BH139 & BH140 Go Into the Wild
Idiot
First a note about BH136. I realised I had posted the same quiz twice - in the BH136 slot and the BH138 one. How silly of me. The dementia is creeping up on me, but not so much that I have not gone back and rectified the situation (check it out, boys and girls).
Machines
I think I had my first real taste of why some people love and live off quiz machines on Saturday night. Having always been partial to getting a few quid out of Trivia for Dummies, I was intrigued to see that there was an ITBox with the said game on it whilst on a pub crawl in Arundel.
Obviously not feeling the need to converse with my fellow pubgoers in a normal human being kind of fashion, I went on it and encouraged by my baying friends putting in 50p after 50p we ended up with about £70 of winnings. Which wasn't bad for 40 minutes work. I think the key to my success was having more than one pair of eyes looking at the crucial money-winning spot the difference game at the end of each round. Normally, I always miss something before too long and just end up with four or five quid.
As for the questions, they're pretty straightforward for trivia experts except when they ask you in which year did Stanley Matthews turn on the Blackpool Illuminations - 1950, 1951 or 1952. Thankfully, very few of those appeared in the hundreds that were answered. Could it always be this easy and I have merely ignored this rich seam of potential earnings? Or maybe the key is travelling to a West Sussex backwater to find a machine that has been filled with hundreds of pound coins by hick thickos (Tony suggested before we have a night out in Arundel again we should visit the ITBox for drinking money. 'Tis a good idea). Answers on a postcard...
So that was nice. There is an ITBox down the road at an O'Neill's with TfD on it. I'm thinking about spending a couple of hours there just so I can tell myself that I really do have Asperger's Syndrome and that quiz machines bring it out in me. Whilst making a few quid, of course. I can see in crystal clear vision why people become true quiz machinists. Because it is easy and it makes them money (after they have put in the correct number of hours getting used to the feel and level of the game). Before the notion had been kind of blurred and intangible.
Un Autre Quiz Ou Deux
Okay, more quizzes written long ago but only appearing right now. I was thinking up a fatuous Dead Sea Scrolls comparison, however, I think I'll just let it go and allow you to make your own fatuous comparison. Fatuous comparisons being a common feature of this blog...
BH139
1 Long established in the grammar of nearly every situation comedy, what was first heard in Britain in the US TV show I Love Lucy when ITV began broadcasting it on September 22, 1955?
2 Which upper class detective made his first appearance in the 1929 novel, The Crime at Black Dudley?
3 Commissioned in 1938 by Mr and Mrs RW Bliss, which "little concerto in the style of the Brandenburg Concertos" by Stravinsky took its name from the mansion they lived in in Georgetown, near Washington DC?
4 Which 1943 Herman Hesse novel has the first line: "It is our intention to preserve in these pages what scant biographical material we have been able to collect concerning Joseph Knecht, or Ludi Magister Josephus III, as he is called in the Archives of the _____ ____ ____"?
5 Which politician, whose middle name is Frederick, was known as Fritz when he served as US Vice-President in allusion to his German ancestry?
6 Which well-known US amateur sporting competition was initiated by Arch Ward, sports editor of the Chicago Tribune, and first sponsored by that paper in 1926?
7 Who wrote the book upon which the 1963 film, The Great Escape, was based?
8 Where in Denmark was Legoland, an entire village made of Lego (obviously), opened in 1960?
9 The 1935 Marx Brothers film, A Night at the Opera, culminates in the laugh-heavy sabotaging of a performance of which famous opera?
10 Formerly called Leninabad, the city of Khodzhent is in which country?
11 La Coruna, Lugo, Orense and Ponteverde are major cities or towns in which Spanish autonomous region?
12 While in Germany, the American abstract artist Lyonel Feininger formed which group in 1924 with the painters Klee, Kandinsky and Alexei von Jawlensky?
13 Including among its most notable members Pope Paul III, which family originating in upper Lazio held the duchy of Parma from 1545 to 1731?
14 Launched in January 1958, which was the first US satellite in orbit and discovered the Van Allen radiation belts around the Earth?
15 Achernar is the brightest star of which constellation (the sixth largest) that is represented as a river and meanders from the celestial equator deep into the southern hemisphere?
16 Which prominent Paris building was erected in 1718 for Louis d'Auvergne, Count of Evreux?
17 Which English dramatist wrote such plays as Destiny (1976), about the extreme right-wing in Britain, The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs (1978) and The Shape of the Table (1990), on the collapse of Eastern bloc in Europe?
