BH113: Mr Moaner Moanerson Me
Ooh. I feel a bit under the weather at the moment. My Brighton weekend trip, of the kind which would confirm the BBC's suspicions that I am a "caner" (their terminology not mine), really hit me; the consequences dragging me into bed at regular intervals and for far longer periods than are deemed sensible.
Then a couple of days ago my stomach came under attack from a bug of nastiness of the like I will not discuss here, which in turn forced me to huddle up in bed foetal-style while watching Season Four episodes of Peep Show on YouTube and any old random crap that popped into my head and might amuse me for all of five minutes (no, I did not watch the Avril Lavigne video for Girlfriend for the seventh time), when by all accounts I should have been doing some proper work. One of the other signs that I am out of sorts this week comes in the form of my forgetting to turn off the oven three times. If the oven actually worked properly, I'd be worried, but since it is about as much use at heating food as an umbrella protecting against a nuclear attack, I'll just take it as a sign of my own incipient dementia.
So, I'm thinking, it's Thursday and where did the week go, and then I'm thinking I've just explained haven't I? I think I'm just going to pull my duvet over myself and shut my eyes. Which is plain silly really because I only got up at 2pm and that was because I was getting phone calls about copy I should have filed yesterday. Darn work commitments and having to live in the real world. Us Lotus Eaters truly resent such demands on our time.
Before I leave you with yet another fiendish quiz, take a look at this gimp. What a smug bastard. He's GOING DOWN...
Quiz
1 Produced by an eponymous company founded by Lyndon "Duke" Hanson, Scott Seamans and George Boedecker in 2002, which reptilian-sounding US slip-on plastic clogs are alleged to generated enough static electricity to knock out medical equipment at Blekinge hospital in Sweden?
2 The title figure of William Dalrymple's history The Last Mughal, which descendant of Genghis Khan was the last such emperor and acted as a puppet ruler for the East India Company until 1857 when he supported a mutiny by its native contingent of sepoys, resulting in a bloodbath that destroyed Delhi and led to capture by the British and his exile in Burma?
3 Which author is best known for her Grant County series, among them Blindsighted, Kisscut and A Faint Cold Fear, which feature paediatrician and part-time coroner Sara Linton and chief of police, Jeffrey Tolliver?
4 By what title do we otherwise know Georges-Louis Leclerc, the French naturalist, mathematician and all round brilliant polymath known for his influence on Darwin's theory of natural selection, and best remembered for his great work Histoire naturelle, generale et pariculiere (1749-1778, in 36 volumes, eight additional volumes being published posthumously by Lacepede) and such other works as Les epoques de la nature (1778) in which he discussed the origins of the solar system?
5 Deriving its name from a former south-west province of France located in the Pyrenees mountains and in the plain at their feet, which sauce of clarified butter and egg yolks flavoured with tarragon and shallots, and with chervil and tarragon simmered in vinegar to make a reduction, was likely first made by the chef Collinet, the inventor of puffed potatoes (pommes de terres souffles) and served at the 1836 opening of Le Pavillon Henri IV, a restaurant at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, not far from Paris?
6 Which writer famously punched Gabriel Garcia Marquez in a Mexican cinema 31 years ago, his biographer Dasso Saldivar suggesting Marquez had become too close to his wife Patricia from whom he was temporarily separated?
7 The Robertson collection, in fact an assortment of rubbish an eponymous electrician rescued from a west London skip, recently fetched £965,490 for 45 lots. It was trash that had been dumped by which painter nearly 30 years ago?
8 Sharing its name with a failed automobile introduced by Willys-Overland in 1948 and the record label that released Belle & Sebastian and Snow Patrol's early albums, Jeepster was a 1971 UK no. 2 single for which rock band?
9 What term has been applied to the phenomenon of buying limited edition items, such as designer handbags, and then auctioning them off via the web or similar means in order to make a substantial profit?
10 Also given the name Middle Woodland, which culture began in c.200BC in the Ohio valley region of present day USA?
11 The Conn Smythe Trophy and the Jack Adams Award are given in which sport?
12 The Frenchwoman Jeannie Longo (b.1958) is considered one of the greatest figures in which sport's history?
13 Which of Isaac Newton's laws states that every single point mass attracts every other point mass by a force heading along the lines combining the two?
14 Sharing its name with a Sean Connery film and dedicated to Rimsky-Korsakov, which 1893 fantasia for orchestra (Op.7) by Rachmaninoff was his first orchestral score to be published and was written before the disastrous premiere of his First Symphony in 1897?
