Bow Down Before The BH84 Puny Quizlings!
Here's that hundred-question BH quiz I mentioned yesterday. 'Tis quite big. Why not drink a can of Red Bull or a double espresso then beat your chests with fists just like Johnny Weismuller-era Tarzan before tackling it? You might need it.
Tonight, I saw a few friends of old - me old student journalist chums - two said they liked the wacky stream of consciousness gabberings on this blog but that they got about one in one hundred of every BH quiz question. And I thought that many? Nah, I'm just joshing ya.
But these questions really exist on another plain, perhaps in another dimension, where hyper-quizzers exist and eat them for breakfast, and where each of these questions is the equivalent of asking you and me "what the capital of France is?" (No, it is not F).
Truth is, if you get more than 10 per cent on any then you are a true prince among trivia artists. Etc.
1 Belonging to the Colobinae subfamily of the Old World family, which monkey of which there are seven distinct species is sacred to India and is natively known as as the Wanderoo in Sri Lanka and makes up the entirety of the genus Semnopithecs?
2 Founded as El Paso del Norte ("the Northern Pass") in 1659 by Spanish explorers, which Mexican city on the Rio Grande in the state of Chihuahua was renamed after a two-time president of Mexico and is the major port of entry and transportation centre of the north-central area of the country?
3 Notorious for its political prisoners' wing, in which Tehran prison did democracy activity Akbar Mohammadi die recently?
4 Incumbent Fradique de Menezes won the presidential election of which African country on July 31?
5 When the United Kingdom declared war on Germany due to its invasion of Belgium on August 4, 1914, it was adhering to the terms in which 1839 treaty?
6 Which battle was fought in Worcestershire on August 4, 1265 and saw the army of the future king Edward I defeat Simon de Montfort's rebel forces, killing the latter in the process?
7 At which August 1578 battle did the Moroccans defeat the Portuguese, killing King Sebastian of Portugal in the process and leaving his elderly uncle Cardinal Henry as his heir, thus initiating a succession crisis?
8 The fourth of August, 1693, is the date traditionally ascribed to the invention of what drink?
9 What is the highest basic rank in the fraternity of Freemasonry?
10 On August 4, 1854, what was established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships?
11 Whose family was found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home on August 4, 1892?
12 Along with the USS Maddox, which other destroyer was allegedly attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin incident of 1964?
13 In which capital city did the Japanese Red Army take more than 50 hostages at the AIA building, which houses several embassies, on August 4, 1975?
14 On August 4, 1983, which New York Yankee outfielder accidentally killed a seagull during warm-ups prior to a baseball game in Torono at Exhibition Stadium and was subsequently charged by local police for an "act of cruelty to animals"? His manager Billy Martin famously said: "It's the first time he's hit the cutoff man."
15 Launched on August 4, 1995, what name (Serbian: Operacija Oluja) was given to the large-scale ethnic cleansing of the Serb population by Croatia in conjunction with the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina?
16 Where will Anand Satyanand replace Dame Silvia Cartwright as Governor-General this month?
17 Michaelle Jean was made which country's first black Governor-General in 2005?
18 Which priest of Rome was elected Pope in March 752 to succeed Pope Zachary but died of apoplexy before being ordained a bishop?
19 Born Giovanni Battista Castagna, who succeeded Sixtus V and was Pope for 13 days in September 1590 before dying of malaria before consecration, making his the second shortest papal reign in history?
20 The official royal surgeon for the French kings Henri II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry IIi, who (1510-1590) is considered by some as one of the fathers of surgery and discovered a "remedy against the pain of the wounded by firearms" while a military surgeon during the campaigns in Italy between 1533-1536?
21 The 18th century German mineralogist and geologist Johann Gottlob Lehmann is noted for the development of what branch of geology, which was later essentially invented and first rigorously applied by William Smith during the 1790s and early 1800s?
22 Who wrote the four-act play Prometheus Unbound (1820) and never finished his poem The Triumph of Life?
23 Which John Everett Millais painting of 1850 was highly controversial because of his realistic portrayal of the working class Holy Family labouring in a messy carpentry workshop?
24 And with which 1852 artwork depicting a young couple about to be separated due to religious conflict did Millais achieve popular success?
25 What was William Holman Hunt's intended middle name which he hated?
26 Meaning "The Banquet" in English, which collection of poems and interpretative commentary by Dante was written c.1294-1307 and contained details of his growing interest in philosophy, stoked by Boethius and Cicero?
27 Considered by many to be his most important painting, which Ford Madox Brown work (1852-1865) depicts the totality of the mid-Victorian social experience in a single image: including navvies digging up a road and disrupting the old social hierarchies as they did so?
28 Author of such medieval-style works as The Leper, Laus Veneris and St Dorothy, which alcoholic poet's health became so bad that he was taken into care by his friend Theodore Watts who looked after him for the rest of his life in Putney (d.1909)?
29 As well as inventing a cricket bowling machine, which Hull-born mathematician and philosopher introduced his most famous invention in his 1881 work Symbolic Logic, having introduced the frequency interpretation of probability in 1866 in The Logic of Chance?
30 Winner of the Nobel prize in 1920, which Norwegian writer's lesser known works include Pan, Mysteries and The Growth of the Soil and infamously described Hitler as a "warrior for mankind"?
