225 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
In 1978, whose album "Variations" provided the theme tune for ITV's South Bank Show which
was used throughout the programme's 32 year run?
2. What is the collective noun for percussion instruments?
3. The Bayer letters are often used for the better known stars. What are they?
4. What is zaffer?
5.
Which lake on the north side of the Swiss Alps was known in Roman times as Lacus
Brigantinus?
6. To which family of trees does the alder belong?
7.
The fairing cake, which is a type of traditional ginger biscuit, originated in which English
county?
8. Who, in Charles Dickens’ "Bleak House", is the drunken dealer in rags and bones who dies
from spontaneous combustion?
9. What in New Zealand, was a shagroon?
10. Which Irish Nationalist and Republican, led the abortive rebellion in Dublin against British
rule in 1803, but was captured and executed that year on the charge of high treason against
George III?
11. What was The Original, the first purpose built floating example of?
12. Martha Quest is the first in which series of books by Doris Lessing?
13. Which small pipe, usually having a reed, sounds a note of fixed frequency and is used to give a
note for starting unaccompanied singing?
14. Which band leader is considered to have been the first to have presented a racially mixed
popular jazz group when he worked with Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton and Charlie
Christian for his small group sessions?
15. Name the popular American astrologer and psychic who strongly influenced both Presidents
Nixon and Reagan and who was chiefly famous for having predicted in 1956 that the winner of
the 1960 presidential election would be assassinated (as indeed happened to John F
Kennedy).
16. What name was given in Norse mythology to the maiden who drove the chariot of the sun?
17. What did the ancients call Lydian stone?
18. What name means wonderful and is given to a sweet yellow, black or red plum like fruit and
also to a liqueur distilled from it?
19. Which American artist married fellow artist Jo Niveson when both were in their 40’s, their
early years together, being marked by his jealousy of her cat, Arthur?
20. What name is given to the pigment, which is to be found in egg yolk?
225 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER (VARIATIONS ON PAGANINI'S 24TH CAPRICE)
2. A BATTERY
3. LETTERS OF THE GREEK ALPHABET USED TO IDENTIFY THE CHIEF STARS OF A
CONSTELLATION IN APPROXIMATE ORDER OF BRIGHTNESS, BUT SOMETIMES IN
SEQUENCE OF POSITION.
4. AN BLUE PIGMENT FROM AN IMPURE COBALT OXIDE WHICH IS USED IN
ENAMELLING.
5.
LAKE CONSTANCE ,WHICH IS THE ONLY AREA IN EUROPE WHERE NO BORDERS
EXIST, AS THERE IS NO LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT AS TO WHERE THE
BORDERS LIE BETWEEN SWITZERLAND, GERMANY AND AUSTRIA
6. THE BIRCH FAMILY – ITS BARK IS STILL USED FOR DYES AND TANNING.
7.
CORNWALL
8. MR KROOK
9. A 19TH CENTURY AUSTRALIAN SETTLER IN CANTERBURY
10. ROBERT EMMETT
11. A LIFEBOAT
12. THE CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE. THE OTHERS ARE A PROPER MARRIAGE, A RIPPLE
FROM THE STORM, LANDLOCKED, AND THE FOUR GATED CITY
13. A PITCH PIPE
14. BENNY GOODMAN
15. JEANE DIXON
16. SOL
17. TOUCHSTONE WHICH CAN BE A VARIETY OF JASPER OR TRUE BLACK CHALCEDONY
AND WAS USED TO TEST GOLD AND SILVER
18. MIRABELLE
19. EDWARD HOPPER
20. LUTEIN
225 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ WITH ANSWERS
1.
In 1978, whose album "Variations" provided the theme tune for ITV's South Bank Show which
was used throughout the programme's 32 year run? ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
(VARIATIONS ON PAGANINI'S 24TH CAPRICE)
2. What is the collective noun for percussion instruments? A BATTERY
3. The Bayer letters are often used for the better known stars. What are they? LETTERS OF
THE GREEK ALPHABET USED TO IDENTIFY THE CHIEF STARS OF A
CONSTELLATION IN APPROXIMATE ORDER OF BRIGHTNESS, BUT
SOMETIMES IN SEQUENCE OF POSITION.
4. What is zaffer? AN BLUE PIGMENT FROM AN IMPURE COBALT OXIDE WHICH
IS USED IN ENAMELLING.
5.
Which lake on the north side of the Swiss Alps was known in Roman times as Lacus
Brigantinus? LAKE CONSTANCE ,WHICH IS THE ONLY AREA IN EUROPE
WHERE NO BORDERS EXIST, AS THERE IS NO LEGALLY BINDING
AGREEMENT AS TO WHERE THE BORDERS LIE BETWEEN SWITZERLAND,
GERMANY AND AUSTRIA
6. To which family of trees does the alder belong? THE BIRCH FAMILY – ITS BARK IS
STILL USED FOR DYES AND TANNING.
7.
The fairing cake, which is a type of traditional ginger biscuit, originated in which English
county? CORNWALL
8. Who, in Charles Dickens’ "Bleak House", is the drunken dealer in rags and bones who dies
from spontaneous combustion? MR KROOK
9. What in New Zealand, was a shagroon? A 19TH CENTURY AUSTRALIAN SETTLER IN
CANTERBURY
10. Which Irish Nationalist and Republican, led the abortive rebellion in Dublin against British
rule in 1803, but was captured and executed that year on the charge of high treason against
George III? ROBERT EMMETT
11. What was The Original, the first purpose built floating example of? A LIFEBOAT
12. Martha Quest is the first in which series of books by Doris Lessing? THE CHILDREN OF
VIOLENCE. THE OTHERS ARE "A PROPER MARRIAGE", "A RIPPLE FROM
THE STORM", "LANDLOCKED", AND "THE FOUR GATED CITY".
13. Which small pipe, usually having a reed, sounds a note of fixed frequency and is used to give a
note for starting unaccompanied singing? A PITCH PIPE
14. Which band leader is considered to have been the first to have presented a racially mixed
popular jazz group when he worked with Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton and Charlie
Christian for his small group sessions? BENNY GOODMAN
15. Name the popular American astrologer and psychic who strongly influenced both Presidents
Nixon and Reagan and who was chiefly famous for having predicted in 1956 that the winner of
the 1960 presidential election would be assassinated (as indeed happened to John F
Kennedy). JEANE DIXON
16. What name was given in Norse mythology to the maiden who drove the chariot of the sun?
SOL
17. What did the ancients call Lydian stone? TOUCHSTONE WHICH CAN BE A VARIETY
OF JASPER OR TRUE BLACK CHALCEDONY, AND WAS USED TO TEST GOLD
AND SILVER
18. What name means wonderful and is given to a sweet yellow, black or red plum like fruit and
also to a liqueur distilled from it? MIRABELLE
19. Which American artist married fellow artist Jo Niveson when both were in their 40’s, their
early years together, being marked by his jealousy of her cat, Arthur? EDWARD HOPPER
20. What name is given to the pigment, which is to be found in egg yolk? LUTEIN