204 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
Which American Pulitzer prize winning author wrote the children's book, "The Gnomobile",
that was made into a 1967 Walt Disney film?
2. What was London’s Underground Jubilee line, originally going to be called?
3. Which small Scottish breed of dog in the terrier family, has a distinctive "top-knot" of hair on
the head? It is named after a character in Sir Walter Scott's novel "Guy Mannering", who is
thought to be based on James Davidson, who is credited as being the "father" of the modern
breed.
4. What name did the American forces, fighting the Japanese in World War II, give to Mount
Suribachi, an extinct volcano on Iwo Jima?
5.
The American jazz musician, Scott Hamilton, is best known for playing which instrument?
6. Which poet is the subject of the 1595 “Newbattle” portrait, which is in the National Portrait
Gallery?
7.
Arno Penzias won the Nobel prize for Physics in 1978 for his work on which scientific theory?
8. What was the name of the fictional detective created by Harry Blythe?
9. In which country was the dynastic war of the Two Brothers fought between 1828 and 1834?
10. The flag of which American state is a red St Andrews cross on a white background?
11. Where is the fertile lowland area of Scotland known as the Merse?
12. What is the more common name for the Walsingham Way? It referenced the shrine of Our
Lady of Walsingham which was in Norfolk, and was understood to be a guide to the pilgrims
who flocked there.
13. Which Japanese city, devastated by an earthquake in 1995, is the capital of Hyogo Prefecture?
14. Which English composer wrote the cantata "The Golden Legend" in 1886, which became his
most popular choral work?
15. Which Roman general and statesman (106 BC-48 BC), was known as Magnus by his troops?
16. In the Place du Parvis, which is in front of which French cathedral, you will find the brass
octagonal plate known as "Point Zero", from which distances from Paris to other cities are
measured?
17. Which German composer wrote the opera buffa, "The Barber of Baghdad" which was based on
a story from "The 1001 Nights"?
18. By what name is the rebellion of the Samurai in Japan in 1877, known?
19. Which politician, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1929, set up the Tote?
20. Which is the only landlocked founder member of NATO?
204 ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
UPTON SINCLAIR (1878-1968)
2. THE FLEET LINE
3. DANDIE DINMONT
4. MEATGRINDER HILL
5.
THE TENOR SAXOPHONE
6. JOHN DONNE
7.
THE BIG BANG THEORY
8. SEXTON BLAKE. HARRY BLYTHE WAS THE REAL NAME OF HAL MEREDITH. SEXTON
BLAKE FIRST APPEARED IN THE CHRISTMAS EDITION OF THE HALFPENNY MARVEL
1893 AND SOLVED THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING MILLIONAIRE. THE LAST SEXTON
BLAKE STORY WAS CALLED THE LAST TIGER
9. PORTUGAL - THEY WERE DOM PEDRO AND MIGUEL, THE SONS OF THE LATE KING
JOAO VI
10.
ALABAMA
11. IN THE BORDERS REGION, NORTH OF THE TWEED.
12. THE MILKY WAY
13. KOBE
14. ARTHUR SULLIVAN
15. POMPEY
16. NOTRE DAME
17. PETER CORNELIUS (1824-1874)
18. THE SATSUMA REBELLION
19. WINSTON CHURCHILL
20. LUXEMBOURG