97 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
Which solution of sulphur trioxide in sulphuric acid, is also known as fuming sulphuric acid?
2. From which German city, did William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) broadcast his Nazi
propaganda?
3. What was the title of the cartoon strip, which appeared in the first issue of the boy's comic
"Scorcher" in 1970, in which "Dead Shot" Keen’s football boots were found and used by an
aspiring young footballer?
4. The triangular fossa, the helix, the anti-helix, the tragus, the anti-tragus and the lobule are all
visible external parts of which part of the body?
5.
From which museum in Boston, Massachusetts, was the Vermeer painting "The Concert",
together with three Rembrandts, five drawings by Degas and other artworks stolen in 1990?
The stolen pieces had a value of $500 million, making it the largest private property theft
ever. None of the pieces have been recovered.
6. Which was the 5th of Heracles’ Labours?
7.
Whose most successful opera, "Russalka", was based on Hans Christian Andersen’s "The
Little Mermaid" and "Undine" by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque?
8. In which city is the Italian newspaper "La Stampa" published?
9. In which English city was the first of the twelve Eleanor Crosses built in 1291?
10. Which fruit is known in China, where it probably originated, as the "Moon of the Faithful"?
11. Where can Queen Elizabeth's Pocket Pistol, a cannon built in 1544, be seen?
12. In genetics, the fundamental unit of distance along a chromosome, the centimorgan, was
named for which American Nobel Prize winning scientist, by his student, Alfred Sturtevant?
13. What term in the theory of English language, describes a "you know?" at the end of a
statement?
14. The poem that begins “Strange now to think of you, gone with corsets and eyes, while I walk
on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village" was written by which Beat poet in memory of
his mother Naomi and is called Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead?
15. Which Labour politician, the MP for Camberwell and Peckham, is the niece of the late
Elizabeth, Countess of Longford?
16. Which author of a collection of formal poetry and short prose pieces, draws on its author’s
time in a mental institution, as well has his childhood in a family oppressed by Puritan
ancestry? The collection is called "Life Studies" and the author also won the Pulitzer prize in
1946 for "Lord Weary’s Castle", and in 1973 for "The Dolphin"?
17. In the 1770s, as the Durrani Empire was crumbling around him, Timur Shah moved which
nation's capital from Kandahar?
18. Which king of England, whose second wife, Isabella of Valois, was widowed at the age of 9,
was also the first recorded to have used a handkerchief?
19. The 10 Canadian Provinces each have a Lieutenant Governor. What do the three territories
have?
20. In which two countries does R L Stevenson’s "An Inland Voyage" take place?
97 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
OLEUM
2. HAMBURG
3. BILLY’S BOOTS. THE CARTOON STRIP MOVED SEVERAL TIMES TO OTHER COMICS
INCLUDING TIGER, EAGLE AND ROY OF THE ROVERS
4. THE EAR
5.
THE ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM.
6. THE CLEANSING OF KING AUGEAS’ STABLES. AUGEAS WAS A SON OF HELIO WHO
POSSESSED VAST HERDS OF CATTLE WHICH HE PASTURED IN HIS KINGDOM OF
ELIS. HERACLES RE-ROUTED THE RIVERS ALPHEUS AND PENEUS TO WASH OUT
THE STABLES TO COMPLETE THE TASK
7.
ANTONIN DVORAK
8. TURIN
9. LINCOLN
10. THE APRICOT
11. DOVER CASTLE, WHERE IT IS MOUNTED ON A REPLACEMENT CARRIAGE MADE IN
THE 18TH CENTURY FROM CAPTURED FRENCH GUNS
12. THOMAS HUNT MORGAN (1866-1945)
13. A FILLER, WHICH IS A SOUND OR WORD WHICH FILLS UP GAPS IN UTTERANCES,
SUCH AS UM, LIKE, ETC
14. ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997)
15. HARRIET HARMAN
16. ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977)
17. AFGHANISTAN - HE MOVED IT TO KABUL
18. RICHARD II
19. A COMMISSIONER
20. BELGIUM AND FRANCE