930 had a name derived in part from the Platonic theory of "heavenly" pederasty?
60 The Norwegian Andreas Thorkildsen is Olympic champion at which athletics event?
61 Sometimes called the most difficult book of the Bible, what book of the Old Testament has a name meaning "hostility" in Hebrew?
62 Who wrote The Demon Headmaster children's books?
63 In Scotland what post is the equivalent of Chancellor at the four ancient universities of St Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh?
64 Which institution also follows this tradition and is technically an "ancient university" owing to its separation from the University of St Andrews?
65 Which Black September member is the last-known surviving hostage-taker from the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre?
66 Happening during the final throes of the country's "Liberation War" in 1971, in which Asian country did the "Intellectuals" massacre take place, December 14 now commemorated by that nation as "Martyred Intellectuals Day"?
67 Which Dutch cheese, made from cow's milk, used the Star Trek/Borg phrase "Resistance is futile" in an advertising campaign this year?
68 By what name do we known the multi-tented church the Cathedral of Intercession on the Mound?
69 Sometimes referred to in English accounts as the Battle of Pilleth, which June 22, 1402 battle near Presteigne in Herefordshire resulted in a great victory for the Welsh rebels under Owain Glyndwr over an English army commanded by Sir Edmund Mortimer?
70 The 15th century figure Filippo Vadi is known for his teachings in what activity?
71 Deemed "the ship of my choice", in which Royal Navy sloop did Captain James Cook make his second and third voyages of exploration in the Pacific?
72 Also called the Death knot, Rescue knot and Boland knot, what can be tied using the "Bunny" method, the Single hand method and Lightning or Jedi method?
73 The method of execution in Chinese history rendered "Ling Chi" in pinyin is translated as what?
74 The late entertainer Victor Borge was born in which country?
75 Who recorded such popular songs as The Stein Song (aka University of Maine fighting song) and Vieni, Vieni during the 30s with his group The Connecticut Yankee?
76 Which Australian city's road circuit was the scene of Nigel Mansell's famous spectacular rear tyre puncture that cost him the F1 drivers' championship?
77 Once known by the names Macris and Doliche, which island is the second largest in Greece by area and population after Crete and has the principal cities Chalcis and Eretria?
78 Yielded by Pterocarpus santalinus, what famous wood as a timber is equal to the finest of rosewoods and is found in classic Chinese furniture and is primarily used as a dye by women in India?
79 The premier grape of Argentina, what black grape variety is called Auxerrois in Cahors, Cot in the Loire and Pressac elsewhere and became less popular in Bordeaux where is is long known as one of the five used in the blending of red Bordeaux wine when a frost killed off 75 per cent of the crop in 1956?
80 Which author and illustrator created Dinotopia, which was later made into a TV miniseries?
81 Also the director of the early British silent film series The Wonderful Adventures of Pip, Squeak and Wilfred, which Victorian illustrator of books, usually fantastical or romantic, may be best known for his illustrations for Andrew Lang's fairy story, and is credited as the designer on the 1916 silent film version of H Rider Haggard's She, whose 1890 viking novel The Saga of Eric Brighteyes he also illustrated?
82 Which 19th century German mathematician is credited with the modern "formal" definition of a function and is also known for the eponymous "boundary conditions" that have long been used in the study of fluids and potential theory?
83 The "New England" version of which dish is white and contains large amounts of milk or cream, while the "Rhode Island" has a clear broth and the "Manhattan" has a clear broth with tomato added?
84 Dating back to 1888, what is the oldest continually used brand name in recorded sound having been the original local company that sold and distributed Edison phonographs and phonograph cylinders in Washington DC, Maryland and Delaware?
85 What chiral compound was first synthesised in 1887 by the Romanian chemist Lazar Edeleanu who called it phenylisopropylamine?
86 Abbreviated BCM, Steve Biko, Mamphela Ramphele and Barney Pityana were among the founders and leaders of which anti-apartheid activist movement that started to develop during the late 60s?
87 Which French astronomer's most famous invention is the anamorphic widescreen process, initially called Anamorphoscope, that he developed in around 1927 using lenses he called hypogonar and which resulted in CinemaScope?
88 Which 80s ITV sitcom centred on two British couple called the Pearces and the Cochrans?
89 Which Roman Catholic all-boys college now located in Buncrana Road in the suburbs of Derry is notable for producing two Nobel laureates in the form of John Hume and Seamus Heaney, and can count playwright Brian Friel and football manager Martin O'Neill among its other alumni?
90 Which alumnus of the above mentioned college is known for such popular songs as The Town I Loved So Well in which he sang during The Troubles about the Derry of his youth, a city filled with "that damned barbed wire"?
91 The opposite of miosis, what term describes an excessive dilation of the pupil due to disease or drugs?
92 The tailor Jacob Davis went into business with whom in the 1870s?
93 Which German scientist carried out a famous experiement demonstrating the power of atmospheric pressure by having teams of horses try to pull apart the Magdeburg hemispheres, structures that were made of copper and joined together with the air pumped out?
94 Which Frenchman invented his own photography process known as direct positive printing and presented the world's first public exhibition of photographs on June 24, 1839, later taking such famous pictures as 1840's Self Portrait as a Drowned Man?
95 Born Jimmie Miller, which musician and writer made (the later theatrical director) Joan Littlewood his first wife in 1934?
96 What is the Common Marbled Carpet?
97 Eleanor of Aquitaine married which French king, nicknamed "the Fat", in 1137?
98 Also available in dark (Dunkelweizen), higher alcohol content (Weizenstarkbier) and Kristallweizen (clear), Hefeweizen is a variety of what?
99 Which war saw US victories at the Battle of the Thames and a few months later at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend?
100 An observation first made in 1857 by the director of the Bureau of Statistics in Prussia that gave it its name, what law in economics states that, with a given set of tastes and preferences, as income rises, the proportion of income spent in food falls, even if actual expenditure on food rises?
101 The destination of the Halifax cycling club in Alan Bennett's 1972 BBC TV play A Day Out, what ruined priory in North Yorkshire was founded in 1151 by the Augustinian order on the banks of the river Wharfe?
102 What became Broadway's longest running show last January?
103 The third largest city in Eire, what city's origins stretch back to its establishment by the vikings as a walled city on King's Island, an island on the Shannon?
104 In what city do the New England Patriots play their home matches?
105 The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was by the time of its construction in 1912 the tallest building in which city, but was demolished less than 15 years later?
106 In which country is the Karoo National Park?
107 What was the name of the Memphis hotel where Martin Luther King was assassinated?
108 One of the largest military aircraft in the world, which Lockheed plane (#66-8303) was "rolled out" on March 2, 1968?
109 Derived from the Soyuz spacecraft, which Russian expendable umanned freighter is currently used to supply the International Space Station and has carried fuel and other supplies to all the space stations since Salyut 6?
110 Eunice Norton, who died in 2005, was a famous American what?

