Sometimes They Come Back: BH102
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So here is a century-plus-three quiz. Just for you. I know how much you miss them and how they make you print them off and read them on holiday (you crazy?!!). Personally speaking, last time I went abroad and took some books with me to read, they were actual novels with fiction riven in their seams.
I had forgotten how much these hee-yooge quizzes take out of me. A lot: sanity, mental energy, time. But I hope they do you some good, though you may not think much of the modern art (there should be more modern art in quiz; and I'm talking about questions that don't just ask "which American painter was nicknamed 'Jack the Dripper'? Please give us more Nauman, Richter, Martin Parr and Jeff Wall. Or give me, more accurately. On stuff that pits my bedroom wall in postcard form).
1 Results from which country's general election have indicated that Alvaro Noboa will likely face off in a run-off for the presidency?
2 What temporary name has been assigned to the chemical element with the atomic number 118 - the heaviest ever - which has been synthesized in Dubna, Russia?
3 The Uzbek president Islam Karimov has fired governor Saidullo Begaliev for causing the 2005 massacre in which province?
4 The Bangladeshi Muhammad Yunus and which microfinance organisation, founded in 1976, has been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize?
5 At which October 18, 1016 battle did Danish forces led by Canute the Great decisively defeat Edmund Ironside, thus gaining control over most of England?
6 Under what title was Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick first published on October 18, 1851?
7 Nice easy one: which 1748 treaty ended the War of Austrian Succession?
8 From which German-born theoretical physicist and atomic spy at the Los Alamos National Laboratory did the USSR receive plans of the USA's plutonium bomb for its nuclear program in October 1945?
9 Apprenticed to Ribera at a precocious age, which influential late Baroque painter acquired the nickname "Luca Fa-presto" meaning "Luke Work-fast" and is known for painting the ceiling of the Biblioteca Riccardiano (Wisdom released from the Slavery of Ignorance) and the long gallery of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, where such frescoes depicting the Triumph of the Medici in the clouds of Olympus, the Creation of Man and Greek mythological characters can be seen?
10 Which writer gave his name to an annual German literature prize first awarded in 1912 (to 1933) on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death and which was recontinued in 1985?
11 Winner of the Heinrich von Kleist prize in 1985, which noted German author and film director wrote 1962's Lebenslaufe/Case Histories, also published earlier in English as Attendance List for a Funeral, a collection which includes the story Anita G, that he adapted in cinematic form in 1966 as Yesterday's Girl?
12 Which Swedish author published his main series and best known book Malm/Iron ore from 1914 to 1925, which included Pioneers, The Mountain's Song and Speculators?
13 Born in Britanny in 1882 with the names Lucien Georges Mazan, which Argentine cyclist became the first man to win the Tour de France twice (1907 and 1908) and died in 1917 when he crashed against an oncoming car at the front near Troyes?
14 The Greek actress Melina Mercouri first rose to international fame thanks to which 1960 film, directed by and starring her husband Jules Dassin and concerning the story of prostitute Ilya and her relationship with American tourist and classical scholar Homer?
15 Ramiz Alia led which European country from 1985 to 1992?
16 The Icelandic Chris Albertson is renowned for being a historian and player of which genre of music?
17 The Vietnamese novelist Bao Ninh is best known for writing which international bestseller, his first and to date only novel about Kien a North Vietnamese soldier and his travails during the Vietnam War?
18 Which English composer was appointed the first Organist and Master of the Choristers at Christ Church, Oxford by Cardinal Wolsey in 1526 and is known for his motet Dum Transisset Sabbatum and the mass The Western Wynde, which was based on a popular song?
19 Which Portuguese dramatist, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1705 and known as "the Jew" or O Judeu, wrote such comedies as Vida do Grande Dom Quixote de la Mancha e do Gordo Sancho Panca (1733), Esopaida (1734), Amphitriio (May 1736) and Labyrintho de Creta (Nov 1736) all performed and played by marionettes at the Bairro Alto theatre between 1733 and 1738?
20 Which French composer offered his Euphrosine et Coradin to the Opera Comique and had it accepted and performed in 1790, thus fixing his reputation at once, and further enhanced his reputation with the three best works of his 42 operas: La Jeunesse d'Henri IV, Uthal and Joseph, before dying in Paris in 1817?
21 Which German physician (1796-1866) emerged as the first European to teach Western medicine in Japan and obtained significance for his study of Japanese flora and fauna that were endemic to the unique biotic island landscape; museums in Leiden, Wurzburg and Nagasaki standing as testimony to his work?
22 Having won the Prix de Rome in 1839 for his cantata Ferdinand, which French composer wrote his first opera, Sappho, in 1851 but had no great success until his best known in 1859, while Mireille of 1864 is admired by connoisseurs?
23 Which leading representative of religious Symbolism in Russian art, allied himself with the group of artists known as the Peredvizhniki, and is perhaps best known for his 1890 canvas The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew, which depicted the conversion of Sergii Radonezhsky and is recognised as marking the inauguration of the Russian Symbolist movement?
