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IQuiz 6
Jack's qs and mixture
Question | Answer |
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Abyssinian philosopher who wrote 1667 treatise Hatata | Zera Yacob |
Son of Methuselah and father of Noah | Lamech |
First avatar of Vishnu, took form of a fish to save Manu | Matsya |
French artist who did The Painter's Studio in 1855 (now in Musee d'Orsay) | Gustave Courbet |
Ancient Jewish sect associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls | Essenes |
Author of 1929 book Face of Our Time, considered most important German portrait photographer of 20th century | August Sander |
Island in UAE, means "island of happiness", home to Louvre Abu Dhabi and Guggenheim Abu Dhabi | Saadiyat Island |
French architect who designed Louvre Abu Dhabi and won Pritzker Prize in 2008 | Jean Nouvel |
Archaeological site in Oaxaca, considered most important of Zapotec culture - their main religious centre | Mitla |
Archaeological site in Oaxaca that was a political centre in Zapotec culture | Monte Alban |
Author of 1966 work The Architecture of the City, first Italian to win the Pritzker Prize (1990) | Aldo Rossi |
Album and country singer that swept 2018 Grammy Awards including Album of the Year | Golden Hour, Kacey Musgraves |
French composer who wrote Symphonie espagnole for violin and orchestra | Edouard Lalo |
Lead singer of disco group Arabesque, had solo hits with "(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena" and "In the Heat of the Night" | Sandra |
In the ballet Giselle, name of her lover who is deceitful and betrothed to another | Duke Albrecht of Silesia |
Name of the mystic and supernatural women in the ballet Giselle | The Wilis |
Swedish composer who won Best Original Score for 2018 film Black Panther, has also written scores for Creed franchise | Ludwig Goransson |
Author of 1957 novel The Flower Drum Song on which the musical is based | Chin Yang Lee |
Debut album of US protopunk band MC5, considered forerunner to punk rock music | Kick Out The Jams |
Year of the Six Emperors | 238 AD |
First woman to be Empress of Japan (593 to 628 AD) | Suiko |
French king known as the Affable, died in 1498 after striking his head on a door lintel | Charles VIII |
Sri Lankan president from 1989 to 1993, when he was assassinated by Tamil Tigers | Ranasinghe Premadasa |
Prize established in 1980 by philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull, billed as "Alternative Nobel Prize" | Right Livelihood Award |
Wife of Alexander Hamilton, co-founder of first private orphanage in NYC | Elizabeth Schuyler |
Persian ruling dynasty from 1501 to 1736, had capitals at Tabriz, Qazvin and Isfahan | Safavid dynasty |
European country that legalised same sex marriage on January 1st, 2019 | Austria |
Dried latex from rhizone of Ferula species, nicknamed "stinking gum" and used in cooking to give a flavour similar to leeks | Asafoetida |
Roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey - world's tallest | Kingda Ka |
French fashion designer dubbed "Queen of Knits", created the Poor Boy sweater | Sonia Rykiel |
Brand name of drug that combines hydrocodone and paracetamol - taken to ease pain | Vicodin |
Polish-American woman who has been CEO of YouTube since 2014 | Susan Wojcicki |
Japanese preserved (salted) vegetables served as a side dish, literally means "pickled things" | Tsukemono |
Japanese terms referring to food eaten as an accompaniment to alcohol | Sakana or otsumami (snack) |
A fear of failing | Atychiphobia |
Inflammatory disorder that includes mouth ulcers, genital sores, arthritis - named after Turkish dermatologist | Behcet's disease |
Pseudonym of New York City photographer Arthur (Usher) Fellig, known for his black and white street photography | Weegee |
Five female golfers with 10 or more majors (in order) | Patty Berg, Mickey Wright, Louise Suggs, Annika Sorenstam, Babe Zaharias |
US female golfer who won 88 tournaments, the most of anyone on the LPGA Tour | Kathy Whitworth |
Value of golden ratio to three decimal places, and Greek letter that represents it | 1.618, phi |
Historical name for red light district in New Orleans, associated with jazz | Storyville |
Game of spoken words between two people in black communities of USA, where insults are exchanged until someone gives up | The Dozens |
Person who came up with idea of a panopticon - institutional building where all prisoners could be observed by a single watchmen without them knowing | Jeremy Bentham |
Philosopher whose namesake paradox discusses the problem of evil - is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Is he able, but not willing? | Epicurus (Epicurean paradox) |
Paradox that points out contradiction in set theory - eg Set A contains all sets that do not contain themselves, but is Set A in itself? | Russell's paradox (after Bertrand Russell) |
German father of experimental psychology (1832 - 1920) - first person ever to call himself a psychologist | Wilhelm Wundt |
Law that broadly explores the amount of radiation emitted by a "black body" (object that absorbs all the electromagnetic energy that falls upon it) | Planck's Law |
Indian mathematician (598 - 668) who was the first to give rules regarding the number zero | Brahmagupta |
Persian scholar (780 - 850) and "father of algebra", wrote The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing, gave name to words "algorism" and "algorithm" | Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi |
William Blake poem that contains the line "the doors of perception" | The Marriage of Heaven and Hell |