A Mite Monstrous BH77
The Monster still wants to eat your brains Mwu-ha-ha-ha. Anyway. Look up the link if you haven't yet found out about a certain 501-question quiz and then maybe email themonsterquiz@gmail.com
I think I have about 88 people signed up so far, which is jolly good. Wait til they get a load of it (more maniacal laughing goes here).
Questions, questions, so many more bleeding questions
The BH quizzes have become an occasional series, but fear not here comes a 151-question barrage, pulsating with Algerian novelists and positively rippling with organic compounds (it seems I have developed a liking for sticking ones on to perfectly round question totals).
This evening I thought I might as well write some darned questions from scratch. Just like old times. And darned hard ones at that, I mean, I thought the Bath architect question was too easy, but for whom? Myself, it seems. If they make you cry silent tears inside then I will have succeeded in my quest.
Anyway, get your reading glasses on and your brains in gear, it's question time.
1 What "animal" name will be given to the gold bullion coin that will be the first .9999 fine 24-karat gold coin released by the United States Mint?
2 The John Newbery Medal is awarded in which field of the arts in the US?
3 The 168BC Battle of Pydna saw Roman forces defeat and capture which Macedonian king, who shared his name with a mythical hero?
4 Which Russian resort city, along with Salzburg and Pyeongchang has been named as one of the three candidate cities for the 2014 Winter Olympics?
5 Which chief defence lawyer for Saddam Hussein was recently assassinated in Baghdad?
6 Who have won their first NBA championship, beating the Dallas Mavericks?
7 And in the NHL which team have beaten the Edmonton Oilers to win their first Stanley Cup?
8 In June 1621, 27 Czech lords were executed on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of which battle?
9 In 1734 the black slave Marie-Joseph Angelique was convicted of the arson (and subsequently executed) that destroyed much of which city?
10 June 21, 1798 saw the British Army defeat Irish rebels in which military clash?
11 In 1854 the first Victoria Cross was won during the bombardment of Bomarsund in which group of islands?
12 The New York Yankees announced which player's retirement on June 21, 1939?
13 Which footballer was given the freedom of his home country of Bermuda on June 21, 2000, with the day being declared and named in his honour (as a one-off)?
14 Which Roman general led his forces to victory over Attila the Hun at the Battle of Chalons in 451?
15 Which university received its charter on June 20, 1214?
16 Which US vessel, the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic (though most of the journey was made under sail), arrived at Liverpool on June 20, 1819?
17 The US TV programme Toast of the Town debuted on June 20, 1948 and would later rise to fame as whose show?
18 In which city did the Ezeiza massacre take place on June 20, 1973, seeing snipers opening fire on and killing 13 left-wing political followers?
19 In 1269 which French king ordered all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver?
20 Who reported the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his 1770 work True Christian Religion?
21 Who did Bryan Smith hit in a car accident in 1999?
22 Which 16th century tutor to the Florentine family of Lodovico Gaddi and Italian poet's most important work was his translation of the Aeneid and was also the author of a comedy called Gil Straccioni?
23 King James I of England and VI of Scotland received the first name Charles in honour of which French king and godfather, and so became the first future British monarch to have more than one forename?
24 Father of composers Carl and Anton, the Czech composer and violinist Johann Stamitz (1717-1757) is generally regarded as the founder and most prominent member of which school of composers (that also included Franz Xaver Richter and Christian Cannabich), which took its name from a city in Germany?
25 What type of weapon is North Korea's Taepadong-2?
26 Who is the Prince of Naples, last Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Italy and the man considered to be the pretender to the defunct throne?
27 The rebel group, the Fighters of the National Liberation Forces, are the last active group in their country and recently shelled their capital with mortars?
28 Who is technical officer Ray Ozzie to succeed?
29 Two specimens of Mesozygellia dunlopi, dating to the Early Cretaceous and the oldest known of which type of spiders were recently discovered in amber?
30 Formed on June 9, what was the first named storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season?
31 On June 8, Greek scientists announced that they had revealed previously hidden ancient Greek letters on what device, thought to be one of the world's first known analog computers?
32 Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has been named as the next Prime Minister of which country?
33 Alan Garcia of the APRA has been re-elected as which South American country's president?
34 The great-grandson of which Apache leader has appealed to President Bush to help recover the remains of his famous relative, which were purportedly stolen over 90 years ago by students including the President's grandfather and used in ceremonies by the Skull and Bones society at Yale University?
35 The Italian Justice Minister, Clemente Mastella, has announced that which left-wing militant and leader of the autonomist movement Lotta Continua ("Continuous Struggle") could be pardoned before the end of the year?
36 Named after a Scandinavian goddess, which chemical element was originally discovered by Spanish mineralogist Andres Manuel del Rio in Mexico City in 1801, who called it "brown lead"?
37 Which class of minerals include such common forms as gypsum, chromate, celestite, selenate and tungstate?
38 Reigning from 625 to 705, who was the only female emperor in the history of China and who founded her own dynasty, the Zhou, ruling under the name Emperor Shengshen?
39 The code of which notable open-source software package became the basis of the Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox web browsers?
40 Which comics company publishes certain books under the Vertigo banner?
41 Which forms of an element that therefore have nuclei with the same atomic number and number of protons, have different mass numbers became they contain different numbers of neutrons?
42 Taking place in Germany and Austria each year since 1952, the Four Hills Tournament is contested in which sport?
43 Planned by Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann and built from 1910 to 1930, which museum on Berlin's Museum Island houses original-sized, reconstructed monumental buildings such as an eponymous "Altar", the Market Gate of Miletus and the Ishtar Gate?
44 Sometimes known as the 'father of the Latin church'. which church leader and prolific author of the early years of Christianity (c155-230) was born, lived and died in Carthage and introduced the term Trinity, as the Latin term trinitas, to the Christian vocabulary and in his Apologeticus was the first Latin author to qualify Christianism as the 'vera religio'?
