Tuesday 28 August 2007

THE 24th TUESDAY QUIZ

Hello again. Have you missed me? Here's your quiz:


1. Which famously misogynistic Roman satiric poet of the 1st and 2nd Centuries wrote 'The Woes of a Gigolo' and 'Roman Wives'?
2. Which famous Greek wine is flavoured with pine resin?
3. Lying on the border with Belgium and the Netherlands, which is the most westerly city in Germany?
4. What was the name of the Polish and Lithuanian national hero and general who led the 1794 uprising against the Russian Empire?
5. Who was the legendary Prince of Troy, and father of Aeneas, who was blinded by a flash of lightning for boasting that he had made love with the goddess Aphrodite?
6. Who was the Belgian socialist politician and former Prisoner of War who served as Belgian Prime Minister on three occasions between 1938 and 1949?
7. Under what name do the British electronic music duo Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons record?
8. The axilla is the medical name for which part of the body?
9. On which golf course did Tony Jacklin win the British Open in 1969?
10. Who played The Wizard of Oz in the 1939 film of the same name?
11. Which fictional detective made his first appearance in the 1977 novel 'A Morbid Taste for Bones'?
12. Named after a region in Slovakia, what is the name of the Slovak dish, also used in Hungarian and Austrian cuisine, of spiced white cheese made from a mixture of sheep and cow milk?
13. Which famous landmark is featured at the centre of the flag of Cambodia?
14. In which coastal town in Devon did William of Orange and his Dutch army land to fight the Glorious Revolution?
15. Which is the longest book of the New Testament?
16. Which is the only country in Europe to still use capital punishment?
17. Which Austrian psychologist and Holocaust Survivor, who founded logotherapy and Existential Analysis, wrote the book 'Man's Search for Meaning', chronicling his experiences in a concentration camp?
18. In astronomy, what term describes the point in the orbit of a planet or a comet at which it is farthest from the Sun?
19. According to tradition, all racehorses in the Southern hemisphere celebrate their birthday on what date?
20. Who wrote the short story upon which the film 'Brokeback Mountain' was based?
21. What was the pen-name adopted by the French novelist Henri-Marie Beyle?
22. What type of pasta takes its name from the Italian for a 'three-cornered hat'?
23. Which island separates the American and Canadian Niagara Falls?
24. Which ancient country, conquered by the Roman Emperor Diocletian in the 3rd Century, covered parts of present-day Serbia, Macedonia and Albania and had its capital at Damastioni and, later, at Naissus?
25. Which was the final battle of King Arthur, at which he was mortally wounded?
26. Who was the President of the USA when the Statue of Liberty was assembled in 1886?
27. Which indie group achieved their best British chart position in March 1996 when their song 'Being Brave' reached number 10?
28. Who was the Hungarian-born American physicist, who died in 2003, who is known as the 'father of the hydrogen bomb'?
29. Who became the first £1,000 footballer when he was transferred from Sunderland to Middlesbrough in 1905?
30. In the Popeye cartoons, what is the name of Olive Oyl’s brother?
31. In Jonthan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' what is the name of the island that is eternally at war with Lilliput?
32. Transnistria is a breakaway territory within the internationally recognised borders of which European country?
33. By what name was the Venezuelan city Ciudad Bolívar known prior to 1846?
34. What was the name of the American serial killer, nicknamed the Killer Clown, who was executed in 1994 for the rape and murder of 33 boys and young men?
35. According to the Bible, in which ancient city, in modern day Turkey, was Saint Paul the Apostle born?
36. In which city are the Headquarters of the International Red Cross?
37. Which song, released by Basement Jaxx in May 1999, was the only top ten hit of the 1990s to contain the word 'red' in its title?
38. Which scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922 for his application of quantum theory to the problem of atomic and molecular structure?
39. Which Italian became the first Formula 1 World Champion in 1950?
40. Set in the year 2027, which film by the Austro-German director Fritz Lang, became the most expensive silent film ever made when it was released in 1927?
41. Which artist, born in Paris in 1771 and star pupil of Jacques-Louis David, was appointed as official war painter by Napoleon?
42. How many ordinary wine bottles make up a melchior of Champagne?
43. What was the name of the language spoken by the Incas?
44. What was the name of the satellite that in 1971 became the UK's first artificial satellite in space?
45. According to the Bible, which handmaiden of Sarah was the mother of Ishmael?
46. Who was British Prime Minister at the time of the Boston Tea Party?
47. Which singer and songwriter produced the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's only top ten hit 'I'm the Urban Spaceman' using the pseudonym Apollo C. Vermouth?
48. Which elementary particle was discovered in 1964 by Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig?
49. Including the end zones, what is the standard length, in yards, of an American football pitch?
50. The 1980 film 'Coal Miner's Daughter', starring Sissy Spacek portrayed which country singer's rise to stardom?


