Late Night, Early Morning BH93
Oh, lordy. I just watched the whole of Leprauchan II. It had Ron Howard's brother in it. It had a devious, bald leprauchan in it who looked like a burnt hamster (and that height-challenged ragamuffin from Bad Santa and I, Myself and Irene). The music was particularly bad. Actually, everything was bad. You could have done better effects with the contents of your kitchen. And there was no Jennifer Aniston this time.
Still, I kept on watching through to the lacklustre denouement. Though, of course, it was all lacklustre: completely lacking in lustre. No lustre at all. I looked real hard too.
But that's my problem. Once I start watching a movie, and I mean any movie, I have to see it through to the end. I have to be a kind of viewing completist, even when I know what is going to happen. It is a compulsion. This must be why I once watched Ernest Goes to Camp four times in a couple of months because of its constant exposure on Sky Movies many years ago.
I watched The Cooler earlier in the evening. It was much better. Although there is some facial resemblance between the Leprauchan and William H Macy, it has to be said. Also, I had The Governator in my head saying, on a freaking loop, "You're not sending me to The Cooler!"
Curses on both Arnie and the li'l Irish imp. Shall I ever enjoy good movies without the thoughts of trashy ones entering my head whenever I watch them? Somehow I doubt it.
1 What did Pablo Picasso call "the lie that tells the truth"?
2 What two-word name was given to the Roman festival in honour of Venus, which took place on August 19 and were instituted on occasion of the war of the Latins against Mezentius, in the course of which war, that people vowed a libation to Jupiter of all the wine in the succeeding vintage?
3 Which car company created the Ariane model by combining the body of the old large Vedette with the four-cylinder engine from the smaller Aronde?
4 Written by Pylyp Orlyk in 1710, the Bendery Constitution was one of the first state constitutions. To which modern day country did it apply?
5 Implemented in Nazi Germany, the T-4 Program was concerned with what?
6 The first element detected in space before being found on Earth, what did Pierre Janssen discover in 1868 while analysing the chromosphere during a total eclipse of the Sun?
7 Who was married to Huguenot King Henry of Navarre in 1572 in an attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics in France?
8 The stratovolcano Tungurahua recently erupted. In which country is it?
9 Featured battling the rival Juarez Cartel in the 2001 film Traffic, what is the other name of the Mexican drug traffickers known as the Tijuana cartel from its leader who died in 2002?
10 In which country is the private aid agency Good Friends based?
11 The recent flooding of which river in southern Ethiopia has caused almost 500 deaths?
12 The guerilla movement, Falintil, is the military wing of the Fretilin political party of which Asian country?
13 The Lord's Resistance Army (URA) rebel group was founded in 1987 in the north of which African country?
14 Named after the Swedish inventor of the artificial kidney, what prize is administered by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and was established in 1980 with the aim of rewarding and promoting basic research in scientific disciplines that fall outside the categories of the Nobel Prize, the fields including maths, geoscience, bioscience and astronomy?
15 A fellow Cuban revolutionary alongside Fidel Castro who later became an imprisoned dissident of the government, which "symbol of the opposition, and the dean of the opposition" died on August 8?
16 Which city, located at the junction of the River Daugava and Ridzene, is said to have been founded in 1201 when Bishop Albert, Bishop of Livonia, landed with 23 ships and more than 1500 armed crusaders, making the city his bishopric?
17 Historians generally trace the origins of the Hanseatic League to the foundation of which town, established in 1158-9 after the capture of the area from the Count of Schauenberg and Holstein by Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony?
18 On August 18, 1590, John White returned from a supply trip to England to find what settlement, of which he was governor, deserted?
19 Which German engineer allegedly flew his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers in 1903?
20 What bridge, connecting New York State with Ontario over the St Lawrence River was dedicated by Franklin D Roosevelt on August 18, 1938?
21 What August 18, 1976 incident took place in the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom and resulted in the death of two American soldiers?