24 Which Algerian athlete won the Olympic gold medal in the marathon at the 1928 Amsterdam games and was killed three days after his 61st birthday by members of the Algerian Liberation Movement after he had refused to support them?
25 Canadian businesswoman Florence Nightingale Graham took her name - Elizabeth Arden - from an 1864 poem by whom?
26 Which Jewish German-American philosopher and neoconservative ideologue published Persecution and the Art of Writing in 1952, which advanced the possibility that philosophers wrote esoterically to avoid persecution by the state or religious authority, while also being able to reach potential philosophers within the pious faithful, and in The City and Man, discussed the myths outlined in Plato's Republic that are required for all governments?
27 Which Tunisian-born French athlete and pianist won two golds at the 1948 Olympics in the discus and shot put, as well as a bronze in the high jump?
28 At the height of its power c.1050, which Tamil dynasty that ruled primarily in southern India until the 13th century originated in the fertile valley of the Kaveri, and included such rules as Karikala among its early kings and Rajara, Rajendra and Kulothunga among famous emperors of the medieval period?
29 Which Scottish king was captured by Edward III at the 1346 Battle of Neville's Cross and imprisoned in the Tower of London for 11 years?
30 In October 1604 Johannes Kepler observed an exceptionally bright star in which constellation, which turned out to be the last supernova to have been observed in our own galaxy, the Milky Way?
31 What two-word name did Edison give to the device, which would provide the first movie, that he patented in October 1888?
32 Considered one of the best such units in the world, what is the counter-terrorism unit of the German Federal Police called?
32 In which year did Mother Teresa win the Nobel Peace Prize?
33 Where did the Loma Prieta earthquake strike?
34 Born on the island of Jersey with the surname Sutherland in 1864, which author wrote such early 20th century bestsellers as It, Three Weeks and Beyond the Rocks and was the younger sister of the fashion designer Lucy "Lucile" Lady Duff-Gordon?
34 Also known for the compositions he penned for the 1959 Marcel Camus film Black Orpheus, which Brazilian composer and guitarist's most famous composition is the introspective and melancholy Maha de Carnaval/A Day in the Life of a Fool, which has been among the top ten standards played worldwide according to The Guinness Book of World Records?
35 Where did the Magister militum Ricimer defeat the Emperor Avitus in October 456, resulting in him becoming the master of the western Roman Empire?
36 Where did the Sixth Coalition attack Napoleon on October 16, 1813?
37 In October 1843, Sir William Rowan Hamilton came up with the idea of which non-commutative extension of complex numbers?
38 One of the most famous hoaxes in US history, what 10-foot tall "petrified man" later found to be the creation of tobacconist George Hull was uncovered on October 16, 1869 by workers digging a well behind the barn of William C. "Stub" Newell in New York state?
39 Who founded Planned Parenthood in 1916 by opening the first US birth control clinic?
40 Which country was rocked by the Rodney Riots in 1968, inspired by the barring of Guyanese political figure and historian Walter Rodney from the country?
41 Which group of Australian television journalists, based in the eponymous Portuguese Timor town, were killed by Indonesian troops on October 16, 1975?
42 Eighty-four people were killed as 47,000 football fans tried to squeeze into the 36,000 Estadio Mateo Flores in which capital city on October 16, 1996?
43 William de la Pole (1396-1450) was the first man to hold which dukedom?
44 Which Khanate was conquered by troops of Ivan Grozny on October 15, 1552?
45 Edward Gibbon was inspired to begin The History of the Decline of the Roman Empire in 1764 whilst observing friars singing in which ruined building?
46 Named after its inventor who was killed when it sunk during a test in 1863, what was the first submarine to sink a ship and the first to sink an enemy warship?
47 Tata Airlines made its first flight on October 15, 1932. What did it later become known as?
48 The Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthesised the first of what type of drug in 1951?
49 In which city were 35 construction workers killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge collapsed in 1970?
50 What probe was launched in October 1997 from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn?
51 Iham Aliyev became president of which country in 2003, succeeding his father Heydar Aliyev?
52 Said to be "in some respects the best [pastoral writer] in the world" by Leigh Hunt, which Scottish poet produced the dramatic pastoral The Gentle Shepherd in 1725?
53 What is the name of Jack Dee's alter ego in his new BBC4 comedy Lead Balloon?
54 Which small passerine bird of the finch family Fringillidae has the scientific name Fringilla coelebs?
55 What at 2,912m is the highest peak in the Apennine mountains? And on which massif is it located?
56 Which play was famously described as "the Revolution in action" by Napoleon?
57 An apprentice of Kenzo Tange and winner of the RIBA gold medal in 1986, which Japanese architect's buildings include Kyoto Concert Hall, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Turin's Palasport Olimpico, the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar and the COSI, formerly Center of Science and Industry in Columbus, Ohio?
58 The recently opened Frederic C Hamilton Building of the Denver Art Museum is whose first completed US building?
59 Which US minimalist sculptor (1933-1996) created sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures which he called "icons" and whose largest series is Monument to V.Tatlin, a group of white works in home to the Russian sculptor?