45 Who heads a team of young diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital?
46 Which minor constituent of opium and naturally occurring opiate is also called paramorphine and is similar to morphine and codeine but produces stimulatory rather than depressant effects?
47 Which city in western Afghanistan in the valley of the Hari Rud river was traditionally known for wine and is probably a descendant of the ancient Persian town of Artacoana, established before 500BC?
48 Known in Persian as Ashkanian, which civilisation situated in the northeast of modern Iran was at its greatest extent in c.60BCE and was led by the Arsacid dynasty who reunited and ruled over the Iranian plateau, taking over the eastern provinces of the Greek Seleucid Empire, beginning in the late 3rd century BCE?
49 Which King of Cornwall, according to tradition, was father of Saint Cybi and probably ruled after Mark, of Tristan and Iseult fame, in the late 5th century?
50 The Patitin Chantarakati, replaced by the solar calendar Patitin Suriyakati in AD 1888, was the lunar calendar of which country?
51 Corgi dogs are believed to be descended from which Swedish dogs that came to Wales with the Vikings?
52 Welsh corgis are generally recognised as which two distinct breeds?
53 Who is the patron saint of Georgia, Bulgaria, Portugal and Catalonia?
54 Located on Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell, London, what theatre contains the 200-seat Lilian Baylis Theatre and is the sixth on the site?
55 The maximum figure of 732 for what was set by the Treaty of Nice (signed February 2001)?
56 What in Celtic mythology was a boggart or bogle?
57 In a computer CPU what name is given to a register in which intermediate arithmetic and logic results are stored?
58 Which prize for seaplanes was announced by the eponymous French financier, balloonist and aircraft enthusiast in 1911 with a prize of roughly £1,000?
59 Which aviation pioneer and founder of the eponymous "Aeroplane and Motor Company" was the first person to receive a US pilot's license in 1911 (the Wright brothers were Nos. 4 and 5)?
60 The Sentinel Waggon Works was a British company from which English town that made steam-powered lorries, railway shunting locomotives and later diesel-engined lorries?
61 The Lofoten Islands are in which European country?
62 Often referred to as Jakob, the OV 4 was the first car built by which company in 1927, its name standing for Oppen Vagn 4 cylindrar?
63 In Islamic architecture what name is given to a religious courtyard, which is surrounded by an arcade from all sides?
64 Komi, short for komidashi, is a rule used in which board game?
65 What name has been given to the complex series of battles and shifting political alliances among the Greeks, specifically Epirus, Macedonia and the city states of Magna Graecia, the Romans, Italian peoples such as the Samnites and Etruscans, and the Carthaginians that took place between 280BC and 275BC?
66 What is the name of Japan's largest Yakuza gang?
67 Tharawal, Djirringanj, Thawa and Dhurga are languages spoken by which people?
68 Named after the Italian prince into whose hands it came in the 17th century, what name is also given to the 135.8-carat blue sapphire nearly without flaw, the Wooden Spoon-Seller's Sapphire and Great Sapphire of Louis XIV?
69 The White-throated Needletail is a large example of which bird?
70 From the Greek for "word with four letters", what word is the usual reference to the Hebrew name for God and is the distinctive personal name of the God of Israel?
71 What is the narrow stretch of land between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga in NW Russia and has the city of Vyborg and town of Priozersk on its northwestern end?
72 What is the name of a popular song recorded by Peggy Lee that featured in the same-named musical written in 1955 starring Sammy Davis Jr. on Broadway, and was also the title of a 1968 album by Fleetwood Mac and a 1993 film directed by Anthony Minghella?
73 Which town in the Potosi Department in the south of Bolivia is primarily a gateway for tourists visiting the world's largest salt flats that share its name?
74 From 2001 figures what is the largest group of foreign-born residents in the UK with 498,850?
75 Part of the Mesopotamian Campaign of WW1, which siege (December 7, 1915 - April 29, 1916) took place at a town on the Tigris and resulted in a very serious defeat of the British Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force by Ottoman forces?
76 Counting among its members Nobel laureate Oscar Arias Sanchez, Dr Deepak Chopra and pop star Ricky Martin, which international network of people from all walks of life who want to see positive change takes place in the world was launched in Puerto Rico in 2003 with keynote speaker, Al Gore?
77 What title in the peerage of France was created in the first half of the 14th century for the eldest son of Robert of France, Count of Clermont and Beatrice of Burgundy?
78 What major opera house in Vienna was built in 1898 as the Kaiser's Jubilee Civic Theatre and has a reputation of being the leading venue for operettas?
79 In Monopoly what happens when you roll three times in succession on a single turn?
80 Pratikraman is a process of repentance of sin or prayaschit during which followers of what religion repent for their wrongdoings during their daily life and remind themselves to refrain from doing so again?
81 In the branch of topology known as knot theory, what is the simplest non-trivial knot?
82 Written by Zahira Hiliman from Sint Maarten and translated into the native Papiamento language by Lucille Berry-Haseth, "The Anthem Without a Title" is the national anthem of which island group?
83 The oldest forum that Rome possessed, what kind of forum venalium was the Forum Boarium?
84 At which of the seven hills of Rome were the Sabines, creeping to the Citadel, let in by the infamous and later punished Vestal Virgin Tarpeia?
85 McCoy Air Force Base became which US International Airport?
86 Said to have been invented by Cicero's scribe Marcus Tullius Tiro, what was the Tironian notes?
87 William A Wellman's 1949 WW2 film Battleground tells the story of a squad of the 101st Airborne Division caught up in which military confrontation?
88 Author of the acclaimed masterpiece Saman (1998), the writer Ayu Utami comes from which country?
89 What "Five Elements" are applied to people according to the year of which animal they were born in in the Chinese calendar/zodiac?
90 What German female name comes from the old German "battle fight" and has been given to two saints (a Queen of Poland and Duchess of Silesia) and a Princess of Pomerania?
