A Century Hoves Into View, But For Now Here's The BH89
I have three more of these 50-question blighters coming up over the next few days. Be, like, prepared.
Oh look, a butterfly.
1 Who published his first short story Little Herr Friedmann in 1898 and in 1905 married Katia Pringsheim, with whom he would have six children: Erika, Klaus, Golo, Monika, Elisabeth and Michael?
2 Which Japanese singer and actor, who died in a plane crash in 1985, is best known for his song, Ue o muite aruko/Looking up while walking, which was known as Sukiyaki in the West, which topped the US pop charts in 1963 - the first and only song to date to do so sung entirely in Japanese?
3 Which actress, who had an illegitimate daughter by Clark Gable thanks to a dalliance on the set of 1934's The Call of the Wild, won an Oscar in 1947 for her performance in The Farmer's Daughter?
4 Which English electrical engineer and winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Medicine is immortalised in the name of the scale that serves as a quantitative measure of radiodensity used in evaluating CAT scans, and is defined in units with the symbol HF?
5 Sometimes described as "Zen for roundeyes", what seemingly jokey modern, chaos-based religion founded in the late 1950s celebrates Zaraday on August 12 and has a foundational document written by Malaclypse The Younger (most likely an alias of Greg Hill)?
6 The well-known ruins of Mitla, a town in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, have been attributed and claimed to be the tombs of the ancestors of which civilisation, who call themselves always by some variant of the term "The People" (Be'ena'a)?
7 The last British steam passenger train service run took what 314-mile route on August 11, 1968?
8 Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, was arrested in Bangkok on August 11, 2003. Of which terrorist organisation was he leader?
9 Daughter of Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Marguerite Louise d'Orleans, who (1667-1743) was the last of the Medicis?
10 Known for his mastery of the historical novel genre, four of which Japanese writer's (1892-1962) books have been translated into English, including Miyamoto Musashi/Musashi, Taiko ki/Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan and Shin Heike monogatari/The Heike Story: A Modern Translation of the Classic Tale of Love and War?
11 How many Famous Five novels did Enid Blyton write between 1942 and 1963?
12 What collective name, taken from a recurring character who is in search of his missing father, was given to the series of six children's books Blyton wrote that all began with the letter "R...", e.g. The Rockingdown Mystery (1949) and The Ragamuffin Mystery (1959), and featured brother and sister Roger and Diana, the children of Mr and Mrs Lynton?
13 Which series of six books by Enid Blyton were about a boarding school of that name and followed the heroine-twins Patricia ("Pat") and Isabel O'Sullivan from their first year on?
14 Active from 1980 until 1997, which "Rock en espanol" band from Argentina including among its members lead singer Gustavo Cerati, Charly Alberti and Zeta Bosio and released such albums as Nada Personal (1985) and Rex Mix (1991)?
15 Widely considered one of the greatest geniuses and polymaths of the 15th century, which German cardinal of the Catholic Church was imprisoned by Duke Sigismund of Austria for his clerical work in 1460, for which Sigismund was excommunicated, and is known for delineating his mystical ideas in his essays De Docta Ignorantia/Of Learned Ignorance and De Visione Dei/Vision of God?
16 Named for the 18th century French mathematician, physicist and sailor who devised it in 1770, what single-winner election method sees voters rank candidates in order of preference and determines the winner by giving each candidate a certain amount of points corresponding to the position in which he or she is ranked by each voter?
17 The first office holder to receive a fixed salary of £27 instead of the historic tierce of Canary wine, which Poet Laureate from 1790-1813 wrote the prose work Summary of the Duties of a Justice of the Peace out of Sessions (1808) and was described by the historian Lord Blake as "the worst Poet Laureate in English history with the possible exception of Alfred Austin"?
18 Designed by the son of the company's founder, who manufactured the Type 57 (whose later variants included the famous Atlantic) between 1934 and 1940?
19 Named after the departement in which it is located, at which track is the Le Mans 24 Hours sports car endurance race held annually?
