BH121: If you don't like egg chasers, maybe you'll like this
1 Which Italian painter and architect was the author of L'Architettura (1537-51), which set down practical rules for the use of the Classical orders and was used by architects of the Neo-Classical style throughout Europe?
2 Which Danish classical dancer, noted for being a heartthrob and the man behind an eponymous company currently performing the Rolling Stones-inspired work Satisfaction, was appointed artistic director of the Berlin Ballet in 1990?
3 Formalhaut, the 18th brightest star in the night sky, is the brightest star in which southern constellation?
4 How much is a field goal worth in American Football?
5 Which Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC made a series of portraits of Alexander the Great (of which Roman copies survive in the British Museum and Louvre), and also sculpted the Apoxyomenos, an athlete (copy in The Vatican) and a colossal Hercules (lost)?
6 Which Lord of the Rings character gives his name to a wild throw in frisbee?
7 The Geneva Agreements was the settlement signed in the eponymous Swiss city in 1954 between the warring parties in which area of Asia?
8 At which military camp in County Kildare did British cavalry officers threaten to resign if they were called upon to coerce Ulster into accepting Home Rule in March 1914?
9 What is the largest of Japan's Ryukyu Islands?
10 The Allies signed the Treaty of Neuilly with which defeated power on November 27, 1919?
11 What Yiddish slang word for an ineffectual person who cannot stand up for himself and so merits one's sympathy comes from the Czech for "unfortunate"?
12 Made famous by the tall tales he told, Baron Munchausen (1720-1797) was an officer in which country's army?
13 Which town gave its name to the trials of French politicians and military, which began in February 1942 (and suspended indefinitely in April) at a supreme court of justice set up by the Vichy government?
14 Which right-wing grocer-demagogue founded the short-lived French political party, the Union de Defense des Commercants et Artisans, in 1953 after a tax revolt by small shopkeepers and farmers in the Lot?
15 What term, meaning "impoverished art", was invented by the Italian art critic Germano Celant in the 60s to describe a disposable and minimal art composed of perishable and easily accessible items such as sand and newspaper?
16 What were the first names of shop founders Fortnum & Mason?
17 John Shepherd-Barron invented which common high street convenience?
18 Who was the father of Alfred the Great?
19 Which whale is believed to have the lowest reproductive rate of any mammal, the female of the species bearing a calf on average once every ten years?
20 Who was the title subject of John Cornwell's 1999 non-fiction book, Hitler's Pope?
21 The infamous murder victim, Roberto Calvi, was chairman of which bank when it collapsed?
22 Which shrub, with red leaf-like bracts and small greenish-yellow flowerheads, is named after the first US minister to Mexico, where he is said to have found it in 1828?
23 A 300m tall HQ for Gazprom Neft, whose construction may risk St Petersburg's World Heritage Site status, is due to be built next to which 18th century cathedral?
24 What is Russia's largest bank called?
25 Which London-born, US-based man, often called "the world's greatest typographer", designed the print face Bell Centennial for AT&T's phone directories in the 70s, as well as the Verdana font for Microsoft and the 1997 typeface Miller, as seen in such newspapers as The Guardian?
26 Named from the gymnasts of the opening scene, which 1972 Tom Stoppard play concerns a professor of ethics who struggles to cope with a variety of misfortunes, from the death of his pet hare to having to deal with the body of a dead politician?
27 Before being shortened and renamed, which consumer electronics company was called the Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, meaning "Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation"?
28 Which 1995 Norwegian novel, subtitled A Novel about the History of Philosophy, sees a philosopher guide an eponymous 14-year-old girl through a tour of Western philosophy after leaving two questions in her letterbox: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from"?
29 Which Antonia Fraser creation, a TV reporter, first appeared in the 1977 novel Quiet as a Nun?
30 Which Spanish king gave Real Madrid its royal blessing in 1920?
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Answers to BH121
1 Sebastiano Serlio 2 Peter Schaufuss 3 Piscis Austrinus 4 Three points 5 Lysippus or Lysippos 6 Gollum 7 Indochina 8 The Curragh (Curragh mutiny) 9 Okinawa 10 Bulgaria 11 Nebbish 12 Russia 13 Riom 14 Pierre Poujade (as in Poujadists) 15 Arte Povera 16 William and Hugh 17 ATM or cash machine 18 King Ethelwulf 19 Sperm whale 20 Pius XII 21 Banco Ambrosiano 22 Poinsettia (as in Joel R Poinsett) 23 Smolny Cathedral 24 Sberbank 25 Matthew Carter 26 Jumpers 27 Sony 28 Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder 29 Jemima Shore 30 Alfonso XIII
2 Which Danish classical dancer, noted for being a heartthrob and the man behind an eponymous company currently performing the Rolling Stones-inspired work Satisfaction, was appointed artistic director of the Berlin Ballet in 1990?
