208 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
Which poet, nicknamed the Bard of Twickenham, left a blank verse epic called Brutus
uncompleted when he died in 1744?
2. Which eponymous hero in a Verdi opera declares himself god, becomes demented, repents,
recovers his sanity and is crowned king of Assyria?
3. In which English county will you find the Crumbles, where two notorious murders took place
in the 1920's?
4. Which American playwright (1906-1963) wrote four plays in 1935 - "Waiting For Lefty",
"Awake and Sing!", "Till The Day I Die" and "Paradise Lost"?
5.
In the USA, what is the emergency response system requesting vital information needed for
the rapid rescue of a kidnapped child?
6. Bitterne Manor, Holyrood Estate and Lordshill are areas in which city in the south of
England?
7.
Which city of the former Yugoslavia, was once in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and called
Laibach, and is now the capital of Slovenia?
8. Navigators from which European country seized the island of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf in
the early 16th century to establish a garrison in the Gulf of Oman?
9. Which market town, once a member of the original Hanseatic League, became in 2006, the
first British town to join Die Hanse, the modern equivalent of that ancient league?
10. Which people would be described as cajuns?
11. What does the French word fredaine describe?
12. What two word phrase, coined in 1970 by fashion writer Peter York and the subject of a book
by him and Ann Barr, means a Yuppie type of character with conservative tastes?
13. In which Isle of Wight town would you find the History of Smuggling Museum?
14. Who, or what, was code-named "Blackbird" in 2007?
15. In which sector does a charity called the Sutton Trust, set up in 1997 by Sir Peter Lampl,
operate?
16. Active in the so called Croatian Spring movement in the 1970s, which nationalist politician
was, in 1992, the first president elected in the independent republic of Croatia?
17. Who was the UN Secretary general during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
18. Which martial art, whose name means pine waves, is a school of karate?
19. How did Orpheus meet his death, after his failure to bring his wife Eurydice from the
underworld?
20. In geological terms, what is travertine?
ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
ALEXANDER POPE
2. NABUCCO
3. IN EAST SUSSEX - IT IS A STRETCH OF SHINGLE BETWEEN EASTBOURNE AND
WALLSEND ON PEVENSEY BAY
4. CLIFFORD ODETS
5.
AMBER ALERT
6. SOUTHAMPTON
7.
LJUBLJANA.
8. PORTUGAL
9. KINGS LYNN
10. DESCENDANTS OF THE FRENCH SPEAKING ACADIANS DEPORTED TO LOUISIANA IN
1755.
11. A PRANK OR AN ESCAPADE
12. A SLOANE RANGER
13. VENTNOR
14. THE TROUBLED NORTHERN ROCK BANK, SO CALLED IN A SALES MEMORANDUM
PUT TOGETHER BY THREE INVESTMENT BANKS.
15. EDUCATION - IT AIMS TO IMPROVE SOCIAL MOBILITY AND ADDRESS EDUCATIONAL
DISADVANTAGES
16. FRANJO TUDMAN
17. U THANT
18. SHOTOKAN
19. HE WAS TORN TO PIECES BY THE MAENADS
20. IT’S A PALE LIMESTONE, A NATURAL CHEMICAL PRECIPTATE OF CARBONATE
MINERALS, WHICH IS DEPOSITED FROM THE WATER OF MINERAL SPRINGS
(ESPECIALLY HOT SPRINGS) OR STREAMS SATURATED WITH CALCIUM CARBONATE.
THE LARGEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD CONSTRUCTED LARGELY OF TRAVERTINE
IS THE COLOSSEUM IN ROME. ANOTHER NOTABLE BUILDING USING TRAVERTINE
EXTENSIVELY IS THE GETTY CENTRE IN LOS ANGELES AND THE ROCK USED IN THE
CONSTRUCTION WAS IMPORTED FROM TIVOLI WHERE EXTENSIVE DEPOSITS EXIST.
TRAVERTINE GETS ITS NAME FROM TIVOLI, AS IT WAS KNOWN AS TIBUR IN
ANCIENT ROMAN TIMES. THE ANCIENT NAME FOR THE ROCK WAS LAPIS
TIBURTINUS WHICH HAS BEEN CORRUPTED TO TRAVERTINE .
DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ WITH ANSWERS
1.
Which poet, nicknamed the Bard of Twickenham, left a blank verse epic called Brutus
uncompleted when he died in 1744? ALEXANDER POPE
2. Which eponymous hero in a Verdi opera declares himself god, becomes demented, repents,
recovers his sanity and is crowned king of Assyria? NABUCCO
3. In which English county will you find the Crumbles, where two notorious murders took place
in the 1920's? IN EAST SUSSEX - IT IS A STRETCH OF SHINGLE BETWEEN
EASTBOURNE AND WALLSEND ON PEVENSEY BAY
4. Which American playwright (1906-1963) wrote four plays in 1935 - "Waiting For Lefty",
"Awake and Sing!", "Till The Day I Die" and "Paradise Lost"? CLIFFORD ODETS
5.
In the USA, what is the emergency response system requesting vital information needed for
the rapid rescue of a kidnapped child? AMBER ALERT
6. Bitterne Manor, Holyrood Estate and Lordshill are areas in which city in the south of
England? SOUTHAMPTON
7.
Which city of the former Yugoslavia, was once in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and called
Laibach, and is now the capital of Slovenia? LJUBLJANA.
8. Navigators from which European country seized the island of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf in
the early 16th century, to establish a garrison in the Gulf of Oman? PORTUGAL
9. Which market town, once a member of the original Hanseatic League, became in 2006, the
first British town to join Die Hanse, the modern equivalent of that ancient league? KINGS
LYNN
10. Which people would be described as cajuns? DESCENDANTS OF THE FRENCH
SPEAKING ACADIANS DEPORTED TO LOUISIANA IN 1755.
11. What does the French word fredaine describe? A PRANK OR AN ESCAPADE
12. What two word phrase, coined in 1970 by fashion writer Peter York and the subject of a book
by him and Ann Barr, means a Yuppie type of character with conservative tastes? A SLOANE
RANGER
13. In which Isle of Wight town would you find the History of Smuggling Museum? VENTNOR
14. Who, or what, was code-named "Blackbird" in 2007? THE TROUBLED NORTHERN
ROCK BANK, SO CALLED IN A SALES MEMORANDUM PUT TOGETHER BY
THREE INVESTMENT BANKS.
15. In which sector does a charity called the Sutton Trust, set up in 1997 by Sir Peter Lampl,
operate? EDUCATION - IT AIMS TO IMPROVE SOCIAL MOBILITY AND
ADDRESS EDUCATIONAL DISADVANTAGES
16. Active in the so called Croatian Spring movement in the 1970s, which nationalist politician
was, in 1992, the first president elected in the independent republic of Croatia? FRANJO
TUDMAN
17. Who was the UN Secretary general during the Cuban Missile Crisis? U THANT
18. Which martial art, whose name means pine waves, is a school of karate? SHOTOKAN
19. How did Orpheus meet his death, after his failure to bring his wife Eurydice from the
underworld? HE WAS TORN TO PIECES BY MAENADS
20. In geological terms, what is travertine? IT’S A PALE LIMESTONE, A NATURAL
CHEMICAL PRECIPTATE OF CARBONATE MINERALS, WHICH IS DEPOSITED
FROM THE WATER OF MINERAL SPRINGS (ESPECIALLY HOT SPRINGS) OR
STREAMS SATURATED WITH CALCIUM CARBONATE. THE LARGEST
BUILDING IN THE WORLD CONSTRUCTED LARGELY OF TRAVERTINE IS THE
COLOSSEUM IN ROME. ANOTHER NOTABLE BUILDING USING TRAVERTINE
EXTENSIVELY IS THE GETTY CENTRE IN LOS ANGELES AND THE ROCK
USED IN THE CONSTRUCTION WAS IMPORTED FROM TIVOLI WHERE
EXTENSIVE DEPOSITS EXIST. TRAVERTINE GETS ITS NAME FROM TIVOLI
AS IT WAS KNOWN AS TIBUR IN ANCIENT ROMAN TIMES. THE ANCIENT
NAME FOR THE ROCK WAS LAPIS TIBURTINUS WHICH HAS BEEN
CORRUPTED TO TRAVERTINE .