Shakedown BH79
So I've decided to do a mini-series of four 50-question BH quizzes.
Swoon before my gracious, unyielding generosity.
As per usual, they have mostly been culled from a certain web encyclopedia; oh, I know, get the sceptic knives out why don't you? But let me bore you once again and muse on the nook it has crawled into in my life. So I got over the bollockiness of scummy, zit-ridden 17-year-old nerds and aimless twentysomething Generation@ Josef K's controlling it and moulding it to their specific pop-culture debased design. However, I'm all in favour of those kinds of gateskeepers: the integrity-fuelled information junkies.
There's an entirely different and disparate band of Wiki-desperados. Some may call them dreamers. Individuals with ambition and a future. Those people are dumb. Because I truly detest the disparate band of these jumped-up, self-promoting wangmasters who seem to be waging a campaign of "Look at me!" on this web encyclopedia. A quote from Big Brother's seventh evictee Nikki seems very apt - you know what it is. Don't make me repeat it.
I'm talking about people who write their own entries: the barely achieving finance director, the yeah-awight-mate bedroom dance DJ and their hyper-inflated dreams of fame, the struggling emo band who haven't sold enough to even afford a Happy Meal, the increasingly egotistical school headmaster. People who have fouled their own nests with onanistic outpourings. They're all at it, trying to create some importance in their lives by giving themselves a Wikipedia entry. But nothing comes from nothing (hey, at least most journalists don't do it? No, they're too busy writing screeds saying how much they hated Wikipedia, but now quite like it despite its manifest flaws ... funny how journalists are always late by a matter of a couple of years ... ooh, I think I'll just retreat into a corner and punch myself repeatedly in the stomach for being a hackneyed hack ... you don't know the truth ... though you could handle it and have a few belly laughs and make a few horrified facial gestures: the fish hooked top lip and crazed, crossed eyeballs is always one good one to put on).
And yet, more are created every day and keep on coming ... up for deletion. In the past couple of days I have come across the Wikipedia comment that "this looks like an advertisement" quite a few times. When I've read the "entry" and seen absolutely no links embedded in the text and realised some punk bitch decided to make themselves 0.01 per cent more noticeable in the world (who would look on Wikipedia for such people? Apart from agencies doing background checks). And so I come to the conclusion that this person has no shame - forget about the article deletion (though the damning words should be used as evidence in the trial) - and they deserve to be flogged to within one inch of their lives. Actually, sod it. Just whip them to death. Whip them into oblivion. They deserve it after all. I would wash all such scum off the cyber-streets. Travis Bickle-style.
Now excuse me, while I stifle some sadistic chuckles for half a minute.
Okay, giggles over. I mean, if you want acceptable a way of becoming part of Wikipedia you get your MATES to write your entry. No abject shame in that. I didn't even ask the friend in question to do it. He went ahead and wrote it anyway (and never actually told me at all). But if you do it yourself, and inevitably write some ego-boosting biased tripe about how great you are, then you are truly lost to the world of decent people. Scions like Bill Gates, Santa Claus, Stone Gossard and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Okay, back to the BH quizzes. They are, as ever, connected by one singular and dominant leitmotif. The theme of my enduring and mighty ignorance. I know jackdiddlysplat about that person or thing and therefore learn it by plastering huge, foul blocks of text concerning that person or thing across my blog. In the process, hopefully, while you stare at them and weep like big jessies, they will be soaked up by my brain and stay there, resting in my neurones for the rest of my days.
BH79
1 Known by the names Brother Number Four and Chhit Choeun, which Khmer Rouge commander and organiser of the "Killing Fields" died this month in a millitary hospital while waiting to stand trial in 2007 for crimes against humanity?
2 An aristocratic house believed to be the birthplace of Roman emperor Augustus was recently uncovered under which of the Seven Hills of Rome?
