Heaven, I'm in Heaven, Have a BH87
More cleaning house ... some French titles have not been translated .. on account of Monday-ness.
1 Also known as the Voie Triomphale, what two-word name is given to the line of monuments, including IM Pei's pyramid at the Louvre, the Champs Elysees and the Grand Arch at La Defence, that extends from Paris's centre to the west?
2 What revolutionary art form was created in 1942 in Romania by the 16-year-old Isidore Isou and in the terminology of the movement was just one form of metagraphy or hypergraphics, i.e. chiselling the form of writing to a point at which it can begin to be amplified once agin?
3 What did the philosopher Henri Bergson define as "a static cross-section taken from a flux" ("un simple prelevement dans un flux")?
4 Which five-year-old Indian boy has run 65km for a TV stunt and is the world's youngest marathon runner?
5 Which influential Brazilian psychedelic rock band was formed in Sao Paolo in 1966 by the brothers Arnaldo Baptista and Sergio Dias and lead singer Rita Lee?
6 Which national park in Turkey is renowned for the cave homes that have been carved out of the landscape for 10,000 years, and which nestle within the villages of Urgup, Uchisar and Goreme?
7 What company was founded in 1919 as Asahi Optical Joint Stock Co., spectacle lens manufacturers, and in 1938 changed their name to Asahi Optical Co., Ltd. by which time they were also producing camera/cine lenses?
8 What dish from Dubai is a seasoned whole goat buried in the ground and cooked for 24 hours and then served with rice, onions and eggs?
9 Which Washinton DC-born music producer is best known for his work on Beyonce's Crazy in Love, for which he won a Grammy, and Amerie's 1 Thing?
10 The Blizzard Entertainment MMORPG World of Warcraft is currently set on which Earth-like world?
11 What was the occupation of Jackie Gleason's character in the sitcom The Honeymooners?
12 FIFA introduced goal-line technology at which Italian club, based at the Stadio Friuli, during the 2005-6 season, including four digital microcameras linked to a computer processor installed in and around the goals?
13 In which English city is the Beetham Tower located, the first 23 floors of which are now owned by Hilton?
14 Used in Mexican as well as Central and South American cuisine, what fine maize dough is made from corn boiled with lime and ground in a molino, a mill dedicated to that purpose?
15 Whose last major poems, the Pindaric odes of 1757, The Progress of Poesy and The Bard, were critical disappointments?
16 Who composed the ballets The Golden Age, The Bolt and The Bright Stream between 1929 and 1935?
17 Which type of dance and accompanying music popular in northeastern Brazil may take its name from a two-word English expression, or as is most widely believed, a derivative of a word meaning "great party" or "commotion", or from the number of engine English engineers used as they roamed the tracks of the railway supervising the construction of the Great Western Railroad in the early 1900s?
18 Who was Marcel Proust's beloved secretary and the model for Albertine in Remembrance of Things Past?
19 What name was given to the "wild men" or guerilla movement of the 11th century who carried on a war of attrition against the Normans in the north Yorkshire hills and East Anglia?
20 The earliest copies of the Qu'ran were written in which Arabic script with no vowels?
21 Which poet summarised what he believed to be Hebridean apathy after a visit to Lewis in the 1930s in his poem Bagpipe Music: "It's no go the Bible/ All we want is a packet of fags when our heads are idle"?
22 Al Aynsley Green became the first ever person to hold what post in England in 2005?
23 Which Spanish artist painted his largest work, the great altarpiece of St Thomas Aquinas, now in the Seville Museum, in 1627, and two years later painted scenes depicting the death of St Bonaventure in L'Exposition du corps de saint Bonaventure and St Bonaventure au concile de Lyon?
24 Which 16th century Italian painter is famed for his portrait heads made entirely of fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books, as seen in such works as Les Printemps, L'Ete and Vertemnus, a portrait of Rudolf II?
25 What is the name of the poison found in the puffer fish or its flesh, fugu?
26 Founded in 1831 by the Duke of Wellington, what is the oldest military think-tank in the world?
27 In 1895, who proclaimed: "Everything that needed to be invented is now invented"?
28 Which civilisation invented the abacus, the first known calculator, in c.2400BC?
29 Which Indian mathematician and musician invented the binary number system in 300BC?
30 The first computer to store both programs and data in RAM, what nickname was given to the SSEM/Small Scale Experimental Machine built at the University of Manchester in 1948?
