BH124 and BH125: Not So Daily Double Quiz
(For some strange reason I've been watching loads of episodes of Jeopardy! on YouTube - you can too, if you want to descend into the obsessive maelstrom - and am harbouring never-to-be-realised dreams of appearing on it)
BH124
1 Which trombonist, singer and composer's "Sunshine Orchestra" was the first black jazz band to record?
2 In which German city is the Grunes Gewolbe and the Semper Gallery?
3 Derived from a Coptic word, which itself comes from the Greek for "pickle", which relish is made of the roes of the mullet and tuna?
4 The England and Indian national cricket teams compete for which trophy, named after a man who played for both countries?
5 Whose last album, due to his death from renal cancer, is called Cake and Death?
6 Alemayehu Eshete, Mulatu Astatqe, Mahmoud Ahmed are musicians from which country?
7 Which artwork by Piero della Francesca in the Uffizi portrays Federico da Montefeltro and his wife Battista Sforza, the ghostly pallor of the latter suggesting it was painted after her death, and is famous for the sliced off bridge of the man's nose and his hooded eyes?
8 Subtitled The Inaccessible Pinnacle, what is the first full length feature film to be in Scots Gaelic?
9 What is the unpointed sword carried in front of the English sovereigns at their coronations as a symbol of mercy?
10 Burning with a peach-blossom flame, what colourless, poisonous gas composed of carbon and nitrogen was so named in 1815 by chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac as it is chemically related to Prussian blue?
11 Which commentator said during the 1949 University Boat Race: "I can't see who's in the lead but it's either Oxford or Cambridge"?
12 Who won light welterweight boxing gold at the Montreal Olympics in 1976?
13 From the German for "fork", what is the triangular upper portion of the end of a building between the sloping sides of a roof?
14 Which sect of Shiite Muslims hold that at the death of Ja'far ibn Muhammad, the 6th Shiite imam, in 765 that the imamate should have descended to the posterity of his deceased eldest son, whereas it actually passed to his younger son, Musa al-Kazim (c.799)?
15 Which trees of Botswana with a circumference of over 30m could be as much as 4000 years old, with Makgadikgadi being the site of several famous examples called The Sleeping Sisters which were immortalised in paintings by Thomas Baines in 1862?
16 Ronan Bennett's novel The Catastrophist centres on which charismatic Congolese leader of the fight for independence from Belgium?
17 The world's largest producer of cocoa, which country is home to such rainforest-clad beaches as Monogaga, Grand Bereby and Grand Lahou, and such other places as Issia, Quango, Kong and Touba?
18 Krk was the seat of which native nobility and dukes of Croatia?
19 In which Cyprus mountain range is Mount Olympus? Troodos
20 At which castle on Cyprus did Richard the Lionheart marry Berengaria in the 12th century?
21 Which Mexican poet's collections include Sun Stone (1963), The Bow and the Lyre (1973) and Glimpses of India (1995)?
22 Which bird has endangered species named Cabot's (south-east China) and western (India/Pakistan)?
23 Which of the French tennis-playing "Four Musketeers" was nicknamed Toto?
24 Which Hungarian defender captained the "Magical Magyars" who beat England at Wembley in 1953 so comprehensively?
25 Babe Ruth's 714th and final home run was considered to be one of the longest ever hit at which Pittsburgh stadium?
26 The Indian drink, toddy, is made from what fermented substance?
27 Pantai Suluban is said to be the surfing Mecca of which Asian island?
28 In which country are the village houses of Kandovan carved from eroded volcanic hillside?
29 Which country features its Lake Burabay on its 10 tenge banknote?
30 Which monastery on Burma's Inle Lake is famed for its oval windows?
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Answers to BH124
1 (Edward) Kid Ory 2 Dresden 3 Botargo 4 Pataudi Trophy 5 Lee Hazlewood 6 Ethiopia 7 The Duke and Duchess of Urbino 8 Seachd 9 Curtana 10 Cyanogen 11 John Snagge 12 Sugar Ray Leonard 13 Gable 14 Ismaili 15 Baobab 16 Patrice Lumumba 17 Cote d'Ivoire 18 Frankopan 19 Troodos 20 Lemesos Castle 21 Octavio Paz 22 Tragopan 23 Jacques Brugnon 24 Jozsef Bozsik 25 Forbes Field 26 Palm sap 27 Bali 28 Iran 29 Kazakhstan 30 Shwe Yaunghwe monastery
Since I will be internet-less for the next couple of days (FREEDOM FROM TECHNOLOGICAL TYRANNY!) you might as well have another quiz...