60 The unusual black-feathered genus of parrots, the Vasa parrot, are only found where?
61 Which American feminist artist, known for such political Body Art as 1985's nine-part portfolio Possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law which called attention to the body's internal organs, also used the image of the human ovum on her 1989 work Black Flag and began her extensive print collection in the 1980s, saying of them "[They] mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet everyone is different"?
62 In which Samuel Beckett play does the protagonist recall his younger self as "drowned in dreams and burning to be gone" and the planet Earth "this old mudball"?
63 Also known as Norteno meaning "northern" in Spanish, what polka-influenced genre of Mexican music is characterised by the accordion and bajo sexto and is/was played by such artists as Los Tigres del Norte, Ramon Ayala y sus Bravos del Norte and Esteban Jordan?
64 By what initials is Germany's equivalent of the SAS, standing for "Special Forces Command", popularly known?
65 Who began issuing the lists of stock prices in 1698 that would lead to the forming of the London Stock Exchange at Jonathan's Coffee House?
66 Which man, who thought he was Jesus, was the basis of David Bowie's character Ziggy Stardust?
67 What is the name of the baby on the cover of Nirvana's album Nevermind?
68 Which American singer-songwriter, whose favourite own song is Some Velvet Morning, went to live in Sweden and produced the 1970 album Cowboy in Sweden?
69 Which country star had "the Texas Playboys" for his backing band?
70 Though its composition is officially credited to his wife Mabel under the pseudonym Billie Grey, who is credited with writing the 1920s music hall song The Laughing Policeman?
71 Which British musician and pioneer of electronic music (1937-2001) is probably best known for her electronic realisation of Ron Grainer's theme music to Doctor Who and for her work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop?
72 Which Tin Pan Alley composer wrote a 1907 musical piece entitled Teddy Bears' Picnic, though it truly gained prominence when the Irish lyricist Jimmy Kennedy added words in 1932 and it was recorded by Henry Hill and his BBC Dance Orchestra featuring Val Rosing as lead vocalist?
73 Which Scottish pop band topped the UK charts for five weeks in 1971 with Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep?
74 Once featuring Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple fame, what was the backing group of Screaming Lord Sutch?
75 Larry Ellison bought an F-16 fighter jet with the money he has made from which corporation, of which he is still CEO, that deals in the development database management and other software?
76 Marie Antoinette was not the promiscuous lady popular history would have us believe and is believed to have only had one affair with which Swedish count?
77 Which American actress was born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1908?
78 Which company was founded as Mosaic Communications Corporation on April 4, 1994 by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark?
79 Who played Samuel "Zammo" Maguire on Grange Hill?
80 Which underwear manufacturers were bestowed with the Queen's royal warrant in 1960 and the Queen Mother's in 1993?
81 Which author of the Some Hope trilogy was nominated for the 2006 Man Booker prize for his novel Mother's Milk?
82 Which current capital city, whose name means "capital", was renamed by Khruschev, Tselinograd, meaning "Virgin Lands City"?
83 Worth $3.4 billion, who is the world's richest self-made woman having built up China's largest paper recycling business, Nine Dragons Paper?
84 What 3/4 dance originated in Spain in the late 18th century as a combination of the contradanza and the sevillana, and has a name dated by Ed Morales to Jose Pepe Sanchez's Tristeza in 1885, which popularised the term and is now considered the first classic in the field?
85 The name of a priestess in Haitian Voodoo meaning "conversation with the gods", the history of the modern form of which Cuban musical form and dance style begins in 1938 when a danzon of that name was written by Orestes and Cachao Lopez?
86 Which 29-year-old woman was the first female to be crowned Iran's national rally champion and was recently barred by her sports federation from a race at Tehran's Azadi stadium?
87 Which Venetian baroque composer (1671-1751), better known in his day for composing 50 operas, is now most famous for his instrumental Adagio in G Minor, which was reconstructed in 1945 by Remo Giazotto from a fragment of a slow movement of a trio sonata he discovered among the ruins of the State library?
88 Which man, "The John Coltrane of the Organ", pioneered a modal approach to the Hammon B-3 in contrast to Jimmy Smith's soul-jazz style and recorded his best known album Unity in 1965 having mad his debut on the Blue Note label with Into Somethin', but tragically died of pneumonia aged 38 in 1978?
89 Which German artist (b. 1941) and self-taught photographer formulated with fellow art academy student Gerhard Richter, a Pop Art style called "Capitalist Realism", as seen in his work Paganini, an expression of "the difficulty of purging the demons of Nazism" that utilised "hidden" swastikas, as well his acrylic on paper Spiderman?
90 What industrial city, birthplace of Yi Seonggye the founder of the Yi dynasty the last imperial line of Korea, is North Korea's second largest city with an estimated population of 874,000?
91 Known for such infamous works as Hiropon, My Lonesome Cowboy and the mushroom-themed Smooth Nightmare, which Japanese artist is credited with founding the Manga-influenced "Superflat" style, which he developed from Poku, and also founded the Hiropon factory that developed from a group of his assistants into the Kaikai Kiki Co. artists' collective?