3 Formalhaut, the 18th brightest star in the night sky, is the brightest star in which southern constellation?
4 How much is a field goal worth in American Football?
5 Which Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC made a series of portraits of Alexander the Great (of which Roman copies survive in the British Museum and Louvre), and also sculpted the Apoxyomenos, an athlete (copy in The Vatican) and a colossal Hercules (lost)?
6 Which Lord of the Rings character gives his name to a wild throw in frisbee?
7 The Geneva Agreements was the settlement signed in the eponymous Swiss city in 1954 between the warring parties in which area of Asia?
8 At which military camp in County Kildare did British cavalry officers threaten to resign if they were called upon to coerce Ulster into accepting Home Rule in March 1914?
9 What is the largest of Japan's Ryukyu Islands?
10 The Allies signed the Treaty of Neuilly with which defeated power on November 27, 1919?
11 What Yiddish slang word for an ineffectual person who cannot stand up for himself and so merits one's sympathy comes from the Czech for "unfortunate"?
12 Made famous by the tall tales he told, Baron Munchausen (1720-1797) was an officer in which country's army?
13 Which town gave its name to the trials of French politicians and military, which began in February 1942 (and suspended indefinitely in April) at a supreme court of justice set up by the Vichy government?
14 Which right-wing grocer-demagogue founded the short-lived French political party, the Union de Defense des Commercants et Artisans, in 1953 after a tax revolt by small shopkeepers and farmers in the Lot?
15 What term, meaning "impoverished art", was invented by the Italian art critic Germano Celant in the 60s to describe a disposable and minimal art composed of perishable and easily accessible items such as sand and newspaper?
16 What were the first names of shop founders Fortnum & Mason?
17 John Shepherd-Barron invented which common high street convenience?
18 Who was the father of Alfred the Great?
19 Which whale is believed to have the lowest reproductive rate of any mammal, the female of the species bearing a calf on average once every ten years?
20 Who was the title subject of John Cornwell's 1999 non-fiction book, Hitler's Pope?
21 The infamous murder victim, Roberto Calvi, was chairman of which bank when it collapsed?
22 Which shrub, with red leaf-like bracts and small greenish-yellow flowerheads, is named after the first US minister to Mexico, where he is said to have found it in 1828?
23 A 300m tall HQ for Gazprom Neft, whose construction may risk St Petersburg's World Heritage Site status, is due to be built next to which 18th century cathedral?
24 What is Russia's largest bank called?
25 Which London-born, US-based man, often called "the world's greatest typographer", designed the print face Bell Centennial for AT&T's phone directories in the 70s, as well as the Verdana font for Microsoft and the 1997 typeface Miller, as seen in such newspapers as The Guardian?
26 Named from the gymnasts of the opening scene, which 1972 Tom Stoppard play concerns a professor of ethics who struggles to cope with a variety of misfortunes, from the death of his pet hare to having to deal with the body of a dead politician?
27 Before being shortened and renamed, which consumer electronics company was called the Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, meaning "Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation"?
28 Which 1995 Norwegian novel, subtitled A Novel about the History of Philosophy, sees a philosopher guide an eponymous 14-year-old girl through a tour of Western philosophy after leaving two questions in her letterbox: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from"?
29 Which Antonia Fraser creation, a TV reporter, first appeared in the 1977 novel Quiet as a Nun?
30 Which Spanish king gave Real Madrid its royal blessing in 1920?
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Answers to BH121
1 Sebastiano Serlio 2 Peter Schaufuss 3 Piscis Austrinus 4 Three points 5 Lysippus or Lysippos 6 Gollum 7 Indochina 8 The Curragh (Curragh mutiny) 9 Okinawa 10 Bulgaria 11 Nebbish 12 Russia 13 Riom 14 Pierre Poujade (as in Poujadists) 15 Arte Povera 16 William and Hugh 17 ATM or cash machine 18 King Ethelwulf 19 Sperm whale 20 Pius XII 21 Banco Ambrosiano 22 Poinsettia (as in Joel R Poinsett) 23 Smolny Cathedral 24 Sberbank 25 Matthew Carter 26 Jumpers 27 Sony 28 Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder 29 Jemima Shore 30 Alfonso XIII
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