That's How I Escaped My Certain BH98
Seems like I've been really stingy with the quizzes. Therefore, have some offcuts and fancies that arose from paid setting. The next one - WARNING! - will be sport and games-themed. Just cos sometimes I gots to do that kinds of work.
Right, out of illiterate mode.
This week is the British Quizzing Championships. I didn't take part last year because I didn't feel ready and was suddenly embarking on freelance life. This year I am taking part, despite my feeling not ready in the slightest, and being generally weighed down with the melancholic end-of-summer mood that I always get at the end of the Reading Festival. The Sunday always gets me and beats me as would a burly bully enroughen and pound a small child in a dark latrine.
I haven't done any preparation of any kind and am still feeling the effects of having Naive by The Kooks (I hate them, but it is such a catchy song, especially when it is introduced by Tom Baker) run continuously in my head since I - accidentally - watched them the other night. When they played the NME stage was the most rammed I had seen for any band and all for some fey and inoffensive indie-pop. Otherwise I have Tilly and the Wall and Is It Any Wonder? by Keane in my head (poor Tom "Charlie" Chaplin; he does say how knackered he is in that particular song. We should have seen The Priory coming. Or him going to The Priory that is.)
So let's look at this weekend as one of those interesting experiments: like the one where I was killed on painkillers (WQC 2006) and the one where I spent six hours getting up to Manchester on the train (WQC 2004). This is the one where I will act all casual like and say: "Oh I am so very warped by this summer's exertions. I am so rubbish at the moment it cracks me up just thinking about it. I went went to foreign countries don't you know AND RAWKED OUT LIKE YOUR MOTHER WOULD ON NAZI CRANK". The last bit I may miss out. Because I really ought to have stopped writing in a Swells-ish manner by now. All those capital letters are undignified.
I have one sure technique that never fails to boost my confidence. As ever, I am laying the seeds of pessimism to ensure no disappointment. Works every time. This complex psychology.
1 From 19th century finds of flint tools in a Paris suburb, what name is given by archaeologists to a distinctive type of flint knapping developed by humans during the Palaeolithic period?
2 The characteristic style of stone tools in the Middle Paleolithic period is called what, after prominent archaeological site - a cave shelter in the Dordogne region - where they were found?
3 In Japan what day is known as Shusen-kinenbi?
4 What are Boycie's real first two names in TV's Only Fools and Horses?
5 Correctly applied to any passage sung in an ornate flowery style in classical singing by any voice type, what Italian-derived term is also commonly used as a noun to describe operatic soprano roles characterised by flexibility and embellishments such as runs and trills, with a strong head voice including abilities in the whistle register?
6 What is the biggest canton of Switzerland?
7 Coined in a Sylvia Wright essay published in Harper's Magazine in November 1954, what word describes the usually accidental mishearing of a phrase, such that it acquires a new meaning?
8 Who has been the only Prime Minister to appear on the radio show Desert Island Discs while in office?
9 Which Dame famously organised piano concerts at the National Gallery during World War Two?
10 An edition of Scrabble, the first to see a colour change since the game began in 1948, was recently released. What colour does this version, made in aid of charity, come in?
11 Tomislav Uzelac developed the first successful version of what electronic device in 1997?
12 What has the Tividale (in the West Midlands) company Vono been making since 1896?
13 Officially styled "the Great", which ruler is also known as Rama IX?
14 The "bulk" measures the response in pressure due to change in relative volume and thus the substance's resistance to uniform compression, while the "shear" describes the response to shear and the measure of stiffness known as "Young's" is applied to linear strain. What term describes these coefficients pertaining to a physical property?
15 Corresponding to groups 3 to 12, what term generally describes the 40 elements in the d-block of the periodic table, for instance zinc, mercury and cadmium and are defined by the IUPAC as elements "whose atom has an incomplete d sub-shell, or which can give rise to cations with an incomplete d sub-shell" (though this actually excludes cadmium, zinc and cadmium because they have a d10 configuration)?
16 Where in London will you find the famous Green Drawing Room?
17 First built at the start of the 18th century for the baron Henry Boyle, which mansion between Pall Mall and The Mall in London's St James's district is best known as the town residence of the Prince Regent for several decades?
18 A native of London from 1875 to 1910, which Italian-born composer and knight (1908) is best remembered for light, expressive songs that became very popular during the Belle Epoque and which is often called "salon music"; songs like Serenata (lyrics by Cesareo), Addio (lyrics by Rizzelli) and the popular Neapolitan song, Marechiare, the lyrics of which were written by the renowned Neapolitan dialect poet Salvatore di Giacomo?
