8 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
Ooops! - sorry about the typo "flanch" in the answer to Question 2 on the 9th June - it
should have been flaunch....
1.
Who wrote the first mediaeval text book on surgery in 1170?
2. What kind of a bird is the saddle-billed?
3. What is the alternative name for the Labrador current, which is a cold current in the North
Atlantic Ocean?
4. Which naval port stands opposite Portsmouth, on the western side of Portsmouth Harbour?
5.
Which English astronomer, born in 1915 near Bingley in West Yorkshire, wrote many
important works including The Nature of the Universe and The Frontiers of Astronomy?
6. Which London Park takes its name from the leper colony that once stood on the banks of the
Tyburn?
7.
Who was the first Queen’s Counsel?
8. What do broomrape, dodder and toothwort have in common?
9. Which American president won the nickname of "Old Rough and Ready" when he fought in
the Seminole Wars?
10. What does the Jewish festival of Seder commemorate?
11. Where will you see the Stuart Sapphire?
12. Born in London in 1913, which English fashion and portrait photographer was associated with
Vogue and Queen magazines and from the late 1960s, took many official portraits of the Royal
family?
13. Dating from 290-245 million years ago, which was the last period of the Palaeozoic Era?
14. What is the name of the pool on Bodmin Moor, where legend says that a man had to empty it
with a leaking limpet shell?
15. What kind of garden flower is the variety called Mrs Sinkins?
16. Which religious movement took its name from the Latinised name of the Dutch theologian
Jacob Arminius, and grew in the early 17th century as a reaction against the strict tenets of
Calvinism?
17. Which symphonic poem by Resphigi, depicts the composer’s feelings in Rome, while looking
at the Valle Giulia, the Triton, the Villa Medici and the Trevi at different times of the day?
18. With which card game, do you most closely associate the name of Ely Culbertson?
19. What name is given to the larvae of the crane fly, prone to attack and kill the roots of plants,
especially on ground newly converted from grassland?
20. What was the name of the English chemist and physicist, who in 1861, discovered the element
thallium by observing a green line in the spectrum of selenium?
8 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
ROGER OF SALERNO
2. IT’S A COLOURFUL STORK OF TROPICAL AFRICA WITH AN EXCEPTIONALLY LONG
THIN LEGS AND NECK.
3. THE ARCTIC CURRENT, WHICH FLOWS FROM THE ARCTIC OCEAN SOUTH ALONG
THE COAST OF LABRADOR. IT IS A CONTINUATION OF THE WEST GREENLAND
CURRENT AND THE BAFFIN ISLAND CURRENT
4. GOSPORT
5.
FRED HOYLE WHO DIED IN 2001
6. ST JAMES PARK. (ST JAMES THE LESS)
7.
FRANCIS BACON, WHO WAS APPOINTED BY ELIZABETH I AS QUEEN'S COUNSEL
EXTRAORDINARY.
8. THEY ARE ALL PARASITIC PLANTS WITH NO CHLOROPHYLL – THEY STEAL THEIR
FOOD BY SENDING SUCKERS INTO OTHER PLANTS, AND CAN CAUSE HUGE
ECONOMIC LOSSES IN A VARIETY OF HERBACEOUS CROPS
9. ZACHARY TAYLOR (IN OFFICE 1849-1850)
10. THE EXODUS OF THE JEWS FROM EGYPT.
11. IN THE QUEEN’S IMPERIAL STATE CROWN. ITS ORIGINAL OWNER IS
TRADITIONALLY ALEXANDER II OF SCOTLAND AND IT WAS SET INTO HIS CROWN
FOR HIS CORONATION IN 1214
12. NORMAN PARKINSON WHO DIED IN 1990
13. THE PERMIAN
14. DOZMARY POOL
15. A PINK
16. THE ARMINIANS
17. THE FOUNTAINS OF ROME
18. CONTRACT BRIDGE - HE PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN THE POPULARISATION OF THE
GAME AND IS KNOWN AS THE "MAN WHO MADE CONTRACT BRIDGE"
19. LEATHERJACKETS
20. WILLIAM CROOKES