92 Originally founded in 1987, Portikus is an exhibition for contemporary art in which European city?
93 Which German photographer (b. 1955), known for the highly textured feel of his enormous photographs often using a high point of view, uses computers to edit his pictures to create something with a larger space than the subject photographed and holds the record for contemporary prints with Untitled V, which was sold for $560,000?
94 Dubbed the "Rolls-Royce of Motorcycles" by HD Teague of The Motorcycle newspaper, on which bike of which 3048 of 19 models were made in 21 years of production from 1919 to 1940 on Haydn Road in Nottingham did Lawrence of Arabia die when he crashed it?
95 Which UK athlete became world triathlon champion on September 3, 2006 after finishing 17 seconds in front of Hamish Carter, and was suspended for three months on October 17 for missing three out-of-competition drugs tests over an 18-month period?
96 Occupyig 2,000 square miles from Lake George to Lake Edward around the Kazinga Channel connecting them, the Queen Elizabeth National Park is the most-visited game reserve in which country?
97 Which 1984 Istvan Szabo film starring Klaus Maria Brandauer as the title character is based partly on John Osborne's play A Patriot for Me?
98 What fashion label, literally "like some boys", is headed by the avant-garde designer Rei Kawakubo?
99 Known by the pseudonym "Georges Le Gloupier", which Belgian writer, critic and actor began his most notorious career when he planted a cream pie on the face of French novelist Marguerite Duras in 1969 and gained global attention in 1998 when his group ambushed Bill Gates in Brussels?
100 An inspiration for the art design and sets of the film Gladiator, which French painter and sculptor produced many works in a historical, Orientalist style, including The Cock-Fight (1847), Caesar (1859) and his 1872 painting Pollice Verso, which is the immediate source of the "thumbs down" gesture in popular culture?
101 Famously derided in the TV sitcom Spaced, which 1980 fantasy film starred John Terry as the eponymous hero who is given a magic sword and leads a band of followers to save England from his wicked brother Vulcan (played by Jack Palance)?
102 Given the scientific name Senecio vulgaris, what worldwide annual weed of cultivation in the family Asteraceae is topped by rayless, yellow flower heads called capitula and its fluffly white seed heads?
103 The Asteraceae is the second largest family in the Division Magnoliophyta with some 1,100 genera and over 20,000 recognised species, after which family with about 25,000 described species?
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1 Ecuador 2 Ununoctium 3 Andijan 4 Grameen Bank "Banking for the poor" 5 Ashingdon 6 The Whale 7 Aix-la-Chapelle 8 Klaus Fuchs 9 Luca Giordano 10 Heinrich von Kleist 11 Alexander Kluge 12 Ernst Didring 13 Lucien Petit-Breton 14 Never on Sunday 15 Albania 16 Jazz 17 The Sorrow of War 18 John Taverner 19 Antonio Jose de Silva 20 Etienne Mehul 21 Philipp Franz von Siebold 22 Charles Gounod (1859 work is Faust) 23 Mikhail Nesterov 24 (Ahmed) Boughera El Ouafi 25 Tennyson 26 Leo Strauss 27 Micheline Ostermeyer 28 Chola 29 David II 30 Ophiuchus 31 Optical phonograph 32 GSG 9 or Grenzschutzgruppe 9/Border Guards, Group 9 32 1979 33 San Francisco on October 17, 1989 33 Elinor Glyn 34 Luiz Bonfa 35 Piacenza 36 Leipzig 37 Quaternions 38 The Cardiff Giant 39 Margaret Sanger 40 Jamaica 41 The Balibo Five 42 Guatemala City 43 Suffolk 44 Kazan 45 Temple of Jupiter, Rome 46 CSS H.L. Hunley 47 Air India 48 Oral contraceptive 49 Melbourne 50 Cassini 51 Azerbaijan 52 Allan Ramsay 53 Rick Spleen 54 Chaffinch 55 Corno Grande, Gran Sasso 56 Beaumarchais's The Marriage of Figaro 57 Arata Isozaki 58 Daniel Libeskind 59 Dan Flavin 60 Madagascar 61 Kiki Smith 62 Krapp's Last Tape 63 Conjunto 64 KSK (Kommando Spezialkrafte) 65 John Castaing 66 Vince Taylor 67 Spencer Elden 68 Lee Hazlewood 69 Bob Willis 70 Charles Jolly (born Charles Penrose) 71 Delia Derbyshire 72 John Walter Bratton 73 Middle of the Road 74 The Savages 75 Oracle 76 Axel Fersen 77 Carole Lombard 78 Netscape 79 Lee MacDonald 80 Rigby & Peller 81 Edward St Aubyn 82 Astana 83 Zhang Yin 84 Bolero 85 Mambo 86 Laleh Seddigeh 87 Tomaso Albinoni 88 Larry Young 89 Sigmar Polke 90 Hamhung 91 Takashi Murakami 92 Frankfurt am Main 93 Andreas Gursky 94 Brough Superior 95 Tim Don 96 Uganda 97 Colonel Redl 98 Comme des Garcons 99 Noel Godin 100 Jean-Leon Gerome 101 Hawk the Slayer 102 Groundsel 103 Orchid or Orchidaceae
So here is a century-plus-three quiz. Just for you. I know how much you miss them and how they make you print them off and read them on holiday (you crazy?!!). Personally speaking, last time I went abroad and took some books with me to read, they were actual novels with fiction riven in their seams.
