BH83
Practically all of the following questions originate from small, illegible scribblings in my smooth, shiny Moleskine notebook and which I have expanded quite substantially in some cases. Substantially, because I am always afraid of leaving out some crucial nugget of information that will be demanded in a quiz. It is a safety first policy borne of dread and a fear of Sod's Law.
As part of my quest for perpetual improvement, I always make sure that I keep the said notebook in my pocket whenever I wander outside and beyond, so it is ready to receive the flashes of inspiration that come my way, by way of adverts, TV, books, newspapers and random friends babbling amusing rubbishness in my ear. If the notebook is absent, I often tattoo the back of my left hand with trivia that I transcribe back home.
Stainer has often compared such behaviour to that of serial killer John Doe in Seven, though I have to deny such a charge since I have never sought to chop off Gwyneth Paltrow's head and mail it to Chris Martin in a box or merely Roman showered some oblivious passenger on the Underground and cackled at the sheer insanity of it all. I'm not that disgusted with humanity just yet. Give me a couple of years though and who knows. The fingerprints may have to go.
But let us forget murderous and unsavory comparisons with myself. Back to the quiz questions as always ... I'd like to think the following quiz is relatively trashy and light-hearted. At least compared to the hundred-question beast-mother I wrote this morning.
Now that is heavy. It may even make you gnash your knuckles in exasperation. Which is the whole, lovely point isn't it? (I really have to stop making these slightly sadistic taunts about these quizzes registering so highly on the Brinell scale. They are however a lot easier than writing a justification as to why I set them, for instance, 150-word questions on early Croation nationalist movements of the early 19th century. They will probably never ever come up, and yet I feel I have to write them because the act somehow reassures me that I am not missing something. It's the nagging fear of my ignorance being exposed, I suppose.)
1 Portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr in the 2000 film Men of Honor, which recently deceased man was the first black US Navy diver?
2 Located just outside Medina in Saudi Arabia, what was the first Islamic mosque ever built, its first stones being positioned by Muhammad on his emigration from Mecca to Medina?
3 Molesta are a hip-hop group from which European country?
4 What term for the decrease in the energy of an X-ray or gamma ray photon is named after its American discoverer, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927?
5 Which Chinese-American architect designed the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington and the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama?
6 Which fortress is to unveil "a permanent memorial to 10 people executed within its wall" this September?
7 Born in Riga (then part of the Russian Empire) in 1909, which Jewish political philosopher is best known for his 1958 lecture "Two Concepts of Liberty" and for his quote: "To understand is to perceive patterns"?
8 Who wrote the Declaration of Boulogne/Bulonja Deklaracio in 1905?
9 Meaning "White Slopes", what is the largest city in northeastern Poland and is the historical capital of the Podlachia?
10 Which Englishman is Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations?
11 Whose song You Better Run was the second song ever played on MTV on July 27, 1981?
12 In which cult American comedy series, made into a recent film, did Amy Sedaris play Jerri Blank, a 46-year-old runaway and former donkey show performer in Tijuana, who returns to Flatpoint High School to wreak havoc?
13 In which annoyingly compulsive dramedy currently showing on Channel 4 did Tom Cavanagh play the title role, a one-time hotshot New York City lawyer who is fired and relocates to his hometown of Stuckeyville, Ohio and buys a rundown bowling alley in which he sets up a law firm?
14 Which city of northeast Thailand was part of the Khmer Empire until 1238 when two chieftains, Pho Khun Pha Muang and Pho Khun Bang Klang Hao, the latter of whom became the first king calling himself Pho Khun Si Indrahit, declared their independence and established a Thai-ruled kingdom that lasted until 1438?
15 Which composer said: "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils"?
16 Who was the youngest Bronte sister?
17 By what name are the duo Elena Katina and Yulia Volkova better known?
18 As mentioned in the opening words of its child protagonist, in which year is the film Road to Perdition set?
19 What is equal to 128 cubic feet of wood or a pile four feet by four feet by eight feet?
20 Born in Montreal to Spanish parents who moved back to their homeland when she was four months old, who was the first Spaniard to become a member of the Royal Ballet in 2000 as prima ballerina and is the youngest artist in the history of ballet to become prima ballerina?