I hope that was enjoyable. You may have noticed that the last two quizzes have been slightly easier; this is because the quiz three weeks ago was simply far too hard - the highest score I know of was fewer than half marks. Let's see how we do here:


1. JUVENAL
2. RETSINA
3. AACHEN
4. TADEUSZ KOŚCIUSZKO
5. ANCHISES
6. PAUL-HENRI SPAAK
7. THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
8. ARMPIT
9. ROYAL LYTHAM & ST ANNES
10. FRANK MORGAN
11. CADFAEL
12. LIPTAUER (or LIPTOV)
13. ANGKOR WAT
14. BRIXHAM
15. ACTS (OF THE APOSTLES)
16. BELARUS
17. VIKTOR FRANKL
18. APHELION
19. AUGUST 1ST
20. ANNIE PROULX
21. STENDAHL
22. CAPPELLETTI
23. GOAT ISLAND
24. DARDANIA
25. BATTLE OF CAMLANN
26. GROVER CLEVELAND
27. MENSWEAR
28. EDWARD TELLER
29. ALF COMMON
30. CASTOR
31. BLEFUSCU
32. MOLDOVA
33. ANGOSTURA
34. JOHN WAYNE GACY
35. TARSUS
36. GENEVA
37. RED ALERT
38. NIELS BOHR
39. GIUSEPPE 'NINO' FARINA
40. METROPOLIS
41. ANTOINE-JEAN GROS (or BARON GROS)
42. 24
43. QUECHUA
44. PROSPERO X-3
45. HAGAR
46. LORD NORTH (FREDERICK NORTH)
47. PAUL MCCARTNEY
48. QUARK
49. 120
50. LORETTA LYNN

Tuesday 21 August 2007

THE 23rd TUESDAY QUIZ

Welcome back for another fifty questions. I hope you like:


1. Which influential writer of the French Renaissance, who helped to popularise the essay as a literary form, is perhaps best remembered for his 'Apology for Raymond Sebond'?
2. Telegraph, Tokyo and King of the Ridge are all varieties of which vegetable?
3. Which lake and UNESCO World Heritage Site straddles the border between Macedonia and Albania?
4. At which battle, fought in August 1526, was Louis II, King of Hungary and Bohemia, defeated and killed by forces of the Ottoman Empire led by Suleiman the Magnificent?
5. Which Pope who reigned for thirteen days in September 1590 is the shortest reigning Pope in history?
6. Elected in 2005, Albert Pintat Santolària is the head of government in which European country?
7. Released by Elvis Presley in 1958, which was the first song to go straight to number 1 in the UK singles chart?
8. Hippotragus leucophaeus was an antelope that became, in around 1800, the first large African mammal to become extinct in historic times; what was its common name?
9. Which former Wimbledon men's singles champion was known as the Bounding Basque?
10. What was the first name of the cartoon character Mr Magoo?
11. Which famous Japanese architect designed the city plan for the Nigerian capital Abuja?
12. The mojito is a traditional cocktail that originated in which country?
13. In which American city could you visit the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial?
14. Lasting between 1804 and 1813, in which country did the first revolution to occur in Europe following the French Revolution take place?
15. Deriving from the Slavonic for 'assembly', which word is given to a council of bishops and other clerical and lay representatives representing the church in matters of importance?
16. In which country was the three time Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres born?
17. Which group's first hit was 'Apache' in 1960?
18. Who was the 18th Century Swiss mathematician and physicist, who published more papers than any other mathematician in history, who pioneered the theory of trigonometric and logarithmic functions?
19. In which Scottish town do Albion Rovers Football Club play their home matches?
20. Who played the title character in the 1969 film 'Isadora'?
21. What was the name of the 15th Century Florentine humanist and historian who is best known for his work 'On Civic Life'?
22. Which grain is alternatively known as Guinea corn or Egyptian millet?
23. Aletch Glacier, the largest glacier in continental Europe, is located in which country?
24. Which Italian city was the capital of the Kingdom of Etruria that existed between 1801 and 1807?
25. In Greek mythology, which Spartan king was the father of Helen and Clytemnestra?
26. In 1958, which German politician became the first President of the European Commission?
27. Born in 1943, what was the stage-name adopted by the singer and musician Roberta Joan Anderson?
28. Spica is the brightest star in which constellation?
29. During a Test Match against India in 1976, which English bowler was accused of rubbing Vaseline into the ball in order to make it swing better?
30. Which female country singer's life was dramatized in the 1985 film 'Sweet Dreams'?
31. What is the English title of Rossini's opera 'La Gazza Ladra'?
32. Which vegetable takes its name from the German for 'cabbage-turnip'?
33. What is the official currency of both Uganda and Somalia?
34. Which city was the capital of Moldavia between the 16th Century and 1861 and the capital of Romania from 1916 to 1918?
35. Which ancient Egyptian god was the son of Osiris and Isis?
36. Which early 20th Century British diplomat and MP is best remembered for his passionate support for Albanian independence and was subsequently offered the throne of Albania, which he declined?
37. Which American alternative rock band formed in Escatawpa, Mississippi in 1994 signed to Universal Records after their chart success with the song 'Kryptonite'?
38. Found exclusively in the Galapagos Islands, what is the name of the world's only lizard that hunts and forages in the sea?
39. Bando and Krabi-Krabong are martial arts originating in which country?
40. Who was the American animator who created Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny?
41. Which 20th Century French painter designed scenes for Diaghilev's ballets 'Les Fâcheux' and 'Zéphyr et Flore'?
42. Used when making tea, and deriving from the Russian for 'self brewer', what name is given the heated metal container traditionally used to heat and boil water in Russia, Iran and Turkey?
43. What is the capital of the Spanish autonomous region of Cantabria?
44. Fought on September 7th 1812, which was the largest and bloodiest single-day battle of the Napoleonic Wars, involving more than a quarter of a million soldiers and resulting in at least 70,000 casualties?
45. The Digambara Texts are sacred writings in which religion?
46. Who was the Democratic Presidential nominee who was defeated by George Bush Snr. in the American Presidential elections in 1988?
47. Which group, formed in Glasgow in 1996, took their name from a children's book written by the French actress and writer Cécile Aubry?
48. What is the name of the metal or plastic tubes fixed around the end of shoelaces?
49. Which American medial mogul created the Goodwill Games in reaction to the political troubles that surrounded the Olympic Games during the early 1980s?
50. Who wrote the musical 'Guys and Dolls'?


How was that? Do well? Let's see:


1. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
2. CUCUMBER
3. LAKE OHRID
4. BATTLE OF MOHÁCS
5. URBAN VII
6. ANDORRA
7. JAILHOUSE ROCK
8. BLUEBUCK (or BLUE ANTELOPE)
9. JEAN BOROTRA
10. QUINCY
11. KENZO TANGE
12. CUBA
13. ST LOUIS
14. SERBIA
15. SOBOR
16. POLAND
17. THE SHADOWS
18. LEONHARD EULER
19. COATBRIDGE
20. VANESSA REDGRAVE
21. MATTEO PALMIERI
22. SORGHUM
23. SWITZERLAND
24. FLORENCE
25. TYNDAREUS
26. WALTER HALLSTEIN
27. JONI MITCHELL
28. VIRGO
29. JOHN LEVER
30. PATSY CLINE
31. THE THIEVING MAGPIE
32. KOHLRABI
33. SHILLING
34. IAŞI
35. HORUS
36. AUBREY HERBERT
37. 3 DOORS DOWN
38. MARINE IGUANA
39. BURMA (or MYANMAR)
40. TEX AVERY
41. GEORGES BRAQUE
42. SAMOVAR
43. SANTANDER
44. BATTLE OF BORODINO
45. JAINISM
46. MICHAEL DUKAKIS
47. BELLE & SEBASTIAN
48. AGLETS
49. TED TURNER
50. FRANK LOESSER