31 Which French composer published Grand Traite d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes in 1843/4 and then reissued it in 1855 in a revised and enlarged edition?
32 Famed for helping define the musical genre that led to rhythm and blues and rock and roll and the subgenre doo-wop, which black vocal group was formed in Indianapolis in the early 1930s by the baritone Charlie Fuqua, second tenor Ivory "Deek" Watson, bass Orville "Hoppy" Jones and tenor Jerry Daniels, who was replaced by the most famous member Bill Kenny in early 1936, and had their first smash hit with If I Didn't Care on Decca in 1939?
33 Which director's latest movie The Tiger and the Snow is partly inspired by the story of Sleeping Beauty?
34 What London-based campaigning charity, which highlights the needs of poverty-stricken areas around the world, was formed in 1951 after a letter from Victor Gollancz to The Guardian was read by the future Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who coined the three-word name?
35 Who wrote the 1997 science-fiction novel Toward the End of Time?
36 Which rapper's real name is Earl Simmons?
37 The story of 61-year-old Fray Tormenta (Friar Storm), real name Father Sergio Guttierez, inspired what?
38 Which Bolivian band played a pivotal part in the development of lambada and whose song Llorando Se Fue was taken from them and recreated into that lambada song that became a hit in the early 1990s?
39 Fronted by Myke Scavone, which US rock band are best known for their 1977 hit Black Betty?
40 Which American artist caused a scandal in 1989 with his controversial photograph Piss Christ, which depicts a small plastic crucifix supporting the body of Jesus Christ submerged in a glass of the artist's urine?
41 Where in the UK are the following: a) Techniquest Science Centre b) Explosia Sea Centre c) Magna Adventure Centre?
42 As depicted in a 1758 Gavin Hamilton painting, what did James Dawkins and Robert Wood discover in 1751?
43 Also known for such works as the Incredulity of Thomas and the Wheel of Fortune, which Italian painter (1615-1673) and poet of the Neapolitan school caused a sensation in Rome with Tityus Torn by the Vulture and wrote satires in terza rima, such as Music and Envy, which weren't published until 1719?
44 Dating from c.1653-4 and thus believed to be his earliest work, which Vermeer painting is his largest work and his only Biblical subject, taken from Luke 10, v38-42)?
45 Which US writer is known for the maxim: "Do anything but ignore me"?
46 What name is given to the heavy iron plate or grill that comes built-in on Spanish cookers?
47 Acquired by LVMH in 1999, which jewellers to European royalty since 1780 are located at no. 12 Place Vendome opposite the Ritz and launched the Dandy watch at the end of 2003?
48 What summer film's title was thankfully never changed to Pacific Air Flight 121 or just Flight 121?
49 How many times is the word "man" uttered by Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski?
50 The doll of which German society comic strip character was the model for Barbie?
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1 Axe historique or Historic Axis 2 Lettrism or Lettrist movement 3 Form 4 Budhia Singh 5 Os Mutantes 6 Cappadocia National Park 7 PENTAX 8 Ouzi 9 Rich Harrison 10 Azeroth 11 Bus driver 12 Udinese 13 Manchester 14 Masa or masa nixtamalera 15 Thomas Gray 16 Shostakovich 17 Forro (expression: "for all") 18 Alfred Agostinelli 19 Silvatici 20 Kufic 21 Louis Macneice 22 Children's Commissioner 23 Francisco Zurbaran 24 Giuseppe Arcimboldo 25 Tetrodotoxin 26 Royal United Services Institute 27 Lord Kelvin 28 Babylonians 29 Pingala 30 Baby 31 Berlioz 32 The Ink Spots 33 Roberto Benigni 34 War on Want 35 John Updike 36 DMX (as in Dark Man X) 37 The film Nacho Libre 38 Los Kjarkas 39 Ram Jam 40 Andres Serrano 41 Cardiff; Portaferry, Northern Ireland; Rotherham 42 Palmyra in Syria 43 Salvator Rosa 44 Christ in the House of Mary and Martha 45 Upton Sinclair 46 La Plancha 47 Chaumet 48 Snakes on a Plane 49 One hundred and forty four 50 Bild Lilli
1 Also known as the Voie Triomphale, what two-word name is given to the line of monuments, including IM Pei's pyramid at the Louvre, the Champs Elysees and the Grand Arch at La Defence, that extends from Paris's centre to the west?