22 Mikhail Gorbachev was put under house arrest on August 18, 1991, while holidaying in which Crimean town?
23 One of the greatest Persian poets of the 15th century and one ofthe last great Sufi poets of Persia, whose works include Baharistan (Abode of Spring), which was modelled on Saadi's Gulistan; Nafahat al-Uns (Breaths of Fellowship), biographies of the Sufi Saints and his major poetical work, Haft Awrang (Seven Thrones), which included such stories as A Father Advises his Son About Love?
24 Which Croatian poet (1450-1524), known as the Crown of Croatian Medieval Age and the Father of Croatian renaissance, wrote such signed works as Dalmata, Suzana, an Epistola to the Pope where he begged for assistance and common fight against the bringers of the new faith and a moralist tractate of Biblical inspiration, De institutione bene vivendi per exempla sanctorum, which he managed to publish in 1506 in Venice?
25 What title was possessed by the murderer Laurence Shirley, the last aristocrat to be hanged in England when he was executed on May 5, 1760?
26 Which Italian composer (1750-1825) composed more than 40 operas including Armida (1771), Las Danaides (1784), Palmira, Regina di Persia (1795) and Falstaff o sia Le tre burle (1799)?
27 Born in Devonport in 1855, which English fisherman and primitive artist painted such works as The Hold House Port Mear Square Island Port Mear Beach (c.1932), which now belongs to the Tate Gallery?
28 Killed during fighting against Red forces at the Kuban capital Ekaterinodar in April 1918 when a shell landed on his HQ, which Cossack Russian army general is best known for an eponymous failed military coup he staged against Kerensky's Provisional Government during the 1917 Russian Revolution?
29 From which country did the artist Adamson-Eric, born Erich Carl Hugo Adamson in 1902, come?
30 Which French writer's first novel, A Regicide was written but not published until 1978, with his first novel to be published being The Erasers in 1953, and his next and most acclaimed novel being the banana plantation-set Jealousy?
31 Carl Wayne, whose real name was Colin David Tooley, was best known as the lead singer of which Birmingham rock band?
32 Which Egyptian-American cryptographer published a paper in 1985 titled A Public key Cryptosystem and A Signature Scheme based on discrete Logarithims, in which he proposed the design of an eponymous discrete log cryptosystem and of an eponymous signature scheme, the latter becoming the basis for Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) adopted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as the Digital Signature Standard (DSS)?
33 What animal gives part of the name to the practice of writing compound words or phrases where the words are joined without spaces and each word is capitalised within the compound?
34 Which actress played the Bond girl Melina Havelock?
35 Which Irish-American rapper's real name is Erik Schrody?
36 Which electronic music artist is now known to have performed the first ever live gig on a laptop at the UK's Big Love festival?
37 Dedicated to Grimald Walafrid, what is the most famous poem of the 9th century German theologian and monk Walafrid Strabo, which is an account of a small garden he used to tend with his own hands and is largely made up of the various herbs he grew there and their medicinal uses?
38 Written in 1267, what is the oldest extant piece of English statute law?
39 Elected Pope to succeed Innocent V on July 12, 1276, who died at Viterbo on August 18 of that year without ever having been ordained to the priesthood?
40 The 1527 Sack of Rome marked a crucial imperial victory in the conflict between the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and what alliance of France, Milan, Venice, Florence and the Papacy?
41 What ecclesiastical diplomatic title is derived from the ancient Latin meaning any envoy?
42 One of the most famous reactionaries in musical history for his condemnation of the new style developed c.1600 the innovations of which defined the early Baroque era, which Italian composer wrote few works, all in a conservative style: one book of canzonette for four voices (1598) and a Cantata Domingo for eight voices (1599)?
43 What was the official title of the supreme ruler in Bulgaria in 913-1018, in 1185-1422 and 1908-1946, and also in Serbia from 1346 to 1371?
44 From the Greek for "assistant servant", what was an office or bureaucratic occupation in the local and upper governmental offices, known as prikazes, and lesser local offices of Russia in 15th-18th centuries?
45 Viewed in the grounds of the Asda supermarket in Great Barr, Birmingham, England, what set of eight carved memorials to various members of the Lunar Society was made in 1998?
