587 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ

  1. What name did Sir Oswald Moseley give to the first party he founded on leaving Labour in 1931, before forming the British Union of Fascists?
  2. Which Caribbean island group lies south east of Florida, and north east of Cuba, and includes islands such as Crooked Island, and the Ragged Island Range?
  3. In Buddhism, what is a Bodhisattva?
  4. Which American architect who was born in Argentina, designed the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, which are conceptually based on an Islamic eight pointed star?
  5. What name is given to a line of descent, traced exclusively through male relations?
  6. Which American cookbook author wrote "The Joy of Cooking", in 1931, which was described as an "All Purpose Cookbook" and is one of the most widely printed in the world, with 18 million copies having been sold?
  7. What word describes the small lump temporarily left on a newborn baby’s head, following a Ventouse delivery?
  8. What name is given to the steady flow of matter from the Sun's corona, that is responsible for keeping the tails of comets pointing away from the Sun?
  9. In architecture, what is the term for a space between an arch and a rectangular enclosure?
  10. The name of which newly established capital city (2005) of an Asian country, literally means "City of the Kings"?
  11. Which German city houses the oldest cathedral in northern Europe, where German kings were crowned throughout the Middle Ages?
  12. The Salmon of Knowledge in Irish mythology, was originally an ordinary salmon until it ate nine what, which fell into its well from the nine trees surrounding its pool, in the river Boyne?
  13. What name is given to a portion of the territory of a country that is separated from its main part by intervening foreign territory, an example being the Russian oblast of Kaliningrad?
  14. Which Welsh county borders Wrexham, Denbighshire and the English counties of Merseyside (across the river Dee) and Cheshire? It is considered part of the Welsh Marches.
  15. Jean Prouvost and Marcelle Auclair created the first issue of which woman's magazine in 1937, distributing it each Wednesday, with French readers flocking to newsstands to buy the early weekly edition, and making it a huge success?
  16. Which huge sand desert in the southern Arabian peninsula is one of the hottest places on earth, and contains large reservoirs of oil?
  17. The Bell Chorus comes from which opera by Leoncavallo?
  18. For what does the W stand in the name of Rev W Awdry, creator of Thomas the Tank Engine?
  19. Which game was once outlawed by the 1366 Statute of Kilkenny?
  20. In 1796, who composed the Mass In Time Of War, also known as the Kettledrum Mass?

587 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ

  1. THE NEW PARTY
  2. THE BAHAMAS
  3. AN ENLIGHTENED BEING, SUCH AS THE BUDDHA
  4. CESAR PELLI
  5. AGNATION
  6. IRMA ROMBAUER
  7. A CHIGNON
  8. THE SOLAR WIND
  9. A SPANDREL
  10. NAYPYIDAW, THE CAPITAL OF MYANMAR
  11. AACHEN
  12. HAZEL NUTS. IT WAS CAUGHT BY FINN MCCOOL WHO TASTED IT AND GAINED ALL THE KNOWLEDGE IN THE WORLD
  13. AN EXCLAVE
  14. FLINTSHIRE
  15. MARIE CLAIRE – IT WAS NOT REDISTRIBUTED UNTIL 1954 FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II, WHEN IT BECAME A MONTHLY PUBLICATION
  16. THE RUB' AL KHALI OR THE EMPTY QUARTER
  17. I PAGLIACCI
  18. WILBERT
  19. HURLING, WHICH IS A 15 A SIDE, STICK AND BALL GAME
  20. JOSEPH HAYDN

587 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ WITH ANSWERS

  1. What name did Sir Oswald Moseley give to the first party he founded on leaving Labour in 1931, before forming the British Union of Fascists? THE NEW PARTY
  2. Which Caribbean island group lies south east of Florida, and north east of Cuba, and includes islands such as Crooked Island, and the Ragged Island Range? THE BAHAMAS

3.  In Buddhism, what is a Bodhisattva? AN ENLIGHTENED BEING, SUCH AS THE BUDDHA

4.  Which American architect who was born in Argentina, designed the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, which are conceptually based on an Islamic eight pointed star? CESAR PELLI

5.  What name is given to a line of descent, traced exclusively through male relations? AGNATION

6.  Which American cookbook author wrote "The Joy of Cooking", in 1931, which was described as an "All Purpose Cookbook", and is one of the most widely printed in the world, with 18 million copies having been sold? IRMA ROMBAUER

7.  What word describes the small lump temporarily left on a newborn baby’s head, following a Ventouse delivery? A CHIGNON

8.  What name is given to the steady flow of matter from the Sun's corona, that is responsible for keeping the tails of comets pointing away from the Sun? THE SOLAR WIND

9.  In architecture, what is the term for a space between an arch and a rectangular enclosure?
A SPANDREL

10.  The name of which newly established capital city (2005) of an Asian country, literally means "City of the Kings"? NAYPYIDAW, THE CAPITAL OF MYANMAR

11.  Which German city houses the oldest cathedral in northern Europe, where German kings were crowned throughout the Middle Ages? AACHEN

12.  The Salmon of Knowledge in Irish mythology, was originally an ordinary salmon until it ate nine what, which fell into its well from the nine trees surrounding its pool, in the river Boyne? HAZEL NUTS. IT WAS CAUGHT BY FINN MCCOOL, WHO TASTED IT AND GAINED ALL THE KNOWLEDGE IN THE WORLD

13.  What name is given to a portion of the territory of a country, that is separated from its main part by intervening foreign territory, an example being the Russian oblast of Kaliningrad?
AN EXCLAVE

14.  Which Welsh county borders Wrexham, Denbighshire and the English counties of Merseyside (across the river Dee) and Cheshire? It is considered part of the Welsh Marches. FLINTSHIRE

15.  Jean Prouvost and Marcelle Auclair created the first issue of which woman's magazine in 1937, distributing it each Wednesday, with French readers flocking to newsstands to buy the early weekly edition and making it a huge success? MARIE CLAIRE – IT WAS NOT REDISTRIBUTED UNTIL 1954 FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II, WHEN IT BECAME A MONTHLY PUBLICATION

16.  Which huge sand desert in the southern Arabian peninsula, is one of the hottest places on earth, and contains large reservoirs of oil? THE RUB' AL KHALI OR THE EMPTY QUARTER

17.  The Bell Chorus comes from which opera by Leoncavallo? I PAGLIACCI

18.  For what does the W stand in the name of Rev W Awdry, creator of Thomas the Tank Engine?
WILBERT

19.  Which game was once outlawed by the 1366 Statute of Kilkenny? HURLING, WHICH IS A 15 A SIDE, STICK AND BALL GAME

20. In 1796, who composed the Mass In Time Of War, also known as the Kettledrum Mass?
JOSEPH HAYDN