A Brain-Fried BH95
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Ga ga goo goo. I have finally sent off The Colossus quiz to all those who asked for it (and maybe one or two who I thought might have forgotten).
Remember you too (lucky you, you) can still enter. Just register by emailing thecolossusquiz@gmail.com.
My brain is now shattered from the effort of gathering together all the email addresses and I think I am going to slope off to bed making baby noises as I go. It took me two of the slowest hours of my life to do so. If I was more techy minded perhaps it would have taken half the time, but you know, I can be quite pig-headed at times.
I will be posting a few more quizzes before I descend on a certain debauched and smokey cow pasture somewhere in Berkshire, but I shan't be writing much witty riffing on the/my world of quiz before then. Proper posting will resume next week.
Now I just have to consider what craziness to pack: bog roll, Slim Fast, cigarettes, mixed nuts, razor, cigarettes, toothbrush, hooded top, cigarettes, Nurofen, deoderant, umbrella ... yes, I live like a survivalist when I go to a music festival. Many lessons have I learned (I'm channelling Yoda, you see).
Playing behind me on one of the Sky Movie channels
Since the computer in my LA home is in the living room where my brother resides and watches movies 24/7, my ears are often privy to hours of movie magic whenever I decide to go on the internet and do stuff like type blog entries. I have this game - one of those trifles you invent when terminal boredom is on the verge of engulfing you - whereby I listen to one or two lines of snatched dialogue and, without looking, shout out the film in question.
I think I have won this game, I being the only player in the championship league table, about 36 times out of 37. What can I say? It's a rubbish talent I have (plus it helps that my brother loves watching multiplex fodder, which I know inside out and upside down).
Only a few moments ago I could hear Julia and Campbell Scott cry and laugh and throw alternately mawkish and desperate dialogue at each other. Yes, it could only have been Dying Young.
But why would I mention it to you? Well, this is a quiz blog. I'm referring to the scene where Campbell is heading towards the great exit of life and starts chucking out highbrow trivia questions about who sculpted the Pieta and who was The Misanthrope at people he knows and loves in a truly demented manner.
We know he is demented because he keeps on throwing them out in succession so quick that nobody can answer them and because he keeps on making a "Urrghh" wrong buzzer sound. Funny, but I never noticed this scene when I was younger. Yet things were different then and my mind was not so comprehensively crammed with quiz junk. Oh, what a time of innocence. Sigh.
Julia is now crying. She must have realised what a big mistake it was signing up to do a dying cancer patient movie with Joel Schumacher.
1 Which British biochemist won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography?
2 Who composed the theme songs or other music for more than 200 films and TV shows, including The Ten Commandments (1956), The Man with The Golden Arm, To Kill a Mockingbird and the fanfare used in the National Geographic TV specials?
3 In which country did Operation Ajax overthrow the government in 1953?
4 Which pair of Russian space dogs began to orbit the Earth abroad the Korabi-Sputnik 2 space craft on August 19, 1960?
5 At which village in Lochaber, Highland, did Charles Edward Stuart raise his standard on August 19, 1745, inviting Jacobite clan chiefs to gather there in support of him and his father, James Francis Edward Stuart?
6 Founded on August 19, 1768 and dedicated to a patron saint of Peter the Great who had been born on his feast day, what is the largest cathedral in St Petersburg?
7 Taking place almost ten months after the surrender of British commander Lord Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown, what was the last major battle of the American War of Independence, which took place in the frontier country of northern Kentucky on August 19, 1792 and resulted in a decisive British victory?
8 Who presented his new photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences on August 19, 1839?
9 Which famed frontier murderer and outlaw was killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas on August 19, 1895?
10 The creation of what position was approved by the German electorate on August 19, 1934 with 89.9 per cent of the popular vote?
11 Which gulf gives its name to the incident in which two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets were destroyed by US fighters?
