BH117: A Quickie Before Weekend Festivities
Ahh. Oooh. Muh-whoa. Sorry, I'm making a bunch of indeterminate sounds and fake words because I am due to attend a music festival set in some charming Suffolk woods this very day, and I have left everything to the last minute; what with the rushing around the shops, buying festival crap and making excuses for missing deadlines that make a great WHOOSHING sound as they pass me. Hurrah for my powers of forward planning!
Anyhoo, a quiz before I go (prolly has some errors in it, but what can you do in such a time-urgent situation) ...
1 The Egyptologist Zahi Hawass recently identified a mummy found in an unadorned tomb as that of which woman, the fifth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of ancient Egypt?
2 Which South American country celebrates its Independence Day on July 5, having secured its independence in 1811?
3 Which corporation introduced Spam on July 5, 1937?
4 Known by the scientific name Strix aluco, which owl species resident in much of Europe and southern Russia is said to injure more people than any other European bird?
5 Taking place on July 3, 324, at which battle did the Constantine I defeat Licinus, causing the latter to flee to Byzantium and the former to assume his role as emperor of the whole Roman emperor?
6 On July 3, 1767, an eponymous midshipman discovered which island on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret?
7 The newspaper Adresseavisen was founded on July 3, 1767. It is which country's oldest newspaper still in print?
8 Surya is the Hindu god of what?
9 Where is the world is the Borovansky Ballet based?
10 What term describes a solar eclipse in which the Moon does not completely obscure the Sun, with a thin ring of sunlight remaining visible?
11 The second Monday of which month sees the celebration of Commonwealth Day?
12 The phrase "the moment of truth comes" from which sport?
13 Which Swedish photographer is known for his 1965 book on foetal development, A Child is Born?
14 In which sea did Icarus drown in Greek mythology?
15 Which deposed Tsar of Russia was murdered in prison in 1764?
16 According to some sources, what did Louis and Jacques Breguet invent in 1907?
17 In a musical, what name is shared by Big, Little, No, Four-eyed and Eat-all?
18 What word for a good for nothing was originally a word used to describe a White Republican southerner after the US Civil War?
19 What two colours are used for the lines on ice hockey rinks?
20 Who was the last avatar of Vishnu in Hinduism?
21 Knighted in 2000, which explorer completed the first surface crossing of the Arctic Ocean in 1969?
22 Guillaume Carle was the leader of which French peasant revolt?
23 What does the musical direction "tenero" mean?
24 Which Spanish architect (c.1485-1550) designed the great Palace of Charles V in the Alhambra, Granada (1527-68), noted for its circular colonnaded court, in an Italian Renaissance style said to be worthy of Raphael or Bramante?
25 Which saint gives his name to a Latin cross fleuree with each arm terminating in three leaves, like the fleur-de-lys, although the base is usually pointed?
26 Which well known word derives from the Sanskrit for "fate"?
27 What term describes a stalk which attaches a leaf to a stem, as well as the section that connects the abdomen and thorax of a wasp?
28 Who wrote the 1993 best-selling novel The Celestine Prophecy?
29 In which sporting competition is the Coupe des Mousquetaires awarded?
30 On July 10, 1796, which mathematician and scientist discovered that every positive integer is representable as as sum of at most three triangular numbers, writing in his diary his famous words "Heureka! num=Δ + Δ + Δ."?
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Answers to BH117
1 Hatshepsut 2 Venezuela 3 Hormel Foods Corporation 4 Tawny Owl 5 Adrianople 6 Pitcairn Island 7 Norway 8 The Sun 9 Melbourne 10 Annular eclipse 11 March 12 Bullfighting 13 Lennart Nilsson 14 Aegean 15 Ivan VI 16 Helicopter 17 Moe 18 Scallywag 19 Red, blue 20 Kalki 21 Sir Wally Herbert 22 Jacquerie 23 Tenderly 24 Pedro Machuca 25 St James 26 Karma 27 Petiole 28 James Redfield 29 Men's Singles at the tennis French Open 30 Carl Friedrich Gauss
Anyhoo, a quiz before I go (prolly has some errors in it, but what can you do in such a time-urgent situation) ...
1 The Egyptologist Zahi Hawass recently identified a mummy found in an unadorned tomb as that of which woman, the fifth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of ancient Egypt?
2 Which South American country celebrates its Independence Day on July 5, having secured its independence in 1811?
3 Which corporation introduced Spam on July 5, 1937?
4 Known by the scientific name Strix aluco, which owl species resident in much of Europe and southern Russia is said to injure more people than any other European bird?
5 Taking place on July 3, 324, at which battle did the Constantine I defeat Licinus, causing the latter to flee to Byzantium and the former to assume his role as emperor of the whole Roman emperor?
6 On July 3, 1767, an eponymous midshipman discovered which island on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret?
7 The newspaper Adresseavisen was founded on July 3, 1767. It is which country's oldest newspaper still in print?
8 Surya is the Hindu god of what?
9 Where is the world is the Borovansky Ballet based?
10 What term describes a solar eclipse in which the Moon does not completely obscure the Sun, with a thin ring of sunlight remaining visible?
11 The second Monday of which month sees the celebration of Commonwealth Day?
12 The phrase "the moment of truth comes" from which sport?
13 Which Swedish photographer is known for his 1965 book on foetal development, A Child is Born?
14 In which sea did Icarus drown in Greek mythology?
15 Which deposed Tsar of Russia was murdered in prison in 1764?
16 According to some sources, what did Louis and Jacques Breguet invent in 1907?
17 In a musical, what name is shared by Big, Little, No, Four-eyed and Eat-all?
18 What word for a good for nothing was originally a word used to describe a White Republican southerner after the US Civil War?
19 What two colours are used for the lines on ice hockey rinks?
20 Who was the last avatar of Vishnu in Hinduism?
21 Knighted in 2000, which explorer completed the first surface crossing of the Arctic Ocean in 1969?
22 Guillaume Carle was the leader of which French peasant revolt?
23 What does the musical direction "tenero" mean?
24 Which Spanish architect (c.1485-1550) designed the great Palace of Charles V in the Alhambra, Granada (1527-68), noted for its circular colonnaded court, in an Italian Renaissance style said to be worthy of Raphael or Bramante?
25 Which saint gives his name to a Latin cross fleuree with each arm terminating in three leaves, like the fleur-de-lys, although the base is usually pointed?
26 Which well known word derives from the Sanskrit for "fate"?
27 What term describes a stalk which attaches a leaf to a stem, as well as the section that connects the abdomen and thorax of a wasp?
28 Who wrote the 1993 best-selling novel The Celestine Prophecy?
29 In which sporting competition is the Coupe des Mousquetaires awarded?
30 On July 10, 1796, which mathematician and scientist discovered that every positive integer is representable as as sum of at most three triangular numbers, writing in his diary his famous words "Heureka! num=Δ + Δ + Δ."?
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Answers to BH117
1 Hatshepsut 2 Venezuela 3 Hormel Foods Corporation 4 Tawny Owl 5 Adrianople 6 Pitcairn Island 7 Norway 8 The Sun 9 Melbourne 10 Annular eclipse 11 March 12 Bullfighting 13 Lennart Nilsson 14 Aegean 15 Ivan VI 16 Helicopter 17 Moe 18 Scallywag 19 Red, blue 20 Kalki 21 Sir Wally Herbert 22 Jacquerie 23 Tenderly 24 Pedro Machuca 25 St James 26 Karma 27 Petiole 28 James Redfield 29 Men's Singles at the tennis French Open 30 Carl Friedrich Gauss
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