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Question 50 - question corrected 10 Jul 2007 - Farouk was succeeded
by Faud II as Egypt's last King - (thanks P Webster)
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What Latin phrase means operational method, or the way a job is done?
Modus Operandi (loosely translated as mode of operating)
In the human body which gland secretes the hormone insulin?
Pancreas
The state of Nebraska was sold to the USA in 1803 by which country?
France (as part of the Louisanna Purchase, which transfereed much of
central North America to the US from France - for about $15m - so called
because a main reason was to secure American access to the vital port of New
Orleans in Lousianna)
Tala is the basic monetary unit of which country? Samoa (fully
the Independent State of Samoa - the Tala is comprised of 100 Seme)
Carrageen is an edible variety of what? Seaweed (or
algae)
Who composed the opera Turandot? Puccini (Giacomo
Puccini)
Which English cathedral has 'The Clock with no Face'?
Salisbury (apparently a clock-face was considered unnecesary because the
time was announced by bells)
Who was the first woman to walk in space? Svetlana Savitskaya
(of Russia, 25 July 1984, on Salyut 7)
Spiro Agnew was US vice-president to which president? Richard
Nixon
In which European town is the Menin Gate Memorial to missing British
and Commonwealth soldiers? Ypres (Flanders in Belgium, location of some
of the worst fighting and heaviest losses of WW1)
The Lowell Observatory is in which US state? Arizona (in
Flagstaff)
Who was the president of Chile from 1974-90? Augusto
Pinochet
What is the world's smallest republic? Nauru (an
eight-square-mile Pacific island 26 miles South of the equator, 2,500 miles
from Australia - Nauru became independent in 1968 taking the smallest republic
title from San Marino. Nauru was previously under trusteeship of the UN,
jointly administered by Australia, New Zealand and the UK.)
Who played the prison warden in the 1979 film Escape from Alcatraz?
Patrick McGoohan
Sounding like a placename, what is the traditional pronged spear used
for catching Salmon called? Leister (pronounced 'lester')
Who succeeded Michael Foot as leader of the Labour Party in the UK?
Neil Kinnock (in 1983)
Jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton played which instrument? Piano
(real name Ferdinand Joseph Lamott Morton, 1885-1941, famous for Black Bottom
Stomp among others)
Coopers Hill in Gloucestershire, England, is famous for which annual
event? Cheese Rolling (or Cheese Rolling and Wake)
Which country had the Roman name Mauritania (also spelled
Mauretania)? Morocco
The Laughing Cavalier is a work by which painter? Frans Hals
(1580-1666 - he was Dutch)
What type of rock is carbonado? Diamond (also known as black
diamond - carbonado's characteristics cause many to believe that they come from
space or result from meteor impact)
What is limnophobia a fear of? Lakes (or big bodies of
water)
Ribus Nigum is the latin name for which fruit?
Blackcurrant
What type of animal is a Garron? Horse
In which US city was the 2006 Super Bowl held? Detroit
(Michigan)
Which country (at July 2007) boasts the world's longest suspension
bridge span between towers? Japan (opened in 1998, the Akashi-Kaikyo
bridge, or Pearl Bridge, connects Akashi near Kobe to the island Awaji-shima -
total length 3,990m with a centre span of 1,990m. The Great Belt Fixed Link
Bridge in Denmark is much longer overall but its longest span is shorter than
the Akashi-Kaikyo bridge at just over 1,660m.)
What does OAPEC (not OPEC) stand for? Organization of Arab
Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC stands for Organization of the
Petroleum Exporting Countries, whose membership obviously extends beyond the
Arab nations. Essentially OPEC aims to manage oil pricing, whereas OAPEC
focuses on oil and energy development among its member Arab nations.)
In which country was fashion designer Rifat Ozbek born?
Turkey
What is the main ingredient of guacamole? Avocado (guacamole -
a dip or relish - was originally made by the Aztecs of the Central Americas
thosands of years ago. It contains mashed avocado, with various additions such
as tomato, salt, lemon or lime, chilli peppers, and onion)
Which country has the international car registration DZ?
Algeria
In which city is the United Nations headquarters? New
York
In 1987 a French court found which Gestapo chief guilty of war crimes
and sentenced him to life imprisonment? Klaus Barbie (he died four years
later of leukemia, age 77)
Which famous US architect designed the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo in
1916? Frank Lloyd Wright (the hotel was demolished in 1968, the entrance
lobby was saved, and reconstructed in the Meiji Mura museum in Nagoya)
Ichthyology is a branch of zoology concerning which creatures?
Fish
W Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence is based on the life
of which painter? Paul Gaugin
How many international caps did English footballer Stanley Matthews
(later Sir Stanley Matthews) win? Fifty-four
Who became leader of the People's National Party in Jamaica in 1969?
Michael Manley
What element is mixed with Iron to make cast iron? Carbon
Which type business traditionally has three balls hanging outside?
Pawnbroker (or Pawnshop - the three balls can be traced back to the
symbol associated with the Medici family, adopted the medieval bankers of
Lombardy, who developed the pawnbroking system of money-lending to circumvent
the religious constraints of the times. The word Lombard, aside from its modern
'backronym'
interpretation, was the formal term for a pawnbroker banker in the late middle
ages, hence Lombard Street in London and other financial centres)
What is the fictional Scottish island setting of the 1973 film The
Wicker Man? Summerisle
Which famous Mormon church leader and educational pioneer died in
Salt Lake City in 1877? Brigham Young
Which US actress's real name is Mary Cathleen Collins? Bo
Derek
In which body of water are the Balearic Islands? Mediterranean
Sea
Who was hanged in Edinburgh in 1829 for multiple murder in supplying
doctors with corpses for dissection? William Burke (William Hare, his
accomplice, saved himself by giving evidence against Burke)
Mariolatry is the idolatrous worship of whom? The Virgin
Mary
Who said in a radio broadcast in 1939, "I cannot forecast to you the
action of Russia" ? Winston Churchill
What is Zurich's main river? Limmat
What is the collective term for a group of woodpeckers?
Descent
What is the name of the Cambridge University College that was
originally for women only? Girton (boys were allowed in 1979)
Who was King of Egypt from 1936-52? Farouk (Farouk I, forced
to abdicate in 1952, at which his son Faud II became briefly the last King of
Egypt, reigning for less than a year, when the monarchy was brought to an end
by the 1952 revolution, officially creating the Arab Republic of Egypt in
1953)
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