Answers to BH#51
1 Alan Dale 2 Yugoslavia (he was Slovenian) 3 (Victor) Goldschmidt Classification 4 Warrington 5 Northwich 6 The Solvay process 7 Buffer solutions 8 Henri Louis Le Chatelier('s principle) 9 Yield 10 Stoichiometry 11 Lowell George 12 Fleetwood 13 Bali 14 Michael Meacher 15 Lake Tanganyika 16 Aussie rules football and speedway 17 RSA Factoring Challenge 18 Semiprimes 19 Catering and events catering 20 Church House 21 London Zoo 22 Biscayne or Basque people 23 Private Schulz 24 Kruger 25 Trademarks 26 Autoharp 27 Kinnor 28 The Dagda 29 Tuatha De Danann 30 Krzysztof Penderecki 31 Anton Bruckner 32 John Holt 33 Boston United 34 The Senedd 35 Rhyl CC 36 Manchester City 37 Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales 38 Somerfield (previously Gateway etc) 39 Tony Zale 40 Michael Boyce 41 John Ray 42 Theophrastus 43 Peter Moore 44 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 45 Voice actor 46 Wah-wah pedal 47 Vox 48 Neutrino (Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search) 49 Fermions 50 Lee Van Cleef 51 Fiat 52 Minuet (short steps=pas menus) 53 Jean-Baptiste Lully 54 Haruspicy as in a Haruspex 55 Piacenza 56 American mobsters 57 Caesars Palace, Las Vegas 58 Phaistos Disc 59 Gain 60 Watkins' Tower ("The London Stump") 61 Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United 62 Billie 63 Five 64 AC Milan 65 Hockey Stick Galaxies 66 William Herschel 67 Black body 68 Rimu 69 Brig 70 Kenning 71 Mogwai 72 Rock Action 73 Juneau 74 The Chum salmon 75 Alexander Severus 76 Finland 77 Latvia 78 Rubidium 79 Premier Percussion (founded as Premier Drum Company) 80 Flaming Youth 81 Texas Red 82 Pescennius Niger 83 Mantling 84 Cape Doctor 85 Daniel Kirkwood as in Kirkwood gaps 86 Linfield FC 87 Red Windsor cheese 88 Wisconsin Dells 89 The Ruy Lopez 90 Egyptian 91 Winchester 92 Richard Tomlinson 93 Immediate Action 94 Parachutes 95 Christian music 96 Speedway race-track 97 Tokyo 98 Boris Tadic 99 Erenagh 100 Tel Aviv 101 Dunam 102 Hard Rock Cafe 103 Daventry 104 The Main Plot 105 Large holes for body piercing/ body art 106 Railways 107 They were Bulgarians 108 Sea of Okhotsk 109 C++ 110 Eddy Merckx 111 General Classification or GC 112 Maillot vert (green jersey) 113 Thirty-five 114 Greg LeMond in 1989 115 Melilla and Ceuta 116 Nucleus 117 Citrus fruit, a variety of the citron 118 Leviticus 119 A Parsha 120 Freiberg

1 Comments:

Blogger Tim F said...

Number 21... strictly correct, but although Muni got top billing, he didn't actually play the musician in question. That was Cornel Wilde.

I think Muni was a much bigger name at the time, although he's now all but forgotten. As is Cornel Wilde.

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