BH126 and BH127: Another Pair of Bar Steward Hard Quizzes
Note with regard to the mailing of Behemoth answers: Apologies to all those who have not received the answers, along with one of my three bonus quizzes, but the last few weeks have been really hectic and stressy with house sales and family health matters. I promise that they will be dispatched this week.
BH126
1 In an Oscar Wilde play, who is the titular daughter of Mrs Erlynne?
2 In what model of plane did Alcock and Brown make the first non-stop Atlantic aircraft crossing?
3 Who was kidnapped by Chang Hsueh-Liang in the 1936 Sian Incident?
4 Which Ernest Vincent Wright book, so-called "lipogrammatical" work, was written (c.1939) without the use of the letter E?
5 In which Dublin jail is the Brendan Behan play The Quare Fellow set?
6 Walters, Duncan and Marsh Seedless are varieties of which fruit?
7 Which 26-year-old former drug dealer and member of the notorious gang The Americans left behind a life of crime to play rugby for South Africa as a winger and has just finished writing his life story, God Loves Rugby, published by the company he jointly owns with former gangster Gayton McKenzie?
8 This year's Indianapolis 500 winner, Scotland's Dario Franchitti, is married to which American film actress?
9 Who became the first Serbian man to reach a grand slam tennis final when he beat David Ferrer in straight sets at this year's US Open?
10 Which 55-year-old Uzbek theatre director and founder of the Ilkhom (meaning "inspiration") theatre company the first such independent group in the USSR, renowned for his opposition to his country's repressive political regime, was murdered outside home on the eve (September 6) of the premiere of his new production of The Oresteia by Aeschylus?
11 Which German city's Hochschule fur Gestaltung movement was the 50s revival of the Bauhaus that helped fuel Germany's economic miracle?
12 Which humanist and scholar's popular, sometimes didactic works include Adagia/Adages (1500,1508), Enchiridion Militis Christiani/Handbook of a Christian Soldier (1503) and De Libero Arbitrio (1523), in which he attacked Luther?
13 The Finn, Esa-Pekka Salonen is famous for being what?
14 What ducal title was conferred in 1682 on Henry Somerset, 3rd Marquis of Worcester?
15 In 540AD, the Byzantine general Belisarius captured which Ostrogothic capital in Italy?
16 Which French dramatist and poet (1868-1955) wrote such celebrated plays as L'Annonce faite a Marie/The Annunciation (1892), Portage de Midi/Break of Noon (1905) and Le Soulier de satin/ The Satin Slipper (1921), as well as the libretti for Honegger's opera Jeanne d'Arc au bucher/Joan of Arc at the Stake (1943) and Milhaud's Christopher Columbus (1930)?
17 In which country are the Pinnewala Elephant Orphanage, Yala West National Park and the spectacular rock fortress of Sigiriya?
18 Which French composer made use of Indian themes and rhythms in the Turangalila Symphony (1946-48)?
19 Mkhulumnchanti is the name of which southern African people's deity, who rely partly on traditional medicine practised by either the inyanga (typically a man) and the sangoma (usually a woman)?
20 In Sweden, what can only be bought through the state-run retailing monopoly, Systembolaget?
21 Located in Tibet, what is the world's highest monastery?
22 The famous fortress-like mud brick houses of which people can be seen in the Kabye region of Togo?
23 Which Warsaw-born sculptor moved to New York City in 1914 and executed such works as Standing Bull and Wounded Bull (1915), which reveal a simplification of forms and stylisation resembling Cubism, though many of his sculptures were accidentally destroyed?
24 Which US scientist invented the Polaroid in 1936?
25 Which Hitchcock film was adapted from the Ethel Lina White novel The Wheel Spins?
26 In which hills, just south of Kitty Hawk, did the Wright brothers make the first sustained, manned, powered and controllable flight in a heavier-than-air aircraft on December 17, 1903?
27 Ford Sterling led which famous troupe of film comedians?
28 Which team won the Khaki (F.A.) Cup Final at Old Trafford in 1915, beating Chelsea 3-1?
29 Which model of electric food mixer made Kenneth Wood a millionaire at the age of 42?
30 Samora Machel led which armed political group that fought for Mozambique's independence from Portugal from 1963, and helped achieve it in 1975?