18 In Norse mythology, which goddess of the sky, marriage and motherhood was the wife of Odin and mother by him of Hoder, Balder, Hermod and Tyr?
19 Which classic American play of 1938 is divided into three acts: Daily Life, Love and Marriage, and, finally, Death in which Emily Webb dies giving birth?
20 On accession to the throne in 1881, which Russian Tsar embarked on a program of "counter-reforms" and approved a series of Temporary Regulations that gave him the power to crack down on perceived 'terrorism'?
21 Which Summer Olympic Games saw the introduction of electronic timers?
22 Which Ukrainian skater actually took the Olympic title during the 1994 Winter Games of the Kerrigan-Harding affair?
23 Also called Kanze Motokiyo, which master of the Kanze theatrical school (1363-1443) is considered one of the masters of Noh theatre thanks to his providing 90 of c.230 plays in the modern repertoire, among them Atsumori, Birds of Sorrow and Wind in the Pines?
24 Consisting of several RNA and protein molecules arranged into two sub-units, what are the machines that co-ordinate protein synthesis or translation?
25 Which 1924 Shakespearean opera by Vaughan Williams features "Fantasia on Greensleeves"?
26 The Hindu god Indra wields the vajra and rode Airavat. What were they?
27 Which poet and revolutionary's 1885 work Ill-Omened Friendship is considered the first Spanish modernist novel?
28 In Judaism, the day the Ninth of Av is set aside for fasting and mourning the destruction of what?
29 Which member of the German group of religious painters, the Nazarenes, designed the Munich Glyptothek and covered the entire east wall of the same city's Ludwigskirche with his work, the Last Judgement?
30 In the novel Catch-22, what is Yossarian's first name?
31 The towns of Middlesex, Caledonia and Orange Walk are in which Central American country?
32 On which island will you find Nettilling Lake, the largest natural lake located on any island in the world?
33 Which SI unit is measured as joules per coulomb?
34 The Tower of the Americas is the tallest building in which Texan city?
35 In 1998, Ruth Dreifus became the first female and first Jewish president of which country?
36 Bovespa is the home of which country's stock exchange?
37 Having a surname meaning "anger" in German, which alto playing, free jazz musician and leader of Masada has released several film music volumes and produced such "file card" compositions as Spillane and Godard, as well as the Naked City project?
38 Which European capital city derives its name from the native language for "Danish city"?
39 Which Russian dessert, traditionally eaten at Easter, is made from dried fruit and curd cheese?
40 In psychiatry, "abulia" is the chronic inability to do what?
41 Which American experimental theatre group has been directed since its formation in 1947 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina?
42 Pope Pius XII said: "One Galileo in two thousand years is enough" when asked to proscribe the works (including La Phenomene humain/The Phenomenon of Man - written 1938-40 but published in 1955, the year of his death) of which French Jesuit theologian, palaeontologist and philosopher?
43 Which American supermodel was born in de Kalb, Illinois in 1966 and had plans to become a chemical engineer before being discovered by photographer Victor Skrebanski in Chicago?
44 Which John Milton poem begins: "Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere"?
45 What word beginning with the letter "S" describes a charitable organisation of lay Roman Catholic Church members?
46 Now known by a common male forename, which lake was known as Idi Amin Dada from 1973-79?
47 Tindouf in western Algeria is an oasis with large deposits of which metallic element?
48 Orphism was a religious that worshipped which Greek god?
49 Matthew Arnold based which of his poems on the legend of a father who unknowingly killed his own son in battle; a tale also told in Firdausi's epic Shahnama, the Book of Kings?
50 Which Japanese "star festival" held on July 7 was introduced from China in the 8th century and dedicated to Altair and Vega in the constellation Aquila that are united once every year in the Milky Way?
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1 Canned laughter 2 Albert Campion 3 Dumbarton Oaks 4 The Glass Bead Game 5 Walter Mondale 6 Golden Gloves (boxing) 7 Paul Brickhill 8 Billund 9 Il Trovatore 10 Tajikistan 11 Galicia 12 Blaue Vier (Blue Four) 13 Farnese 14 Explorer I 15 Eridanus 16 Elysee Palace 17 David Edgar 18 Frigg 19 Our Town by Thornton Wilder 20 Alexander III 21 Stockholm, 1912 22 Oksana Baiul 23 Zeami 24 Ribosomes 25 Sir John in Love 26 Thunderbolt/ 4-tusked white elephant 27 Jose Marti 28 First and Second Temples 29 Peter Cornelius 30 John 31 Belize 32 Baffin Island 33 Volt 34 San Antonio 35 Switzerland 36 Brazil 37 John Zorn 38 Tallinn 39 Paskha 40 Decide or act independently 41 The Living Theatre 42 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 43 Cindy Crawford 44 Lycidas 45 Sodality 46 Lake Edward 47 Iron 48 Dionysius 49 Sohrab & Rustum 50 Tanabata