31 Which Italian-born naturalised French citizen was the first ever winner of the Tour de France in 1903 and was disqualified the next year for taking a train for part of the route?
32 Who was described as "the most dangerous woman in Europe" by Hitler for her work during WW2?
33 Which musician married Daisy Parker, a prostitute from Gretna, Louisiana on March 19, 1918, and then adopted a 3-year-old named Clarence whose mother, his cousin Fiona, died soon after birth?
34 Edward "Kid" Ory was famed for playing which instrument?
35 Which Polish dramatist and novelist (1904-1969) published his first novel, Ferdyduke, in 1937 and staged his semi-autobiographical novel, Trans-Atlantyk, in Paris in the late 1950s, garnering interest from the local theatre critics?
36 Which German zoologist and animal documentary pioneers's 1952 movie Natur in Gefahr/Nature in Danger was one of the first attempts to deal with the subject of endangered species, going on to make The Last Paradises - On the track of rare animals 14 years later?
37 In which Austrian city is the Bruckner Orchestra, which acquired its current name in 1967, based?
38 Named after the 27th US President, which US composer was inspired to compose by a Toscanini-conducted performance by the New York Philharmonic on April 4, 1930, and went on to win the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1943 for his cantata, A Free Song?
39 Credited by Tom Lehrer in a 1950s song for teaching him the secret of success as a mathematician (plagiarism), which Russian mathematician is known for such achievements a developing non-Euclidean geometry independently of Janos Bolyai and developing a method for the approximation of the roots of algebraic equations, a method now known as Dandelin-Graffe method?
40 The name of which religion comes from the Arabic for "glory" or "splendour"?
41 Born Asa Bundy Sheffey in 1913, which African-American's most famous poem is Those Winter Sundays?
42 In which sport is Maurice Richard (1921-2000) a famous name?
43 Written using the same-named script, which major Dravidian language is spoken by roughly 50 million people and is the state language of the southern Indian state of Karnataka?
44 Sharing his name with a well-known British athlete, which British composer and musician conducted and orchestrated Mike Oldfield's Orchestral Tubular Bells album during the 1970s and wrote such works as Star Clusters, Nebulae and Places in Devon (1971) and With 100 Kazoos (1971)?
45 Which Norwegian ski jumper, World Champion in the large and small hill competitions in 1966 and the only person to win the Four Hills Tournament three years in a row (1967-69), retired to become a footballer and played for Rosenborg from 1971-1974 and gave his name to a native expression which denotes the concept of carrying on a task where your predecessor has done a particularly good job?
46 For which NBA team does the 7ft-3in South Korean basketball player Ha Seung-Jin play?
47 Born in Vallejo, California in 1971, which US race car driver has won the Nascar Winston Cup (now NEXTEL Cup) four times ('95, '97, '98, '2001)?
48 Born c.1581 at Real de Taxco in Guerrero, which hunchbacked Mexican dramatist wrote at least 20 dramas, the most famous of which is La Verdad sospechosa, which was adapted by Pierre Corneille as Le Menteur/The Liar?
49 Originally owned by author Sergei Aksakov, which estate north of Moscow in the proximity of Khotkovo became a centre for the Slavophole movement and artistic activity in the 19th century and is the site of an architectural fantasy or "Fairy-tale church" designed by Victor Vasnetsov and Vasily Polenov?
50 Following his death from an aneurysm at the age of only 39 in 1873, an exhibition of over 400 of which man's paintings were displayed in St Petersburg's Academy of Fine Arts in February and March 1874, while he was also noted for his Russian motif-strewn design for the Naval department of Russia's pavillion at the Vienna World Fair of 1873?
51 For which King of France from 1180 to 1223, originally nicknamed Dieudonne - God-given, was the Louvre built as a fortified royal palace to defend Paris against Viking attacks?
52 Part of the collection of the London merchant and fine arts patron John Julius Angerstein, what Biblical 1517-19 work by Sebastiano del Piombo (then called Luciani) was officially the first painting to enter London's National Gallery?
53 What London address was the home of the National Gallery from 1824 to 1834?
54 Which US actor, who debuted in The Housekeeper's Daughter (1939), declared after being rejected for membership in a country club because he was an actor: "I'm not an actor - and I've got 67 films to prove it!"?
55 Which Broadway musical, first produced in 1925 by former Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee, centres around Bible publishing millionaire Jimmy Smith, his wife Sue and their eponymous adopted daughter, whom they try to turn into a respectable lady, and features the song I Want to Be Happy?
56 Who wrote the 1942 historical novel The Robe?
57 Often referred to as the "Cure d'Ars" (the parish priest of the village of Arles), which Catholic saint (1786-1859) is the patron saint of parish priests?
58 Which deposed Patriarch of Constantinople was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius to an Egyptian monastery on August 3, 435?
59 Louis III of France's defeat of the Vikings at the 881 Battle of Saucourt-end-Vimeu is celebrated in which Old High German poem of 59 rhyming couplets?
60 Who sent the first known letter from North America on August 3, 1635 while at St John's Newfoundland?
61 Meaning "martial arts hall" in English, what arena was originally built for the Judo competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo?
62 Which town in Ikoma District, Nara Prefecture is home to the ancient Buddhist temple known as Horyu-ji (full name Horyu Gakumonji or Learning Temple of the Flourishing Law), whose "kondo" is one of the oldest wooden buildings in the world?