21 Which region of ancient central western Greece that lay along the Ionian Sea west of Aetolia with the Achelous River foa a boundary and north of the gulf of Calydon that is the entrance of the Gulf of Corinth had Stratos for its capital and principal city and its foundation ascribed to the son of the mythological figure Alcmaeon, who killed his mother Eriphyle in revenger for persuading his father Amphiaraus to take part in the Seven Against Thebes raid knowing he would die?
22 The element Hafnium was originally found in which mineral and member of the group of neosilicates?
23 Also known for its main trainer Saeed bin Suroor, which highly successful horse racing stables in Dubai and England (Newmarket) was set up by Dubai's ruling family, the Maktoums and takes its name from one (c.1724-1754) of the three horses which were the founders of the modern thoroughbred horseracing broodstock (the other two being the Darley Arabian and Byerly Turk)?
24 Which late German opera singer and leading soprano, who later took British citizenship, made her professional debut at the Berlin State Opera on April 15, 1938, as the Second Flower Maiden (First Group) in Act II of Wagner's Parsifal?
25 Premiered on January 26, 1911 at Dresden's Konigliches Opernhaus, which comic opera is loosely based on Louvet de Couvrai's novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas and Moliere's comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac and features the soprano role of The Marschallin, Princess Marie Therese von Werdenberg?
26 Capital city of the province of Ilocos Sur on the western coast of Luzon, what is the most intact example of a Spanish colonial town in Asia and is well known for its cobblestones and unique Asian-European colonial fusion architecture?
27 Which German orchestra leader and songwriter, known for his easy listening and jazz-oriented records, wrote the music for Strangers in the Night and Spanish Eyes, had his own first hit with his orchestra in 1960 with Wonderland Night and famously informed Brian Epstein that his company, Polydor, was only interested in The Beatles as Tony Sheridan's back-up group?
28 Strangers in the Night was originally recorded as part of the score for which 1965 adventure comedy film - an adaptation of David E Walker's novel Diamonds for Danger - shot on location around the Mediterranean and starring James Garner and Melina Mercouri?
29 Which Japanese retail company and seller of household goods is also called Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd and derives its acronymn name from a translation of "No Brand Quality Goods"?
30 Which Brazlian player was top scorer at the 1938 World Cup with eight goals and was nicknamed "the Black Diamond" and the "Rubber Man"?
31 The Marsh test is a highly sensitive method used for the detection of what element in its trioxide form?
32 Gunkan-maki, Futomaki, Hosomaki and Temaki are types of what?
33 Which fashion company sponsors the tournament races leading up to the America's Cup proper?
34 The incredibly thick (that's more my opinion, not a fact I have to say) pop star Jessica Simpson's husband Nick Lachey was a member of which boy band?
35 Also called the Lappet-Faced Vulture, what bird is Torgos tracheliotus?
36 Scotland's leading nobles gathered in 1638 at Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, to sign what document, which was drafted by Fife minister Alexander Henderson and Presbyterian lawyer Archibald Johnson?
37 Which astronomer predicted the existence of Planet X and drew canals on maps of Mars that weren't there?
38 Who is Tiger Wood's New Zealand-born caddy?
39 Which Argentinian won The Open Championship at Royal Hoylake 39 years ago?
40 What two-word name was given to Harold Wilson's ultimately unsuccessful attempt to defend the pound in 1966?
41 The traditional British dish "crappitheids" is stuffed suet and boiled heads of what?
42 The recipe for what cooled pigs' cheeks with half the jawbone and tongue rolled in breadcrumbs first appeared in an English cookbook in 1769 written by Elizabeth Raffald, the housekeeper of a stately home in Salford?
43 Which American film director won a Jury Prize at Cannes in 1970 for his short film Juanpuri and went on to write the first four episodes of Starsky and Hutch?
44 Who became France's first black newsreader when he recently made his debut on the evening bulletin on TF1?
45 The 41-year-old Jose Antonio Delgado, who was the first ever Venezuelan to climb Mount Everest, was recently found dead on which 24,280ft-tall Pakistani peak, the ninth highest on Earth and called "Killer Mountain"?