12 Leonard Bernstein conducted his final concert on August 19, 1990. With which symphony did it end?
13 Which two countries carried out their first ever joint military, called Peace Mission 2005, on August 19 last year?
14 Born Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, which Castilian poet (1398-1458) and son of the grand admiral of Castile, prepared his rhymed collection Proverbios de gloriosa doctrina y fructuosa ensenanza for the heir-apparent Don Enrique, 180 stanzas entitled Dialogo de Bias contra Fortuna and the dream-dialogue, the Comedieta de Pouza in octave stanzas, founded on the disastrous sea-fight off Ponza in 1425, when the kings of Aragon and Navarre and the Infante Enrique were taken prisons by the Genoese?
15 Born the eldest daughter to King James I and his queen consort Anne of Denmark in 1596, whose direct descendants, the Hanoverian rulers, succeeded to the British throne due to the demise of the Stuart dynasty in 1714?
16 Published in 1658, what was the name of John Dryden's first important poem and was an eulogy on Cromwell's death?
17 In 1660, with which authentic royalist panegyric did Dryden celebrate the Restoration of the monarchy and the return of Charles II and portray the interregnum as a time of anarchy?
18 Seen as Dryden's best comedic endeavour, which 1672 poem ends with the lines "'Tis a madness that he should be jealous of me,/Or that I should bar him of another:/ For all we can gain is to give our selves pain,/When neither can hinder the other"?
19 Apart from the US state of Massachusetts, gay or same sex marriages are recognised in which four countries?
20 Which Italian castrato singer of the 18th century had the real name Carlo Broschi?
21 Which Italian baroque composer's early operas include L'Honesta negli amori (1680), which contains the famous aria Gia il sole dal Fange, and Pompeo (1683), which contains the well-known airs O cessate di piagarmi and Toglietemi la vita ancor?
22 Which titular hero in a 1753-4 book by Samuel Richardson is loved by at least four women: the teenage ward Emily Jervois, the poniard-wielding Olivia, Harriet Byron and Clementina della Porretta, the last two of whom he is in love with?
23 Which 1748 Samuel Richardson novel is partly titled "Or the History of a Young Lady"?
24 Madame du Barry was the mistress of which French king?
25 Once the mistress of the Duke of Orleans, King Louis XVI's cousin, which Scottish courtesan was arrested and held awaiting death by guillotine but was released after Robespierre's execution and lived until 1823, with her autobiographical account of her experiences entitled Ma Vie Sous La Revolution being published posthumously in 1859?
26 Which Croatian, the older of two brother explorers, became known as the Champion of Globetrotters by 1898 because he had walked the huge distance between Paris and Saint Petersburg?
27 A member of the 1882 Congo expedition led by Henry Morton Stanley, who said of him "The Croat is energetic, cautious, in high spirits...", which man who became the representative of the Belgian government in the Congo wrote up his diary in two books, the first entitled Dnevik iz Afrike/Diary in Africa (1891), and the second Novi dnevnik iz Afrike/New diary from Africa (1894)?
28 One of the preeminent violinists, pianists and conductors of his time, which Romanian composer's works include the opera Oedipe (1921-31), Chansons sur le vers de Clement Marot (1908), Suite chatelaine (1911), Tragic Overture (1895) and Triumphant Overture (1896)? The symphony orchestra of Bucharest is named in his honour.
29 Lyricist for the Broadway musical One Touch of Venus in collaboration with librettist SJ Perelman and composer Kurt Weill, which US poet wrote the single verse, entitled Common Sense: "Why did the Lord give us agility/If not to evade responsibility"?
30 Blacklisted during the McCarthy era and forced to move to England for a time where he wrote under several pseudonyms for TV series such as The Adventures of Robin Hood, who worked as a "script doctor" in Hollywood before writing his own material including his Oscar-winning script for Woman of the Year in 1942, and Laura (1944) and Forever Amber (1947)?
31 Which major figure in TV history began his career by writing scripts for many popular television series of the 1950s, including Have Gun, Will Travel, the first season episode of which - Helen of Abaijinian - won him a Writer's Guild Award, before going on to produce the US Marines series The Lieutenant (1963-4)?