20 Established on the grounds of the same-named castle in Prague, which cemetery is the final resting place of such luminaries as Antonin Dvorak, Karel Capek and Bedrich Smetana and has for its centrepiece the Antonin Wiehl-designed Slavin Monument?
21 Which branch of voltammetry, the category of electricoanalystical methods used in analytical chemistry and various industrial processes, was founded by the Nobel Laureate and Czech scientist Jaroslav Heyrovsky?
22 Born Barbara Betty Pankel in Vienna, which influential 19th century Czech writer of the final phase of the Czech National Revival movement was the author of the novel The Grandmother?
23 The term "the 10th of August" is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the storming of which building on August 10,1792, which signalled the effective end of the French monarchy until its restoration in 1814?
24 The killing of King Sinsharishkun on August 10, 612BC was swiftly followed by the destruction of which ancient capital?
25 August 10, 610 is the traditional date given in Islam to what day, meaning "Night of Destiny" or "Night of Measures", on which Muhammad began to receive the Qu'ran?
26 At which 955 battle did Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeat the Magyars, thus ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West?
27 What was the occupation of the killer David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz?
28 Which space probe reached Venus on August 10, 1990?
29 The Ukrainian-born cosmonaut Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko became the first person to do what in space on August 10, 2003?
30 Introduced in 1998, which best-selling real-time strategy computer game that concerns a war between three galactic species - the human Terrans, the arthropodic Zerg and psychic humanoid Protoss warriors - was played continuously by South Korean Lee Seung Seop for 49 hours before he dropped dead from exhaustion in 2005?
31 The idea for what came to William Willett after riding his horse in Petts Wood near his home near Chislehurst in Kent early one summer morning and noticing how many blinds were still down?
32 Who was the first US President to be born west of the Mississippi River?
33 Born in Stettin, Pomerania in 1878, which German expressionist novelist is best known for publishing his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, the story of a small-time criminal named Franz Biberkopf, in 1929?
34 Known for his creation of the Adrien Zograffi literary cycle, of which 1929's Kyra Kolina/Kyra My Sister or Chira Chiralina was the first story, which Romanian writer was nicknamed The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans?
35 In a 1941 horror film, which Lon Chaney Jr title character went by the real name Lawrence Stewart "Larry" Talbot?
36 Which 70s rock and roll band had a US number one with Make It With You in 1970 and soon went on to have their most enduring hit with If?
37 Using the catechism called Catechismus Teoforii, which modern revival of the indigenous Baltic religion practiced by the Latvian peoples prior to Christianisation was started in 1925 and advanced in its early days by Ernest Bravins, and has for its primary triumvirate, the Gods of Fate Mara, Laima and Dievs, the god who emanates the other gods as aspects of himself?
38 Which Roman Emperor was defeated by the Visigoths at the 378AD Battle of Adrianople in present day Turkey and killed along with two-thirds of his army?
39 What country was founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube after the defeat of the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV in August 681?
40 Which Pope died on August 9, 1048 having reigned for only 23 days?
41 Actually called Untitled 1986, which 200kg and 25ft-long fibreglass sculpture by John Buckley was erected in Oxford on the 41st anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki?
42 Wayne Gretzky was traded in one of the most controversial transactions in ice hockey history between which NHL teams in 1988?
43 Which comic strip character was drawn with his necktie down on August 9, 1994, thus signifying he "lost his innocence" with Liz?
44 Which London chronicler and merchant of German descent is best known for compiling the Chronica Maiorum et Vicecomitum, which spans 1188 to 1274?
45 Which Venezuelan-born naturalised French composer (1874-1947) is most famous for composing songs in the French classical song tradition of the melodie, including Si Mes vers avaient des ailes (published when he was aged only 13); A Chloris, a homage to Bach, and a setting of Victor Hugo's Quand la nuit n'est pas estoilee?