15 Derived from the Arabic for "bench" because when seen from a distance it looks like a mud bench, what name is given to the flat-roofed, mud brick, rectangular building with sloping sides that marked the burial site of many eminent Egyptians during their country's ancient period?
16 Which English philosopher wrote the 1693 treatise Some Thoughts Concerning Education, considered the most important philosophical work on education in Britain for over a century?
17 After a career in the army and a stint as tribune in Syria in 35, which Roman writer (4-70AD) took up farming and wrote the 12-volume work, De Re Rustica, still completely preserved and our most important source on Roman agriculture?
18 Who eventually won the 1994 Formula One San Marino Grand Prix in the aftermath of the deaths of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger, saying he "couldn't feel satisfied, couldn't feel happy" with his victory?
19 Which Scottish botanist (1737-1804), said to have introduced it from China, gave his name to any oleaceous shrub of a genus bearing numerous yellow flowers in early spring before the leaves?
20 With which poet, author of such poems as Les Feuilles mortes/Autumn Leaves and collections like Paroles/Words (1946), Spectacle (1951) and La Pluie et le beau temps/Rain and Good Weather (1955), did director Marcel Carne regularly collaborate on screenplays for such films as Le Jour se leve/Daybreak (1930) and Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)?
21 Which small coin of Turkey and several former dependencies derived its name from the Italian for "plate of silver"?
22 Horning in Norfolk is located close to which RAF museum?
23 What is the only train station on the island of Venice, due to Mestre station being on the other side of the Ponte Della Liberta/Freedom Bridge on the mainland?
24 Rosa Maria Ojeda was recently forced to change Miss Universe pageant due to its depiction of scenes from which 1926-29 Mexican conflict, which saw Catholic rebels rising up against state persecution?
25 Named after the 3rd Duke of Roxburghe (1740-1804), Roxburghe is a style of what?
26 Malacology is the study of which creatures, the second largest phylum of animals in terms o described species?
27 The uninhabited islands of Henderson, Ducie and Oeno are part of which British crown colony?
28 Which Swedish chemist discovered the element tantalum in 1802?
29 Which German anatomist invented the ophthalmoscope in 1851 and published his Handbuch der Physiologischen Optik/Handbook of Physiological Optics in 1856?
30 Once located at 26 Wall Street before its demolition in the 19th century and replacement with the first United States Customs House, which New York City building was the first capitol of the US and was where George Washington took the oath as the first President of the USA on April 30, 1789?
31 Which Colombian city and municipality, located on the southern edge of Bogota and the capital's most populous suburb, gained national notoriety when presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan was assassinated there on August 18, 1989 during his campaign visit?
32 Which paper recycling millionaire still holds the English record for the greatest number of penalties scored in one season?
33 What is commonly called the fruit of a fig is actually a specialised structure or accessory fruit; an involuted or nearly closed receptacle with many small flowers arranged on the inner surface. What is its name?
34 What was the first man-made object launched into space, during test flights that reached an altitude of 189km/117 miles in 1944?
35 Founders of the an eponymous Toronto footwear museum, which large, family-owned company is currently headquartered in Lausanne and was founded in 1894 in Zlin, then in Austro-Hungary territory and today the Czech Republic?
36 Which semi-soft cheese made from Danish cow's milk is named after the experimental farm on which it was first made during the mid-1800s?
37 In the TV series, Tony Soprano has another sibling who is not Janice and who moved away years ago. What is her name?
38 On April 30, 1006AD the brightest supernova in recorded history - the Supernova SN 1006 - appeared in which constellation?
39 Launched by Estee Lauder in 1968 and originally based on a 3-Step System, what was the first dermatologist-guided, allergy-tested and fragrance free cosmetic brand and the oil-free formula Dramatically Different Moisturising Gel, helping it become one of the world's largest prestige make-up and fragrance product suppliers?
40 Which religious movement with premillennialist expectations sprang from the teachings of CT Russell during the 1870s, though a schism after Russell's death in 1917 led to the forming of such offshoots as the Jehovah's Witnesses?
41 Ultimately seeking to re-establish the caliphate, which worldwide Sunni Islamist movement was founded by Sufi schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna in 1928 and is the world's largest and most influential Islamist group and the largest political opposition organisation in many Arab nations, especially Egypt where it seeks to impose Sharia law?
42 What is the highest peak of the Black Forest (in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg) at an elevation of 1493 metres or 4,898 feet?
43 Also the name of a lake indigenous to the country, which Japanese short-necked fretted lute is the chosen instrument of Benten, Goddess of music, eloquence, poetry and education in Japanese Buddhism; its name being derived from the oud of the Middle East?
