BH110: Cleaning Up Series Part I
So you thought you'd visit this blog and find me spilling (sometimes further) insights and hilariously bloated tidbits on the Transatlantic Challenge, Saturday's TPQ, and tonight's moment of fine collecting glory at QLL Finals Night. And I say: No dice. Not yet. I'll be writing up stuff on the aforementioned shindigs, but not right now. All in good time. All in good time.
I have loads of spare questions swilling around my bucket of quiz at the moment. They're spilling out and making a mess of everything else, like my poor brain for instance, so I thought I'd transform them into a series of BH quizzes (ooh, I remember when I filed one every day ... and that was when I didn't even have a web connection at my London flat ... I must have been crazy, but then again that was a time long before I'd ever imagine wasting hours of every precious day faffing about on MySpace and Facebook) and dump them here as if it were a digital skip o' trivia during the course of this week (every day if you are lucky, and if I can be arsed). Because many readers - you guys! - seem to miss them. Probably because I used to give thousands of them away, like a dang fool, and I found that when I did so, I invariably changed the setting habits of visitors to this blog, to my detriment. If only I had kept some secret ... my scores could have gone up by at least one per cent. That's almost two marks. Bloody loads. Having said that, my not reading the stuff that appeared here and then popped their sadly unfamiliar heads in quizzes mattered proved far more to that detriment that seems to be growing larger with every moment of every passing day (I'm thinking about that funky New Zealand tree from last year's Worlds ... the one that got away always sticks in the mind ... like chewing gum I have planted in a sibling's hair).
Paraphrasing military terminology, I did not so much fire-and-forget, but set-and-forget. Tis the unhappy lot of the question setter. Unlike many of the said esteemed practitioners of quiz construction, I have not resigned myself to the amnesia that sets in and wipes all trace of facts from the memory after I have authored a shedload of them. I do recall about 40 per cent that has somehow found its way into my long term memory. It's that missing 60 per cent that makes me shout a regretful "bugger!" on a regular basis. The prodigal knowledge is the stuff you will always miss the most when you realise it has gone AWOL. You wanted to rely on it, and when it came to the test, you realise it has shoved off and left you dangling like a maggot on a fish-hook waiting to be bitten off by your mediocre ignorance. Why didn't it leave a note, you wonder like a jilted, yet admittedly inattentive lover?
But now, more often than not, I find keeping most of my original questions back (I was going into a poker metaphor here, but further length to this post will only result in your skimming straight to the quiz below) is far more fun. People - in other words my victims and quasi-slaves - go into a kind of cold turkey: missing the "good stuff" they had become so accustomed to. No more copy and paste like it used to be. Then, after months have passed - KLABAMMO! - you hit 'em up Sixties Batman and Robin style and smack 'em with a book packed silly with well-crafted and difficult to find trivia that can only gladden the quiz fiend's heart.
That's sort of my reasoning. And, yes, the Lulu book is coming. I may even have a peak at the questions right now. Just to remind me of the tortuous, painful journey ahead of me in terms of formatting, proofing, verification and choosing a suitable font and colour (classical black and white, or violently vomitous purples and pinks?). It will be months before it makes it out of my laptop. Yes. Dozens of months.
I've changed my mindset slightly with regards to putting out more BH quizzes only because there is less than two months left before the Worlds on June 2, and they furnish me with another means of preparation: keeping me fresh, on the edge, the rest of that finger clicking Al Pacino speech from Heat. I want to do really well: keep on climbing the finishing table, breath the fresher air found at steeper heights.
If you said: "Would you like £200,000 or would you like a world title won with merit over the greatest quizzers in the world?" No, I won't say I'll take the latter and walk into the sunset with shining pride springing in my chest. I cannot lie straight-faced about the comparative importance of the pecuniary enrichment of such a sum. I would still get the 200 gees, but I guarantee I would spend at least half a minute thinking about the glow of prestige coming off me should I regain the title (yes, regain remember? I'm 1930 Uruguay. I'll always be first ... I mean England didn't turn up for 20 years did they? Silly sods. All those World Cups we could be boasting about right now. We were better than Italy in 1934 and 1938. At both playing football and kicking the crap out of the opposition).
