620 - Daphne's Daily Quiz

620 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ

  1. What is the name of the footpath, opened in 1994, which covers 230 miles from the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, through several Midlands counties, to Stockport in Greater Manchester?
  2. What name is given to a short instrumental composition, such as Beethoven’s "Fur Elise"?
  3. Which mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal, was the first 8,000 metres peak to be climbed, when it was conquered in 1950, by a French party led by Maurice Herzog?
  4. What is the only country in Europe which still operates the death penalty?
  5. What nickname has been given to the Kushtaka, a mythological half-human/half-animal shape-shifting creature that lives in Alaska?
  6. Which German wine region includes vineyards situated on the Saar and Ruwer rivers, and is known for the varieties, Reisling, Muller-Thurgau and Kerner?
  7. Who was the architect of Peckham Library, the so called “Building With A Beret”, which won the Stirling Prize for Architecture in 2000?
  8. Which abstract artist painted a series of elegies to the Spanish Republic, intended as a "lamentation or funeral song" after the Spanish Civil War, which included the stark abstract painting, "At Five In The Afternoon"?
  9. What is the nickname of the Egyptian mongoose, the ichneumon?
  10. What is the name of both the national park and the mountain group, part of the Great Dividing Range, which lie immediately to the west of Sydney?
  11. Which English cathedral, dedicated to St Mary, was damaged by an earthquake in 1185, and houses the body of St Hugh?
  12. What are: The De’il Among The Tailors, Flowers of Edinburgh, Maxwell’s Rant and Petronella?
  13. What sort of craftsman would use a travisher?
  14. Tapa is a type of cloth made in the Pacific islands, from which material?
  15. Which Church of England priest, (1819-1875), a one time chaplain to Queen Victoria, wrote the historical romances, "Hereward the Wake", and "Hypatia"?
  16. Which Scottish scientist, in 1873, established the link between light and electromagnetism?
  17. Which city in Asia is nicknamed the Venice of Japan, because of its numerous canals and rivers?
  18. What is the name for the stretch of coastline that connects St Tropez, Cannes and Nice?
  19. In the government of which country, was the name Genro, meaning principal elders, given to an extra constitutional oligarchy of senior statesmen, dominant from the promulgation of the Meiji constitution?
  20. Which direction of a compass equates to 315 degrees?

620 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ

  1. THE MIDSHIRES WAY
  2. A BAGATELLE
  3. ANNAPURNA
  4. BELARUS
  5. THE LAND OTTER MAN
  6. MOSELLE
  7. WILL ALSOP
  8. ROBERT MOTHERWELL
  9. PHAROAH’S RAT
  10. THE BLUE MOUNTAINS
  11. LINCOLN
  12. SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCES
  13. THIS IS A CARPENTER’S SHAVE, USED IN THE FINAL SMOOTHING OF CHAIR SEATS
  14. THE INNER BARK OF THE PAPER MULBERRY TREE
  15. CHARLES KINGSLEY
  16. JAMES CLERK MAXWELL
  17. OSAKA
  18. THE COTE D’AZUR
  19. JAPAN
  20. NORTH WEST

620 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ WITH ANSWERS

1.  What is the name of the footpath, opened in 1994, which covers 230 miles from the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, through several Midlands counties, to Stockport in Greater Manchester? THE MIDSHIRES WAY

2.  What name is given to a short instrumental composition, such as Beethoven’s "Fur Elise"?
A BAGATELLE

3.  Which mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal, was the first 8,000 metres peak to be climbed, when it was conquered in 1950, by a French party led by Maurice Herzog? ANNAPURNA

4.  What is the only country in Europe which still operates the death penalty? BELARUS

5.  What nickname has been given to the Kushtaka, a mythological half-human/half-animal shape-shifting creature that lives in Alaska? THE LAND OTTER MAN

6.  Which German wine region includes vineyards situated on the Saar and Ruwer rivers, and is known for the varieties, Reisling, Muller-Thurgau and Kerner? MOSELLE

7.  Who was the architect of Peckham Library, the so called “Building With A Beret”, which won the Stirling Prize for Architecture in 2000? WILL ALSOP

8.  Which abstract artist painted a series of elegies to the Spanish Republic, intended as a "lamentation or funeral song" after the Spanish Civil War, which included the stark abstract painting, "At Five In The Afternoon"? ROBERT MOTHERWELL

9.  What is the nickname of the Egyptian mongoose, the ichneumon? PHARAOH'S RAT

10.  What is the name of both the national park and the mountain group, part of the Great Dividing Range, which lie immediately to the west of Sydney? THE BLUE MOUNTAINS

  1. Which English cathedral, dedicated to St Mary, was damaged by an earthquake in 1185, and houses the body of St Hugh? LINCOLN

12.  What are: The De’il Among The Tailors, Flowers of Edinburgh, Maxwell’s Rant and Petronella? SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCES

13.  What sort of craftsman would use a travisher? THIS IS A CARPENTER’S SHAVE, USED IN THE FINAL SMOOTHING OF CHAIR SEATS

14.  Tapa is a type of cloth made in the Pacific islands, from which material? THE INNER BARK OF THE PAPER MULBERRY TREE

15.  Which Church of England priest, (1819-1875), a one time chaplain to Queen Victoria, wrote the historical romances, "Hereward the Wake", and "Hypatia"? CHARLES KINGSLEY

16.  Which Scottish scientist, in 1873, established the link between light and electromagnetism? JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

17.  Which city in Asia is nicknamed the Venice of Japan, because of its numerous canals and rivers? OSAKA

18.  What is the name for the stretch of coastline that connects St Tropez, Cannes and Nice?
THE COTE D’AZUR

19.  In the government of which country, was the name Genro, meaning principal elders, given to an extra constitutional oligarchy of senior statesmen, dominant from the promulgation of the Meiji constitution? JAPAN

20. Which direction of a compass equates to 315 degrees? NORTH WEST

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