46 Haret Hreik is whose HQ?
47 British men are said to be genetically German with a Y chromosome identical to which Germanic people in more than 50 per cent of the population?
48 Which Sussex wine was crowned best sparkling wine in the world outside the Champagne region of France in July this year?
49 Jim Kempton, principal sculptor at Madame Tussauds, masterminded the production of a waxwork of which of Sheik Muhammad's favourite horse of all time?
50 Portrayed in the Mick Collins biography All-Round Genius: The Unknown Story of Britain's Greatest Sportmans, which World War One hero was known for the following achievements in the 1920s: Manchester City captain, captain of England's amateur football side, Davis Cup captain, Wimbledon doubles champion, Olympic tennis gold medallist, Lord's centurion, five-time Cambridge Blue?
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Answers to BH83
1 Carl Brashear 2 Quba Mosque 3 Poland 4 Compton Scattering or Effect 5 Maya Ying Lin 6 The Tower of London 7 Isaiah Berlin 8 Ludwig Zamenhof 9 Bialystok 10 Mark Malloch Brown 11 Pat Benatar 12 Strangers With Candy 13 Ed 14 Sukothai 15 Hector Berlioz 16 Anne Bronte 17 t.A.T.u. 18 1931 19 A cord 20 Tamara Rojo 21 Acarnania 22 Zircon 23 The Godolphin Stables 24 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf 25 Der Rosenkavalier 26 Vigan City 27 Bert Kaempfert 28 A Man Could Get Killed 29 MUJI 30 Leonidas (da Silva) 31 Arsenic 32 Sushi (rolls) 33 Louis Vuitton 34 98 Degrees 35 Nubian Vulture 36 National Covenant 37 Percival Lowell 38 Steve Williams 39 Roberto de Vicenzo 40 July Measures 41 Haddock 42 Bath chaps 43 Michael Mann 44 Harry Roselmack 45 Nanga Parbat 46 Hezbullah 47 Holstener 48 Nyetimber Classic Cuvee 1998 49 Dubai Millennium 50 Max Woosnam
As part of my quest for perpetual improvement, I always make sure that I keep the said notebook in my pocket whenever I wander outside and beyond, so it is ready to receive the flashes of inspiration that come my way, by way of adverts, TV, books, newspapers and random friends babbling amusing rubbishness in my ear. If the notebook is absent, I often tattoo the back of my left hand with trivia that I transcribe back home.
Stainer has often compared such behaviour to that of serial killer John Doe in Seven, though I have to deny such a charge since I have never sought to chop off Gwyneth Paltrow's head and mail it to Chris Martin in a box or merely Roman showered some oblivious passenger on the Underground and cackled at the sheer insanity of it all. I'm not that disgusted with humanity just yet. Give me a couple of years though and who knows. The fingerprints may have to go.
But let us forget murderous and unsavory comparisons with myself. Back to the quiz questions as always ... I'd like to think the following quiz is relatively trashy and light-hearted. At least compared to the hundred-question beast-mother I wrote this morning.
Now that is heavy. It may even make you gnash your knuckles in exasperation. Which is the whole, lovely point isn't it? (I really have to stop making these slightly sadistic taunts about these quizzes registering so highly on the Brinell scale. They are however a lot easier than writing a justification as to why I set them, for instance, 150-word questions on early Croation nationalist movements of the early 19th century. They will probably never ever come up, and yet I feel I have to write them because the act somehow reassures me that I am not missing something. It's the nagging fear of my ignorance being exposed, I suppose.)
1 Portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr in the 2000 film Men of Honor, which recently deceased man was the first black US Navy diver?
2 Located just outside Medina in Saudi Arabia, what was the first Islamic mosque ever built, its first stones being positioned by Muhammad on his emigration from Mecca to Medina?
3 Molesta are a hip-hop group from which European country?
4 What term for the decrease in the energy of an X-ray or gamma ray photon is named after its American discoverer, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927?
