A Slightly Sickly BH104
Oooh, not feeling too well today. Queasy and exhausted and on the edge of something truly nasty. I was going to watch the pretty fireworks flash their lovely light all over L.A., but instead am rolling around in bed, groaning at regularly timed intervals. Then Chris sent me an enigmatic picture of something (I hope he didn't butcher it while grinning like a happy monkey) and it reduced my resolve even further. So I stayed in. Then I got bored and put together this quiz because that is what happens when boredom takes hold. That is all. Til whenever I bother to post again...
1 The 1980 spoof Airplane! takes its plot, lead character name and some of its dialogue from which 1957 disaster film starring Dana Andrews?
2 Which team have just beaten the Detroit Tigers, winning the games 4-1, to take the 2006 baseball World Series?
3 Created in 1867, the handwritten newspaper The Wild Goose: A Collection of Ocean Waifs was aimed at what particular audience?
4 What cocktail is "purple drank"?
5 Where is the plaza known as Roald Dahl Plass?
6 Which US president dedicated the Statue of Liberty in October 1886?
7 Where did the Roman Emperor Constantine defeat Maxentius on October 28, 312, ending the Tetrachy?
8 What in Russia is the "Rodina"?
9 Johannesburg International Airport has been renamed in honour of which political figure?
10 What Islamist militant organisation of mostly young Dutch Muslims of mainly North African ancestry takes its name from the original codename the Dutch secret service AIVD used for the network and leaked to the media?
11 In memory of Andres Bonifacio y de Castro (1863-1897), which country celebrates Andres Bonifacio Day on November 30, the anniversary of his death?
12 Which Jamaican-born boxer, brief holder of the WBC title and the last man to fight Muhammad Ali, died on October 28 this year?
13 In which country was the first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomas de Aquino, opened in 1538?
14 Thomas Edison applied for his first patent on October 28, 1868. What was it for?
15 The 1922 March on Rome led to which Pope calling Mussolini as being "a man sent by divine providence"?
16 German SS forces arranged the massacre of more than 9,000 Jews of the ghetto of which Lithuanian city on October 28, 1941, assembling them all on the large Demokratu square to be shot and buried in gigantic ditches?
17 On October 28, 1971, Great Britain launched its first and as yet only satellite into a low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket. What was it called?
18 Which French mathematician published his empirical work, Essai sur les probabilite's de la dure'e de la vie humaine/An Essay on the Probabilities of the Duration of Human Life in 1746, and can be considered, after Halley and Struyck, one of the founders of the estimation of longevity and the issues surrounding that concept?
19 Born in 1793, what was the first name of the blacksmith who designed the now famous Remington rifle at 23?
20 One of the oldest unsolved problems in number theory and in all of maths, which Prussian mathematician gave his name to the conjecture that states: "Every even integer greater than two can be written as the sum of two primes"?
21 Before summarising previous work, which French mathematician stated the law of quadratic reciprocity; having been discovered by induction and enunciated by Euler it was first proved by him in his Theorie des Nombres (1798) for special cases?
22 Coined by Velimir Khlebnikov in 1913, what word is used to describe the daring language experiments of Russian Futurist poets such as Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh and is made up of the Russian prefix for beyond or behind and the noun for the mind and has been translated as "transreason" or "beyonsense"?
23 What name was given to the highly influential St Petersburg-based Futurist group, including Khlebnikov, Kruchenykh, Vladimir Mayakovsky and David Burlyuk, that was born in about December 1912 and issued a manifesto entitled A Slap in the Face of Public Taste?
24 Published in February 1948, which Evelyn Waugh novel centres around the young Dennis Barlow and the suicide of his uncle Sir Francis Hinsley?
25 Subtitled A Romance of the Near Future, which 1953 Evelyn Waugh satire is set in a dystopian quasi-egalitarian Britain and follows the life of an arsonist released from prison?
26 Born Clementina Dinah Campbell in 1927, who is the only person to have received Grammy nominations in the jazz, popular and classical music awards?
