678 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ

  1. Which Mediterranean resort gives its name to a method of solving mathematical problems, such as the numerical integration of functions in many dimensions, by the use of sampling, involving the generation of random numbers, usually by a computer?
  2. The Reynolds number, which is an important dimensionless quantity, is used in the study of fluids, to predict what?
  3. What name is given to the economic ideology, formulated by such Roman Catholic thinkers as G K Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, that was based on the principles of Catholic social thinking, especially the teachings of Pope Leo XIII?
  4. Which American minimalist composer’s pieces include "Hydrogen Jukebox", composed to underscore poet, Allan Ginsburg's, readings; the multimedia chamber opera, "The Photographer", about the murder trial of Eadweard Muybridge, (who first solved the mystery of a horse's gait in a series of motion photographs); and "1000 Airplanes on the Roof" which underscores an actor's monologue of alien abduction.
  5. Which Greek word for "any straight rod or bar", translated into classical Latin as “measuring line”, is used by the Anglican, Catholic and Orthodox churches to designate official church law?
  6. Which river rises in the Blackdown Hills, just inside Somerset, and flows south through east Devon until it enters the English Channel, at the western end of Lyme Bay?
  7. What name is given to the instrument, used in soil science, to measure the water content of soil?
  8. Situated in the North Caucasus mountains, which large republic, a federal subject of the Russian Federation, was established in January 1921, and has its capital at Makhachkala?
  9. What was the pseudonym of Pierre Culliford, the Belgian cartoonist, best known for his creation of "The Smurfs" comic strip?
  10. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischman of the University of Utah claimed to have discovered what, in 1989, which, if true, would have revolutionised physics?
  11. Which Northern city was the site of a victory for Oliver Cromwell and his forces at a battle of 1648, and for a defeat for the Jacobites in 1715?
  12. What name is given to the collection of those instruments, by which the nobility and gentry of Scotland, were constrained to subscribe allegiance to Edward I of England, in 1296?
  13. Who wrote the poem, "The Children’s Hour", in which he describes his three daughters, “Grave Alice, Laughing Allegra and Edith With The Golden Hair”? The poet tells how he will hold them “in the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart”.
  14. The sculptures of Rodin led which Bohemian-Austrian poet, to develop the idea of the “thing-poem”, while he more famously asked “Who, though I cry aloud,/ would hear me in the angel orders?” in the first of his ten Duino Elegies?
  15. What was the name of the hardworking horse in the George Orwell book, "Animal Farm"? Its character represented the proletariat.
  16. Which natural clay has the capacity to decolourise oils or other liquids, without chemical treatment?
  17. Which institution merged with the Historical Manuscripts Commission, the Office of Public Sector Information and Her Majesty's Stationery Office in 2003, to form the body known as the National Archives?
  18. Which iconic Liverpool building, originally envisaged as a new festival and concert venue, was designed by the architect, Harvey Lonsdale Elmes, in 1839. Having also won a competition to design new assizes for the city, he suggested that the two functions could be combined in one building, on a scale which would surpass most of the other public buildings in the country, at the time.
  19. In music, what name is given to a type of contrapuntal composition, or technique of composition, for a fixed number of parts, normally referred to as “voices”?
  20. Which American politician, in a 1952 speech in Hartford, Connecticut, said, "There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls."?

678 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ

  1. THE MONTE CARLO METHOD
  2. TURBULENCE
  3. DISTRIBUTISM
  4. PHILIP GLASS
  5. CANON
  6. THE RIVER OTTER
  7. A TENSIOMETER
  8. DAGESTAN
  9. PEYO
  10. COLD FUSION, WHICH HAS NOW BEEN DESIGNATED A PATHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, AN AREA OF RESEARCH WHERE PEOPLE ARE TRICKED INTO FALSE RESULTS
  11. PRESTON
  12. THE RAGMAN ROLLS
  13. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
  14. RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926)
  15. BOXER
  16. FULLER'S EARTH
  17. THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
  18. ST GEORGE’S HALL
  19. A FUGUE
  20. ADLAI STEVENSON