91 Michael Cleveland wrote the song Last Night a DJ Saved My Life for which R&B/dance group who released it in 1983?
92 The Ego and Its Own, published in 1844, is the main work by which German philosopher?
93 One of the world's busiest shopping streets, Nanjing Road is the main shopping street of which city?
94 PETN (Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate) or Penthrite is one of the strongest known what?
95 15-year-old Glaswegian Amir Kirolos defeated Paul Hendry to become world champion (and is the current reigning champion) in which game on February 12, 2005?
96 Everglades National Park ranger Porter Ricks and his sons Sandy and Bud were characters in which popular TV series?
97 Found at Angkor Wat what are West Baray and East Baray?
98 The Kylchap steam locomotive exhaust system was designed and patented by which famous French steam engineer, using a second-stage nozzle designed by Finnish engineer Kylala and known as the Kylala spreader?
99 Known for his work in bop, hard bop and Latin jazz, the American jazz musician Al McKibbon played which instrument?
100 Which musical features the songs Light My Candle, You'll See, Seasons of Love and I'll Cover You?
101 Which pioneer in the bus and coach business and subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler introduced its first bus, the Type S 8 in April 1951 at the German International Automobil-Ausstellung?
102 Highly flammable colourless and easily liquefied gases, what is the unbranched alkane with four carbon atoms, CH3CH2CH2CH3?
103 Which merchant, geographer and explorer from the Greek colony Massilia (Marseille) made a voyage of exploration to NW Europe c.325BCE, is the first person on record to describe the Midnight Sun, the aurora and Polar ice and is the first known Greek to come to Britain?
104 Known to his friends as Van, which 20th century American philosopher and logician wrote Two Dogmas of Empiricism; Word and Object; and the 1986 autobiography Time of My Life?
105 Which notorious October 16 - October 18 massacre took place in a town in the district of Lica in Croatia and saw 100-200 local Serbs murdered by members of a Croatian paramilitary unit commanded by Mirko Norac?
106 If she is still alive, Queen Elizabeth II will celebrate her 100th birthday on which date?
107 The Queen is ruler of how many independent nations, known as the Commonwealth Realms?
108 The Hartwall Arena is a large indoor arena in which European capital?
109 Which rock band released the live albums Alive I, Alive II and Alive III?
110 The musical 1944 Higher and Higher saw which major star begin their film career?
111 Whose Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber was premiered on January 20, 1944 in New York City?
112 Which influential vocalist and trombonist was brother to notable professional musicians Charlie and Clois "Cub" and sister Norma, and died alone in his room at the Prince Conti Hotel in the French Quarter of New Orleans on January 15, 1964, aged just 58?
113 Which Northumberland town was destroyed in 1216 by King John, who attended the razing in person, and was stormed on March 30, 1296, by Edward I, sacking it with much bloodshed?
114 What name is shared by a photographer who was born Gaspard-Felix Tournachon, and the prize awarded annually for a book of photographs edited in France, and a prominent Tamil caste of India?
115 Also remembered for his poem Savliqman Qal Tatarliq!, which he scribbled on the walls of Simferopol train station on his way to report to military service during WW1, which hugely popular Tatar leader was the first President of the short-lived independent Crimean Democratic Republic, established in November 1917?
116 Henry III was captured in France after which battle of May 12-14, 1264 that marked the high point of the career of Simon de Montfort?
117 Henry III had refused to honour the terms of which agreement which he had signed with his barons in 1258?
118 Which manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machine was founded as a typewriter manufacturer in 1908 in Ivrea, near Turin?
119 What Roman road was called the "regina viarum" or "queen of the long roads" by Statius in his work Sylvae and was named after the censor who built it in the early 4th century BC?
120 Which Italian people occupied a region of the southern Apennines and were a group of Sabellic tribes that controlled the area from about 600BC to c.290BC?
121 Called "fortunate countryside" by the Romans, what region of southern Italy borders Lazio to the NW, Molise to the N, Puglia to the NE, Basilicata to the E and Tyrrhenian Sea to the W?
122 What is the name of the Italian centre-left political party coalition led by Prime Minister Romano Prodi?
123 What international organisation has the motto "Gens una sumus" (We are one people) and has Kirsan Illyumzhinov, president of the autonomous Russian republic of Kalmykia, for its president?
124 What cereal grain is called mealies in southern Africa?
125 Known for its range of small automobiles such as Keicars, which Japanese manufacturing company has main production facilities in 22 countries and has teamed up with local company Maruti in India, having started out as a "Loom Works" in Hamamatsu in 1909?
126 Divided into 100 tetri, what is the currency of Georgia?
127 Located in Ikeja, Murtala Mohammed International Airport serves which major city?
128 Charles de Gaulle International Airport serves which commune in the NE suburbs of Paris?
129 Canadian songwriter and musician, Murray Lightburn has been called 'the black Morrissey" thanks to his work as lead vocalist for which band?
130 Agadja (1708-1732) was king of which kingdom in Africa that was founded in the 17th century and survived until the late 19th century when it was conquered by French troops from Senegal?
131 Who teamed up with engineer Robert Napier, and businessmen James Donaldson, Sir George Burns, and David MacIver to form the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1838?
132 Which vintage car, designed by Sir Herbert Austin (chassis, suspension) and Stanley Edge (engine) was produced by the Austin Motor Company from 1922 to 1939 and were made and sold in France as Rosengarts?
133 Eboniste is the French word for a master maker of what?
134 Which Algerian author (1920-88) of over 20 novels was best known for such works as Nadjmu (1954), which dealt with four men planning a coup, the novel Etoile (1976) and the play L'histoire du sandales de caoutchouc (1970)?
135 Equivalent to a district, woredas are administrative sub-divisions, or local govenment, and kilils, regional administrations, in which African country?
136 Which city in Haiti is located on the site where the Santa Maria, commanded by Columbus, ran aground on December 25, 1492, who founded Fort Navidad on the site?
