203 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
What is a proa?
2. In orchestral music, what is a desk?
3. What is the name of the strait, which separates Newfoundland from Nova Scotia?
4. What is the name of the northernmost point of the Australian mainland in Northern
Queensland, on the Torres Strait?
5.
"Fortune's Fool" and "A Provincial Lady" are lesser known plays by which Russian
playwright?
6. Which 19th century French writer created the character of Marguerite Gautier in "La Dame
Aux Camellias"? She is based on Marie Duplessis, the real-life lover of the author.
7.
Who wrote the first extant treatise, describing the properties of magnets?
8. Who was the British social reformer, whose famous report on the sanitary conditions of the
Labouring Population of Great Britain, prompted such reforming legislation as the Public
Health Act of 1848?
9. What is the name of the former royal capital of the Sinhalese kings who held off invasion from
the Portuguese, Dutch and British until 1815, when the last king ceded the city to the British?
10. What, in film credits, is a Foley editor?
11. What was introduced to the USA in 1913, by the 16th Amendment?
12. Which British philosopher, best known for his theories in the philosophy of science, published
"Scientific Explanations" in 1953, and "Theory of Games As A Tool For the Moral
Philosopher" and "An Empiricist's View of the Nature of Religious Belief", both in 1955?
13. What word is used for rock formed from volcanic dust or ash, various types being defined as
vitric, crystal or lithic according to their constitution?
14. In chemistry, which general term is used for a crystalline hydrate containing one molecule of
water for every two molecules of the compound in question?
15. John Willoughby is the handsome heartbreaker from which Jane Austen novel?
16. A version of the text should be familiar as it is an inscription on the tomb of the Unknown
Warrior, so to whom was the verse in 2 Chronicles 24 – 16 originally addressed “And they
buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel and
toward God and his house”?
17. What is the meaning of Yangon (formerly Rangoon) the capital city of Myanmar (Burma)?
18. Which bird, native to Australia, is sometimes called the Bushman’s Clock because it is heard
very early in the morning, and just after dark?
19. In Freudian psychoanalysis, which part of a person’s mind acts as a self critical conscience,
reflecting standards learned from parents and society?
20. What would a theriac be used for?
203 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
IT’S A MALAYAN BOAT WITH A TRIANGULAR SAIL AND ONE OUTRIGGER
2. A MUSIC STAND – EACH DESK IS SHARED BY TWO STRING PLAYERS, SO A DESK ALSO
MEANS THESE TWO PLAYERS
3. THE CABOT STRAIT
4. CAPE YORK (PENINSULA)
5.
IVAN TURGENEV
6. ALEXANDER DUMAS (FILS)
7.
PETER PEREGRINUS, A 13TH CENTURY FRENCH SCHOLAR
8. EDWIN CHADWICK (1800-1890)
9. KANDY – ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST SACRED BUDDHIST SITES. A TOOTH
BELIEVED TO BELONG TO THE BUDDHA IS KEPT IN THE SALADA MALIGAWA – THE
TEMPLE OF THE TOOTH.
10. ONE WHO DUBS THE SOUND RATHER THAN THE SPEECH ON TO A FILM (OFTEN
CALLED A FOOTSTEP EDITOR).
11. INCOME TAX
12. RICHARD BRAITHWAITE
13. TUFF
14. A HEMIHYDRATE
15. SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
16. JEHOIADA WHO WAS THE HIGH PRIEST
17. THE END OF STRIFE
18. THE KOOKABURRA
19. THE SUPEREGO
20. AS AN ANTIDOTE TO ANY POISON INCLUDING SNAKE BITE. ORIGINALLY IT WAS A
COMPOUND OF 64 DRUGS AND WAS ALSO KNOWN AS VENICE TREACLE