678 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ WITH ANSWERS

1.  Which Mediterranean resort gives its name to a method of solving mathematical problems, such as the numerical integration of functions in many dimensions, by the use of sampling, involving the generation of random numbers, usually by a computer? THE MONTE CARLO METHOD

2.  The Reynolds number, which is an important dimensionless quantity, is used in the study of fluids, to predict what? TURBULENCE

3.  What name is given to the economic ideology, formulated by such Roman Catholic thinkers as G K Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, that was based on the principles of Catholic social thinking, especially the teachings of Pope Leo XIII? DISTRIBUTISM

4.  Which American minimalist composer’s pieces include "Hydrogen Jukebox", composed to underscore poet, Allan Ginsburg's, readings; the multimedia chamber opera, "The Photographer", about the murder trial of Eadweard Muybridge, (who first solved the mystery of a horse's gait in a series of motion photographs); and "1000 Airplanes on the Roof" which underscores an actor's monologue of alien abduction. PHILIP GLASS

5.  Which Greek word for "any straight rod or bar", translated into classical Latin as “measuring line”, is used by the Anglican, Catholic and Orthodox churches to designate official church law? CANON

6.  Which river rises in the Blackdown Hills, just inside Somerset, and flows south through east Devon until it enters the English Channel, at the western end of Lyme Bay? THE RIVER OTTER

7.  What name is given to the instrument, used in soil science, to measure the water content of soil? A TENSIOMETER

8.  Situated in the North Caucasus mountains, which large republic, a federal subject of the Russian Federation, was established in January 1921, and has its capital at Makhachkala?
DAGESTAN

9.  What was the pseudonym of Pierre Culliford, the Belgian cartoonist, best known for his creation of "The Smurfs" comic strip? PEYO

10.  Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischman of the University of Utah, claimed to have discovered what, in 1989, which, if true, would have revolutionised physics? COLD FUSION, WHICH HAS NOW BEEN DESIGNATED A PATHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, AN AREA OF RESEARCH WHERE PEOPLE ARE TRICKED INTO FALSE RESULTS

11.  Which Northern city was the site of a victory for Oliver Cromwell and his forces at a battle of 1648, and for a defeat for the Jacobites in 1715? PRESTON

12.  What name is given to the collection of those instruments, by which the nobility and gentry of Scotland, were constrained to subscribe allegiance to Edward I of England, in 1296? THE RAGMAN ROLLS

13.  Who wrote the poem, "The Children’s Hour", in which he describes his three daughters, “Grave Alice, Laughing Allegra and Edith With The Golden Hair”? The poet tells how he will hold them “in the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart”. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

14.  The sculptures of Rodin led which Bohemian-Austrian poet, to develop the idea of the “thing-poem,” while he more famously asked “Who, though I cry aloud,/ would hear me in the angel orders?” in the first of his ten Duino Elegies? RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926)

15.  What was the name of the hardworking horse in the George Orwell book, "Animal Farm"? Its character represented the proletariat. BOXER

16.  Which natural clay has the capacity to decolourise oils or other liquids, without chemical treatment? FULLER'S EARTH

17.  Which institution merged with the Historical Manuscripts Commission, the Office of Public Sector Information and Her Majesty's Stationery Office in 2003, to form the body known as the National Archives? THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

18.  Which iconic Liverpool building, originally envisaged as a new festival and concert venue, was designed by the architect, Harvey Lonsdale Elmes, in 1839. Having also won a competition to design new assizes for the city, he suggested that the two functions could be combined in one building, on a scale which would surpass most of the other public buildings in the country, at the time. ST GEORGE’S HALL

19.  In music, what name is given to a type of contrapuntal composition, or technique of composition, for a fixed number of parts, normally referred to as “voices”? A FUGUE

20. Which American politician, in a 1952 speech in Hartford, Connecticut, said, "There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls."? ADLAI STEVENSON