703 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ

  1. The horo is a folk dance from which country?
  2. What was the name of the locomotive built by Peter Cooper, which first ran in the USA in 1830?
  3. What was the name of the American cartoonist, (1851-1928), best known for his illustrations of the Uncle Remus stories, which were written by Joel Chandler Harris?
  4. In library classification systems, which term refers to three-dimensional objects from real life, such as coins, tools and textiles, that do not easily fit into the orderly categories of printed material?
  5. Which ancient Greek influenced Semitic kingdom, flourished in the 1st-6th century AD, and covered a large part of modern Ethiopia and the Sudan?
  6. Which Italian composer and musicologist wrote the 1917 work "Ancient Airs and Dances", a set of three orchestral suites, the first section of which draws on lute songs composed by Galileo’s father, Vincenzo Galilei, while the second movement borrows from an aria from Marin Mersenne?
  7. Which is the UK’s smallest true thrush?
  8. What is an AngioCat?
  9. "O Patria Mia" is an aria from which Verdi opera?
  10. What name is given to the derived S I unit, which is described as a change in acceleration, or metres per second, cubed?
  11. In which Dylan Thomas poem does the first line rhyme with the last, the second with the last but one, and so on until the rhymes meet in the middle?
  12. What is the name of Russia’s main domestic security agency, which is the main successor agency of the Soviet-era CHEKA, NKVD and KGB?
  13. Who was the first woman to write an English cookery book, which she called The Ladies Directory, in 1661?
  14. Which geological period was named in 1879 by the British geologist Charles Lapworth, to resolve a dispute between the followers of Adam Sedgwick and Roderick Murchison who were placing the same rock beds in northern Wales into the Cambrian and Silurian periods, respectively? Graptolites are the most numerous fossils from this period although brachiopods, tribolites and the first corals, also date it.
  15. Which Greek writer in his "Poetics", introduced the concept of hamartia, meaning a fatal flaw, leading to the downfall of a tragic hero?
  16. The hyrax (the shrew mouse) is a distant relative of which much larger mammal?
  17. Which Leeds-born playwright wrote the 1959 play, "The Long and The Short and The Tall", which originally starred Peter O'Toole and Robert Shaw?
  18. Which Parisian railway station would you go to, to catch the Eurostar?
  19. What is the nickname of the American fighter plane, the McDonnell Douglas F-18?
  20. What is kenophobia a fear of?

703 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ

  1. BULGARIA, WHICH IS SIMILAR TO THE HORA FROM ROMANIA, AND THE ORO FROM MACEDONIA, AND IS A CLOSED CIRCLE DANCE
  2. THE TOM THUMB. ONE OF THE FIRST AMERICAN STEAM LOCOMOTIVES, IT INTRODUCED STEAM POWER TO THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD
  3. ARTHUR BURDETT FROST
  4. REALIA
  5. AKSUM
  6. OTTORINO RESPHIGHI (1879-1936)
  7. THE REDWING
  8. A MACHINE THAT USES X-RAYS TO CHECK FOR HEART DISEASE
  9. AIDA
  10. A JERK
  11. THE PROLOGUE
  12. THE FSD. (THE FEDERAL SECURITY SERVICE OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
  13. HANNAH WOLLEY
  14. THE ORDOVICIAN PERIOD WHICH BEGAN ABOUT 500 MILLION YEARS AGO, LASTING ABOUT 60 MILLION YEARS AND FALLING BETWEEN THE CAMBRIAN AND SILURIAN PERIODS
  15. ARISTOTLE
  16. THE ELEPHANT
  17. WILLIS HALL
  18. THE GARE DU NORD
  19. THE HORNET
  20. EMPTY SPACES, VOIDS

703 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ WITH ANSWERS

1.  The horo is a folk dance from which country? BULGARIA, WHICH IS SIMILAR TO THE HORA FROM ROMANIA, AND THE ORO FROM MACEDONIA, AND IS A CLOSED CIRCLE DANCE

2.  What was the name of the locomotive built by Peter Cooper, which first ran in the USA in 1830? THE TOM THUMB. ONE OF THE FIRST AMERICAN STEAM LOCOMOTIVES, IT INTRODUCED STEAM POWER TO THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD

3.  What was the name of the American cartoonist, (1851-1928), best known for his illustrations of the Uncle Remus stories, which were written by Joel Chandler Harris? ARTHUR BURDETT FROST

4.  In library classification systems, which term refers to three-dimensional objects from real life, such as coins, tools and textiles that do not easily fit into the orderly categories of printed material? REALIA

5.  Which ancient Greek influenced Semitic kingdom, flourished in the 1st-6th century AD, and covered a large part of modern Ethiopia and the Sudan? AKSUM

6.  Which Italian composer and musicologist wrote the 1917 work "Ancient Airs and Dances", a set of three orchestral suites, the first section of which draws on lute songs composed by Galileo’s father, Vincenzo Galilei, while the second movement borrows from an aria from Marin Mersenne? OTTORINO RESPHIGHI (1879-1936)

7.  Which is the UK’s smallest true thrush? THE REDWING

8.  What is an AngioCat? A MACHINE THAT USES X-RAYS TO CHECK FOR HEART DISEASE

9.  "O Patria Mia", is an aria from which Verdi opera? AIDA

10.  What name is given to the derived S I unit, which is described as a change in acceleration, or metres per second, cubed? A JERK

11.  In which Dylan Thomas poem does the first line rhyme with the last, the second with the last but one and so on until the rhymes meet in the middle? THE PROLOGUE

12.  What is the name of Russia’s main domestic security agency, which is the main successor agency of the Soviet-era CHEKA, NKVD and KGB? THE FSD. (THE FEDERAL SECURITY SERVICE OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION)

13.  Who was the first woman to write an English cookery book, which she called The Ladies Directory, in 1661? HANNAH WOLLEY

14.  Which geological period was named in 1879 by the British geologist Charles Lapworth, to resolve a dispute between the followers of Adam Sedgwick and Roderick Murchison who were placing the same rock beds in northern Wales into the Cambrian and Silurian periods, respectively? Graptolites are the most numerous fossils from this period although brachiopods, tribolites and the first corals, also date it. THE ORDOVICIAN PERIOD WHICH BEGAN ABOUT 500 MILLION YEARS AGO, LASTING ABOUT 60 MILLION YEARS AND FALLING BETWEEN THE CAMBRIAN AND SILURIAN PERIODS

15.  Which Greek writer in his "Poetics", introduced the concept of hamartia, meaning a fatal flaw, leading to the downfall of a tragic hero? ARISTOTLE

16.  The hyrax (the shrew mouse) is a distant relative of which much larger mammal? THE ELEPHANT

17.  Which Leeds-born playwright wrote the 1959 play, "The Long and The Short and The Tall", which originally starred Peter O'Toole and Robert Shaw? WILLIS HALL

18.  Which Parisian railway station would you go to, to catch the Eurostar? THE GARE DU NORD

19.  What is the nickname of the American fighter plane the McDonnell Douglas F-18? THE HORNET

20. What is kenophobia a fear of? EMPTY SPACES, VOIDS