Tuesday 14 August 2007

THE 22nd TUESDAY QUIZ

Hello and welcome once again to the Tuesday Quiz. Over the coming weeks, you may find a large number of Eurocentric questions in the quizzes - revision, you see. The European Quiz Championships are held in November and I'm revising like mad. Hope you like this selection:

1. What was the name of the 19th Century Albanian author and poet, who worked for the British Consulate in his homeland, whose best known published works include 'The Truth of Albania' and 'A Historical Outline of Montenegro According to the Traditions of Albania'?
2. Which trademarked quality description of a group of cultivars of rapeseed variants was initially bred in Canada by Keith Downey and Baldur Stefansson in the 1970s?
3. What is the name of the least populous and easternmost state of Austria that joined from Hungary in 1921?
4. Which short-lived Kingdom was created by the Treaty of Aranjuez in 1801?
5. Who was the priest of Apollo in Greek mythology who was given a magical golden arrow that rendered him invisible and with which he rid plagues and gave oracles?
6. Who was the Christian Socialist Chancellor of Austria who was assassinated by Nazi agents in 1934?
7. The Deep Purple hit song 'Smoke on the Water' was inspired by a casino fire that occurred whilst the band were recording in which country?
8. The name of which brightly coloured marine fish is derived from the Cornish word for 'old woman'?
9. Which Australian snooker player was banned for eight years in February 2006 after being found guilty of match fixing?
10. In which English city was the 1960 film 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning', starring Albert Finney, set?
11. What is the name of the school in which the Muriel Spark novel 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' is set?
12. One of the oldest known cocktails was created by Antoine Amédée Peychaud in New Orleans in the 1850s and consists of Cognac, rye whiskey, absinthe, pastis, Peychaud's bitters and Angostura bitters; which cocktail?
13. Which historical region in eastern Germany derives its name from the Sorbian for 'swamps'?
14. Which battle of September 9AD saw the destruction of three Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus by an alliance of Germanic tribes led by Arminius?
15. According to the Bible, who was the mother of Moses?
16. The Sindic is the title given to the President of the parliament of which European country?
17. Which 70s rock group, who reformed in 1993, took their name from that of a steam-powered dildo in William S. Burroughs' novel 'Naked Lunch'?
18. Which pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, born in the city of Miletus in the 7th Century BC, is regarded as the 'father of science'?
19. In which sport is the Strathcona Cup awarded?
20. Which English television composer wrote the scores for the TV series 'The Avengers' and 'The Professionals'?
21. Which artificial language was created by Johann Martin Schleyer in 1880?
22. Founded in 1926 with the mission of celebrating and promoting cherries, the National Cherry Festival is held annually in which city in Michigan?
23. The Tara River Canyon, the deepest canyon in Europe, is located in which country?
24. Which Pope crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor in 800AD?
25. Who is the patron saint of housewives?
26. In which US city was the United Nations Charter, that established the UN, signed in 1945?
27. Which Swedish alternative rock group had hits in the mid-90s with 'You and Me Song' and 'Hit'?
28. Which British engineer designed the Forth Bridge and the original Aswan Dam?
29. Which Dutch tennis player did Virginia Wade defeat in the 1977 Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Final?
30. Which British former heavyweight boxing champion was seen striking the huge gong at the start of the J Arthur Rank films?
31. What was the name of the 6th-7th Century Welsh-language poet who wrote 'The Gododdin'?
32. Known in South-East Asia as 'The King of Fruits', which fruit of the family Malvaceae is sometimes banned from aeroplanes and taxi cabs because of its offensive odour?
33. In which American state is the Lowell Observatory?
34. Napoleon was exiled to Elba in 1814 following the signing of which treaty?
35. Established in Iceland in the 1960s, what is the name of the polytheistic reconstructionism movement whose focus is reviving the Norse paganism of the Viking Age and is now officially recognised by several Scandinavian governments?
36. Eddie McGrady and Mark Durkan are current British M.P.s representing which party?
37. The pop group The Monkees were created for a television show on which American network?
38. Which order of fish, with a Greek name meaning 'hollow spine' and closely related to the lungfish, was believed to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period until a live specimen was caught off the coast of South Africa in 1938?
39. Who scored the only goal when Nottingham Forest defeated Hamburg 1-0 in the 1980 European Cup Final?
40. Which 1964 film starring Clint Eastwood was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Japanese classic 'Yojimbo'?
41. Which 19th Century Russian composer was also a noted chemist, gaining great respect for his work on aldehydes?
42. Chewed by West African tribes before meals, which fruit, with the Latin name Sideroxylon dulcificum, was first documented in the West by the French explorer Des Marchais in 1725?
43. Khalka is the principal language spoken in which country?
44. Which English Queen was imprisoned for 32 years after she was accused of infidelity by her husband King George I?
45. The Kojiki is a sacred text of which religion?
46. What was the name of the governor of Texas who was in the same car as John F. Kennedy when he was killed in 1963?
47. Released in 1957, 'Butterfly' was the only UK number 1 hit single for which singer?
48. What name is given to the rate of temperature change observed while moving upward through the atmosphere?
49. Which annual sporting activity takes place at Cooper's Hill in the Cotswolds?
50. Who played the Bandit in the 1977 film 'Smokey and the Bandit'?