I had forgotten how much these hee-yooge quizzes take out of me. A lot: sanity, mental energy, time. But I hope they do you some good, though you may not think much of the modern art (there should be more modern art in quiz; and I'm talking about questions that don't just ask "which American painter was nicknamed 'Jack the Dripper'? Please give us more Nauman, Richter, Martin Parr and Jeff Wall. Or give me, more accurately. On stuff that pits my bedroom wall in postcard form).
1 Results from which country's general election have indicated that Alvaro Noboa will likely face off in a run-off for the presidency?
2 What temporary name has been assigned to the chemical element with the atomic number 118 - the heaviest ever - which has been synthesized in Dubna, Russia?
3 The Uzbek president Islam Karimov has fired governor Saidullo Begaliev for causing the 2005 massacre in which province?
4 The Bangladeshi Muhammad Yunus and which microfinance organisation, founded in 1976, has been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize?
5 At which October 18, 1016 battle did Danish forces led by Canute the Great decisively defeat Edmund Ironside, thus gaining control over most of England?
6 Under what title was Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick first published on October 18, 1851?
7 Nice easy one: which 1748 treaty ended the War of Austrian Succession?
8 From which German-born theoretical physicist and atomic spy at the Los Alamos National Laboratory did the USSR receive plans of the USA's plutonium bomb for its nuclear program in October 1945?
9 Apprenticed to Ribera at a precocious age, which influential late Baroque painter acquired the nickname "Luca Fa-presto" meaning "Luke Work-fast" and is known for painting the ceiling of the Biblioteca Riccardiano (Wisdom released from the Slavery of Ignorance) and the long gallery of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, where such frescoes depicting the Triumph of the Medici in the clouds of Olympus, the Creation of Man and Greek mythological characters can be seen?
10 Which writer gave his name to an annual German literature prize first awarded in 1912 (to 1933) on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death and which was recontinued in 1985?
11 Winner of the Heinrich von Kleist prize in 1985, which noted German author and film director wrote 1962's Lebenslaufe/Case Histories, also published earlier in English as Attendance List for a Funeral, a collection which includes the story Anita G, that he adapted in cinematic form in 1966 as Yesterday's Girl?
12 Which Swedish author published his main series and best known book Malm/Iron ore from 1914 to 1925, which included Pioneers, The Mountain's Song and Speculators?
13 Born in Britanny in 1882 with the names Lucien Georges Mazan, which Argentine cyclist became the first man to win the Tour de France twice (1907 and 1908) and died in 1917 when he crashed against an oncoming car at the front near Troyes?
14 The Greek actress Melina Mercouri first rose to international fame thanks to which 1960 film, directed by and starring her husband Jules Dassin and concerning the story of prostitute Ilya and her relationship with American tourist and classical scholar Homer?
15 Ramiz Alia led which European country from 1985 to 1992?
16 The Icelandic Chris Albertson is renowned for being a historian and player of which genre of music?
17 The Vietnamese novelist Bao Ninh is best known for writing which international bestseller, his first and to date only novel about Kien a North Vietnamese soldier and his travails during the Vietnam War?
18 Which English composer was appointed the first Organist and Master of the Choristers at Christ Church, Oxford by Cardinal Wolsey in 1526 and is known for his motet Dum Transisset Sabbatum and the mass The Western Wynde, which was based on a popular song?
19 Which Portuguese dramatist, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1705 and known as "the Jew" or O Judeu, wrote such comedies as Vida do Grande Dom Quixote de la Mancha e do Gordo Sancho Panca (1733), Esopaida (1734), Amphitriio (May 1736) and Labyrintho de Creta (Nov 1736) all performed and played by marionettes at the Bairro Alto theatre between 1733 and 1738?
20 Which French composer offered his Euphrosine et Coradin to the Opera Comique and had it accepted and performed in 1790, thus fixing his reputation at once, and further enhanced his reputation with the three best works of his 42 operas: La Jeunesse d'Henri IV, Uthal and Joseph, before dying in Paris in 1817?
21 Which German physician (1796-1866) emerged as the first European to teach Western medicine in Japan and obtained significance for his study of Japanese flora and fauna that were endemic to the unique biotic island landscape; museums in Leiden, Wurzburg and Nagasaki standing as testimony to his work?
22 Having won the Prix de Rome in 1839 for his cantata Ferdinand, which French composer wrote his first opera, Sappho, in 1851 but had no great success until his best known in 1859, while Mireille of 1864 is admired by connoisseurs?
23 Which leading representative of religious Symbolism in Russian art, allied himself with the group of artists known as the Peredvizhniki, and is perhaps best known for his 1890 canvas The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew, which depicted the conversion of Sergii Radonezhsky and is recognised as marking the inauguration of the Russian Symbolist movement?