BH140
1 The Gulistan Palace is a former royal residence in which Middle East capital city?
2 Which Stravinsky choral work from 1930 was "composed to the glory of God"?
3 His only full-length work in that musical form, which Stravinsky opera of 1951, the libretto of which was written with WH Auden, features the character Baba the Turk, also known as the "Bearded Lady"?
4 Which French architect designed Luxembourg Palace in Paris (1615-20) and Louis XIII's Hunting Lodge at Versailles (1624-26)?
5 Which suave rogue, whose real name is the Honourable Richard Rollison, was the hero of more than 50 John Creasey crime novels?
6 Named after a Communist uprising that took place in their home city in 1918, which movement of left-wing Berlin artists was formed by such painters as Max Pechstein?
7 On what date is Europe Day celebrated?
8 "Dracula" was the code-name given to the liberation of which Asian city on May 3, 1945?
9 Who was Pope at the turn of the 19th into the 20th centiry?
10 What is the sacred cord or girdle of the Parsees consisting of 72 threads - the number of the chapters of the Yasna - and two branches, each one containing six knots, together representing the 12 months of the year?
11 Which Rubens triptych (1611-14) in Antwerp Cathedral is regarded by many as his masterpiece?
12 Which Hungarian-born composer wrote his first film score for Knight Without Armour (1937) and wrote the music for such film noirs as Double Indemnity and The Killers (1946), winning Oscars for Spellbound, A Double Life (1947) and Ben Hur (1959), while his work outside the movie industry include 1953 violin concerto written for Jascha Heifetz and a 1968 cello concerto for Janos Starker?
13 While working for the Copenhagen Telephone Company, which electrical engineer invented the telegraphone, a wire recording device which was a forerunner of the magnetic tape recorder, in 1898?
14 Which Leipzig-born swimmer broke the record for the most medals won by any woman in one sport at the same Olympics by winning six in 1988?
15 Which Japanese chemist was the first person to identify the DNA-RNA fragments named after him in 1967?
16 The 1971 film Kotch was the only film directed by which double-Oscar winning US actor?
17 To which French painter, who dabbled in abstraction with such works La Femme en Bleu before WW1 and executed murals for the UN building in New York (1952), has a museum dedicated to his work at Biot on the Cote d'Azur?
18 In 1916, Karl Schwarzchild introduced the idea that a star could contract under gravity to form what?
19 In 1903, Alfred Stieglitz devoted the first issue of his influential magazine Camera Work to which woman photographer, who was both a founder member of Photo-Secession in 1902 and, with Alvin Langdon Coburn and Clarence White, the Pictorial Photographers of America in 1916?
20 Killed when his army was destroyed by the Huns in 437AD, Gundicarius, also known as Gunther or Gunnar, was the first recorded king of which people?
21 The Norwegian mathematician and chemist Cato Maximilian Guldberg (1836-1902) is best known for collaborating with his brother-in-law Peter Waage; work that established which law in 1864 stating that the rate of a homogenous chemical reaction is proportional to the concentrations of the reacting substances?
22 Nicolas Guillen became which country's best known poet during the 20th century, receiving a state funeral on his death in 1989?
23 Which c.1570 work by El Greco, displayed at the Historical Museum of Crete in Heraklion, is the sole example of his painting to be found in his native Crete?
24 Retiring in 1995 after 43 years as designer-in-chief at his eponymous Paris fashion house, who produces ready-to-wear clothes under his Nouvelle Boutique label?
25 Which Italian writer published what is considered to be his finest poem I Sepolcri in 1807 (translated into English as The Sepulchres in 1820) and, after the Austrians entered Milan in 1814, sought refuge in London where he published his Saggi sul Petrarca/Essays on Petrarch?
26 Which Mexican writer's 1816 picaresque satire of his country's colonial society, El periquillo sarniento/The Itching Parrot, is considered the first Latin American novel?