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Answers to BH126
1 Lady Windermere 2 Vickers Vimy 3 Chiang Kai-shek 4 Gadsby 5 Mountjoy Prison 6 Grapefruit 7 Ashwin Willemse 8 Ashley Judd 9 Novak Djokovic 10 Mark Weil 11 Ulm 12 Erasmus 13 Music conductor 14 Duke of Beaufort 15 Ravenna 16 Paul Claudel 17 Sri Lanka 18 Olivier Messiaen 19 Swazis 20 Alcohol 21 Rongphu Monastery 22 Tamberma people 23 Elie Nadelman 24 Edwin H Land 25 The Lady Vanishes 26 Kill Devil Hills 27 Keystone Kops 28 Sheffield United 29 Kenwood Chef 30 Frelimo (Frente de Libertacao de Mocambique)
BH127
1 Which national African football team are nicknamed a) the Zebras b) Desert Rats c) Scorpions d) Crocodiles?
2 Which 1983 World Rally champion (b.1942) was nicknamed the "Flying Finn"?
3 The Dutch banker C.A.W. Hirschmann first proposed which world federation in 1902?
4 Who wrote the 1970 book Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask?
5 Which group of E-numbers are classified E300-321?
6 What proprietary name of a type of adhesive sticking plaster for cuts and wounds was introduced on to the market in 1928 by the firm Smith & Nephew?
7 Which Chinese sage and story-teller is the central character of a series of short stories, collected in such books as The Moon of Much Gladness (1932), by Ernest Bramah?
8 In a famous trilogy of novels, by what name is the volcano Orodruin better known?
9 The Philadelphia suffragist and temperance worker Anna May Jarvis led the campaign for which day?
10 The name for which famous firm was suggested by a secretary named Joan Coles?
11 Taken from the Latin word for "garrison", which body was elected by the Supreme Soviet to fulfil the role of constitutional head of the state?
12 Which Hungarian-born film producer's real name was Sandor Laszlo Kellner?
13 Which 1977 Luis Bunuel film is about a French businessman's obsessive love for a beautiful young Spanish woman called Conchita (played by the two actresses Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina)?
14 Which vegetable cream soup was created in New York in the early 20th century by French chef Louis Diat, who came from the Bourbonnais region near the place that gave it its name and based it on a similar dish served by his mum, but hot?
15 Which two unmanned US spacecraft were launched respectively on August 29 and September 9, 1975 and ten months later entered orbits around Mars?
16 Which genus of shrubby plant has a name popularly derived from the Greek "I break" since an infusion of the plant's leaves was said to break bladder stones?
17 Literally "hiding" in Hebrew, what room attached to a synagogue is used to store old books and documents?
18 From the Hungarian for "robber", what name was given to a member of a class of mercenaries in Hungary, who were granted lands and the rank of nobles in 1605?
19 The name for which type of jazz-like pop music of central and southern Africa was coined in the mid-20th century from the Zulu for "to climb"?
20 Which copper coin, first made from silver and formerly used in Germany and Austria, was so named from the two crosses with which it was originally stamped?
21 How many silk strings does the Japanese musical instrument, the koto, have?
22 Originally made of maple wood, what is a "mazer"?
23 What word meaning "to emasculate" comes from the Old Norse word for "barren"?
24 The Fosters ASP Tour is the premier competition in which sport?
25 Which New Zealand tree, Myoporum laetum, is noted for its fine white wood?
26 In Spanish football, the position "volante" could be described as what in English?
27 The Sinclair Coefficient is used in which sport?
28 According to which calendar is the year 2550 BE and not 2007AD?
29 Which Lebanese fashion designer, sometimes simply known as ES, was responsible for Queen Rania of Jordan's wedding dress and became the first designer from his country to dress an Oscar winner, Halle Berry, in 2002?
30 In the Raymond Burr TV series, what was Ironside's first name?
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Answers to BH127
1a) Botswana b) Namibia c) Gambia d) Lesotho 2 Hannu Mikkola 3 Football or FIFA 4 David Reuben 5 Antioxidants 6 Elastoplast 7 Kai Lung 8 Mount Doom 9 Mother's Day 10 Penguin 11 Presidium (of the Supreme Soviet) 12 Alexander Korda 13 That Obscure Object of Desire/Cet obscur objet du desir 14 Vichyssoise 15 Viking 16 Erica 17 Genizah 18 Haiduk 19 Kwela 20 Kreuzer 21 Thirteen 22 Large cup/drinking vessel 23 Geld 24 Surfing 25 Ngaio 26 Defensive midfielder 27 Weightlifting 28 Buddhist Era 29 Elie Saab 30 Robert
BH126
1 In an Oscar Wilde play, who is the titular daughter of Mrs Erlynne?
2 In what model of plane did Alcock and Brown make the first non-stop Atlantic aircraft crossing?
3 Who was kidnapped by Chang Hsueh-Liang in the 1936 Sian Incident?
4 Which Ernest Vincent Wright book, so-called "lipogrammatical" work, was written (c.1939) without the use of the letter E?
