The Quizzes Go Septugenarian Or Is That #71? Very confusing. Anyway the BH quiz #70
I'm knackered. Been writing for money. I have to get ahead on my work in anticipation of next week's indie-rock extravaganza in good old Camber Sands.
I'm allowed to say "good old" in that silly nostalgic way: my parents once took me there when I was about four. I remember yellow sand and bad food, but then that's all I recall about trips to the beach until I was about thirteen when I swallowed some seawater thanks to an unexpected wave immediately after eating a "fish supper" and, you know, it didn't stay consumed for long.
But work I must so: a) I do not stay up all night before getting to Pontins in such a sleep deprived state that I have to cat-nap at regular, unfortunate intervals and b) so I do not go whooshing past the deadline like some person who has no respect for deadlines, like (fetching around memory for real-life examples) that Douglas Adams chap. And, as you know, he is stone cold dead, a corpse in the wormy ground. He is Fin. Deceased. Dead. A lesson for us all.
Being a seaside lad all my life (the longest I've ever been less than a mile away from the briny, condom-filled depths for more than two weeks was when I got to university; not that I take any advantage of that, the sea is there for reassurance like Polaris nuclear missiles I suppose; truth be told, I haven't seen it up close for seven months), I can't say that my upbringing would have been any different.
I can only say that the faint smell of sea air, rather than rural cow dung or carcinogenic exhaust fumes, will always be comforting, and that I would not have pumped so much coinage into arcade machines when I was a teenager or interacted with so many old people who went to the south coast to die very, very slowly.
If you are going to die on or near a beach you might as well make it a tropical one covered in gloriously bright and smooth-looking sand rather than one covered in dog turds and large pebbles that could become skull-smashing projectiles in the two seconds it takes to pick up and throw.
Also, I would have eaten a lot less Wimpy meals and believed that the north was a real place with normal people, rather than this near mythical, sun-less place populated by entrail-eating Dickensian grotesques with accents so incomprehensible and phrases so confusing that when I met one for real I would have to bring a translator and a Stanley knife. Just in case. But don't worry, I stopped thinking such things when I watched Geordie Racer at school. Understanding through pigeons and educational drama you see.
I digressed again ... sorry
Yes, learning from previous fatal errors, I pay now in toil in order to reap the free time I will spend drinking holiday camp lager and staring at Joanna Newsom. Joanna Newsommmmm.
Some of it is quiz-related. It always is. Setting more questions. And more questions. Rejecting loads for word-length and suitability.
Look I've set some below. Have 'em.
I've decided to put the answers in this post too and will be doing so for the foreseeable future, reminded as I am of the annoyance of separating the Q's and the A's and then not finding the latter the next day.
Posts will not be a daily occurence for the next month either, seeing as I have to try and concentrate on prep for the Worlds on June 3.
But I will post most days. I promise thee.
1 What new 100m world record time has Justin Gatlin just set at the Qatar Grand Prix?
2 Which cloning scientist has been indicted for fraud, embezzlement, and violation of bioethics law in a South Korean scandal over his faked stem cell research?
3 Who has taken his oath of office for a third consecutive term as President of Uganda?
4 In which country has the heavily censored collaborative online encyclopedia Baidu Baike been launched?
5 Who is the UK's new Minister for Local Government?
6 Which lifetime senator has been elected the new President of the Italian Republic?
7 The starboard engine of what cruise liner, sailing from Tilbury to St Peter Port on Guernsey caught fire 16 miles off Eastbourne on May 6?
8 Which country celebrates Rotuma Day on May 13, in celebration of the anniversary of its cession to the UK in 1881?
9 Who succeeded his father Childeric I in 481 as King of the Salian Franks?
10 Giving its name to the tribes of Salian Franks that settled in a certain area in the 4th century and which gave rise to the Merovingian dynasty that came to dominate what is now France, what is the very old name for a region between the Meuse and the Scheldt rivers in France and Belguim?