27 Which French film comedian established himself internationally thanks to two 1953 movies: The Little World of Don Camillo, in which he movingly portrayed a naive country priest, and The Sheep has Five Legs, in which he displayed his versatility by playing six different roles?
28 Vincent Serei Eri's 1970 novel The Crocodile is seen as the first significant novel from which country?
29 Which footballer is more noted for the 1961 court case he pursued "v Newcastle United and others" than for his playing, due to his establishing the right of professional footballers to freedom of contract?
30 Which world heavyweight champion boxer from Colorado worked in copper mines before taking to the ring as "Kid Blackie"?
31 The Belgian Roman Catholic missionary Father Damien, originally Joseph de Veuster, was renowned for his work among the lepers of which Hawaiian island where he lived from 1873 until his death from the disease in 1889?
32 Organist to Louis XIV from 1693 and known as "le Grand", which French composer greatly influenced JS Bach with his 1716 textbook L'Art de toucher le clavecin/The Art of Playing the Harpsichord?
33 Resulting from experiments on mechanical resistance, whose 1779 law concerns the relationship between friction and normal pressure?
34 The murder of Commodus in 192AD brought to an end the dynasty of which Roman emperors?
35 Which 19th century composer published his first work, Rondo in C minor, at the age of 15?
36 Secretary to Charles VI and Charles VII, which French courtier's much imitated poem, La Belle dame sans merci (1424) provided escapism in the midst of his country's preoccupation with the Hundred Years War?
37 Before safely navigating the Vittoria home, Sebastian del Cano first sailed out with Magellan in command of which ship in 1519?
38 Which nephew and pupil of Canaletto became known as Canaletto the Younger?
39 Which art school, where such artists as Viktor Vasarely were taught by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, gained the nickname the "Budapest Bauhaus"?
40 Nicknamed "Sassy", which New Jersey-born jazz singer and pianist came to the attention of singer Billy Eckstine, and through him, Earl Hines when she won a talent competition in 1942 at Harlem's Apollo Theatre and made her first recording in 1944 with I'll Wait and Pray?
41 Whose equestrian monument to Bartolommeo Colleoni (1481-88) in Venice showed he could craft public works just as monumental as those of Donatello's?
42 Which Hungarian poet and dramatist wrote the national song Szozat/The Call (1840), while his fairy drama Csongor es Tunde/Csongor and Tunde (1831) is said to be his masterpiece?
43 In the main hall of K K Portsparkasse (savings bank) in Vienna (1904-6), which Austrian architect created what is universally regarded as the first example of modern architecture in the 20th century?
44 In the human body, what is the glenoid cavity more commonly called?
45 Which Roman road ran from Rome to Florence?
46 Which Spanish poet began writing his Epigrams in 82AD?
47 In Greek mythology, which hero killed Paris at the climax of the Trojan War?
48 In logic, what term describes the principle or law that can be formulated as "every proposition is either true or false"?
49 Found on the island of Celebes, the sapi-utan is what kind of animal?
50 Dating from the time of WW2, what word for a small, fast escort vessel armed with anti-submarine devices ultimately derives its French name from Middle Dutch word for "basket"?
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1 Tehran 2 Symphony of Psalms 3 The Rake's Progress 4 Salomon de Brosse 5 The Toff 6 Novembergruppe 7 May 9th 8 Rangoon 9 Leo XIII 10 Kusti 11 Descent from the Cross 12 Miklos Rozsa 13 Valdemar Poulsen 14 Kristin Otto 15 Reiji Okazaki 16 Jack Lemmon 17 Fernand Leger 18 A black hole 19 Gertrude Kasebier (nee Stanton) 20 Burgundians 21 Law of mass action 22 Cuba 23 View of Mount Sinai and the Monastery of St Catherine 24 Givenchy (or Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy) 25 Ugo Foscolo 26 Jose Fernandez did Lizardi 27 Fernandel (Fernand Joseph Desire Contandin) 28 Papua New Guinea 29 George Eastham 30 Jack Dempsey 31 Molokai 32 Francois Couperin 33 Coulomb's law 34 Antonine 35 Chopin 36 Alain Chartier 37 Concepcion 38 Bernardo Bellotto 39 Muhely Academy 40 Sarah Vaughan 41 Andrea del Verrocchio (Andrea del Cione) 42 Michael Vorosmarty 43 Otto Wagner 44 Shoulder socket 45 Cassian Way 46 Martial 47 Philoctetes 48 Bivalence 49 Wild ox 50 Corvette
First a note about BH136. I realised I had posted the same quiz twice - in the BH136 slot and the BH138 one. How silly of me. The dementia is creeping up on me, but not so much that I have not gone back and rectified the situation (check it out, boys and girls).