2 What revolutionary art form was created in 1942 in Romania by the 16-year-old Isidore Isou and in the terminology of the movement was just one form of metagraphy or hypergraphics, i.e. chiselling the form of writing to a point at which it can begin to be amplified once agin?
3 What did the philosopher Henri Bergson define as "a static cross-section taken from a flux" ("un simple prelevement dans un flux")?
4 Which five-year-old Indian boy has run 65km for a TV stunt and is the world's youngest marathon runner?
5 Which influential Brazilian psychedelic rock band was formed in Sao Paolo in 1966 by the brothers Arnaldo Baptista and Sergio Dias and lead singer Rita Lee?
6 Which national park in Turkey is renowned for the cave homes that have been carved out of the landscape for 10,000 years, and which nestle within the villages of Urgup, Uchisar and Goreme?
7 What company was founded in 1919 as Asahi Optical Joint Stock Co., spectacle lens manufacturers, and in 1938 changed their name to Asahi Optical Co., Ltd. by which time they were also producing camera/cine lenses?
8 What dish from Dubai is a seasoned whole goat buried in the ground and cooked for 24 hours and then served with rice, onions and eggs?
9 Which Washinton DC-born music producer is best known for his work on Beyonce's Crazy in Love, for which he won a Grammy, and Amerie's 1 Thing?
10 The Blizzard Entertainment MMORPG World of Warcraft is currently set on which Earth-like world?
11 What was the occupation of Jackie Gleason's character in the sitcom The Honeymooners?
12 FIFA introduced goal-line technology at which Italian club, based at the Stadio Friuli, during the 2005-6 season, including four digital microcameras linked to a computer processor installed in and around the goals?
13 In which English city is the Beetham Tower located, the first 23 floors of which are now owned by Hilton?
14 Used in Mexican as well as Central and South American cuisine, what fine maize dough is made from corn boiled with lime and ground in a molino, a mill dedicated to that purpose?
15 Whose last major poems, the Pindaric odes of 1757, The Progress of Poesy and The Bard, were critical disappointments?
16 Who composed the ballets The Golden Age, The Bolt and The Bright Stream between 1929 and 1935?
17 Which type of dance and accompanying music popular in northeastern Brazil may take its name from a two-word English expression, or as is most widely believed, a derivative of a word meaning "great party" or "commotion", or from the number of engine English engineers used as they roamed the tracks of the railway supervising the construction of the Great Western Railroad in the early 1900s?
18 Who was Marcel Proust's beloved secretary and the model for Albertine in Remembrance of Things Past?
19 What name was given to the "wild men" or guerilla movement of the 11th century who carried on a war of attrition against the Normans in the north Yorkshire hills and East Anglia?
20 The earliest copies of the Qu'ran were written in which Arabic script with no vowels?
21 Which poet summarised what he believed to be Hebridean apathy after a visit to Lewis in the 1930s in his poem Bagpipe Music: "It's no go the Bible/ All we want is a packet of fags when our heads are idle"?
22 Al Aynsley Green became the first ever person to hold what post in England in 2005?
23 Which Spanish artist painted his largest work, the great altarpiece of St Thomas Aquinas, now in the Seville Museum, in 1627, and two years later painted scenes depicting the death of St Bonaventure in L'Exposition du corps de saint Bonaventure and St Bonaventure au concile de Lyon?
24 Which 16th century Italian painter is famed for his portrait heads made entirely of fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books, as seen in such works as Les Printemps, L'Ete and Vertemnus, a portrait of Rudolf II?
25 What is the name of the poison found in the puffer fish or its flesh, fugu?
26 Founded in 1831 by the Duke of Wellington, what is the oldest military think-tank in the world?
27 In 1895, who proclaimed: "Everything that needed to be invented is now invented"?
28 Which civilisation invented the abacus, the first known calculator, in c.2400BC?
29 Which Indian mathematician and musician invented the binary number system in 300BC?
30 The first computer to store both programs and data in RAM, what nickname was given to the SSEM/Small Scale Experimental Machine built at the University of Manchester in 1948?