And half a minute for something so intangible can appear attractive. But only half a minute. Then real life's economic realities kick in. At least next year you could, hypothetically speaking, use the money to take contracts out on your biggest, most dangerous rivals involving the infliction of major injuries to the vital mid-posterior hippocampus (i.e. the memory store), thus guaranteeing your glorious, Machiavellian triumph and leaving you enough cash left to bathe in champagne and snort caviar till it came out of your earholes. Not that I would ever pay someone to bop the world champion on the head with a crowbar before they got the chance to defend their title. I mean, it didn't work for Tonya Harding did it? Then again, she was rubbish and should have employed professional help. You know, people who run waste management and olive oil businesses.
NB
Sources for this week's unexpected series of quizzes comes from The Guardian, The Times, The Observer, Trevor Montague's Sport A-Z, The Cassell Dictionary of Word Histories, Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable and Philip's Encyclopedia - the comprehensive edition (I'm not sure that is entirely true in the case of the last reference book cited, but it really did try its darnedest. Trying to fit the world within the boundaries of a single volume book is quite a hard ask). This citation of sources is just in case you accuse me of summat nefarious and underhand and unoriginal. Truth is I do steal entire sentences and entries, and then I mould them and finally I fling the finished products on here for your delectation. Well, mould a little bit, play a kind of Find the Lady with sentence structure and change the adjectives, invariably to ones that are a bit more rubbish and probably aren't even right at all. Ah, the question setter's art. Or is that thievery and vandalism?
Anyway, please, delectate. I've kept you long enough.
1 Aiding future predictions on the existence of antimatter, Paul Dirac's titular equation describes the behaviour of which specific type of particle; one of two types (the other being the boson) that constitute the basis of all matter, but are differentiated by the way in they spin?
2 Which German engineer designed the 1894 glider said to have made the Wright Brothers' work possible?
3 Which Swiss skier won the men's downhill at the 1972 Olympics before finishing runner-up to Franz Klammer four years later?
4 Which German chemist discovered that proteins are made up of amino acids in 1907?
5 A controversial new production of which 1956 Leonard Bernstein operetta was cancelled by La Scala possibly due to it depicting such political leaders as Tony Blair and George W Bush in the roles of "the five deposed kings" who are seen frolicking drunkenly at a beach party in their underwear?
6 Now playing at London's Almeida Theatre, Dying For It is a new adaptation of the Soviet satire The Suicide (1928). Which Moscow-raised playwright originally wrote it?
7 Hailing from the northern Italian region of South Tyrol where he has set up a network of five mountain museums, who is considered the world's most successful climb having become the first man to climb all 14 peaks over 8000m?
8 Which bossa nova pioneer, father of singer Bebel, is simply called "El Mito" meaning The Legend in Brazil?
9 Which Romanian sculptor achieved a world record for an Art Deco sculpture when his Civa sold for £214,300 in Paris last year, while his piece The Russian Dancers - depicting Nijinsky and Ida Rubenstein in their roles in Sheherazade recently sold for £95,700?
10 Which small creature "unknown to science" and found living in an abandoned phone box by a lonely crocodile working as a zoo nightwatchman was the Soviet answer to Mickey Mouse when it first appeared in a 1966 book by Eduard Uspensky called Crocodile Gena and His Friends that became a cartoon in 1969?
11 Known for her pigtails and miniskirts and her control as "Chairlady" of property development conglomerate Chinachem, Asia's richest woman died of cancer on April 3. What was her name?
12 Of the same generation as Giorgione and Bellini, whose (1450-1525) greatest works are all found in Venice: for example the nine-painting St Ursula Cycle in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, The Apparition of the Ten Thousand Martyrs (c.1515) in the same location, and the scenes from the lives of St George and St Jerome in the Scuola Dalmata di San Giorgio degli Schiavone?
13 Which Scottish golf course is due to host this year's Open Championship?
14 Which member of the 23rd Regiment, later the Royal Welch Fusiliers, received the first Army Victoria Cross for his bravery during the Crimean War Battle of Alma in September 1854?
