Is there anthing worse than bingo trivia questions? Nevertheless, here's a Two Fat Ladies BH88
Look at me. I just can't stop pumping out the questions. I must confess that it has become something of a compulsion at the moment owing to the gap in trivia production since my sojourns in Scotland and France. So they keep on coming. Also, I have tp consider that I have been bouyed by the odd remark about them. Believe it or not, but there are quite a few people out there who have admitted to me that they use them for training and revision. I find that odd because a fair few will never come up in competition. Now the number I have notched up is nearing 6000. My word, I didn't expect to write so many (though such a tally does not hold a candle to the hundreds of thousands that I have written or typed up for my files). Well, as long as I find them useful, I'll keep writing 'em. Other people liking them is an unexpected bonus.
1 Operating in the Tohoku Region and on Hokkaido, what in older times in Japan was a "matagi"?
2 Taking their name from the prefecture in the Tohoku Region of northern Japan, what breed of dog come in only four colours - Red Fawn, Sesame (red fawn hairs with black tips), Brindle and White - and have been known to attack and kill other dogs, having once been used to hunt large game and black bears?
3 By what name is Thomas Gainsborough's 1775 portrait of the 18-year-old Mary Cathcart, wife of the 7th Laird of Balgowan later Lord Lynedoch most familiarly known?
4 The male member of which legendary Swedish couple and his duel for his female half figures in the Hervarar saga and in Orvar-Odd's saga, as well as in Gesta Danorum, Lay of Hyndla, which tell the story of how he never lost a battle until meeting a beserker wielding the cursed sword Tyrfing?
5 Founded in Sharpsburg in 1869 but now headquartered in Pittsburgh, what company was initially named the Anchor Pickle and Vinegar Works?
6 Literally meaning "War of the Year of the Dragon", what name has been given to the Japanese conflict between the Tokugawa Shogunate and the pro-Imperial forces between 1868 and 1869, the defeat of the former leading to the Meiji Restoration?
7 Which author has made some controversial revelations in his autobiography Peeling the Onion or, as it is also known in English, Peeling Onions?
8 Suitmaker to Winston Churchill as well as many European royals, what is Savile Row's oldest tailors having been going for 180 years?
9 Familiarly known as "Boolie", which Israeli writer wrote the plays A Night in May/Layla Be-May (1975), Possessions/Hafatzim (1986), the novel The Lover/Ha-Me'ahev (1977) and A Late Divorce/Gerushim Meuharim (1982) and Five Seasons/Molcho (1987)?
10 The drivers of which Alfa Romeo car model have been revealed to be the most accident prone in the UK?
11 The progressives Jack and Molly Pritchard founded which furniture design company and expanded into architecture with a Modernist building of the same name in London's Belsize Park that was home to such famous figures as Agatha Christie?
12 August 12 was the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the IBM PC, complete with 4.77 Mhz processor and 256kb memory. What was the origina model designated?
13 Norman Bukofzer was the legendary barman at which New York City hotel?
14 What labels are awarded in Spain for top-grade olive oil?
15 Often mentioned by Vincent van Gogh in letters to his brother Theo who wrote of his love "for all those who paint peasants and the common people", which artist specialised in painting the rural community around his home, the French village of Damvillers, for example, Pas Meche/Nothing Day (1882), a painting of a barge boy in ragged clothing?
16 Which two countries fought the Kargil War in 1999?
17 What two-word term describes the narrow rectangular domestic residence, usually no more than 12ft wide, that was the most popular style of house in the southern US from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s?
18 What English football club was formed in 1880 as West Gorton (St Marks) before changing its name in 1887 and again to its present name in 1894?
19 What was the name of the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb detonated at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR on August 12, 1953?
20 Which US astronomer discovered the moons Phobos and Deimos in 1877?
21 Forces led by David the Builder, king from the House of Bagrationi, decisively won the August 1121 Battle of Didgori, thus driving Ilghazi and the Seljuk Turks out of which country?
22 The First Crusade concluded with which battle of August 12, 1899, which resulted in the Fatimid forces under Al-Afdal Shahanshah retreating to Egypt?
23 What resolution has been unanimously approved by the UN Security Council to resolve the ongoing Israeli-Lebanon conflict?