24 Which Algerian athlete won the Olympic gold medal in the marathon at the 1928 Amsterdam games and was killed three days after his 61st birthday by members of the Algerian Liberation Movement after he had refused to support them?
25 Canadian businesswoman Florence Nightingale Graham took her name - Elizabeth Arden - from an 1864 poem by whom?
26 Which Jewish German-American philosopher and neoconservative ideologue published Persecution and the Art of Writing in 1952, which advanced the possibility that philosophers wrote esoterically to avoid persecution by the state or religious authority, while also being able to reach potential philosophers within the pious faithful, and in The City and Man, discussed the myths outlined in Plato's Republic that are required for all governments?
27 Which Tunisian-born French athlete and pianist won two golds at the 1948 Olympics in the discus and shot put, as well as a bronze in the high jump?
28 At the height of its power c.1050, which Tamil dynasty that ruled primarily in southern India until the 13th century originated in the fertile valley of the Kaveri, and included such rules as Karikala among its early kings and Rajara, Rajendra and Kulothunga among famous emperors of the medieval period?
29 Which Scottish king was captured by Edward III at the 1346 Battle of Neville's Cross and imprisoned in the Tower of London for 11 years?
30 In October 1604 Johannes Kepler observed an exceptionally bright star in which constellation, which turned out to be the last supernova to have been observed in our own galaxy, the Milky Way?
31 What two-word name did Edison give to the device, which would provide the first movie, that he patented in October 1888?
32 Considered one of the best such units in the world, what is the counter-terrorism unit of the German Federal Police called?
32 In which year did Mother Teresa win the Nobel Peace Prize?
33 Where did the Loma Prieta earthquake strike?
34 Born on the island of Jersey with the surname Sutherland in 1864, which author wrote such early 20th century bestsellers as It, Three Weeks and Beyond the Rocks and was the younger sister of the fashion designer Lucy "Lucile" Lady Duff-Gordon?
34 Also known for the compositions he penned for the 1959 Marcel Camus film Black Orpheus, which Brazilian composer and guitarist's most famous composition is the introspective and melancholy Maha de Carnaval/A Day in the Life of a Fool, which has been among the top ten standards played worldwide according to The Guinness Book of World Records?
35 Where did the Magister militum Ricimer defeat the Emperor Avitus in October 456, resulting in him becoming the master of the western Roman Empire?
36 Where did the Sixth Coalition attack Napoleon on October 16, 1813?
37 In October 1843, Sir William Rowan Hamilton came up with the idea of which non-commutative extension of complex numbers?
38 One of the most famous hoaxes in US history, what 10-foot tall "petrified man" later found to be the creation of tobacconist George Hull was uncovered on October 16, 1869 by workers digging a well behind the barn of William C. "Stub" Newell in New York state?
39 Who founded Planned Parenthood in 1916 by opening the first US birth control clinic?
40 Which country was rocked by the Rodney Riots in 1968, inspired by the barring of Guyanese political figure and historian Walter Rodney from the country?
41 Which group of Australian television journalists, based in the eponymous Portuguese Timor town, were killed by Indonesian troops on October 16, 1975?
42 Eighty-four people were killed as 47,000 football fans tried to squeeze into the 36,000 Estadio Mateo Flores in which capital city on October 16, 1996?
43 William de la Pole (1396-1450) was the first man to hold which dukedom?
44 Which Khanate was conquered by troops of Ivan Grozny on October 15, 1552?
45 Edward Gibbon was inspired to begin The History of the Decline of the Roman Empire in 1764 whilst observing friars singing in which ruined building?
46 Named after its inventor who was killed when it sunk during a test in 1863, what was the first submarine to sink a ship and the first to sink an enemy warship?
47 Tata Airlines made its first flight on October 15, 1932. What did it later become known as?
48 The Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthesised the first of what type of drug in 1951?
49 In which city were 35 construction workers killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge collapsed in 1970?
50 What probe was launched in October 1997 from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn?
51 Iham Aliyev became president of which country in 2003, succeeding his father Heydar Aliyev?
52 Said to be "in some respects the best [pastoral writer] in the world" by Leigh Hunt, which Scottish poet produced the dramatic pastoral The Gentle Shepherd in 1725?
53 What is the name of Jack Dee's alter ego in his new BBC4 comedy Lead Balloon?
54 Which small passerine bird of the finch family Fringillidae has the scientific name Fringilla coelebs?
55 What at 2,912m is the highest peak in the Apennine mountains? And on which massif is it located?
56 Which play was famously described as "the Revolution in action" by Napoleon?
57 An apprentice of Kenzo Tange and winner of the RIBA gold medal in 1986, which Japanese architect's buildings include Kyoto Concert Hall, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Turin's Palasport Olimpico, the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar and the COSI, formerly Center of Science and Industry in Columbus, Ohio?
58 The recently opened Frederic C Hamilton Building of the Denver Art Museum is whose first completed US building?
59 Which US minimalist sculptor (1933-1996) created sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures which he called "icons" and whose largest series is Monument to V.Tatlin, a group of white works in home to the Russian sculptor?