How did you do? Let's have a look:


1. PASHKO VASA
2. CANOLA
3. BURGENLAND
4. ETRURIA
5. ABARIS
6. ENGELBERT DOLLFUSS
7. SWITZERLAND
8. WRASSE
9. QUINTEN HANN
10. NOTTINGHAM
11. THE MARCIA BLAINE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
12. SAZERAC
13. LUSATIA
14. BATTLE OF TEUTOBURG FOREST
15. JOCHEBED
16. ANDORRA
17. STEELY DAN
18. THALES
19. CURLING
20. LAURIE JOHNSON
21. VOLAPÜK
22. TRAVERSE CITY
23. MONTENEGRO
24. LEO III
25. ST ANNE
26. SAN FRANCISCO
27. THE WANNADIES
28. BENJAMIN BAKER
29. BETTY STÖVE
30. BOMBARDIER BILLY WELLS
31. ANEIRIN
32. DURIAN
33. ARIZONA
34. TREATY OF FONTAINEBLEAU
35. ÁSATRÚ
36. SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC AND LABOUR PARTY (SDLP)
37. NBC
38. COELACANTH
39. JOHN ROBERTSON
40. A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS
41. ALEXANDER BORODIN
42. MIRACLE FRUIT
43. MONGOLIA
44. SOPHIA DOROTHEA
45. SHINTO (or SHINTOISM)
46. JOHN CONNOLLY
47. ANDY WILLIAMS
48. LAPSE RATE
49. CHEESE ROLLING
50. BURT REYNOLDS

Tuesday 7 August 2007

THE 21st TUESDAY QUIZ

Hello and welcome to the latest Tuesday Quiz. Hope you enjoy.