11 Who was king of the Ostrogoths (488-526), ruler of Italy (493-526) and regent of the Visigoths (511-526)?
12 Which Christian priest, who lived and taught in Alexandria in the early 4th century, taught that God the Father and the Son were not co-eternal, deeming the pre-incarnate Jesus as a dvine being who was created, and was consequently inferior to, the Father at some point before which the Son did not exist?
13 What battle, fought between the eventually victorious Franks and the Alamannii, traditionally took place in 496 at Zulpich, Nordhein-Westfalen about 60km east of the present German-Belgian frontier?
14 In which country did The May 13 Incident race riots take place in 1969, leaving at least 184 people dead in 1969?
15 Signed into law in 1888 by Isabel the Redeemer, the Lei Aurea formally abolished slavery in which country?
16 First performed in 1848, Maamme is the national anthem of which European country?
17 Which general has been appointed to replace Porter Goss as director of the CIA?
18 Located in a former water-powered grinding workshop on the river Porter, the Shepherd Wheel museum is situated in the southwest of which English city?
19 What is the alternative name for fungal infection candiadiasis or thrush, of which Candida albicans is probably the most common?
20 Masaniello, whose name is an abbreviation of Tommaso Aniello, was an Amalfi fisherman who became leader of the revolt against Spanish rule in which city in 1647?
21 Stanley Sadie is most associated with which reference work, whose work saw such major changes to it as the growth of nine volumes to 20 in the sixth edition in 1980?
22 Which major composer has a museum devoted to him at 25 Brook Street in Mayfair?
23 What classic jazz compostion and song, with words and music by Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard and Irving Mills, had its main theme provided by Bigard who learned it in New Orleans from his clarinet teacher Lorenzo Tito who called it a "Mexican Blues"; Ellington's distinctive arrangement being first recorded by his band for Okeh Records on October 30, 1930?
24 Taking its name from the first nonsense 'word' of the mnemonic sequence for the letters of the Arabic alphabet, in what type of writing system is there one symbol per consonantal phoneme, sometimes also called a consonantary?
25 Who was the first British monarch to visit Russia?
26 In maths, what name is given to either a positive integer such as 1,2,3 etc or a non-negative integer, 0,1,2, ... the former definition being generally used in number theory and the latter preferred in set theory and computer science; it having two main purposes, counting and used for ordering?
27 Named after a British mathematician, philosopher and economist who died aged only 26 in 1930, what branch of mathematics studies the conditions under which order must appear?
28 There are 15 species of which small oily fish of the genus Clupea found in the temperate, shallow waters of the North Atlantic and the Baltic Sea, ths most abundant of which is the Atlantic?
29 What type of creature is the large Machete Savane (Chironus carinatus)?
30 To whom are attributed the set of four equations that describe the behaviour of both the electric and magnetic fields, as well as their interactions with matter?
31 Whose law of induction gives the relation between the rate of change of the magnetic flux through the surface S enclosed by a contour C and the electric field along the contour?
32 During which 19th century war did two military clashes known as the Battle of Lacolle Mills take place?
33 In which French film of 1946 did Jean Marais and Josette Day play the title roles?
34 Born in 1980, the supermodel Liya Kebede hails from which country?
35 Winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize for Literature, which Finnish writer gained international fame for his novel Nuorena nukkunut (The Maid Silja/Fallen Asleep While Young) in 1931?
SOME DISTANCE BETWEEN THE ABOVE AND THE BELOW
Answers to BH#70
1 9.76 seconds 2 Hwang Woo-Suk 3 Yoweri Museveni 4 China 5 Ruth Kelly 6 Giorgio Napolitano 7 Calypso 8 Fiji 9 Clovis I 10 Toxandria 11 Theodoric the Great 12 Arius 13 Battle of Tolbiac 14 Malaysia 15 Brazil 16 Finland 17 Michael Hayden 18 Sheffield 19 Yeast infection 20 Naples 21 Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 22 Handel 23 Mood Indigo 24 Abjad 25 Edward VII (in 1908) 26 Natural number 27 Ramsey theory 28 Herring 29 Snake 30 (James Clerk) Maxwell's equations 31 Faraday's 32 War of 1812 33 Beauty and the Beast 34 Ethiopia 35 Frans Eemil Sillanpaa
I'm allowed to say "good old" in that silly nostalgic way: my parents once took me there when I was about four. I remember yellow sand and bad food, but then that's all I recall about trips to the beach until I was about thirteen when I swallowed some seawater thanks to an unexpected wave immediately after eating a "fish supper" and, you know, it didn't stay consumed for long.