44 The logo of the animation film company Studio Ghibli features the eponymous grey, three-metre tall friendly forest spirit in a 1988 film, whose name is a mispronunciation of the Japanese word for "troll"?
45 Important foreign visitors to Paris are hosted not at the Elysee Palace, but at which palatial residence and property of the state since 1872?
46 Examples including the so-called Racetams (Piracetam, Aniracetam, Oxiracetam), Amineptine and Rolipram, what are "nootropic" drugs also called?
47 Turning pro in 1955, which Thai boxer became the first world flyweight champion to win the title on three separate occasions when he beat Hiroyuki Ebihara in 1964?
48 The ancient kingdom of Parthia was located in the north east of which modern country?
49 Currently embroiled in a row concerning whether he should be allowed to have a girlfriend, which German cartoon water sprite was created by 86-year-old Ellis Kaut 45 years ago?
50 Which 39-year-old black British playwright graduated from his theatre-writing degree with The No Boys Cricket Club, and is known for such other works as Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads (2002) and Fallout (2003)?
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1 Crocs 2 Zafar or Bahadur Shah II or Bahadur Shah Zafar 3 Karin Slaughter 4 Comte de Buffon 5 Bearnaise 6 Mario Vargas Llosa 7 Francis Bacon 8 T-Rex 9 Flipping 10 Hopewell 11 Ice hockey 12 Cycling 13 Newton's law of universal gravitation 14 The Rock 15 Mastaba 16 John Locke 17 Columella (or Lucius Iunius Moderatus Columella) 18 Michael Schumacher 19 William Forsyth 20 Jacques Prevert 21 Piastre 22 Royal Air Force Defence Radar Museum 23 Santa Lucia station or Stazione Ferroviaria Santa Lucia 24 Cristero War/ the Cristiada 25 Bookbinding 26 Molluscs 27 Pitcairn Island 28 Anders Ekeberg 29 Hermann Helmholtz 30 Federal Hall 31 Soacha 32 Francis Lee 33 Syconium 34 V-2 rocket 35 Bata Shoes 36 Havarti 37 Barbara 38 Lupus 39 Clinique 40 The Bible Student movement 41 Muslim Brotherhood 42 Feldberg 43 Biwa 44 Totoro as in My Neighbour Totoro 45 Hotel de Marigny 46 Smart drugs 47 Pone Kingpetch 48 Iran 49 Pumuckl 50 Roy Williams
Then a couple of days ago my stomach came under attack from a bug of nastiness of the like I will not discuss here, which in turn forced me to huddle up in bed foetal-style while watching Season Four episodes of Peep Show on YouTube and any old random crap that popped into my head and might amuse me for all of five minutes (no, I did not watch the Avril Lavigne video for Girlfriend for the seventh time), when by all accounts I should have been doing some proper work. One of the other signs that I am out of sorts this week comes in the form of my forgetting to turn off the oven three times. If the oven actually worked properly, I'd be worried, but since it is about as much use at heating food as an umbrella protecting against a nuclear attack, I'll just take it as a sign of my own incipient dementia.
So, I'm thinking, it's Thursday and where did the week go, and then I'm thinking I've just explained haven't I? I think I'm just going to pull my duvet over myself and shut my eyes. Which is plain silly really because I only got up at 2pm and that was because I was getting phone calls about copy I should have filed yesterday. Darn work commitments and having to live in the real world. Us Lotus Eaters truly resent such demands on our time.
Before I leave you with yet another fiendish quiz, take a look at this gimp. What a smug bastard. He's GOING DOWN...
Quiz
1 Produced by an eponymous company founded by Lyndon "Duke" Hanson, Scott Seamans and George Boedecker in 2002, which reptilian-sounding US slip-on plastic clogs are alleged to generated enough static electricity to knock out medical equipment at Blekinge hospital in Sweden?
2 The title figure of William Dalrymple's history The Last Mughal, which descendant of Genghis Khan was the last such emperor and acted as a puppet ruler for the East India Company until 1857 when he supported a mutiny by its native contingent of sepoys, resulting in a bloodbath that destroyed Delhi and led to capture by the British and his exile in Burma?
3 Which author is best known for her Grant County series, among them Blindsighted, Kisscut and A Faint Cold Fear, which feature paediatrician and part-time coroner Sara Linton and chief of police, Jeffrey Tolliver?
4 By what title do we otherwise know Georges-Louis Leclerc, the French naturalist, mathematician and all round brilliant polymath known for his influence on Darwin's theory of natural selection, and best remembered for his great work Histoire naturelle, generale et pariculiere (1749-1778, in 36 volumes, eight additional volumes being published posthumously by Lacepede) and such other works as Les epoques de la nature (1778) in which he discussed the origins of the solar system?
