Quiz 27 Flashcards
Planula, polyp, ephyra and medusa are stages in the life cycle of which type of invertebrate?
Jellyfish
The Dandy and the Beano were first published in which decade?
1930s
Which range of hills shares its name with the house in Liverpool in which John Lennon lived from 1945 to 1963?
Mendips
In which US state is Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport?
Arkansas
Which wading bird, a member of the sandpiper family, shares its name with a unit of speed?
Knot
The title of John Wyndham’s science fiction novel The Kraken Wakes was inspired by a 19th century poem which includes the lines: “Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep, The Kraken sleepeth”. Who wrote the poem?
Tennyson
Also called the malar or malar bone, what is the more common name for the zygomatic bone?
Cheekbone
The memoirs of which prominent 19th century figure were burnt after his death by his friends, including publisher John Murray, being judged too salacious for publication?
Lord Byron
In an expedition of 1865, following six previous failed attempts, Edward Whymper succeeded in climbing which mountain?
Matterhorn
In which 20th century play does the main character speak the line: “Don’t clap too hard, it’s a very old building”?
The Entertainer
What was the name of Peter Cook’s satirical nightclub that opened in October 1961 in Greek Street, London?
The Establishment
The 1993 film Dark Blood had to be abandoned three weeks from completion after one of its stars died at the early age of 23. Who was he?
River Phoenix
The traditional American dish, the Rocky Mountain Oyster, consists of which part of a calf?
Testicles
Which lake, with a maximum depth of nearly 260 feet, is the deepest in the English Lake District?
Wastwater
The latin for a feather, pinna, is a term applied to which feature of the anatomy in humans and other mammals?
Outer ear
Which Indian cricketer in 2011 became the first ever to reach a career score of 15,000 runs in test cricket?
Sachin Tendulkar
Complete this sentence from St Matthews Gospel: “If the blind lead the blind…”
“…both shall fall in the ditch.”
The Butler Bill, approved by Governor Austin Peay in the state of Tennessee in March 1925, prohibited which educational practice?
Teaching evolution by natural selection
In the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger Series of maps, what type of building is indicated by a pink triangle?
Youth Hostel
If you followed a sign in Milan that said Cenacolo Vinciano, what would it lead you too?
Da Vinci’s Last Supper
The Leeds born comedian Steve Delaney created the character of which out-of-work variety performer in a Radio 4 comedy series first broadcast in 2005 and later adapted for TV?
Count Arthur Strong
What was the name of the peasant’s revolt that took place in Northern France in the summer of 1358, which has become a word synonymous with peasant uprisings in general in both English and French?
Jacquerie
James Gordon Bennett Jr was a Scottish born newspaper owner who is famed for backing whose expedition to Africa in 1869?
Henry Morton Stanley
In chemistry, what is defined as a negative logarithm of the hydrogen ion activity in a solution?
pH