19 Used in colour printing, what do the letters in the name of the subtractive colour model CMYK stand for?
20 The complement of red, what pure spectral colour is obtained by mixing equal amounts of green and blue light and is often referred to as "Electric Blue"?
21 Also known as the Yuan Jing meaning "primary river" in Chinese, which river called Sông Hồng in Vietnamese?
22 Subtitled "Or In Touch with the Infinite", what was the first poetry collection published (privately) by John Betjeman in 1931 when he was aged 26?
23 Of which controversial 1928 novel did James Douglas of the Evening Standard write: "I would rather put a phial of prussic acid in the hands of a healthy girl or boy than the book in question"?
24 Benjamin Baillaud became the first president of which international organisation on its founding in 1919?
25 The disfiguring skin ulcer disease Leishmaniasis is transmitted by what insects?
26 What well-known disease takes its name from the Sanskrit word for "violence"?
27 First held in 2002 and said to be the largest such event on either side of the Atlantic , the annual video game event The Games Convention is held in which German city?
28 What controversial software company is involved in overhauling the NHS's GP and hospital computer systems at a cost of £6.2 billion?
29 In 1504, Florence commissioned Michelangelo to produce what enormous painting an equally large compnanuon to Leonardo da Vinci's "lost" Battle of Anghiari, which he conceived as a study of the male figure in action?
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1 Levallois technique (as in Levallois-Perret) 2 The Mousterian Culture as in Le Moustier 3 VJ Day (literally "Memorial day for the end of the war") 4 Michael Aubrey 5 Coloratura 6 Zurich 7 Mondegreen (The essay was called The Death of Lady Mondegreen and came from a mishearing of the line of a poem from Percy's Reliques "And laid him on the green" rendered as "And Lady Mondegreen") 8 John Major 9 Myra Hess 10 Pink (for breast cancer) 11 MP3 player 12 Beds 13 King Bhumibol of Thailand 14 Modulus 15 Transition metals 16 Buckingham Palace 17 Carlton House 18 Francesco Paolo Tosti 19 Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (black) 20 Cyan 21 Red River 22 Mount Zion 23 The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall 24 International Astronomical Union (IAU) 25 Sandflies 26 Rabies 27 Leipzig 28 iSoft 29 The Battle of Cascina
Right, out of illiterate mode.
This week is the British Quizzing Championships. I didn't take part last year because I didn't feel ready and was suddenly embarking on freelance life. This year I am taking part, despite my feeling not ready in the slightest, and being generally weighed down with the melancholic end-of-summer mood that I always get at the end of the Reading Festival. The Sunday always gets me and beats me as would a burly bully enroughen and pound a small child in a dark latrine.
I haven't done any preparation of any kind and am still feeling the effects of having Naive by The Kooks (I hate them, but it is such a catchy song, especially when it is introduced by Tom Baker) run continuously in my head since I - accidentally - watched them the other night. When they played the NME stage was the most rammed I had seen for any band and all for some fey and inoffensive indie-pop. Otherwise I have Tilly and the Wall and Is It Any Wonder? by Keane in my head (poor Tom "Charlie" Chaplin; he does say how knackered he is in that particular song. We should have seen The Priory coming. Or him going to The Priory that is.)
So let's look at this weekend as one of those interesting experiments: like the one where I was killed on painkillers (WQC 2006) and the one where I spent six hours getting up to Manchester on the train (WQC 2004). This is the one where I will act all casual like and say: "Oh I am so very warped by this summer's exertions. I am so rubbish at the moment it cracks me up just thinking about it. I went went to foreign countries don't you know AND RAWKED OUT LIKE YOUR MOTHER WOULD ON NAZI CRANK". The last bit I may miss out. Because I really ought to have stopped writing in a Swells-ish manner by now. All those capital letters are undignified.
I have one sure technique that never fails to boost my confidence. As ever, I am laying the seeds of pessimism to ensure no disappointment. Works every time. This complex psychology.
1 From 19th century finds of flint tools in a Paris suburb, what name is given by archaeologists to a distinctive type of flint knapping developed by humans during the Palaeolithic period?
2 The characteristic style of stone tools in the Middle Paleolithic period is called what, after prominent archaeological site - a cave shelter in the Dordogne region - where they were found?
