88 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
Which wine is described as sur lie, meaning that the wine ferments over a layer of dead yeast
cells – the lees at the bottom of the vat?
2. In October 2004, to which country did China deploy riot police in its first peace keeping
duties in the Western Hemisphere for the United Nations?
3. In which North American city is the Lions Gate suspension bridge, officially known as the
First Narrows Bridge?
4. Lying on the Humber estuary at Sammy's Point, Hull, what is the name of the aquarium,
designed by Sir Terry Farrell, which is billed as "the world's only submarium" and whose
tanks contain thousands of sea creatures? It was built with the aid of a grant from the
Millennium Commission.
5.
What term is used when a sitting MP is removed as the candidate for a forthcoming election?
6. What is the meaning of the expression the “ghost in the machine”? It was coined by the
philosopher Gilbert Ryle in "The Concept of the Mind" in 1949?
7.
Which Ohio city has been nicknamed "Forest City", "The Metropolis of the Western Reserve"
and "The Rock and Roll Capital of the World"?
8. Which symphonic study by Edward Elgar, commissioned by the Leeds Festival in 1912,
includes sub sections called "The Boars Head - Revelry and Sleep", "The Return Through
Gloucestershire" and "The New King - the Hurried Ride to London"?
9. Which radio system did the American electrical engineer, Edwin Howard Armstrong (18901954), invent in the 1930s to remove static from broadcasting?
10. What is the common name of the marine snail, whose shells are used in the manufacture of
decorative objects, as the thick inner layer is composed of nacre (mother of pearl) and is
highly iridescent?
11. What name is given to one of the earliest photographic processes, in which an image is
produced on iodine-sensitised silver, and developed in mercury vapour?
12. The gulf of San Matias is off the coast of which country?
13. In which country is the Khao Sam Roi Yot (which means the 300 Peaks) marine National Park
situated?
14. Which dish gets its name from the Arabic for soaked bread?
15. Graves’ Disease is caused by a disorder of which gland?
16. Which composer and arranger worked with the Bristol based group Massive Attack on the
string part for their first two albums, as well as composing music for many films including Baz
Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge?
17. Enin to rouf is betting slang for which odds?
18. Which British artist’s works include the 1954 print "Skull and Pomegranate" which is in Tate
Britain?
19. A Moro is a Muslim inhabitant of which Asian country?
20. Which mite causes scabies in man and mange in animals?
88 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
MUSCADET
2. HAITI - FOLLOWING THE COUP D'ETAT THAT OUSTED JEAN-BERTRANDE ARISTIDE
3. VANCOUVER - IT CROSSES THE FIRST NARROWS OF THE BURRARD INLET AND
CONNECTS THE CITY OF VANCOUVER WITH VANCOUVER'S NORTH SHORE
MUNICIPALITIES. IT IS NAMED AFTER A PAIR OF MOUNTAIN PEAKS, "THE LIONS",
TO THE NORTH OF VANCOUVER
4. THE DEEP
5.
DESELECTION
6. THE MIND IS "THE GHOST" AND THE BODY IS "THE MACHINE"
7.
CLEVELAND
8. FALSTAFF
9. FM (FREQUENCY MODULATION)
10. ABALONE - THEY ARE ALSO KNOWN AS EAR SHELLS, SEA EARS, ORMER (IN GREAT
BRITAIN), PAUA IN NEW ZEALAND AND MUTTON FISH OR MUTTONSHELLS IN
AUSTRALIA
11. A DAGUERREOTYPE
12. ARGENTINA. IT'S OFF THE COAST OF PATAGONIA AND IS A DEEP INDENTATION IN
THE ATLANTIC COASTLINE, IN THE NORTHERN BEND OF WHICH, IS THE SMALL
PORT OF SAN ANTONIO OESTE.
13. THAILAND
14. GAZPACHO
15. THE THYROID
16. CRAIG ARMSTRONG, WHO WON A GRAMMY FOR BEST ORIGINAL SCORE IN 2004 FOR
THE BIOPIC "RAY"
17. 9-4
18. PRUNELLA CLOUGH (1919-1999), WHO WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE POET ERIC
TAYLOR
19. THE PHILIPPINES
20. THE ITCH MITE