60 The unusual black-feathered genus of parrots, the Vasa parrot, are only found where?
61 Which American feminist artist, known for such political Body Art as 1985's nine-part portfolio Possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law which called attention to the body's internal organs, also used the image of the human ovum on her 1989 work Black Flag and began her extensive print collection in the 1980s, saying of them "[They] mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet everyone is different"?
62 In which Samuel Beckett play does the protagonist recall his younger self as "drowned in dreams and burning to be gone" and the planet Earth "this old mudball"?
63 Also known as Norteno meaning "northern" in Spanish, what polka-influenced genre of Mexican music is characterised by the accordion and bajo sexto and is/was played by such artists as Los Tigres del Norte, Ramon Ayala y sus Bravos del Norte and Esteban Jordan?
64 By what initials is Germany's equivalent of the SAS, standing for "Special Forces Command", popularly known?
65 Who began issuing the lists of stock prices in 1698 that would lead to the forming of the London Stock Exchange at Jonathan's Coffee House?
66 Which man, who thought he was Jesus, was the basis of David Bowie's character Ziggy Stardust?
67 What is the name of the baby on the cover of Nirvana's album Nevermind?
68 Which American singer-songwriter, whose favourite own song is Some Velvet Morning, went to live in Sweden and produced the 1970 album Cowboy in Sweden?
69 Which country star had "the Texas Playboys" for his backing band?
70 Though its composition is officially credited to his wife Mabel under the pseudonym Billie Grey, who is credited with writing the 1920s music hall song The Laughing Policeman?
71 Which British musician and pioneer of electronic music (1937-2001) is probably best known for her electronic realisation of Ron Grainer's theme music to Doctor Who and for her work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop?
72 Which Tin Pan Alley composer wrote a 1907 musical piece entitled Teddy Bears' Picnic, though it truly gained prominence when the Irish lyricist Jimmy Kennedy added words in 1932 and it was recorded by Henry Hill and his BBC Dance Orchestra featuring Val Rosing as lead vocalist?
73 Which Scottish pop band topped the UK charts for five weeks in 1971 with Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep?
74 Once featuring Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple fame, what was the backing group of Screaming Lord Sutch?
75 Larry Ellison bought an F-16 fighter jet with the money he has made from which corporation, of which he is still CEO, that deals in the development database management and other software?
76 Marie Antoinette was not the promiscuous lady popular history would have us believe and is believed to have only had one affair with which Swedish count?
77 Which American actress was born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1908?
78 Which company was founded as Mosaic Communications Corporation on April 4, 1994 by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark?
79 Who played Samuel "Zammo" Maguire on Grange Hill?
80 Which underwear manufacturers were bestowed with the Queen's royal warrant in 1960 and the Queen Mother's in 1993?
81 Which author of the Some Hope trilogy was nominated for the 2006 Man Booker prize for his novel Mother's Milk?
82 Which current capital city, whose name means "capital", was renamed by Khruschev, Tselinograd, meaning "Virgin Lands City"?
83 Worth $3.4 billion, who is the world's richest self-made woman having built up China's largest paper recycling business, Nine Dragons Paper?
84 What 3/4 dance originated in Spain in the late 18th century as a combination of the contradanza and the sevillana, and has a name dated by Ed Morales to Jose Pepe Sanchez's Tristeza in 1885, which popularised the term and is now considered the first classic in the field?
85 The name of a priestess in Haitian Voodoo meaning "conversation with the gods", the history of the modern form of which Cuban musical form and dance style begins in 1938 when a danzon of that name was written by Orestes and Cachao Lopez?
86 Which 29-year-old woman was the first female to be crowned Iran's national rally champion and was recently barred by her sports federation from a race at Tehran's Azadi stadium?
87 Which Venetian baroque composer (1671-1751), better known in his day for composing 50 operas, is now most famous for his instrumental Adagio in G Minor, which was reconstructed in 1945 by Remo Giazotto from a fragment of a slow movement of a trio sonata he discovered among the ruins of the State library?
88 Which man, "The John Coltrane of the Organ", pioneered a modal approach to the Hammon B-3 in contrast to Jimmy Smith's soul-jazz style and recorded his best known album Unity in 1965 having mad his debut on the Blue Note label with Into Somethin', but tragically died of pneumonia aged 38 in 1978?
89 Which German artist (b. 1941) and self-taught photographer formulated with fellow art academy student Gerhard Richter, a Pop Art style called "Capitalist Realism", as seen in his work Paganini, an expression of "the difficulty of purging the demons of Nazism" that utilised "hidden" swastikas, as well his acrylic on paper Spiderman?
90 What industrial city, birthplace of Yi Seonggye the founder of the Yi dynasty the last imperial line of Korea, is North Korea's second largest city with an estimated population of 874,000?
91 Known for such infamous works as Hiropon, My Lonesome Cowboy and the mushroom-themed Smooth Nightmare, which Japanese artist is credited with founding the Manga-influenced "Superflat" style, which he developed from Poku, and also founded the Hiropon factory that developed from a group of his assistants into the Kaikai Kiki Co. artists' collective?