3 In Japan what day is known as Shusen-kinenbi?
4 What are Boycie's real first two names in TV's Only Fools and Horses?
5 Correctly applied to any passage sung in an ornate flowery style in classical singing by any voice type, what Italian-derived term is also commonly used as a noun to describe operatic soprano roles characterised by flexibility and embellishments such as runs and trills, with a strong head voice including abilities in the whistle register?
6 What is the biggest canton of Switzerland?
7 Coined in a Sylvia Wright essay published in Harper's Magazine in November 1954, what word describes the usually accidental mishearing of a phrase, such that it acquires a new meaning?
8 Who has been the only Prime Minister to appear on the radio show Desert Island Discs while in office?
9 Which Dame famously organised piano concerts at the National Gallery during World War Two?
10 An edition of Scrabble, the first to see a colour change since the game began in 1948, was recently released. What colour does this version, made in aid of charity, come in?
11 Tomislav Uzelac developed the first successful version of what electronic device in 1997?
12 What has the Tividale (in the West Midlands) company Vono been making since 1896?
13 Officially styled "the Great", which ruler is also known as Rama IX?
14 The "bulk" measures the response in pressure due to change in relative volume and thus the substance's resistance to uniform compression, while the "shear" describes the response to shear and the measure of stiffness known as "Young's" is applied to linear strain. What term describes these coefficients pertaining to a physical property?
15 Corresponding to groups 3 to 12, what term generally describes the 40 elements in the d-block of the periodic table, for instance zinc, mercury and cadmium and are defined by the IUPAC as elements "whose atom has an incomplete d sub-shell, or which can give rise to cations with an incomplete d sub-shell" (though this actually excludes cadmium, zinc and cadmium because they have a d10 configuration)?
16 Where in London will you find the famous Green Drawing Room?
17 First built at the start of the 18th century for the baron Henry Boyle, which mansion between Pall Mall and The Mall in London's St James's district is best known as the town residence of the Prince Regent for several decades?
18 A native of London from 1875 to 1910, which Italian-born composer and knight (1908) is best remembered for light, expressive songs that became very popular during the Belle Epoque and which is often called "salon music"; songs like Serenata (lyrics by Cesareo), Addio (lyrics by Rizzelli) and the popular Neapolitan song, Marechiare, the lyrics of which were written by the renowned Neapolitan dialect poet Salvatore di Giacomo?
19 Used in colour printing, what do the letters in the name of the subtractive colour model CMYK stand for?
20 The complement of red, what pure spectral colour is obtained by mixing equal amounts of green and blue light and is often referred to as "Electric Blue"?
21 Also known as the Yuan Jing meaning "primary river" in Chinese, which river called Sông Hồng in Vietnamese?
22 Subtitled "Or In Touch with the Infinite", what was the first poetry collection published (privately) by John Betjeman in 1931 when he was aged 26?
23 Of which controversial 1928 novel did James Douglas of the Evening Standard write: "I would rather put a phial of prussic acid in the hands of a healthy girl or boy than the book in question"?
24 Benjamin Baillaud became the first president of which international organisation on its founding in 1919?
25 The disfiguring skin ulcer disease Leishmaniasis is transmitted by what insects?
26 What well-known disease takes its name from the Sanskrit word for "violence"?
27 First held in 2002 and said to be the largest such event on either side of the Atlantic , the annual video game event The Games Convention is held in which German city?
28 What controversial software company is involved in overhauling the NHS's GP and hospital computer systems at a cost of £6.2 billion?
29 In 1504, Florence commissioned Michelangelo to produce what enormous painting an equally large compnanuon to Leonardo da Vinci's "lost" Battle of Anghiari, which he conceived as a study of the male figure in action?
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Answers to BH98
1 Levallois technique (as in Levallois-Perret) 2 The Mousterian Culture as in Le Moustier 3 VJ Day (literally "Memorial day for the end of the war") 4 Michael Aubrey 5 Coloratura 6 Zurich 7 Mondegreen (The essay was called The Death of Lady Mondegreen and came from a mishearing of the line of a poem from Percy's Reliques "And laid him on the green" rendered as "And Lady Mondegreen") 8 John Major 9 Myra Hess 10 Pink (for breast cancer) 11 MP3 player 12 Beds 13 King Bhumibol of Thailand 14 Modulus 15 Transition metals 16 Buckingham Palace 17 Carlton House 18 Francesco Paolo Tosti 19 Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (black) 20 Cyan 21 Red River 22 Mount Zion 23 The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall 24 International Astronomical Union (IAU) 25 Sandflies 26 Rabies 27 Leipzig 28 iSoft 29 The Battle of Cascina
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