3 The Bengawan Solo River, at some 540km in length, is the longest river on which island?
4 Who is the Palestinian Prime Minister?
5 The second and fourth highest peaks of which mountain range were renamed at the beginning of the month Independence Peak and Avicenna Peak?
6 Three members of which country's royal family were killed in a car accident in Menlo Park, California on July 5 this year?
7 Sealed during the Sino-Indian War, which mountain pass between India and China was reopened in July this year for the first time in 44 years?
8 Tranistria is a breakaway region of which Eastern European country?
9 What surname is shared by the identical twin brothers who are Prime Minister and President of Poland?
10 The first confirmed flight of what kind of aircraft operating under its own power was made in Toronto by aerospace scientists on July 8?
11 Which country's GSLV rocket carrying the INSAT 4C satellite failed on July 10?
12 Emomali Rahmonov is president of which country?
13 Which founder of the Red Army Choir wrote the music for the national anthem of the USSR, which became the anthem of Russia, aka The Hymn of the Russian Federation, with new lyrics by Sergey Mikhalkov in 2001?
14 Discovered in 1789 by William Herschel, Enceladus is the sixth largest moon of which planet?
15 What is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one apart from the intended recipient knows of the existence of the message?
16 Which Genoa-born Renaissance polymath invented the polyalphabetic cipher in c.1467?
17 The Gerlachovsky stit is the highest peark in which European mountain range at 2655m?
18 King Farouk of Egypt was forced to abdicate in 1952 by army personnel belonging to which clandestine revolutionary movement founded by Colonel Nasser after the disastrous War of 1948?
19 Founded in Liege in 1881, what is the world's oldest international sport federation?
20 On the First Crusade, which French noble was elected first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1099?
21 Known in old Hungarian as Nandorfehervar, at which siege did John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary defeat Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire in 1456?
22 In 1793, which Scottish-Canadian explorer reached the Pacific and became the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing north of Mexico?
23 In which US city did The Preparedness Day bombing take place on July 22, 1916?
24 Outside which Chicago theatre was John Dillinger shot and mortally wounded on July 22, 1934?
25 The first spacecraft of its eponymous programme, what was intended to fly by Venus but failed to launch on July 22, 1962?
26 In which city did the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer live in a body-part strewn apartment?
27 Founded in 1222 by a breakaway group of Bologna university students, what is the second oldest university in Italy?
28 Which leading ideologue and exponent of the Russian Enlightenment published seven volumes of his History of Russia from the Earliest Times between 1771 and 1791 and wrote about his belief that inequality was inherent to human nature in the first Russian work of utopia, Journey to the Land of Ophyr, in 1783?
29 Far more famous for something else, which albino Anglican priest and scholar (1844-1930) was the first non-Wykehamist to be educated at New College, Oxford?
30 Famous for his research into organic substances and their decomposition which in 1943 eventually led to the discovery of the antibiotic drug streptomycin, which Ukrainian-born biochemist won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1952?
31 Which American artist created the monumental sculptures, .125 for JFK Airport in 1957 and La Spirale for UNESCO in Paris in 1958, with his largest sculpture being the 20.5m-high El Sol Rojo for the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City?
32 Which Algerian-born French boxer became world champion knocked out middleweight champion Tony Zale in the 12th round on September 21, 1948, but died the next year in an Air France plane crash that also killed the violinist Ginette Neveu?
33 What was the popular single-word name of the Indian playback singer whose formal name was Zoravar Chand (1923-1976) and was nicknamed the man with the golden voice?
34 Known for the funnel-shape gowns of stiff duchess worn by such clients as Pauleine de Rothschild and Gloria Guinness and having Hubert de Givenchy for his protege, which fashion designer of Basque ancestry opened his Paris couture house on avenue George V in August 1937 but closed it in 1968 due to disillusionment with the advent of pret-a-porter?
35 Who released the studio albums You Shouldn't-Nuf Bit Fish, Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends, R&B Skeletons in the Closet and The Cinderella Theory during the 1980s?
