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649 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1. Which was the first ever ship owned by the United States Navy, (1774), and was a merchant
vessel, originally named "Black Prince"?
2. Which French born composer wrote such electronic pieces as "Good Friday Procession in
Verges", and "Poems Electronique"?
3. Typhlology is the medical study of what?
4. On which date is International Children's Day celebrated every year?
5. What is the Greek dish pastitsio made from?
6. Which Russian prime minister was assassinated on a visit to a theatre in Kiev, in 1911?
7. What legislation, signed by Lincoln in 1862, made millions of acres of government land
available to any male over 21 who could pay a small processing fee of $18?
8. Which Russian composer wrote the music for the 1920 ballet, "Pulcinella", commissioned by
Sergei Diaghilev for the Ballet Russes?
9. Which African country’s national flag is described thus: - three equal vertical bands of green
(hoist side), red, and yellow with a yellow five-pointed star centred in the red band; the flag
uses the popular pan-African colours of Ethiopia?
10. Which notorious outlaw gang was wiped out on 5 Oct 1892, when the citizens of Coffeyville,
Kansas, trapped them as they tried to rob Condon's Bank?
11. Where in the human body, would you find the Canal of Schlemm?
12. Which Asian country has the Internet code of tm.?
13. In chemistry, what name is given to the act of changing from a gas directly to a solid?
14. What is the title of the work of incidental music which Beethoven composed for the August
von Kotzebue play, which features "The Turkish March"?
15. Which sea separates the Philippines from mainland Asia?
16. First explored by John Scotus Erigena in the 9th century, and including Albertus Magnus and
Thomas Aquinas, among its greatest adherents, which mediaeval philosophy attempted to
join faith to reason, by synthesising theology, with classical Greek and Roman thought?
17. Which ship was captured in Tunisia in 1803 during the Barbary Wars when the USA were
fighting North African pirate states, and a year later, Stephen Decatur led a raid that burned
the ship while it was in the harbour of Tripoli?
18. The 1990 poem "Omeros", which re-imagines part of the Iliad, and the Odyssey, in a
Caribbean setting, is by which Nobel prize winning writer?
19. From its frequency in Iceland, a jokulhlaup is what kind of natural phenomenon?
20. Who first named the geologic phenomenon, the Great Rift Valley?
649 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
THE SS ALFRED WHICH WAS COMMISSIONED AS A WARSHIP BY THE CONTINENTAL
NAVY OF WHAT WOULD BECOME THE UNITED STATES
2. EDGARD VARESE (1883-1965)
3. BLINDNESS
4. IST JUNE (IN 2017, IT'S A THURSDAY)
5. IT’S A DISH OF MINCEMEAT AND MACARONI, TOPPED WITH BECHAMEL SAUCE
6. PYOTR STOLYPIN
7. THE HOMESTEAD ACT. TO MAKE THE OWNERSHIP OF THE TRACT PERMANENT, AN
OWNER WAS REQUIRED TO LIVE ON THE LAND AND BUILD IT UP FOR A PERIOD OF
NO LESS THAN FIVE YEARS
8. IGOR STRAVINSKY. LEONID MASSINE CREATED BOTH THE LIBRETTO AND
CHOREOGRAPHY, AND PABLO PICASSO DESIGNED THE ORIGINAL COSTUMES AND
SETS
9.
CAMEROON
10. THE DALTON GANG
11. IN THE EYE. IT COLLECTS AQUEOUS HUMOUR FROM THE ANTERIOR CHAMBER
AND DELIVERS IT INTO THE EPISCLERAL BLOOD VESSELS VIA AQUEOUS VEINS
12. TURKMENISTAN
13. DEPOSITION
14. THE RUINS OF ATHENS
15. THE SOUTH CHINA SEA
16. SCHOLASTICISM
17. THE USS PHILADELPHIA
18. DEREK WALCOTT
19. A GLACIAL LAKE OUTBURST FLOOD, OR FLASH FLOOD, WHICH OCCURS WHEN A
LAKE, IMPOUNDED BY A GLACIER OR A TERMINAL MORAINE DAM, FAILS
20. THE SCOTTISH EXPLORER JOHN WALTER GREGORY. IT DIVIDES KENYA DOWN THE
LENGTH OF THE COUNTRY, ESSENTIALLY SEPARATING EAST FROM WEST
649 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ WITH ANSWERS
1.
