348 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ

1.  In physics, what name is given to a hypothetical massless subatomic particle, believed to transmit the force binding quarks together in a hadron?

2.  What is a bibelot?

3.  What is the collective noun for a group of cockroaches?

4.  What was the alternative name for the 1350 naval battle known as "Les Espagnols sur Mer" - "the Spaniards on the Sea", which was a victory for the English, commanded by Edward III and the Black Prince, over a combined Castilian and Genoese fleet?

5.  What is the better known name for the trochil?

6.  Which Swiss scientist put forward the theory in his 19th century work, "Study on Glaciers", that there had been a fairly recent ice age in Europe?

7.  What bird has such a long tail that, when taking flight from a branch, it must launch itself backwards in order to avoid ripping the tail to shreds?

8.  What, in Indian clothing, is an achkan?

9.  Of what is polemology, the study?

10.  Which English scientist, first suggested the idea of putting an artificial satellite into orbit?

11.  What is the administrative centre, and chief town, of the Languedoc-Roussillon region in southern France?

12.  Which 1,335 ft high Shropshire hill was once called Mount Gilbert, a name given to it by the Normans, after a hermit who lived there?

  1. In 2001, in which Afghan city were two giant statues of Buddha destroyed by the Taliban?
  2. Which scientist at King’s College, London, carried out the actual experiments that led to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA?
  3. From the Latin for deaf, what term is used in phonetics for an unvoiced consonant for example, k, s or t, and in mathematics, it indicates an irrational number or the root of an integer?
  4. Which style of painting, characterised by distortions and elongations of the human figure, succeeded High Renaissance and was practiced by Giorgio Vasari, Tintoretto and El Greco?
  5. Which European country has a national flag described as thus; - three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and blue; similar to the flag of Luxembourg, which uses a lighter blue and is longer; it is one of the oldest flags in constant use, originating with William I, Prince of Orange, in the latter half of the 16th century?
  6. In cookery, what is meant by “French trimming”?
  7. Which Anglo-American poet who died in Vienna in 1973, wrote the poems "The More Loving One", "Epitaph on a Tyrant", and "As I Walked Out One Evening"?
  8. Translating as “closed country”, the term Sakoku describes the policy of national seclusion that remained in effect, in which country from 1633 until 1853, with the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry?

348 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ

  1. A GLUON
  2. A KNICK KNACK, A SMALL ARTICLE OF VIRTU.
  3. AN INTRUSION
  4. THE BATTLE OF WINCHELSEA
  5. THE CROCODILE BIRD (OR THE EGYPTIAN PLOVER)
  6. LOUIS AGASSIZ (1807-1873)
  7. THE MALE RESPLENDENT QUETZAL
  8. A KNEE LENGTH COAT WITH A HIGH COLLAR, ALSO KNOWN AS A BAGHAL BANDI
  9. WARS
  10. ISAAC NEWTON. IN 1729, TWO YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH, A BOOK OF HIS THEORIES WAS PUBLISHED IN WHICH HE DESCRIBED HOW AN ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE COULD BE LAUNCHED FROM EARTH.
  11. MONTPELIER
  12. THE WREKIN
  13. BAMIYAN
  14. ROSALIND FRANKLIN
  15. A SURD
  16. MANNERISM
  17. NETHERLANDS
  18. IT GENERALLY APPLIES TO LAMB, IN WHICH THE BONE IS EXPOSED TO MAKE CARVING EASIER
  19. W H AUDEN
  20. JAPAN – IT WAS STILL ILLEGAL TO LEAVE JAPAN UNTIL THE MEIJI RESTORATION OF 1868

348 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ WITH ANSWERS

  1. In physics, what name is given to a hypothetical massless subatomic particle, believed to transmit the force binding quarks together in a hadron? A GLUON
  2. What is a bibelot? A KNICK KNACK, A SMALL ARTICLE OF VIRTU.
  3. What is the collective noun for a group of cockroaches? AN INTRUSION
  4. What was the alternative name for the 1350 naval battle known as "Les Espagnols sur Mer" - "the Spaniards on the Sea", which was a victory for the English, commanded by Edward III and the Black Prince, over a combined Castilian and Genoese fleet? THE BATTLE OF WINCHELSEA
  5. What is the better known name for the trochil? THE CROCODILE BIRD (OR THE EGYPTIAN PLOVER)
  6. Which Swiss scientist put forward the theory in his 19th century work, "Study on Glaciers", that there had been a fairly recent ice age in Europe? LOUIS AGASSIZ (1807-1873)
  7. What bird has such a long tail that, when taking flight from a branch, it must launch itself backwards in order to avoid ripping the tail to shreds? THE MALE RESPLENDENT QUETZAL
  8. What, in Indian clothing, is an achkan? A KNEE LENGTH COAT WITH A HIGH COLLAR, ALSO KNOWN AS A BAGHAL BANDI
  9. Of what is polemology, the study? WARS
  10. Which English scientist, first suggested the idea of putting an artificial satellite into orbit? ISAAC NEWTON. IN 1729, TWO YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH, A BOOK OF HIS THEORIES WAS PUBLISHED IN WHICH HE DESCRIBED HOW AN ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE COULD BE LAUNCHED FROM EARTH.
  11. What is the administrative centre, and chief town, of the Languedoc-Roussillon region in southern France? MONTPELIER
  12. Which 1,335 ft high Shropshire hill was once called Mount Gilbert, a name given to it by the Normans, after a hermit who lived there? THE WREKIN
  13. In 2001, in which Afghan city were two giant statues of Buddha destroyed by the Taliban? BAMIYAN
  14. Which scientist at King’s College, London, carried out the actual experiments that led to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA? ROSALIND FRANKLIN
  15. From the Latin for deaf, what term is used in phonetics for an unvoiced consonant for example, k, s or t, and in mathematics, it indicates an irrational number or the root of an integer? A SURD
  16. Which style of painting, characterised by distortions and elongations of the human figure, succeeded High Renaissance and was practiced by Giorgio Vasari, Tintoretto and El Greco? MANNERISM
  17. Which European country has a national flag described as thus; - three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and blue; similar to the flag of Luxembourg, which uses a lighter blue and is longer; it is one of the oldest flags in constant use, originating with William I, Prince of Orange, in the latter half of the 16th century?
    NETHERLANDS
  18. In cookery, what is meant by “French trimming”? IT GENERALLY APPLIES TO LAMB, IN WHICH THE BONE IS EXPOSED TO MAKE CARVING EASIER
  19. Which Anglo-American poet who died in Vienna in 1973, wrote the poems "The More Loving One", "Epitaph on a Tyrant", and "As I Walked Out One Evening"? W H AUDEN
  20. Translating as “closed country”, the term Sakoku describes the policy of national seclusion that remained in effect, in which country, from 1633 until 1853, with the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry? JAPAN – IT WAS STILL ILLEGAL TO LEAVE JAPAN UNTIL THE MEIJI RESTORATION OF 1868