36 Which Canadian jockey became internationally famous in 1973 when he rode Secretariat to the first Triple Crown win in 25 years, and remains the only jockey to ever have won five of the six consecutive Triple Crown races?
37 Born in Avignon, Vaucluse in 1946, which French singer had such hits as Mon Credo, Viens dans ma rue and La premiere etoile written for her by Andre Pascal, while her French cover of Engelbert Humperdinck's The Last Waltz saw her gain attention in the UK and her other classics include Acropolis adieu, Ne me quitte pas and Santa Maria de la mer?
38 How many Olympic golds did Lasse Viren win?
39 Olympic gold medalist in 1924 at the 10,000m and 3000m steeplechase and in 1928 at the 5000m, which Finnish athlete was nicknamed Peraseinajoen Susi: The Wolf from Peraseinajoki?
40 Which American professional WWE wrestler, whose real surname is Hickenbottom, is called The Heartbreak Kid?
41 Which Dallas team play in the NHL?
42 Swindon-born Rick Davies is the founder and a member of which progressive rock group and pop band?
43 Named after the Polish-American book dealer who acquired it in 1912, which mysterious illustrated book with incomprehensible contents of which 240 vellum pages survive is thought to have been written about 400 years ago by an unknown author in an unidentified script and unintelligible language and is currently item MS 408 in the Beinecke Rare Book Library of Yale University?
44 Conceived of and discussed thoroughly by Terence McKenna from the late Sixties til his death in 2000, what theory attempts to predict the ebb and flow of an eponymous property in the universe as an inherent quality of time?
45 Which 1921 debut novel by Aldous Huxley centres around a hero called Denis and a party held at an eponymous house, owned by self-appointed historian Henry Wimbush?
46 Who wrote the book Father of Frankenstein, which was the basis for the 1998 film Gods and Monsters?
47 What sonnet, written in 1883, was solicited by William Maxwell Evarts as a donation to an auction conducted by the "Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue ot Liberty" to raise funds to build the pedestal?
48 Containing a set order of daily prayers, what is the prayerbook used by Jews all over the world?
49 With an estimated population of 11.2 million; five million of whom are in the US, which Jewish group are descended from the medieval Jewish communities of the Rhineland?
50 Credited with being the first person to use parallax in calculating the distance to a star, which German mathematician (1784-1846) and astronomer systemised the eponymous functions discovered by Daniel Bernouilli?
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Answers to BH79
1 Ta Mok 2 Palatine 3 Java 4 Ismail Haniyeh 5 Pamirs (by Tajikistan) 6 Tonga 7 Nathula Pass 8 Moldova 9 (Jaroslaw and Lech) Kaczynski 10 Ornithopter 11 India 12 Tajikistan 13 Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov 14 Saturn 15 Steganography 16 Leon Battista Alberti 17 Tatra Mountains (located in Slovakia) 18 Free Officers Movement 19 International Federation of Gymnastics 20 Godfrey of Bouillon 21 Siege of Belgrade 22 Alexander Mackenzie 23 San Francisco 24 Biograph Theatre 25 Mariner I 26 Milwaukee 27 Padua 28 Mikhail Shcherbatov 29 William Archibald Spooner (as in "spoonerisms") 30 Selman Waksman 31 Alexander Calder 32 Marcel Cerdan 33 Mukesh (Mukesh Chand Mathur) 34 Cristobal Balenciaga (Eisaguirre) 35 George Clinton 36 Ron Turcotte 37 Mireille Mathieu 38 Four (5,000m and 10,000m in 1972 and same in 1976) 39 Ville Ritola 40 Shawn Michaels 41 Dallas Stars 42 Supertramp 43 Voynich manuscript 44 Novelty theory 45 Crome Yellow 46 Christopher Bram 47 The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 48 Siddur (pl. siddurim) 49 Ashkenazi 50 Friedrich Bessel
Swoon before my gracious, unyielding generosity.