Machines
I think I had my first real taste of why some people love and live off quiz machines on Saturday night. Having always been partial to getting a few quid out of Trivia for Dummies, I was intrigued to see that there was an ITBox with the said game on it whilst on a pub crawl in Arundel.
Obviously not feeling the need to converse with my fellow pubgoers in a normal human being kind of fashion, I went on it and encouraged by my baying friends putting in 50p after 50p we ended up with about £70 of winnings. Which wasn't bad for 40 minutes work. I think the key to my success was having more than one pair of eyes looking at the crucial money-winning spot the difference game at the end of each round. Normally, I always miss something before too long and just end up with four or five quid.
As for the questions, they're pretty straightforward for trivia experts except when they ask you in which year did Stanley Matthews turn on the Blackpool Illuminations - 1950, 1951 or 1952. Thankfully, very few of those appeared in the hundreds that were answered. Could it always be this easy and I have merely ignored this rich seam of potential earnings? Or maybe the key is travelling to a West Sussex backwater to find a machine that has been filled with hundreds of pound coins by hick thickos (Tony suggested before we have a night out in Arundel again we should visit the ITBox for drinking money. 'Tis a good idea). Answers on a postcard...
So that was nice. There is an ITBox down the road at an O'Neill's with TfD on it. I'm thinking about spending a couple of hours there just so I can tell myself that I really do have Asperger's Syndrome and that quiz machines bring it out in me. Whilst making a few quid, of course. I can see in crystal clear vision why people become true quiz machinists. Because it is easy and it makes them money (after they have put in the correct number of hours getting used to the feel and level of the game). Before the notion had been kind of blurred and intangible.
Un Autre Quiz Ou Deux
Okay, more quizzes written long ago but only appearing right now. I was thinking up a fatuous Dead Sea Scrolls comparison, however, I think I'll just let it go and allow you to make your own fatuous comparison. Fatuous comparisons being a common feature of this blog...
BH139
1 Long established in the grammar of nearly every situation comedy, what was first heard in Britain in the US TV show I Love Lucy when ITV began broadcasting it on September 22, 1955?
2 Which upper class detective made his first appearance in the 1929 novel, The Crime at Black Dudley?
3 Commissioned in 1938 by Mr and Mrs RW Bliss, which "little concerto in the style of the Brandenburg Concertos" by Stravinsky took its name from the mansion they lived in in Georgetown, near Washington DC?
4 Which 1943 Herman Hesse novel has the first line: "It is our intention to preserve in these pages what scant biographical material we have been able to collect concerning Joseph Knecht, or Ludi Magister Josephus III, as he is called in the Archives of the _____ ____ ____"?
5 Which politician, whose middle name is Frederick, was known as Fritz when he served as US Vice-President in allusion to his German ancestry?
6 Which well-known US amateur sporting competition was initiated by Arch Ward, sports editor of the Chicago Tribune, and first sponsored by that paper in 1926?
7 Who wrote the book upon which the 1963 film, The Great Escape, was based?
8 Where in Denmark was Legoland, an entire village made of Lego (obviously), opened in 1960?
9 The 1935 Marx Brothers film, A Night at the Opera, culminates in the laugh-heavy sabotaging of a performance of which famous opera?
10 Formerly called Leninabad, the city of Khodzhent is in which country?
11 La Coruna, Lugo, Orense and Ponteverde are major cities or towns in which Spanish autonomous region?
12 While in Germany, the American abstract artist Lyonel Feininger formed which group in 1924 with the painters Klee, Kandinsky and Alexei von Jawlensky?
13 Including among its most notable members Pope Paul III, which family originating in upper Lazio held the duchy of Parma from 1545 to 1731?
14 Launched in January 1958, which was the first US satellite in orbit and discovered the Van Allen radiation belts around the Earth?
15 Achernar is the brightest star of which constellation (the sixth largest) that is represented as a river and meanders from the celestial equator deep into the southern hemisphere?
16 Which prominent Paris building was erected in 1718 for Louis d'Auvergne, Count of Evreux?
17 Which English dramatist wrote such plays as Destiny (1976), about the extreme right-wing in Britain, The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs (1978) and The Shape of the Table (1990), on the collapse of Eastern bloc in Europe?
18 In Norse mythology, which goddess of the sky, marriage and motherhood was the wife of Odin and mother by him of Hoder, Balder, Hermod and Tyr?