92 Originally founded in 1987, Portikus is an exhibition for contemporary art in which European city?
93 Which German photographer (b. 1955), known for the highly textured feel of his enormous photographs often using a high point of view, uses computers to edit his pictures to create something with a larger space than the subject photographed and holds the record for contemporary prints with Untitled V, which was sold for $560,000?
94 Dubbed the "Rolls-Royce of Motorcycles" by HD Teague of The Motorcycle newspaper, on which bike of which 3048 of 19 models were made in 21 years of production from 1919 to 1940 on Haydn Road in Nottingham did Lawrence of Arabia die when he crashed it?
95 Which UK athlete became world triathlon champion on September 3, 2006 after finishing 17 seconds in front of Hamish Carter, and was suspended for three months on October 17 for missing three out-of-competition drugs tests over an 18-month period?
96 Occupyig 2,000 square miles from Lake George to Lake Edward around the Kazinga Channel connecting them, the Queen Elizabeth National Park is the most-visited game reserve in which country?
97 Which 1984 Istvan Szabo film starring Klaus Maria Brandauer as the title character is based partly on John Osborne's play A Patriot for Me?
98 What fashion label, literally "like some boys", is headed by the avant-garde designer Rei Kawakubo?
99 Known by the pseudonym "Georges Le Gloupier", which Belgian writer, critic and actor began his most notorious career when he planted a cream pie on the face of French novelist Marguerite Duras in 1969 and gained global attention in 1998 when his group ambushed Bill Gates in Brussels?
100 An inspiration for the art design and sets of the film Gladiator, which French painter and sculptor produced many works in a historical, Orientalist style, including The Cock-Fight (1847), Caesar (1859) and his 1872 painting Pollice Verso, which is the immediate source of the "thumbs down" gesture in popular culture?
101 Famously derided in the TV sitcom Spaced, which 1980 fantasy film starred John Terry as the eponymous hero who is given a magic sword and leads a band of followers to save England from his wicked brother Vulcan (played by Jack Palance)?
102 Given the scientific name Senecio vulgaris, what worldwide annual weed of cultivation in the family Asteraceae is topped by rayless, yellow flower heads called capitula and its fluffly white seed heads?
103 The Asteraceae is the second largest family in the Division Magnoliophyta with some 1,100 genera and over 20,000 recognised species, after which family with about 25,000 described species?
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1 Ecuador 2 Ununoctium 3 Andijan 4 Grameen Bank "Banking for the poor" 5 Ashingdon 6 The Whale 7 Aix-la-Chapelle 8 Klaus Fuchs 9 Luca Giordano 10 Heinrich von Kleist 11 Alexander Kluge 12 Ernst Didring 13 Lucien Petit-Breton 14 Never on Sunday 15 Albania 16 Jazz 17 The Sorrow of War 18 John Taverner 19 Antonio Jose de Silva 20 Etienne Mehul 21 Philipp Franz von Siebold 22 Charles Gounod (1859 work is Faust) 23 Mikhail Nesterov 24 (Ahmed) Boughera El Ouafi 25 Tennyson 26 Leo Strauss 27 Micheline Ostermeyer 28 Chola 29 David II 30 Ophiuchus 31 Optical phonograph 32 GSG 9 or Grenzschutzgruppe 9/Border Guards, Group 9 32 1979 33 San Francisco on October 17, 1989 33 Elinor Glyn 34 Luiz Bonfa 35 Piacenza 36 Leipzig 37 Quaternions 38 The Cardiff Giant 39 Margaret Sanger 40 Jamaica 41 The Balibo Five 42 Guatemala City 43 Suffolk 44 Kazan 45 Temple of Jupiter, Rome 46 CSS H.L. Hunley 47 Air India 48 Oral contraceptive 49 Melbourne 50 Cassini 51 Azerbaijan 52 Allan Ramsay 53 Rick Spleen 54 Chaffinch 55 Corno Grande, Gran Sasso 56 Beaumarchais's The Marriage of Figaro 57 Arata Isozaki 58 Daniel Libeskind 59 Dan Flavin 60 Madagascar 61 Kiki Smith 62 Krapp's Last Tape 63 Conjunto 64 KSK (Kommando Spezialkrafte) 65 John Castaing 66 Vince Taylor 67 Spencer Elden 68 Lee Hazlewood 69 Bob Willis 70 Charles Jolly (born Charles Penrose) 71 Delia Derbyshire 72 John Walter Bratton 73 Middle of the Road 74 The Savages 75 Oracle 76 Axel Fersen 77 Carole Lombard 78 Netscape 79 Lee MacDonald 80 Rigby & Peller 81 Edward St Aubyn 82 Astana 83 Zhang Yin 84 Bolero 85 Mambo 86 Laleh Seddigeh 87 Tomaso Albinoni 88 Larry Young 89 Sigmar Polke 90 Hamhung 91 Takashi Murakami 92 Frankfurt am Main 93 Andreas Gursky 94 Brough Superior 95 Tim Don 96 Uganda 97 Colonel Redl 98 Comme des Garcons 99 Noel Godin 100 Jean-Leon Gerome 101 Hawk the Slayer 102 Groundsel 103 Orchid or Orchidaceae
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