131 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
What is the name of the country music instrument which looks like a guitar, has a resonator,
and was invented by the Dopyera brothers of California?
2. What nationality is the architect, Glenn Murcutt, who won the 2002 Pritzker Prize and the
2009 AIA Gold medal?
3. What does a vecturist collect?
4. What, on a ship, is the name of the lifebuoy suspended from a rope, which is used for rescues
and ship-to-ship transfers?
5.
Which monetary unit of Azerbaijan is equal to one hundredth of a manat?
6. Which poet was sentenced to death by the Blacks in the early 14th century and never returned
to his native Florence?
7.
How many Concordes were built altogether?
8. "In varietate concordia" is the motto of which organisation?
9. The state flower of which American state is the peach blossom?
10. What was Stephen King’s second published novel, featuring Ben Mears, a writer, who, with
the assistance of Mark Petrie, kills a master vampire?
11. Which Italian Renaissance artist (1406-1469) painted "Apparition of the Virgin To St
Bernard" which is housed in the Badia Fiorentina, a church in Florence
12. The RSPB reserve of Aylesbeare Common is in which English county?
13. In which country is the cheese, Samsø, produced ?
14. Which German geographer wrote "Geographia Generalis", a 17th century work that sought
scientifically to lay down the general principles of geography?
15. What form of detention did the Children’s Charter of 1908 introduce?
16. Which river of Western Germany flows through the industrial cities of Essen and Mulheim,
before joining the Rhine at Duisberg?
17. Otherwise known as a horned melon, which fruit has the flavours of banana, lime and passion
fruit?
18. What shape are the pasta called gigli, mafaldine and orzo?
19. Which experimental writer’s Cut-Up trilogy ended with 1964’s "Nova Express"?
20. Which mainly North American animal, Latin name felis rufus, has spotted or lined markings
in brown or black; the males weigh 16 to 28 pounds, live an average of 12 years and stand
about 2 feet tall?
131 -ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
THE DOBRO. IT WAS NAMED AS A CONTRACTION OF DOPYERA BROTHERS AND
BECAUSE IT MEANT GOOD IN THEIR NATIVE SLOVAK LANGUAGE. AN EARLY
COMPANY MOTTO WAS “DOBRO MEANS GOOD IN ANY LANGUAGE".
2. AUSTRALIAN
3. TRANSPORT TOKENS
4. BREECHES BUOY
5.
A GOPIK
6. DANTE – (AS A MEMBER OF THE WHITE FACTION – 1402)
7.
JUST 20
8. THE EUROPEAN UNION (UNITED IN DIVERSITY) HA!!
9. DELAWARE
10. SALEM'S LOT
11. FRA FILIPPO LIPPI
12. DEVON
13. DENMARK - THIS IS THE NATIONAL CHEESE OF DENMARK AND IS MADE WITH
COW'S MILK
14. BERNHARDUS VARENIUS (1622-1650)
15. BORSTALS. SOCIAL REFORMERS BLAMED POVERTY FOR CAUSING CRIME AMONG
YOUNG PEOPLE AND SENDING YOUNG CRIMINALS TO ADULT PRISONS WAS
CONSIDERED COUNTER PRODUCTIVE, SO JUVENILE COURTS AND BORSTALS WERE
ESTABLISHED
16. THE RUHR
17. THE KIWANO FRUIT
18. GIGLI LOOKS LIKE ICE CREAM CORNETS, MAFALDINE IS RIBBON SHAPED AND ORZO
LOOKS LIKE EARS.
19. WILLIAM BURROUGHS
20. THE BOBCAT