345 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ

  1. "Democracy", a 2003 drama centred around Willy Brandt and an East German spy, was written by which British writer and dramatist, who was born in London in 1933?
  2. What is the principal currency unit of Eritrea, which is divided into 100 cents?
  3. Vina Linderos is a wine from which country?
  4. Functioning as an anticoagulant, draculin is an appropriately named glycoprotein, found only in the saliva of which creature?
  5. Pierre Nkurunziza has been the president of which landlocked African country, since 2005?
  6. Which king of France was the brother of Isabella, with whom he conspired against her husband, Edward II of England?
  7. Which poet born in 1572, wrote “A Nocturnal Upon St Lucy’s Day, Being The Shortest Day”?
  8. In geology, what general term is applied to a mountain range, that forms the watershed of a continent?
  9. What is another name for the brittle star variety of the starfish?
  10. Which cruise liner caught fire, and burnt out in Gladstone dock, Liverpool in 1953?
  11. Who, in Muslim tradition, is known as the “mother of believers”?
  12. Which scientist described the term “living fossil”, to describe among other things, the duck billed platypus and the lung fish, the term first appearing in a seminal work of 1859?
  13. The English artist Sir Roland Penrose, (1900-1984), was part of which artistic movement?
  14. In 1817, President James Monroe sent a team of negotiators to London, and they arranged for the Convention of 1818. What was its purpose?
  15. On the death of which emperor in 395 AD, was the Roman empire divided into a western and an eastern empire?
  16. In which novel by Charles Dickens is it said of the title characters, that they “had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts, they left that fancy ware to boys and girls and boarding schools and books”?
  17. What is a spring peeper?
  18. Plants, whose roots are described as haustorial, normally absorb food and water from which general source?
  19. Which Latvian-American artist, who killed himself in 1970, by slashing his wrists, painted such works as "Red On Maroon", Four Darks In Red", and "The Omen of the Eagle"?
  20. Who was the National Chairman of the Confederation of Conservative Students from 1986-7, and became MP for Buckingham in 1997?

345 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ

  1. MICHAEL FRAYN
  2. THE NAKFA
  3. CHILE
  4. VAMPIRE BATS
  5. BURUNDI
  6. CHARLES IV (CHARLES THE FAIR).
  7. JOHN DONNE (IN THE JULIAN CALENDAR, THIS WAS THE 13TH DECEMBER)
  8. THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE
  9. THE SERPENT STAR - THEY ARE ECHINODERMS
  10. THE EMPRESS OF CANADA
  11. AISHA, THE 3RD AND FAVOURITE WIFE OF MOHAMMED, AND THE DAUGHTER OF ABU BAKR.
  12. CHARLES DARWIN
  13. SURREALISM
  14. TO SETTLE THE BORDER BETWEEN THE USA AND CANADA
  15. THEODOSIUS THE GREAT (347-395)
  16. DOMBEY AND SON
  17. A SMALL CHORUS FROG WIDESPREAD THROUGHOUT EASTERN USA AND CANADA. THEY ARE SO CALLED BECAUSE OF THEIR CHIRPING CALL, WHICH MARKS THE BEGINNING OF SPRING
  18. OTHER PLANTS
  19. MARK ROTHKO
  20. JOHN BERCOW, THE PRESENT SPEAKER

345 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ WITH ANSWERS

  1. "Democracy", a 2003 drama centred around Willy Brandt and an East German spy, was written by which British writer and dramatist, who was born in London in 1933? MICHAEL FRAYN
  2. What is the principal currency unit of Eritrea, which is divided into 100 cents? THE NAKFA
  3. Vina Linderos is a wine from which country? CHILE
  4. Functioning as an anticoagulant, draculin is an appropriately named glycoprotein, found only in the saliva of which creature? VAMPIRE BATS
  5. Pierre Nkurunziza has been the president of which landlocked African country, since 2005? BURUNDI

6.  Which king of France was the brother of Isabella, with whom he conspired against her husband, Edward II of England? CHARLES IV (CHARLES THE FAIR).

7.  Which poet born in 1572, wrote “A Nocturnal Upon St Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day"? JOHN DONNE (IN THE JULIAN CALENDAR, THIS WAS THE 13TH OF DECEMBER)

8.  In geology, what general term is applied to a mountain range, that forms the watershed of a continent? THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE

9.  What is another name for the brittle star variety of the starfish? THE SERPENT STAR - THEY ARE ECHINODERMS

10.  Which cruise liner caught fire, and burnt out in Gladstone dock, Liverpool in 1953? THE EMPRESS OF CANADA

11.  Who, in Muslim tradition, is known as the “mother of believers”? AISHA, THE 3RD AND FAVOURITE WIFE OF MOHAMMED AND THE DAUGHTER OF ABU BAKR.

12.  Which scientist described the term “living fossil”, to describe among other things, the duck billed platypus and the lung fish, the term first appearing in a seminal work of 1859? CHARLES DARWIN

13.  The English artist Sir Roland Penrose, (1900-1984),was part of which artistic movement? SURREALISM

14.  In 1817, President James Monroe sent a team of negotiators to London, and they arranged for the Convention of 1818. What was its purpose? TO SETTLE THE BORDER BETWEEN THE USA AND CANADA

15.  On the death of which emperor in 395 AD, was the Roman empire divided into a western and an eastern empire? THEODOSIUS THE GREAT (347-395)

16.  In which novel by Charles Dickens is it said of the title characters, that they “had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts, they left that fancy ware to boys and girls and boarding schools and books”? DOMBEY AND SON

17.  What is a spring peeper? A SMALL CHORUS FROG, WIDESPREAD THROUGHOUT EASTERN USA AND CANADA. THEY ARE SO CALLED BECAUSE OF THEIR CHIRPING CALL, WHICH MARKS THE BEGINNING OF SPRING

18.  Plants, whose roots are described as haustorial, normally absorb food and water from which general source? OTHER PLANTS

19.  Which Latvian-American artist, who killed himself in 1970, by slashing his wrists, painted such works as "Red On Maroon", "Four Darks In Red", and "The Omen of the Eagle"? MARK ROTHKO

20. Who was the National Chairman of the Federation of Conservative Students from 1986-7, and became MP for Buckingham in 1997? JOHN BERCOW, THE PRESENT SPEAKER