589 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ

1.  What name, that reflected the fact that James I was king of both Scotland and England, was given to the 20 shilling coin, that was issued in 1604?

2.  Three Northern Territory rivers called Alligator, (East, West and South),which run through the Kakadu National Park, drain into which Australian gulf?

3.  What was the name of Queen Victoria's favourite childhood spaniel, painted with her in a portrait by Sir George Hayter, in 1833?

4.  What was the name of Australia between 1644-1788?

5.  Which admiral was the Chief of the German Navy from 1928, until his resignation in 1943, after a disagreement over policy with Hitler?

6.  Inferno, Prairie Fire, Purple Tiger and Hot Mexican are all varieties of what?

  1. The "Mystic Chord of Rising Force", was the invention of which Russian composer?

8.  Who wrote a poem called “In Praise Of A Mountain Daisy”?

9.  In which Irish market town, the heart of Ireland’s horse racing industry, is the National Stud and Horse Museum?

10.  Which American songwriter won the Oscar for best song in 1936, with "The Way You Look Tonight", and in 1941, for "The Last Time I Saw Paris"?

11.  What is the collective noun for a group of smelt?

12.  What name is given to a print, in which the image fades gradually into the border area?

13.  Who was the prime minister when Winston Churchill was Home Secretary?

14.  According to German legend, on what evening would Eckhardt appear, warning everyone to go home, so that they would not be injured by the headless bodies and two-legged horses which traversed the streets on that night?

15.  Which Carthusian abbot, who is the patron saint of sick children, shoemakers and swans, protected the Jews from mobs, during the persecution of 1190-91?

16.  How many lines are there in a Spenserian stanza?

17.  The Oktoberfest was originally held to celebrate the marriage of which Bavarian king?

18.  Whose last great choral work, "The Spirit of England", written between 1915 and 1917, includes a setting of Lawrence Binyon’s elegy, "For The Fallen"?

19.  Where do we get the phrase, "to trip the light fantastic"?

20. The Nefud Desert is in the northern part of which peninsula, the largest in the world?

589 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ

  1. THE UNITE
  2. VAN DIEMEN GULF, WHICH IS AN INLET OF THE TIMOR SEA
  3. DASH
  4. NEW HOLLAND
  5. ERICH RAEDER
  6. CHILI PEPPERS
  7. ALEXANDER SCRIABIN, WHO LATER ON IN HIS CAREER (1908), CAME UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THEOSOPHY AND MYSTICAL INFLUENCES. HE REGARDED HIS WORKS AS A PREPARATION FOR A SUPREME ECSTATIC MYSTERY, WHICH WOULD ACCOMPANY A FINAL CATACLYSM
  8. ROBERT BURNS
  9. KILDARE
  10. JEROME KERN
  11. A QUANTITY
  12. A VIGNETTE
  13. HERBERT ASQUITH (1910/1911)
  14. MAUNDY THURSDAY
  15. HUGH OF LINCOLN
  16. NINE. THEY ARE EIGHT IAMBIC PENTAMETERS (A LINE OF VERSE WITH FIVE METRICAL FEET, EACH CONSISTING OF ONE SHORT SYLLABLE FOLLOWED BY ONE LONG SYLLABLE) AND AN ALEXANDRINE (A LINE OF VERSE WITH SIX IAMBIC FEET)
  17. LUDWIG I
  18. EDWARD ELGAR
  19. THIS IDIOM COMES FROM MILTON’S POEM "L’ALLEGRO", (1645), WHEN THE POET DESCRIBES A FANCIFUL DANCE
  20. THE ARABIAN PENINSULA

589 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ WITH ANSWERS

  1. What name, that reflected the fact that James I was king of both Scotland and England, was given to the 20 shilling coin, that was issued in 1604? THE UNITE

2.  Three Northern Territory rivers called Alligator, (East, West and South),which run through the Kakadu National Park, drain into which Australian gulf? VAN DIEMEN GULF, WHICH IS AN INLET OF THE TIMOR SEA

3.  What was the name of Queen Victoria's favourite childhood spaniel, painted with her in a portrait by Sir George Hayter, in 1833? DASH

4.  What was the name of Australia between 1644-1788? NEW HOLLAND

5.  Which admiral was the Chief of the German Navy from 1928, until his resignation in 1943, after a disagreement over policy with Hitler? ERICH RAEDER

6.  Inferno, Prairie Fire, Purple Tiger and Hot Mexican are all varieties of what? CHILI PEPPERS

  1. The "Mystic Chord of Rising Force", was the invention of which Russian composer? ALEXANDER SCRIABIN, WHO LATER ON IN HIS CAREER (1908) CAME UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THEOSOPHY AND MYSTICAL INFLUENCES. HE REGARDED HIS WORKS AS A PREPARATION FOR A SUPREME ECSTATIC MYSTERY, WHICH WOULD ACCOMPANY A FINAL CATACLYSM.

8.  Who wrote a poem called “In Praise Of A Mountain Daisy”? ROBERT BURNS

9.  In which Irish market town, the heart of Ireland’s horse racing industry, is the National Stud and Horse Museum? KILDARE

10.  Which American songwriter won the Oscar for best song in 1936, with "The Way You Look Tonight", and in 1941, for "The Last Time I Saw Paris"? JEROME KERN

11.  What is the collective noun for a group of smelt? A QUANTITY

12.  What name is given to a print, in which the image fades gradually into the border area? A VIGNETTE

13.  Who was the prime minister when Winston Churchill was Home Secretary? HERBERT ASQUITH (1910/1911)

14.  According to German legend, on what evening would Eckhardt appear, warning everyone to go home, so that they would not be injured by the headless bodies and two-legged horses which traversed the streets on that night? MAUNDY THURSDAY

15.  Which Carthusian abbot, who is the patron saint of sick children, shoemakers and swans, protected the Jews from mobs, during the persecution of 1190-91? HUGH OF LINCOLN

16.  How many lines are there in a Spenserian stanza? NINE. THEY ARE EIGHT IAMBIC PENTAMETERS (A LINE OF VERSE WITH FIVE METRICAL FEET, EACH CONSISTING OF ONE SHORT SYLLABLE FOLLOWED BY ONE LONG SYLLABLE) AND AN ALEXANDRINE (A LINE OF VERSE WITH SIX IAMBIC FEET)

17.  The Oktoberfest was originally held to celebrate the marriage of which Bavarian king? LUDWIG I

18.  Whose last great choral work, "The Spirit of England", written between 1915 and 1917, includes a setting of Lawrence Binyon’s elegy, "For The Fallen"? EDWARD ELGAR

19.  Where do we get the phrase, "to trip the light fantastic"? THIS IDIOM COMES FROM MILTON’S POEM "L’ALLEGRO", (1645), WHEN THE POET DESCRIBES A FANCIFUL DANCE

20. The Nefud Desert is in the northern part of which peninsula, the largest in the world?
THE ARABIAN PENINSULA