12 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
What is the traditional date of Christmas Day, in the Russian Orthodox church?
2. What name is given to the joint programme of the Worldwide Fund for Nature and the World
Conservation Union, that monitors trade in endangered species?
3. Which instrument was played by the jazz musician Warren “Baby” Dodds?
4. What is the name of the king of Tonga, who succeeded to the title in 2012 on the death of his
father, who was nicknamed "Tippy Toes"?
5.
The 2003 Truman Capote award for literary criticism went to which poet, for his collection of
prose written between 1971 and 2001 and entitled "Finders, Keepers"?
6. Which New Zealand poet called her first collection "The Eye Of The Hurricane"?
7.
What nickname was given to the A10 Thunderbolt tankbuster aircraft, which is the only USAF
production aircraft designed solely for close air support, including attacking tanks, armoured
vehicles and other ground targets with limited air defences?
8. What name did Richard Wright give to his account of his early life in Mississippi and then
Chicago?
9. When the Dutch chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont suggested there might be insubstantial
substances other than air, what word did he invent for such a substance?
10. Which composer lived between 1810 and 1856, and composed four symphonies, the first of
which was named the "Spring Symphony"?
11. Which sculptor’s works include "The Fallen Caryatid Carrying Her Stone"?
12. Which jazz musician has a church named after him in San Francisco ?
13. The prefix ‘thio’ in chemical compounds indicates the presence of which element?
14. What is added to glass to make it heat resistant?
15. Which Kent seaside resort was the first to introduce deck chairs in 1898, and had its Victorian
pier destroyed by a storm in 1978?
16. What was the stage name of the music hall star George Galvin?
17. Which brothers exhibited their work "Great Deeds Against the Dead" at the Sensation
exhibition in 1997?
18. According to legend, which Chinese poet, banished by his king, wrote a very sad poem about
political corruption and then killed himself by wading into the Miluo river, holding a heavy
rock. His neighbours tried unsuccessfully to rescue him in fishing boats, which is said to be
the origin of the modern Chinese dragon boat festival?
19. What was a sautoire?
20. What type of video game creature is Spyro?
12 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
JANUARY 7TH
2. TRAFFIC
3. THE DRUMS
4. GEORGE TUPOU VI.
5.
SEAMUS HEANEY
6. FLEUR ADCOCK (1964).
7.
THE WARTHOG
8. BLACK BOY
9. GAS – IN 1648 HE DERIVED IT FROM THE GREEK WORD CHAOS.
10. ROBERT SCHUMANN
11. AUGUSTE RODIN
12. JOHN COLTRANE
13. THIO
14. BORIC OXIDE
15. MARGATE
16. DAN LENO
17. JACK AND DINO CHAPMAN
18. QU YUAN.
19. A LONG NECKLACE OR PENDANT ON A LONG CHAIN.
20. A DRAGON