72 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
What is a bacaro?
2. What is the national flower of Norway?
3. What did the chemists Ira Remsen and Constantine Falhberg discover in 1879, while working
on coal tar derivatives?
4. What is pitchstone?
5.
Which English composer (1710-1778), best known for a patriotic song, wrote the music for the
ballad opera, "Thomas and Sally, or The Sailor's Return" in 1760?
6. Of which modern animal, is the prehistoric glyptodon, an ancestor?
7.
Which (16th century) Italian painter was nicknamed Il Fattore or the Maker?
8. Faggotting is a decorative embroidery technique used to do what?
9. What name was given to the rebellion in Ulster 1594-1603, led by Hugh O’Neill?
10. In which 1945 film did Abbott and Costello first perform the “Who’s On First” routine?
11. The Old Believers is a schismatic sect of which church?
12. Which of the four Galilean satellites of the planet Jupiter, is the most heavily cratered moon in
the solar system?
13. What would be affected by Blue-rot?
14. Azoth was an alternative name given by alchemists to which chemical element?
15. In the Sumerian myths, the sky god Anu created which creature, a wild-man who became the
comrade of Gilgamesh after they had fought?
16. Which European city was once known as Pressburg, and became the capital of a republic that
came into being, in 1993?
17. Published in three volumes, "The Earthly Paradise" (1868-1870) is an epic poem by which
Victorian poet? It is a lengthy collection of retellings of various myths and legends from
Scandinavia and Greece.
18. Which elements belong to Group 18 of the Periodic table?
19. Off the coast of which French port was Germany largest battleship, the Bismarck sunk in
1941?
20. On board a sailing ship, what was a Flemish horse?
72 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
THIS WAS A VENETIAN WORD FOR A HUMBLE RESTAURANT SERVING SIMPLE FOOD,
AND GOOD, YOUNG LOCAL WINES.
2. THE BLUE ANEMONE
3. SACCHARINE
4. IT’S A DARK WEATHERED FORM OF THE HARD VITREOUS VOLCANIC ROCK CALLED
OBSIDIAN, BUT IT IS COARSER THAN OBSIDIAN. PITCHSTONE IS VERY RESISTANT
TO EROSION AND THERE IS A PITCHSTONE RIDGE ON THE HEBRIDEAN ISLAND OF
EIGG.
5.
THOMAS ARNE ("RULE BRITANNIA")
6. THE ARMADILLO
7.
GIOVANNI PENNI WHO, WITH GUILIO ROMANO, WAS RAPHAEL’S MAIN ASSISTANT.
8. ATTACH AN EXTRA STRETCH OF FABRIC TO A HEM OR A SLEEVE
9. THE NINE YEARS WAR OR TYRONE'S REBELLION. HE WAS THE EARL OF TYRONE. IT
WAS SUPPRESSED BY LORD MOUNTJOY, THE SUCCESSOR TO THE EARL OF ESSEX.
10. "THE NAUGHTY NINETIES"
11. RUSSIAN ORTHODOX
12. CALLISTO
13. CONIFERS - IT'S A DISEASE CAUSED BY CERTAIN FUNGI WHICH PRODUCES A BLUE
COLOURATION OF THE WOOD.
14. MERCURY
15. ENKIDU
16. BRATISLAVA WHICH IS NOW THE CAPITAL OF SLOVAKIA
17. WILLIAM BLAKE
18. NOBLE GASES
19. BREST - THE WRECK WAS DISCOVERED IN 1989 BY ROBERT BALLARD
20. A FOOTROPE ON A SQUARE RIGGED SAILING SHIP, THAT IS FOUND AT THE
EXTREME OUTER END OF THE YARD