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Quiz 21

1. What kind of performer would be most likely to use a swazzle?

2. LHOOQ is a bawdy title given to an artwork of 1919 by Marcel Duchamp, consisting of a reproduction of a very famous portrait, on whose face he had drawn a beard and moustache in pencil. Which portrait?

3. The dormant volcano Mount Rainier, and the National Park that bears its name, are to be found in which state of the USA?

4. The 1896 novel Quo Vadis, by Henryk Sienkiewicz, and the film adaptation of 1951, are set in Rome in the time of which Emperor?

5. Which former journalist on the Atlanta Constitution in Georgia wrote the stories which provided the basis for the 1946 Disney film Song of the South?

6. What criminal-sounding name is given to the broad-nosed marsh crocodile, found in parts of India and Sri Lanka and traditionally venerated in the Hindu religion?

7. In the binary system, what conventional number is expressed as 1111?

8. What is the name of the faun, the first inhabitant of the land of Narnia to be introduced in the novels of C. S. Lewis?

9. The ancient mathematician, Euclid; the chemist and chrystallographer Dorothy Hodgkin; and Naguib Mahfouz, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, were all born in which country?

10. In a dramatic monologue by J. Milton Hayes, whose grave is tended by ‘a broken-hearted woman’ beneath the gaze of a ‘one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu’?

11. How many sides does a hendecagon have?

12. Whose acclaimed 2009 play Jerusalem centres around Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron, a defiant drop-out living in a ramshackle mobile home, played in the original production by Mark Rylance?

13. According to a widely-quoted comment by the polyglot Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, he supposedly spoke Spanish to God, Italian to women and French to men. Which language did he reserve for his horse?

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