35 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1. Which Cheshire born author’s works include "Kathleen and Frank" (about his parents), "My
Guru and His Disciple" and "Mr Norris Changes Trains"?
2. Which novelist organised the first ever women's motor race, held at the Brooklands' racing
circuit?
3. From 1868-1873, Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, held which political office under
William Gladstone, described by him as "being entrusted with a certain amount of misery,
which it was his duty to distribute as fairly as he could"?
4. Which German architect designed the spectacular setting for the first of the Nazi party’s
Nuremberg Rallies?
5. Who was forced to resign as US Vice-President in 1973, after allegations of corruption while
he was Governor of Maryland?
6. In January 1937, the Independent Labour Party and which other group, formed the Unity
Campaign, opposing rearmament, and aiming to transform the Labour Party?
7. What is the literal translation of the Haitian secret police force, the Tonton Macoute?
8. When light travels from one transparent material into another, it will generally change speed
giving rise to which optical phenomenon?
9. In the Old Testament, who describes King David as "A man after my own heart" ?
10. In fiction, which fantastic ancestral home had a scary portion known as “The Tower of Flints”?
11. Which Nobel-Prize winning physicist (1891-1974),was interned in Germany in WW1? Whilst
researching at Liverpool University, he built Britain's first cyclotron. Who was he?
12. Avriani is a tabloid newspaper in which European country?
13. What is the common name of Salix Fragilis, the tallest of the Willow family, from the sharp
sound its brittle twigs make, when broken?
14. A scop was the name given to an Anglo-Saxon what?
15. Carbon dioxide comprises about 96.5% of the atmosphere of Venus. Which gas apart from the
trace amounts, makes up the remainder?
16. In Greek mythology, which island in the Ionian Sea, was the traditional home of Odysseus?
17. Which Mexican dish has a filling of meat, beans or other ingredients, wrapped in a large, soft
flour tortilla?
18. Which folk singer, once of Fairport Convention, is best known for the song ‘Who knows where
the time goes’?
19. Who will become the new Chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland, later in 2015, when he
succeeds Sir Philip Hampton?
20. The Plain English Campaign presents which award each year, to the person making the most
stupid remark of the year?
35 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD (1904-1986)
2. BARBARA CARTLAND
3. CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER
4. ALBERT SPEER
5.
SPIRO AGNEW
6. THE SOCIALIST LEAGUE WHICH WAS DISSOLVED LATER THAT YEAR BY STAFFORD
CRIPPS, FOLLOWING THE FAILURE OF THE CAMPAIGN
7.
UNCLE GUNNY SACK - AFTER THE CREOLE BOGEYMAN WHO KIDNAPS CHILDREN IN
A GUNNY SACK AND TAKES THEM AWAY TO BE EATEN FOR BREAKFAST
8. REFRACTION
9. GOD
10. GORMENGHAST IN "TITUS GROAN" BY MERVYN PEAKE
11. JAMES CHADWICK, WHO WON THE 1935 NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS FOR HIS
DISCOVERY OF THE NEUTRON
12. GREECE
13. CRACK WILLOW
14. POET OR MINSTREL
15. NITROGEN
16. ITHACA
17. BURRITO
18. SANDY DENNY
19. SIR HOWARD DAVIES WHO WAS THE FIRST CHAIRMAN OF THE FINANCIAL
SERVICES AUTHORITIES
20. THE FOOT IN MOUTH AWARD - IN 2014, IT WAS AWARDED TO RUSSELL BRAND