253 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
What sort of mould is used to produce Camembert?
2. What name do the Americans give to the leader of an orchestra? In Britain it is the first
violinist.
3. What was the name of the Norwegian who, in the early 19th century, was famous as the
greatest long distance runner that the world has known?
4. From which tree is gum Arabic obtained?
5.
Named after a British Prime Minister, which massive stratovolcano in Victoria Land, is the
only recently active volcano on the Antarctic mainland?
6. Which Charles Dickens’ novel, his first historical story, revolves around the murder of Reuben
Haredale, some 22 years earlier?
7.
Where in the human body would you find the antrum of Highmore?
8. Which ornamental tree that is widely grown in all parts of the world, has blue or purple
foxglove like flowers, and attractive oppositely paired, compound leaves?
9. Which American poet coined the phrase “ships that pass in the night”?
10. Which 18th century German botanist, zoologist and explorer, who is considered a pioneer of
Alaskan natural history, has given his name to several species of animals including an eider
duck, a sea otter, a jay, a sea eagle, a sea lion and the now extinct sea cow?
11. What was the name of the group of artists, which were founded in Berlin in 1918 by Max
Pechstein and Cesar Klein?
12. Which fish is known as the woodcock of the sea, because you can eat it all?
13. Which poet’s first play, “The Dance of Death”, was originally staged in 1935 in a double bill
with “Sweeney Agonistes”, by T S Eliot, and was followed in the same year by “The Dog
Beneath The Skin”, which he wrote with Christopher Isherwood?
14. Credited as the first scientific evidence of global warming, and named after the geophysicist
who supervised it, which graph is based on the continuous measurement of the atmospheric
carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa, in Hawaii?
15. The Italian commune of San Daniele is famed for producing which air dried ham?
16. What was the name of the 11th century song, which the Norman minstrel Taillefer sang at the
Battle of Hastings?
17. Where will you find the Dean Clough Centre, formerly the world’s largest Victorian Carpet
Mill, which has been turned into an arts centre with up to 9 exhibition sites?
18. To whom was Matilda (or Maud), the daughter of Henry I first married?
19. Which Thomas Hardy novel was first published in the Cornhill Magazine, in 1874?
20. What was the name of the first great Protestant history of the Christian church, compiled in
Magdeburg under the direction of Mathias Flacius Illyricus, in the 16th century? It was divided
into 13 centuries, covering 1300 years and ending in 1298.
253 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
PENICILLIUM.
2. THE CONCERTMASTER
3. MENSEN ERNST (1795-1843),WHO WAS ONE OF THE FIRST SPORT PROFESSIONALS.
HE MADE HIS LIVING RUNNING, MAINLY THROUGH PLACING BETS ON HIMSELF
BEING ABLE TO RUN A CERTAIN DISTANCE WITHIN A PERIOD OF TIME
4. THE ACACIA
5.
MOUNT MELBOURNE
6. BARNABY RUDGE
7.
IN THE HEAD – IT’S AN AIR CONDITIONING CAVITY IN THE PYRAMID-SHAPED
MAXILLARY SINUS, WHICH COMMUNICATES WITH THE NASAL CAVITY
8. THE JACARANDA (PRETORIA IN SOUTH AFRICA IS POPULARLY KNOWN AS THE
JACARANDA CITY DUE TO THE ENORMOUS NUMBERS OF JACARANDA TREES
PLANTED THERE)
9. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW IN HIS "TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN"
10. GEORG WILHEM STELLER (1709-1746)
11. THE NOVEMBERGRUPPE - THE NAME WAS TAKEN FROM THE MONTH IN WHICH
THE GERMAN REVOLUTION OF 1918 TOOK PLACE
12. THE RED MULLET
13. W H AUDEN
14. THE KEELING CURVE
15. PROSCIUTTO
16. THE SONG OF ROLAND
17. HALIFAX, WEST YORKSHIRE
18. EMPEROR HENRY V OF GERMANY. SHE LATER MARRIED GEOFFREY OF ANJOU,W
FOLLOWING THE EMPEROR'S DEATH IN 1125, AND THEIR SON, HENRY, BECAME
KING OF ENGLAND UPON THE DEATH OF STEPHEN
19. FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
20. THE MAGDEBURG CENTURIES
253 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ WITH ANSWERS
1.