1. The most famous works of which 18th Century English painter include 'An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump' and 'The Orrery'?
2. 'An Omelette and a Glass of Wine' is the title of a book by which English cookery writer, who is considered responsible for popularising French and Italian cookery in British homes?
3. In which town in Hertfordshire would you find the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum?
4. In 1773, which of Captain James Cook's ships became the first recorded vessel to cross the Antarctic circle?
5. In Greek mythology, for his first labour Heracles had to slay which creature?
6. Which former Prime Minister of Luxembourg was President of the European Commission between 1995 and 1999?
7. Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe make up which British dance music duo?
8. In particle physics, what collective name is given to the force carrying particles such as gluons and photons?
9. The vallenato is dance that originated in which South American country?
10. Which 1968 film, staring Steve McQueen, was based on Robert L Pike's novel 'Mute Witness'?
11. 'Dyskolos' is the title of the only play that survives in its entirety written by which Greek dramatist?
12. The Ancient Greeks and Romans regarded which herb (Tanacetum vulgare) as a symbol of immortality?
13. Which Canadian Canal was opened in 1829 to allow ships to circumvent the Niagara Falls?
14. During World War II, by what name were members of The Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland known?
15. Along with the Gospel of Luke, which other book of the New Testament is thought to have been written by St Luke the Evangelist?
16. Joseph Bamina, who was assassinated in 1965, was the Prime Minister of which African country?
17. Stevie Wonder originally wrote his hit single 'Superstition' for which guitarist and songwriter?
18. What is the name of the oval yellow spot found at the centre of the retina in the human eye that is specialised for high clarity vision?
19. In 1968, England's cricket team's Test series against South Africa was cancelled by the South African authorities after the inclusion of which black player in the England team?
20. Directed by Sheka Kapur, which 1994 film told the true story of Phoolan Devi, an Indian criminal who later became an member of parliament in India?
21. Which six-letter word is the only word in the English language to begin with the letters 'tm'?
22. Although often referred to as a nut, to which family of fruit do almonds belong?
23. Mount Korab is the highest peak in which European country?
24. What was the codename given to the initial landing operation of Operation Overlord in June 1944, the precursor to the allied invasion of Normandy?
25. Which religious denomination was founded by John Thomas in 1848?
26. Which controversial British politician committed suicide in 1822 by slitting his throat with a letter opener after, apparently, being blackmailed about a homosexual affair?
27. Which band did Jack Bruce leave to form Cream in 1966?
28. Who was the immunologist and pathologist who discovered the major blood groups and developed the ABO system of blood typing, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology in 1930?
29. Which English cricket captain also won the boxing gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1908?
30. What is the name of the remote Hebridean island upon which the 1973 film 'The Wicker Man' is set?
31. In which city is John le Carre's novel 'A Small Town in Germany' set?
32. What is the name of the highly seasoned French thick, creamy soup made from puréed crustaceans?
33. Founded by St Kevin in the 6th Century, in which Irish county could you visit the Glendalough monastery?
34. William Adelin, who drowned off the coast of Normandy in the White Ship disaster, was the only legitimate son of which English King?
35. Who was Pope during World War II?
36. Which is the USA's oldest state, having been the first state to ratify the American Constitution?
37. Jello Biafra was the lead singer of which American punk group?
38. Which bodily secretion is properly known as cerumen?
39. In 2002, which Turkish footballer scored the fastest goal in World Cup history after just 10 seconds in Turkey's third place play-off match against South Korea?
40. Released in 1962, which was the first of the 'Carry On...' films to be released in colour?
41. In the year 2000, which author became the first person writing in Chinese to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
42. Gorgonzola cheese is named after the small town of Gorgonzola on the outskirts of which Italian city?
43. In which English city could you cross the Palladian Pulteney Bridge?
44. First published in 1702, which was Britain's first regular daily newspaper?
45. By which English name is the Jewish festival of Purim commonly known?
46. Who was the German nobleman and diplomat who served as Imperial Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as Vice Chancellor under Hitler from 1933 to 1934?
47. Who wrote the Sheena Easton hit single 'Sugar Walls' using the pseudonym Alexander Nevermind?
48. Deriving from the Turkish for 'black ear' because of its conspicuous black ears, what is the common name for the cat that is also known as the Persian or African lynx?
49. The Football Association was founded in October 1863 at which London inn?
50. Lamont Cranston is the human alter-ego of which comic book superhero?