137 What is the secondmost populated African country after Nigeria with 77,505,756 people?
138 And what is the least populated African country of the 54 with 81,188?
139 Called Thamugas by the Romans, which antic city in modern day Algeria was built around the 1st century BCE as a colonial town by the Roman Emperor Trajan, its ruins being located about 35km from the town of Batna?
140 In fluid dynamics, what flow regime is characterised by chaotic, stochastic proporty changes?
141 Named for the British fluid dynamics engineer who proposed it in 1883, what number is the ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces and is used for determining whether a flow will be laminar or turbulent?
142 Which half-Thai, half-American outfielder for the New York Yankees wrote Idiot: Beating "The Curse" and Enjoying the Game of Life with Peter Goldenbock in 2005?
143 Also called the Burmese harp or Myanmar harp, what traditional music instrument of that country is made of 16 silk strings attached to a neck by red cotton tuning cords terminating in large tassels?
144 What is the Anglicised name for wines of an eponymous region in Hungary, a type of gecko, the name given to Pinot Gris in Alsace and what sounds like a Japanese word for a time-keeping device?
145 Born in Cairo of Armenian parents in 1949 with the surname Cavoukian, which popular children's entertainer in Canada, the US and Western World is known for such songs as Bananaphone, Baby Beluga and Down by the Bay?
146 Which Yorkshireman (1704-1754) designed many of the streets of Bath, including the Circus, Queen Square, Prior Park and the North and South Parades?
147 A fine-grained silica-rich cryptocrystalline sedimentary rock that may contain small fossils, has such formations as the 3.2-billion-year-old rock of the Fig Tree Formation in the Barbeton Mountains between Swaziland and South Africa, the "Gunflint" in western Ontario, the "Apex" in Australia and "Devonian Rhynie" of Scotland, which has the oldest remains of land flora?
148 Which organic compound contains a terminal carbonyl group and is a functional group also called the formyl or methanyol group, which consists of a carbon atom which is bonded to a hydrogen atom and double-bonded to an oxygen atom (chemical formula -CHO)?
149 Lady Constance Keeble, nee Constance Threepwood, later Constance Schoonmaker, is the formidable sister of which PG Wodehouse creation?
150 Mechanic William France Sr. founded which sporting organisation on February 21, 1948?
151 The key text of Constructivism, The Realistic Manifesto of 1920, was written by which sculptor and co-signed by his brother Antoine Pevsner?
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Answers to BH77
1 American Buffalo 2 Children's literature 3 Perseus 4 Sochi 5 Khamis al-Obeidi 6 Miami Heat 7 Carolina Hurricanes 8 Battle on the 'White Mountain' 9 Montreal 10 Battle of Vinegar Hill 11 Aland Islands 12 Lou Gehrig 13 Shaun Goater 14 Flavius Aetius 15 Oxford 16 Savannah 17 The Ed Sullivan Show 18 Buenos Aires 19 Louis IX 20 Emanuel Swedenborg 21 Author Stephen King 22 Annibale Caro 23 Charles IX 24 Mannheim School 25 Long range missile 26 Vittorio Emanuele 27 Burundi 28 Bill Gates as chairman of Microsoft 29 Orb-weaver 30 Alberto 31 The Antikythera mechanism 32 Malaysia 33 Peru 34 Geronimo 35 Adriano Sofri 36 Vanadium 37 Sulfates 38 Wu Zetian or personal name Wu Zhao 39 Netscape Navigator 40 DC comics 41 Isotopes 42 Ski-jumping 43 The Pergamon Museum 44 Tertullian 45 Gregory House 46 Thebaine 47 Herat 48 Parthia 49 King Selyf 50 Thailand 51 Vallhund 52 Cardigan and Pembroke 53 St George 54 Sadler's Wells Theatre 55 Members of the European Parliament 56 A household spirit 57 Accumulator 58 The Schneider Trophy, as in Jacques Schneider 59 Glenn Curtiss 60 Shrewsbury 61 Norway 62 Volvo 63 Sahn 64 Go 65 Pyrrhic War 66 Yamaguchi-gumi 67 Australian Aborigines 68 The Ruspoli Sapphire 69 Swift 70 Tetragrammaton 71 Karelian Isthmus 72 Mr. Wonderful 73 Uyuni as in the Salar de Uyuni 74 Irish 75 Siege of Kut-al-Amara or Siege of Kut 76 Alliance for a New Humanity 77 Duke of Bourbon 78 Vienna Volksoper (Vienna People's Opera) 79 Go to Jail 80 Jainism 81 Trefoil knot 82 Netherlands Antilles 83 Cattle forum 84 Capitoline 85 Orlando 86 System of shorthand 87 Battle of the Bulge 88 Indonesia 89 Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood 90 Hedwig 91 Indeep 92 Max Stirner 93 Shanghai 94 High explosives 95 Pictionary 96 Flipper 97 Reservoirs 98 Andre Chapelon 99 Bass 100 Rent 101 Setra 102 Butane 103 Pytheas 104 WV Quine (Willard Van Orman Quine) 105 Gospic massacre 106 April 21, 2026 107 Sixteen 108 Helsinki 109 Kiss 110 Frank Sinatra 111 Paul Hindemith 112 Jack Teagarden 113 Berwick-upon-Tweed 114 Nadar 115 Noman Celebicihan 116 Lewes 117 Provisions of Oxford 118 Olivetti 119 Via Appia or Appian Way 120 Samnites 121 Campania 122 The Union or L'Unione 123 FIDE (chess) 124 Maize 125 Suzuki 126 Lari 127 Lagos 128 Roissy-en-France or Roissy 129 The Dears 130 Dahomey 131 Samuel Cunard 132 Austin 7 133 Cabinets (cabinetmaker) 134 Mohammed Yacine 135 Ethiopia 136 Mole Saint-Nicolas 137 Egypt 138 Seychelles 139 Timgad 140 Turbulence or turbulent flow 141 Reynolds number 142 Johnny Damon 143 Saung or the saung-gauk 144 Tokay 145 Raffi 146 John Wood the Elder 147 Chert 148 Aldehyde 149 Lord Emsworth 150 NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) 151 Naum Gabo
I think I have about 88 people signed up so far, which is jolly good. Wait til they get a load of it (more maniacal laughing goes here).