46 Which Englishman, trained physician, sometime poet and expert on medicine and botany's most important scientific work is Zoonomia (1794-1796), which contains a system of pathology and a treatise on "generation"?
47 Following the story of a large Jewish family in New York, what is the name of Clifford Odets's first play, which he wrote in 1935 and is often considered his masterpiece?
48 Which German-born British art historian conceived and edited the Pelican History of Art series (1953-)?
49 Distinguished from Pavlovian conditioning in that it deals with voluntary behaviour explained by consequences, what term describes the modification of behaviour brought about over time by the consequences of said behaviour?
50 One of BF Skinner's experiments examined the formation of superstition in one of his favourite experimental animals; in which he placed a series of hungry creatures in a cage attached to an automatic mechanism that delivered food to it "at regular intervals with no reference whatsoever" to its behaviour. What animal was it?
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Answers to BH93
1 Art 2 Vinalia Rustica 3 Simca 4 Ukraine (Orlyk was a hetman) 5 Euthanasia 6 Helium 7 Marguerite de Valois 8 Ecuador 9 Arellano Felix Cartel 10 South Korea 11 Omo River 12 East Timor 13 Uganda 14 Crafoord Prize (named after Holger Crafoord) 15 Gustavo Arcos (Bergnes) 16 Riga 17 Lubeck 18 Colony of Roanoke 19 Karl Jatho 20 The Thousand Islands Bridge 21 Axe Murder Incident 22 Foros 23 Jami or Nur ad-Din Abf ar Rahman Jami 24 Marko Marulic 25 4th Earl Ferrers 26 Antonio Salieri 27 Alfred Wallis 28 Lavr Georgevich Kornilov (as in the Kornilov Affair) 29 Estonia 30 Alain Robbe-Grillet 31 The Move 32 Dr Taher Elgamal, sometimes known as ElGamal 33 The camel as in CamelCase or camel case 34 Carole Bouquet 35 Everlast 36 Aphex Twin 37 Hortulus 38 The Statute of Marlborough 39 Adrian V 40 The League of Cognac 41 Nuncio 42 Giovanni Artusi 43 Tsar 44 Podyachy or podyachiy 45 The Moonstones 46 Erasmus Darwin 47 Awake and Sing! 48 Nikolaus Pevsner 49 Operant conditioning 50 Pigeon
Still, I kept on watching through to the lacklustre denouement. Though, of course, it was all lacklustre: completely lacking in lustre. No lustre at all. I looked real hard too.
But that's my problem. Once I start watching a movie, and I mean any movie, I have to see it through to the end. I have to be a kind of viewing completist, even when I know what is going to happen. It is a compulsion. This must be why I once watched Ernest Goes to Camp four times in a couple of months because of its constant exposure on Sky Movies many years ago.
I watched The Cooler earlier in the evening. It was much better. Although there is some facial resemblance between the Leprauchan and William H Macy, it has to be said. Also, I had The Governator in my head saying, on a freaking loop, "You're not sending me to The Cooler!"
Curses on both Arnie and the li'l Irish imp. Shall I ever enjoy good movies without the thoughts of trashy ones entering my head whenever I watch them? Somehow I doubt it.
1 What did Pablo Picasso call "the lie that tells the truth"?
2 What two-word name was given to the Roman festival in honour of Venus, which took place on August 19 and were instituted on occasion of the war of the Latins against Mezentius, in the course of which war, that people vowed a libation to Jupiter of all the wine in the succeeding vintage?
3 Which car company created the Ariane model by combining the body of the old large Vedette with the four-cylinder engine from the smaller Aronde?
4 Written by Pylyp Orlyk in 1710, the Bendery Constitution was one of the first state constitutions. To which modern day country did it apply?
5 Implemented in Nazi Germany, the T-4 Program was concerned with what?
6 The first element detected in space before being found on Earth, what did Pierre Janssen discover in 1868 while analysing the chromosphere during a total eclipse of the Sun?
7 Who was married to Huguenot King Henry of Navarre in 1572 in an attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics in France?