27 Which motor racing team did Bernie Ecclestone buy in 1972 and run for 15 years?
28 Which Brazilian footballer, who died aged only 49, had the real name Manoel Francisco dos Santos?
29 Which author and convicted murderer, who inspired the film Heavenly Creatures, published her first novel The Carter Street Hangman under the name Anne Perry in 1979?
30 Founded in 1963, which British band had a US number one with The Game of Love?
31 Which French baroque composer, one of the first to have no patrons but make a living simply by writing new works of music, composed the cantatas Les Quatre Saisons (1724 and the opera ballet Les Voyages de l'Amour (1736), while a notable piece of his still often performed is Deuxieme Serenade Ou Simphonie?
32 The first self-proclaimed civil engineer, which Yorkshireman commenced an extensive series of engineers that included the Coldstream Bridge over the River Tweed (1762-67), the Newark Viaduct over the Trent (1768-70), the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal (1782-89) and St Austell's Charlestown harbour (1792)?
33 A pupil of the above, which British-born American architect (1764-1820) is best known for his design of the United States Capitol?
34 The Swedish chemist Johan August Arfwedson discovered which chemical element within the minerals spodumene and lepidolite in a petalite ore in 1817?
35 Prior to which German's inventor of linotype in 1886, no newspaper in the world had more than eight pages?
36 Which American jazz and rhythm and blues alto saxophonist formed his own band in 1945 and had his biggest hits with such songs as Temptation, Sleep, Flamingo, You Go to My Head and Cherokee?
37 A Figurehead for his country's modernist movemment, which Egyptian writer is best known in the West for autobiography El-Ayyam, which was published in English as An Egyptian Childhood (1932) and The Stream of Days (1943)?
38 One of the major early French Surrealist painters, which artist was known for such works as Verre et Poire (1924), Jacques and Sylvia (1940), Woman from Martinique (1941) and The Seeded Earth (1942) and on fleeing the Nazis had a cache of erotic drawings denounced as pornographic by US customs officials, who ripped them up before his eyes?
39 Opened on January 6, 1870, which concert hall in Vienna is considered to be one of the three finest in the world along with Boston's Symphony Hall and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, and is home to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra?
40 Which architect, inspired by Leipzig's Neue Gewendhaus, designed the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam?
41 Which Premiership team began when the Stanley Cricket Club form an association football club in November 1881 to play during the winter after the cricket season had ended, and won their first match 5-0 against Elswick Leather Works 2nd XI?
42 John Wardle is chairman of which Premiership football club?
43 Vallenato and cumbia are the most popular forms of folk music in which South American country?
44 Derived from the Greek for "to split", which group of medium grade metamorphic rocks is chiefly notable for the preponderance of lamellar minerals such as micas, chlorite, talc and graphite?
45 Oliver Cowdery is closely associated with the founding of which religious movement?
46 The actor Len Adamson is most famous for playing which role on Coronation Street?
47 Which Liverpool-born horror writer published his first collection The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants in 1964 and is known for such other books as his collection Demons by Daylight (1973) and the novels The Face That Must Die (1979, revised edition 1983) and The Count of Eleven (1991)?
48 TV writer Brian Dooley is best known for creating which recently axed sitcom?
49 Sometimes abbreviated as >H or H+, what name is given to the international intellectual and cultural movement which supports the use of new sciences and technology to enhance our cognitive and physical abilities and ameliorate what it regards as undesirable aspects of the human condition such as disease and aging?
50 Born Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat in 1743, which French philosopher and mathematician devised the eponymous method that determines a single winner election method in which voters rank candidates in order of preference, and explored a paradox in 1785's Essay on the Application of Analysis to the Probability of Majority Decisions, which describes the intransitivity of majority preference?
51 In calculus, which theorem is named after the English mathematican, who stated it in 1712 and gives the approximation of a differentiable function near a point by a polynomial whose coefficients depend only on the derivatives of the function at that point?
52 Which Greek Cypriot filmmaker (b.1922) is best known for his 1964 film Zorba the Greek?
53 Which Polish film director, dramatist and actor, who made his directorial debut with 1960's Oko wykol/The Menacing Eye, provided the dialogue for the script of Roman Polanski's Knife in Water and also made such semi-autobiographical films as Rysopsis, Walkover, Barrier (1966), Hands Up! (completed 1967, released 1981) and Success is the Best Revenge (1984)?
