Download 683 - DAPHNE`S DAILY QUIZ "Veni vidi vici", was Julius Caesar`s

683 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
"Veni vidi vici", was Julius Caesar’s description of his victory at the battle of Zela, in 47 BC
over whom?
2. What is the name given to the electronic device used to produce visual displays,
corresponding to electrical signals?
3. Which burglar, hanged in 1879, carried his tools in a violin case?
4. Who designed the Seagram building in New York, which was completed in 1958?
5.
Which abstract artist, who won the Turner Prize in 1985, and who was knighted in 1992, died
in March 2017?
6. Which German mathematician developed an early calculator known as the stepped reckoner,
which he completed in 1694?
7.
What type of food are gougeres?
8. Which is the world’s largest amphibian?
9. Which prophetic book of the Old Testament describes the downfall of Judah and Jerusalem,
and their subsequent restoration?
10. Which British Nobel Prize winner, who won the award for Chemistry, in 1964, had the middle
name of Crowfoot, and was the cousin of a well known British abstract artist?
11. What name is given to a military bugle call which signals the attack?
12. Which 16th century German was known as the Cobbler poet?
13. What did Noel Coward’s 1946 play, “Peace In Our Time”, depict?
14. Which London feature was designed by George London and Henry Wise, in the late 17th
century?
15. What is the term for the linking passages in opera, in which singers imitate the rhythms of
normal speech?
16. The reign of which Roman emperor, is considered to be the Golden Age of Rome? He wrote
"Meditations", a book of Stoic philosophy, and he conquered the Germanic tribes and was the
father of the emperor Commodus.
17. In which year did the so called Addled Parliament meet briefly, before being dissolved having
passed no legislation?
18. "Cheek To Cheek", sung by Fred Astaire in the 1935 film, "Top Hat", led to an Academy Award
nomination for which songwriter?
19. In which country would you find the Eucumbene dam?
20. Which South American country has a national flag described thus: - five horizontal bands of
green (top, double width), white, red (quadruple width), white, and green (double width);
there is a large, yellow, five-pointed star centred in the red band?
683 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1. PHARNACES II
2. AN OSCILLOSCOPE
3. CHARLIE PEACE
4. MIES VAN DER ROHE. IT STANDS AT 375 PARK AVENUE
5. HOWARD HODGKIN
6. GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ
7. SAVOURY CHOUX PASTRIES
8. THE GIANT SALAMANDER, FOUND IN CHINA AND JAPAN, WHICH CAN BE 6 FEET
LONG
9. EZEKIEL
10. DOROTHY HODGKIN (SEE QUESTION 5)
11. A WARISON
12. HANS SACHS OF NUREMBERG, THE PRINCE OF THE MEISTERSINGERS WHO WAS
TRAINED AS A COBBLER
13. ENGLAND, AS IF HITLER HAD CONQUERED IT
14. THE HAMPTON COURT MAZE WHICH WAS PLANTED AT THE REQUEST OF WILLIAM
III OF ORANGE
15. RECITATIVES, WHICH RESEMBLE SUNG ORDINARY SPEECH MORE THAN A FORMAL
MUSICAL COMPOSITION
16. MARCUS AURELIUS
17. 1614
18. IRVING BERLIN
19. AUSTRALIA (IT’S IN THE SNOWY MOUNTAINS OF NEW SOUTH WALES)
20.
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683 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ WITH ANSWERS
1.
"Veni vidi vici", was Julius Caesar’s description of his victory at the battle of Zela, in 47 BC
over whom? PHARNACES II
2. What is the name given to the electronic device used to produce visual displays,
corresponding to electrical signals? AN OSCILLOSCOPE
3. Which burglar, hanged in 1879, carried his tools in a violin case? CHARLIE PEACE
4. Who designed the Seagram building in New York, which was completed in 1958? MIES VAN
DER ROHE. IT STANDS AT 375 PARK AVENUE
5.
Which abstract artist, who won the Turner Prize in 1985, and who was knighted in 1992, died
in March 2017? HOWARD HODGKIN
6. Which German mathematician developed an early calculator known as the stepped reckoner,
which he completed in 1694? GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ
7.
What type of food are gougeres? SAVOURY CHOUX PASTRIES
8. Which is the world’s largest amphibian? THE GIANT SALAMANDER, FOUND IN
CHINA AND JAPAN, WHICH CAN BE 6 FEET LONG
9. Which prophetic book of the Old Testament describes the downfall of Judah and Jerusalem,
and their subsequent restoration? EZEKIEL
10. Which British Nobel Prize winner, who won the award for Chemistry, in 1964, had the middle
name of Crowfoot, and was the cousin of a well known British abstract artist? DOROTHY
HODGKIN (SEE QUESTION 5)
11. What name is given to a military bugle call which signals the attack? A WARISON
12. Which 16th century German was known as the Cobbler poet? HANS SACHS OF
NUREMBERG, THE PRINCE OF THE MEISTERSINGERS WHO WAS TRAINED
AS A COBBLER
13. What did Noel Coward’s 1946 play, “Peace In Our Time”, depict? ENGLAND, AS IF
HITLER HAD CONQUERED IT
14. Which London feature was designed by George London and Henry Wise, in the late 17th
century? THE HAMPTON COURT MAZE WHICH WAS PLANTED AT THE
REQUEST OF WILLIAM III OF ORANGE
15. What is the term for the linking passages in opera, in which singers imitate the rhythms of
normal speech? RECITATIVES, WHICH RESEMBLE SUNG ORDINARY SPEECH
MORE THAN A FORMAL MUSICAL COMPOSITION
16. The reign of which Roman emperor, is considered to be the Golden Age of Rome? He wrote
"Meditations", a book of Stoic philosophy, and he conquered the Germanic tribes, and was the
father of the emperor Commodus. MARCUS AURELIUS
17. In which year did the so called Addled Parliament meet briefly, before being dissolved having
passed no legislation? 1614
18. "Cheek To Cheek", sung by Fred Astaire in the 1935 film, "Top Hat", led to an Academy Award
nomination for which songwriter? IRVING BERLIN
19. In which country would you find the Eucumbene dam? AUSTRALIA (IT’S IN THE
SNOWY MOUNTAINS OF NEW SOUTH WALES)
20. Which South American country has a national flag described thus: - five horizontal bands of
green (top, double width), white, red (quadruple width), white, and green (double width);
there is a large, yellow, five-pointed star centred in the red band?
SURINAM