Download 624 - DAPHNE`S DAILY QUIZ What is a famulus? A kairuku is an

624 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
What is a famulus?
2. A kairuku is an ancient fossil of which animal, found in New Zealand and believed to be over 4
feet in height?
3. Which is the oldest inhabited castle in England to remain within the same family, since they
reconstructed it in the 12th century, except for a period of royal ownership by the Tudors?
4. Which mythological creature is mentioned in the book of Job and in Paradise Lost; John
Milton describes it as "the biggest born of earth"?
5.
Which composer’s "Adieux", marked the departure of the Archduke Rudolph, his patron, from
Vienna after Napoleon’s arrival in that city, his absence and then return?
6. Which Danish composer wrote the Symphonies known as "The Four Temperaments", and
"The Inextinguishable"?
7.
Which English polymath and physicist, early in the 19th century, established the principle of
interference of light, which had been rejected in favour of Newton’s particle theory?
8. What is a lecynthus?
9. What, in South Africa, is a krans?
10. Which German painter of the Renaissance, wrote several treatises on measurement and
human proportion?
11. The most prominent feature of the island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples, is which extinct
volcano?
12. Which opera includes the songs, "Pirate Jenny’s Revenge Song", "Walk To The Gallows",
"Ballad of the Pleasant Life", and "The Ballad of Sexual Obsession"?
13. Which word of the 15th and 16th centuries, now used in a broader figurative sense, was applied
to an itinerant salesman of quack medicine, and derived from an Italian phrase meaning to
climb on a bench?
14. Which is the second busiest Chinese port in mainland China, ranking only after Shanghai, and
is the site of China’s third Stock Exchange after Hong Kong and Shanghai?
15. Which British surrealist artist painted many pictures with Icarus in the title? Other major
works include, "The Red Cow", "Tocsin", "Battle of the Rocking Horse" and "Heaviness of
Sleep".
16. What word now with a more general usage, is used to describe decoration in classical and
later architecture, consisting of representations of fruit and flowers, suspended in swags?
17. Which horse racing institution, originated in 1916 as a result of a gift by Colonel William HallWalker, (later Lord Wavertree), of the entire bloodstock of his farm in Ireland?
18. Off the coast of which African country, do the islands of Kerkenna lie?
19. Which American folk painter and Quaker, painted 61 versions of "The Peaceable Kingdom",
some versions of which, based on a Bible verse, show William Penn making a treaty with
Indians in the background?
20. Which town in Shropshire, the third largest, is thought to have been named after a King of
Northumbria, who was killed in battle there, in 642 AD?
624 -ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
A SERVANT OR ATTENDANT, ESPECIALLY OF A SCHOLAR OR MAGICIAN
2. A PENGUIN
3. BERKELEY CASTLE, TRADITIONALLY BELIEVED TO BE THE SCENE OF EDWARD II'S
MURDER IN 1327
4. THE BEHEMOTH
5.
BEETHOVEN – LES ADIEUX PIANO SONATA NO 26
6. CARL AUGUST NIELSEN (1865-1931)
7.
THOMAS YOUNG, (1773-1829),WHO RESURRECTED THE CENTURY OLD, WAVE
THEORY OF LIGHT. HE WAS ALSO AN EGYPTOLOGIST WHO HELPED DECIPHER THE
ROSETTA STONE
8. A THIN NARROW NECKED VASE OR FLASK FROM ANCIENT GREECE
9. AN OVERHANGING SHEER WALL OF ROCK, OR A PRECIPICE
10. ALBRECHT DURER (1471-1528)
11. EPOMEO, WHICH IS ALSO THE NAME OF A WINE PRODUCED ON ISCHIA
12. THE THREEPENNY OPERA BY BERTHOLD BRECHT, WHICH IS SET TO MUSIC BY KURT
WEILL
13. A MOUNTEBANK
14. SHENZEN, WHICH IS IN GUANDONG PROVINCE, IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF HONG
KONG
15. JOHN ARMSTRONG (1893-1973)
16. FESTOONS
17. THE NATIONAL STUD
18. TUNISIA
19. EDWARD HICKS (1780-1849)
20. OSWESTRY (OSWALD THE CHRISTIAN KING OF NORTHUMBERLAND WAS DEFEATED
BY PENDA, THE PAGAN KING OF MERCIA, AND HIS BODY HUNG ON A TREE OSWALD'S TREE)
624 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ WITH ANSWERS
1.