Questions, questions, so many more bleeding questions
The BH quizzes have become an occasional series, but fear not here comes a 151-question barrage, pulsating with Algerian novelists and positively rippling with organic compounds (it seems I have developed a liking for sticking ones on to perfectly round question totals).
This evening I thought I might as well write some darned questions from scratch. Just like old times. And darned hard ones at that, I mean, I thought the Bath architect question was too easy, but for whom? Myself, it seems. If they make you cry silent tears inside then I will have succeeded in my quest.
Anyway, get your reading glasses on and your brains in gear, it's question time.
1 What "animal" name will be given to the gold bullion coin that will be the first .9999 fine 24-karat gold coin released by the United States Mint?
2 The John Newbery Medal is awarded in which field of the arts in the US?
3 The 168BC Battle of Pydna saw Roman forces defeat and capture which Macedonian king, who shared his name with a mythical hero?
4 Which Russian resort city, along with Salzburg and Pyeongchang has been named as one of the three candidate cities for the 2014 Winter Olympics?
5 Which chief defence lawyer for Saddam Hussein was recently assassinated in Baghdad?
6 Who have won their first NBA championship, beating the Dallas Mavericks?
7 And in the NHL which team have beaten the Edmonton Oilers to win their first Stanley Cup?
8 In June 1621, 27 Czech lords were executed on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of which battle?
9 In 1734 the black slave Marie-Joseph Angelique was convicted of the arson (and subsequently executed) that destroyed much of which city?
10 June 21, 1798 saw the British Army defeat Irish rebels in which military clash?
11 In 1854 the first Victoria Cross was won during the bombardment of Bomarsund in which group of islands?
12 The New York Yankees announced which player's retirement on June 21, 1939?
13 Which footballer was given the freedom of his home country of Bermuda on June 21, 2000, with the day being declared and named in his honour (as a one-off)?
14 Which Roman general led his forces to victory over Attila the Hun at the Battle of Chalons in 451?
15 Which university received its charter on June 20, 1214?
16 Which US vessel, the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic (though most of the journey was made under sail), arrived at Liverpool on June 20, 1819?
17 The US TV programme Toast of the Town debuted on June 20, 1948 and would later rise to fame as whose show?
18 In which city did the Ezeiza massacre take place on June 20, 1973, seeing snipers opening fire on and killing 13 left-wing political followers?
19 In 1269 which French king ordered all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver?
20 Who reported the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his 1770 work True Christian Religion?
21 Who did Bryan Smith hit in a car accident in 1999?
22 Which 16th century tutor to the Florentine family of Lodovico Gaddi and Italian poet's most important work was his translation of the Aeneid and was also the author of a comedy called Gil Straccioni?
23 King James I of England and VI of Scotland received the first name Charles in honour of which French king and godfather, and so became the first future British monarch to have more than one forename?
24 Father of composers Carl and Anton, the Czech composer and violinist Johann Stamitz (1717-1757) is generally regarded as the founder and most prominent member of which school of composers (that also included Franz Xaver Richter and Christian Cannabich), which took its name from a city in Germany?
25 What type of weapon is North Korea's Taepadong-2?
26 Who is the Prince of Naples, last Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Italy and the man considered to be the pretender to the defunct throne?
27 The rebel group, the Fighters of the National Liberation Forces, are the last active group in their country and recently shelled their capital with mortars?
28 Who is technical officer Ray Ozzie to succeed?
29 Two specimens of Mesozygellia dunlopi, dating to the Early Cretaceous and the oldest known of which type of spiders were recently discovered in amber?
30 Formed on June 9, what was the first named storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season?
31 On June 8, Greek scientists announced that they had revealed previously hidden ancient Greek letters on what device, thought to be one of the world's first known analog computers?
32 Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has been named as the next Prime Minister of which country?
33 Alan Garcia of the APRA has been re-elected as which South American country's president?
34 The great-grandson of which Apache leader has appealed to President Bush to help recover the remains of his famous relative, which were purportedly stolen over 90 years ago by students including the President's grandfather and used in ceremonies by the Skull and Bones society at Yale University?
35 The Italian Justice Minister, Clemente Mastella, has announced that which left-wing militant and leader of the autonomist movement Lotta Continua ("Continuous Struggle") could be pardoned before the end of the year?
36 Named after a Scandinavian goddess, which chemical element was originally discovered by Spanish mineralogist Andres Manuel del Rio in Mexico City in 1801, who called it "brown lead"?
37 Which class of minerals include such common forms as gypsum, chromate, celestite, selenate and tungstate?
38 Reigning from 625 to 705, who was the only female emperor in the history of China and who founded her own dynasty, the Zhou, ruling under the name Emperor Shengshen?
39 The code of which notable open-source software package became the basis of the Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox web browsers?
40 Which comics company publishes certain books under the Vertigo banner?
41 Which forms of an element that therefore have nuclei with the same atomic number and number of protons, have different mass numbers became they contain different numbers of neutrons?
42 Taking place in Germany and Austria each year since 1952, the Four Hills Tournament is contested in which sport?
43 Planned by Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann and built from 1910 to 1930, which museum on Berlin's Museum Island houses original-sized, reconstructed monumental buildings such as an eponymous "Altar", the Market Gate of Miletus and the Ishtar Gate?
44 Sometimes known as the 'father of the Latin church'. which church leader and prolific author of the early years of Christianity (c155-230) was born, lived and died in Carthage and introduced the term Trinity, as the Latin term trinitas, to the Christian vocabulary and in his Apologeticus was the first Latin author to qualify Christianism as the 'vera religio'?
45 Who heads a team of young diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital?
46 Which minor constituent of opium and naturally occurring opiate is also called paramorphine and is similar to morphine and codeine but produces stimulatory rather than depressant effects?