5 Deriving its name from a former south-west province of France located in the Pyrenees mountains and in the plain at their feet, which sauce of clarified butter and egg yolks flavoured with tarragon and shallots, and with chervil and tarragon simmered in vinegar to make a reduction, was likely first made by the chef Collinet, the inventor of puffed potatoes (pommes de terres souffles) and served at the 1836 opening of Le Pavillon Henri IV, a restaurant at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, not far from Paris?
6 Which writer famously punched Gabriel Garcia Marquez in a Mexican cinema 31 years ago, his biographer Dasso Saldivar suggesting Marquez had become too close to his wife Patricia from whom he was temporarily separated?
7 The Robertson collection, in fact an assortment of rubbish an eponymous electrician rescued from a west London skip, recently fetched £965,490 for 45 lots. It was trash that had been dumped by which painter nearly 30 years ago?
8 Sharing its name with a failed automobile introduced by Willys-Overland in 1948 and the record label that released Belle & Sebastian and Snow Patrol's early albums, Jeepster was a 1971 UK no. 2 single for which rock band?
9 What term has been applied to the phenomenon of buying limited edition items, such as designer handbags, and then auctioning them off via the web or similar means in order to make a substantial profit?
10 Also given the name Middle Woodland, which culture began in c.200BC in the Ohio valley region of present day USA?
11 The Conn Smythe Trophy and the Jack Adams Award are given in which sport?
12 The Frenchwoman Jeannie Longo (b.1958) is considered one of the greatest figures in which sport's history?
13 Which of Isaac Newton's laws states that every single point mass attracts every other point mass by a force heading along the lines combining the two?
14 Sharing its name with a Sean Connery film and dedicated to Rimsky-Korsakov, which 1893 fantasia for orchestra (Op.7) by Rachmaninoff was his first orchestral score to be published and was written before the disastrous premiere of his First Symphony in 1897?
15 Derived from the Arabic for "bench" because when seen from a distance it looks like a mud bench, what name is given to the flat-roofed, mud brick, rectangular building with sloping sides that marked the burial site of many eminent Egyptians during their country's ancient period?
16 Which English philosopher wrote the 1693 treatise Some Thoughts Concerning Education, considered the most important philosophical work on education in Britain for over a century?
17 After a career in the army and a stint as tribune in Syria in 35, which Roman writer (4-70AD) took up farming and wrote the 12-volume work, De Re Rustica, still completely preserved and our most important source on Roman agriculture?
18 Who eventually won the 1994 Formula One San Marino Grand Prix in the aftermath of the deaths of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger, saying he "couldn't feel satisfied, couldn't feel happy" with his victory?
19 Which Scottish botanist (1737-1804), said to have introduced it from China, gave his name to any oleaceous shrub of a genus bearing numerous yellow flowers in early spring before the leaves?
20 With which poet, author of such poems as Les Feuilles mortes/Autumn Leaves and collections like Paroles/Words (1946), Spectacle (1951) and La Pluie et le beau temps/Rain and Good Weather (1955), did director Marcel Carne regularly collaborate on screenplays for such films as Le Jour se leve/Daybreak (1930) and Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)?
21 Which small coin of Turkey and several former dependencies derived its name from the Italian for "plate of silver"?
22 Horning in Norfolk is located close to which RAF museum?
23 What is the only train station on the island of Venice, due to Mestre station being on the other side of the Ponte Della Liberta/Freedom Bridge on the mainland?
24 Rosa Maria Ojeda was recently forced to change Miss Universe pageant due to its depiction of scenes from which 1926-29 Mexican conflict, which saw Catholic rebels rising up against state persecution?
25 Named after the 3rd Duke of Roxburghe (1740-1804), Roxburghe is a style of what?
26 Malacology is the study of which creatures, the second largest phylum of animals in terms o described species?
27 The uninhabited islands of Henderson, Ducie and Oeno are part of which British crown colony?
28 Which Swedish chemist discovered the element tantalum in 1802?
29 Which German anatomist invented the ophthalmoscope in 1851 and published his Handbuch der Physiologischen Optik/Handbook of Physiological Optics in 1856?
30 Once located at 26 Wall Street before its demolition in the 19th century and replacement with the first United States Customs House, which New York City building was the first capitol of the US and was where George Washington took the oath as the first President of the USA on April 30, 1789?