46 Which German physicist is best known for two achievements: his theory, named after him with Dutch physical chemist Peter Debye, of electrolytic solutions, and the eponymous method of approximate molecular orbital (MO) calculations on pi electron systems?
47 1945's Smatrollen och den stora oversvamningen/The Little Trolls and the Great Flood was the first book to feature which characters?
48 On March 18, 1978, the WBC made history by naming which heavyweight boxer its champion without the benefit of a title match, stating that they considered his victory over Jimmy Young as a title eliminator or retroactive championship match? However, he lost the title in his first defence against Larry Holmes.
49 What is the name of Posy Simmond's current comic strip series in The Guardian, which made its debut on September 17, 2005?
50 Who is Whitney Houston's godmother?
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Answers to BH89
1 Thomas Mann 2 Kyu Sakamoto (born Hisashi Oshima) 3 Loretta Young 4 (Godfrey) Hounsfield 5 Discordianism 6 Zapotec 7 Liverpool to Carlisle 8 Jemaah Islamiyah 9 Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici 10 Eiji Yoshikawa 11 Twenty-one 12 The Barney Mystery Series 13 St Clare's series 14 Soda Stereo 15 Nicholas of Cusa 16 The Borda count 17 Henry James Pye 18 Bugatti (designed by Jean Bugatti) 19 Circuit de la Sarthe 20 Vysehrad cemetery 21 Polarography 22 Bozena Nemcova 23 Tuileries Palace 24 Nineveh 25 Laylat al-Qadr 26 Battle of Lechfield 27 Postal employee 28 Magellan 29 Marry 30 StarCraft 31 Daylight Saving Time 32 Herbert Hoover 33 Alfred Doblin 34 Panait Istrati 35 The Wolf Man 36 Bread 37 Dievturiba 38 Valens 39 Bulgaria 40 Damasus II 41 The Headington Shark 42 Edmonton Oilers to Los Angeles Kings 43 Dilbert 44 Arnold Fitz Thedmar 45 Reynaldo Hahn 46 Erich Huckel 47 Moomins (by Tove Jansson) 48 Ken Norton 49 Tamara Drewe 50 Aretha Franklin
Oh look, a butterfly.
1 Who published his first short story Little Herr Friedmann in 1898 and in 1905 married Katia Pringsheim, with whom he would have six children: Erika, Klaus, Golo, Monika, Elisabeth and Michael?
2 Which Japanese singer and actor, who died in a plane crash in 1985, is best known for his song, Ue o muite aruko/Looking up while walking, which was known as Sukiyaki in the West, which topped the US pop charts in 1963 - the first and only song to date to do so sung entirely in Japanese?
3 Which actress, who had an illegitimate daughter by Clark Gable thanks to a dalliance on the set of 1934's The Call of the Wild, won an Oscar in 1947 for her performance in The Farmer's Daughter?
4 Which English electrical engineer and winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Medicine is immortalised in the name of the scale that serves as a quantitative measure of radiodensity used in evaluating CAT scans, and is defined in units with the symbol HF?
5 Sometimes described as "Zen for roundeyes", what seemingly jokey modern, chaos-based religion founded in the late 1950s celebrates Zaraday on August 12 and has a foundational document written by Malaclypse The Younger (most likely an alias of Greg Hill)?
6 The well-known ruins of Mitla, a town in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, have been attributed and claimed to be the tombs of the ancestors of which civilisation, who call themselves always by some variant of the term "The People" (Be'ena'a)?
7 The last British steam passenger train service run took what 314-mile route on August 11, 1968?
8 Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, was arrested in Bangkok on August 11, 2003. Of which terrorist organisation was he leader?
9 Daughter of Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Marguerite Louise d'Orleans, who (1667-1743) was the last of the Medicis?
10 Known for his mastery of the historical novel genre, four of which Japanese writer's (1892-1962) books have been translated into English, including Miyamoto Musashi/Musashi, Taiko ki/Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan and Shin Heike monogatari/The Heike Story: A Modern Translation of the Classic Tale of Love and War?