47 Which city in western Afghanistan in the valley of the Hari Rud river was traditionally known for wine and is probably a descendant of the ancient Persian town of Artacoana, established before 500BC?
48 Known in Persian as Ashkanian, which civilisation situated in the northeast of modern Iran was at its greatest extent in c.60BCE and was led by the Arsacid dynasty who reunited and ruled over the Iranian plateau, taking over the eastern provinces of the Greek Seleucid Empire, beginning in the late 3rd century BCE?
49 Which King of Cornwall, according to tradition, was father of Saint Cybi and probably ruled after Mark, of Tristan and Iseult fame, in the late 5th century?
50 The Patitin Chantarakati, replaced by the solar calendar Patitin Suriyakati in AD 1888, was the lunar calendar of which country?
51 Corgi dogs are believed to be descended from which Swedish dogs that came to Wales with the Vikings?
52 Welsh corgis are generally recognised as which two distinct breeds?
53 Who is the patron saint of Georgia, Bulgaria, Portugal and Catalonia?
54 Located on Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell, London, what theatre contains the 200-seat Lilian Baylis Theatre and is the sixth on the site?
55 The maximum figure of 732 for what was set by the Treaty of Nice (signed February 2001)?
56 What in Celtic mythology was a boggart or bogle?
57 In a computer CPU what name is given to a register in which intermediate arithmetic and logic results are stored?
58 Which prize for seaplanes was announced by the eponymous French financier, balloonist and aircraft enthusiast in 1911 with a prize of roughly £1,000?
59 Which aviation pioneer and founder of the eponymous "Aeroplane and Motor Company" was the first person to receive a US pilot's license in 1911 (the Wright brothers were Nos. 4 and 5)?
60 The Sentinel Waggon Works was a British company from which English town that made steam-powered lorries, railway shunting locomotives and later diesel-engined lorries?
61 The Lofoten Islands are in which European country?
62 Often referred to as Jakob, the OV 4 was the first car built by which company in 1927, its name standing for Oppen Vagn 4 cylindrar?
63 In Islamic architecture what name is given to a religious courtyard, which is surrounded by an arcade from all sides?
64 Komi, short for komidashi, is a rule used in which board game?
65 What name has been given to the complex series of battles and shifting political alliances among the Greeks, specifically Epirus, Macedonia and the city states of Magna Graecia, the Romans, Italian peoples such as the Samnites and Etruscans, and the Carthaginians that took place between 280BC and 275BC?
66 What is the name of Japan's largest Yakuza gang?
67 Tharawal, Djirringanj, Thawa and Dhurga are languages spoken by which people?
68 Named after the Italian prince into whose hands it came in the 17th century, what name is also given to the 135.8-carat blue sapphire nearly without flaw, the Wooden Spoon-Seller's Sapphire and Great Sapphire of Louis XIV?
69 The White-throated Needletail is a large example of which bird?
70 From the Greek for "word with four letters", what word is the usual reference to the Hebrew name for God and is the distinctive personal name of the God of Israel?
71 What is the narrow stretch of land between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga in NW Russia and has the city of Vyborg and town of Priozersk on its northwestern end?
72 What is the name of a popular song recorded by Peggy Lee that featured in the same-named musical written in 1955 starring Sammy Davis Jr. on Broadway, and was also the title of a 1968 album by Fleetwood Mac and a 1993 film directed by Anthony Minghella?
73 Which town in the Potosi Department in the south of Bolivia is primarily a gateway for tourists visiting the world's largest salt flats that share its name?
74 From 2001 figures what is the largest group of foreign-born residents in the UK with 498,850?
75 Part of the Mesopotamian Campaign of WW1, which siege (December 7, 1915 - April 29, 1916) took place at a town on the Tigris and resulted in a very serious defeat of the British Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force by Ottoman forces?
76 Counting among its members Nobel laureate Oscar Arias Sanchez, Dr Deepak Chopra and pop star Ricky Martin, which international network of people from all walks of life who want to see positive change takes place in the world was launched in Puerto Rico in 2003 with keynote speaker, Al Gore?
77 What title in the peerage of France was created in the first half of the 14th century for the eldest son of Robert of France, Count of Clermont and Beatrice of Burgundy?
78 What major opera house in Vienna was built in 1898 as the Kaiser's Jubilee Civic Theatre and has a reputation of being the leading venue for operettas?
79 In Monopoly what happens when you roll three times in succession on a single turn?
80 Pratikraman is a process of repentance of sin or prayaschit during which followers of what religion repent for their wrongdoings during their daily life and remind themselves to refrain from doing so again?
81 In the branch of topology known as knot theory, what is the simplest non-trivial knot?
82 Written by Zahira Hiliman from Sint Maarten and translated into the native Papiamento language by Lucille Berry-Haseth, "The Anthem Without a Title" is the national anthem of which island group?
83 The oldest forum that Rome possessed, what kind of forum venalium was the Forum Boarium?
84 At which of the seven hills of Rome were the Sabines, creeping to the Citadel, let in by the infamous and later punished Vestal Virgin Tarpeia?
85 McCoy Air Force Base became which US International Airport?
86 Said to have been invented by Cicero's scribe Marcus Tullius Tiro, what was the Tironian notes?
87 William A Wellman's 1949 WW2 film Battleground tells the story of a squad of the 101st Airborne Division caught up in which military confrontation?
88 Author of the acclaimed masterpiece Saman (1998), the writer Ayu Utami comes from which country?
89 What "Five Elements" are applied to people according to the year of which animal they were born in in the Chinese calendar/zodiac?
90 What German female name comes from the old German "battle fight" and has been given to two saints (a Queen of Poland and Duchess of Silesia) and a Princess of Pomerania?