BH125
1 The 1979 draft constitution of which Pacific republic created the world's first nuclear-free state?
2 The world's oldest town, where can you visit the Byzantine mosque at Hisham's Palace?
3 Which ghost town of Papua New Guinea is buried in the volcanic ash of Tuvurvur?
4 Which country has produced Singha beer since 1933?
5 Having been under the control of Sweden, Finland was ceded to Russia in 1809 by which treaty?
6 Which country elected Otto of Bavaria its king in 1832?
7 Which of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World was erected by Queen Artemisia?
8 The German scientist Heinrich Kolbe first synthesised which common drug in 1859, though it was not introduced into medicine until 1899?
9 Which 253m-high dam stands on the river Tons in India?
10 The Roman, Marcus Terentius Varro, is credited with compiling the first of what kind of book in c.47BC?
11 Richard Brown was the first skipper to lift which trophy in 1851?
12 Taking its name from the straw rice bags that mark out the different parts, what is the Japanese word for the sumo area?
13 Paraguay lost over a quarter of its national territory in 1865 as a result of its disastrous participation in which conflict?
14 Which Filipino musician had an international hit with Anak/Child?
15 "Na zdrowie!" is "cheers!" in which language?
16 Which film by Portuguese director Joao Pedro Rodrigues recounts the story of a sex-obsessed garbage man?
17 Which Portuguese city is home to the beautiful, religious iconography covered blue-and-white tiled walls of the Capela das Almas?
18 The modern building, the Barzan Tower, is set among the classical buildings at the Corniche in which Middle Eastern capital?
19 Which important figure of the Jewish Enlightenment wrote Jerusalem, which advocated Judaism as the religion of reason, in 1783?
20 Which French novelist published Manon Lescaut in 1731?
21 In c.1505, which German locksmith developed a mainspring as an alternative to weight-driven clocks, and ushered in the manufacture of pocket watches in Europe?
22 Which Chinese physician, naturalist and biologist (1518-1593) spent 30 years compiling his great work, the Ben Cao Gang Mu/Great Pharmacopoeia?
23 What name is given to the combination of dry sauna, steam bath and plunges of ice-cold water that many Russians indulge in?
24 Which stark, red-and-white striped church in St Petersburg was built for Catherine the Great as a resting place on the road to her country residence?
25 Cecile Kayirebwa is considered to be the queen of which country's music?
26 Who designed Riyadh's 875-foot Faisaliah Tower?
27 As found in the Seychelles, which palm produces a famously erotic nut that only grows on the female tree and can weigh up to 20 kg?
28 Which "fairy tale" lake in Gorenjska, Slovenia, has hosted the World Rowing Championships on several occasions?
29 Usually represented as a drunk old man, which Greek demi-god fostered and educated Dionysus?
30 The very best "gaiteros" are considered heroes in the Spanis region of Galicia. What kind of musical instrument do they play?
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Answers to BH125
1 Palau 2 Jericho 3 Rabaul 4 Thailand 5 Friedrichsham 6 Greece 7 Mausoleum at Halicarnassus 8 Aspirin 9 Kishau 10 Encyclopaedia 11 America's Cup (then the 100 Guineas Cup) 12 Dohyo 13 War of the Triple Alliance 14 Freddie Aguilar 15 Polish 16 O Fantasma 17 Porto 18 Doha 19 Moses Mendelssohn 20 Abbe Prevost 21 Peter Henlein 22 Li Shizen 23 Banya 24 Chesma Church 25 Rwanda 26 Norman Foster 27 Coco de mer palm 28 Lake Bled 29 Silenus 30 Bagpipes
BH124
1 Which trombonist, singer and composer's "Sunshine Orchestra" was the first black jazz band to record?
2 In which German city is the Grunes Gewolbe and the Semper Gallery?
3 Derived from a Coptic word, which itself comes from the Greek for "pickle", which relish is made of the roes of the mullet and tuna?