11 How many Famous Five novels did Enid Blyton write between 1942 and 1963?
12 What collective name, taken from a recurring character who is in search of his missing father, was given to the series of six children's books Blyton wrote that all began with the letter "R...", e.g. The Rockingdown Mystery (1949) and The Ragamuffin Mystery (1959), and featured brother and sister Roger and Diana, the children of Mr and Mrs Lynton?
13 Which series of six books by Enid Blyton were about a boarding school of that name and followed the heroine-twins Patricia ("Pat") and Isabel O'Sullivan from their first year on?
14 Active from 1980 until 1997, which "Rock en espanol" band from Argentina including among its members lead singer Gustavo Cerati, Charly Alberti and Zeta Bosio and released such albums as Nada Personal (1985) and Rex Mix (1991)?
15 Widely considered one of the greatest geniuses and polymaths of the 15th century, which German cardinal of the Catholic Church was imprisoned by Duke Sigismund of Austria for his clerical work in 1460, for which Sigismund was excommunicated, and is known for delineating his mystical ideas in his essays De Docta Ignorantia/Of Learned Ignorance and De Visione Dei/Vision of God?
16 Named for the 18th century French mathematician, physicist and sailor who devised it in 1770, what single-winner election method sees voters rank candidates in order of preference and determines the winner by giving each candidate a certain amount of points corresponding to the position in which he or she is ranked by each voter?
17 The first office holder to receive a fixed salary of £27 instead of the historic tierce of Canary wine, which Poet Laureate from 1790-1813 wrote the prose work Summary of the Duties of a Justice of the Peace out of Sessions (1808) and was described by the historian Lord Blake as "the worst Poet Laureate in English history with the possible exception of Alfred Austin"?
18 Designed by the son of the company's founder, who manufactured the Type 57 (whose later variants included the famous Atlantic) between 1934 and 1940?
19 Named after the departement in which it is located, at which track is the Le Mans 24 Hours sports car endurance race held annually?
20 Established on the grounds of the same-named castle in Prague, which cemetery is the final resting place of such luminaries as Antonin Dvorak, Karel Capek and Bedrich Smetana and has for its centrepiece the Antonin Wiehl-designed Slavin Monument?
21 Which branch of voltammetry, the category of electricoanalystical methods used in analytical chemistry and various industrial processes, was founded by the Nobel Laureate and Czech scientist Jaroslav Heyrovsky?
22 Born Barbara Betty Pankel in Vienna, which influential 19th century Czech writer of the final phase of the Czech National Revival movement was the author of the novel The Grandmother?
23 The term "the 10th of August" is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the storming of which building on August 10,1792, which signalled the effective end of the French monarchy until its restoration in 1814?
24 The killing of King Sinsharishkun on August 10, 612BC was swiftly followed by the destruction of which ancient capital?
25 August 10, 610 is the traditional date given in Islam to what day, meaning "Night of Destiny" or "Night of Measures", on which Muhammad began to receive the Qu'ran?
26 At which 955 battle did Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeat the Magyars, thus ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West?
27 What was the occupation of the killer David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz?
28 Which space probe reached Venus on August 10, 1990?
29 The Ukrainian-born cosmonaut Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko became the first person to do what in space on August 10, 2003?
30 Introduced in 1998, which best-selling real-time strategy computer game that concerns a war between three galactic species - the human Terrans, the arthropodic Zerg and psychic humanoid Protoss warriors - was played continuously by South Korean Lee Seung Seop for 49 hours before he dropped dead from exhaustion in 2005?
31 The idea for what came to William Willett after riding his horse in Petts Wood near his home near Chislehurst in Kent early one summer morning and noticing how many blinds were still down?
32 Who was the first US President to be born west of the Mississippi River?
33 Born in Stettin, Pomerania in 1878, which German expressionist novelist is best known for publishing his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, the story of a small-time criminal named Franz Biberkopf, in 1929?
