128 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
James Wilson founded which publication in 1843, in order to advance the repeal of the Corn
Laws?
2. What is the alternative name for the bird, the water ousel, which reflects its habit of hunting
insects underwater?
3. Who designed the tomb of Pope Alexander VII, who reigned from 1655-1667, which is in St
Peter’s Basilica?
4. Which 18th century barrister was the leading spokesman for Irish nationalist ambitions,
leading to legislative independence for Ireland in 1782?
5.
Which low mountain overlooks the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, on the north coast of Africa?
6. In which 1953 play by Arthur Miller, is John Proctor the protagonist?
7.
Which fruit crop is destroyed by the buffalo treehopper?
8. Which American state capital was once known as the “crossing on the Missouri”?
9. In India, what sort of servant is a syce?
10. Portoferraio is the chief town of which Mediterranean island?
11. The discovery of which effect, made it possible to plot the distribution of the magnetic field of
the sun, and in interstellar space?
12. In 1830, the English explorers Richard and John Lander, established the lower course of
which river, by canoeing down from Yauri to the Atlantic Ocean?
13. Which king of Argos led the “Seven Against Thebes” expedition to restore Polynices, son of
Oedipus, to the throne of Thebes?
14. Which fish are also known as porgies?
15. To which Asian country, does the Banggai archipelago belong?
16. Which carol, sung as the traditional Christmas dish is carried in at Queens College Oxford, is
one of the oldest surviving English carols, dating from the 15th century?
17. Which British astronomer first identified the Magellanic Clouds as star clusters in the 1830s,
although they had first been sighted in 1520 by Magellan?
18. Who was elected the Director General of UNESCO in 2009, not only the first woman to fill the
role, but also the first Eastern European?
19. Sir James Paget (1814-1899). is regarded as one of the founders of which branch of science?
20. The Catholic commander Johan d’Sercaluse, Count of Tilly was fatally wounded by a
cannonball at which battle of the Thirty Years War which took place on April 15 1632?
128 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
THE ECONOMIST - ITS CURRENT EDITOR (AS AT JULY 2015) IS "ZANNY" MINTON
BEDDOES, WHO IS ITS FIRST FEMALE EDITOR
2.
THE DIPPER
3.
GIANLORENZO BERNINI
4.
HENRY GRATTAN (1746-1820)
5.
MONTE HACHO, WHICH IS CLAIMED BY SOME TO BE ONE OF THE LEGENDARY
PILLARS OF HERCULES
6.
"THE CRUCIBLE"
7.
APPLES
8.
BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA
9.
A GROOM OR STABLEHAND - A SERVANT EMPLOYED TO LOOK AFTER THE HORSES
10.
ELBA
11.
THE ZIEMANN EFFECT – THIS WAS THE DIFFERENCE IN LIGHT EMITTED BY ATOMS
WHEN THEY PASSED THROUGH A MAGNETIC FIELD.
12.
THE NIGER
13.
ADRASTUS
14.
THE RED SEABREAM
15.
INDONESIA - THE ARCHIPELAGO IS SURROUNDED BY THE GULF OF TOLO (PART OF
THE BANDA SEA) AND THE MOLUCCA SEA
16.
THE BOAR'S HEAD CAROL.
17.
SIR JOHN HERSCHEL (1792-1871)
18.
IRINA BOKOVA OF BULGARIA
19.
PATHOLOGY
20.
THE BATTLE OF RAIN (ALSO KNOWN AS THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER LECH)