Sunday 17 August 2014

Second set of questions

Last week was fairly hectic, so only fifteen questions for you to have a go at this time. I hope you enjoy them!!



1 Which broadcaster left the flagship BBC Radio 4 arts programme Front Row in 2014, after presenting the show since 1998?

2 In the title of the bestselling book by Jonas Jonasson, how old is the 'Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared'?

3 Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy John-117 is the protagonist of which video game franchise?

4 Written between 1888 and 1894, and first performed in 1895, Symphony No. 2 popularly known as the Resurrection Symphony is the work of which composer?

5 The temporary public sculpture House, a concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian terraced house, won the 1993 Turner Prize for which artist, the first woman to win the prize?

6 The Cholmondeley Award is an annual award for which field of the arts in the UK?

7 Housed in a Grade II listed Art Deco building designed by Robert Atkinson, the Barber Institute of Fine Arts is an art gallery and concert hall located on the campus of which English university?

8 The 1982 British comedy feature film The Boys in Blue, loosely based on the 1938 Will Hay film Ask a Policeman, was the only cinema outing for which double act?

9 Baseball's Black Sox Scandal took place during the 1919 World Series,  when players of the Chicago White Sox conspired with gamblers to intentionally lose the series against which team?

10 The music from the Irish folk song 'She Moved Through the Fair' was used for which song by the group Simple Minds? It featured as the lead track on the 'Ballad of the Streets EP', the group's only release to top the UK singles chart.

11 Named after a Haitian Creole mythological bogeyman who kidnaps children and eats them for breakfast, which feared paramilitary force were created in 1959  to extend and bolster support for the regime of Haiti's President François 'Papa Doc' Duvalier ?



12 Pictured above. In 2009 the Guardian art critic, Jonathan Jones, wrote that it was "for better or worse, probably the most enduring vision of the crucifixion painted in the 20th century." Known as the 'Christ of Saint John of the Cross', because its design is based on a drawing by the 16th-century Spanish friar John of the Cross,  it was painted in 1951 by which artist?

13 What is the name of the soft cake which originated in the north of England and is traditionally eaten on Bonfire Night?
 








14 Pictured above. She is one of just six women who have won in all five World Cup disciplines. In winning the World Cup overall title in 2013, she scored a record number of points beating the legendary Hermann Maier's record. What is the name of this Slovenian skier who became a double Olympic champion at the 2014 Sochi Games?

15 With an Arabic name  which translates as 'the follower', because it rises in the night sky after the Pleiades star cluster, what is the brightest star in the constellation of Taurus?





Answers:

1 Mark Lawson
2 100
3 Halo
4 Gustav Mahler
5 Rachel Whiteread
6 Poetry
7 University of Birmingham
8 Canon and Ball
9 Cincinnati Reds
10 Belfast Child
11 Tonton Macoute
12 Salvador Dali
13 Parkin
14 Tina Maze
15 Aldebaran

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