19 Which classic American play of 1938 is divided into three acts: Daily Life, Love and Marriage, and, finally, Death in which Emily Webb dies giving birth?
20 On accession to the throne in 1881, which Russian Tsar embarked on a program of "counter-reforms" and approved a series of Temporary Regulations that gave him the power to crack down on perceived 'terrorism'?
21 Which Summer Olympic Games saw the introduction of electronic timers?
22 Which Ukrainian skater actually took the Olympic title during the 1994 Winter Games of the Kerrigan-Harding affair?
23 Also called Kanze Motokiyo, which master of the Kanze theatrical school (1363-1443) is considered one of the masters of Noh theatre thanks to his providing 90 of c.230 plays in the modern repertoire, among them Atsumori, Birds of Sorrow and Wind in the Pines?
24 Consisting of several RNA and protein molecules arranged into two sub-units, what are the machines that co-ordinate protein synthesis or translation?
25 Which 1924 Shakespearean opera by Vaughan Williams features "Fantasia on Greensleeves"?
26 The Hindu god Indra wields the vajra and rode Airavat. What were they?
27 Which poet and revolutionary's 1885 work Ill-Omened Friendship is considered the first Spanish modernist novel?
28 In Judaism, the day the Ninth of Av is set aside for fasting and mourning the destruction of what?
29 Which member of the German group of religious painters, the Nazarenes, designed the Munich Glyptothek and covered the entire east wall of the same city's Ludwigskirche with his work, the Last Judgement?
30 In the novel Catch-22, what is Yossarian's first name?
31 The towns of Middlesex, Caledonia and Orange Walk are in which Central American country?
32 On which island will you find Nettilling Lake, the largest natural lake located on any island in the world?
33 Which SI unit is measured as joules per coulomb?
34 The Tower of the Americas is the tallest building in which Texan city?
35 In 1998, Ruth Dreifus became the first female and first Jewish president of which country?
36 Bovespa is the home of which country's stock exchange?
37 Having a surname meaning "anger" in German, which alto playing, free jazz musician and leader of Masada has released several film music volumes and produced such "file card" compositions as Spillane and Godard, as well as the Naked City project?
38 Which European capital city derives its name from the native language for "Danish city"?
39 Which Russian dessert, traditionally eaten at Easter, is made from dried fruit and curd cheese?
40 In psychiatry, "abulia" is the chronic inability to do what?
41 Which American experimental theatre group has been directed since its formation in 1947 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina?
42 Pope Pius XII said: "One Galileo in two thousand years is enough" when asked to proscribe the works (including La Phenomene humain/The Phenomenon of Man - written 1938-40 but published in 1955, the year of his death) of which French Jesuit theologian, palaeontologist and philosopher?
43 Which American supermodel was born in de Kalb, Illinois in 1966 and had plans to become a chemical engineer before being discovered by photographer Victor Skrebanski in Chicago?
44 Which John Milton poem begins: "Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere"?
45 What word beginning with the letter "S" describes a charitable organisation of lay Roman Catholic Church members?
46 Now known by a common male forename, which lake was known as Idi Amin Dada from 1973-79?
47 Tindouf in western Algeria is an oasis with large deposits of which metallic element?
48 Orphism was a religious that worshipped which Greek god?
49 Matthew Arnold based which of his poems on the legend of a father who unknowingly killed his own son in battle; a tale also told in Firdausi's epic Shahnama, the Book of Kings?
50 Which Japanese "star festival" held on July 7 was introduced from China in the 8th century and dedicated to Altair and Vega in the constellation Aquila that are united once every year in the Milky Way?
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1 Canned laughter 2 Albert Campion 3 Dumbarton Oaks 4 The Glass Bead Game 5 Walter Mondale 6 Golden Gloves (boxing) 7 Paul Brickhill 8 Billund 9 Il Trovatore 10 Tajikistan 11 Galicia 12 Blaue Vier (Blue Four) 13 Farnese 14 Explorer I 15 Eridanus 16 Elysee Palace 17 David Edgar 18 Frigg 19 Our Town by Thornton Wilder 20 Alexander III 21 Stockholm, 1912 22 Oksana Baiul 23 Zeami 24 Ribosomes 25 Sir John in Love 26 Thunderbolt/ 4-tusked white elephant 27 Jose Marti 28 First and Second Temples 29 Peter Cornelius 30 John 31 Belize 32 Baffin Island 33 Volt 34 San Antonio 35 Switzerland 36 Brazil 37 John Zorn 38 Tallinn 39 Paskha 40 Decide or act independently 41 The Living Theatre 42 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 43 Cindy Crawford 44 Lycidas 45 Sodality 46 Lake Edward 47 Iron 48 Dionysius 49 Sohrab & Rustum 50 Tanabata