63 Minamoto no Yoritomo officially established which Shogunate in 1192, whose period ended in 1333 with its destruction and the short re-establishment of imperial rule under Emperor Go-Daigo?
64 Born Hippolyte Leon Denizard Rivail, which systematizer of Spiritism published his first book on the subject, The Spirits' Book, in April 18, 1857 and signed himself with a famous name allegedly inspired by a Zefiro (or Spirit) whom he had been communicating with, who told him about a previous incarnation of his as a Druid by that name?
65 Who in 1678 built the Griffon, the first known ship constructed in America?
66 Allied forces under the command of Archibald Murray defeated an attacking Ottoman Army under the command of Kress von Kressenstein on August 3, 1916, this securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai?
67 Whittaker Chambers is best known for his testimony and subversion of which controversial American figure?
68 In which country did the 1997 Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre take place?
69 Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was overthrown in a military coup in 2005 while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia. Of which country was he president?
70 On his first morning working at Chatsworth, which then new 23-year-old Head Gardener met his future wife, the housekeeper's niece, Sarah Brown?
71 Which prolific Croatian composer (1832-1914), who dominated his country's musical culture for over 40 years, had great success with his opera Amelia ossia Il Bandito in 1860 before moving to Vienna for eight years where he met with further success with Mannschaft an Bord (1863), and would go on to compose almost a thousand works including Mislav (1870) and his masterpiece Nikola Subic Zrinski (1876), based on the life of the titular 16th century Croatian and Hungarian hero?
72 Named so because of the eponymous theory of origin of Slavs, which organisation of Croatian intellectuals from the first half of the 19th century, which aimed for national establishment under Austro-Hungarian rule and sought linguistic and ethnic unity among South Slavs, issued the first Croatian newspaper, Novine hrvatsko-slavonsko-dalmatinske, edited by Ljudevit Gaj, and magazine Danica, printed in Gaj's "National print" (Narodna tiskara) and included composer Vatroslav Lisinski who wrote the first opera in Croatian, Ljubav i zloba/Love and Malice?
73 Which Scottish film pioneer is credited with the invention of the motion picture camera under the employ of Thomas Edison?
74 Who contested Kidderminster at the 1906 General Election, but lost amidst an anti-Conservatie landslide, and in 1908 succeeded his deceased father as MP for Bewdley?
75 Passing over the normally icy Col de Turini, what rally stage is run from La Bollene to Sospel, or the other way round, over a steep and tight mountain raid with many hairpin turns?
76 Who beat fellow young World Rally Championship rival Sebastien Loeb at the Wales Rally GB in 2003, launching him to his second win in Wales and his first ever WRC title?
77 Founding president of his country's automobile club, Antony Noghes organised the first of which Grand Prix races in 1929, won by William Grover-Williams, aka "Williams", driving a Bugatti in what would become the famed British racing green colour?
78 Of which landscape painter did Monet remark "There is only one master here"; his works include Une Matinee (1850), Macbeth (1859), Le Lac (1861), Biblis (1875) and Souvenir de Mortefontaine (1864) and he expended large sums of money later in life in such causes as buying a house in Auvers in 1872 for a by then blind and homeless Honore Daumier?
79 What famous film is called Le train sifflera trois fois in France?
80 If the original CSI: Crime Scene Investigation TV series employs The Who's Who Are You as its theme tune, what do its Miami and New York spin-offs use?
81 What type of abstract sculpture shares created by Alexander Calder shares its name with a 16th century composer of the Roman School and is derived from the Latin for "constant"?
82 Renowned for his use of the colour white and such buildings as the as-yet unfinished ECM City Tower in Prague, Rome's Jubilee Church, The Hague City Hall and Central Library and the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, which US architect was consulted on the design of several buildings that appeared in the 2003 computer game SimCity 4 and so became perhaps the first professional architect ever commissioned to participate in building design for a computer game?
83 Which Mexican architect became the second ever winner of the Pritzker Prize (after Philip Johnson) in 1980 after a career that included such achievements as the planification and urbanisation plan of the residential Pedregal de San Angel in 1945, the 1955 rebuilding of the historical Convento de las Capuchinas Sacramentarias in Tlalpan, and Naucalpan's Satelite Towers (1957)? His Mexico City house and studio, built in 1948, is now a UNESCO World Heritage site.
84 Awarded both the Pritzker Prize and the Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal in 1997, which Norwegian architect gained international recognition aged 34 in 1958 for his design of the Norwegian Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World Exhibition and produced the Nordic Pavilion and the Hedmark Museum in Hamar during the 60s?
85 A pre-eminent artist and social activist wrapped up in the New York street culture of the 1980s who paraded a symbol named "The Radiant Baby", who first gained public attention with his subway chalk drawings before going on to paint wall murals in Melbourne, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, Minneapolous and Manhattan in 1984, as well as the body of Grace Jones for her video "I'm Not Perfect" and his last public work, the mural Tuttomondo, on the rear wall of the convent of Pisa's Church of Sant'Antonio in June 1989 shortly before he died of AIDS in 1990?
86 Including such members as Akira Shibuya, Kisho Kurokawa and Kenzo Tange, which group of Japanese architects and city planners joined forces in 1959 to plot their vision of a city of the future inhabited by a mass society characterised by large scale, flexible and extendable structures that enable an organic growth process?