91 Michael Cleveland wrote the song Last Night a DJ Saved My Life for which R&B/dance group who released it in 1983?
92 The Ego and Its Own, published in 1844, is the main work by which German philosopher?
93 One of the world's busiest shopping streets, Nanjing Road is the main shopping street of which city?
94 PETN (Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate) or Penthrite is one of the strongest known what?
95 15-year-old Glaswegian Amir Kirolos defeated Paul Hendry to become world champion (and is the current reigning champion) in which game on February 12, 2005?
96 Everglades National Park ranger Porter Ricks and his sons Sandy and Bud were characters in which popular TV series?
97 Found at Angkor Wat what are West Baray and East Baray?
98 The Kylchap steam locomotive exhaust system was designed and patented by which famous French steam engineer, using a second-stage nozzle designed by Finnish engineer Kylala and known as the Kylala spreader?
99 Known for his work in bop, hard bop and Latin jazz, the American jazz musician Al McKibbon played which instrument?
100 Which musical features the songs Light My Candle, You'll See, Seasons of Love and I'll Cover You?
101 Which pioneer in the bus and coach business and subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler introduced its first bus, the Type S 8 in April 1951 at the German International Automobil-Ausstellung?
102 Highly flammable colourless and easily liquefied gases, what is the unbranched alkane with four carbon atoms, CH3CH2CH2CH3?
103 Which merchant, geographer and explorer from the Greek colony Massilia (Marseille) made a voyage of exploration to NW Europe c.325BCE, is the first person on record to describe the Midnight Sun, the aurora and Polar ice and is the first known Greek to come to Britain?
104 Known to his friends as Van, which 20th century American philosopher and logician wrote Two Dogmas of Empiricism; Word and Object; and the 1986 autobiography Time of My Life?
105 Which notorious October 16 - October 18 massacre took place in a town in the district of Lica in Croatia and saw 100-200 local Serbs murdered by members of a Croatian paramilitary unit commanded by Mirko Norac?
106 If she is still alive, Queen Elizabeth II will celebrate her 100th birthday on which date?
107 The Queen is ruler of how many independent nations, known as the Commonwealth Realms?
108 The Hartwall Arena is a large indoor arena in which European capital?
109 Which rock band released the live albums Alive I, Alive II and Alive III?
110 The musical 1944 Higher and Higher saw which major star begin their film career?
111 Whose Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber was premiered on January 20, 1944 in New York City?
112 Which influential vocalist and trombonist was brother to notable professional musicians Charlie and Clois "Cub" and sister Norma, and died alone in his room at the Prince Conti Hotel in the French Quarter of New Orleans on January 15, 1964, aged just 58?
113 Which Northumberland town was destroyed in 1216 by King John, who attended the razing in person, and was stormed on March 30, 1296, by Edward I, sacking it with much bloodshed?
114 What name is shared by a photographer who was born Gaspard-Felix Tournachon, and the prize awarded annually for a book of photographs edited in France, and a prominent Tamil caste of India?
115 Also remembered for his poem Savliqman Qal Tatarliq!, which he scribbled on the walls of Simferopol train station on his way to report to military service during WW1, which hugely popular Tatar leader was the first President of the short-lived independent Crimean Democratic Republic, established in November 1917?
116 Henry III was captured in France after which battle of May 12-14, 1264 that marked the high point of the career of Simon de Montfort?
117 Henry III had refused to honour the terms of which agreement which he had signed with his barons in 1258?
118 Which manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machine was founded as a typewriter manufacturer in 1908 in Ivrea, near Turin?
119 What Roman road was called the "regina viarum" or "queen of the long roads" by Statius in his work Sylvae and was named after the censor who built it in the early 4th century BC?
120 Which Italian people occupied a region of the southern Apennines and were a group of Sabellic tribes that controlled the area from about 600BC to c.290BC?
121 Called "fortunate countryside" by the Romans, what region of southern Italy borders Lazio to the NW, Molise to the N, Puglia to the NE, Basilicata to the E and Tyrrhenian Sea to the W?
122 What is the name of the Italian centre-left political party coalition led by Prime Minister Romano Prodi?
123 What international organisation has the motto "Gens una sumus" (We are one people) and has Kirsan Illyumzhinov, president of the autonomous Russian republic of Kalmykia, for its president?
124 What cereal grain is called mealies in southern Africa?
125 Known for its range of small automobiles such as Keicars, which Japanese manufacturing company has main production facilities in 22 countries and has teamed up with local company Maruti in India, having started out as a "Loom Works" in Hamamatsu in 1909?
126 Divided into 100 tetri, what is the currency of Georgia?
127 Located in Ikeja, Murtala Mohammed International Airport serves which major city?
128 Charles de Gaulle International Airport serves which commune in the NE suburbs of Paris?
129 Canadian songwriter and musician, Murray Lightburn has been called 'the black Morrissey" thanks to his work as lead vocalist for which band?
130 Agadja (1708-1732) was king of which kingdom in Africa that was founded in the 17th century and survived until the late 19th century when it was conquered by French troops from Senegal?
131 Who teamed up with engineer Robert Napier, and businessmen James Donaldson, Sir George Burns, and David MacIver to form the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1838?
132 Which vintage car, designed by Sir Herbert Austin (chassis, suspension) and Stanley Edge (engine) was produced by the Austin Motor Company from 1922 to 1939 and were made and sold in France as Rosengarts?
133 Eboniste is the French word for a master maker of what?
134 Which Algerian author (1920-88) of over 20 novels was best known for such works as Nadjmu (1954), which dealt with four men planning a coup, the novel Etoile (1976) and the play L'histoire du sandales de caoutchouc (1970)?
135 Equivalent to a district, woredas are administrative sub-divisions, or local govenment, and kilils, regional administrations, in which African country?
136 Which city in Haiti is located on the site where the Santa Maria, commanded by Columbus, ran aground on December 25, 1492, who founded Fort Navidad on the site?
137 What is the secondmost populated African country after Nigeria with 77,505,756 people?
138 And what is the least populated African country of the 54 with 81,188?
139 Called Thamugas by the Romans, which antic city in modern day Algeria was built around the 1st century BCE as a colonial town by the Roman Emperor Trajan, its ruins being located about 35km from the town of Batna?