15 Mark Zuckerburg created which social networking site as a project at Harvard University in February 2004?
16 In a 1985-88 comic book and later cartoon series, which inhabitants of Third Earth derive their power from an "Eye" in embedded in the hilt of the Sword of Omens?
17 An ancient herb that grows across Europe as a weed, which bright blue flower has been renamed starflower by the farming industry?
18 What word describes the clandestine roads - estimated to make up a combined 105,000 miles - are often built by illegal loggers through the Amazon rainforest?
19 Which Latin-named ship found the Mary Celeste drifting off the Portuguese coast on December 5, 1872?
20 Which George Harrison song was excluded from Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and was a dig at the concept Paul McCartney sought to impose on the album as well as the band's publishing company, whose name inspired its title?
21 Known for combining spectacular martial arts with comedy slapstick, the nine-member Yegam theatre company had its first major international success with their show Jump, while their latest is called Break Out. From which country do they come?
22 The Akan (44 per cent) followed by Moshi-Dagomba (16 per cent) and Ewe (13 per cent) are the three largest ethnic groups in which country?
23 Which German conductor (1885-1973), renowned for his interpretations of Beethoven, Brahms and Mahler, emigrated to the US with the rise of Nazism in 1933 and became conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic before returning to Europe as director of the Budapest Opera (1947-1950)?
24 Continually in conflict with Athens during the 5th century BC, which Greek city-state and dominant power in Boeotia reached the peak of its power under Epaminondas in the 4th century BC and defeated the Spartans at Leuctra in 371BC?
25 John B. Kelly senior, father of actress Grace Kelly, was a three-time Olympic champion in which sport?
26 Which martial art has a name meaning "master of merit" in Chinese?
27 Which ancient Greek astronomer first classified the brightness of visible stars in the sky on a scale of one to six?
28 Two sons of Nigel Mansell were given drives in last year's Formula BMW Championship and have begun a full British Championship at Formula Three level as team-mates with Fortec Motorsport. What are their names?
29 Which Afrikaans word for a defensive formation of wagons or motor vehicles comes from the Dutch for "camp"?
30 Which French playwright's 1997 book Hammerklavier was inspired by her Jewish-Iranian-Russian father and Auschwitz survivor?
31 Headed by Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC is the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on what phenomenon?
32 Created by Kiev-based developers GSC Game World, which PC game, set in the ruins of Chernobyl's nuclear power station, became an instant bestseller in the UK and US on its release in March 2007?
33 Nestle, the world's largest food group, has agreed to pay $5.5 billion for the US company Gerber. Gerber specialises in what kind of food?
34 Johan Santana, considered by many to be the best pitcher in the majors, and Freddy Garcia are baseball players from which country?
35 Nicknamed "The Frying Pan", what was the only racecourse in London until its closure in 1970?
36 In 1854, what did the Dutch physician Anthonius Mathijsen introduce for the purpose of bone-setting?
37 Sometimes called the "Japanese Shakespeare", which dramatist (1652-1725) with the real name Sugimori Nobumori, wrote the Joruri (an early form of bunraku) plays The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (1703) and The Love Suicides at Amijima (1720)?
38 In 196BC, the Rosetta Stone was inscribed to record the gratitude of the priests of Memphis to which Egyptian ruler?
39 What 1122 agreement between Holy Roman Emperor Henry V and Pope Calixtus II settled the investiture conflict and struggle between the Empire and the papacy over control of Church offices?
40 Which Turkic-speaking people, originally of Iranian culture, take their name from a chief of the Golden Horde who died in 1340?
41 Canonised in 1925, which French Carmelite nun chronicled her spiritual struggle in a series of letters, Story of a Soul/L'histoire d'une ame, begun in 1895 and published posthumously when she died on September 30, 1897?
42 Resulting from the gravitational attraction of the Sun and the Moon on the Earth, what oscillating movement (18.6 years) is superimposed on the steady precessional movement of the Earth's axis so that the precessional path of each celestial pole on the celestial sphere follows an irregular rather than a true circle?
