University Challenge spørsmål. Finale i kveld.
1. Created by Thomas and John Knoll, which computer program was initially named Display? Its later name entered the OED as a verb in 2006.
• Photoshop
2. The name of what restricted substance is an anagram of an adjective that means “pertaining to large expanses of sea”, for example the Atlantic?
• Cocaine (oceanic, of course)
3. Vladimir Nabokov described parody as “a game”; what similar genre of writing did he describe as “a lesson”?
• Satire
4. Used in Japanese cuisine, the yuzu, sudachi and mikan are among fruit of which genus?
• Citrus
5. The mean population density of which other EU member state is closest to that of the United Kingdom?
• Germany (255 and 229; Belgium = 355; Italy = 200 p/sq km)
6. “I suppose the body to be just a statue or a machine made of earth.” Which French thinker made this statement?
• René Descartes
7. If the integers from one to 100 are written in Roman numerals and then placed in alphabetical order, which comes last?
• 38 (XXXVIII)
8. Which French obstetrician gave his name to a method of childbirth involving exercises and breathing control, designed to give pain relief without drugs?
• (Fernand) Lamaze (the Lamaze technique)
9. What is the only large satellite in the solar system to move in a retrograde orbit?
• Triton (Neptune, of course)
10. Which chemical element is indicated by the abbreviations for 10 to the 12 metres?
• Thulium (ie Tm, terametre)
11. Which structure was begun in 1173 as the final structure of its city’s cathedral complex? It often features in photographic illusions caused by forced perspective.
• Leaning Tower of Pisa
12. The birthplace of Karl Marx in 1818, which German city is the location of the Porta Nigra gate and a basilica that is the largest intact Roman structure outside Rome?
• Trier/Treves
13. Born in 1960, who is the author of the graphic novels Safe Area Goražde, Footnotes in Gaza and Palestine?
• Joe Sacco
14. The ancient kingdom of Colchis and Kartli-Iberia are part of the territory of which present-day country?
• Georgia
15. Which decisive battle is commemorated in the name of a Paris Metro station one stop from the Gare du Nord?
• Stalingrad
16. The US biochemist Elmer McCollum is generally credited with the invention of the alphabetical system of naming what group of organic compounds?
• Vitamins
17. Which 1969 novel begins with the words: “She was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seem to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise”?
• Portnoy’s Complaint (Philip Roth)
18. In fine art, the rubbing technique known as “frottage” is particularly associated with which German-born artist, who used it extensively in his 1926 portfolio Histoire Naturelle?
• Max Ernst
19. In psychiatry, what term denotes any of various disorders characterised by immediate response to a desire without restraint, for example pathological gambling or pyromania?
• Impulse (control) disorder
20. The start of which century saw the following on the thrones of their respective polities: Magnus Barefoot of Norway; Baldwin the Second, Count of Edessa; and the Byzantine emperor Alexius the First?
• Twelfth/1101
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