Quiz 16 Flashcards
Which children’s writer and illustrator whose family fled Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s created the bestselling children’s books The Tiger Who Came To Tea and the series about a forgetful cat called Mog?
Judith Kerr
Based on a folk tune, the orchestral work Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus was written in 1939 by which English composer?
Ralph Vaughan-Williams
Lavrentiy Beria, executed in 1953, was the head of which organisation during the Second World War?
NKVD
Which King of England reigned between the years 978 and 1016, succeeding his father Edgar and his half-brother Edward?
Ethelred the Unready
Which journal, still in existence, was founded in 1823 by the Devon born MP, coroner and social health reformer Thomas Wakley?
The Lancet
Lady Jane Grey got married shortly before she became Queen of England in July 1553 - so what was her actual married name at the time of her death?
Dudley
Which Irish Taoiseach signed the Hillsborough Agreement in 1985?
Garrett Fitzgerald
In the Spider-Man series of Marvel comics, Peter Parker is a freelance photographer for which newspaper?
Daily Bugle
In the classic game of Cluedo, the plant toxicologist Dr Orchid was introduced to the cast of suspects in 2016, becoming the first new character in the game for more than sixty years. Which of the six original characters did she replace?
Mrs White
The Droeshout engraving, the Janssen bust and the Chandos Portrait are all believed to be the likeness of which historical figure?
William Shakespeare
In Australian Rules football, how many points are awarded for a goal?
6
Which famous 20th Century novel opens with the words: “To the red country and the part of the grey country of Oklahoma the last rains came gently and did not cut the scarred earth”?
The Grapes of Wrath
In 2008, in genealogical research for the BBC program Who Do You Think You Are, which political figure discovered a hitherto-unsuspected blood tie to the British Royal Family?
Boris Johnson
The villages of Reeth, Gunnerside and Keld are to be found in which of the North Yorkshire Dales?
Swaledale
What is an Eton Crop?
Haircut
The address of a site on the worldwide web is often referred to as a URL. What do the letters URL stand for?
Uniform Resource Locator
What’s the surname of the brother and sister both noted Hollywood actors who played a pair of fictional siblings in the 2001 film thriller Donnie Darko?
Gyllenhaal
In the 1930s, the Nazi regime justified its drive for expansion of its territory by the argument that the country was overcrowded and needed living space to give its people a comfortable life. What German word meaning Living Space was used in this context?
Lebensraum
In a novel of 1889, the best known work of its author who was born in the West Midlands, there is a comical incident in which the protagonists manage to lose their way in Hampton Court Maze. Which novel is it?
Three Men In A Boat
According to legend, the ninth century Pope officially known as Pope John the Eighth was unique in what respect?
Female
Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was to be found at Halicarnassus in present day Turkey, which was also the birthplace of Herodotus?
Mausoleum
Somersby Rectory in Lincolnshire was the birthplace, in 1809, of which English poet
Tennyson
As opposed to plankton - minute aquatic organisms which drift - which word was proposed by German biologist Ernst Haeckel to describe the ecological division of aquatic animals that swim actively and by their own efforts?
Nekton
What nationality was the 20th century composer Gerald Finzi?
British