87 Hungary is bordered by how many countries?
88 After Horthy's removal by Hitler, what pro-German, anti-Semitic fascist party was led by Ferenc Szalasi ruled Hungary from October 15, 1944 to January 1945 and deported some 80,000 Jews to the death camps during its short time in power?
89 What juniper-flavoured and strongly alcoholic drink, the traditional liquor of the Netherlands and Flanders, is believed to have been invented by Dutch chemist and alchemist Sylvius de Bouve and was first sold as medicine in the late 16th century?
90 On August 2, 216BC, at which battle did Hannibal and his Carthaginian army defeat the numerically superior Roman army under the command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro?
91 From the Latin for "temple", which officials of the Roman republic were responsible for the maintenance of public buildings and regulation of public festivals?
92 What abbreviated Japanese term was used to refer to the four caste system during the Edo period - samurai, farmers, artisans and merchants - that was abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms in 1869?
93 Which people took part in the Ilinden-Preobrazhnie Uprising of 1903?
94 The content of the Bhagavad Gita is a conversation on the battlefield of Kurukshetra just prior to the start of the climactic war between which youngest son of Kunti and Pandu and heroic master archer, and which eighth avatar of Vishnu?
95 Meaning "synchronising" or "making equal", what German term describes the process by which the Nazi regime successively established a system of totalitarian control over the individual and tight coordination over all aspects of society and commerce?
96 Which Japanese destroyer sank JFK's PT-109 on August 2, 1944, leading to the future president saving all but two of his crew?
97 Born with the surname Cozad, author of The Art Spirit, Robert Henri (1865-1929) famously led which movement in art, one of whose co-founders was John French Sloan?
98 Nicknamed "The Russian Lion", which Estonian-born early 20th century strongman and professional wrestler was trained by fellow countryman Georg Lurich and went undefeated for over 3000 matches and was the first widely recognised World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion after his 1905 win over Tom Jenkins, but lost to Frank Gotch in a 1908 match at Chicago's Dexter Park?
99 Which Major League Baseball team played at Comiskey Park between 1910 to 1990, the stadium being demolished the following year?
100 One of the greatest Russian novelists of the 20th century, who wrote the fairy tale Three Fat Men (1924), the two books of short stories, Love and Other Stories and The Cherrystone, and his 1927 novel Envy, which was acclaimed by Nabokov as the greatest novel produced in the Soviet Union and centred on a pathetic young man named Kavalerov who refuses to accept Communist values and is consumed by loathing for his benefactor, the model USSR citizen and sausage factory manager Babichev?
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Answers to BH84
1 Grey langurs 2 Ciudad Juarez 3 Evin Prison 4 Sao Tome and Principe 5 Treaty of London 6 Evesham 7 Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir 8 Champagne (by Dom Perignon) 9 Master Mason 10 The Hinomaru 11 Lizzie Borden's 12 USS C. Turner Joy 13 Kuala Lumpur 14 Dave Winfield 15 Operation Storm 16 New Zealand 17 Canada 18 Pope-elect Stephen (sometimes called Stephen II) 19 Urban VII 20 Ambroise Pare 21 Stratigraphy 22 Shelley 23 Christ in the House of his Parents 24 A Huguenot 25 Hobman 26 Convivio 27 Work 28 Algernon Swinburne 29 John Venn (as in Venn diagrams) 30 Knut Hamsun 31 Maurice Garin 32 Queen Mother/Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 33 Louis Armstrong 34 Trombone 35 Wiltold Gombrowicz 36 Eugen Schumacher 37 Linz 38 William Schuman 39 Nikolai Lobachevsky 40 Baha'i 41 Robert Hayden 42 Ice Hockey 43 Kannada 44 David Bedford 45 Bjorn Wirkola ("Jumping after Wirkola") 46 Milwaukee Bucks 47 Jeff Gordon 48 Juan Ruiz de Alarcon 49 Abramtsevo as in the Abramtsevo Colony 50 Viktor Hartmann (inspiration for Pictures at an Exhibition) 51 Philip II Augustus 52 The Raising of Lazarus 53 100 Pall Mall 54 Victor Mature 55 No, No, Nanette 56 Lloyd C Douglas 57 St Jean Vianney or St Jean Baptiste Marie Vianney 58 Nestorius as in Nestorianism 59 Ludwigslied 60 John Rut 61 Nippon Budokan 62 Ikaruga 63 Kamakura 64 Allan Kardec 65 Robert LaSalle 66 Battle of Romani 67 Alger Hiss 68 Algeria 69 Mauretania 70 Joseph Paxton 71 Ivan Zajc 72 Illyrian movement 73 William Dickson 74 Stanley Baldwin 75 Monte Carlo Rally 76 Petter Solberg 77 Monaco Grand Prix 78 Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 79 High Noon 80 Won't Get Fooled Again, Baba O'Riley 81 Stabile 82 Richard Meier 83 Luis Barragan 84 Sverre Fehn 85 Keith Haring 86 The Metabolists or Metabolist Movement 87 Seven (Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia) 88 Arrow Cross Party or Nyilaskeresztes Part Hungarista Mozgalom 89 Jenever 90 Cannae 91 Aedile 92 Shinokosho 93 Bulgarians (against the Ottoman Empire) 94 Arjuna and Krishna 95 Gleichschaltung 96 Amagiri 97 Ashcan School 98 Georg Hackenschmidt 99 Chicago White Sox 100 Yury Olesha
Tonight, I saw a few friends of old - me old student journalist chums - two said they liked the wacky stream of consciousness gabberings on this blog but that they got about one in one hundred of every BH quiz question. And I thought that many? Nah, I'm just joshing ya.