54 In physics, what form of elementary particles that are distinct fromthe other known family of fermions, the quarks, and has three known flavours: the electron, the muon and the tau?
55 Prior to 2005, O'Hare airport in Chicago was the world's busiest in terms of takeoffs and landings, but that year mainly due to limits imposed there by the federal governments to reduce flight delays, which other US airport became the busiest?
56 Glasgow-born though he grew up in Bournemouth, which singer-songwriter and musician is best known for his 1976 single Year of the Cat and its 1978 follow-up Time Passages?
57 Which forthcoming film adaptation of a Joseph Kanton novel features George Clooney as an American journalist called Jake Geismar who arrives in Berlin soon after the end of WW2?
58 Steven Soderbergh, the director of the above film, uses which pseudonym for his cinematography?
59 Found in tropical South America and Trinidad and Tobago, what sort of creature is the Machete Couesse?
60 Including lizards and snakes, what is the largest recent order of reptiles?
61 What is the common name of the genus of flowering plants known as Alnus?
62 What does T in the frequency band THF stand for?
63 Chiefly remembered for his Donation of Sutri in 728, Liutprand was king of which Germanic people from 712 to 744?
64 Which male tennis player was the only player to win the Australian Open both on grass and on hardcourt (known as Rebound Ace)?
65 What name is given to the winner of the Men's Singles Challenge Cup at the Australian Open?
66 Who in 1915 became the first Briton to win the Australian Open Men's Singles?
67 The 1955 recording Cry Cry Cry, released with Hey Porter on the front side, was which singer's first successful tune?
68 What is the smallest predominantly Muslim nation in the world and the smallest predominantly Muslim UN member?
69 Originally called the Big Meadow and Funny Field, the Field of Mars is a large park and square covering almost nine hectares in the centre of which major European city?
70 Which famed painting was commissioned in 1562 by the Benedictine monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, and after it was completed in 15 months by the year 1563, hung 2.5m from the floor in the monastery for 253 years before it was plundered by Napoleon in 1797 and shipped to Paris?
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Answers to BH104
1 Zero Hour! 2 St Louis Cardinals 3 Convicts being transported to Australia (specifically for prisoners aboard the Hougoumont, the last ship to transport them there) 4 Mixture of codeine cough syrup and soda drunk by Southern rappers 5 Cardiff Bay (used in Dr Who) 6 Grover Cleveland 7 Battle of Milvian Bridge 8 Political party (Motherland-National Patriotic Union 9 Oliver Tambo (OR Tambo International Airport) 10 Hofstad Network 11 Philippines 12 Trevor Berbick 13 Dominican Republic 14 An electrical vote recorder 15 Pius XI 16 Kaunus 17 Prospero 18 Antoine Deparcieux 19 Eliphalet 20 Christian Goldbach (as in Goldbach's conjecture) 21 Adrien-Marie Legendre 22 Zaum 23 Hylaea 24 The Loved One 25 Love Among the Ruins 26 Cleo Laine 27 Brabham 28 Garrincha 29 Juliet Hulme 30 Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders 31 Joseph Bodin de Boismortier 32 John Smeaton 33 Benjamin Latrobe 34 Lithium 35 Ottmar Mergenthaler 36 Earl Bostic 37 Taha Hussein 38 Andre Masson 39 Musikverein 40 Adolf Leonard van Gendt 41 Newcastle United 42 Manchester City 43 Colombia 44 Schist 45 The Latter Day Saint movement 46 Len Fairclough 47 Ramsey Campbell 48 The Smoking Room 49 Transhumanism 50 Marquis de Condorcet 51 (Brook) Taylor's theorem 52 Michael Cacoyannis 53 Jerzy Skolimowski 54 Leptons 55 Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta 56 Al Stewart 57 The Good German 58 Peter Andrews 59 Snake 60 Squamata (as in scaled reptiles) 61 Alder 62 Tremendously (high frequency) 63 Lombards 64 Mats Wilander 65 Norman Brookes Challenge Cup 66 Francis Lowe 67 Johnny Cash 68 Maldives 69 St Petersburg 70 The Wedding at Cana by Paolo Veronese
1 The 1980 spoof Airplane! takes its plot, lead character name and some of its dialogue from which 1957 disaster film starring Dana Andrews?