43 The name of which nation's currency is derived from the Macedonian king and conqueror Alexander the Great?
44 Which small black variety of lapdog derives its name from the Dutch for "little boatman" because of its use as a watchdog on barges?
45 Ptochocracy is government by what sort of people?
46 From the Italian for "almond", what is an area or aureola of oval but pointed light surrounding a painting or sculpture of the risen Christ or of the Virgin of the Assumption?
47 Which 19th century English surveyor gave his name to a unit of volume for timber equal to 1.27 cubic feet?
48 Which US novelist is set to log his entry in the 9/11 genre with his forthcoming book The Falling Man?
49 What three-word name has been given to the disease - Puccinia graminis - that has destroyed harvests in Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia and may spread to Egypt, the Middle East and India; a new strain named Ug99 being found to be particularly harmful?
50 Which former model has released the album No Promises, a collection of 19th and 20th century lyric poetry, the follow-up to her first, Quelqu'un m'a dit?
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Answers to BH110
1 Fermion 2 Otto Lilienthal 3 Bernhard Russi 4 Emil Fischer 5 Candide 6 Nikolai Erdman 7 Reinhold Messner 8 Joao Gilberto 9 Demeter Chiparus 10 Cheburashka 11 Nina Wang 12 Vittore Carpaccio 13 Carnoustie 14 Sergeant Luke O'Connor 15 Facebook 16 Thundercats 17 Borage 18 Viscinais 19 Dei Gratia 20 Only a Northern Song 21 South Korea 22 Ghana 23 Otto Klemperer 24 Thebes 25 Rowing 26 Kung fu 27 Hipparchus 28 Leo, Greg 29 Laager 30 Yasmina Reza 31 Climate Change 32 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 33 Baby food 34 Venezuela 35 Alexandra Park 36 Plaster of Paris 37 Chikamatsu Mozaemon 38 King Ptolemy V 39 Concordat of Worms 40 Uzbeks (Uzbeg Khan) 41 St Therese of Lisieux (Marie Francoise Therese Martin) 42 Nutation 43 Albania (lek) 44 Schipperke 45 The poor 46 Mandorla 47 Edward Hoppus 48 Don DeLillo 49 Black stem rust 50 Carla Bruni
I have loads of spare questions swilling around my bucket of quiz at the moment. They're spilling out and making a mess of everything else, like my poor brain for instance, so I thought I'd transform them into a series of BH quizzes (ooh, I remember when I filed one every day ... and that was when I didn't even have a web connection at my London flat ... I must have been crazy, but then again that was a time long before I'd ever imagine wasting hours of every precious day faffing about on MySpace and Facebook) and dump them here as if it were a digital skip o' trivia during the course of this week (every day if you are lucky, and if I can be arsed). Because many readers - you guys! - seem to miss them. Probably because I used to give thousands of them away, like a dang fool, and I found that when I did so, I invariably changed the setting habits of visitors to this blog, to my detriment. If only I had kept some secret ... my scores could have gone up by at least one per cent. That's almost two marks. Bloody loads. Having said that, my not reading the stuff that appeared here and then popped their sadly unfamiliar heads in quizzes mattered proved far more to that detriment that seems to be growing larger with every moment of every passing day (I'm thinking about that funky New Zealand tree from last year's Worlds ... the one that got away always sticks in the mind ... like chewing gum I have planted in a sibling's hair).
Paraphrasing military terminology, I did not so much fire-and-forget, but set-and-forget. Tis the unhappy lot of the question setter. Unlike many of the said esteemed practitioners of quiz construction, I have not resigned myself to the amnesia that sets in and wipes all trace of facts from the memory after I have authored a shedload of them. I do recall about 40 per cent that has somehow found its way into my long term memory. It's that missing 60 per cent that makes me shout a regretful "bugger!" on a regular basis. The prodigal knowledge is the stuff you will always miss the most when you realise it has gone AWOL. You wanted to rely on it, and when it came to the test, you realise it has shoved off and left you dangling like a maggot on a fish-hook waiting to be bitten off by your mediocre ignorance. Why didn't it leave a note, you wonder like a jilted, yet admittedly inattentive lover?