But these questions really exist on another plain, perhaps in another dimension, where hyper-quizzers exist and eat them for breakfast, and where each of these questions is the equivalent of asking you and me "what the capital of France is?" (No, it is not F).
Truth is, if you get more than 10 per cent on any then you are a true prince among trivia artists. Etc.
1 Belonging to the Colobinae subfamily of the Old World family, which monkey of which there are seven distinct species is sacred to India and is natively known as as the Wanderoo in Sri Lanka and makes up the entirety of the genus Semnopithecs?
2 Founded as El Paso del Norte ("the Northern Pass") in 1659 by Spanish explorers, which Mexican city on the Rio Grande in the state of Chihuahua was renamed after a two-time president of Mexico and is the major port of entry and transportation centre of the north-central area of the country?
3 Notorious for its political prisoners' wing, in which Tehran prison did democracy activity Akbar Mohammadi die recently?
4 Incumbent Fradique de Menezes won the presidential election of which African country on July 31?
5 When the United Kingdom declared war on Germany due to its invasion of Belgium on August 4, 1914, it was adhering to the terms in which 1839 treaty?
6 Which battle was fought in Worcestershire on August 4, 1265 and saw the army of the future king Edward I defeat Simon de Montfort's rebel forces, killing the latter in the process?
7 At which August 1578 battle did the Moroccans defeat the Portuguese, killing King Sebastian of Portugal in the process and leaving his elderly uncle Cardinal Henry as his heir, thus initiating a succession crisis?
8 The fourth of August, 1693, is the date traditionally ascribed to the invention of what drink?
9 What is the highest basic rank in the fraternity of Freemasonry?
10 On August 4, 1854, what was established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships?
11 Whose family was found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home on August 4, 1892?
12 Along with the USS Maddox, which other destroyer was allegedly attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin incident of 1964?
13 In which capital city did the Japanese Red Army take more than 50 hostages at the AIA building, which houses several embassies, on August 4, 1975?
14 On August 4, 1983, which New York Yankee outfielder accidentally killed a seagull during warm-ups prior to a baseball game in Torono at Exhibition Stadium and was subsequently charged by local police for an "act of cruelty to animals"? His manager Billy Martin famously said: "It's the first time he's hit the cutoff man."
15 Launched on August 4, 1995, what name (Serbian: Operacija Oluja) was given to the large-scale ethnic cleansing of the Serb population by Croatia in conjunction with the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina?
16 Where will Anand Satyanand replace Dame Silvia Cartwright as Governor-General this month?
17 Michaelle Jean was made which country's first black Governor-General in 2005?
18 Which priest of Rome was elected Pope in March 752 to succeed Pope Zachary but died of apoplexy before being ordained a bishop?
19 Born Giovanni Battista Castagna, who succeeded Sixtus V and was Pope for 13 days in September 1590 before dying of malaria before consecration, making his the second shortest papal reign in history?
20 The official royal surgeon for the French kings Henri II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry IIi, who (1510-1590) is considered by some as one of the fathers of surgery and discovered a "remedy against the pain of the wounded by firearms" while a military surgeon during the campaigns in Italy between 1533-1536?
21 The 18th century German mineralogist and geologist Johann Gottlob Lehmann is noted for the development of what branch of geology, which was later essentially invented and first rigorously applied by William Smith during the 1790s and early 1800s?
22 Who wrote the four-act play Prometheus Unbound (1820) and never finished his poem The Triumph of Life?
23 Which John Everett Millais painting of 1850 was highly controversial because of his realistic portrayal of the working class Holy Family labouring in a messy carpentry workshop?
24 And with which 1852 artwork depicting a young couple about to be separated due to religious conflict did Millais achieve popular success?
25 What was William Holman Hunt's intended middle name which he hated?
26 Meaning "The Banquet" in English, which collection of poems and interpretative commentary by Dante was written c.1294-1307 and contained details of his growing interest in philosophy, stoked by Boethius and Cicero?
27 Considered by many to be his most important painting, which Ford Madox Brown work (1852-1865) depicts the totality of the mid-Victorian social experience in a single image: including navvies digging up a road and disrupting the old social hierarchies as they did so?
28 Author of such medieval-style works as The Leper, Laus Veneris and St Dorothy, which alcoholic poet's health became so bad that he was taken into care by his friend Theodore Watts who looked after him for the rest of his life in Putney (d.1909)?
29 As well as inventing a cricket bowling machine, which Hull-born mathematician and philosopher introduced his most famous invention in his 1881 work Symbolic Logic, having introduced the frequency interpretation of probability in 1866 in The Logic of Chance?
30 Winner of the Nobel prize in 1920, which Norwegian writer's lesser known works include Pan, Mysteries and The Growth of the Soil and infamously described Hitler as a "warrior for mankind"?
31 Which Italian-born naturalised French citizen was the first ever winner of the Tour de France in 1903 and was disqualified the next year for taking a train for part of the route?
