Quiz 24 Flashcards
Which city was the capital of Pakistan from independence until the late 1950s?
Karachi
According to legend, Captain Venerdecken was in charge of which vessel on its voyage home from the East Indies port of Batavia?
Flying Dutchman
Which medically important chemical was fortuitously discovered by the American chemist and physician Samuel Guthrie when, in 1831, he combined alcohol with chlorinated lime in an effort to produce an economically viable pesticide?
Chloroform
Diaphoresis is the technical name for which bodily process?
Perspiration
Which period of geological time, the second period of the Palaeozoic era, is named after an ancient Welsh people because rocks formed in this period were first studied in Wales?
Ordovician
Which Canadian ice-hockey star was voted the Most Valuable Player to his team in the National Hockey League every year between 1980 and 1987?
Wayne Gretsky
From 1932 until the 1990s, Russia’s fifth largest city, Nizhny Novrorod, was named after which writer born there in 1868?
Gorky
Where would you find Humboldt’s Sea and the Lake of Death?
The Moon
In the book Cider with Rosie, by Laurie Lee, what was Rosie’s (suitable bucolic) surname?
Burdock
Which Labour MP, at the time the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, did David Cameron advise to “Calm down, dear” at Prime Minister’s questions in April 2012?
Angela Eagle
Bernard de Launay became the first prominent casualty of the French Revolution when he was lynched and then decapitated at the hands of a mob on 14th July 1789. Which official post had he held immediately prior to his death?
Governor of the Bastille
According the to title of a children’s book by E Nesbit, who are Robert, Anthea, Jane, Cyril, the Lamb and the Psammead?
Five Children And It
What was the name for the type of ancient Greek galley, usually used for combat because of its comparative power and speed, with three banks of oars on either side?
Trireme
Which of the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, when first presented at the Savoy Theatre in January 1887, was billed as A New and Original Supernatural Opera in Two Acts?
Ruddigore
Which 19th century writer was known as the Sage of Chelsea?
Thomas Carlyle
The common at the Surrey village of Outwood is notable as the site of what is said to be the oldest working example in Britain of what type of structure?
Windmill
Which city in the state of Uttar Pradesh was the scene of the first uprising of the Indian Rebellion, once known as the Indian Mutiny, in 1857?
Meerut
The first BBC local radio station was launched on 8th November 1967 in which British city?
Leicester
The French word for French is Francais, and the German for German is Deutsch. Which European language calls itself Shqip?
Albanian
In which country does a website originate if the suffix to the URL is .lk?
Sri Lanka
Which Spanish city, now better known as a tourist destination, was in 1881 the birthplace of Pablo Picasso?
Malaga
In the Theban Myths, dramatised by Sophocles, who is the father of Antigone?
Oedipus
Laura Jesson and Alec Harvey are the central characters in which 1945 film?
Brief Encounter
Ceratopsian dinosaurs are so named because they had what physical features?
Horns
