1. Freddie Mercury, the subject of Bryan Singer's 2018 film Bohemian Rhapsody was born Farrokh Bulsara. Where?Garry Gillard > quizzes > Magus 2
10 March 2019
1. Freddie Mercury, the subject of Bryan Singer's 2018 film Bohemian Rhapsody was born Farrokh Bulsara. Where?
Zanzibar, off the eastern coast of Africa. It is a region of Tanzania.
2. What is the name of the ship that brought the first European settlers to the Swan River Colony? It's also the name of a Perth suburb.
The barque Parmelia was under the command of Captain J.H. Luscombe, tho it had on board Captain Stirling, who was to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Western Australia. However, Stirling was acting as pilot when the ship ran aground on the Parmelia Bank, 2 June 1829. It's one of four ship names that are localities of Kwinana, with Calista, Medina, and Orelia.
3. The world's first feature film was made in Australia. Title? Bonus gold star if you guess the year correctly.
The Story of the Kelly Gang (Charles Tait, 1906). Twenty-seven minutes still exist of the film, which ran for longer than one hour. >
4. A band of no fewer than seven (real) brothers hails from Broome. 
Three CDs and one DVD so far. What's their family name?
The Pigram Brothers are Alan, Steven, David, Colin, Philip, Peter, and Gavin. They identify as Indigenous. >
5. A snake's scientific name, crotalus, is from the Greek for 'castanet'. What is its common name?
Rattlesnake. The crotalus cerastes is also known as a sidewinder.
6. Steve Jobs is the man best known for the development of early Apple computers. But who actually created the first Apple I personal computer?
< Woz. Another Steve. Stephen Wozniak. Born 1950, still going strong, unlike Steve J.
7. One of the East Perth WAFL players I remember watching play in 1956 was short rover Jack Sheedy. Who was the tall ruckman I saw on the same field, who has had a road in Perth named after him?
Graham 'Polly' Farmer was born in Hillcrest Hospital in North Fremantle (originally Francis Pearse’s house and now an old peoples home) and brought up in Sister Kate's orphanage in Queen's Park. The Farmer Freeway is named after him. It is partly a tunnel under Northbridge and partly a bridge over the Swan River. >
8. Which President of the USA was born in Whittier CA?
< Tricky Dicky, Richard Nixon. Charles Taylor, the proprietor of Macs4U in Midland is also from there, and it was he who told me about Nixon.
9. What in music is referred to as a tierce de Picardie (Picardy third)?
It's when the piece is in a minor key and unexpectedly ends on a major chord. No-one knows for sure why Picardy (in France) gets the blame.
10. Samuel Beckett and others wrote Our Exagmination round his Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress, 1929. What was the Work in Progress under exagmination?
James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, which had that as a working title.}
Garry Gillard | New: 10 March, 2019 | Now: 10 March, 2019