BH140
1 The Gulistan Palace is a former royal residence in which Middle East capital city?
2 Which Stravinsky choral work from 1930 was "composed to the glory of God"?
3 His only full-length work in that musical form, which Stravinsky opera of 1951, the libretto of which was written with WH Auden, features the character Baba the Turk, also known as the "Bearded Lady"?
4 Which French architect designed Luxembourg Palace in Paris (1615-20) and Louis XIII's Hunting Lodge at Versailles (1624-26)?
5 Which suave rogue, whose real name is the Honourable Richard Rollison, was the hero of more than 50 John Creasey crime novels?
6 Named after a Communist uprising that took place in their home city in 1918, which movement of left-wing Berlin artists was formed by such painters as Max Pechstein?
7 On what date is Europe Day celebrated?
8 "Dracula" was the code-name given to the liberation of which Asian city on May 3, 1945?
9 Who was Pope at the turn of the 19th into the 20th centiry?
10 What is the sacred cord or girdle of the Parsees consisting of 72 threads - the number of the chapters of the Yasna - and two branches, each one containing six knots, together representing the 12 months of the year?
11 Which Rubens triptych (1611-14) in Antwerp Cathedral is regarded by many as his masterpiece?
12 Which Hungarian-born composer wrote his first film score for Knight Without Armour (1937) and wrote the music for such film noirs as Double Indemnity and The Killers (1946), winning Oscars for Spellbound, A Double Life (1947) and Ben Hur (1959), while his work outside the movie industry include 1953 violin concerto written for Jascha Heifetz and a 1968 cello concerto for Janos Starker?
13 While working for the Copenhagen Telephone Company, which electrical engineer invented the telegraphone, a wire recording device which was a forerunner of the magnetic tape recorder, in 1898?
14 Which Leipzig-born swimmer broke the record for the most medals won by any woman in one sport at the same Olympics by winning six in 1988?
15 Which Japanese chemist was the first person to identify the DNA-RNA fragments named after him in 1967?
16 The 1971 film Kotch was the only film directed by which double-Oscar winning US actor?
17 To which French painter, who dabbled in abstraction with such works La Femme en Bleu before WW1 and executed murals for the UN building in New York (1952), has a museum dedicated to his work at Biot on the Cote d'Azur?
18 In 1916, Karl Schwarzchild introduced the idea that a star could contract under gravity to form what?
19 In 1903, Alfred Stieglitz devoted the first issue of his influential magazine Camera Work to which woman photographer, who was both a founder member of Photo-Secession in 1902 and, with Alvin Langdon Coburn and Clarence White, the Pictorial Photographers of America in 1916?
20 Killed when his army was destroyed by the Huns in 437AD, Gundicarius, also known as Gunther or Gunnar, was the first recorded king of which people?
21 The Norwegian mathematician and chemist Cato Maximilian Guldberg (1836-1902) is best known for collaborating with his brother-in-law Peter Waage; work that established which law in 1864 stating that the rate of a homogenous chemical reaction is proportional to the concentrations of the reacting substances?
22 Nicolas Guillen became which country's best known poet during the 20th century, receiving a state funeral on his death in 1989?
23 Which c.1570 work by El Greco, displayed at the Historical Museum of Crete in Heraklion, is the sole example of his painting to be found in his native Crete?
24 Retiring in 1995 after 43 years as designer-in-chief at his eponymous Paris fashion house, who produces ready-to-wear clothes under his Nouvelle Boutique label?
25 Which Italian writer published what is considered to be his finest poem I Sepolcri in 1807 (translated into English as The Sepulchres in 1820) and, after the Austrians entered Milan in 1814, sought refuge in London where he published his Saggi sul Petrarca/Essays on Petrarch?
26 Which Mexican writer's 1816 picaresque satire of his country's colonial society, El periquillo sarniento/The Itching Parrot, is considered the first Latin American novel?
27 Which French film comedian established himself internationally thanks to two 1953 movies: The Little World of Don Camillo, in which he movingly portrayed a naive country priest, and The Sheep has Five Legs, in which he displayed his versatility by playing six different roles?
