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108 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
Known in Egypt as ta amiyya, it is a highly popular form of fast food in the Arab East. What is
the more common name for a fried ball or patty of spiced fava beans or chickpeas?
2. Which Japanese president of the Liberal Democratic Party, was elected to succeed Yoshihiko
Noda as the Prime Minister of Japan in 2012, having been prime minister earlier from 20067?
3. What name is given to the impure opaque micro crystalline glazed black form of quartz, that
occurs in chalk, usually in rounded nodules and covered with a white encrustation? It was
used to make tools during the Stone Age because it splits into thin sharp splinters.
4. What is the name of the Mexican cactus?
5.
Prozac is an SSRI drug. What do these initials stand for?
6. From what are the large sausages known as Andouille and popular in Northern France made?
7.
What is another name for thunderflies or thunderbugs?
8. What was the profession of Blind Harry, who was at the Scottish court of James IV in the
latter years of the 15th century?
9. In terms of population, what is Africa’s smallest sovereign state?
10. Whereabouts in Germany, would you have found the one-time state of Mecklenberg?
11. In 1851, which city in New South Wales was the scene of Australia’s first gold rush?
12. What name is given to a small version of a larger graphic image displayed on a monitor to
save space?
13. What colour are the flowers of the wild marjoram plant?
14. Which area of the English coastline forms the principal nursery ground for the common seal?
15. Which cartoon character is owned by Jon Arbuckle?
16. Which composer, who was presented with the Queen’s Medal for Music in 2007, wrote the
operas, "The Vanishing Bridegroom", "Blond Eckbert", "A Night At The Chinese Opera" and
"Armida", which was broadcast on Channel 4 in 2005?
17. Who was the 17th century French mathematician and philosopher, who founded co-ordinate
geometry?
18. Celebrated on the last Monday in May, which holiday in the USA remembers those Americans
who died in wartime?
19. Which song by Jack Judge and Harry Williams, first sung on the British music hall stage in
1913 by Florrie Forde, was sung appropriately by the Connaught Rangers as they marched
through Boulogne on the 13 th August 1914 and was quickly picked up by other British troops?
20. The people of which east coast town are sometimes known as bloaters?
108 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
1.
FALAFEL
2. SHINZO ABE
3. FLINT
4. MAGUEY. (ESPECIALLY THE CENTURY PLANT WHICH IS ALSO CALLED MESCAL).
5.
SELECTIVE SEROTIN RE-UPTAKE INHIBITOR.
6. TRIPE. THEY ARE EATEN COLD IN THE MANNER OF SALAMI. SMALLER VERSIONS
ARE CALLED ANDOUILLETTES.
7.
THRIPS (THE NAME COMES FROM THE GREEK MEANING "WOODWORM")
8. HE WAS A POET AND CHRONICLER, WHOSE MAJOR WORK WAS A LIFE OF WILLIAM
WALLACE.
9. THE SEYCHELLES
10. IN THE NORTH EAST ON THE BALTIC COAST. IT NOW COMPRISES THE WESTERN
AND LARGER PART OF THE FEDERAL STATE MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN.
11. BATHURST
12. A THUMBNAIL
13. ROSE AND PURPLE
14. THE WASH
15. GARFIELD. GARFIELD’S GIRL FRIEND IS ARLENE WHO IS A PINK CAT WITH A LONG
NECK AND BUCK TEETH.
16. JUDITH WEIR WHO BECAME THE CURRENT "MASTER OF THE QUEEN'S MUSIC" IN
2014, SUCCEEDING PETER MAXWELL DAVIES. THE POSITION NOW LASTS FOR A
TERM OF TEN YEARS
17. RENE DESCARTES. (1596-1650)
18. MEMORIAL DAY
19. IT'S A LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY
20. (GREAT) YARMOUTH