Quiz 40 Flashcards
Which type of cloth is named after a west-central German state with its capital at Wiesbaden?
Hessian
The actor Maurice Gosfield, who played Doberman in Sgt Bilko or The Phil Silvers Show as it was properly known, also featured in a cartoon series of a similar style, in which he provided the voice for a character called Benny the Ball. What was the name of that show?
Top Cat
What was the name of the German spiked helmet worn especially before and during the earlier part of the First World War?
Pickelhaube
What is the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet?
Tau/Taw
In the human body, what section of the small intestine lies between the duodenum and the ileum?
Jejunum
Which state of India, literally meaning Northern State, has the city of Lucknow as its capital?
Uttar Pradesh
What is the name of the island that separates the two largest waterfalls at Niagara?
Goat Island
Which number is referred to by Australian cricketers as a Dorothy?
Six
In 1885, nine-year-old Joseph Meister became the first person ever to be treated by a vaccine, administered by Louis Pasteur. Against what illness was he vaccinated?
Rabies
The trilogy of books comprising Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz is named collectively after which African capital city?
Cairo
Martha Borthwick Chaney was murdered in 1914, along with six others, at Taliesin - the Wisconsin home she had shared with her lover, an American architect. Who was he?
Frank Lloyd Wright
Chipolopolo, or the Copper Bullets, is the nickname of which African country’s national football team?
Zambia
What term for a specious line of reasoning in which contradictory arguments lead to the same conclusion, often unpleasant, comes from the tax collection policies of the Archbishop of Canterbury appointed by Henry VII in the latter years of the 15th century?
Morton’s Fork
After nitrogen and oxygen, which noble gas is the most abundant element in the Earth’s atmosphere, constituting almost one percent of the total?
Argon
Haiti occupies the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Which nation occupies the eastern portion?
Dominican Republic
What would you do with a Munsell Tree?
Describe/classify colours
The sweets known as Pomfret cakes, or Pontefract cakes, are made using the roots of which plants?
Liquorice
The play The Two Noble Kinsmen, attributed to William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, concerns the same characters as the story told by which of Chaucer’s pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales?
The Knight
Original editions of the 1973 album by Paul McCartney and Wings, Red Rose Speeding, included an embossed message in Braille on the sleeve reading WE LOVE YA BABY. For which fellow musician was this tribute intended?
Stevie Wonder
Which long distance footpath runs from Ininghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire to Overton Hill in Wiltshire?
Ridgeway
Who is the malevolent fairy of the ballet Sleeping Beauty, whose evil curse is changed by the Lilac Fairy?
Carabosse
Which South Caribbean island off the Venezuelan coast lends its name to a liqueur flavoured with the dried peel of bitter oranges known locally as Laraha?
Curacao
Thought to have been born some time between 2BC and 119AD, Lindow Man or Lindow II - the well preserved corpse of the victim of a possible ritual killing - was discovered in 1984 in a peat bog in which English county?
Cheshire
A sulphate of which chemical element is most commonly added to garden soil in order to lower its PH level, sometimes to intensify the colour of blue hydrangea blooms?
Aluminium