5 Which Chinese-American architect designed the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington and the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama?
6 Which fortress is to unveil "a permanent memorial to 10 people executed within its wall" this September?
7 Born in Riga (then part of the Russian Empire) in 1909, which Jewish political philosopher is best known for his 1958 lecture "Two Concepts of Liberty" and for his quote: "To understand is to perceive patterns"?
8 Who wrote the Declaration of Boulogne/Bulonja Deklaracio in 1905?
9 Meaning "White Slopes", what is the largest city in northeastern Poland and is the historical capital of the Podlachia?
10 Which Englishman is Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations?
11 Whose song You Better Run was the second song ever played on MTV on July 27, 1981?
12 In which cult American comedy series, made into a recent film, did Amy Sedaris play Jerri Blank, a 46-year-old runaway and former donkey show performer in Tijuana, who returns to Flatpoint High School to wreak havoc?
13 In which annoyingly compulsive dramedy currently showing on Channel 4 did Tom Cavanagh play the title role, a one-time hotshot New York City lawyer who is fired and relocates to his hometown of Stuckeyville, Ohio and buys a rundown bowling alley in which he sets up a law firm?
14 Which city of northeast Thailand was part of the Khmer Empire until 1238 when two chieftains, Pho Khun Pha Muang and Pho Khun Bang Klang Hao, the latter of whom became the first king calling himself Pho Khun Si Indrahit, declared their independence and established a Thai-ruled kingdom that lasted until 1438?
15 Which composer said: "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils"?
16 Who was the youngest Bronte sister?
17 By what name are the duo Elena Katina and Yulia Volkova better known?
18 As mentioned in the opening words of its child protagonist, in which year is the film Road to Perdition set?
19 What is equal to 128 cubic feet of wood or a pile four feet by four feet by eight feet?
20 Born in Montreal to Spanish parents who moved back to their homeland when she was four months old, who was the first Spaniard to become a member of the Royal Ballet in 2000 as prima ballerina and is the youngest artist in the history of ballet to become prima ballerina?
21 Which region of ancient central western Greece that lay along the Ionian Sea west of Aetolia with the Achelous River foa a boundary and north of the gulf of Calydon that is the entrance of the Gulf of Corinth had Stratos for its capital and principal city and its foundation ascribed to the son of the mythological figure Alcmaeon, who killed his mother Eriphyle in revenger for persuading his father Amphiaraus to take part in the Seven Against Thebes raid knowing he would die?
22 The element Hafnium was originally found in which mineral and member of the group of neosilicates?
23 Also known for its main trainer Saeed bin Suroor, which highly successful horse racing stables in Dubai and England (Newmarket) was set up by Dubai's ruling family, the Maktoums and takes its name from one (c.1724-1754) of the three horses which were the founders of the modern thoroughbred horseracing broodstock (the other two being the Darley Arabian and Byerly Turk)?
24 Which late German opera singer and leading soprano, who later took British citizenship, made her professional debut at the Berlin State Opera on April 15, 1938, as the Second Flower Maiden (First Group) in Act II of Wagner's Parsifal?
25 Premiered on January 26, 1911 at Dresden's Konigliches Opernhaus, which comic opera is loosely based on Louvet de Couvrai's novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas and Moliere's comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac and features the soprano role of The Marschallin, Princess Marie Therese von Werdenberg?
26 Capital city of the province of Ilocos Sur on the western coast of Luzon, what is the most intact example of a Spanish colonial town in Asia and is well known for its cobblestones and unique Asian-European colonial fusion architecture?
27 Which German orchestra leader and songwriter, known for his easy listening and jazz-oriented records, wrote the music for Strangers in the Night and Spanish Eyes, had his own first hit with his orchestra in 1960 with Wonderland Night and famously informed Brian Epstein that his company, Polydor, was only interested in The Beatles as Tony Sheridan's back-up group?
28 Strangers in the Night was originally recorded as part of the score for which 1965 adventure comedy film - an adaptation of David E Walker's novel Diamonds for Danger - shot on location around the Mediterranean and starring James Garner and Melina Mercouri?