As per usual, they have mostly been culled from a certain web encyclopedia; oh, I know, get the sceptic knives out why don't you? But let me bore you once again and muse on the nook it has crawled into in my life. So I got over the bollockiness of scummy, zit-ridden 17-year-old nerds and aimless twentysomething Generation@ Josef K's controlling it and moulding it to their specific pop-culture debased design. However, I'm all in favour of those kinds of gateskeepers: the integrity-fuelled information junkies.
There's an entirely different and disparate band of Wiki-desperados. Some may call them dreamers. Individuals with ambition and a future. Those people are dumb. Because I truly detest the disparate band of these jumped-up, self-promoting wangmasters who seem to be waging a campaign of "Look at me!" on this web encyclopedia. A quote from Big Brother's seventh evictee Nikki seems very apt - you know what it is. Don't make me repeat it.
I'm talking about people who write their own entries: the barely achieving finance director, the yeah-awight-mate bedroom dance DJ and their hyper-inflated dreams of fame, the struggling emo band who haven't sold enough to even afford a Happy Meal, the increasingly egotistical school headmaster. People who have fouled their own nests with onanistic outpourings. They're all at it, trying to create some importance in their lives by giving themselves a Wikipedia entry. But nothing comes from nothing (hey, at least most journalists don't do it? No, they're too busy writing screeds saying how much they hated Wikipedia, but now quite like it despite its manifest flaws ... funny how journalists are always late by a matter of a couple of years ... ooh, I think I'll just retreat into a corner and punch myself repeatedly in the stomach for being a hackneyed hack ... you don't know the truth ... though you could handle it and have a few belly laughs and make a few horrified facial gestures: the fish hooked top lip and crazed, crossed eyeballs is always one good one to put on).
And yet, more are created every day and keep on coming ... up for deletion. In the past couple of days I have come across the Wikipedia comment that "this looks like an advertisement" quite a few times. When I've read the "entry" and seen absolutely no links embedded in the text and realised some punk bitch decided to make themselves 0.01 per cent more noticeable in the world (who would look on Wikipedia for such people? Apart from agencies doing background checks). And so I come to the conclusion that this person has no shame - forget about the article deletion (though the damning words should be used as evidence in the trial) - and they deserve to be flogged to within one inch of their lives. Actually, sod it. Just whip them to death. Whip them into oblivion. They deserve it after all. I would wash all such scum off the cyber-streets. Travis Bickle-style.
Now excuse me, while I stifle some sadistic chuckles for half a minute.
Okay, giggles over. I mean, if you want acceptable a way of becoming part of Wikipedia you get your MATES to write your entry. No abject shame in that. I didn't even ask the friend in question to do it. He went ahead and wrote it anyway (and never actually told me at all). But if you do it yourself, and inevitably write some ego-boosting biased tripe about how great you are, then you are truly lost to the world of decent people. Scions like Bill Gates, Santa Claus, Stone Gossard and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Okay, back to the BH quizzes. They are, as ever, connected by one singular and dominant leitmotif. The theme of my enduring and mighty ignorance. I know jackdiddlysplat about that person or thing and therefore learn it by plastering huge, foul blocks of text concerning that person or thing across my blog. In the process, hopefully, while you stare at them and weep like big jessies, they will be soaked up by my brain and stay there, resting in my neurones for the rest of my days.
BH79
1 Known by the names Brother Number Four and Chhit Choeun, which Khmer Rouge commander and organiser of the "Killing Fields" died this month in a millitary hospital while waiting to stand trial in 2007 for crimes against humanity?
2 An aristocratic house believed to be the birthplace of Roman emperor Augustus was recently uncovered under which of the Seven Hills of Rome?
