BH128: Here We Go Again
QLL begins
Woo-hoo! The new Quiz League of London season starts here. Well, not here, i.e. in my bedroom, but at the Broken Hearts' new venue the Carpenter's Arms, wherever in bleedin' hell that may be (don't worry I'll find it by consulting Streetmap ... I don't live in London, I live in Streetmap land). And also in about two-and-a-half hours.
Thus, the defence of our title commences with a match against Barb. Are you as excited as I am? If you are, then you will be moderately so. Who knows what the new question style will bring? Hopefully, the same results as before. Fingers and other appendages crossed.
Still burning off the long pre-written BH quizzes...
BH128
1 Which major Hollywood star (b.1962) made his film debut in Endless Love (1981)?
2 The title poem of whose collection, The Strength of Fields (1977), was written for Jimmy Carter's presidential inauguration?
3 Which Italian screenwriter, known for his long relationship with director Michelangelo Antonioni on such films as La Notte/The Night (1961) and Il Deserto Rosso/The Red Desert (1964), was Oscar-nominated for his contributions to the screenplays for Casanova '70 (1965), Blow-Up (1966) and Amarcord (1973)?
4 In which modern day country was Al Jolson born in 1886?
5 Which US folk group, known for such hits as Tom Dooley (1958), had Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds and Dave Guard in its original line-up?
6 Director of the "revenge" trilogy made up of Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Oldboy and Lady Vengeance, which Korean filmmaker's latest film is called I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK?
7 Which Italian stew, made from knuckle of veal and marrowbone, has a name meaning "bone-hole" in the native language?
8 Something pugilists might engage in, what is a "sciamachy"?
9 Smithsonite is a carbonate of which metal?
10 Called "The Portuguese Horace", which poet's best known work is the two-act historical tragedy on classical lines, Ines de Castro (1587)?
11 Which US theoretical physicist wrote the mammoth memoir On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances (1876-78)?
12 Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-86) and Kazuo Ohno are credited with founding which dance-theatre movement that draws on and yet refutes Kabuki and Noh and such Western art forms as modern dance, German Expressionism and Pop Art, as seen in such productions as the 1968 piece Nikutai No Hanran/Rebellion of the Body?
13 Argentinian defender Cecilia Roognoni was banned from international competition for a year in 1999 for throwing a ball at English umpire Gill Clarke during the Pan-Am Games. What sport does she play?
14 What were used for the first time in an 1891 football match between North and South?
15 Which sport uses a flat grass court measuring 28 yards (25.6m) by 35 yards (32m)?
16 Founded in 1888, which Japanese producer of musical instruments began manufacturing motorcycles in 1955 with the first racing machine built in 1961?
17 Which Australian woman squash player was undefeated between 1962 and 1980?
18 Which acolyte of the last Shah of Iran was given the nickname "The Butcher of Tehran" for ordering his troops to open fire on the marching supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1963 and in 1978, and was later shot in 1984?
19 The extremely upwardly mobile Kenneth Widmerpool is quite possibly the most memorable character, in which 12-volume sequence of novels, narrated by Nick Jenkins?
20 Often known as the Ice Age, which earlier epoch of the Quartenary period extended from the end of the Pliocene (c.2 million years ago) to the start of the Holocene (10,000 years ago)?
21 Explaining the random change in frequency of alleles in a population over successive generations due to sampling errors in the gametes, what is the alternative two-word name for the Sewall Wright effect?
22 Fission-track, potassium-argon, rubidium-strontium and uranium-lead are all methods of what?
23 Phytomenadione is the chemical name for what?
24 Regarded as the founder of modern mathematical logic and the philosophy of language, which German thinker's major works include Begriffschrift (1879), Grundlagen der Arithmetik (1884) and Die Grundgesetze der Arithmetik (1893, 1903)?
25 The full name of which underground anti-socialist Zionist military group meant "national military organisation" in Hebrew?
26 Whose book How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1953) was turned into a musical by Frank Loesser in 1961?
27 First issued for the mass market in 1949, which form of cheaply priced romantic novels are the American equivalent of the Mills & Boon books?
28 What word was invented by Texan lawyer Maury Maverick, a descendant of cattle-owner Samuel A. Maverick, to describe the convoluted, pretentious and often meaningless language of bureaucracy?
29 Which Sarajevo-born director won an Oscar for his film No Man's Land, the story of a precarious and fateful relationship between a Serb and a Muslim soldier during the Sarajevo siege?
30 Known for its ancient and precious Buddhist sites, Bumthang is considered to be the spiritual heartland of which country?
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Answers to BH 128
1 Tom Cruise 2 James Dickey 3 Tonino Guerra 4 (Strednike), Lithuania 5 Kingston Trio 6 Park Chan-wook 7 Osso bucco 8 A fight with a shadow 9 Zinc 10 Antonio Ferreira 11 Josiah Willard Gibbs 12 Butoh 13 Hockey 14 Goal nets 15 Croquet 16 Yamaha 17 Heather McKay/Blundell 18 General Gholam Ali Oveissi 19 A Dance to the Music of Time 20 Pleistocene 21 Genetic drift 22 Radioactive dating 23 Vitamin K 24 Gottlob Frege 25 Irgun (Irgun Zvai Leumi) 26 Shepherd Mead 27 Harlequin romances 28 Gobbledygook 29 Danis Tanovi 30 Bhutan
Woo-hoo! The new Quiz League of London season starts here. Well, not here, i.e. in my bedroom, but at the Broken Hearts' new venue the Carpenter's Arms, wherever in bleedin' hell that may be (don't worry I'll find it by consulting Streetmap ... I don't live in London, I live in Streetmap land). And also in about two-and-a-half hours.