But now, more often than not, I find keeping most of my original questions back (I was going into a poker metaphor here, but further length to this post will only result in your skimming straight to the quiz below) is far more fun. People - in other words my victims and quasi-slaves - go into a kind of cold turkey: missing the "good stuff" they had become so accustomed to. No more copy and paste like it used to be. Then, after months have passed - KLABAMMO! - you hit 'em up Sixties Batman and Robin style and smack 'em with a book packed silly with well-crafted and difficult to find trivia that can only gladden the quiz fiend's heart.
That's sort of my reasoning. And, yes, the Lulu book is coming. I may even have a peak at the questions right now. Just to remind me of the tortuous, painful journey ahead of me in terms of formatting, proofing, verification and choosing a suitable font and colour (classical black and white, or violently vomitous purples and pinks?). It will be months before it makes it out of my laptop. Yes. Dozens of months.
I've changed my mindset slightly with regards to putting out more BH quizzes only because there is less than two months left before the Worlds on June 2, and they furnish me with another means of preparation: keeping me fresh, on the edge, the rest of that finger clicking Al Pacino speech from Heat. I want to do really well: keep on climbing the finishing table, breath the fresher air found at steeper heights.
If you said: "Would you like £200,000 or would you like a world title won with merit over the greatest quizzers in the world?" No, I won't say I'll take the latter and walk into the sunset with shining pride springing in my chest. I cannot lie straight-faced about the comparative importance of the pecuniary enrichment of such a sum. I would still get the 200 gees, but I guarantee I would spend at least half a minute thinking about the glow of prestige coming off me should I regain the title (yes, regain remember? I'm 1930 Uruguay. I'll always be first ... I mean England didn't turn up for 20 years did they? Silly sods. All those World Cups we could be boasting about right now. We were better than Italy in 1934 and 1938. At both playing football and kicking the crap out of the opposition).
And half a minute for something so intangible can appear attractive. But only half a minute. Then real life's economic realities kick in. At least next year you could, hypothetically speaking, use the money to take contracts out on your biggest, most dangerous rivals involving the infliction of major injuries to the vital mid-posterior hippocampus (i.e. the memory store), thus guaranteeing your glorious, Machiavellian triumph and leaving you enough cash left to bathe in champagne and snort caviar till it came out of your earholes. Not that I would ever pay someone to bop the world champion on the head with a crowbar before they got the chance to defend their title. I mean, it didn't work for Tonya Harding did it? Then again, she was rubbish and should have employed professional help. You know, people who run waste management and olive oil businesses.
NB
Sources for this week's unexpected series of quizzes comes from The Guardian, The Times, The Observer, Trevor Montague's Sport A-Z, The Cassell Dictionary of Word Histories, Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable and Philip's Encyclopedia - the comprehensive edition (I'm not sure that is entirely true in the case of the last reference book cited, but it really did try its darnedest. Trying to fit the world within the boundaries of a single volume book is quite a hard ask). This citation of sources is just in case you accuse me of summat nefarious and underhand and unoriginal. Truth is I do steal entire sentences and entries, and then I mould them and finally I fling the finished products on here for your delectation. Well, mould a little bit, play a kind of Find the Lady with sentence structure and change the adjectives, invariably to ones that are a bit more rubbish and probably aren't even right at all. Ah, the question setter's art. Or is that thievery and vandalism?
Anyway, please, delectate. I've kept you long enough.
1 Aiding future predictions on the existence of antimatter, Paul Dirac's titular equation describes the behaviour of which specific type of particle; one of two types (the other being the boson) that constitute the basis of all matter, but are differentiated by the way in they spin?
2 Which German engineer designed the 1894 glider said to have made the Wright Brothers' work possible?
3 Which Swiss skier won the men's downhill at the 1972 Olympics before finishing runner-up to Franz Klammer four years later?
4 Which German chemist discovered that proteins are made up of amino acids in 1907?
5 A controversial new production of which 1956 Leonard Bernstein operetta was cancelled by La Scala possibly due to it depicting such political leaders as Tony Blair and George W Bush in the roles of "the five deposed kings" who are seen frolicking drunkenly at a beach party in their underwear?
