Misc Quiz

Question 1

Tuba Concerto in F Minor

Answer 1

Raulph Vaughan Williams

Question 2

This composer wrote the score for Star Wars

Answer 2

John Williams

Question 3

This persons string quartets include a group named the “Sun” and the “Erdödy” quartets.

Answer 3

Franz Haydn

Question 4

This person’s work is catalogued by a Johnson number or a more recent Franklin number.

Answer 4

Emily Dickinson

Question 5

This person’s work is catalogued by a Köchel number.

Answer 5

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Question 6

This first major second punic war battle was a defeat for Roman consul Sempronius Longus

Answer 6

Trebia

Question 7

Battle of the Trebia

Answer 7

Battle along the river Trebia between Hannibal and Sempronius Longus.

The consul Publius Scipio had met with
Longus but this isn’t clear if the armies actually merged.

Question 8

Major ambush by Hannibal and Gaulish allies.

Answer 8

Trasimene

Question 9

Battle of Trasimene

Answer 9

Ambush along lake Trasimene in misty conditions. Hannibal defeats Gaius Flaminius, who is allegedly
killed by a Gaul called Ducarion.

Question 10

What was Beethoven’s only

Opera?

Answer 10

Fidelio

The main characters are Florestan, Leonore, Don Pizarro and Rocco.

Question 11

Final battle of the Second Punic War

Answer 11

Zama

Question 12

Who wrote ‘Look Back in Anger’?

Answer 12

John Osborne

The play spawned the phrase “angry young man” to describe Osborne and similar playwrights.

Question 13

Characters in ‘Look Back in Anger’

Answer 13

Jimmy Porter - working class, main character.

Alison - Jimmy’s wife, from upper middle class background. Pregnant with Jimmy’s baby.

Helena - Alison’s friend. After Alison leaves, she and Jimmy get together.

Colonel Redfern - Alison’s father, comes to ‘rescue’ her after Helena sends him a telegram.

Cliff - Jimmy’s friend.

Question 14

Who wrote ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’?

Answer 14

Muriel Spark

Question 15

Characters in ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’

Answer 15

Jean Brodie - School teacher, fascist views. Takes on six students as mentees called the ‘Brodie set’.

Sandy - One of the Brodie set, she is taken as Brodie’s confidant.

Rose - One of the set, she is pretty and Brodie wants her to date another teacher, Mr Lloyd.

Mr Lloyd, Mr Lowther - Male teachers at the school, both in love with Brodie. Lloyd is married, and ends up having the Brodie set model for his paintings which all end up looking like Brodie.

Question 16

Who wrote ‘The Vicar of

Wakefield’?

Answer 16

Oliver Goldsmith

Question 17

Who wrote ‘She Stoops to Conquer’?

Answer 17

Oliver Goldsmith

Question 18

van der Meer equation

Answer 18

More complicated than Hudsons equation for beach armour.

Question 19

Who is Vidar (role and close relations)?

Answer 19

Norse (Aesir) god. Possibly of vengeance. Kills Fenrir at Ragnarok.

Son of Odin and Gridr (Jotun), therefore is half brother to Thor.

Silent, potentially ritual silence relating to vengeance role.

Question 20

This musical work features a “march to the scaffold”

Answer 20

Symphonie Fantastique

Hector Berlioz

Question 21

Two song cycles by this composer are based off poems by Wilhelm Müller.

Answer 21

Franz Schubert

They are ‘Die schöne Müllerin’ and ‘Winterreise’.

Question 22

What was the purpose of James Cook’s voyage on the Endeavour?

Answer 22

To observe the transit of Venus

Question 23

Tony Lumpkin, Kate and Marlow are characters in what play?

Answer 23

She Stoops to Conquer

Question 24

Mr Collins, Mr Wickham and Mr Bingley are all characters in what novel?

Answer 24

Pride and Prejudice

Question 25

Who was assassinated by François Ravaillac?

Answer 25

Henry IV of France. First king if the Bourbon dynasty, his wife Marie de’Medici continued on in power.

Question 26

Who was assassinated by Nathuram Godse?

Answer 26

Mohandas Gandhi. Gandhi was just beginning an interfaith service at Birla House when he was shot. Godse blamed Gandhi for the partition of India the year before.

Question 27

Who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr?

Answer 27

James Earl Ray He was killed on a balcony at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Question 28

Who assassinated Robert F Kennedy?

Answer 28

Sirhan Sirhan. He had just won the democrat primary in California prior to the 1968 election that would have seen him face Richard Nixon.

Question 29

Who was assassinated by Satwant and Beant Singh?

Answer 29

Indira Gandhi. They were two of her bodyguards. The attack came on Halloween 1984, four months after a raid on the golden temple in Amritsar.

Question 30

First six olympic hosts (and their years)

Answer 30

``` Athens (1896) Paris (1900) St Louis (1904) London (1908) Stockholm(1912) Antwerp (1920) ``` The 1916 games (to be hosted in Berlin) were not held due to the ongoing WWI.

Question 31

Olympic Hosts since 1992

Answer 31

``` Barcelona (1992) Atlanta (1996) Sydney (2000) Athens (2004) Beijing (2008) London (2012) Rio de Janeiro (2016) (Tokyo) (2020) (Paris) (2024) ```

Question 32

Which city has hosted the Summer Olympics the most times?

Answer 32

London It has hosted three times: 1908, 1948, 2012. Paris is due to host its third games in 2024.

Question 33

The BWV has 1126 entries cataloguing whose works?

Answer 33

JS Bach | Bach Werke Verzeichnis

Question 34

This piece’s largo second movement features an F-Aflat-Aflat dotted rhythm motif played on cor anglais

Answer 34

Dvorak Symphony No 9 | New World

Question 35

This composer’s final chamber work is a string quintet scored for standard string quartet plus an extra cello.