2 Which team have just beaten the Detroit Tigers, winning the games 4-1, to take the 2006 baseball World Series?
3 Created in 1867, the handwritten newspaper The Wild Goose: A Collection of Ocean Waifs was aimed at what particular audience?
4 What cocktail is "purple drank"?
5 Where is the plaza known as Roald Dahl Plass?
6 Which US president dedicated the Statue of Liberty in October 1886?
7 Where did the Roman Emperor Constantine defeat Maxentius on October 28, 312, ending the Tetrachy?
8 What in Russia is the "Rodina"?
9 Johannesburg International Airport has been renamed in honour of which political figure?
10 What Islamist militant organisation of mostly young Dutch Muslims of mainly North African ancestry takes its name from the original codename the Dutch secret service AIVD used for the network and leaked to the media?
11 In memory of Andres Bonifacio y de Castro (1863-1897), which country celebrates Andres Bonifacio Day on November 30, the anniversary of his death?
12 Which Jamaican-born boxer, brief holder of the WBC title and the last man to fight Muhammad Ali, died on October 28 this year?
13 In which country was the first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomas de Aquino, opened in 1538?
14 Thomas Edison applied for his first patent on October 28, 1868. What was it for?
15 The 1922 March on Rome led to which Pope calling Mussolini as being "a man sent by divine providence"?
16 German SS forces arranged the massacre of more than 9,000 Jews of the ghetto of which Lithuanian city on October 28, 1941, assembling them all on the large Demokratu square to be shot and buried in gigantic ditches?
17 On October 28, 1971, Great Britain launched its first and as yet only satellite into a low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket. What was it called?
18 Which French mathematician published his empirical work, Essai sur les probabilite's de la dure'e de la vie humaine/An Essay on the Probabilities of the Duration of Human Life in 1746, and can be considered, after Halley and Struyck, one of the founders of the estimation of longevity and the issues surrounding that concept?
19 Born in 1793, what was the first name of the blacksmith who designed the now famous Remington rifle at 23?
20 One of the oldest unsolved problems in number theory and in all of maths, which Prussian mathematician gave his name to the conjecture that states: "Every even integer greater than two can be written as the sum of two primes"?
21 Before summarising previous work, which French mathematician stated the law of quadratic reciprocity; having been discovered by induction and enunciated by Euler it was first proved by him in his Theorie des Nombres (1798) for special cases?
22 Coined by Velimir Khlebnikov in 1913, what word is used to describe the daring language experiments of Russian Futurist poets such as Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh and is made up of the Russian prefix for beyond or behind and the noun for the mind and has been translated as "transreason" or "beyonsense"?
23 What name was given to the highly influential St Petersburg-based Futurist group, including Khlebnikov, Kruchenykh, Vladimir Mayakovsky and David Burlyuk, that was born in about December 1912 and issued a manifesto entitled A Slap in the Face of Public Taste?
24 Published in February 1948, which Evelyn Waugh novel centres around the young Dennis Barlow and the suicide of his uncle Sir Francis Hinsley?
25 Subtitled A Romance of the Near Future, which 1953 Evelyn Waugh satire is set in a dystopian quasi-egalitarian Britain and follows the life of an arsonist released from prison?
26 Born Clementina Dinah Campbell in 1927, who is the only person to have received Grammy nominations in the jazz, popular and classical music awards?
27 Which motor racing team did Bernie Ecclestone buy in 1972 and run for 15 years?
28 Which Brazilian footballer, who died aged only 49, had the real name Manoel Francisco dos Santos?
29 Which author and convicted murderer, who inspired the film Heavenly Creatures, published her first novel The Carter Street Hangman under the name Anne Perry in 1979?