32 Who was described as "the most dangerous woman in Europe" by Hitler for her work during WW2?
33 Which musician married Daisy Parker, a prostitute from Gretna, Louisiana on March 19, 1918, and then adopted a 3-year-old named Clarence whose mother, his cousin Fiona, died soon after birth?
34 Edward "Kid" Ory was famed for playing which instrument?
35 Which Polish dramatist and novelist (1904-1969) published his first novel, Ferdyduke, in 1937 and staged his semi-autobiographical novel, Trans-Atlantyk, in Paris in the late 1950s, garnering interest from the local theatre critics?
36 Which German zoologist and animal documentary pioneers's 1952 movie Natur in Gefahr/Nature in Danger was one of the first attempts to deal with the subject of endangered species, going on to make The Last Paradises - On the track of rare animals 14 years later?
37 In which Austrian city is the Bruckner Orchestra, which acquired its current name in 1967, based?
38 Named after the 27th US President, which US composer was inspired to compose by a Toscanini-conducted performance by the New York Philharmonic on April 4, 1930, and went on to win the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1943 for his cantata, A Free Song?
39 Credited by Tom Lehrer in a 1950s song for teaching him the secret of success as a mathematician (plagiarism), which Russian mathematician is known for such achievements a developing non-Euclidean geometry independently of Janos Bolyai and developing a method for the approximation of the roots of algebraic equations, a method now known as Dandelin-Graffe method?
40 The name of which religion comes from the Arabic for "glory" or "splendour"?
41 Born Asa Bundy Sheffey in 1913, which African-American's most famous poem is Those Winter Sundays?
42 In which sport is Maurice Richard (1921-2000) a famous name?
43 Written using the same-named script, which major Dravidian language is spoken by roughly 50 million people and is the state language of the southern Indian state of Karnataka?
44 Sharing his name with a well-known British athlete, which British composer and musician conducted and orchestrated Mike Oldfield's Orchestral Tubular Bells album during the 1970s and wrote such works as Star Clusters, Nebulae and Places in Devon (1971) and With 100 Kazoos (1971)?
45 Which Norwegian ski jumper, World Champion in the large and small hill competitions in 1966 and the only person to win the Four Hills Tournament three years in a row (1967-69), retired to become a footballer and played for Rosenborg from 1971-1974 and gave his name to a native expression which denotes the concept of carrying on a task where your predecessor has done a particularly good job?
46 For which NBA team does the 7ft-3in South Korean basketball player Ha Seung-Jin play?
47 Born in Vallejo, California in 1971, which US race car driver has won the Nascar Winston Cup (now NEXTEL Cup) four times ('95, '97, '98, '2001)?
48 Born c.1581 at Real de Taxco in Guerrero, which hunchbacked Mexican dramatist wrote at least 20 dramas, the most famous of which is La Verdad sospechosa, which was adapted by Pierre Corneille as Le Menteur/The Liar?
49 Originally owned by author Sergei Aksakov, which estate north of Moscow in the proximity of Khotkovo became a centre for the Slavophole movement and artistic activity in the 19th century and is the site of an architectural fantasy or "Fairy-tale church" designed by Victor Vasnetsov and Vasily Polenov?
50 Following his death from an aneurysm at the age of only 39 in 1873, an exhibition of over 400 of which man's paintings were displayed in St Petersburg's Academy of Fine Arts in February and March 1874, while he was also noted for his Russian motif-strewn design for the Naval department of Russia's pavillion at the Vienna World Fair of 1873?
51 For which King of France from 1180 to 1223, originally nicknamed Dieudonne - God-given, was the Louvre built as a fortified royal palace to defend Paris against Viking attacks?
52 Part of the collection of the London merchant and fine arts patron John Julius Angerstein, what Biblical 1517-19 work by Sebastiano del Piombo (then called Luciani) was officially the first painting to enter London's National Gallery?
53 What London address was the home of the National Gallery from 1824 to 1834?
54 Which US actor, who debuted in The Housekeeper's Daughter (1939), declared after being rejected for membership in a country club because he was an actor: "I'm not an actor - and I've got 67 films to prove it!"?
55 Which Broadway musical, first produced in 1925 by former Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee, centres around Bible publishing millionaire Jimmy Smith, his wife Sue and their eponymous adopted daughter, whom they try to turn into a respectable lady, and features the song I Want to Be Happy?
56 Who wrote the 1942 historical novel The Robe?
57 Often referred to as the "Cure d'Ars" (the parish priest of the village of Arles), which Catholic saint (1786-1859) is the patron saint of parish priests?
58 Which deposed Patriarch of Constantinople was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius to an Egyptian monastery on August 3, 435?
59 Louis III of France's defeat of the Vikings at the 881 Battle of Saucourt-end-Vimeu is celebrated in which Old High German poem of 59 rhyming couplets?
60 Who sent the first known letter from North America on August 3, 1635 while at St John's Newfoundland?
61 Meaning "martial arts hall" in English, what arena was originally built for the Judo competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo?
62 Which town in Ikoma District, Nara Prefecture is home to the ancient Buddhist temple known as Horyu-ji (full name Horyu Gakumonji or Learning Temple of the Flourishing Law), whose "kondo" is one of the oldest wooden buildings in the world?
63 Minamoto no Yoritomo officially established which Shogunate in 1192, whose period ended in 1333 with its destruction and the short re-establishment of imperial rule under Emperor Go-Daigo?