But work I must so: a) I do not stay up all night before getting to Pontins in such a sleep deprived state that I have to cat-nap at regular, unfortunate intervals and b) so I do not go whooshing past the deadline like some person who has no respect for deadlines, like (fetching around memory for real-life examples) that Douglas Adams chap. And, as you know, he is stone cold dead, a corpse in the wormy ground. He is Fin. Deceased. Dead. A lesson for us all.
Being a seaside lad all my life (the longest I've ever been less than a mile away from the briny, condom-filled depths for more than two weeks was when I got to university; not that I take any advantage of that, the sea is there for reassurance like Polaris nuclear missiles I suppose; truth be told, I haven't seen it up close for seven months), I can't say that my upbringing would have been any different.
I can only say that the faint smell of sea air, rather than rural cow dung or carcinogenic exhaust fumes, will always be comforting, and that I would not have pumped so much coinage into arcade machines when I was a teenager or interacted with so many old people who went to the south coast to die very, very slowly.
If you are going to die on or near a beach you might as well make it a tropical one covered in gloriously bright and smooth-looking sand rather than one covered in dog turds and large pebbles that could become skull-smashing projectiles in the two seconds it takes to pick up and throw.
Also, I would have eaten a lot less Wimpy meals and believed that the north was a real place with normal people, rather than this near mythical, sun-less place populated by entrail-eating Dickensian grotesques with accents so incomprehensible and phrases so confusing that when I met one for real I would have to bring a translator and a Stanley knife. Just in case. But don't worry, I stopped thinking such things when I watched Geordie Racer at school. Understanding through pigeons and educational drama you see.
I digressed again ... sorry
Yes, learning from previous fatal errors, I pay now in toil in order to reap the free time I will spend drinking holiday camp lager and staring at Joanna Newsom. Joanna Newsommmmm.
Some of it is quiz-related. It always is. Setting more questions. And more questions. Rejecting loads for word-length and suitability.
Look I've set some below. Have 'em.
I've decided to put the answers in this post too and will be doing so for the foreseeable future, reminded as I am of the annoyance of separating the Q's and the A's and then not finding the latter the next day.
Posts will not be a daily occurence for the next month either, seeing as I have to try and concentrate on prep for the Worlds on June 3.
But I will post most days. I promise thee.
1 What new 100m world record time has Justin Gatlin just set at the Qatar Grand Prix?
2 Which cloning scientist has been indicted for fraud, embezzlement, and violation of bioethics law in a South Korean scandal over his faked stem cell research?
3 Who has taken his oath of office for a third consecutive term as President of Uganda?
4 In which country has the heavily censored collaborative online encyclopedia Baidu Baike been launched?
5 Who is the UK's new Minister for Local Government?
6 Which lifetime senator has been elected the new President of the Italian Republic?
7 The starboard engine of what cruise liner, sailing from Tilbury to St Peter Port on Guernsey caught fire 16 miles off Eastbourne on May 6?
8 Which country celebrates Rotuma Day on May 13, in celebration of the anniversary of its cession to the UK in 1881?
9 Who succeeded his father Childeric I in 481 as King of the Salian Franks?
10 Giving its name to the tribes of Salian Franks that settled in a certain area in the 4th century and which gave rise to the Merovingian dynasty that came to dominate what is now France, what is the very old name for a region between the Meuse and the Scheldt rivers in France and Belguim?
11 Who was king of the Ostrogoths (488-526), ruler of Italy (493-526) and regent of the Visigoths (511-526)?
12 Which Christian priest, who lived and taught in Alexandria in the early 4th century, taught that God the Father and the Son were not co-eternal, deeming the pre-incarnate Jesus as a dvine being who was created, and was consequently inferior to, the Father at some point before which the Son did not exist?