Thus, the defence of our title commences with a match against Barb. Are you as excited as I am? If you are, then you will be moderately so. Who knows what the new question style will bring? Hopefully, the same results as before. Fingers and other appendages crossed.
Still burning off the long pre-written BH quizzes...
BH128
1 Which major Hollywood star (b.1962) made his film debut in Endless Love (1981)?
2 The title poem of whose collection, The Strength of Fields (1977), was written for Jimmy Carter's presidential inauguration?
3 Which Italian screenwriter, known for his long relationship with director Michelangelo Antonioni on such films as La Notte/The Night (1961) and Il Deserto Rosso/The Red Desert (1964), was Oscar-nominated for his contributions to the screenplays for Casanova '70 (1965), Blow-Up (1966) and Amarcord (1973)?
4 In which modern day country was Al Jolson born in 1886?
5 Which US folk group, known for such hits as Tom Dooley (1958), had Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds and Dave Guard in its original line-up?
6 Director of the "revenge" trilogy made up of Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Oldboy and Lady Vengeance, which Korean filmmaker's latest film is called I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK?
7 Which Italian stew, made from knuckle of veal and marrowbone, has a name meaning "bone-hole" in the native language?
8 Something pugilists might engage in, what is a "sciamachy"?
9 Smithsonite is a carbonate of which metal?
10 Called "The Portuguese Horace", which poet's best known work is the two-act historical tragedy on classical lines, Ines de Castro (1587)?
11 Which US theoretical physicist wrote the mammoth memoir On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances (1876-78)?
12 Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-86) and Kazuo Ohno are credited with founding which dance-theatre movement that draws on and yet refutes Kabuki and Noh and such Western art forms as modern dance, German Expressionism and Pop Art, as seen in such productions as the 1968 piece Nikutai No Hanran/Rebellion of the Body?
13 Argentinian defender Cecilia Roognoni was banned from international competition for a year in 1999 for throwing a ball at English umpire Gill Clarke during the Pan-Am Games. What sport does she play?
14 What were used for the first time in an 1891 football match between North and South?
15 Which sport uses a flat grass court measuring 28 yards (25.6m) by 35 yards (32m)?
16 Founded in 1888, which Japanese producer of musical instruments began manufacturing motorcycles in 1955 with the first racing machine built in 1961?
17 Which Australian woman squash player was undefeated between 1962 and 1980?
18 Which acolyte of the last Shah of Iran was given the nickname "The Butcher of Tehran" for ordering his troops to open fire on the marching supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1963 and in 1978, and was later shot in 1984?
19 The extremely upwardly mobile Kenneth Widmerpool is quite possibly the most memorable character, in which 12-volume sequence of novels, narrated by Nick Jenkins?
20 Often known as the Ice Age, which earlier epoch of the Quartenary period extended from the end of the Pliocene (c.2 million years ago) to the start of the Holocene (10,000 years ago)?
21 Explaining the random change in frequency of alleles in a population over successive generations due to sampling errors in the gametes, what is the alternative two-word name for the Sewall Wright effect?
22 Fission-track, potassium-argon, rubidium-strontium and uranium-lead are all methods of what?
23 Phytomenadione is the chemical name for what?
24 Regarded as the founder of modern mathematical logic and the philosophy of language, which German thinker's major works include Begriffschrift (1879), Grundlagen der Arithmetik (1884) and Die Grundgesetze der Arithmetik (1893, 1903)?
25 The full name of which underground anti-socialist Zionist military group meant "national military organisation" in Hebrew?
26 Whose book How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1953) was turned into a musical by Frank Loesser in 1961?
27 First issued for the mass market in 1949, which form of cheaply priced romantic novels are the American equivalent of the Mills & Boon books?
28 What word was invented by Texan lawyer Maury Maverick, a descendant of cattle-owner Samuel A. Maverick, to describe the convoluted, pretentious and often meaningless language of bureaucracy?
29 Which Sarajevo-born director won an Oscar for his film No Man's Land, the story of a precarious and fateful relationship between a Serb and a Muslim soldier during the Sarajevo siege?
30 Known for its ancient and precious Buddhist sites, Bumthang is considered to be the spiritual heartland of which country?
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Answers to BH 128
1 Tom Cruise 2 James Dickey 3 Tonino Guerra 4 (Strednike), Lithuania 5 Kingston Trio 6 Park Chan-wook 7 Osso bucco 8 A fight with a shadow 9 Zinc 10 Antonio Ferreira 11 Josiah Willard Gibbs 12 Butoh 13 Hockey 14 Goal nets 15 Croquet 16 Yamaha 17 Heather McKay/Blundell 18 General Gholam Ali Oveissi 19 A Dance to the Music of Time 20 Pleistocene 21 Genetic drift 22 Radioactive dating 23 Vitamin K 24 Gottlob Frege 25 Irgun (Irgun Zvai Leumi) 26 Shepherd Mead 27 Harlequin romances 28 Gobbledygook 29 Danis Tanovi 30 Bhutan
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