4 The England and Indian national cricket teams compete for which trophy, named after a man who played for both countries?
5 Whose last album, due to his death from renal cancer, is called Cake and Death?
6 Alemayehu Eshete, Mulatu Astatqe, Mahmoud Ahmed are musicians from which country?
7 Which artwork by Piero della Francesca in the Uffizi portrays Federico da Montefeltro and his wife Battista Sforza, the ghostly pallor of the latter suggesting it was painted after her death, and is famous for the sliced off bridge of the man's nose and his hooded eyes?
8 Subtitled The Inaccessible Pinnacle, what is the first full length feature film to be in Scots Gaelic?
9 What is the unpointed sword carried in front of the English sovereigns at their coronations as a symbol of mercy?
10 Burning with a peach-blossom flame, what colourless, poisonous gas composed of carbon and nitrogen was so named in 1815 by chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac as it is chemically related to Prussian blue?
11 Which commentator said during the 1949 University Boat Race: "I can't see who's in the lead but it's either Oxford or Cambridge"?
12 Who won light welterweight boxing gold at the Montreal Olympics in 1976?
13 From the German for "fork", what is the triangular upper portion of the end of a building between the sloping sides of a roof?
14 Which sect of Shiite Muslims hold that at the death of Ja'far ibn Muhammad, the 6th Shiite imam, in 765 that the imamate should have descended to the posterity of his deceased eldest son, whereas it actually passed to his younger son, Musa al-Kazim (c.799)?
15 Which trees of Botswana with a circumference of over 30m could be as much as 4000 years old, with Makgadikgadi being the site of several famous examples called The Sleeping Sisters which were immortalised in paintings by Thomas Baines in 1862?
16 Ronan Bennett's novel The Catastrophist centres on which charismatic Congolese leader of the fight for independence from Belgium?
17 The world's largest producer of cocoa, which country is home to such rainforest-clad beaches as Monogaga, Grand Bereby and Grand Lahou, and such other places as Issia, Quango, Kong and Touba?
18 Krk was the seat of which native nobility and dukes of Croatia?
19 In which Cyprus mountain range is Mount Olympus? Troodos
20 At which castle on Cyprus did Richard the Lionheart marry Berengaria in the 12th century?
21 Which Mexican poet's collections include Sun Stone (1963), The Bow and the Lyre (1973) and Glimpses of India (1995)?
22 Which bird has endangered species named Cabot's (south-east China) and western (India/Pakistan)?
23 Which of the French tennis-playing "Four Musketeers" was nicknamed Toto?
24 Which Hungarian defender captained the "Magical Magyars" who beat England at Wembley in 1953 so comprehensively?
25 Babe Ruth's 714th and final home run was considered to be one of the longest ever hit at which Pittsburgh stadium?
26 The Indian drink, toddy, is made from what fermented substance?
27 Pantai Suluban is said to be the surfing Mecca of which Asian island?
28 In which country are the village houses of Kandovan carved from eroded volcanic hillside?
29 Which country features its Lake Burabay on its 10 tenge banknote?
30 Which monastery on Burma's Inle Lake is famed for its oval windows?
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Answers to BH124
1 (Edward) Kid Ory 2 Dresden 3 Botargo 4 Pataudi Trophy 5 Lee Hazlewood 6 Ethiopia 7 The Duke and Duchess of Urbino 8 Seachd 9 Curtana 10 Cyanogen 11 John Snagge 12 Sugar Ray Leonard 13 Gable 14 Ismaili 15 Baobab 16 Patrice Lumumba 17 Cote d'Ivoire 18 Frankopan 19 Troodos 20 Lemesos Castle 21 Octavio Paz 22 Tragopan 23 Jacques Brugnon 24 Jozsef Bozsik 25 Forbes Field 26 Palm sap 27 Bali 28 Iran 29 Kazakhstan 30 Shwe Yaunghwe monastery
Since I will be internet-less for the next couple of days (FREEDOM FROM TECHNOLOGICAL TYRANNY!) you might as well have another quiz...