29 Which Japanese retail company and seller of household goods is also called Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd and derives its acronymn name from a translation of "No Brand Quality Goods"?
30 Which Brazlian player was top scorer at the 1938 World Cup with eight goals and was nicknamed "the Black Diamond" and the "Rubber Man"?
31 The Marsh test is a highly sensitive method used for the detection of what element in its trioxide form?
32 Gunkan-maki, Futomaki, Hosomaki and Temaki are types of what?
33 Which fashion company sponsors the tournament races leading up to the America's Cup proper?
34 The incredibly thick (that's more my opinion, not a fact I have to say) pop star Jessica Simpson's husband Nick Lachey was a member of which boy band?
35 Also called the Lappet-Faced Vulture, what bird is Torgos tracheliotus?
36 Scotland's leading nobles gathered in 1638 at Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, to sign what document, which was drafted by Fife minister Alexander Henderson and Presbyterian lawyer Archibald Johnson?
37 Which astronomer predicted the existence of Planet X and drew canals on maps of Mars that weren't there?
38 Who is Tiger Wood's New Zealand-born caddy?
39 Which Argentinian won The Open Championship at Royal Hoylake 39 years ago?
40 What two-word name was given to Harold Wilson's ultimately unsuccessful attempt to defend the pound in 1966?
41 The traditional British dish "crappitheids" is stuffed suet and boiled heads of what?
42 The recipe for what cooled pigs' cheeks with half the jawbone and tongue rolled in breadcrumbs first appeared in an English cookbook in 1769 written by Elizabeth Raffald, the housekeeper of a stately home in Salford?
43 Which American film director won a Jury Prize at Cannes in 1970 for his short film Juanpuri and went on to write the first four episodes of Starsky and Hutch?
44 Who became France's first black newsreader when he recently made his debut on the evening bulletin on TF1?
45 The 41-year-old Jose Antonio Delgado, who was the first ever Venezuelan to climb Mount Everest, was recently found dead on which 24,280ft-tall Pakistani peak, the ninth highest on Earth and called "Killer Mountain"?
46 Haret Hreik is whose HQ?
47 British men are said to be genetically German with a Y chromosome identical to which Germanic people in more than 50 per cent of the population?
48 Which Sussex wine was crowned best sparkling wine in the world outside the Champagne region of France in July this year?
49 Jim Kempton, principal sculptor at Madame Tussauds, masterminded the production of a waxwork of which of Sheik Muhammad's favourite horse of all time?
50 Portrayed in the Mick Collins biography All-Round Genius: The Unknown Story of Britain's Greatest Sportmans, which World War One hero was known for the following achievements in the 1920s: Manchester City captain, captain of England's amateur football side, Davis Cup captain, Wimbledon doubles champion, Olympic tennis gold medallist, Lord's centurion, five-time Cambridge Blue?
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Answers to BH83
1 Carl Brashear 2 Quba Mosque 3 Poland 4 Compton Scattering or Effect 5 Maya Ying Lin 6 The Tower of London 7 Isaiah Berlin 8 Ludwig Zamenhof 9 Bialystok 10 Mark Malloch Brown 11 Pat Benatar 12 Strangers With Candy 13 Ed 14 Sukothai 15 Hector Berlioz 16 Anne Bronte 17 t.A.T.u. 18 1931 19 A cord 20 Tamara Rojo 21 Acarnania 22 Zircon 23 The Godolphin Stables 24 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf 25 Der Rosenkavalier 26 Vigan City 27 Bert Kaempfert 28 A Man Could Get Killed 29 MUJI 30 Leonidas (da Silva) 31 Arsenic 32 Sushi (rolls) 33 Louis Vuitton 34 98 Degrees 35 Nubian Vulture 36 National Covenant 37 Percival Lowell 38 Steve Williams 39 Roberto de Vicenzo 40 July Measures 41 Haddock 42 Bath chaps 43 Michael Mann 44 Harry Roselmack 45 Nanga Parbat 46 Hezbullah 47 Holstener 48 Nyetimber Classic Cuvee 1998 49 Dubai Millennium 50 Max Woosnam
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