Answer 35

Schubert

Question 36

This composer wrote “Death and the Maiden” and “Winterreise”.

Answer 36

Schubert

Question 37

Sonatas and Partitas

Answer 37

JS Bach

Question 38

This person quoted Beethoven’s fifth in each of the four movements of his second piano sonata.

Answer 38

Charles Ives More commonly called the concord sonata, its movements are named for American literary figures.

Question 39

“The ghost” is a piece by Beethoven of this type.

Answer 39

Piano trio (violin, cello, keyboard)

Question 40

“Aoelian Harp” is what kind of musical work?

Answer 40

Etude by Chopin (solo piano)

Question 41

Cello Concerto in B minor

Answer 41

Dvorak

Question 42

Toccata and Fugue is in which key?

Answer 42

D minor

Question 43

February Manifesto

Answer 43

1899 Manifesto by Tsar Nicholas II to remove Finnish autonomy as a Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire. Repealed in 1905 after the 1905 revolution.

Question 44

This work in Press Celebrations starts with a brass fanfare in C then continues in A flat major for the rest of the piece.

Answer 44

Finlandia

Question 45

This composer invented symphonic (tone) poems

Answer 45

Liszt

Question 46

This composer finished Borodin’s third symphony and the opera Prince Igor

Answer 46

Glazunov | Rimsky-Korsakoff also helped complete Prince Igor

Question 47

This general won the battle of Horseshoe Creek

Answer 47

Andrew Jackson

Question 48

This is the first attested Chinese dynasty, notable for use of oracle bones.

Answer 48

Shang (c 1600-1046BC) Preceded by: none Succeeded by: Zhou Oracle bones were made of ox bones or turtle shell.

Question 49

This chinese dynasty had an “Eastern” and a “Spring and Autumn” period.

Answer 49

Zhou (c1046-256 BC) The sack of the capital in 771 BC led to the Eastern Zhou period, and it later descended into a warring states period. Preceded by: Shang Succeeded by: Qin

Question 50

This was the turning point of the revolutionary war

Answer 50

Battle of Saratoga

Question 51

The catalogue aria is in this opera.

Answer 51

Don Giovanni

Question 52

“The Perpetual Orgy” by Vargas Llosa is about what other book?

Answer 52

Madame Bovary

Question 53

The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History

Answer 53

Isaiah Berlin

Question 54

This composers works are catalogued by RV numbers

Answer 54

Vivaldi

Question 55

Phi Effect

Answer 55

Sequences of similar static images shown in quick succession appear to be moving.

Question 56

Two Dogmas on Empiricism

Answer 56

Quine

Question 57

Dawes act

Answer 57

1887, Clevelands second term

Question 58

Veves are symbols in this religion

Answer 58

Voodoo, they represent loas

Question 59

What four note motif did Schostavovich include in many of his works?

Answer 59

D-E flat-C-B | In German notation Eflat is called Es and B natural H so this spells out DSCH.

Question 60

This composer wrote a set of 8 humoresques for piano of which the seventh in G-flat major is best known.

Answer 60

Dvorak

Question 61

“The Dance of the Sylphs” is a piece in which opera?

Answer 61

The Damnation of Faust by Berlioz. The song is quoted in the “The Elephants” movement of Carnival of the Animals by Saint Säens.

Question 62

“Hiawatha” was a planned | opera that was never written by this composer of the opera “Rusalka”

Answer 62

Dvorak

Question 63

Who was the first English language Nobel Laureate for Literature?

Answer 63

Rudyard Kipling (1907)

Question 64

What continent is the mountain Denali on?

Answer 64

North America Also called Mount McKinley, it is the highest in North America. It is in Alaska and stands at 6,190m above sea level.

Question 65

What is the highest mountain in Antarctica?

Answer 65

Mt Vinson, part of the Vinson Massif. Mt Vinson stands at 4,892m and was named for Carl G Vinson, a US senator from Georgia who sponsored Antarctic exploration.

Question 66

What is the tallest mountain in Oceania?

Answer 66

Any of: Puncak Jaya (4,884m) in Indonesian Papua Mt Wilhelm (4,509m) in Papua New Guinea Mt Kosciuszko (2,228m) on Australia (Depends one what you want to call Oceania.)

Question 67

List the five peaks of the British isles.

Answer 67

``` Ben Nevis (Scotland) Snowdon (Wales) Carrauntoohil (RoI) Scafell Pike (England) Slieve Donard (NI) ``` They range from 849m (Slieve Donard) to 1,345m (Ben Nevis).

Question 68

What italian region is Milan the capital of?

Answer 68

Lombardy

Question 69

What Italian region has capital at Napoli?

Answer 69

Campania

Question 70

What is the largest region of Italy | by area?

Answer 70

Sicily | Excluding Sicily it is Piedmont

Question 71

What is the most populous region of Italy?

Answer 71

Lombardy It has 10m people, 16% of Italy’s total. The next in the list is Lazio (capital Rome) at 5.9m.

Question 72

This first dynasty of Imperial China lasted only 15 years.

Answer 72

Qin Preceded by: Zhou Succeeded by: Han

Question 73

This dynasty had a “Western “ and an “Eastern period, interrupted by the Xin dynasty led by Wang Mang.

Answer 73

Han Established by Liu Bang who united China. The seventh Han emperor Wu later expanded China’s borders Preceded By: Qin Succeeded by: Three Kingdoms period. (Next true dynasty is the Tang from 618CE.)

Question 74

Who was the first Prime Minister of Great Britain?

Answer 74

Robert Walpole