Do well? Let's see:


1. JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY
2. ELIZABETH DAVID
3. TRING
4. RESOLUTION
5. NEMEAN LION
6. JACQUES SANTER
7. BASEMENT JAXX
8. BOSONS
9. COLOMBIA
10. BULLITT
11. MENANDER
12. TANSY
13. WELLAND CANAL (or WELLAND SHIP CANAL)
14. CHETNIKS
15. ACTS (OF THE APOSTLES)
16. BURUNDI
17. JEFF BECK
18. MACULA
19. BASIL D'OLIVEIRA
20. BANDIT QUEEN
21. TMESIS
22. PEACH
23. ALBANIA
24. OPERATION NEPTUNE
25. CHRISTADELPHIANS
26. VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGH
27. MANFRED MANN
28. KARL LANDSTEINER
29. JOHNNY DOUGLAS
30. SUMMERISLE
31. BONN
32. BISQUE
33. WICKLOW
34. HENRY I
35. PIUS XII
36. DELAWARE
37. DEAD KENNEDYS
38. EARWAX
39. HAKAN ŞÜKÜR
40. CARRY ON CRUISING
41. GAO XINGJIAN
42. MILAN
43. BATH
44. DAILY COURANT
45. FEAST OF LOTS
46. FRANZ VON PAPEN
47. PRINCE
48. CARACAL
49. FREEMASON'S TAVERN
50. THE SHADOW

Wednesday 1 August 2007

THE 20th TUESDAY QUIZ

Hi, again, and apologies for the delay in posting the latest quiz. I've been moving house and so have been otherwise detained. However, I hope you like this set:


1. In HG Wells' novel 'The Time Machine', what name is given to the subterranean humanoid race that feeds on a mentally retarded race of people called the Eloi?
2. Which foodstuff is known as 'chesnock' in Russian, 'ajo' in Spanish and 'suen tau' in Chinese?
3. Which is the smallest of the five inhabited islands of the Isles of Scilly?
4. Who was the commander of the Spartan fleet that was victorious against the Athenians at the Battle of Aegospotami in 405BC and who brought the Peloponnesian War to an end by taking Athens the following year?
5. How many theses did Martin Luther nail to the door of Wittenberg Church in 1517?
6. If a monopoly is the market condition that exists when there is only one seller, what name is given to the market condition that exists when there is only one buyer?
7. Which singer, songwriter and spoken-word artist became the lead singer of the hardcore punk band Black Flag in 1981?
8. Nicknamed the 'comet ferret', which 18th Century French astronomer compiled the first catalogue of galaxies, nebulae and star clusters?
9. What was the name of the horse upon which Zara Phillips won the World Equestrian Games in Aachen in 2006?
10. The 1994 film 'The Browning Version', starring Albert Finney, was an adaptation of a one-act play of the same name by which dramatist?
11. Which landscape painter, born in London in 1752, was described by John Constable as “The greatest genius that ever touched landscape”?
12. Halal is the word used to describe food that is produced in such a way to make it permissible according to Islamic law; what word is used to describe food that is considered unlawful?
13. The inhabitants of which American state are known as 'Nutmeggers'?
14. Who did William the Conqueror appoint as his first Archbishop of Canterbury in 1070?
15. Who was the legendary king of Athens and father of Theseus who threw himself into the sea upon mistakenly believing that his son had perished during his mission to kill the minotaur?
16. Who was British Prime Minister at the time of the Peterloo Massacre and the Cato Street Conspiracy?
17. From 1984 to 1987, Pearl Jam's future guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Mark Ament were both members of which early grunge band fronted by the future Mudhoney lead vocalist Mark Arm?
18. The nymphs of which insects produce cuckoo-spit?
19. At which Scottish golf course was the first Open Championship held in 1860?
20. The English folk song 'Johnny Todd' was used as the theme tune to which British TV series of the 1960s and 70s?
21. In EM Forster's novel 'Maurice', what is the name of the gamekeeper with whom the title character falls in love?
22. What is the name of the traditional Ashkenazi Jewish braided bread that is eaten on the Jewish Sabbath and other holidays when the eating of leavened bread is forbidden?
23. On which river does the Italian city of Verona stand?
24. What was the name of the week-long Roman winter festival dedicated to the god of agriculture?
25. Which rank in the Christian ministry takes its name from the Greek for 'waiter'?
26. In English law, the phrase 'time immemorial' refers to the time prior to the reign of which English King?
27. Who was the American singer and songwriter who wrote the famous folk song 'This Land is Your Land' in 1940 in response to Irving Berlin's 'God Bless America', which he considered unrealistic and complacent?
28. Commonly seen in insects such as crickets and grasshoppers, what name is given to the act of producing sound by rubbing certain body parts together?
29. Which Greek businessman became the first President of the International Olympic Committee in 1894?
30. What was the surname of the family featured in the American sit-com 'The Cosby Show'?
31. Sometimes referred to as Europe's first professional female writer, what was the name of the author, born in Venice in 1364, whose best known works include 'The Book of the Cities of Ladies' and 'The Book of the Three Virtues'?
32. Which drink did Ernest Hemingway describe as "...that opaque, bitter, tongue-numbing, brain-warming, stomach-warming, idea-changing, liquid alchemy"?
33. St Machar's, St Mary's and St Andrew's are three cathedrals in which British city?
34. What was the codename given to the spy Elyesa Bazna, a naturalised Turk of Albanian origin, who offered secret British documents to Nazi Germany during the Second World War?
35. Which book of the New Testament gives the number of the beast, usually said to be 666?
36. Coming to office in 1762, who was the first Tory Prime Minister?
37. In 1969, the singer-songwriter Steve Marriott left The Small Faces to form which group?
38. Which element has the highest melting point?
39.Camogie is the name given to the women's variant of which team sport?
40. Who was the only actor to appear in all 251 episodes of the American TV series 'M*A*S*H'?
41. In which river did the author Virginia Woolf drown in 1941?
42. Xingu is a popular beer produced in which country?
43. Which town in Denmark is home to the Lego Group and the original Legoland theme park?
44. In the 19th Century by what collective name were James Brine, James Hammett, George Loveless, James Loveless, Thomas Standfield and John Standfield known?
45. Which Christian feast is celebrated on the Thursday following Trinity Sunday?
46. Hastings Banda was the first Prime Minister of which African country?
47. Which song, released in August 1963, was the best selling single in the UK of the 1960s?
48. Which Dutch pathologist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology in 1929, demonstrated that beriberi is caused by a poor diet?
49. In 2007, the footballer Martin Reim equalled Lothar Matthäus’ European record when he won his 150th cap for which country?
50. The 1999 film 'Tea with Mussolini' tells the story of a young boy's upbringing in which Italian city?


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1. MORLOCKS
2. GARLIC
3. BRYHER
4. LYSANDER
5. 95
6. MONOPSONY
7. HENRY ROLLINS
8. CHARLES MESSIER
9. TOYTOWN
10. TERRENCE RATTIGAN
11. JOHN ROBERT COZENS
12. HARAM
13. CONNECTICUT
14. LANFRANC
15. AEGAEUS
16. EARL OF LIVERPOOL, ROBERT JENKINSON
17. GREEN RIVER
18. FROGHOPPERS
19. PRESTWICK
20. Z CARS
21. ALEC SCUDDER
22. CHALLAH
23. ADIGE
24. SATURNALIA
25. DEACON
26. RICHARD I
27. WOODY GUTHRIE
28. STRIDULATION
29. DEMETRIUS VIKELAS
30. HUXTABLE
31. CHRISTINE DE PIZAN
32. ABSINTHE
33. ABERDEEN
34. CICERO
35. REVELATION
36. JOHN STUART, THE EARL OF BUTE
37. HUMBLE PIE
38. CARBON
39. HURLING
40. ALAN ALDA
41. OUSE
42. BRAZIL
43. BILLUND
44. THE TOLPUDDLE MARTYRS
45. CORPUS CHRISTI
46. MALAWI
47. SHE LOVES YOU
48. CHRISTIAAN EIJKMAN
49. ESTONIA
50. FLORENCE