6 Now playing at London's Almeida Theatre, Dying For It is a new adaptation of the Soviet satire The Suicide (1928). Which Moscow-raised playwright originally wrote it?
7 Hailing from the northern Italian region of South Tyrol where he has set up a network of five mountain museums, who is considered the world's most successful climb having become the first man to climb all 14 peaks over 8000m?
8 Which bossa nova pioneer, father of singer Bebel, is simply called "El Mito" meaning The Legend in Brazil?
9 Which Romanian sculptor achieved a world record for an Art Deco sculpture when his Civa sold for £214,300 in Paris last year, while his piece The Russian Dancers - depicting Nijinsky and Ida Rubenstein in their roles in Sheherazade recently sold for £95,700?
10 Which small creature "unknown to science" and found living in an abandoned phone box by a lonely crocodile working as a zoo nightwatchman was the Soviet answer to Mickey Mouse when it first appeared in a 1966 book by Eduard Uspensky called Crocodile Gena and His Friends that became a cartoon in 1969?
11 Known for her pigtails and miniskirts and her control as "Chairlady" of property development conglomerate Chinachem, Asia's richest woman died of cancer on April 3. What was her name?
12 Of the same generation as Giorgione and Bellini, whose (1450-1525) greatest works are all found in Venice: for example the nine-painting St Ursula Cycle in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, The Apparition of the Ten Thousand Martyrs (c.1515) in the same location, and the scenes from the lives of St George and St Jerome in the Scuola Dalmata di San Giorgio degli Schiavone?
13 Which Scottish golf course is due to host this year's Open Championship?
14 Which member of the 23rd Regiment, later the Royal Welch Fusiliers, received the first Army Victoria Cross for his bravery during the Crimean War Battle of Alma in September 1854?
15 Mark Zuckerburg created which social networking site as a project at Harvard University in February 2004?
16 In a 1985-88 comic book and later cartoon series, which inhabitants of Third Earth derive their power from an "Eye" in embedded in the hilt of the Sword of Omens?
17 An ancient herb that grows across Europe as a weed, which bright blue flower has been renamed starflower by the farming industry?
18 What word describes the clandestine roads - estimated to make up a combined 105,000 miles - are often built by illegal loggers through the Amazon rainforest?
19 Which Latin-named ship found the Mary Celeste drifting off the Portuguese coast on December 5, 1872?
20 Which George Harrison song was excluded from Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and was a dig at the concept Paul McCartney sought to impose on the album as well as the band's publishing company, whose name inspired its title?
21 Known for combining spectacular martial arts with comedy slapstick, the nine-member Yegam theatre company had its first major international success with their show Jump, while their latest is called Break Out. From which country do they come?
22 The Akan (44 per cent) followed by Moshi-Dagomba (16 per cent) and Ewe (13 per cent) are the three largest ethnic groups in which country?
23 Which German conductor (1885-1973), renowned for his interpretations of Beethoven, Brahms and Mahler, emigrated to the US with the rise of Nazism in 1933 and became conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic before returning to Europe as director of the Budapest Opera (1947-1950)?
24 Continually in conflict with Athens during the 5th century BC, which Greek city-state and dominant power in Boeotia reached the peak of its power under Epaminondas in the 4th century BC and defeated the Spartans at Leuctra in 371BC?
25 John B. Kelly senior, father of actress Grace Kelly, was a three-time Olympic champion in which sport?
26 Which martial art has a name meaning "master of merit" in Chinese?
27 Which ancient Greek astronomer first classified the brightness of visible stars in the sky on a scale of one to six?
28 Two sons of Nigel Mansell were given drives in last year's Formula BMW Championship and have begun a full British Championship at Formula Three level as team-mates with Fortec Motorsport. What are their names?
29 Which Afrikaans word for a defensive formation of wagons or motor vehicles comes from the Dutch for "camp"?
30 Which French playwright's 1997 book Hammerklavier was inspired by her Jewish-Iranian-Russian father and Auschwitz survivor?