31 Which Colombian city and municipality, located on the southern edge of Bogota and the capital's most populous suburb, gained national notoriety when presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan was assassinated there on August 18, 1989 during his campaign visit?
32 Which paper recycling millionaire still holds the English record for the greatest number of penalties scored in one season?
33 What is commonly called the fruit of a fig is actually a specialised structure or accessory fruit; an involuted or nearly closed receptacle with many small flowers arranged on the inner surface. What is its name?
34 What was the first man-made object launched into space, during test flights that reached an altitude of 189km/117 miles in 1944?
35 Founders of the an eponymous Toronto footwear museum, which large, family-owned company is currently headquartered in Lausanne and was founded in 1894 in Zlin, then in Austro-Hungary territory and today the Czech Republic?
36 Which semi-soft cheese made from Danish cow's milk is named after the experimental farm on which it was first made during the mid-1800s?
37 In the TV series, Tony Soprano has another sibling who is not Janice and who moved away years ago. What is her name?
38 On April 30, 1006AD the brightest supernova in recorded history - the Supernova SN 1006 - appeared in which constellation?
39 Launched by Estee Lauder in 1968 and originally based on a 3-Step System, what was the first dermatologist-guided, allergy-tested and fragrance free cosmetic brand and the oil-free formula Dramatically Different Moisturising Gel, helping it become one of the world's largest prestige make-up and fragrance product suppliers?
40 Which religious movement with premillennialist expectations sprang from the teachings of CT Russell during the 1870s, though a schism after Russell's death in 1917 led to the forming of such offshoots as the Jehovah's Witnesses?
41 Ultimately seeking to re-establish the caliphate, which worldwide Sunni Islamist movement was founded by Sufi schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna in 1928 and is the world's largest and most influential Islamist group and the largest political opposition organisation in many Arab nations, especially Egypt where it seeks to impose Sharia law?
42 What is the highest peak of the Black Forest (in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg) at an elevation of 1493 metres or 4,898 feet?
43 Also the name of a lake indigenous to the country, which Japanese short-necked fretted lute is the chosen instrument of Benten, Goddess of music, eloquence, poetry and education in Japanese Buddhism; its name being derived from the oud of the Middle East?
44 The logo of the animation film company Studio Ghibli features the eponymous grey, three-metre tall friendly forest spirit in a 1988 film, whose name is a mispronunciation of the Japanese word for "troll"?
45 Important foreign visitors to Paris are hosted not at the Elysee Palace, but at which palatial residence and property of the state since 1872?
46 Examples including the so-called Racetams (Piracetam, Aniracetam, Oxiracetam), Amineptine and Rolipram, what are "nootropic" drugs also called?
47 Turning pro in 1955, which Thai boxer became the first world flyweight champion to win the title on three separate occasions when he beat Hiroyuki Ebihara in 1964?
48 The ancient kingdom of Parthia was located in the north east of which modern country?
49 Currently embroiled in a row concerning whether he should be allowed to have a girlfriend, which German cartoon water sprite was created by 86-year-old Ellis Kaut 45 years ago?
50 Which 39-year-old black British playwright graduated from his theatre-writing degree with The No Boys Cricket Club, and is known for such other works as Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads (2002) and Fallout (2003)?
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Answers to BH113
1 Crocs 2 Zafar or Bahadur Shah II or Bahadur Shah Zafar 3 Karin Slaughter 4 Comte de Buffon 5 Bearnaise 6 Mario Vargas Llosa 7 Francis Bacon 8 T-Rex 9 Flipping 10 Hopewell 11 Ice hockey 12 Cycling 13 Newton's law of universal gravitation 14 The Rock 15 Mastaba 16 John Locke 17 Columella (or Lucius Iunius Moderatus Columella) 18 Michael Schumacher 19 William Forsyth 20 Jacques Prevert 21 Piastre 22 Royal Air Force Defence Radar Museum 23 Santa Lucia station or Stazione Ferroviaria Santa Lucia 24 Cristero War/ the Cristiada 25 Bookbinding 26 Molluscs 27 Pitcairn Island 28 Anders Ekeberg 29 Hermann Helmholtz 30 Federal Hall 31 Soacha 32 Francis Lee 33 Syconium 34 V-2 rocket 35 Bata Shoes 36 Havarti 37 Barbara 38 Lupus 39 Clinique 40 The Bible Student movement 41 Muslim Brotherhood 42 Feldberg 43 Biwa 44 Totoro as in My Neighbour Totoro 45 Hotel de Marigny 46 Smart drugs 47 Pone Kingpetch 48 Iran 49 Pumuckl 50 Roy Williams
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