64 Born Hippolyte Leon Denizard Rivail, which systematizer of Spiritism published his first book on the subject, The Spirits' Book, in April 18, 1857 and signed himself with a famous name allegedly inspired by a Zefiro (or Spirit) whom he had been communicating with, who told him about a previous incarnation of his as a Druid by that name?
65 Who in 1678 built the Griffon, the first known ship constructed in America?
66 Allied forces under the command of Archibald Murray defeated an attacking Ottoman Army under the command of Kress von Kressenstein on August 3, 1916, this securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai?
67 Whittaker Chambers is best known for his testimony and subversion of which controversial American figure?
68 In which country did the 1997 Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre take place?
69 Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was overthrown in a military coup in 2005 while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia. Of which country was he president?
70 On his first morning working at Chatsworth, which then new 23-year-old Head Gardener met his future wife, the housekeeper's niece, Sarah Brown?
71 Which prolific Croatian composer (1832-1914), who dominated his country's musical culture for over 40 years, had great success with his opera Amelia ossia Il Bandito in 1860 before moving to Vienna for eight years where he met with further success with Mannschaft an Bord (1863), and would go on to compose almost a thousand works including Mislav (1870) and his masterpiece Nikola Subic Zrinski (1876), based on the life of the titular 16th century Croatian and Hungarian hero?
72 Named so because of the eponymous theory of origin of Slavs, which organisation of Croatian intellectuals from the first half of the 19th century, which aimed for national establishment under Austro-Hungarian rule and sought linguistic and ethnic unity among South Slavs, issued the first Croatian newspaper, Novine hrvatsko-slavonsko-dalmatinske, edited by Ljudevit Gaj, and magazine Danica, printed in Gaj's "National print" (Narodna tiskara) and included composer Vatroslav Lisinski who wrote the first opera in Croatian, Ljubav i zloba/Love and Malice?
73 Which Scottish film pioneer is credited with the invention of the motion picture camera under the employ of Thomas Edison?
74 Who contested Kidderminster at the 1906 General Election, but lost amidst an anti-Conservatie landslide, and in 1908 succeeded his deceased father as MP for Bewdley?
75 Passing over the normally icy Col de Turini, what rally stage is run from La Bollene to Sospel, or the other way round, over a steep and tight mountain raid with many hairpin turns?
76 Who beat fellow young World Rally Championship rival Sebastien Loeb at the Wales Rally GB in 2003, launching him to his second win in Wales and his first ever WRC title?
77 Founding president of his country's automobile club, Antony Noghes organised the first of which Grand Prix races in 1929, won by William Grover-Williams, aka "Williams", driving a Bugatti in what would become the famed British racing green colour?
78 Of which landscape painter did Monet remark "There is only one master here"; his works include Une Matinee (1850), Macbeth (1859), Le Lac (1861), Biblis (1875) and Souvenir de Mortefontaine (1864) and he expended large sums of money later in life in such causes as buying a house in Auvers in 1872 for a by then blind and homeless Honore Daumier?
79 What famous film is called Le train sifflera trois fois in France?
80 If the original CSI: Crime Scene Investigation TV series employs The Who's Who Are You as its theme tune, what do its Miami and New York spin-offs use?
81 What type of abstract sculpture shares created by Alexander Calder shares its name with a 16th century composer of the Roman School and is derived from the Latin for "constant"?
82 Renowned for his use of the colour white and such buildings as the as-yet unfinished ECM City Tower in Prague, Rome's Jubilee Church, The Hague City Hall and Central Library and the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, which US architect was consulted on the design of several buildings that appeared in the 2003 computer game SimCity 4 and so became perhaps the first professional architect ever commissioned to participate in building design for a computer game?
83 Which Mexican architect became the second ever winner of the Pritzker Prize (after Philip Johnson) in 1980 after a career that included such achievements as the planification and urbanisation plan of the residential Pedregal de San Angel in 1945, the 1955 rebuilding of the historical Convento de las Capuchinas Sacramentarias in Tlalpan, and Naucalpan's Satelite Towers (1957)? His Mexico City house and studio, built in 1948, is now a UNESCO World Heritage site.
84 Awarded both the Pritzker Prize and the Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal in 1997, which Norwegian architect gained international recognition aged 34 in 1958 for his design of the Norwegian Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World Exhibition and produced the Nordic Pavilion and the Hedmark Museum in Hamar during the 60s?
85 A pre-eminent artist and social activist wrapped up in the New York street culture of the 1980s who paraded a symbol named "The Radiant Baby", who first gained public attention with his subway chalk drawings before going on to paint wall murals in Melbourne, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, Minneapolous and Manhattan in 1984, as well as the body of Grace Jones for her video "I'm Not Perfect" and his last public work, the mural Tuttomondo, on the rear wall of the convent of Pisa's Church of Sant'Antonio in June 1989 shortly before he died of AIDS in 1990?
86 Including such members as Akira Shibuya, Kisho Kurokawa and Kenzo Tange, which group of Japanese architects and city planners joined forces in 1959 to plot their vision of a city of the future inhabited by a mass society characterised by large scale, flexible and extendable structures that enable an organic growth process?
