Heartfelt Return

Highly Questionable returns today after a five week gap in publication in the wake of my father undergoing serious heart surgery. After a distinctly bumpy start to the great man's post-operative road to recovery, he is now thankfully taking significant steps on his journey back to good health. To mark the blog's resumption, today's quiz draws on the worlds of music; history; film; medicine and mythology as we take a heart based theme.    

Heart Quiz

1 Neil Young's famous song 'Heart Of Gold', appears on which landmark album?

2 Lionheart was the nickname of which iconic twelfth century English king? 

3 Which Cannes Palme d'Or winning epic Vietnam war set film directed by Francis Ford Coppela was inspired by Joseph Conrad's novella 'Heart Of Darkness'? 

4 What nationality was Christiaan Barnard, the cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human heart transplant in 1967?

5 Which character from Roman mythology is typically depicted in modern popular culture as an archer firing amorous arrows into a heart? 
Answers to the Highly Questionable Hearts Quiz will be published along with tomorrow's post and associated quiz.  

Words Quiz Answers

The answers to our previous quiz concerning the linguistic origins of a number of commonly used words in English were:-

 1  Hindi gave the word guru to English.

 2  Arabic provided English with the term assassin.

 3  Japanese was the source for the English word tycoon.

 4  Italian supplied English with the word fiasco.

 5  Spanish lent English the word alligator.

The author of the Highly Questionable? quiz and trivia blog, Harry Reid, is a freelance question setter, writer and blogger. He can be contacted at harryreid@btinternet.com.