170 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
Which great French general of World War I, is said to have saved Paris from German attack in
1914?
2. Which village and beauty spot in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds has the row of cottages,
known as Arlington Row, reproduced as an intricate image on the inside cover of UK
passports as a way to deter forgers?
3. What is the title of the lecture which opens the annual Edinburgh International Television
Festival, which was given in 2015 by Armando Iannucci?
4. Which politician, writer and orator, co-founded the German Social Democratic Party in 1869
and led it for 40 years?
5.
Which garden creature is shown in the upper third of the coat of arms of Campione, an Italian
enclave within the Swiss canton of Tichino?
6. Situated in an iron mining province of Lapland, which is the northernmost town of Sweden?
7.
What was the name of the horse ridden by General Robert E Lee throughout the Civil War?
8. "Make them laugh; make them cry; make them wait..." was a personal maxim of which
Victorian author, who is best known for the novel, "The Cloister and the Hearth"?
9. What name is given to hydrated calcium borate?
10. In which Asian country will you find the Knuckles Mountains?
11. Von Pirquet’s skin test identifies the presence of which illness?
12. During which war did the Battle of Missionary Ridge take place?
13. Which American composer wrote the music for the song “A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley
Square”?
14. What was the main use of Javel water, first manufactured in Paris in 1789, which was a weak
solution of potassium hypochlorite?
15. Which English scientist built the first Gregorian telescope, which a type of reflecting telescope
created by the Scottish astronomer, James Gregory?
16. What was the name of the American Attorney General who assembled the evidence that led to
the conviction of the corrupt Teamsters Union leader, Jimmy Hoffa in the early 1960s?
17. Which Atlantic island group was known to the Romans as the "Purpuriarae"?
18. In Thomas Nast’s cartoons, the corrupt Tammany political machine of New York City was
symbolised by which animal?
19. Which 1934 crime novel was partially inspired by the kidnapping of the young son of the
American aviator Charles Lindbergh, two years earlier?
20. What was the name of the English taxidermist, noted for his anthropomorphic dioramas
featuring mounted animals mimicking human life, which he displayed at his museum in
Bramber, Sussex?
170 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
JOSEPH JOFFRE
2. BIBURY
3. THE MACTAGGART MEMORIAL LECTURE
4. AUGUST BEBEL (1840-1913)
5.
A SNAIL
6. KIRUNA
7.
TRAVELLER
8. CHARLES READE
9. COLEMANITE WHICH IS USED COMMERCIALLY IN THE PRODUCTION OF HEAT
RESISTANT GLASS
10. SRI LANKA
11. TUBERCULOSIS
12. THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (1863) IT TOOK PLACE AT CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE
WHEN UNION FORCES UNDER MAJOR GENERALS ULYSSES S GRANT, WILLIAM T
SHERMAN AND GEORGE H THOMAS ROUTED CONFEDERATE FORCES UNDER
GENERAL BRAXTON BRAGG AND LIFTED THE SIEGE OF THE CITY
13. MANNING SHERWIN
14. IT WAS A LIQUID BLEACH
15. ROBERT HOOKE
16. ROBERT KENNEDY
17. THE ARCHIPELAGO OF MADEIRA, WHICH GOT ITS PORTUGUESE NAME FOR WOOD
AS THE ISLAND OF MADEIRA WAS HEAVILY FORESTED.
18. A TIGER
19. "MURDER ON THE ORIENT EPRESS" BY AGATHA CHRISTIE
20. WALTER POTTER