3 The Bengawan Solo River, at some 540km in length, is the longest river on which island?
4 Who is the Palestinian Prime Minister?
5 The second and fourth highest peaks of which mountain range were renamed at the beginning of the month Independence Peak and Avicenna Peak?
6 Three members of which country's royal family were killed in a car accident in Menlo Park, California on July 5 this year?
7 Sealed during the Sino-Indian War, which mountain pass between India and China was reopened in July this year for the first time in 44 years?
8 Tranistria is a breakaway region of which Eastern European country?
9 What surname is shared by the identical twin brothers who are Prime Minister and President of Poland?
10 The first confirmed flight of what kind of aircraft operating under its own power was made in Toronto by aerospace scientists on July 8?
11 Which country's GSLV rocket carrying the INSAT 4C satellite failed on July 10?
12 Emomali Rahmonov is president of which country?
13 Which founder of the Red Army Choir wrote the music for the national anthem of the USSR, which became the anthem of Russia, aka The Hymn of the Russian Federation, with new lyrics by Sergey Mikhalkov in 2001?
14 Discovered in 1789 by William Herschel, Enceladus is the sixth largest moon of which planet?
15 What is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one apart from the intended recipient knows of the existence of the message?
16 Which Genoa-born Renaissance polymath invented the polyalphabetic cipher in c.1467?
17 The Gerlachovsky stit is the highest peark in which European mountain range at 2655m?
18 King Farouk of Egypt was forced to abdicate in 1952 by army personnel belonging to which clandestine revolutionary movement founded by Colonel Nasser after the disastrous War of 1948?
19 Founded in Liege in 1881, what is the world's oldest international sport federation?
20 On the First Crusade, which French noble was elected first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1099?
21 Known in old Hungarian as Nandorfehervar, at which siege did John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary defeat Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire in 1456?
22 In 1793, which Scottish-Canadian explorer reached the Pacific and became the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing north of Mexico?
23 In which US city did The Preparedness Day bombing take place on July 22, 1916?
24 Outside which Chicago theatre was John Dillinger shot and mortally wounded on July 22, 1934?
25 The first spacecraft of its eponymous programme, what was intended to fly by Venus but failed to launch on July 22, 1962?
26 In which city did the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer live in a body-part strewn apartment?
27 Founded in 1222 by a breakaway group of Bologna university students, what is the second oldest university in Italy?
28 Which leading ideologue and exponent of the Russian Enlightenment published seven volumes of his History of Russia from the Earliest Times between 1771 and 1791 and wrote about his belief that inequality was inherent to human nature in the first Russian work of utopia, Journey to the Land of Ophyr, in 1783?
29 Far more famous for something else, which albino Anglican priest and scholar (1844-1930) was the first non-Wykehamist to be educated at New College, Oxford?
30 Famous for his research into organic substances and their decomposition which in 1943 eventually led to the discovery of the antibiotic drug streptomycin, which Ukrainian-born biochemist won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1952?
31 Which American artist created the monumental sculptures, .125 for JFK Airport in 1957 and La Spirale for UNESCO in Paris in 1958, with his largest sculpture being the 20.5m-high El Sol Rojo for the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City?
32 Which Algerian-born French boxer became world champion knocked out middleweight champion Tony Zale in the 12th round on September 21, 1948, but died the next year in an Air France plane crash that also killed the violinist Ginette Neveu?
33 What was the popular single-word name of the Indian playback singer whose formal name was Zoravar Chand (1923-1976) and was nicknamed the man with the golden voice?
34 Known for the funnel-shape gowns of stiff duchess worn by such clients as Pauleine de Rothschild and Gloria Guinness and having Hubert de Givenchy for his protege, which fashion designer of Basque ancestry opened his Paris couture house on avenue George V in August 1937 but closed it in 1968 due to disillusionment with the advent of pret-a-porter?
35 Who released the studio albums You Shouldn't-Nuf Bit Fish, Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends, R&B Skeletons in the Closet and The Cinderella Theory during the 1980s?
