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206 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 1. British classical musician, Paul Lewis, plays which musical instrument? 2. To which function is the 8th cranial nerve related? 3. In Richard Sheridan's "School For Scandal", in whose London home do the women meet to invent and spread malicious gossip? 4. Which time signature indicates two or four minim beats in a bar? 5. When was the first official postcard issued by the Post Office in the UK? 6. Which Irish artist, born in Ennis, County Clare, painted "The Last Inn" and "The Toy Seller"? 7. Which Swedish chemist discovered selenium in 1817? 8. What is the national dog of Portugal? They are classified in the Hound Group in the UK and their name means rabbit hunter. 9. In which Kent town will you find the Ropery, which, when it was built in 1790, was the longest brick built building in Europe? 10. Which Belgian prime minister gave his name to the notable report on the European Union, which was published in 1975? 11. Michel Aflaq, a Syrian philosopher, sociologist and Arab nationalist, was the ideological founder of which Arabian political party? 12. Which British prime minister merged the British and Irish Parliaments in 1801? 13. Which protein-splitting enzyme secreted by the pancreas, enables the digestion of proteins in the intestines? 14. Of what stone are the Brecon Beacons largely comprised? 15. Which prize is awarded annually on the recommendation of a committee of the Karolinska Institute? 16. What was the name given to a man of Lydda in the Acts of the Apostles, who is sick of the palsy, and is cured by Peter? 17. Which trinary star system lies in the southern constellation of Centaurus and is the tenth brightest star in the night sky? It has the traditional names of Hadar and Agena but is best known by what name? 18. Which artist painted the enormous Crucifixion in the Scuola di San Rocco in Venice in 1585? 19. Which novel by Iris Murdoch features the character of Honor Klein with whom the narrator is in love? 20. What was the name of the restaurant at the end of the universe in the book by Douglas Adams? 206 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 1. THE PIANO 2. HEARING AND BALANCE 3. LADY SNEERWELL'S 4. ALLA BREVE 5. 1870 – IT CARRIED A PREPAID HALFPENNY STAMP. 6. WILLIAM MULREADY (1786–1863) 7. JONS JACOB BERZELIUS 8. PODENDO WHICH IS BELIEVED TO BE THE SMALLEST HUNTING DOG 9. CHATHAM 10. LEO TINDEMANS 11. THE BAATH PARTY 12. WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER 13. TRYPSIN 14. OLD RED SANDSTONE 15. THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR MEDICINE 16. AENEAS 17. BETA CENTAURI 18. TINTORETTO 19. A SEVERED HEAD 20. MILLIWAYS