8 The stratovolcano Tungurahua recently erupted. In which country is it?
9 Featured battling the rival Juarez Cartel in the 2001 film Traffic, what is the other name of the Mexican drug traffickers known as the Tijuana cartel from its leader who died in 2002?
10 In which country is the private aid agency Good Friends based?
11 The recent flooding of which river in southern Ethiopia has caused almost 500 deaths?
12 The guerilla movement, Falintil, is the military wing of the Fretilin political party of which Asian country?
13 The Lord's Resistance Army (URA) rebel group was founded in 1987 in the north of which African country?
14 Named after the Swedish inventor of the artificial kidney, what prize is administered by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and was established in 1980 with the aim of rewarding and promoting basic research in scientific disciplines that fall outside the categories of the Nobel Prize, the fields including maths, geoscience, bioscience and astronomy?
15 A fellow Cuban revolutionary alongside Fidel Castro who later became an imprisoned dissident of the government, which "symbol of the opposition, and the dean of the opposition" died on August 8?
16 Which city, located at the junction of the River Daugava and Ridzene, is said to have been founded in 1201 when Bishop Albert, Bishop of Livonia, landed with 23 ships and more than 1500 armed crusaders, making the city his bishopric?
17 Historians generally trace the origins of the Hanseatic League to the foundation of which town, established in 1158-9 after the capture of the area from the Count of Schauenberg and Holstein by Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony?
18 On August 18, 1590, John White returned from a supply trip to England to find what settlement, of which he was governor, deserted?
19 Which German engineer allegedly flew his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers in 1903?
20 What bridge, connecting New York State with Ontario over the St Lawrence River was dedicated by Franklin D Roosevelt on August 18, 1938?
21 What August 18, 1976 incident took place in the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom and resulted in the death of two American soldiers?
22 Mikhail Gorbachev was put under house arrest on August 18, 1991, while holidaying in which Crimean town?
23 One of the greatest Persian poets of the 15th century and one ofthe last great Sufi poets of Persia, whose works include Baharistan (Abode of Spring), which was modelled on Saadi's Gulistan; Nafahat al-Uns (Breaths of Fellowship), biographies of the Sufi Saints and his major poetical work, Haft Awrang (Seven Thrones), which included such stories as A Father Advises his Son About Love?
24 Which Croatian poet (1450-1524), known as the Crown of Croatian Medieval Age and the Father of Croatian renaissance, wrote such signed works as Dalmata, Suzana, an Epistola to the Pope where he begged for assistance and common fight against the bringers of the new faith and a moralist tractate of Biblical inspiration, De institutione bene vivendi per exempla sanctorum, which he managed to publish in 1506 in Venice?
25 What title was possessed by the murderer Laurence Shirley, the last aristocrat to be hanged in England when he was executed on May 5, 1760?
26 Which Italian composer (1750-1825) composed more than 40 operas including Armida (1771), Las Danaides (1784), Palmira, Regina di Persia (1795) and Falstaff o sia Le tre burle (1799)?
27 Born in Devonport in 1855, which English fisherman and primitive artist painted such works as The Hold House Port Mear Square Island Port Mear Beach (c.1932), which now belongs to the Tate Gallery?
28 Killed during fighting against Red forces at the Kuban capital Ekaterinodar in April 1918 when a shell landed on his HQ, which Cossack Russian army general is best known for an eponymous failed military coup he staged against Kerensky's Provisional Government during the 1917 Russian Revolution?
29 From which country did the artist Adamson-Eric, born Erich Carl Hugo Adamson in 1902, come?
30 Which French writer's first novel, A Regicide was written but not published until 1978, with his first novel to be published being The Erasers in 1953, and his next and most acclaimed novel being the banana plantation-set Jealousy?
31 Carl Wayne, whose real name was Colin David Tooley, was best known as the lead singer of which Birmingham rock band?
32 Which Egyptian-American cryptographer published a paper in 1985 titled A Public key Cryptosystem and A Signature Scheme based on discrete Logarithims, in which he proposed the design of an eponymous discrete log cryptosystem and of an eponymous signature scheme, the latter becoming the basis for Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) adopted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as the Digital Signature Standard (DSS)?