32 What was the name of jockey Willie Shoemaker's first (1955) and last (1986) Kentucky Derby winning horses?
33 Shoemaker lost the 1957 Kentucky Derby when he stood up in the stirrups, having misjudged the finish line. What was his mount?
34 Which Swedish poet and novelist's 2001 novel Priset pa vatten i Finistere/The Price of Water in Finistere told the story of how she decided to pack up and leave her country of birth and settle in her new home in the Finistere departement in northwest France?
35 Member of the band from 1969 to 1973, a period during which he also portrayed Jesus Christ in the original version of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar, who was lead singer for Deep Purple as well as Black Sabbath for a year?
36 Who is the famous son of Virginia Dell Cassidy?
37 Joey Tempest is the vocalist and main songwriter for which famous European rock band?
38 Mette Marit is the Crown Princess of which country?
39 Written between 1856 and 1858, for which of his operas did Berlioz base his libretto on Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid?
40 The cancer lymphoma is traditionally classified as whose lymphoma, after which British physician and pathologist who discovered it in 1832?
41 Although the identity of its primary architect remains uncertain, who is generally credited with designing The Pantheon in Rome?
42 The author of a play of which concerned his visit to Lentulus in the came of Pompey at Dyrrhachium, which Roman soldier built a magnificent eponymous theatre at Rome, which was dedicated on the return of Augustus from Gaul in 13BC?
43 Which English actor rose to fame playing PC "Fancy" Smith in the BBC TV series Z Cars?
44 What title meaning "the first", or usually rendered as "First Citizen" in translation, was bestowed upon Emperor Augustus in 23BC along with Augustus?
45 The city of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of which Italian region, located in the northeastern part of the country, were designated a World Heritage site in 1994 and expanded two years later?
46 Which Welsh composer (1944-) wrote a classical music piece inspired by Andrea Palladio's music entitled Palladio, which was used for a De Beers diamond TV advert?
47 A defence of Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, a friend of the author who in 1656 was condemned by the Faculte de Theologie at the Sorbonne for alleged heretical views, what name is given to the series of 18 letters written by Blaise Pascal under the pseudonym "Louis de Montalte", the first of which was dated January 23, 1656 and the last of which was dated March 24, 1657?
48 Pascal attacked what form of case-based reasoning in the above work, which is used in discussions of laws and ethics and is often understood as a critique of a strict principle-based approach to reasoning?
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Answers to BH95
1 Richard Laurence Millington Synge 2 Elmer Bernstein 3 Iran (the government of Mohammed Mossadegh) 4 Belka and Strelka 5 Glenfinnan 6 St Isaac's Cathedral (as in St Isaac of Dalmatia 7 Battle of Blue Licks 8 Jacques Daguerre 9 John Wesley Hardin 10 Fuhrer 11 (Gulf of) Sidra Incident 12 Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 13 Russia and China 14 Marques de Santillana 15 Elizabeth of Bohemia, aka Elisabeth, Electress Palatine and Queen of Bohemia, born Princess Elizabeth Stuart of Scotland 16 Heroique Stanzas 17 Astraea Redux 18 Marriage a la Mode 19 Holland, Belgium, Spain, Canada 20 Farinelli 21 Alessandro Scarlatti 22 The History of Sir Charles Grandison 23 Clarissa 24 Louis XV 25 Grace (Dalrymple) Elliott 26 Mirko Seljan (his brother was called Stjepan) 27 Dragutin Lerman 28 George Enescu 29 Ogden Nash 30 Ring Lardner Jr 31 Gene Roddenberry 32 Swaps and Ferdinand (others: Tomy Lee (1959), Lucky Debonair (1965) 33 Gallant Man 34 Bodil Malmsten 35 Ian Gillan 36 Bill Clinton 37 Europe 38 Norway 39 The Trojans 40 Hodgkin's lymphoma (after Thomas Hodgkin) 41 Apollodorus of Damascus 42 Balbus or Lucis Cornelius Balbus (minor), as in the Theatre of Balbus 43 Brian Blessed 44 Princeps 45 Veneto 46 Karl Jenkins 47 The Lettres provincial/Provincial Letters 48 Casuistry
Ga ga goo goo. I have finally sent off The Colossus quiz to all those who asked for it (and maybe one or two who I thought might have forgotten).
