Welcome back for another 30 questions!
1. Which of Shakespeare's plays opens with the line, "Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall"?
2. Which French dessert, often served at weddings, is a high cone of profiteroles bound with caramel and decorated with chocolate and has a name meaning 'crunch in the mouth'?
3. Located at the Southern end of the Mariana Trench, what is the name given to the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean?
4. Lasting for twelve days in August 1914, the first major battle of the First World War saw the Germans capture which Belgian city ?
5. In Greek mythology, who was the equivalent of the Biblical Noah who was told to build an ark for he and his wife, Pyrrha, in order to ensure the survival of one pair of humans?
6. Who was the American Democratic Senator, known as 'The Kingfish', who was assassinated in the Capitol Building in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1935?
7. A copy of which of his albums had John Lennon signed for his killer, Mark Chapman, on the day of his assassination?
8. In the human body, what is the scientific name for the bone in the neck, commonly known as the lingual bone, that is the only bone not to be connected to any other bone?
9. Who was the hapless Glamorgan bowler when Garfield Sobers hit his famous six sixes from one over in 1968?
10. Matthew Murdock is the alter-ego of which superhero?
11. Which French novelist was the lover of the composer Frederic Chopin, whom she left as he was dying from tuberculosis?
12. Said to have been the final meal of François Mitterrand, what is the common name of the small songbird, Emberiza hortulana, illegally captured and force-fed, before being drowned in Armagnac, roasted and eaten whole by French gastronomes?
13. What term is traditionally applied to one of a number of so-called "tri-racial isolate" groups of the Southeastern United States, found mainly in Eastern Tennessee, Southwestern Virginia, and Eastern Kentucky, noted for their dark skin and Aryan features?
14. Who was the American career criminal who in January 1977 became the first person to be executed in the United States after the reinstation of the death penalty?
15. What is the name of the narrator, and supposed author, of a cycle of poems that the 18th Century Scottish poet James MacPherson claimed to have translated from ancient Scots Gaelic sources?
16. In 1694, he became the first governor of the Bank of England and, as of 2006, his portrait appears on the back of the £50 note; who is he?
17. What was the name of the rock group formed by former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic that released one eponymous album in 1995?
18. The adjective 'accipitrine' refers to which bird?
19. Which Latin phrase, meaning 'winner of the games', is the name often given to the trophy presented to the victorious teams at rowing regattas and public school sports days?
20. Geoffrey Rush won an Academy Award for his portrayal of which Australian pianist in the 1996 film 'Shine'?
21. What was the pen-name adopted by the German novelist and philosopher Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg who wrote 'Hymns to the Night', translated into English by the theologian George MacDonald in 1897?
22. Which South American liquor, distilled from grapes and brandy, is the most widely consumed spirit in Peru and Chile?
23. In 1999, which became the newest of the territories of Canada when it was officially separated from the vast Northwest Territories?
24. From the 14th Century to the 18th Century which country was known as 'Lang Xang', translated as 'The Land of a Million Elephants'?
25. Which Christian religious order was founded by Saint Norbet in 1120?
26. What is the name of the independent boarding school in Edinburgh whose famous alumni include Iain MacLeod and Tony Blair?
27. What is the stage name used by the Nigerian-born pop singer Helen Folasade Adu?
28. The youngest person ever to give birth, for which there is verifiable medical evidence, is a Peruvian girl named Lina Medina who gave birth at what age?
29. Who was the Colombian footballer who was murdered after scoring an own goal whilst playing for his country during the 1994 World Cup?
30. Between 1968 and 1999, what was the pseudonym used by any Hollywood film director who wished not to be credited with a particular film?
Okay then. Hope you found that lot enjoyable. I'll be back next Tuesday with another batch. Till then...
1. THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
2. CROQUEMBOUCHE
3. CHALLENGER DEEP
4. LIEGE
5. DEUCALION
6. HUEY LONG
7. DOUBLE FANTASY
8. HYOID BONE
9. MALCOLM NASH
10. DAREDEVIL
11. GEORGE SAND
12. ORTOLAN (or ORTOLAN BUNTING)
13. MELUNGEON
14. GARY GILMORE
15. OSSIAN
16. JOHN HOUBLON
17. SWEET 75
18. HAWK
19. VICTOR LUDORUM
20. DAVID HELFGOTT
21. NOVALIS
22. PISCO
23. NUNAVUT
24. LAOS
25. PREMONSTRATENSIANS
26. FETTES COLLEGE
27. SADE
28. 5
29. ANDRÉS ESCOBAR
30. ALAN SMITHEE
Tuesday 27 March 2007
Tuesday 20 March 2007
THE TUESDAY QUIZ
Here are the first 30 questions. Any score above 10 is great going - see how you do:
1. Which preciously ornate and sophisticated prose style that was fashionable in the 1580s is a mannered style of English writing that takes its name from the works of John Lyly?