33 What animal gives part of the name to the practice of writing compound words or phrases where the words are joined without spaces and each word is capitalised within the compound?
34 Which actress played the Bond girl Melina Havelock?
35 Which Irish-American rapper's real name is Erik Schrody?
36 Which electronic music artist is now known to have performed the first ever live gig on a laptop at the UK's Big Love festival?
37 Dedicated to Grimald Walafrid, what is the most famous poem of the 9th century German theologian and monk Walafrid Strabo, which is an account of a small garden he used to tend with his own hands and is largely made up of the various herbs he grew there and their medicinal uses?
38 Written in 1267, what is the oldest extant piece of English statute law?
39 Elected Pope to succeed Innocent V on July 12, 1276, who died at Viterbo on August 18 of that year without ever having been ordained to the priesthood?
40 The 1527 Sack of Rome marked a crucial imperial victory in the conflict between the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and what alliance of France, Milan, Venice, Florence and the Papacy?
41 What ecclesiastical diplomatic title is derived from the ancient Latin meaning any envoy?
42 One of the most famous reactionaries in musical history for his condemnation of the new style developed c.1600 the innovations of which defined the early Baroque era, which Italian composer wrote few works, all in a conservative style: one book of canzonette for four voices (1598) and a Cantata Domingo for eight voices (1599)?
43 What was the official title of the supreme ruler in Bulgaria in 913-1018, in 1185-1422 and 1908-1946, and also in Serbia from 1346 to 1371?
44 From the Greek for "assistant servant", what was an office or bureaucratic occupation in the local and upper governmental offices, known as prikazes, and lesser local offices of Russia in 15th-18th centuries?
45 Viewed in the grounds of the Asda supermarket in Great Barr, Birmingham, England, what set of eight carved memorials to various members of the Lunar Society was made in 1998?
46 Which Englishman, trained physician, sometime poet and expert on medicine and botany's most important scientific work is Zoonomia (1794-1796), which contains a system of pathology and a treatise on "generation"?
47 Following the story of a large Jewish family in New York, what is the name of Clifford Odets's first play, which he wrote in 1935 and is often considered his masterpiece?
48 Which German-born British art historian conceived and edited the Pelican History of Art series (1953-)?
49 Distinguished from Pavlovian conditioning in that it deals with voluntary behaviour explained by consequences, what term describes the modification of behaviour brought about over time by the consequences of said behaviour?
50 One of BF Skinner's experiments examined the formation of superstition in one of his favourite experimental animals; in which he placed a series of hungry creatures in a cage attached to an automatic mechanism that delivered food to it "at regular intervals with no reference whatsoever" to its behaviour. What animal was it?
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Answers to BH93
1 Art 2 Vinalia Rustica 3 Simca 4 Ukraine (Orlyk was a hetman) 5 Euthanasia 6 Helium 7 Marguerite de Valois 8 Ecuador 9 Arellano Felix Cartel 10 South Korea 11 Omo River 12 East Timor 13 Uganda 14 Crafoord Prize (named after Holger Crafoord) 15 Gustavo Arcos (Bergnes) 16 Riga 17 Lubeck 18 Colony of Roanoke 19 Karl Jatho 20 The Thousand Islands Bridge 21 Axe Murder Incident 22 Foros 23 Jami or Nur ad-Din Abf ar Rahman Jami 24 Marko Marulic 25 4th Earl Ferrers 26 Antonio Salieri 27 Alfred Wallis 28 Lavr Georgevich Kornilov (as in the Kornilov Affair) 29 Estonia 30 Alain Robbe-Grillet 31 The Move 32 Dr Taher Elgamal, sometimes known as ElGamal 33 The camel as in CamelCase or camel case 34 Carole Bouquet 35 Everlast 36 Aphex Twin 37 Hortulus 38 The Statute of Marlborough 39 Adrian V 40 The League of Cognac 41 Nuncio 42 Giovanni Artusi 43 Tsar 44 Podyachy or podyachiy 45 The Moonstones 46 Erasmus Darwin 47 Awake and Sing! 48 Nikolaus Pevsner 49 Operant conditioning 50 Pigeon
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