Remember you too (lucky you, you) can still enter. Just register by emailing thecolossusquiz@gmail.com.
My brain is now shattered from the effort of gathering together all the email addresses and I think I am going to slope off to bed making baby noises as I go. It took me two of the slowest hours of my life to do so. If I was more techy minded perhaps it would have taken half the time, but you know, I can be quite pig-headed at times.
I will be posting a few more quizzes before I descend on a certain debauched and smokey cow pasture somewhere in Berkshire, but I shan't be writing much witty riffing on the/my world of quiz before then. Proper posting will resume next week.
Now I just have to consider what craziness to pack: bog roll, Slim Fast, cigarettes, mixed nuts, razor, cigarettes, toothbrush, hooded top, cigarettes, Nurofen, deoderant, umbrella ... yes, I live like a survivalist when I go to a music festival. Many lessons have I learned (I'm channelling Yoda, you see).
Playing behind me on one of the Sky Movie channels
Since the computer in my LA home is in the living room where my brother resides and watches movies 24/7, my ears are often privy to hours of movie magic whenever I decide to go on the internet and do stuff like type blog entries. I have this game - one of those trifles you invent when terminal boredom is on the verge of engulfing you - whereby I listen to one or two lines of snatched dialogue and, without looking, shout out the film in question.
I think I have won this game, I being the only player in the championship league table, about 36 times out of 37. What can I say? It's a rubbish talent I have (plus it helps that my brother loves watching multiplex fodder, which I know inside out and upside down).
Only a few moments ago I could hear Julia and Campbell Scott cry and laugh and throw alternately mawkish and desperate dialogue at each other. Yes, it could only have been Dying Young.
But why would I mention it to you? Well, this is a quiz blog. I'm referring to the scene where Campbell is heading towards the great exit of life and starts chucking out highbrow trivia questions about who sculpted the Pieta and who was The Misanthrope at people he knows and loves in a truly demented manner.
We know he is demented because he keeps on throwing them out in succession so quick that nobody can answer them and because he keeps on making a "Urrghh" wrong buzzer sound. Funny, but I never noticed this scene when I was younger. Yet things were different then and my mind was not so comprehensively crammed with quiz junk. Oh, what a time of innocence. Sigh.
Julia is now crying. She must have realised what a big mistake it was signing up to do a dying cancer patient movie with Joel Schumacher.
1 Which British biochemist won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography?
2 Who composed the theme songs or other music for more than 200 films and TV shows, including The Ten Commandments (1956), The Man with The Golden Arm, To Kill a Mockingbird and the fanfare used in the National Geographic TV specials?
3 In which country did Operation Ajax overthrow the government in 1953?
4 Which pair of Russian space dogs began to orbit the Earth abroad the Korabi-Sputnik 2 space craft on August 19, 1960?
5 At which village in Lochaber, Highland, did Charles Edward Stuart raise his standard on August 19, 1745, inviting Jacobite clan chiefs to gather there in support of him and his father, James Francis Edward Stuart?
6 Founded on August 19, 1768 and dedicated to a patron saint of Peter the Great who had been born on his feast day, what is the largest cathedral in St Petersburg?
7 Taking place almost ten months after the surrender of British commander Lord Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown, what was the last major battle of the American War of Independence, which took place in the frontier country of northern Kentucky on August 19, 1792 and resulted in a decisive British victory?
8 Who presented his new photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences on August 19, 1839?
9 Which famed frontier murderer and outlaw was killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas on August 19, 1895?
10 The creation of what position was approved by the German electorate on August 19, 1934 with 89.9 per cent of the popular vote?
11 Which gulf gives its name to the incident in which two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets were destroyed by US fighters?
