597 - Daphne's Daily Quiz

597 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ

1. Which theatre in the Haymarket, claims to be the first opera house in London?

2. Which two of the Canterbury Tales are told in prose?

3. A turning point in the history of Athens was an expedition to besiege and blockade a certain city, an expedition which ended in disaster in 413 BC. Which city was it?

4. Which state, which lies in North West Mexico, has as its capital, Hermosillo, and borders the US states of Arizona and New Mexico?

5. What Arabic word is commonly used as a casual term for the government-authorised, or government recognised, religious police in Saudi Arabia?

6. Which American army division arrived at the Western Front in 1917, under the command of Colonel Douglas MacArthur?

7. Bacalao is a dried form of which fish?

8. Which large Scottish island is separated from the island of Bute, by the Sound of Bute?

9. What name was given to the 1936 incident in which Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Kuomintang, was arrested by Marshal Zhang Xueliang, a former Manchurian warlord, in a successful attempt to persuade him to form a common front with the Chinese Communists, against Japan?

10. What name was given to the form of porcelain, which can be moulded in liquid state, but looks like marble when set?

11. Which creatures suffer from gapeworm?

12. In which novel by Stendhal, does Fabrice del Dongo, a young Italian nobleman, fight for Napoleon at Waterloo and thereafter returns to his home town, where he has an affair with Clelia Conti?

13. In Irish legend, Aengus and his beloved Caer Ibormeith, are united when both are turned into what creatures? 14. What was the name of the comic strip character who first appeared in 1941, and whose alter ego was Steve Rogers?

15. Who was the leading figure of the 19th century English artists, known as the Ancients?

16. In which capital city will you find the Monumental Axis, a central avenue, erroneously described as the world's widest road?

17. The finest quality jadeite, which is of an almost transparent vibrant emerald-green colour, is known as what?

18. In which Philadelphia building did the first Continental Congress take place, in 1774?

19. Often used interchangeably with the term “analytic functions”, what word is used to describe mathematical functions in the complex plane? The term derives from the Greek word for whole and appearance.

20. Who was the prime minister when the Cat and Mouse Act was passed, to curtail the activities of the suffragettes?

597 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ

1. HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE

2. THE PARSON'S TALE AND THE TALE OF MELIBEE

3. SYRACUSE, WHICH LAY ON THE ISLAND OF SICILY

4. SONORA

5. THE MUTAWEEN

6. THE RAINBOW DIVISION, SO NICKNAMED FROM THEIR SHOULDER PATCHES WHICH SHOWED A RAINBOW. THEY WERE THE 42ND INFANTRY DIVISION AND THE DIVISION OF THE NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARD

7. COD 8. ARRAN

9. THE XI'AN INCIDENT

10. PARIAN WARE

11. BIRDS, MAINLY YOUNG DOMESTICATED CHICKENS AND TURKEYS

12. THE CHARTERHOUSE OF PARMA. HE DIES A POOR PLAIN MONK IN THE TITLE ESTABLISHMENT

13. SWANS

14. CAPTAIN AMERICA

15. SAMUEL PALMER

16. BRASILIA

17. IMPERIAL JADE

18. CARPENTERS' HALL

19. HOLOMORPHIC

20. HERBERT ASQUITH (1913)

597 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ WITH ANSWERS

1. Which theatre in the Haymarket, claims to be the first opera house in London? HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE '

2. Which two of the Canterbury Tales are told in prose? THE PARSON'S TALE AND THE TALE OF MELIBEE

3. A turning point in the history of Athens was an expedition to besiege and blockade a certain city, an expedition which ended in disaster in 413 BC. Which city was it? SYRACUSE WHICH LAY ON THE ISLAND OF SICILY

4. Which state, which lies in North West Mexico, has as its capital, Hermosillo, and borders the US states of Arizona and New Mexico? SONORA

5. What Arabic word is commonly used as a casual term for the government-authorised, or government recognised, religious police in Saudi Arabia? THE MUTAWEEN

6. Which American army division arrived at the Western Front in 1917, under the command of Colonel Douglas MacArthur? THE RAINBOW DIVISION, SO NICKNAMED FROM THEIR SHOULDER PATCHES WHICH SHOWED A RAINBOW. THEY WERE THE 42ND INFANTRY DIVISION AND THE DIVISION OF THE NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARD

7. Bacalao is a dried form of which fish? COD

8. Which large Scottish island is separated from the island of Bute, by the Sound of Bute? ARRAN

9. What name was given to the 1936 incident, in which Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Kuomintang, was arrested by Marshal Zhang Xueliang, a former Manchurian warlord, in a successful attempt to persuade him to form a common front with the Chinese Communists, against Japan? THE XI'AN INCIDENT

10. What name was given to the form of porcelain, which can be moulded in liquid state, but looks like marble when set? PARIAN WARE

11. Which creatures suffer from gapeworm? BIRDS, MAINLY YOUNG DOMESTICATED CHICKENS AND TURKEYS

12. In which novel by Stendhal, does Fabrice del Dongo, a young Italian nobleman, fight for Napoleon at Waterloo and thereafter returns to his home town, where he has an affair with Clelia Conti? THE CHARTERHOUSE OF PARMA. HE DIES A POOR PLAIN MONK IN THE TITLE ESTABLISHMENT

13. In Irish legend, Aengus and his beloved Caer Ibormeith, are united when both are turned into what creatures? SWANS.

14. What was the name of the comic strip character who first appeared in 1941, and whose alter ego was Steve Rogers? CAPTAIN AMERICA 15. Who was the leading figure of the 19th century English artists, known as the Ancients? SAMUEL PALMER

16. In which capital city will you find the Monumental Axis, a central avenue, erroneously described as the world's widest road? BRASILIA

17. The finest quality jadeite, which is of an almost transparent vibrant emerald-green colour, is known as what? IMPERIAL JADE

18. In which Philadelphia building, did the first Continental Congress take place in 1774? CARPENTERS' HALL

19. Often used interchangeably with the term “analytic functions”, what word is used to describe mathematical functions in the complex plane? The term derives from the Greek word for whole and appearance. HOLOMORPHIC

20. Who was the prime minister when the Cat and Mouse Act was passed, to curtail the activities of the suffragettes? HERBERT ASQUITH (1913)