IB April 2018

QUIZ
In Brief Quiz
Round 1: pot pourri
1 What do the initials of the medical investigation PET scan stand for?
2 Which real-life Disney character is buried, appropriately enough, in Gravesend?
3 Who in 2017 was buried next to Marylin Monroe?
4 Which country in 2016 elected as its president a man whose nickname is derived
from a fictional San Francisco policeman played in three films by Clint Eastwood?
5 In which now largely outmoded piece of meteorological equipment would you
f ind a Toricellean vacuum?
6 In American politics, what is a faithless elector?
7 Who was said, when executed for treason in 1916 after an imaginative
interpretation of the Treason Act 1351, to have been “hanged on a comma”?
8 What has the French car company Peugeot manufactured continuously since
1842?
Round 2: hidden theme
All answers share a common theme. The words of the theme may be all or part of one of the
words, or the only word, of the answer. First and surnames are required where appropriate.
9 Which British poet, winner of the Nobel prize for literature, wrote the lines “The tumult and
the
shouting dies / The captains and the kings depart”?
10 What was the name of the Greek goddess of harvest and agriculture?
11 Which actor, comedian and writer came to fame as a character in a children’s TV series and is now, amongst other things, the
chairman of a long-running BBC radio panel game?
12 Which Australian was the first actor to win a posthumous Oscar, for best actor in 1977?
13 Which leading politician was, perhaps unfairly, nicknamed Worzel Gummidge?
14 A Sherlock Holmes short story centres around a man who applies for, and gets, employment copying pages from the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, a job for which he is eligible by reason of a particular physical characteristic. What is the title of the
story?
15 Which German-born British scientist was one of three joint winners of the Nobel prize for medicine in 1945, awarded for work
on penicillin?
16 Which character from an American sitcom, which ran for ten years from 1994, shares his surname with a Microsoft web site?
Round 3 – pairs
17 On a musical score, what does the marking “Sul G” mean?
18 On a musical score, what does the marking “Col Legno” mean?
19 What inscription appears on the brass letterbox of 10 Downing Street?
20 Whose epitaph reads “Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice”?
21 The lyrics to which long-running TV comedy series’ theme song begin “It’s cold outside”?
22 The lyrics to which long-running TV comedy series’ theme song begin “Hey baby I hear the blues a-callin’”?
23 In which opera do the characters Donna Anna, Donna Elvira and the Commendatore appear?
24 In which opera do the characters Tamino, Pamina and the Queen of The Night appear?
25 What word, now the name of a giant IT company, was introduced into the English language by Jonathan Swift, in Gulliver’s
Travels?
26 What word was introduced to physics in 1963 by Murray Gell-Mann, winner of the Nobel Prize for physics in 1969? He took
the word, though not its pronunciation, from James Joyce.
27 What is the derivation of the word used to describe the assembly of cardinals which elects a new Pope?
28 A Pope may appoint a cardinal “in pectore”. What does this signify?
29 After whom is a dish of eggs, cream and smoked haddock or other white fish named? It may have other ingredients, such as
béchamel.
30 After whom is a dessert of vanilla ice cream, peaches and raspberry sauce named?
31 Who walked out of a TV interview after being described by the interviewer, Robin Day, as “a here today, gone tomorrow
politician”?
32 Which actor walked out of a BBC radio 4 interview shortly after being accused of adopting an Irish accent for the character he
had recently played in a film?
Questions set by kikashi.
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