87 Hungary is bordered by how many countries?
88 After Horthy's removal by Hitler, what pro-German, anti-Semitic fascist party was led by Ferenc Szalasi ruled Hungary from October 15, 1944 to January 1945 and deported some 80,000 Jews to the death camps during its short time in power?
89 What juniper-flavoured and strongly alcoholic drink, the traditional liquor of the Netherlands and Flanders, is believed to have been invented by Dutch chemist and alchemist Sylvius de Bouve and was first sold as medicine in the late 16th century?
90 On August 2, 216BC, at which battle did Hannibal and his Carthaginian army defeat the numerically superior Roman army under the command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro?
91 From the Latin for "temple", which officials of the Roman republic were responsible for the maintenance of public buildings and regulation of public festivals?
92 What abbreviated Japanese term was used to refer to the four caste system during the Edo period - samurai, farmers, artisans and merchants - that was abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms in 1869?
93 Which people took part in the Ilinden-Preobrazhnie Uprising of 1903?
94 The content of the Bhagavad Gita is a conversation on the battlefield of Kurukshetra just prior to the start of the climactic war between which youngest son of Kunti and Pandu and heroic master archer, and which eighth avatar of Vishnu?
95 Meaning "synchronising" or "making equal", what German term describes the process by which the Nazi regime successively established a system of totalitarian control over the individual and tight coordination over all aspects of society and commerce?
96 Which Japanese destroyer sank JFK's PT-109 on August 2, 1944, leading to the future president saving all but two of his crew?
97 Born with the surname Cozad, author of The Art Spirit, Robert Henri (1865-1929) famously led which movement in art, one of whose co-founders was John French Sloan?
98 Nicknamed "The Russian Lion", which Estonian-born early 20th century strongman and professional wrestler was trained by fellow countryman Georg Lurich and went undefeated for over 3000 matches and was the first widely recognised World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion after his 1905 win over Tom Jenkins, but lost to Frank Gotch in a 1908 match at Chicago's Dexter Park?
99 Which Major League Baseball team played at Comiskey Park between 1910 to 1990, the stadium being demolished the following year?
100 One of the greatest Russian novelists of the 20th century, who wrote the fairy tale Three Fat Men (1924), the two books of short stories, Love and Other Stories and The Cherrystone, and his 1927 novel Envy, which was acclaimed by Nabokov as the greatest novel produced in the Soviet Union and centred on a pathetic young man named Kavalerov who refuses to accept Communist values and is consumed by loathing for his benefactor, the model USSR citizen and sausage factory manager Babichev?
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1 Grey langurs 2 Ciudad Juarez 3 Evin Prison 4 Sao Tome and Principe 5 Treaty of London 6 Evesham 7 Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir 8 Champagne (by Dom Perignon) 9 Master Mason 10 The Hinomaru 11 Lizzie Borden's 12 USS C. Turner Joy 13 Kuala Lumpur 14 Dave Winfield 15 Operation Storm 16 New Zealand 17 Canada 18 Pope-elect Stephen (sometimes called Stephen II) 19 Urban VII 20 Ambroise Pare 21 Stratigraphy 22 Shelley 23 Christ in the House of his Parents 24 A Huguenot 25 Hobman 26 Convivio 27 Work 28 Algernon Swinburne 29 John Venn (as in Venn diagrams) 30 Knut Hamsun 31 Maurice Garin 32 Queen Mother/Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 33 Louis Armstrong 34 Trombone 35 Wiltold Gombrowicz 36 Eugen Schumacher 37 Linz 38 William Schuman 39 Nikolai Lobachevsky 40 Baha'i 41 Robert Hayden 42 Ice Hockey 43 Kannada 44 David Bedford 45 Bjorn Wirkola ("Jumping after Wirkola") 46 Milwaukee Bucks 47 Jeff Gordon 48 Juan Ruiz de Alarcon 49 Abramtsevo as in the Abramtsevo Colony 50 Viktor Hartmann (inspiration for Pictures at an Exhibition) 51 Philip II Augustus 52 The Raising of Lazarus 53 100 Pall Mall 54 Victor Mature 55 No, No, Nanette 56 Lloyd C Douglas 57 St Jean Vianney or St Jean Baptiste Marie Vianney 58 Nestorius as in Nestorianism 59 Ludwigslied 60 John Rut 61 Nippon Budokan 62 Ikaruga 63 Kamakura 64 Allan Kardec 65 Robert LaSalle 66 Battle of Romani 67 Alger Hiss 68 Algeria 69 Mauretania 70 Joseph Paxton 71 Ivan Zajc 72 Illyrian movement 73 William Dickson 74 Stanley Baldwin 75 Monte Carlo Rally 76 Petter Solberg 77 Monaco Grand Prix 78 Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 79 High Noon 80 Won't Get Fooled Again, Baba O'Riley 81 Stabile 82 Richard Meier 83 Luis Barragan 84 Sverre Fehn 85 Keith Haring 86 The Metabolists or Metabolist Movement 87 Seven (Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia) 88 Arrow Cross Party or Nyilaskeresztes Part Hungarista Mozgalom 89 Jenever 90 Cannae 91 Aedile 92 Shinokosho 93 Bulgarians (against the Ottoman Empire) 94 Arjuna and Krishna 95 Gleichschaltung 96 Amagiri 97 Ashcan School 98 Georg Hackenschmidt 99 Chicago White Sox 100 Yury Olesha
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