BH125
1 The 1979 draft constitution of which Pacific republic created the world's first nuclear-free state?
2 The world's oldest town, where can you visit the Byzantine mosque at Hisham's Palace?
3 Which ghost town of Papua New Guinea is buried in the volcanic ash of Tuvurvur?
4 Which country has produced Singha beer since 1933?
5 Having been under the control of Sweden, Finland was ceded to Russia in 1809 by which treaty?
6 Which country elected Otto of Bavaria its king in 1832?
7 Which of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World was erected by Queen Artemisia?
8 The German scientist Heinrich Kolbe first synthesised which common drug in 1859, though it was not introduced into medicine until 1899?
9 Which 253m-high dam stands on the river Tons in India?
10 The Roman, Marcus Terentius Varro, is credited with compiling the first of what kind of book in c.47BC?
11 Richard Brown was the first skipper to lift which trophy in 1851?
12 Taking its name from the straw rice bags that mark out the different parts, what is the Japanese word for the sumo area?
13 Paraguay lost over a quarter of its national territory in 1865 as a result of its disastrous participation in which conflict?
14 Which Filipino musician had an international hit with Anak/Child?
15 "Na zdrowie!" is "cheers!" in which language?
16 Which film by Portuguese director Joao Pedro Rodrigues recounts the story of a sex-obsessed garbage man?
17 Which Portuguese city is home to the beautiful, religious iconography covered blue-and-white tiled walls of the Capela das Almas?
18 The modern building, the Barzan Tower, is set among the classical buildings at the Corniche in which Middle Eastern capital?
19 Which important figure of the Jewish Enlightenment wrote Jerusalem, which advocated Judaism as the religion of reason, in 1783?
20 Which French novelist published Manon Lescaut in 1731?
21 In c.1505, which German locksmith developed a mainspring as an alternative to weight-driven clocks, and ushered in the manufacture of pocket watches in Europe?
22 Which Chinese physician, naturalist and biologist (1518-1593) spent 30 years compiling his great work, the Ben Cao Gang Mu/Great Pharmacopoeia?
23 What name is given to the combination of dry sauna, steam bath and plunges of ice-cold water that many Russians indulge in?
24 Which stark, red-and-white striped church in St Petersburg was built for Catherine the Great as a resting place on the road to her country residence?
25 Cecile Kayirebwa is considered to be the queen of which country's music?
26 Who designed Riyadh's 875-foot Faisaliah Tower?
27 As found in the Seychelles, which palm produces a famously erotic nut that only grows on the female tree and can weigh up to 20 kg?
28 Which "fairy tale" lake in Gorenjska, Slovenia, has hosted the World Rowing Championships on several occasions?
29 Usually represented as a drunk old man, which Greek demi-god fostered and educated Dionysus?
30 The very best "gaiteros" are considered heroes in the Spanis region of Galicia. What kind of musical instrument do they play?
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Answers to BH125
1 Palau 2 Jericho 3 Rabaul 4 Thailand 5 Friedrichsham 6 Greece 7 Mausoleum at Halicarnassus 8 Aspirin 9 Kishau 10 Encyclopaedia 11 America's Cup (then the 100 Guineas Cup) 12 Dohyo 13 War of the Triple Alliance 14 Freddie Aguilar 15 Polish 16 O Fantasma 17 Porto 18 Doha 19 Moses Mendelssohn 20 Abbe Prevost 21 Peter Henlein 22 Li Shizen 23 Banya 24 Chesma Church 25 Rwanda 26 Norman Foster 27 Coco de mer palm 28 Lake Bled 29 Silenus 30 Bagpipes
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