187 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
Which animal did Ted Hughes describe as “four legged, yet water gifted, to outfish fish”?
2. Of which mollusc are the acorn and goose, the two varieties found on British shorelines?
3. What is the name of the RAF’s famous free fall parachute display team, who are based at Brize
Norton?
4. Into which body of water, does the third longest river in the world, the Yangtze River, flow?
5.
What kind of knot is the becket bend? It is also known as the sheet bend, the weaver's hitch
and the weaver's knot.
6. Which actor, who died in November 2006, was first nominated for an Oscar in 1953 for
"Sudden Fear"?
7.
On which continent are the McMurdo Dry Valleys?
8. Which port in the Persian Gulf, was seized by British forces in 1914, to protect the supply of
Persian oil?
9. In the liturgical calendar of Western Christian churches, Ember days were traditionally days
of fasting, but have more recently become associated with ceremonies of ordination. How
many weeks of the year contain Ember days?
10. Situated just 2 miles west of Chichester in West Sussex, which village is the location of a wellpreserved Roman palace, first excavated in 1960?
11. Who was the most recent Prime Minister to be buried in Westminster Abbey?
12. With which author, whom he first met in Boston 1953, did the Russian composer, Igor
Stravinsky, hope to collaborate on a new opera, but the author died later that year so the
project never happened?
13. Whereabouts in the British Isles, is the Garlic Festival held in August each year?
14. What name is given to the common method of printing, involving the use of a plate etched
with a pattern of recessed ink cells, the depth varying in accordance with the required
strength of the ink?
15. Which of the Baltic states was the centre of a Grand Duchy, and was one of the most
important powers in Eastern Europe, from the 14th to the 16th centuries?
16. Who served as Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury, for most of Henry VII’s reign?
17. Which word can mean a type of Provencal bread, and also an improvised mine, constructed by
filling a hollow in the ground with explosives?
18. For what sort of paintings is the 18th century French artist Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin,
(1699-1779), best known?
19. The name for which area of Hong Kong comes from nine dragons, which are represented by
eight peaks and a Chinese emperor?
20. The central tower of which eastern English cathedral contains a bell known as the Great Tom,
which weighs more than 5 tons?
187 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
THE OTTER
2. THE BARNACLE
3. THE FALCONS
4. THE EAST CHINA SEA AT SHANGHAI
5.
IT’S USED FOR TYING TWO ROPES TOGETHER WITH DIFFERENT DIAMETERS.
6. JACK PALANCE. HE FINALLY WON THE BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR OSCAR IN 1991
FOR “CITY SLICKERS"
7.
THEY ARE A ROW OF SNOW-FREE VALLEYS IN ANTARCTICA, LOCATED WITHIN
VICTORIA LAND, WEST OF THE MCMURDO SOUND.
8. BASRA (NOW IN IRAQ, BUT AT THE TIME, PART OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE).
9. FOUR – THE FIRST IS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT,
PENTECOST IN THE SPRING, HOLY CROSS DAY IN SEPTEMBER AND ST LUCY’S DAY IN
DECEMBER
10. FISHBOURNE
11. CLEMENT ATTLEE (1967)
12. DYLAN THOMAS
13. ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT
14. GRAVURE
15. LITHUANIA
16. CARDINAL JOHN MORTON (1420-1500)
17. FOUGASSE
18. STILL LIFE
19. KOWLOON
20. LINCOLN