30 Founded in 1963, which British band had a US number one with The Game of Love?
31 Which French baroque composer, one of the first to have no patrons but make a living simply by writing new works of music, composed the cantatas Les Quatre Saisons (1724 and the opera ballet Les Voyages de l'Amour (1736), while a notable piece of his still often performed is Deuxieme Serenade Ou Simphonie?
32 The first self-proclaimed civil engineer, which Yorkshireman commenced an extensive series of engineers that included the Coldstream Bridge over the River Tweed (1762-67), the Newark Viaduct over the Trent (1768-70), the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal (1782-89) and St Austell's Charlestown harbour (1792)?
33 A pupil of the above, which British-born American architect (1764-1820) is best known for his design of the United States Capitol?
34 The Swedish chemist Johan August Arfwedson discovered which chemical element within the minerals spodumene and lepidolite in a petalite ore in 1817?
35 Prior to which German's inventor of linotype in 1886, no newspaper in the world had more than eight pages?
36 Which American jazz and rhythm and blues alto saxophonist formed his own band in 1945 and had his biggest hits with such songs as Temptation, Sleep, Flamingo, You Go to My Head and Cherokee?
37 A Figurehead for his country's modernist movemment, which Egyptian writer is best known in the West for autobiography El-Ayyam, which was published in English as An Egyptian Childhood (1932) and The Stream of Days (1943)?
38 One of the major early French Surrealist painters, which artist was known for such works as Verre et Poire (1924), Jacques and Sylvia (1940), Woman from Martinique (1941) and The Seeded Earth (1942) and on fleeing the Nazis had a cache of erotic drawings denounced as pornographic by US customs officials, who ripped them up before his eyes?
39 Opened on January 6, 1870, which concert hall in Vienna is considered to be one of the three finest in the world along with Boston's Symphony Hall and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, and is home to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra?
40 Which architect, inspired by Leipzig's Neue Gewendhaus, designed the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam?
41 Which Premiership team began when the Stanley Cricket Club form an association football club in November 1881 to play during the winter after the cricket season had ended, and won their first match 5-0 against Elswick Leather Works 2nd XI?
42 John Wardle is chairman of which Premiership football club?
43 Vallenato and cumbia are the most popular forms of folk music in which South American country?
44 Derived from the Greek for "to split", which group of medium grade metamorphic rocks is chiefly notable for the preponderance of lamellar minerals such as micas, chlorite, talc and graphite?
45 Oliver Cowdery is closely associated with the founding of which religious movement?
46 The actor Len Adamson is most famous for playing which role on Coronation Street?
47 Which Liverpool-born horror writer published his first collection The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants in 1964 and is known for such other books as his collection Demons by Daylight (1973) and the novels The Face That Must Die (1979, revised edition 1983) and The Count of Eleven (1991)?
48 TV writer Brian Dooley is best known for creating which recently axed sitcom?
49 Sometimes abbreviated as >H or H+, what name is given to the international intellectual and cultural movement which supports the use of new sciences and technology to enhance our cognitive and physical abilities and ameliorate what it regards as undesirable aspects of the human condition such as disease and aging?
50 Born Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat in 1743, which French philosopher and mathematician devised the eponymous method that determines a single winner election method in which voters rank candidates in order of preference, and explored a paradox in 1785's Essay on the Application of Analysis to the Probability of Majority Decisions, which describes the intransitivity of majority preference?
51 In calculus, which theorem is named after the English mathematican, who stated it in 1712 and gives the approximation of a differentiable function near a point by a polynomial whose coefficients depend only on the derivatives of the function at that point?
52 Which Greek Cypriot filmmaker (b.1922) is best known for his 1964 film Zorba the Greek?
53 Which Polish film director, dramatist and actor, who made his directorial debut with 1960's Oko wykol/The Menacing Eye, provided the dialogue for the script of Roman Polanski's Knife in Water and also made such semi-autobiographical films as Rysopsis, Walkover, Barrier (1966), Hands Up! (completed 1967, released 1981) and Success is the Best Revenge (1984)?