2. In culinary terms, what is the Scoville Scale used to measure?
3. What name is shared by an island in the Indian Ocean belonging to Australia and an island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to the Republic of Kiribati?
4. The design of New York's Central Park was based on that of the public park in which English town?
5. Who was the Roman goddess of thieves, impostors and frauds?
6. Which Nazi was the German Foreign Minister between 1938 and 1945 and was hanged for war crimes after the Nuremberg Trials?
7. Which American rock group, founded in the mid 90s, is named after the term used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over Europe and the Pacific?
8. Which satellite of Jupiter, home to lakes of molten sulphur and calderas several kilometres deep, is the most volcanically active body in our solar system?
9. Which Spanish tennis player won the men's singles title at the French Open in 1993 & 1994?
10. Which English actor and body-builder played Darth Vader in the original 'Star Wars' trilogy and later became the Green Cross Code Man?
11. Which term, often applied to the works of Rembrandt and Caravaggio, means 'light-dark' in Italian and is used to describe the use of strongly contrasting light and shade in a work of art?
12. Which spice used in South East Asian cuisine and common in mediaeval European recipes is sometimes known as blue ginger?
13. Which American statesman, soldier and lawyer appears on the $10 note?
14. Who was the English dressmaker, nurse and housekeeper who was hanged in 1873 for the murder of up to 20 people by arsenic poisoning, including three of her husbands?
15. Who was the legendary hero-king of Sumeria of the 3rd Millennium BC, credited with superhuman strength, who was the subject of an epic poem from Babylonia that is among the world's earliest known literary works?
16. Rashid Karami, who was assassinated in 1987, was the Prime Minister of which Asian country?
17. Who was the virtuoso rock guitarist who toured with Ozzy Osbourne before being killed in a plane crash in 1982?
18. What is the more common name for the dietary habit known as anthropophagy?
19. What is the name of the stick used in certain traditional Gaelic sports such as shinty and hurling?
20. Which of the Marx Brothers left the group to fight in World War I and did not appear in any of the Hollywood films?
21. Which 19th-Century Irish author wrote the early vampire novella 'Carmilla' and other gothic novels such as 'Uncle Silas' and 'The Rose and the Key'?
22. What is the name of the small sponge cake soaked in rum and syrup said to have been invented by King Stanislaus of Poland?
23. Which is the most densely populated state of the USA?
24. Which battle of the Wars of the Roses, fought on Palm Sunday 1461, was the bloodiest battle ever fought on British soil, with over 20,000 men killed?
25. Which monster of Puerto Rican legend, with a name deriving from the Spanish for 'goat-sucker', is said to kill its prey, usually livestock, by sucking out all its blood?
26. Who was the Japanese Prime Minister from 1941-1944 who was later executed for war crimes?
27. Which New Wave group did Boy George leave in order to form Culture Club?
28. Which American physicist of Spanish descent, born in 1911, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968 and was the first scientist to propose that dinosaurs became extinct as a result of a giant meteor impact with Earth?
29. What does a copoclephilist collect?
30. Before becoming Prime Minister, of which governmental department was Jim Hacker the minister in 'Yes, Minister'?
Please feel free to give me your opinion on the quiz. Every Tuesday I shall be uploading a 30-question quiz for you guys, packed with some of my favourite questions. If you have a favourite quiz question then please share it with us here.
Anyway, the answers:
1. EUPHUISM
2. 'HOTNESS' OF CHILI PEPPERS
3. CHRISTMAS ISLAND
4. BIRKENHEAD
5. LAVERNA
6. JOACHIM VON RIBBENTROP
7. FOO FIGHTERS
8. IO
9. SERGI BRUGERA
10. DAVID PROWSE
11. CHIAROSCURO
12. GALANGAL
13. ALEXANDER HAMILTON
14. MARY ANN COTTON
15. GILGAMESH
16. LEBANON
17. RANDY RHOADS
18. CANNIBALISM
19. CAMAN
20. GUMMO
21. SHERIDAN LE FANU
22. RUM BABA
23. NEW JERSEY
24. BATTLE OF TOWTON
25. CHUPACABRA
26. HIDEKI TOJO
27. BOW WOW WOW
28. LUIS WALTER ALVAREZ
29. KEYRINGS
30. DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS
1. Which preciously ornate and sophisticated prose style that was fashionable in the 1580s is a mannered style of English writing that takes its name from the works of John Lyly?
