106 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
What do the Americans call rhubarb?
2. What is another name for the escolar, which is a slender spiny finned fish?
3. What was the 1686 League of Augsburg?
4. Which religious sect was originally called the International Bible Students Association?
5.
Which biscuit was said to have been created in 1892, by the Scottish baker, Alexander Grant,
to help soothe his stomach ailment?
6. Who was the American Secretary of State under President Truman (1949-1953)?
7.
In which Charles Dickens’ novel does John Peerybingle, described as a carrier, appear?
8. The Royal Navy submarine Vanguard collided with which French submarine, in February
2009?
9. What name is given to the deep reddish brown variety of the semi-precious gemstone,
cornelian?
10. Which Liberal statesman was largely responsible for the Education Act of 1870, which
provided primary education for all?
11. Launched in 1914, which was the last ever British four funnelled steamer? She was
nicknamed the "Ship Beautiful".
12. Which influential royal adviser was Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Chief Justice of England
(Justiciar) and Lord High Chancellor to Richard I in the 12th century?
13. What is the word for the septum or division between the nostrils?
14. What was the purpose of the carvings discovered in 1831, in a sandbank at the head of Camas
Uig on the Isle of Lewis?
15. Clive Greaves, which has pale centred lavender blue flowers, is a variety of which garden
flower, which belongs to the genus known as pincushion flowers?
16. The American humorous writer S J Perelman is always referred to by his initials. But what
did they stand for?
17. In which Evelyn Waugh novel, is reference made to two characters called Parsnip and
Pimpernel, who had hurried off to the USA at the outbreak of war in 1939?
18. How were the Scottish artists Samuel Peploe, John Fergusson, Leslie Hunter and Francis
Cadell collectively known?
19. Which Russian acronym was applied to the section of the KGB, which specialised in the
elimination of enemies of the state outside the Soviet Union?
20. What is a swimmeret?
106 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
THE PIE PLANT
2. THE SNAKE MACKEREL
3. A SECRET ALLIANCE (1686) BETWEEN HOLLAND, SPAIN, SWEDEN, THE EMPIRE AND
THE PAPACY TO PREVENT LOUIS XIV FROM GAINING CONTROL OF THE SPANISH
EMPIRE.
4. JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
5.
DIGESTIVE BISCUITS
6. DEAN ACHESON – HE HELPED ESTABLISH THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY
ORGANISATION.
7.
THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH
8. LE TRIOMPHANT
9. SARD
10. WILLIAM FORSTER (1818-1886) WHO WAS CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND IN 1880
UNDER GLADSTONE. HE WAS ATTACKED UNCEASINGLY IN PARLIAMENT BY THE
IRISH MEMBERS, AND HIS LIFE WAS THREATENED BY THE “INVINCIBLES” FOR HIS
MEASURES OF COERCION.
11. THE RMS AQUITANIA
12. HUBERT WALTER
13. THE CRETE
14. CHESSMEN WHICH WERE CARVED FROM WALRUS IVORY – SOME OF THE OLDEST
KNOWN IN THE WORLD.
15. SCABIOUS
16. SIDNEY JOSEPH
17. "PUT OUT MORE FLAGS" – IT WAS THOUGHT THAT PARSNIP AND PIMPERNEL WERE
W H AUDEN AND CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD.
18. THE SCOTTISH COLOURISTS BECAUSE THEY COPIED THE BRIGHT COLOURS OF
MATISSE.
19. SMERSH WHICH MEANT "DEATH TO SPIES" AND WAS APPARENTLY COINED BY
JOSEPH STALIN
20. THIS IS THE SWIMMING FOOT OF CRUSTACEANS SUCH AS SHRIMPS, LOBSTERS AND
ISOPODS. THE SWIMMERET FUNCTIONS PRIMARILY FOR CARRYING EGGS IN THE
FEMALES AND IS USUALLY ADAPTED FOR SWIMMING. IT IS ALSO CALLED THE
PLEOPOD.