24 Dr Jakob Kellenberger is the president of which organisation?
25 Frequently called a "drone", what is an UAV?
26 Japan's second-richest man, Yasuo Takei died on August 10 and founded which consumer finance company?
27 Santiago de Liniers retook which city on August 12, 1806 after the first English invasion?
28 The last of which now extinct mammals died at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam on August 12, 1883?
29 In which year was the first Model T Ford built?
30 In which city did the so-called Night of Murdered Poets - a massacre of prominent Jewish intellectuals - take place on August 12, 1952?
31 What name was given to the two-day clash that took place in August 1969 between the Catholic community of Derry and the Royal Ulster Constabulary?
32 What female name was given to the most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex that was found near Faith, South Dakota in August 1990?
33 Found in the Arctic Ocean in large quantities, the capelin or Mallotus villosus is a small fish of which family?
34 Sometimes called "murres" as in the Common Murre or Thick-billed Murre when the genus Uria is applied to them but not when they belong to the genus Cepphus, what birds of the auk family have five species include the Brunnich's, Pigeon and Spectacled?
35 What alternative name, named so because the riot was triggered by changing in taxes, has been given to the Moscow Uprising of 1648?
36 Having a name that loosely translates as "the town of purling waters", which ancient city is located in the northwest of Russia about 20km east from the Estonian border on the river Velikaya and is known for The Trinity Cathedral, built 1682-1699, a symbol of its former might and independence?
37 Which Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist (1644-1704) is now best known for his 15-sonata set, The Rosary Sonatas, also known as The Mystery Sonatas, and The Copper-Engraving Sonatas, so named due to the engravings at the head of the sonatas?
38 Literally Italian for "mistuning", what term describes an alternate tuning used for the open strings of a string instrument?
39 Which Baroque composer is said to have brought the south German organ tradition to its peak and is best known for his Canon in D, the only canon he wrote, while he also wrote the Chaconne in F Minor and a set of keyboard variations called Hexachordum Apollinis?
40 In which field did the French physicist Jean Cabannes (1885-1959) specialise?
41 Used within the university system in France, Germany, Austria, Poland, Russia and a number of other countries, what term describes either a thesis, called either cumulative or monographical, or qualification for being admitted as a professor at a university?
42 Published in January 1926 in the Annalen der physik, the paper Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem ("Quantisation as an Eigenvalue Problem") now bears its author's name as the eponymous equation. Whose equation?
43 By what famous name was the comedian Mario Moreno Reyes better known?
44 In which field or subject was the protest statement, the Antipodean Manifesto signed in 1959?
45 Born in Budapest in 1930, by what name do we now better known Gyorgy Schwartz?
46 The French mathematician Jacques Tits introduced what theory about combinatorial structures on which groups act in many cases of interest in algebraic group theory?
47 Renowned for playing his Ibanez PM120 Signature model, which jazz guitarist's group released such albums as American Garage (1980) and Offramp (1982) and collaborated with David Bowie on the soundtrack for The Falcon and the Snowman in 1985?
48 Who was Cleopatra's father?
49 Which Austrian-American chess player (1836-1900) was the first official world chess champion?
50 Which Sheffield-born man invented "rustless steel", later called "stainless steel"?
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Answers to BH88
1 A (group) hunter 2 Akita 3 The Honourable Mrs Graham 4 Hjalmar and Ingeborg 5 Heinz 6 The Boshin War 7 Gunter Grass 8 Henry Poole & Co. 9 A.B. Yehoshua 10 147 11 Isokon 12 IBM 5150 13 Ritz-Carlton 14 Denominacion de origen 15 Jules Bastien-Lepage 16 Pakistan, India 17 Shotgun house 18 Manchester City 19 Joe 4 20 Asaph Hall 21 Georgia 22 Battle of Ascalon 23 Resolution 1701 24 International Red Cross 25 Unmanned aerial vehicle 26 Takefuji Corporation 27 Buenos Aires 28 Quagga 29 1908 30 Moscow 31 Battle of the Bogside 32 Sue 33 Smelt 34 Guillemot 35 Salt Riot 36 Pskov 37 Heinrich Ignaz Biber 38 Scordatura 39 Johann Pachelbel 40 Optics 41 Habilitation 42 The Schrodinger equation 43 Cantinflas 44 Painting (against the dominance of abstract expressionism) 45 George Soros 46 Theory of buildings 47 Pat Metheny 48 Ptolemy XII Auletes 49 Wilhelm Steinitz 50 Harry Brearley