12 Leonard Bernstein conducted his final concert on August 19, 1990. With which symphony did it end?
13 Which two countries carried out their first ever joint military, called Peace Mission 2005, on August 19 last year?
14 Born Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, which Castilian poet (1398-1458) and son of the grand admiral of Castile, prepared his rhymed collection Proverbios de gloriosa doctrina y fructuosa ensenanza for the heir-apparent Don Enrique, 180 stanzas entitled Dialogo de Bias contra Fortuna and the dream-dialogue, the Comedieta de Pouza in octave stanzas, founded on the disastrous sea-fight off Ponza in 1425, when the kings of Aragon and Navarre and the Infante Enrique were taken prisons by the Genoese?
15 Born the eldest daughter to King James I and his queen consort Anne of Denmark in 1596, whose direct descendants, the Hanoverian rulers, succeeded to the British throne due to the demise of the Stuart dynasty in 1714?
16 Published in 1658, what was the name of John Dryden's first important poem and was an eulogy on Cromwell's death?
17 In 1660, with which authentic royalist panegyric did Dryden celebrate the Restoration of the monarchy and the return of Charles II and portray the interregnum as a time of anarchy?
18 Seen as Dryden's best comedic endeavour, which 1672 poem ends with the lines "'Tis a madness that he should be jealous of me,/Or that I should bar him of another:/ For all we can gain is to give our selves pain,/When neither can hinder the other"?
19 Apart from the US state of Massachusetts, gay or same sex marriages are recognised in which four countries?
20 Which Italian castrato singer of the 18th century had the real name Carlo Broschi?
21 Which Italian baroque composer's early operas include L'Honesta negli amori (1680), which contains the famous aria Gia il sole dal Fange, and Pompeo (1683), which contains the well-known airs O cessate di piagarmi and Toglietemi la vita ancor?
22 Which titular hero in a 1753-4 book by Samuel Richardson is loved by at least four women: the teenage ward Emily Jervois, the poniard-wielding Olivia, Harriet Byron and Clementina della Porretta, the last two of whom he is in love with?
23 Which 1748 Samuel Richardson novel is partly titled "Or the History of a Young Lady"?
24 Madame du Barry was the mistress of which French king?
25 Once the mistress of the Duke of Orleans, King Louis XVI's cousin, which Scottish courtesan was arrested and held awaiting death by guillotine but was released after Robespierre's execution and lived until 1823, with her autobiographical account of her experiences entitled Ma Vie Sous La Revolution being published posthumously in 1859?
26 Which Croatian, the older of two brother explorers, became known as the Champion of Globetrotters by 1898 because he had walked the huge distance between Paris and Saint Petersburg?
27 A member of the 1882 Congo expedition led by Henry Morton Stanley, who said of him "The Croat is energetic, cautious, in high spirits...", which man who became the representative of the Belgian government in the Congo wrote up his diary in two books, the first entitled Dnevik iz Afrike/Diary in Africa (1891), and the second Novi dnevnik iz Afrike/New diary from Africa (1894)?
28 One of the preeminent violinists, pianists and conductors of his time, which Romanian composer's works include the opera Oedipe (1921-31), Chansons sur le vers de Clement Marot (1908), Suite chatelaine (1911), Tragic Overture (1895) and Triumphant Overture (1896)? The symphony orchestra of Bucharest is named in his honour.
29 Lyricist for the Broadway musical One Touch of Venus in collaboration with librettist SJ Perelman and composer Kurt Weill, which US poet wrote the single verse, entitled Common Sense: "Why did the Lord give us agility/If not to evade responsibility"?
30 Blacklisted during the McCarthy era and forced to move to England for a time where he wrote under several pseudonyms for TV series such as The Adventures of Robin Hood, who worked as a "script doctor" in Hollywood before writing his own material including his Oscar-winning script for Woman of the Year in 1942, and Laura (1944) and Forever Amber (1947)?
31 Which major figure in TV history began his career by writing scripts for many popular television series of the 1950s, including Have Gun, Will Travel, the first season episode of which - Helen of Abaijinian - won him a Writer's Guild Award, before going on to produce the US Marines series The Lieutenant (1963-4)?
