A Minimalist Headline: BH71
I have pre-written some quizzes so I thought you might as well have a shufti.
You know I've tried to get down to the sweat-drenched, mentally rigorous revision regime that I've set myself for the WQCs. I have failed yet again.
Instead I watched a documentary on anti-vivisectionists, went to Tesco, read Nuts and Zoo magazine (hey, they were lying around the house just begging to be flicked through) and ate a bag of Skittles Sours. I now have the condition called Skittles Sour Brain. Too much sugar raging in my head.
Maybe tomorrow will be different.
Well done, sirs
Plus, congrats to Mancheser University on winning UC. In your face Oxbridge title hoggers with yer postgrads and stuff. IN YOUR FACE.
And when writer extraordinaire Peter Ackroyd says you were "brilliant", you may very well be quite good (you see we have to take into account the inflation caused by having esoteric or wide-ranging quiz knowledge that impresses everyone who doesn't do quizzes on a regular basis). By the way, it is believed that Ackroyd's brain is as big as house. A very very big house in the country.
1 The actor Nicholas Courtney is best known for playing which TV sci-fi character?
2 What famed summer palace and private residence was designed by Georg Wenzeslaus between 1745 and 1747?
3 Triggered by the attempted murder of King Joseph I in 1758, the Tavora affair was a political scandal that happened in which country and ended in the entire eponymous family's execution?
4 A polymer made from the monomer styrene and commercially manufactured from petroleum, what hydrocarbon was accidentally discovered in 1839 by the German apothecary when he distilled an oily substance he called styrol from storax, the resin of Liquidambar orientalis?
5 What term describes the chemical property in which a conjugated ring of unsaturated bonds, lone pairs, or empty orbitals exhibit a stabilisation stronger than would be expected by the stabilisation of conjugation alone?
6 Having a name meaning "to have a heart of steel", what was the chief tribe of Timurid emperors who lived in central Asia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Hindustan?
7 Developed by the British inventor James Wimshurst during the 19th century, what was the Wimshurst machine used for?
8 Which Western "megastar" died in a car accident in October 1940 in Florence, Arizona and was killed by a suitcase?
9 Founded in 1915 by Holger Sorensen, the Danish company Stimorol is best known for producing what?
10 What Scottish team is the oldest ice hockey team in the UK?
11 What kind of insect is The Flame (Axylia putris)?
12 What is the technical name for a rib?
13 The son of Electra and Zeus, who was the legendary founder of Troy?
14 Which daughter of Nereus and Doris was the wife of Poseidon?
15 A solar eclipse on September 7, 1251 BC might mark the birth of which mythical figure at Thebes in Greece?
16 The world's first submarine attack, which American submersible craft attempted to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship in New York harbour on September 7, 1776?
17 Which French poet was arrested on September 7, 1911 on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre?
18 Secret police agent Francesco Giullino is believed to have been responsible for which 1978 assassination?
19 Who published her first poem The Drowned Suns in the Daily Mirror in 1913 and between 1916 and 1921 edited the annual poetic anthology Wheels, but wrote only one novel I Live Under a Black Sun (1937) which was based on the life of Jonathan Swift?
20 In which country was the film director Elia Kazan born in 1909?
21 Which jazz tenor saxophonist's most widely acclaimed album Saxophone Colossus was recorded on June 22, 1956? (I have a feeling I have already written this question, and if so it appears I have already forgotten it. Tant pis.)
22 The Chilean scientists Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana are best known for introducing into biology what concept that expresses a fundamental complementarity between structure and function?
23 What is the Russian word for tumulus, a type of burial mound or barrow, heaped over a burial chamber, often made of wood, and gives its name to a hypothesis Marija Gimbutas introduced in 1956 that combined archaeology with linguistics to locate the origins of the Proto-Indo-European speaking peoples?
24 What treasure hoard containing gold, silver and ivory objects was uncovered on the south shore of Lake Urmia in Kurdistan in 1947?
25 At 4548m, Zard Kuh is the highest point of which Middle Eastern mountain range?
Answers to BH71
1 The Brigadier in Doctor Who 2 Sanssouci, Potsdam 3 Portugal 4 Polystyrene 5 Aromaticity 6 Barlas or Birlas 7 Generate high voltages (an electronic generator or electrostatic machine) 8 Tom Mix 9 Chewing gum 10 Fife Flyers 11 Moth 12 Costa 13 Dardanus 14 Amphitrite 15 Heracles 16 Turtle 17 Guillaume Apollinaire 18 Georgi Markov 19 Edith Sitwell 20 Turkey (Istanbul) 21 Sonny Rollins 22 Autopoiesis 23 Kurgan 24 Ziwiye hoard 25 Zagros Mountains
You know I've tried to get down to the sweat-drenched, mentally rigorous revision regime that I've set myself for the WQCs. I have failed yet again.