What is a famulus? A SERVANT OR ATTENDANT, ESPECIALLY OF A SCHOLAR
OR MAGICIAN
2. A kairuku is an ancient fossil of which animal, found in New Zealand and believed to be over 4
feet in height? A PENGUIN
3. Which is the oldest inhabited castle in England to remain within the same family since they
reconstructed it in the 12th century, except for a period of royal ownership by the Tudors?
BERKELEY CASTLE, TRADITIONALLY BELIEVED TO BE THE SCENE OF
EDWARD II'S MURDER IN 1327
4. Which mythological creature is mentioned in the book of Job and in Paradise Lost; John
Milton describes it as "the biggest born of earth"? THE BEHEMOTH
5. Which composer’s "Adieux", marked the departure of the Archduke Rudolph, his patron, from
Vienna after Napoleon’s arrival in that city, his absence and then return? BEETHOVEN –
LES ADIEUX PIANO SONATA NO 26
6. Which Danish composer wrote the Symphonies known as "The Four Temperaments", and
"The Inextinguishable"? CARL AUGUST NIELSEN (1865-1931)
7. Which English polymath and physicist, early in the 19th century, established the principle of
interference of light, which had been rejected in favour of Newton’s particle theory?
THOMAS YOUNG, (1773-1829),WHO RESURRECTED THE CENTURY OLD,
WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT. HE WAS ALSO AN EGYPTOLOGIST WHO HELPED
DECIPHER THE ROSETTA STONE
8. What is a lecynthus? A THIN NARROW NECKED VASE OR FLASK, FROM
ANCIENT GREECE
9. What, in South Africa, is a krans? AN OVERHANGING SHEER WALL OF ROCK, OR A
PRECIPICE
10. Which German painter of the Renaissance, wrote several treatises on measurement and
human proportion? ALBRECHT DURER (1471-1528)
11. The most prominent feature of the island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples, is which extinct
volcano? EPOMEO, WHICH IS ALSO THE NAME OF A WINE PRODUCED ON
ISCHIA
12. Which opera includes the songs, "Pirate Jenny’s Revenge Song", "Walk To The Gallows",
"Ballad of the Pleasant Life", and "The Ballad of Sexual Obsession"? THE THREEPENNY
OPERA BY BERTHOLD BRECHT, WHICH IS SET TO MUSIC BY KURT WEILL
13. Which word of the 15th and 16th centuries, now used in a broader figurative sense, was applied
to an itinerant salesman of quack medicine, and derived from an Italian phrase meaning to
climb on a bench? A MOUNTEBANK
14. Which is the second busiest Chinese port in mainland China, ranking only after Shanghai, and
is the site of China’s third Stock Exchange after Hong Kong and Shanghai? SHENZEN,
WHICH IS IN GUANDONG PROVINCE, IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF HONG
KONG
15. Which British surrealist artist painted many pictures with Icarus in the title? Other major
works include, "The Red Cow", "Tocsin", "Battle of the Rocking Horse" and "Heaviness of
Sleep". JOHN ARMSTRONG (1893-1973)
16. What word now with a more general usage, is used to describe decoration in classical and
later architecture, consisting of representations of fruit and flowers, suspended in swags?
FESTOONS
17. Which horse racing institution, originated in 1916 as a result of a gift by Colonel William HallWalker, (later Lord Wavertree), of the entire bloodstock of his farm in Ireland?
THE NATIONAL STUD
18. Off the coast of which African country, do the islands of Kerkenna lie? TUNISIA
19. Which American folk painter and Quaker, painted 61 versions of "The Peaceable Kingdom",
some versions of which, based on a Bible verse, show William Penn making a treaty with
Indians in the background? EDWARD HICKS (1780-1849)
20. Which town in Shropshire, the third largest, is thought to have been named after a King of
Northumbria, who was killed in battle there, in 642 AD? OSWESTRY (OSWALD THE
CHRISTIAN KING OF NORTHUMBERLAND WAS DEFEATED BY PENDA, THE
PAGAN KING OF MERCIA, AND HIS BODY HUNG ON A TREE - OSWALD'S
TREE)