32 What was the name of jockey Willie Shoemaker's first (1955) and last (1986) Kentucky Derby winning horses?
33 Shoemaker lost the 1957 Kentucky Derby when he stood up in the stirrups, having misjudged the finish line. What was his mount?
34 Which Swedish poet and novelist's 2001 novel Priset pa vatten i Finistere/The Price of Water in Finistere told the story of how she decided to pack up and leave her country of birth and settle in her new home in the Finistere departement in northwest France?
35 Member of the band from 1969 to 1973, a period during which he also portrayed Jesus Christ in the original version of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar, who was lead singer for Deep Purple as well as Black Sabbath for a year?
36 Who is the famous son of Virginia Dell Cassidy?
37 Joey Tempest is the vocalist and main songwriter for which famous European rock band?
38 Mette Marit is the Crown Princess of which country?
39 Written between 1856 and 1858, for which of his operas did Berlioz base his libretto on Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid?
40 The cancer lymphoma is traditionally classified as whose lymphoma, after which British physician and pathologist who discovered it in 1832?
41 Although the identity of its primary architect remains uncertain, who is generally credited with designing The Pantheon in Rome?
42 The author of a play of which concerned his visit to Lentulus in the came of Pompey at Dyrrhachium, which Roman soldier built a magnificent eponymous theatre at Rome, which was dedicated on the return of Augustus from Gaul in 13BC?
43 Which English actor rose to fame playing PC "Fancy" Smith in the BBC TV series Z Cars?
44 What title meaning "the first", or usually rendered as "First Citizen" in translation, was bestowed upon Emperor Augustus in 23BC along with Augustus?
45 The city of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of which Italian region, located in the northeastern part of the country, were designated a World Heritage site in 1994 and expanded two years later?
46 Which Welsh composer (1944-) wrote a classical music piece inspired by Andrea Palladio's music entitled Palladio, which was used for a De Beers diamond TV advert?
47 A defence of Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, a friend of the author who in 1656 was condemned by the Faculte de Theologie at the Sorbonne for alleged heretical views, what name is given to the series of 18 letters written by Blaise Pascal under the pseudonym "Louis de Montalte", the first of which was dated January 23, 1656 and the last of which was dated March 24, 1657?
48 Pascal attacked what form of case-based reasoning in the above work, which is used in discussions of laws and ethics and is often understood as a critique of a strict principle-based approach to reasoning?
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Answers to BH95
1 Richard Laurence Millington Synge 2 Elmer Bernstein 3 Iran (the government of Mohammed Mossadegh) 4 Belka and Strelka 5 Glenfinnan 6 St Isaac's Cathedral (as in St Isaac of Dalmatia 7 Battle of Blue Licks 8 Jacques Daguerre 9 John Wesley Hardin 10 Fuhrer 11 (Gulf of) Sidra Incident 12 Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 13 Russia and China 14 Marques de Santillana 15 Elizabeth of Bohemia, aka Elisabeth, Electress Palatine and Queen of Bohemia, born Princess Elizabeth Stuart of Scotland 16 Heroique Stanzas 17 Astraea Redux 18 Marriage a la Mode 19 Holland, Belgium, Spain, Canada 20 Farinelli 21 Alessandro Scarlatti 22 The History of Sir Charles Grandison 23 Clarissa 24 Louis XV 25 Grace (Dalrymple) Elliott 26 Mirko Seljan (his brother was called Stjepan) 27 Dragutin Lerman 28 George Enescu 29 Ogden Nash 30 Ring Lardner Jr 31 Gene Roddenberry 32 Swaps and Ferdinand (others: Tomy Lee (1959), Lucky Debonair (1965) 33 Gallant Man 34 Bodil Malmsten 35 Ian Gillan 36 Bill Clinton 37 Europe 38 Norway 39 The Trojans 40 Hodgkin's lymphoma (after Thomas Hodgkin) 41 Apollodorus of Damascus 42 Balbus or Lucis Cornelius Balbus (minor), as in the Theatre of Balbus 43 Brian Blessed 44 Princeps 45 Veneto 46 Karl Jenkins 47 The Lettres provincial/Provincial Letters 48 Casuistry
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