114 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
Playing a role in both Noh and Kabuki theatre music and the native folk music min’yo, what
type of Japanese musical instrument is the tsuzumi?
2. Which river, the longest in Schleswig Holstein, was once regarded as Romani Terminus
Imperii, ("the [northern] limit of the Roman Empire")? In 1027, it was recognised as the
boundary of the Holy Roman Empire and it formed the traditional frontier between Schleswig
and Holstein.
3. What name was given to the edict issued by the Emperor Charles IV at the Diet of Nuremburg
in 1356, which regulated the system of electing the Holy Roman Emperor?
4. What is the alternative name for the aromatic plant myrrh?
5.
Which protein is active in muscular contraction?
6. Who took over as the head of the British Army from General Sir Peter Wall, in 2014?
7.
Which Canadian prime minister proposed the 1982 Constitution Act, which gave Canada
complete independence?
8. In which year is Middle English said to have ended?
9. With which activity would you associate the name of the American writer, Mary Frances
Kennedy Fisher (1908-1922)?
10. What kind of food is the Greek loukaniko?
11. The longest known cave system in the world is Mammoth Cave. In which American state is it
to be found?
12. Who was the Bavarian physicist and optician, born in 1787, who developed the spectroscope
and after whom, the dark lines in the solar spectrum are named?
13. In architecture, what is a “piano nobile”?
14. Which London cathedral is dedicated to St Saviour and St Mary Overie?
15. Which animal’s head does the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet have?
16. Which butterfly has red wings with black markings, and distinctive eyespots on the tips of its
fore and hind wings?
17. What kind of creatures are the cartoon characters, Ren and Stimpy, who were created by John
Kricfalusi?
18. Where would you hear the voice of Sara Mendes da Costa?
19. Who wrote the plays "Howard Katz", "Don Juan In Soho", and "Dealer’s Choice"?
20. What was the name of Robert Peel’s private secretary, whose shooting by Daniel M’Naughton
whom he mistook for Peel, led to the so called M’Naughton rules on the criminally insane?
114 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
IT’S A DRUM WHICH CONSISTS OF AN HOURGLASS SHAPED BODY AND IS THE ONLY
JAPANESE DRUM THAT IS STRUCK WITH THE HANDS – ALL OTHERS ARE PLAYED
WITH STICKS CALLED BACHI
2. THE EIDER.
3. THE GOLDEN BULL
4. SWEET CICELY
5.
ACTIN
6. GENERAL SIR NICK CARTER
7.
PIERRE TRUDEAU
8. THE YEAR IN WHICH PRINTING WAS INTRODUCED IN ENGLAND BY WILLIAM
CAXTON – 1476.
9. SHE WAS A FAMOUS AMERICAN WRITER WHO WROTE ABOUT FOOD INCLUDING
"THE GASTRONOMICAL ME" AND "WITH A BOLD KNIFE AND FORK".
10. IT'S THE COMMON GREEK WORD FOR PORK SAUSAGE, BUT IN ENGLISH IT
SPECIFICALLY REFERS TO GREEK SAUSAGES FLAVOURED WITH ORANGE PEEL,
FENNEL SEED AND VARIOUS OTHER DRIED HERBS AND SEEDS, AND SOMETIMES
SMOKED OVER AROMATIC WOODS
11. KENTUCKY
12. JOSEPH VON FRAUNHOFER
13. THE MAIN FLOOR OF A LARGE BUILDING.
14. SOUTHWARK
15. LIONESS
16. THE PEACOCK BUTTERFLY
17. REN IS AN EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE CHIHUAHUA DOG, AND STIMPY IS A GOODNATURED, DIMWITTED MANX CAT
18. SHE HAS BEEN THE VOICE OF THE SPEAKING CLOCK SINCE 2007
19. PATRICK MARBER
20. EDWARD DRUMMOND