13 What battle, fought between the eventually victorious Franks and the Alamannii, traditionally took place in 496 at Zulpich, Nordhein-Westfalen about 60km east of the present German-Belgian frontier?
14 In which country did The May 13 Incident race riots take place in 1969, leaving at least 184 people dead in 1969?
15 Signed into law in 1888 by Isabel the Redeemer, the Lei Aurea formally abolished slavery in which country?
16 First performed in 1848, Maamme is the national anthem of which European country?
17 Which general has been appointed to replace Porter Goss as director of the CIA?
18 Located in a former water-powered grinding workshop on the river Porter, the Shepherd Wheel museum is situated in the southwest of which English city?
19 What is the alternative name for fungal infection candiadiasis or thrush, of which Candida albicans is probably the most common?
20 Masaniello, whose name is an abbreviation of Tommaso Aniello, was an Amalfi fisherman who became leader of the revolt against Spanish rule in which city in 1647?
21 Stanley Sadie is most associated with which reference work, whose work saw such major changes to it as the growth of nine volumes to 20 in the sixth edition in 1980?
22 Which major composer has a museum devoted to him at 25 Brook Street in Mayfair?
23 What classic jazz compostion and song, with words and music by Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard and Irving Mills, had its main theme provided by Bigard who learned it in New Orleans from his clarinet teacher Lorenzo Tito who called it a "Mexican Blues"; Ellington's distinctive arrangement being first recorded by his band for Okeh Records on October 30, 1930?
24 Taking its name from the first nonsense 'word' of the mnemonic sequence for the letters of the Arabic alphabet, in what type of writing system is there one symbol per consonantal phoneme, sometimes also called a consonantary?
25 Who was the first British monarch to visit Russia?
26 In maths, what name is given to either a positive integer such as 1,2,3 etc or a non-negative integer, 0,1,2, ... the former definition being generally used in number theory and the latter preferred in set theory and computer science; it having two main purposes, counting and used for ordering?
27 Named after a British mathematician, philosopher and economist who died aged only 26 in 1930, what branch of mathematics studies the conditions under which order must appear?
28 There are 15 species of which small oily fish of the genus Clupea found in the temperate, shallow waters of the North Atlantic and the Baltic Sea, ths most abundant of which is the Atlantic?
29 What type of creature is the large Machete Savane (Chironus carinatus)?
30 To whom are attributed the set of four equations that describe the behaviour of both the electric and magnetic fields, as well as their interactions with matter?
31 Whose law of induction gives the relation between the rate of change of the magnetic flux through the surface S enclosed by a contour C and the electric field along the contour?
32 During which 19th century war did two military clashes known as the Battle of Lacolle Mills take place?
33 In which French film of 1946 did Jean Marais and Josette Day play the title roles?
34 Born in 1980, the supermodel Liya Kebede hails from which country?
35 Winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize for Literature, which Finnish writer gained international fame for his novel Nuorena nukkunut (The Maid Silja/Fallen Asleep While Young) in 1931?
SOME DISTANCE BETWEEN THE ABOVE AND THE BELOW
Answers to BH#70
1 9.76 seconds 2 Hwang Woo-Suk 3 Yoweri Museveni 4 China 5 Ruth Kelly 6 Giorgio Napolitano 7 Calypso 8 Fiji 9 Clovis I 10 Toxandria 11 Theodoric the Great 12 Arius 13 Battle of Tolbiac 14 Malaysia 15 Brazil 16 Finland 17 Michael Hayden 18 Sheffield 19 Yeast infection 20 Naples 21 Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 22 Handel 23 Mood Indigo 24 Abjad 25 Edward VII (in 1908) 26 Natural number 27 Ramsey theory 28 Herring 29 Snake 30 (James Clerk) Maxwell's equations 31 Faraday's 32 War of 1812 33 Beauty and the Beast 34 Ethiopia 35 Frans Eemil Sillanpaa
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Pleased that a small boy's obsession with birds meant you were able to understand most of what Ben and I say!
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