Quiz 26 Flashcards
In which European city are the graves of Igor Stravinsky, Ezra Pound and Sergei Diaghilev?
Venice
Goodbye, Farewell, Amen was the title of the last episode of which American TV series?
MASH
Which 1959 novel by Gunter Grass, which features Oscar Matzerath, a boy who refuses to grow up, is generally seen as an allegory of Germany throughout its early 20th century history?
The Tin Drum
No 1 Carlton Gardens has been whose official residence in London since the 1940s?
Foreign Secretary
Who was the first official Poet Laureate, appointed in 1668 and dismisssed for refusing to take the oath of allegiance during the Glorious Revolution?
John Dryden
What’s the name of the limestone plateau in the north of County Clare in Ireland, featuring a network of caves and underground waterways as well as prehistoric burial sites, which is also of importance to botanists as one of the most varied plant habitats in the whole of the British Isles?
The Burren
The feast of Candlemas occurs on the second day of which month?
February
Which figure from South American history gives his name to the currency of Venezuela?
Simon Bolivar
Who once said to Anton Chekov: Shakespeare’s plays are bad enough, but yours are even worse?
Tolstoy
Whaen making bookings online it is often necessary to enter letters or digits from a distorted image, to ensure that the response is by a human rather than a computer. By what rather contrived acronym is this test known?
Captcha
Some thirty years before the much publicised cloning of Dolly the sheep in the late 1990s, the British biologist John Gurdon successfully cloned what type of creature?
Frog
Which Labour Government White Paper of 1969 was designed to harmonise labour relations and was issued by Barbara Castle as Secretary of State for Employment?
In Place Of Strife
In 2007, which best selling writer was appointed President of the Campaign for Rural England?
Bill Bryson
Bluebell, Black Rock, Cuckoo Maran and Araucana are hybrid varieties of which creatures?
Chickens
From which port did the Spanish Armada set sail in 1588?
Lisbon
Which British crystallographer became, in 1964, the third woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, and in 1965 was admitted to the Order of Merit, the first woman to be so honoured since Florence Nightingale?
Dorothy Hodgkin
In the only outdoor public statue of him in London, sculted by Francis Bird, which monard is represented about the north gate entrance to St Bart’s Hospital, surmounted by reclining figures symbolising lameness and disease?
Henry VIII
Who, collectively, were Denny Doherty, John Phillips, Michelle Phillips and Cass Elliot?
The Mamas and Papas
Which Royal palace in West Lothian, begun in the 1420s by James I of Scotland, became in 1542 the birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots?
Linlithgow
A Goitre is the enlargement of which gland?
Thyroid
The South African port which is the largest city of Kwa-Zulu Natal and the name of a fishing village in East Lothian on Scotland’s east coast, popular with tourists, are anagrams. Can you give me the names of both?
Durban and Dunbar
The actor Lee Van Kleev is perhaps best known for his role as the Bad in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, but he also made a much earlier sreen appearance as a villain in which classic western of 1952
High Noon
Which Royal personage was the subject of the caricature by James Gillray, published in 1792, with the title A Voluptory Under The Horrors Of Digestion?
Prince George
When woulf you be likely to hear the sound of a nautophone?
Fog