28 Vincent Serei Eri's 1970 novel The Crocodile is seen as the first significant novel from which country?
29 Which footballer is more noted for the 1961 court case he pursued "v Newcastle United and others" than for his playing, due to his establishing the right of professional footballers to freedom of contract?
30 Which world heavyweight champion boxer from Colorado worked in copper mines before taking to the ring as "Kid Blackie"?
31 The Belgian Roman Catholic missionary Father Damien, originally Joseph de Veuster, was renowned for his work among the lepers of which Hawaiian island where he lived from 1873 until his death from the disease in 1889?
32 Organist to Louis XIV from 1693 and known as "le Grand", which French composer greatly influenced JS Bach with his 1716 textbook L'Art de toucher le clavecin/The Art of Playing the Harpsichord?
33 Resulting from experiments on mechanical resistance, whose 1779 law concerns the relationship between friction and normal pressure?
34 The murder of Commodus in 192AD brought to an end the dynasty of which Roman emperors?
35 Which 19th century composer published his first work, Rondo in C minor, at the age of 15?
36 Secretary to Charles VI and Charles VII, which French courtier's much imitated poem, La Belle dame sans merci (1424) provided escapism in the midst of his country's preoccupation with the Hundred Years War?
37 Before safely navigating the Vittoria home, Sebastian del Cano first sailed out with Magellan in command of which ship in 1519?
38 Which nephew and pupil of Canaletto became known as Canaletto the Younger?
39 Which art school, where such artists as Viktor Vasarely were taught by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, gained the nickname the "Budapest Bauhaus"?
40 Nicknamed "Sassy", which New Jersey-born jazz singer and pianist came to the attention of singer Billy Eckstine, and through him, Earl Hines when she won a talent competition in 1942 at Harlem's Apollo Theatre and made her first recording in 1944 with I'll Wait and Pray?
41 Whose equestrian monument to Bartolommeo Colleoni (1481-88) in Venice showed he could craft public works just as monumental as those of Donatello's?
42 Which Hungarian poet and dramatist wrote the national song Szozat/The Call (1840), while his fairy drama Csongor es Tunde/Csongor and Tunde (1831) is said to be his masterpiece?
43 In the main hall of K K Portsparkasse (savings bank) in Vienna (1904-6), which Austrian architect created what is universally regarded as the first example of modern architecture in the 20th century?
44 In the human body, what is the glenoid cavity more commonly called?
45 Which Roman road ran from Rome to Florence?
46 Which Spanish poet began writing his Epigrams in 82AD?
47 In Greek mythology, which hero killed Paris at the climax of the Trojan War?
48 In logic, what term describes the principle or law that can be formulated as "every proposition is either true or false"?
49 Found on the island of Celebes, the sapi-utan is what kind of animal?
50 Dating from the time of WW2, what word for a small, fast escort vessel armed with anti-submarine devices ultimately derives its French name from Middle Dutch word for "basket"?
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Answers to BH140
1 Tehran 2 Symphony of Psalms 3 The Rake's Progress 4 Salomon de Brosse 5 The Toff 6 Novembergruppe 7 May 9th 8 Rangoon 9 Leo XIII 10 Kusti 11 Descent from the Cross 12 Miklos Rozsa 13 Valdemar Poulsen 14 Kristin Otto 15 Reiji Okazaki 16 Jack Lemmon 17 Fernand Leger 18 A black hole 19 Gertrude Kasebier (nee Stanton) 20 Burgundians 21 Law of mass action 22 Cuba 23 View of Mount Sinai and the Monastery of St Catherine 24 Givenchy (or Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy) 25 Ugo Foscolo 26 Jose Fernandez did Lizardi 27 Fernandel (Fernand Joseph Desire Contandin) 28 Papua New Guinea 29 George Eastham 30 Jack Dempsey 31 Molokai 32 Francois Couperin 33 Coulomb's law 34 Antonine 35 Chopin 36 Alain Chartier 37 Concepcion 38 Bernardo Bellotto 39 Muhely Academy 40 Sarah Vaughan 41 Andrea del Verrocchio (Andrea del Cione) 42 Michael Vorosmarty 43 Otto Wagner 44 Shoulder socket 45 Cassian Way 46 Martial 47 Philoctetes 48 Bivalence 49 Wild ox 50 Corvette
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I'm sure it wasn't an ItBox Olav! A Paragon maybe? ItBoxes don't carry Trivia for Dummies, and the one in your local O'Neills is definitely a Paragon.
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