31 Which French composer published Grand Traite d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes in 1843/4 and then reissued it in 1855 in a revised and enlarged edition?
32 Famed for helping define the musical genre that led to rhythm and blues and rock and roll and the subgenre doo-wop, which black vocal group was formed in Indianapolis in the early 1930s by the baritone Charlie Fuqua, second tenor Ivory "Deek" Watson, bass Orville "Hoppy" Jones and tenor Jerry Daniels, who was replaced by the most famous member Bill Kenny in early 1936, and had their first smash hit with If I Didn't Care on Decca in 1939?
33 Which director's latest movie The Tiger and the Snow is partly inspired by the story of Sleeping Beauty?
34 What London-based campaigning charity, which highlights the needs of poverty-stricken areas around the world, was formed in 1951 after a letter from Victor Gollancz to The Guardian was read by the future Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who coined the three-word name?
35 Who wrote the 1997 science-fiction novel Toward the End of Time?
36 Which rapper's real name is Earl Simmons?
37 The story of 61-year-old Fray Tormenta (Friar Storm), real name Father Sergio Guttierez, inspired what?
38 Which Bolivian band played a pivotal part in the development of lambada and whose song Llorando Se Fue was taken from them and recreated into that lambada song that became a hit in the early 1990s?
39 Fronted by Myke Scavone, which US rock band are best known for their 1977 hit Black Betty?
40 Which American artist caused a scandal in 1989 with his controversial photograph Piss Christ, which depicts a small plastic crucifix supporting the body of Jesus Christ submerged in a glass of the artist's urine?
41 Where in the UK are the following: a) Techniquest Science Centre b) Explosia Sea Centre c) Magna Adventure Centre?
42 As depicted in a 1758 Gavin Hamilton painting, what did James Dawkins and Robert Wood discover in 1751?
43 Also known for such works as the Incredulity of Thomas and the Wheel of Fortune, which Italian painter (1615-1673) and poet of the Neapolitan school caused a sensation in Rome with Tityus Torn by the Vulture and wrote satires in terza rima, such as Music and Envy, which weren't published until 1719?
44 Dating from c.1653-4 and thus believed to be his earliest work, which Vermeer painting is his largest work and his only Biblical subject, taken from Luke 10, v38-42)?
45 Which US writer is known for the maxim: "Do anything but ignore me"?
46 What name is given to the heavy iron plate or grill that comes built-in on Spanish cookers?
47 Acquired by LVMH in 1999, which jewellers to European royalty since 1780 are located at no. 12 Place Vendome opposite the Ritz and launched the Dandy watch at the end of 2003?
48 What summer film's title was thankfully never changed to Pacific Air Flight 121 or just Flight 121?
49 How many times is the word "man" uttered by Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski?
50 The doll of which German society comic strip character was the model for Barbie?
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Answers to BH97
1 Axe historique or Historic Axis 2 Lettrism or Lettrist movement 3 Form 4 Budhia Singh 5 Os Mutantes 6 Cappadocia National Park 7 PENTAX 8 Ouzi 9 Rich Harrison 10 Azeroth 11 Bus driver 12 Udinese 13 Manchester 14 Masa or masa nixtamalera 15 Thomas Gray 16 Shostakovich 17 Forro (expression: "for all") 18 Alfred Agostinelli 19 Silvatici 20 Kufic 21 Louis Macneice 22 Children's Commissioner 23 Francisco Zurbaran 24 Giuseppe Arcimboldo 25 Tetrodotoxin 26 Royal United Services Institute 27 Lord Kelvin 28 Babylonians 29 Pingala 30 Baby 31 Berlioz 32 The Ink Spots 33 Roberto Benigni 34 War on Want 35 John Updike 36 DMX (as in Dark Man X) 37 The film Nacho Libre 38 Los Kjarkas 39 Ram Jam 40 Andres Serrano 41 Cardiff; Portaferry, Northern Ireland; Rotherham 42 Palmyra in Syria 43 Salvator Rosa 44 Christ in the House of Mary and Martha 45 Upton Sinclair 46 La Plancha 47 Chaumet 48 Snakes on a Plane 49 One hundred and forty four 50 Bild Lilli
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