157 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
Irvine Welsh’s play "Babylon Heights" which he co-authored with Dean Cavanagh, portrays
the backstage lives of a particular group of cast members in which classic Hollywood film?
2. What was patented by Jesse W Reno in 1892?
3. Which British monarch was nicknamed the English Solomon?
4. What is the specific term used for a plant, especially a lettuce, that suddenly and prematurely
goes to seed?
5.
In which city is the Charlottenburg Palace built by the Elector Frederick I as a summer
residence for his wife, Sophie Charlotte?
6. What, in chemistry, is a diene?
7.
What are beef olives?
8. Because of his association with a particular piece of music, the main character Pip, in "Great
Expectations" is given the nickname Handel by his manservant Pocket. Which piece of music
is this?
9. The citizens of which country who emigrate, are called Yordims?
10. The secret society of the Yellow Turbans helped overthrow which Chinese dynasty?
11. What type of creature is a dugite?
12. Which card game in which players try to form sequences, is an ancestor to all modern rummy
games and has a name thought either to derive from a Mexican Spanish word meaning “with
whom”, or from the Chinese game Kon Khin?
13. What name is given to one of the simplest pasta sauces which consists mainly of heated olive
oil and garlic?
14. Which playwright was one of the founders of the Russian Gymnastics Federation?
15. Which king of Mercia killed King Oswald of Northumbria in 642?
16. On a tool or implement, what is a knurl?
17. What name is given to a map line, connecting places with the same travel time, from a certain
point?
18. What does an acarologist study?
19. In which English port is the Special Boat Service (SBS) based?
20. Which market town in South Wales was known to the Romans as Moridunum?
157 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
THE WIZARD OF OZ
2. THE ESCALATOR
3. JAMES I
4. BOLTING
5.
BERLIN
6. IT'S AN UNSATURATED HYDROCARBON WHICH CONTAINS TWO DOUBLE BONDS
BETWEEN CARBON ATOMS
7.
THIN SLICES OF BEEF, SPREAD WITH A STUFFING BEFORE BEING BRAISED IN A
SAUCE. WHEN MADE WITH VEAL, THEY ARE KNOWN AS VEAL BIRDS
8. THE HARMONIOUS BLACKSMITH
9. ISRAEL
10. THE HAN
11. A WESTERN AUSTRALIAN SNAKE WHICH BELONGS TO THE ELAPIDAE FAMILY AND
SO, IS VENOMOUS
12. CONQUIAN WHICH IS SOMETIMES CORRUPTED TO COONCAN
13. AGLIO E OLIO
14. ANTON CHEKHOV
15. PENDA
16. A RIDGE THAT PROVIDES A GRIP
17. AN ISOCHRONE
18. MITES AND TICKS
19. POOLE
20. CARMARTHEN