140 In fluid dynamics, what flow regime is characterised by chaotic, stochastic proporty changes?
141 Named for the British fluid dynamics engineer who proposed it in 1883, what number is the ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces and is used for determining whether a flow will be laminar or turbulent?
142 Which half-Thai, half-American outfielder for the New York Yankees wrote Idiot: Beating "The Curse" and Enjoying the Game of Life with Peter Goldenbock in 2005?
143 Also called the Burmese harp or Myanmar harp, what traditional music instrument of that country is made of 16 silk strings attached to a neck by red cotton tuning cords terminating in large tassels?
144 What is the Anglicised name for wines of an eponymous region in Hungary, a type of gecko, the name given to Pinot Gris in Alsace and what sounds like a Japanese word for a time-keeping device?
145 Born in Cairo of Armenian parents in 1949 with the surname Cavoukian, which popular children's entertainer in Canada, the US and Western World is known for such songs as Bananaphone, Baby Beluga and Down by the Bay?
146 Which Yorkshireman (1704-1754) designed many of the streets of Bath, including the Circus, Queen Square, Prior Park and the North and South Parades?
147 A fine-grained silica-rich cryptocrystalline sedimentary rock that may contain small fossils, has such formations as the 3.2-billion-year-old rock of the Fig Tree Formation in the Barbeton Mountains between Swaziland and South Africa, the "Gunflint" in western Ontario, the "Apex" in Australia and "Devonian Rhynie" of Scotland, which has the oldest remains of land flora?
148 Which organic compound contains a terminal carbonyl group and is a functional group also called the formyl or methanyol group, which consists of a carbon atom which is bonded to a hydrogen atom and double-bonded to an oxygen atom (chemical formula -CHO)?
149 Lady Constance Keeble, nee Constance Threepwood, later Constance Schoonmaker, is the formidable sister of which PG Wodehouse creation?
150 Mechanic William France Sr. founded which sporting organisation on February 21, 1948?
151 The key text of Constructivism, The Realistic Manifesto of 1920, was written by which sculptor and co-signed by his brother Antoine Pevsner?
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1 American Buffalo 2 Children's literature 3 Perseus 4 Sochi 5 Khamis al-Obeidi 6 Miami Heat 7 Carolina Hurricanes 8 Battle on the 'White Mountain' 9 Montreal 10 Battle of Vinegar Hill 11 Aland Islands 12 Lou Gehrig 13 Shaun Goater 14 Flavius Aetius 15 Oxford 16 Savannah 17 The Ed Sullivan Show 18 Buenos Aires 19 Louis IX 20 Emanuel Swedenborg 21 Author Stephen King 22 Annibale Caro 23 Charles IX 24 Mannheim School 25 Long range missile 26 Vittorio Emanuele 27 Burundi 28 Bill Gates as chairman of Microsoft 29 Orb-weaver 30 Alberto 31 The Antikythera mechanism 32 Malaysia 33 Peru 34 Geronimo 35 Adriano Sofri 36 Vanadium 37 Sulfates 38 Wu Zetian or personal name Wu Zhao 39 Netscape Navigator 40 DC comics 41 Isotopes 42 Ski-jumping 43 The Pergamon Museum 44 Tertullian 45 Gregory House 46 Thebaine 47 Herat 48 Parthia 49 King Selyf 50 Thailand 51 Vallhund 52 Cardigan and Pembroke 53 St George 54 Sadler's Wells Theatre 55 Members of the European Parliament 56 A household spirit 57 Accumulator 58 The Schneider Trophy, as in Jacques Schneider 59 Glenn Curtiss 60 Shrewsbury 61 Norway 62 Volvo 63 Sahn 64 Go 65 Pyrrhic War 66 Yamaguchi-gumi 67 Australian Aborigines 68 The Ruspoli Sapphire 69 Swift 70 Tetragrammaton 71 Karelian Isthmus 72 Mr. Wonderful 73 Uyuni as in the Salar de Uyuni 74 Irish 75 Siege of Kut-al-Amara or Siege of Kut 76 Alliance for a New Humanity 77 Duke of Bourbon 78 Vienna Volksoper (Vienna People's Opera) 79 Go to Jail 80 Jainism 81 Trefoil knot 82 Netherlands Antilles 83 Cattle forum 84 Capitoline 85 Orlando 86 System of shorthand 87 Battle of the Bulge 88 Indonesia 89 Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood 90 Hedwig 91 Indeep 92 Max Stirner 93 Shanghai 94 High explosives 95 Pictionary 96 Flipper 97 Reservoirs 98 Andre Chapelon 99 Bass 100 Rent 101 Setra 102 Butane 103 Pytheas 104 WV Quine (Willard Van Orman Quine) 105 Gospic massacre 106 April 21, 2026 107 Sixteen 108 Helsinki 109 Kiss 110 Frank Sinatra 111 Paul Hindemith 112 Jack Teagarden 113 Berwick-upon-Tweed 114 Nadar 115 Noman Celebicihan 116 Lewes 117 Provisions of Oxford 118 Olivetti 119 Via Appia or Appian Way 120 Samnites 121 Campania 122 The Union or L'Unione 123 FIDE (chess) 124 Maize 125 Suzuki 126 Lari 127 Lagos 128 Roissy-en-France or Roissy 129 The Dears 130 Dahomey 131 Samuel Cunard 132 Austin 7 133 Cabinets (cabinetmaker) 134 Mohammed Yacine 135 Ethiopia 136 Mole Saint-Nicolas 137 Egypt 138 Seychelles 139 Timgad 140 Turbulence or turbulent flow 141 Reynolds number 142 Johnny Damon 143 Saung or the saung-gauk 144 Tokay 145 Raffi 146 John Wood the Elder 147 Chert 148 Aldehyde 149 Lord Emsworth 150 NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) 151 Naum Gabo
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