Which was the first ever ship owned by the United States Navy, (1774), and was a merchant
vessel, originally named Black Prince? THE SS ALFRED WHICH WAS
COMMISSIONED AS A WARSHIP BY THE CONTINENTAL NAVY OF WHAT
WOULD BECOME THE UNITED STATES
2. Which French born composer wrote such electronic pieces as "Good Friday Procession in
Verges", and "Poems Electronique"? EDGARD VARESE (1883-1965)
3. Typhlology is the medical study of what? BLINDNESS
4. On which date is International Children's Day celebrated every year? IST JUNE (IN 2017,
IT'S A THURSDAY)
5. What is the Greek dish pastitsio made from? IT’S A DISH OF MINCEMEAT AND
MACARONI, TOPPED WITH BECHAMEL SAUCE
6. Which Russian prime minister was assassinated on a visit to a theatre in Kiev, in 1911?
PYOTR STOLYPIN
7. What legislation, signed by Lincoln in 1862, made millions of acres of government land
available to any male over 21 who could pay a small processing fee of $18? THE
HOMESTEAD ACT. TO MAKE THE OWNERSHIP OF THE TRACT PERMANENT,
AN OWNER WAS REQUIRED TO LIVE ON THE LAND AND BUILD IT UP FOR A
PERIOD OF NO LESS THAN FIVE YEARS
8. Which Russian composer wrote the music for the 1920 ballet, "Pulcinella", commissioned by
Sergei Diaghilev for the Ballet Russes? IGOR STRAVINSKY. LEONID MASSINE
CREATED BOTH THE LIBRETTO AND CHOREOGRAPHY, AND PABLO PICASSO
DESIGNED THE ORIGINAL COSTUMES AND SETS
9. Which African country’s national flag is described thus: - three equal vertical bands of green
(hoist side), red, and yellow with a yellow five-pointed star centred in the red band; the flag
uses the popular pan-African colours of Ethiopia?
CAMEROON
10. Which notorious outlaw gang was wiped out on 5 Oct 1892, when the citizens of Coffeyville,
Kansas, trapped them as they tried to rob Condon's Bank? THE DALTON GANG
11. Where in the human body, would you find the Canal of Schlemm? IN THE EYE. IT
COLLECTS AQUEOUS HUMOUR FROM THE ANTERIOR CHAMBER AND
DELIVERS IT INTO THE EPISCLERAL BLOOD VESSELS VIA AQUEOUS VEINS
12. Which Asian country has the Internet code of tm.? TURKMENISTAN
13. In chemistry, what name is given to the act of changing from a gas directly to a solid?
DEPOSITION
14. What is the title of the work of incidental music which Beethoven composed for the August
von Kotzebue play, which features "The Turkish March"? THE RUINS OF ATHENS
15. Which sea separates the Philippines from mainland Asia? THE SOUTH CHINA SEA
16. First explored by John Scotus Erigena in the 9th century, and including Albertus Magnus and
Thomas Aquinas, among its greatest adherents, which mediaeval philosophy attempted to
join faith to reason, by synthesising theology with classical Greek and Roman thought?
SCHOLASTICISM
17. Which ship was captured in Tunisia in 1803 during the Barbary Wars when the USA were
fighting North African pirate states, and a year later, Stephen Decatur led a raid that burned
the ship while it was in the harbour of Tripoli? THE USS PHILADELPHIA
18. The 1990 poem "Omeros", which re-imagines part of the Iliad, and the Odyssey in a Caribbean
setting, is by which Nobel prize winning writer? DEREK WALCOTT
19. From its frequency in Iceland, a jokulhlaup is what kind of natural phenomenon? A
GLACIAL LAKE OUTBURST FLOOD, OR FLASH FLOOD, WHICH OCCURS
WHEN A LAKE, IMPOUNDED BY A GLACIER OR A TERMINAL MORAINE DAM,
FAILS
20. Who first named the geologic phenomenon, the Great Rift Valley? THE SCOTTISH
EXPLORER JOHN WALTER GREGORY. IT DIVIDES KENYA DOWN THE
LENGTH OF THE COUNTRY, ESSENTIALLY SEPARATING EAST FROM WEST