5 In which Dublin jail is the Brendan Behan play The Quare Fellow set?
6 Walters, Duncan and Marsh Seedless are varieties of which fruit?
7 Which 26-year-old former drug dealer and member of the notorious gang The Americans left behind a life of crime to play rugby for South Africa as a winger and has just finished writing his life story, God Loves Rugby, published by the company he jointly owns with former gangster Gayton McKenzie?
8 This year's Indianapolis 500 winner, Scotland's Dario Franchitti, is married to which American film actress?
9 Who became the first Serbian man to reach a grand slam tennis final when he beat David Ferrer in straight sets at this year's US Open?
10 Which 55-year-old Uzbek theatre director and founder of the Ilkhom (meaning "inspiration") theatre company the first such independent group in the USSR, renowned for his opposition to his country's repressive political regime, was murdered outside home on the eve (September 6) of the premiere of his new production of The Oresteia by Aeschylus?
11 Which German city's Hochschule fur Gestaltung movement was the 50s revival of the Bauhaus that helped fuel Germany's economic miracle?
12 Which humanist and scholar's popular, sometimes didactic works include Adagia/Adages (1500,1508), Enchiridion Militis Christiani/Handbook of a Christian Soldier (1503) and De Libero Arbitrio (1523), in which he attacked Luther?
13 The Finn, Esa-Pekka Salonen is famous for being what?
14 What ducal title was conferred in 1682 on Henry Somerset, 3rd Marquis of Worcester?
15 In 540AD, the Byzantine general Belisarius captured which Ostrogothic capital in Italy?
16 Which French dramatist and poet (1868-1955) wrote such celebrated plays as L'Annonce faite a Marie/The Annunciation (1892), Portage de Midi/Break of Noon (1905) and Le Soulier de satin/ The Satin Slipper (1921), as well as the libretti for Honegger's opera Jeanne d'Arc au bucher/Joan of Arc at the Stake (1943) and Milhaud's Christopher Columbus (1930)?
17 In which country are the Pinnewala Elephant Orphanage, Yala West National Park and the spectacular rock fortress of Sigiriya?
18 Which French composer made use of Indian themes and rhythms in the Turangalila Symphony (1946-48)?
19 Mkhulumnchanti is the name of which southern African people's deity, who rely partly on traditional medicine practised by either the inyanga (typically a man) and the sangoma (usually a woman)?
20 In Sweden, what can only be bought through the state-run retailing monopoly, Systembolaget?
21 Located in Tibet, what is the world's highest monastery?
22 The famous fortress-like mud brick houses of which people can be seen in the Kabye region of Togo?
23 Which Warsaw-born sculptor moved to New York City in 1914 and executed such works as Standing Bull and Wounded Bull (1915), which reveal a simplification of forms and stylisation resembling Cubism, though many of his sculptures were accidentally destroyed?
24 Which US scientist invented the Polaroid in 1936?
25 Which Hitchcock film was adapted from the Ethel Lina White novel The Wheel Spins?
26 In which hills, just south of Kitty Hawk, did the Wright brothers make the first sustained, manned, powered and controllable flight in a heavier-than-air aircraft on December 17, 1903?
27 Ford Sterling led which famous troupe of film comedians?
28 Which team won the Khaki (F.A.) Cup Final at Old Trafford in 1915, beating Chelsea 3-1?
29 Which model of electric food mixer made Kenneth Wood a millionaire at the age of 42?
30 Samora Machel led which armed political group that fought for Mozambique's independence from Portugal from 1963, and helped achieve it in 1975?
