Who is the 2nd in the biblical order of the minor prophets and is generally held to have prophesied in the reign of Joash? His books contain three prophecies – the first that there would be a great plague of locusts, the second, an outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the third that there would be great judgement on the enemies of Judea in the valley Jehoshophat.
What is the name of the fabulous monster of heraldry, which forms the crest of the Barber surgeons of London?
What is the chief pork constituent of the Italian delicacy zampone?
A site near which village in the Angolan territory of Cabinda, was developed as the exclave’s deep water port in the 1970s?
Which food fish of the tuna family is also known as the long-fin tunny?
For which ballet, created by Dame Ninette de Valois in 1940, did Constant Lambert arrange the music, which was based on a composition by the 18thcentury composer, William Boyce?
Where, in 1893, was the conference held which inaugurated the Independent Labour Party?
Which businessman and philanthropist gave Lancaster House, which had previously been known as York House and Stafford House, to the Nation in 1913?
The Early Richmond is a variety of which fruit?
What is the literary name for a corn poppy?
What is the name of the very large bush, that is the only tree-like plant to live on the pampas of South America, because it does not need a lot of water to survive?
Derived from Greek meaning summit or finishing touch, what word refers to the publisher's logo, and historically, the publisher's details at the end of the book?
Who composed the music for the musical, "La Cage Aux Follies"?
The Lambretta Scooter, produced in 1947 in Milan by the Italian businessman, Ferdinando Innocenti, gets its name from what?
Which vegetable along with tomatoes, is a principal ingredient in a Norma sauce?
Which African island was a favourite base for pirates in the 1600s and 1700s, where they founded a republic called Libertalia, although this did not last very long?
Which Irish dramatist wrote the plays “The Saxon Shilling” and “Broken Soil”?
In which Rossini opera does the ghost of Nino appear?
What is the name of the comic strip character created by H T Webster in 1924, for his cartoon series "The Timid Soul"?
163 - ANSWERS TO DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
JOEL
THE OPINICUS WHICH IS MADE UP OF AN EAGLE, A CAMEL AND A LION
A MYTHICAL WATER SPRITE, ASSOCIATED WITH THE LAMBRATE RIVER WHICH GAVE ITS NAME TO THE LAMBRATE AREA OF MILAN WHERE THE FACTORY, MAKING THE SCOOTERS, WAS LOCATED.
AUBERGINE
MADAGASCAR
PADRAIC COLUM (1881-1972), WHO WAS ONE OF THE LEADING FIGURES OF THE IRISH LITERARY REVIVAL