1 Operating in the Tohoku Region and on Hokkaido, what in older times in Japan was a "matagi"?
2 Taking their name from the prefecture in the Tohoku Region of northern Japan, what breed of dog come in only four colours - Red Fawn, Sesame (red fawn hairs with black tips), Brindle and White - and have been known to attack and kill other dogs, having once been used to hunt large game and black bears?
3 By what name is Thomas Gainsborough's 1775 portrait of the 18-year-old Mary Cathcart, wife of the 7th Laird of Balgowan later Lord Lynedoch most familiarly known?
4 The male member of which legendary Swedish couple and his duel for his female half figures in the Hervarar saga and in Orvar-Odd's saga, as well as in Gesta Danorum, Lay of Hyndla, which tell the story of how he never lost a battle until meeting a beserker wielding the cursed sword Tyrfing?
5 Founded in Sharpsburg in 1869 but now headquartered in Pittsburgh, what company was initially named the Anchor Pickle and Vinegar Works?
6 Literally meaning "War of the Year of the Dragon", what name has been given to the Japanese conflict between the Tokugawa Shogunate and the pro-Imperial forces between 1868 and 1869, the defeat of the former leading to the Meiji Restoration?
7 Which author has made some controversial revelations in his autobiography Peeling the Onion or, as it is also known in English, Peeling Onions?
8 Suitmaker to Winston Churchill as well as many European royals, what is Savile Row's oldest tailors having been going for 180 years?
9 Familiarly known as "Boolie", which Israeli writer wrote the plays A Night in May/Layla Be-May (1975), Possessions/Hafatzim (1986), the novel The Lover/Ha-Me'ahev (1977) and A Late Divorce/Gerushim Meuharim (1982) and Five Seasons/Molcho (1987)?
10 The drivers of which Alfa Romeo car model have been revealed to be the most accident prone in the UK?
11 The progressives Jack and Molly Pritchard founded which furniture design company and expanded into architecture with a Modernist building of the same name in London's Belsize Park that was home to such famous figures as Agatha Christie?
12 August 12 was the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the IBM PC, complete with 4.77 Mhz processor and 256kb memory. What was the origina model designated?
13 Norman Bukofzer was the legendary barman at which New York City hotel?
14 What labels are awarded in Spain for top-grade olive oil?
15 Often mentioned by Vincent van Gogh in letters to his brother Theo who wrote of his love "for all those who paint peasants and the common people", which artist specialised in painting the rural community around his home, the French village of Damvillers, for example, Pas Meche/Nothing Day (1882), a painting of a barge boy in ragged clothing?
16 Which two countries fought the Kargil War in 1999?
17 What two-word term describes the narrow rectangular domestic residence, usually no more than 12ft wide, that was the most popular style of house in the southern US from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s?
18 What English football club was formed in 1880 as West Gorton (St Marks) before changing its name in 1887 and again to its present name in 1894?
19 What was the name of the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb detonated at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR on August 12, 1953?
20 Which US astronomer discovered the moons Phobos and Deimos in 1877?
21 Forces led by David the Builder, king from the House of Bagrationi, decisively won the August 1121 Battle of Didgori, thus driving Ilghazi and the Seljuk Turks out of which country?
22 The First Crusade concluded with which battle of August 12, 1899, which resulted in the Fatimid forces under Al-Afdal Shahanshah retreating to Egypt?
23 What resolution has been unanimously approved by the UN Security Council to resolve the ongoing Israeli-Lebanon conflict?
24 Dr Jakob Kellenberger is the president of which organisation?
25 Frequently called a "drone", what is an UAV?
26 Japan's second-richest man, Yasuo Takei died on August 10 and founded which consumer finance company?
27 Santiago de Liniers retook which city on August 12, 1806 after the first English invasion?
28 The last of which now extinct mammals died at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam on August 12, 1883?
