20190113M Flashcards
(68 cards)
Which thermodynamic cycle named after a 19th century German engineer describes the operation of a four stroke internal combustion engine?
Otto cycle
The May 1969 Vietnam War battle at Ap Bia mountain part of operation Apache Snow was known by what name which alluded to the way American soldiers were chewed up fighting there?
Hamburger Hill
The Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli is associated with a particularly bright shade of which colour?
Pink
Which Canadian rapper spent 15 weeks at UK number one in 2016 with the track One Dance which featured the performers Wizkid and Kyla?
Drake (accept Aubrey Graham)
Which English children’s author (1881-1965) is perhaps best remembered for writing the children’s hymn Morning Has Broken?
Eleanor Farjeon
There are other forms of Japanese theatre as well as Noh and Kabuki. Which form of Japanese comic theatre developed alongside Noh as a comic accompaniment to that other form? Together the two forms are known as Nogaku.
Kyogen
In accounting what is the name of the financial statement that shows a business’s revenues and expenses during a particular period?
Profit and loss account (accept income statement)
Anchor Road and The Old Vic are the two most expensive properties on which British city’s version of Monopoly?
Bristol
Which female French chef’s restaurant at the Connaught in Mayfair is one of eight in London to have two Michelin stars?
Helene Darroze
Its lyrics were written by Paul Francis Webster – the standard Love Is A Many- Splendored Thing was composed by which American songwriter of the “Great American Songbook” era?
Sammy Fain
Thought to be the source of all long-period comets entering the inner solar system which Dutch astronomer names the theoretical cloud of icy objects surrounding the Sun beyond Neptune? Its existence was first postulated by the Estonian Ernst Öpik who sometimes co-names it.
Jan Oort
It was a busy end of 2018 for Brighton Kempton MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle. In November he revealed in a House of Commons speech that he is HIV positive becoming only the second serving MP to so after which former MP for Islington South and Finsbury and Labour Culture Secretary?
Chris Smith
Lying between 20 degrees west and 45 degrees east what name is given to the part of Antarctica claimed as a dependent territory by Norway?
Queen Maud Land
In 1998 Kurt Angle became the first Olympic gold medallist to compete in which organisation?
World Wrestling Entertainment (accept World Wrestling Federation)
Which Scottish Enlightenment philosopher outlined his empiricist views in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)?
David Hume
First broadcast in 1984 in 2017 the BBC announced the retirement of which programme associated with the catchphrase don’t have nightmares - do sleep well?
Crimewatch (UK)
What is the two-word name the second word of which alludes to its sans- serif nature of the Microsoft typeface intended for use in children’s materials whose use in other contexts attracts widespread mockery?
Comic sans
The answer to a commonly asked but unrelated quiz question which Polish-born American actor and director played gangster Hyman Roth in The Godfather Part II?
Lee Strasberg
Which Marxist critic of the Situationist school wrote the 1967 work The Society of the Spectacle?
Guy Debord
Which US city bid seven times to host the Summer Olympics between 1944 and 1972 but has never succeeded during that period or at any other time?
Detroit
Which acid builds up in muscles during physical exercise causing muscle fatigue and post-exercise soreness?
Lactic acid
Charles Carroll who died in 1832 was the last survivor of the 56 men who signed what document in Philadelphia on 2 August 1776?
US Declaration of Independence
.KN is the top level internet domain code for which island nation?
St Kitts & Nevis
The daughter of former Blockbusters host Bob Holness was in which 80s band who had only one UK top 20 hit I Eat Cannibals?
Toto Coelo