31 Headed by Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC is the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on what phenomenon?
32 Created by Kiev-based developers GSC Game World, which PC game, set in the ruins of Chernobyl's nuclear power station, became an instant bestseller in the UK and US on its release in March 2007?
33 Nestle, the world's largest food group, has agreed to pay $5.5 billion for the US company Gerber. Gerber specialises in what kind of food?
34 Johan Santana, considered by many to be the best pitcher in the majors, and Freddy Garcia are baseball players from which country?
35 Nicknamed "The Frying Pan", what was the only racecourse in London until its closure in 1970?
36 In 1854, what did the Dutch physician Anthonius Mathijsen introduce for the purpose of bone-setting?
37 Sometimes called the "Japanese Shakespeare", which dramatist (1652-1725) with the real name Sugimori Nobumori, wrote the Joruri (an early form of bunraku) plays The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (1703) and The Love Suicides at Amijima (1720)?
38 In 196BC, the Rosetta Stone was inscribed to record the gratitude of the priests of Memphis to which Egyptian ruler?
39 What 1122 agreement between Holy Roman Emperor Henry V and Pope Calixtus II settled the investiture conflict and struggle between the Empire and the papacy over control of Church offices?
40 Which Turkic-speaking people, originally of Iranian culture, take their name from a chief of the Golden Horde who died in 1340?
41 Canonised in 1925, which French Carmelite nun chronicled her spiritual struggle in a series of letters, Story of a Soul/L'histoire d'une ame, begun in 1895 and published posthumously when she died on September 30, 1897?
42 Resulting from the gravitational attraction of the Sun and the Moon on the Earth, what oscillating movement (18.6 years) is superimposed on the steady precessional movement of the Earth's axis so that the precessional path of each celestial pole on the celestial sphere follows an irregular rather than a true circle?
43 The name of which nation's currency is derived from the Macedonian king and conqueror Alexander the Great?
44 Which small black variety of lapdog derives its name from the Dutch for "little boatman" because of its use as a watchdog on barges?
45 Ptochocracy is government by what sort of people?
46 From the Italian for "almond", what is an area or aureola of oval but pointed light surrounding a painting or sculpture of the risen Christ or of the Virgin of the Assumption?
47 Which 19th century English surveyor gave his name to a unit of volume for timber equal to 1.27 cubic feet?
48 Which US novelist is set to log his entry in the 9/11 genre with his forthcoming book The Falling Man?
49 What three-word name has been given to the disease - Puccinia graminis - that has destroyed harvests in Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia and may spread to Egypt, the Middle East and India; a new strain named Ug99 being found to be particularly harmful?
50 Which former model has released the album No Promises, a collection of 19th and 20th century lyric poetry, the follow-up to her first, Quelqu'un m'a dit?
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Answers to BH110
1 Fermion 2 Otto Lilienthal 3 Bernhard Russi 4 Emil Fischer 5 Candide 6 Nikolai Erdman 7 Reinhold Messner 8 Joao Gilberto 9 Demeter Chiparus 10 Cheburashka 11 Nina Wang 12 Vittore Carpaccio 13 Carnoustie 14 Sergeant Luke O'Connor 15 Facebook 16 Thundercats 17 Borage 18 Viscinais 19 Dei Gratia 20 Only a Northern Song 21 South Korea 22 Ghana 23 Otto Klemperer 24 Thebes 25 Rowing 26 Kung fu 27 Hipparchus 28 Leo, Greg 29 Laager 30 Yasmina Reza 31 Climate Change 32 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 33 Baby food 34 Venezuela 35 Alexandra Park 36 Plaster of Paris 37 Chikamatsu Mozaemon 38 King Ptolemy V 39 Concordat of Worms 40 Uzbeks (Uzbeg Khan) 41 St Therese of Lisieux (Marie Francoise Therese Martin) 42 Nutation 43 Albania (lek) 44 Schipperke 45 The poor 46 Mandorla 47 Edward Hoppus 48 Don DeLillo 49 Black stem rust 50 Carla Bruni
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