29 In which year was the first Model T Ford built?
30 In which city did the so-called Night of Murdered Poets - a massacre of prominent Jewish intellectuals - take place on August 12, 1952?
31 What name was given to the two-day clash that took place in August 1969 between the Catholic community of Derry and the Royal Ulster Constabulary?
32 What female name was given to the most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex that was found near Faith, South Dakota in August 1990?
33 Found in the Arctic Ocean in large quantities, the capelin or Mallotus villosus is a small fish of which family?
34 Sometimes called "murres" as in the Common Murre or Thick-billed Murre when the genus Uria is applied to them but not when they belong to the genus Cepphus, what birds of the auk family have five species include the Brunnich's, Pigeon and Spectacled?
35 What alternative name, named so because the riot was triggered by changing in taxes, has been given to the Moscow Uprising of 1648?
36 Having a name that loosely translates as "the town of purling waters", which ancient city is located in the northwest of Russia about 20km east from the Estonian border on the river Velikaya and is known for The Trinity Cathedral, built 1682-1699, a symbol of its former might and independence?
37 Which Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist (1644-1704) is now best known for his 15-sonata set, The Rosary Sonatas, also known as The Mystery Sonatas, and The Copper-Engraving Sonatas, so named due to the engravings at the head of the sonatas?
38 Literally Italian for "mistuning", what term describes an alternate tuning used for the open strings of a string instrument?
39 Which Baroque composer is said to have brought the south German organ tradition to its peak and is best known for his Canon in D, the only canon he wrote, while he also wrote the Chaconne in F Minor and a set of keyboard variations called Hexachordum Apollinis?
40 In which field did the French physicist Jean Cabannes (1885-1959) specialise?
41 Used within the university system in France, Germany, Austria, Poland, Russia and a number of other countries, what term describes either a thesis, called either cumulative or monographical, or qualification for being admitted as a professor at a university?
42 Published in January 1926 in the Annalen der physik, the paper Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem ("Quantisation as an Eigenvalue Problem") now bears its author's name as the eponymous equation. Whose equation?
43 By what famous name was the comedian Mario Moreno Reyes better known?
44 In which field or subject was the protest statement, the Antipodean Manifesto signed in 1959?
45 Born in Budapest in 1930, by what name do we now better known Gyorgy Schwartz?
46 The French mathematician Jacques Tits introduced what theory about combinatorial structures on which groups act in many cases of interest in algebraic group theory?
47 Renowned for playing his Ibanez PM120 Signature model, which jazz guitarist's group released such albums as American Garage (1980) and Offramp (1982) and collaborated with David Bowie on the soundtrack for The Falcon and the Snowman in 1985?
48 Who was Cleopatra's father?
49 Which Austrian-American chess player (1836-1900) was the first official world chess champion?
50 Which Sheffield-born man invented "rustless steel", later called "stainless steel"?
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Answers to BH88
1 A (group) hunter 2 Akita 3 The Honourable Mrs Graham 4 Hjalmar and Ingeborg 5 Heinz 6 The Boshin War 7 Gunter Grass 8 Henry Poole & Co. 9 A.B. Yehoshua 10 147 11 Isokon 12 IBM 5150 13 Ritz-Carlton 14 Denominacion de origen 15 Jules Bastien-Lepage 16 Pakistan, India 17 Shotgun house 18 Manchester City 19 Joe 4 20 Asaph Hall 21 Georgia 22 Battle of Ascalon 23 Resolution 1701 24 International Red Cross 25 Unmanned aerial vehicle 26 Takefuji Corporation 27 Buenos Aires 28 Quagga 29 1908 30 Moscow 31 Battle of the Bogside 32 Sue 33 Smelt 34 Guillemot 35 Salt Riot 36 Pskov 37 Heinrich Ignaz Biber 38 Scordatura 39 Johann Pachelbel 40 Optics 41 Habilitation 42 The Schrodinger equation 43 Cantinflas 44 Painting (against the dominance of abstract expressionism) 45 George Soros 46 Theory of buildings 47 Pat Metheny 48 Ptolemy XII Auletes 49 Wilhelm Steinitz 50 Harry Brearley
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