54 In physics, what form of elementary particles that are distinct fromthe other known family of fermions, the quarks, and has three known flavours: the electron, the muon and the tau?
55 Prior to 2005, O'Hare airport in Chicago was the world's busiest in terms of takeoffs and landings, but that year mainly due to limits imposed there by the federal governments to reduce flight delays, which other US airport became the busiest?
56 Glasgow-born though he grew up in Bournemouth, which singer-songwriter and musician is best known for his 1976 single Year of the Cat and its 1978 follow-up Time Passages?
57 Which forthcoming film adaptation of a Joseph Kanton novel features George Clooney as an American journalist called Jake Geismar who arrives in Berlin soon after the end of WW2?
58 Steven Soderbergh, the director of the above film, uses which pseudonym for his cinematography?
59 Found in tropical South America and Trinidad and Tobago, what sort of creature is the Machete Couesse?
60 Including lizards and snakes, what is the largest recent order of reptiles?
61 What is the common name of the genus of flowering plants known as Alnus?
62 What does T in the frequency band THF stand for?
63 Chiefly remembered for his Donation of Sutri in 728, Liutprand was king of which Germanic people from 712 to 744?
64 Which male tennis player was the only player to win the Australian Open both on grass and on hardcourt (known as Rebound Ace)?
65 What name is given to the winner of the Men's Singles Challenge Cup at the Australian Open?
66 Who in 1915 became the first Briton to win the Australian Open Men's Singles?
67 The 1955 recording Cry Cry Cry, released with Hey Porter on the front side, was which singer's first successful tune?
68 What is the smallest predominantly Muslim nation in the world and the smallest predominantly Muslim UN member?
69 Originally called the Big Meadow and Funny Field, the Field of Mars is a large park and square covering almost nine hectares in the centre of which major European city?
70 Which famed painting was commissioned in 1562 by the Benedictine monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, and after it was completed in 15 months by the year 1563, hung 2.5m from the floor in the monastery for 253 years before it was plundered by Napoleon in 1797 and shipped to Paris?
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Answers to BH104
1 Zero Hour! 2 St Louis Cardinals 3 Convicts being transported to Australia (specifically for prisoners aboard the Hougoumont, the last ship to transport them there) 4 Mixture of codeine cough syrup and soda drunk by Southern rappers 5 Cardiff Bay (used in Dr Who) 6 Grover Cleveland 7 Battle of Milvian Bridge 8 Political party (Motherland-National Patriotic Union 9 Oliver Tambo (OR Tambo International Airport) 10 Hofstad Network 11 Philippines 12 Trevor Berbick 13 Dominican Republic 14 An electrical vote recorder 15 Pius XI 16 Kaunus 17 Prospero 18 Antoine Deparcieux 19 Eliphalet 20 Christian Goldbach (as in Goldbach's conjecture) 21 Adrien-Marie Legendre 22 Zaum 23 Hylaea 24 The Loved One 25 Love Among the Ruins 26 Cleo Laine 27 Brabham 28 Garrincha 29 Juliet Hulme 30 Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders 31 Joseph Bodin de Boismortier 32 John Smeaton 33 Benjamin Latrobe 34 Lithium 35 Ottmar Mergenthaler 36 Earl Bostic 37 Taha Hussein 38 Andre Masson 39 Musikverein 40 Adolf Leonard van Gendt 41 Newcastle United 42 Manchester City 43 Colombia 44 Schist 45 The Latter Day Saint movement 46 Len Fairclough 47 Ramsey Campbell 48 The Smoking Room 49 Transhumanism 50 Marquis de Condorcet 51 (Brook) Taylor's theorem 52 Michael Cacoyannis 53 Jerzy Skolimowski 54 Leptons 55 Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta 56 Al Stewart 57 The Good German 58 Peter Andrews 59 Snake 60 Squamata (as in scaled reptiles) 61 Alder 62 Tremendously (high frequency) 63 Lombards 64 Mats Wilander 65 Norman Brookes Challenge Cup 66 Francis Lowe 67 Johnny Cash 68 Maldives 69 St Petersburg 70 The Wedding at Cana by Paolo Veronese
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