36 Which Canadian jockey became internationally famous in 1973 when he rode Secretariat to the first Triple Crown win in 25 years, and remains the only jockey to ever have won five of the six consecutive Triple Crown races?
37 Born in Avignon, Vaucluse in 1946, which French singer had such hits as Mon Credo, Viens dans ma rue and La premiere etoile written for her by Andre Pascal, while her French cover of Engelbert Humperdinck's The Last Waltz saw her gain attention in the UK and her other classics include Acropolis adieu, Ne me quitte pas and Santa Maria de la mer?
38 How many Olympic golds did Lasse Viren win?
39 Olympic gold medalist in 1924 at the 10,000m and 3000m steeplechase and in 1928 at the 5000m, which Finnish athlete was nicknamed Peraseinajoen Susi: The Wolf from Peraseinajoki?
40 Which American professional WWE wrestler, whose real surname is Hickenbottom, is called The Heartbreak Kid?
41 Which Dallas team play in the NHL?
42 Swindon-born Rick Davies is the founder and a member of which progressive rock group and pop band?
43 Named after the Polish-American book dealer who acquired it in 1912, which mysterious illustrated book with incomprehensible contents of which 240 vellum pages survive is thought to have been written about 400 years ago by an unknown author in an unidentified script and unintelligible language and is currently item MS 408 in the Beinecke Rare Book Library of Yale University?
44 Conceived of and discussed thoroughly by Terence McKenna from the late Sixties til his death in 2000, what theory attempts to predict the ebb and flow of an eponymous property in the universe as an inherent quality of time?
45 Which 1921 debut novel by Aldous Huxley centres around a hero called Denis and a party held at an eponymous house, owned by self-appointed historian Henry Wimbush?
46 Who wrote the book Father of Frankenstein, which was the basis for the 1998 film Gods and Monsters?
47 What sonnet, written in 1883, was solicited by William Maxwell Evarts as a donation to an auction conducted by the "Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue ot Liberty" to raise funds to build the pedestal?
48 Containing a set order of daily prayers, what is the prayerbook used by Jews all over the world?
49 With an estimated population of 11.2 million; five million of whom are in the US, which Jewish group are descended from the medieval Jewish communities of the Rhineland?
50 Credited with being the first person to use parallax in calculating the distance to a star, which German mathematician (1784-1846) and astronomer systemised the eponymous functions discovered by Daniel Bernouilli?
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Answers to BH79
1 Ta Mok 2 Palatine 3 Java 4 Ismail Haniyeh 5 Pamirs (by Tajikistan) 6 Tonga 7 Nathula Pass 8 Moldova 9 (Jaroslaw and Lech) Kaczynski 10 Ornithopter 11 India 12 Tajikistan 13 Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov 14 Saturn 15 Steganography 16 Leon Battista Alberti 17 Tatra Mountains (located in Slovakia) 18 Free Officers Movement 19 International Federation of Gymnastics 20 Godfrey of Bouillon 21 Siege of Belgrade 22 Alexander Mackenzie 23 San Francisco 24 Biograph Theatre 25 Mariner I 26 Milwaukee 27 Padua 28 Mikhail Shcherbatov 29 William Archibald Spooner (as in "spoonerisms") 30 Selman Waksman 31 Alexander Calder 32 Marcel Cerdan 33 Mukesh (Mukesh Chand Mathur) 34 Cristobal Balenciaga (Eisaguirre) 35 George Clinton 36 Ron Turcotte 37 Mireille Mathieu 38 Four (5,000m and 10,000m in 1972 and same in 1976) 39 Ville Ritola 40 Shawn Michaels 41 Dallas Stars 42 Supertramp 43 Voynich manuscript 44 Novelty theory 45 Crome Yellow 46 Christopher Bram 47 The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 48 Siddur (pl. siddurim) 49 Ashkenazi 50 Friedrich Bessel
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