Instead I watched a documentary on anti-vivisectionists, went to Tesco, read Nuts and Zoo magazine (hey, they were lying around the house just begging to be flicked through) and ate a bag of Skittles Sours. I now have the condition called Skittles Sour Brain. Too much sugar raging in my head.
Maybe tomorrow will be different.
Well done, sirs
Plus, congrats to Mancheser University on winning UC. In your face Oxbridge title hoggers with yer postgrads and stuff. IN YOUR FACE.
And when writer extraordinaire Peter Ackroyd says you were "brilliant", you may very well be quite good (you see we have to take into account the inflation caused by having esoteric or wide-ranging quiz knowledge that impresses everyone who doesn't do quizzes on a regular basis). By the way, it is believed that Ackroyd's brain is as big as house. A very very big house in the country.
1 The actor Nicholas Courtney is best known for playing which TV sci-fi character?
2 What famed summer palace and private residence was designed by Georg Wenzeslaus between 1745 and 1747?
3 Triggered by the attempted murder of King Joseph I in 1758, the Tavora affair was a political scandal that happened in which country and ended in the entire eponymous family's execution?
4 A polymer made from the monomer styrene and commercially manufactured from petroleum, what hydrocarbon was accidentally discovered in 1839 by the German apothecary when he distilled an oily substance he called styrol from storax, the resin of Liquidambar orientalis?
5 What term describes the chemical property in which a conjugated ring of unsaturated bonds, lone pairs, or empty orbitals exhibit a stabilisation stronger than would be expected by the stabilisation of conjugation alone?
6 Having a name meaning "to have a heart of steel", what was the chief tribe of Timurid emperors who lived in central Asia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Hindustan?
7 Developed by the British inventor James Wimshurst during the 19th century, what was the Wimshurst machine used for?
8 Which Western "megastar" died in a car accident in October 1940 in Florence, Arizona and was killed by a suitcase?
9 Founded in 1915 by Holger Sorensen, the Danish company Stimorol is best known for producing what?
10 What Scottish team is the oldest ice hockey team in the UK?
11 What kind of insect is The Flame (Axylia putris)?
12 What is the technical name for a rib?
13 The son of Electra and Zeus, who was the legendary founder of Troy?
14 Which daughter of Nereus and Doris was the wife of Poseidon?
15 A solar eclipse on September 7, 1251 BC might mark the birth of which mythical figure at Thebes in Greece?
16 The world's first submarine attack, which American submersible craft attempted to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship in New York harbour on September 7, 1776?
17 Which French poet was arrested on September 7, 1911 on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre?
18 Secret police agent Francesco Giullino is believed to have been responsible for which 1978 assassination?
19 Who published her first poem The Drowned Suns in the Daily Mirror in 1913 and between 1916 and 1921 edited the annual poetic anthology Wheels, but wrote only one novel I Live Under a Black Sun (1937) which was based on the life of Jonathan Swift?
20 In which country was the film director Elia Kazan born in 1909?
21 Which jazz tenor saxophonist's most widely acclaimed album Saxophone Colossus was recorded on June 22, 1956? (I have a feeling I have already written this question, and if so it appears I have already forgotten it. Tant pis.)
22 The Chilean scientists Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana are best known for introducing into biology what concept that expresses a fundamental complementarity between structure and function?
23 What is the Russian word for tumulus, a type of burial mound or barrow, heaped over a burial chamber, often made of wood, and gives its name to a hypothesis Marija Gimbutas introduced in 1956 that combined archaeology with linguistics to locate the origins of the Proto-Indo-European speaking peoples?
24 What treasure hoard containing gold, silver and ivory objects was uncovered on the south shore of Lake Urmia in Kurdistan in 1947?
25 At 4548m, Zard Kuh is the highest point of which Middle Eastern mountain range?
Answers to BH71
1 The Brigadier in Doctor Who 2 Sanssouci, Potsdam 3 Portugal 4 Polystyrene 5 Aromaticity 6 Barlas or Birlas 7 Generate high voltages (an electronic generator or electrostatic machine) 8 Tom Mix 9 Chewing gum 10 Fife Flyers 11 Moth 12 Costa 13 Dardanus 14 Amphitrite 15 Heracles 16 Turtle 17 Guillaume Apollinaire 18 Georgi Markov 19 Edith Sitwell 20 Turkey (Istanbul) 21 Sonny Rollins 22 Autopoiesis 23 Kurgan 24 Ziwiye hoard 25 Zagros Mountains
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