34 Known for his creation of the Adrien Zograffi literary cycle, of which 1929's Kyra Kolina/Kyra My Sister or Chira Chiralina was the first story, which Romanian writer was nicknamed The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans?
35 In a 1941 horror film, which Lon Chaney Jr title character went by the real name Lawrence Stewart "Larry" Talbot?
36 Which 70s rock and roll band had a US number one with Make It With You in 1970 and soon went on to have their most enduring hit with If?
37 Using the catechism called Catechismus Teoforii, which modern revival of the indigenous Baltic religion practiced by the Latvian peoples prior to Christianisation was started in 1925 and advanced in its early days by Ernest Bravins, and has for its primary triumvirate, the Gods of Fate Mara, Laima and Dievs, the god who emanates the other gods as aspects of himself?
38 Which Roman Emperor was defeated by the Visigoths at the 378AD Battle of Adrianople in present day Turkey and killed along with two-thirds of his army?
39 What country was founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube after the defeat of the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV in August 681?
40 Which Pope died on August 9, 1048 having reigned for only 23 days?
41 Actually called Untitled 1986, which 200kg and 25ft-long fibreglass sculpture by John Buckley was erected in Oxford on the 41st anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki?
42 Wayne Gretzky was traded in one of the most controversial transactions in ice hockey history between which NHL teams in 1988?
43 Which comic strip character was drawn with his necktie down on August 9, 1994, thus signifying he "lost his innocence" with Liz?
44 Which London chronicler and merchant of German descent is best known for compiling the Chronica Maiorum et Vicecomitum, which spans 1188 to 1274?
45 Which Venezuelan-born naturalised French composer (1874-1947) is most famous for composing songs in the French classical song tradition of the melodie, including Si Mes vers avaient des ailes (published when he was aged only 13); A Chloris, a homage to Bach, and a setting of Victor Hugo's Quand la nuit n'est pas estoilee?
46 Which German physicist is best known for two achievements: his theory, named after him with Dutch physical chemist Peter Debye, of electrolytic solutions, and the eponymous method of approximate molecular orbital (MO) calculations on pi electron systems?
47 1945's Smatrollen och den stora oversvamningen/The Little Trolls and the Great Flood was the first book to feature which characters?
48 On March 18, 1978, the WBC made history by naming which heavyweight boxer its champion without the benefit of a title match, stating that they considered his victory over Jimmy Young as a title eliminator or retroactive championship match? However, he lost the title in his first defence against Larry Holmes.
49 What is the name of Posy Simmond's current comic strip series in The Guardian, which made its debut on September 17, 2005?
50 Who is Whitney Houston's godmother?
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Answers to BH89
1 Thomas Mann 2 Kyu Sakamoto (born Hisashi Oshima) 3 Loretta Young 4 (Godfrey) Hounsfield 5 Discordianism 6 Zapotec 7 Liverpool to Carlisle 8 Jemaah Islamiyah 9 Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici 10 Eiji Yoshikawa 11 Twenty-one 12 The Barney Mystery Series 13 St Clare's series 14 Soda Stereo 15 Nicholas of Cusa 16 The Borda count 17 Henry James Pye 18 Bugatti (designed by Jean Bugatti) 19 Circuit de la Sarthe 20 Vysehrad cemetery 21 Polarography 22 Bozena Nemcova 23 Tuileries Palace 24 Nineveh 25 Laylat al-Qadr 26 Battle of Lechfield 27 Postal employee 28 Magellan 29 Marry 30 StarCraft 31 Daylight Saving Time 32 Herbert Hoover 33 Alfred Doblin 34 Panait Istrati 35 The Wolf Man 36 Bread 37 Dievturiba 38 Valens 39 Bulgaria 40 Damasus II 41 The Headington Shark 42 Edmonton Oilers to Los Angeles Kings 43 Dilbert 44 Arnold Fitz Thedmar 45 Reynaldo Hahn 46 Erich Huckel 47 Moomins (by Tove Jansson) 48 Ken Norton 49 Tamara Drewe 50 Aretha Franklin
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