240 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
What was the pseudonym of Robert Ludlum when he wrote Trevayne and The Cry of the
Halidon?
2. What is the name given to a stanza of 8 ten syllable lines rhyming abababcc as used by John
Keats in Isabella and Lord Byron in Don Juan?
3. Where does the wind known as the libeccio blow?
4. Which collections of essays and short tales by Charles Dickens was first published in various
periodicals and subtitled “Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People”?
5.
Which period of the Christian calendar is derived from the old English for the spring?
6. With which form of transport were the Duryea brothers, pioneers?
7.
Unagi is the Japanese sushi term for which fish?
8. Which American literary and cultural magazine, founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1857,
but now based in Washington DC, had amongst its founding sponsors, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and James Russell Lowell who served
as its first editor?
9. Who wrote the cycle of four one act plays grouped together under the title SS Glen Cairn
which John Ford filmed as “The Long Voyage Home”, the title of one of the plays?
10. In which Ben Jonson play do the characters of Subtle, Surly and Wholesome all appear?
11. Mount Albert Edward is a mountain in which range of mountains in Papua New Guinea?
12. What is a Clovis point?
13. On which river do the cities of Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan stand?
14. Which mediaeval pope created the doctrine of papal authority?
15. Which artificial lake is the second largest lake in England by surface area, exceeded in size
only by Windermere?
16. “Water Chute” is the 16th piece in "Sports Et Divertissements", a collection of piano pieces by
which French composer, better known for his “Vexations”?
17. The Kipchak Khanate was established by Batu Khan and was better known by which name?
18. In which English city will you find the Grosvenor Museum which is named after the family
name of the Dukes of Westminster?
19. What is a lur, which was made of bronze and dates back to the Scandinavian bronze age?
20. What was Operation Uranus in the Second World War?
240 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
JONATHAN RYDER
2. OTTAVA RIMA
3. IT’S A STRONG SOUTH WESTERLY WIND BLOWING ON TO THE WEST COAST OF
CORSICA
4. SKETCHES BY BOZ
5.
LENT
6. AUTOMOBILES IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY. IN 1893, THEY ROAD-TESTED THE
FIRST EVER WORKING AMERICAN GASOLINE-POWERED AUTOMOBILE
7.
THE FRESHWATER EEL
8. THE ATLANTIC WHOSE CURRENT EDITOR (AS AT JANUARY 2016) IS THE
JOURNALIST, JAMES BENNET
9. EUGENE O’NEILL. THE OTHER PLAYS WERE "BOUND EAST FOR CARDIFF", "THE
ZONE", AND "MOON OF THE CARIBEES".
10. THE ALCHEMIST
11. THE WHARTON RANGE WHICH IS IN THE CENTRAL PROVINCE
12. A FLINT WEAPON FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN CLOVIS CULTURE AND DATING
FROM THE 10TH MILLENNIUM BC. CLOVIS WAS A SITE IN NEW MEXICO
13. THE VOLGA
14. INNOCENT III
15. RUTLAND WATER
16. ERIK SATIE - OTHER PIECES ARE NO 8 - LE YACHTING AND NO 11 - LE GOLF
17. THE GOLDEN HORDE - AFTER ITS COLOURFUL TENTS
18. CHESTER
19. A WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, USUALLY FOUND IN PAIRS
20. THE SOVIET STRATEGIC OPERATION TO ENCIRCLE THE GERMAN ARMY AT
STALINGRAD
240 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ WITH ANSWERS
1.
What was the pseudonym of Robert Ludlum when he wrote Trevayne and The Cry of the
Halidon? JONATHAN RYDER
2. What is the name given to a stanza of 8 ten syllable lines rhyming abababcc as used by John
Keats in Isabella and Lord Byron in Don Juan? OTTAVA RIMA
3. Where does the wind known as the libeccio blow? IT’S A STRONG SOUTH WESTERLY
WIND BLOWING ON TO THE WEST COAST OF CORSICA
4. Which collections of essays and short tales by Charles Dickens was first published in various
periodicals and subtitled “Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People”?
SKETCHES BY BOZ
5.
Which period of the Christian calendar is derived from the old English for the spring? LENT
6. With which form of transport were the Duryea brothers, pioneers? AUTOMOBILES IN
THE LATE 19TH CENTURY. IN 1893, THEY ROAD-TESTED THE FIRST EVER
WORKING AMERICAN GASOLINE-POWERED AUTOMOBILE
7.
Unagi is the Japanese sushi term for which fish? THE FRESHWATER EEL
8. Which American literary and cultural magazine, founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1857,
but now based in Washington DC, had amongst its founding sponsors, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and James Russell Lowell who served
as its first editor? THE ATLANTIC WHOSE CURRENT EDITOR (AS AT JANUARY
2016) IS THE JOURNALIST, JAMES BENNET
9. Who wrote the cycle of four one act plays grouped together under the title SS Glen Cairn
which John Ford filmed as “The Long Voyage Home”, the title of one of the plays? EUGENE
O’NEILL. THE OTHER PLAYS WERE "BOUND EAST FOR CARDIFF", "THE
ZONE", AND "MOON OF THE CARIBEES".
10. In which Ben Jonson play do the characters of Subtle, Surly and Wholesome all appear? THE
ALCHEMIST
11. Mount Albert Edward is a mountain in which range of mountains in Papua New Guinea?
THE WHARTON RANGE WHICH IS IN THE CENTRAL PROVINCE
12. What is a Clovis point? A FLINT WEAPON FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN CLOVIS
CULTURE AND DATING FROM THE 10TH MILLENNIUM BC. CLOVIS WAS A
SITE IN NEW MEXICO
13. On which river do the cities of Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan stand? THE VOLGA
14. Which mediaeval pope created the doctrine of papal authority? INNOCENT III
15. Which artificial lake is the second largest lake in England by surface area, exceeded in size
only by Windermere? RUTLAND WATER
16. “Water Chute” is the 16th piece in "Sports Et Divertissements", a collection of piano pieces by
which French composer, better known for his “Vexations”? ERIK SATIE - OTHER
PIECES ARE NO 8 - LE YACHTING AND NO 11 - LE GOLF
17. The Kipchak Khanate was established by Batu Khan and was better known by which name?
THE GOLDEN HORDE AFTER ITS COLOURFUL TENTS
18. In which English city will you find the Grosvenor Museum which is named after the family
name of the Dukes of Westminster? CHESTER
19. What is a lur, which was made of bronze and dates back to the Scandinavian bronze age? A
WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, USUALLY FOUND IN PAIRS
20. What was Operation Uranus in the Second World War? THE SOVIET STRATEGIC
OPERATION TO ENCIRCLE THE GERMAN ARMY AT STALINGRAD