What sort of mould is used to produce Camembert? PENICILLIUM.
2. What name do the Americans give to the leader of an orchestra? In Britain, it is the first
violinist. THE CONCERTMASTER
3. What was the name of the Norwegian who, in the early 19th century, was famous as the
greatest long distance runner that the world has known? MENSEN ERNST (1795-1843),
WHO WAS ONE OF THE FIRST SPORT PROFESSIONALS. HE MADE HIS
LIVING RUNNING, MAINLY THROUGH PLACING BETS ON HIMSELF BEING
ABLE TO RUN A CERTAIN DISTANCE WITHIN A PERIOD OF TIME
4. From which tree is gum Arabic obtained? THE ACACIA
5.
Named after a British Prime Minister, which massive stratovolcano is the only recently active
volcano on the Antarctic mainland? MOUNT MELBOURNE
6. Which Charles Dickens’ novel, his first historical story, revolves around the murder of Reuben
Haredale, some 22 years earlier? BARNABY RUDGE
7.
Where in the human body would you find the antrum of Highmore? IN THE HEAD – IT’S
AN AIR CONDITIONING CAVITY IN THE PYRAMID-SHAPED MAXILLARY
SINUS, WHICH COMMUNICATES WITH THE NASAL CAVITY
8. Which ornamental tree that is widely grown in all parts of the world, has blue or purple
foxglove like flowers, and attractive oppositely paired, compound leaves? THE
JACARANDA (PRETORIA IN SOUTH AFRICA IS POPULARLY KNOWN AS THE
JACARANDA CITY DUE TO THE ENORMOUS NUMBERS OF JACARANDA
TREES PLANTED THERE)
9. Which American poet coined the phrase “ships that pass in the night”? HENRY
LONGFELLOW IN HIS "TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN"
10. Which 18th century German botanist, zoologist and explorer, who is considered a pioneer of
Alaskan natural history, has given his name to several species of animals including an eider
duck, a sea otter, a jay, a sea eagle, a sea lion and the now extinct sea cow? GEORG
WILHEM STELLER (1709-1746)
11. What was the name of the group of artists, which were founded in Berlin in 1918, by Max
Pechstein and Cesar Klein? THE NOVEMBERGRUPPE - THE NAME WAS TAKEN
FROM THE MONTH IN WHICH THE GERMAN REVOLUTION OF 1918 TOOK
PLACE
12. Which fish is known as the woodcock of the sea, because you can eat it all? THE RED
MULLET
13. Which poet’s first play, “The Dance of Death”, was originally staged in 1935 in a double bill
with “Sweeney Agonistes” by T S Eliot, and was followed in the same year by “The Dog
Beneath The Skin”, which he wrote with Christopher Isherwood? W H AUDEN
14. Credited as the first scientific evidence of global warming, and named after the geophysicist
who supervised it, which graph is based on the continuous measurement of the atmospheric
carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa, in Hawaii? THE KEELING CURVE
15. The Italian commune of San Daniele is famed for producing which air dried ham?
PROSCIUTTO
16. What was the name of the 11th century song, which the Norman minstrel Taillefer sang at the
Battle of Hastings? THE SONG OF ROLAND
17. Where will you find the Dean Clough Centre, formerly the world’s largest Victorian Carpet
Mill, which has been turned into an arts centre with up to 9 exhibition sites? HALIFAX,
WEST YORKSHIRE
18. To whom was Matilda (or Maud), the daughter of Henry I first married? EMPEROR
HENRY V OF GERMANY. SHE LATER MARRIED GEOFFREY OF ANJOU,
FOLLOWING THE EMPEROR'S DEATH IN 1125, AND THEIR SON, HENRY,
BECAME KING OF ENGLAND UPON THE DEATH OF STEPHEN
19. Which Thomas Hardy novel was first published in the Cornhill Magazine in 1874? FAR
FROM THE MADDING CROWD
20. What was the name of the first great Protestant history of the Christian church, compiled in
Magdeburg under the direction of Mathias Flacius Illyricus, in the 16 th century? It was divided
into 13 centuries, covering 1300 years and ending in 1298. THE MAGDEBURG
CENTURIES