121 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
In ecology, what is a quadrat?
2. Of which Tuscan city, is the rich fruit and nut filled bread called Panforte, a specialty?
3. What kind of creature is a clapmatch?
4. What Latin legal plea means “I do not wish to argue” accepting conviction, but not admitting
guilt?
5.
At which 1945 conference, did the Allies formally agree to the Soviet annexation of
Kaliningrad, known as Koningsberg until 1946, which became a Russian enclave between
Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea?
6. Which French painter, (1703-1770), whose patroness was Madame de Pompadour, is regarded
as typifying the rococo period?
7.
Harold Pinter’s play “A Kind Of Alaska” was based on a book by whom?
8. In the fairy story of Hop O' My Thumb, magic boots enable the wearer to cover what distance
with a single step?
9. One of the Moulin Rouge stars depicted by the artist, Henri Toulouse L’Autrec, was Louise
Weber, best known by her nickname meaning the Greedy One. What was it?
10. Which American general, later a president, won Florida from the Spanish?
11. Which meat is used to make Oxford John?
12. In Babylonian mythology, what was the name of the vegetation god who is beloved by Ishtar,
who brought him back from the underworld each spring?
13. Published in 1902, which was the only book for which Rudyard Kipling provided his own
illustrations?
14. When the Kruger National Park was founded in 1898, what was it originally called?
15. In 1503 Amerigo Vespucci wrote of “three Canopes, two bright and one obscure”. The obscure
one was probably the Coalsack nebula, but what the two bright ones?
16. In which river estuary, which has an international boundary running through it, is the shallow
bay known as the Dollart?
17. What is the ancient name for a region north of the Black Sea, inhabited by ancestors of the
Slavs, which was used occasionally by English poets to signify Poland?
18. William S Hart was a cowboy star of the silent films. What did the S stand for?
19. On which subject did Dame Irish Murdoch lecture at Oxford University?
20. Prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase are the five stages of which
biological process?
121 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1. A SQUARE OR RECTANGULAR PLOT OF LAND MARKED OFF FOR THE STUDY OF
PLANTS AND ANIMALS
2. SIENA
3. A FEMALE SEAL
4. NOLE CONTENDERE.
5.
POTSDAM
6. FRANCOIS BOUCHER
7.
OLIVER SACHS. IT TELLS OF THE EXPERIENCE OF A WOMAN WHO WAS AWAKENED
FROM A NARCOLEPTIC TRANCE, AFTER 29 YEARS OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS.
8. SEVEN LEAGUES
9. LA GOULUE.
10. ANDREW JACKSON
11. LAMB
12. TAMMUZ
13. THE JUST SO STORIES
14. THE SABI GAME RESERVE.
15. THE LARGE AND SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUDS
16. THE EMS RIVER WHICH SEPARATES THE NETHERLANDS FROM GERMANY
17. SARMATIA
18. SURREY
19. PHILOSOPHY
20. MITOSIS WHICH IS HOW CELLS REPRODUCE; A DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC OF
“LIFE” IS THE ABILITY TO REPRODUCE.