186 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
Which DJ, starting in 1990, and on a Saturday morning, has introduced the BBC Radio 2
programme "Sounds of the Sixties", which is still running?
2. Which Dickens novel features a villain called Silas Wegg, a ballad-seller with a wooden leg
who is described as a "social parasite"?
3. Which great violinist published an autobiography called "Unfinished Journey" in 1977, to
which he added another four chapters in "Unfinished Journey - 20 Years Later" in 1997?
4. Which is the smallest country in Northern Africa?
5.
Between which two areas of Africa is the Masai territory divided?
6. Which Soviet physicist was the co-recipient with Pavel Cherenkov and Ilya Frank of the 1958
Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of "Cherenkov radiation"?
7.
Travelling directly due east from Hawaii, on which country of the American mainland would
you make landfall?
8. Which desert of central Australia was named by Cecil Thomas Madigan in 1939, after a
president of the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia?
9. Which 16th century Swiss-German physician was the first scientist to link goitre with
minerals, especially lead, in water?
10. What is the name of the gypsum crystal cave, found underneath the western Ural Mountains
in the Perm region of Russia, which is the largest underwater gypsum cave in the world?
11. Moses is one of the characters in George Orwell's "Animal Farm". He is described as "Mr.
Jones's especial pet, a spy and a tale-bearer, but he was also a clever talker". What sort of bird
was he?
12. Which London street is in Mayfair, central London, and came to prominence in part because
the area around it became noted for the manufacture of tunics for the volunteer forces against
Napoleon in the early 19th century? It was also the headquarters of the Beatles' Apple office
and the band's last live performance took place on the roof of the building.
13. Cock and hen are the male and female and the male is distinguished by its “kype”, a
protuberance from the tip of the lower jaw which it uses to fight rivals. Which fish?
14. Which English city lies at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder, Ebble, Wylye and
Bourne?
15. The concept of electronegativity was introduced by which American chemist in 1932? He was
awarded the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 1954.
16. Which musical instrument is played by Michael Collins, who, in 1978, at the age of 16, won the
woodwind prize in the first BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition?
17. What are the names of the two veins which carry blood from the arm to the heart?
18. Which group of bivalve molluscs, similar to clams, produce a luminous slime and are also
known as angelwings?
19. What is the name of the brother of Squirrel Nutkin in the story by Beatrix Potter?
20. In which traditional field, would you have found characters named Maid Marian, Bavian the
Fool and Malkin the Clown?
186 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
BRIAN MATTHEW
2. OUR MUTUAL FRIEND
3. YEHUDI MENUHIN
4. TUNISIA
5.
KENYA AND TANZANIA
6. IGOR TAMM
7.
MEXICO
8. THE SIMPSON DESERT
9. THE ORDA CAVE
10. PARACELSUS (1493-1541) - BORN PHILIPPUS AUREOLUS THEOPHRASTUS
BOMBASTUS VON HOHENHEIM
11. A RAVEN
12. SAVILE ROW - NOW FAMOUS FOR BESPOKE TAILORING
13. THE SALMON
14. SALISBURY
15. LINUS PAULING (1901-1994)
16. THE CLARINET
17. THE SUBCLAVIAN VEIN AND THE BRACHIAL VEIN
18. PIDDOCKS
19. TWINKLEBERRY
20. MORRIS DANCING