- Savile Row for tailors, Lincoln’s Inn Fields for lawyers, Harley Street for doctors. Hatton Garden for whom?
- On June 30, 1898, Willy Wilcke and Max Christian Priester
climbed on to the window sill of this man’s residence and took this
photo. The house owner had been dead for a few hours, and the two
changed the time on the bedside clock to show that the photo had
been taken at the time of death. When they attempted to sell this
photo, they were arrested, and the picture was finally released to
the public only in 1952. Who was the statesman who was the subject
of the photo.
- This festival has been called Beltane, or alternatively, Bealtaine, Bealltainn or Boaldyn. It celebrates summer, and traditionally, two huge bonfires are lit in fields. Cattle are driven through these bonfires to protect them from disease. The dew gathered on the morning of Beltane is supposed to have magical powers, and increase sexual attractiveness. Beltane falls on another, more secular, holiday. When is Beltane celebrated.
- In 2004, it was Tropic Brilliance. In 2006, it was Okal King Dor. In 2017, it was OOCL Japan. What is it in 2021?
- What is special about this extract from Hannah Glasse’s The Art
of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, first published in 1747?
- In late 1858 - or early 1859, Alexander Rhind, a Scotsman
living in Egypt, purchased a manuscript, a papyrus 18 feet long and
13 inches wide. The papyrus, titled “Accurate Rendering, The
Entrance into the Knowledge of All Existing Things and All Obscure
Secrets” , was believed to date back to 1650 BC. It was a copy of
another work, which was written 200 years earlier. The Rhind
manuscript, as it was called, was the earliest discovered object of
its kind. What was it?
- In 1948, the British engineer Tom Kilburn led the work on
designing and building a Small Scale Experimental Machine, "The
Baby". This tested in practice the ability of the Williams-Kilburn
Tube to read and reset at speed random bits of information, while
preserving a bit's value indefinitely between resettings. And for
the first time in the world a computer was built that could hold
any (small!) user program in electronic storage and process it at
electronic speeds. He wrote the first program for it, which first
worked on June 21st 1948. What did the program do?
- This is a painting of the actress Ornella Muti, created by an
AI after studying the works of a famous painter. Who was the
painter?
- What connects the following locations in the US: Orange County, New York City, Atlanta, New Jersey, D.C., Beverly Hills, Miami, Potomac, Dallas, and Salt Lake City?
- Bel-Shalti-Nanna (or Nannor) was a Babylonian priestess of Sin (Sin being the god of the moon), who lived in the 6th century BC. She was a pioneer, and is generally accepted to be the first person to have done something. What was Bel-Shalti-Nanna credited with doing?
Answers
- Jewellers
- Otto Von Bismarck
- May 1, May Day
- Evergiven. These were all ships that blocked the Suez Canal
- The first published English recipe for an "Indian Curry"
- Mathematics textbook
- Calculating HCF (Highest Common Factor or Greatest Common Divisor (GCD))
- Raphael
- Locations for the Real Housewives TV show
- Creating the first museum
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