2. In culinary terms, what is the Scoville Scale used to measure?
3. What name is shared by an island in the Indian Ocean belonging to Australia and an island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to the Republic of Kiribati?
4. The design of New York's Central Park was based on that of the public park in which English town?
5. Who was the Roman goddess of thieves, impostors and frauds?
6. Which Nazi was the German Foreign Minister between 1938 and 1945 and was hanged for war crimes after the Nuremberg Trials?
7. Which American rock group, founded in the mid 90s, is named after the term used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over Europe and the Pacific?
8. Which satellite of Jupiter, home to lakes of molten sulphur and calderas several kilometres deep, is the most volcanically active body in our solar system?
9. Which Spanish tennis player won the men's singles title at the French Open in 1993 & 1994?
10. Which English actor and body-builder played Darth Vader in the original 'Star Wars' trilogy and later became the Green Cross Code Man?
11. Which term, often applied to the works of Rembrandt and Caravaggio, means 'light-dark' in Italian and is used to describe the use of strongly contrasting light and shade in a work of art?
12. Which spice used in South East Asian cuisine and common in mediaeval European recipes is sometimes known as blue ginger?
13. Which American statesman, soldier and lawyer appears on the $10 note?
14. Who was the English dressmaker, nurse and housekeeper who was hanged in 1873 for the murder of up to 20 people by arsenic poisoning, including three of her husbands?
15. Who was the legendary hero-king of Sumeria of the 3rd Millennium BC, credited with superhuman strength, who was the subject of an epic poem from Babylonia that is among the world's earliest known literary works?
16. Rashid Karami, who was assassinated in 1987, was the Prime Minister of which Asian country?
17. Who was the virtuoso rock guitarist who toured with Ozzy Osbourne before being killed in a plane crash in 1982?
18. What is the more common name for the dietary habit known as anthropophagy?
19. What is the name of the stick used in certain traditional Gaelic sports such as shinty and hurling?
20. Which of the Marx Brothers left the group to fight in World War I and did not appear in any of the Hollywood films?
21. Which 19th-Century Irish author wrote the early vampire novella 'Carmilla' and other gothic novels such as 'Uncle Silas' and 'The Rose and the Key'?
22. What is the name of the small sponge cake soaked in rum and syrup said to have been invented by King Stanislaus of Poland?
23. Which is the most densely populated state of the USA?
24. Which battle of the Wars of the Roses, fought on Palm Sunday 1461, was the bloodiest battle ever fought on British soil, with over 20,000 men killed?
25. Which monster of Puerto Rican legend, with a name deriving from the Spanish for 'goat-sucker', is said to kill its prey, usually livestock, by sucking out all its blood?
26. Who was the Japanese Prime Minister from 1941-1944 who was later executed for war crimes?
27. Which New Wave group did Boy George leave in order to form Culture Club?
28. Which American physicist of Spanish descent, born in 1911, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968 and was the first scientist to propose that dinosaurs became extinct as a result of a giant meteor impact with Earth?
29. What does a copoclephilist collect?
30. Before becoming Prime Minister, of which governmental department was Jim Hacker the minister in 'Yes, Minister'?
Please feel free to give me your opinion on the quiz. Every Tuesday I shall be uploading a 30-question quiz for you guys, packed with some of my favourite questions. If you have a favourite quiz question then please share it with us here.
Anyway, the answers:
1. EUPHUISM
2. 'HOTNESS' OF CHILI PEPPERS
3. CHRISTMAS ISLAND
4. BIRKENHEAD
5. LAVERNA
6. JOACHIM VON RIBBENTROP
7. FOO FIGHTERS
8. IO
9. SERGI BRUGERA
10. DAVID PROWSE
11. CHIAROSCURO
12. GALANGAL
13. ALEXANDER HAMILTON
14. MARY ANN COTTON
15. GILGAMESH
16. LEBANON
17. RANDY RHOADS
18. CANNIBALISM
19. CAMAN
20. GUMMO
21. SHERIDAN LE FANU
22. RUM BABA
23. NEW JERSEY
24. BATTLE OF TOWTON
25. CHUPACABRA
26. HIDEKI TOJO
27. BOW WOW WOW
28. LUIS WALTER ALVAREZ
29. KEYRINGS
30. DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS
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