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Answers to BH126
1 Lady Windermere 2 Vickers Vimy 3 Chiang Kai-shek 4 Gadsby 5 Mountjoy Prison 6 Grapefruit 7 Ashwin Willemse 8 Ashley Judd 9 Novak Djokovic 10 Mark Weil 11 Ulm 12 Erasmus 13 Music conductor 14 Duke of Beaufort 15 Ravenna 16 Paul Claudel 17 Sri Lanka 18 Olivier Messiaen 19 Swazis 20 Alcohol 21 Rongphu Monastery 22 Tamberma people 23 Elie Nadelman 24 Edwin H Land 25 The Lady Vanishes 26 Kill Devil Hills 27 Keystone Kops 28 Sheffield United 29 Kenwood Chef 30 Frelimo (Frente de Libertacao de Mocambique)
BH127
1 Which national African football team are nicknamed a) the Zebras b) Desert Rats c) Scorpions d) Crocodiles?
2 Which 1983 World Rally champion (b.1942) was nicknamed the "Flying Finn"?
3 The Dutch banker C.A.W. Hirschmann first proposed which world federation in 1902?
4 Who wrote the 1970 book Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask?
5 Which group of E-numbers are classified E300-321?
6 What proprietary name of a type of adhesive sticking plaster for cuts and wounds was introduced on to the market in 1928 by the firm Smith & Nephew?
7 Which Chinese sage and story-teller is the central character of a series of short stories, collected in such books as The Moon of Much Gladness (1932), by Ernest Bramah?
8 In a famous trilogy of novels, by what name is the volcano Orodruin better known?
9 The Philadelphia suffragist and temperance worker Anna May Jarvis led the campaign for which day?
10 The name for which famous firm was suggested by a secretary named Joan Coles?
11 Taken from the Latin word for "garrison", which body was elected by the Supreme Soviet to fulfil the role of constitutional head of the state?
12 Which Hungarian-born film producer's real name was Sandor Laszlo Kellner?
13 Which 1977 Luis Bunuel film is about a French businessman's obsessive love for a beautiful young Spanish woman called Conchita (played by the two actresses Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina)?
14 Which vegetable cream soup was created in New York in the early 20th century by French chef Louis Diat, who came from the Bourbonnais region near the place that gave it its name and based it on a similar dish served by his mum, but hot?
15 Which two unmanned US spacecraft were launched respectively on August 29 and September 9, 1975 and ten months later entered orbits around Mars?
16 Which genus of shrubby plant has a name popularly derived from the Greek "I break" since an infusion of the plant's leaves was said to break bladder stones?
17 Literally "hiding" in Hebrew, what room attached to a synagogue is used to store old books and documents?
18 From the Hungarian for "robber", what name was given to a member of a class of mercenaries in Hungary, who were granted lands and the rank of nobles in 1605?
19 The name for which type of jazz-like pop music of central and southern Africa was coined in the mid-20th century from the Zulu for "to climb"?
20 Which copper coin, first made from silver and formerly used in Germany and Austria, was so named from the two crosses with which it was originally stamped?
21 How many silk strings does the Japanese musical instrument, the koto, have?
22 Originally made of maple wood, what is a "mazer"?
23 What word meaning "to emasculate" comes from the Old Norse word for "barren"?
24 The Fosters ASP Tour is the premier competition in which sport?
25 Which New Zealand tree, Myoporum laetum, is noted for its fine white wood?
26 In Spanish football, the position "volante" could be described as what in English?
27 The Sinclair Coefficient is used in which sport?
28 According to which calendar is the year 2550 BE and not 2007AD?
29 Which Lebanese fashion designer, sometimes simply known as ES, was responsible for Queen Rania of Jordan's wedding dress and became the first designer from his country to dress an Oscar winner, Halle Berry, in 2002?
30 In the Raymond Burr TV series, what was Ironside's first name?
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Answers to BH127
1a) Botswana b) Namibia c) Gambia d) Lesotho 2 Hannu Mikkola 3 Football or FIFA 4 David Reuben 5 Antioxidants 6 Elastoplast 7 Kai Lung 8 Mount Doom 9 Mother's Day 10 Penguin 11 Presidium (of the Supreme Soviet) 12 Alexander Korda 13 That Obscure Object of Desire/Cet obscur objet du desir 14 Vichyssoise 15 Viking 16 Erica 17 Genizah 18 Haiduk 19 Kwela 20 Kreuzer 21 Thirteen 22 Large cup/drinking vessel 23 Geld 24 Surfing 25 Ngaio 26 Defensive midfielder 27 Weightlifting 28 Buddhist Era 29 Elie Saab 30 Robert
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