General Knowledge Quiz - Thursday 31 January

[Mike Reynolds]

8.30 start, see you there.

Mike

[Mike Reynolds]

OK here we go. Welcome all

Q1 - From which wood are cricket bats traditionally made?

[Agent Sizzle]

Hi Mike

I've not long got home from work and have to make dinner now (way too late to be healthy!) so I can't make the quiz - but I'll put a sticky reminder in WN&CA, OK?

The answer is willow?

[Red Baron]

Hi Mike

I'll stay as long as I can - but may get an important phone call from daughter!!

Willow

[Whispering John]

Hi Mike....


Willow..

Are you still off the weed ?? I've just done over a year after puffing for the best part of 40 years

John

[Pondgirl]

willow

[Mike Reynolds]

Willow is correct, enjoy your dinner Sizz and thanks for the reminder on NACA

Hi RB

Q2 - Which metal is used to seperate the sections of a stained glass window?

Hi PG

[Red Baron]

Lead

[Pondgirl]

Lead

[Mike Reynolds]

Lead is correct,

Hi John, saidly had a few fags today, but still determined to give up soon.

3. On which stretch of water was Donald Campbell killed trying to break the water-speed record in 1967?

[Red Baron]

Hi PG and Whispering John

:hello2:

[Red Baron]

Coniston Water

[Whispering John]

Lady Barnet.. Is it Lead ??.....

John

[Pondgirl]

Coniston?

[Whispering John]

Coniston....remember seeing the tele footage of the crash....

Hi all long time no talkie

John

[Mike Reynolds]

Coniston Water is correct, PG and RB

4. Daniel Hooper was better known by which nickname when he was a road protestor?

[Red Baron]

Swampy? - I read something about him yesterday

[Pondgirl]

Er..yes swampy.

[Red Baron]

Though I keep thinking of Emily Bishops nephew in Corrie :?

[Whispering John]

The great swampy


John

[Mike Reynolds]

Swampy it was, what did you read about him, RB?

5. What is the title of the forthcoming James Bond film?

[Red Baron]

Quantum of solace

[Mike Reynolds]

Though I keep thinking of Emily Bishops nephew in Corrie :?

Yes, good ole Spider, played by the brilliant Martin Hancock, really good part he played, I thought.

[Topcat]

Quantum of Solace",

[Pondgirl]

Something really stupid that don't mean nothing! Quantum of Solace

[Whispering John]

Arrrggh - its got Quantum in the title but the rest escapes me


John

[Mike Reynolds]

Quantum of Solace is correct, RB, strange title.

6. Snodland is an area of which English county?

[Red Baron]

I'm not sure now - it may have been an anniversary of wherever he did the main demo...

[Pondgirl]

kent

[Whispering John]

Cumbria ??


John

[Pondgirl]

I'm not sure now - it may have been an anniversary of wherever he did the main demo...

eh??

[Topcat]

Kent

[Red Baron]

no idea!

[Pondgirl]

It's darn sarf Red 8)

[Red Baron]

sorry pg - different conversation!

OH thinks it's near Brand hatch

[Mike Reynolds]

Kent it is, Hiya TC. good to see you

7. What does the Mona Lisa no longer possess due to over-enthusiastic cleaning of the painting?

[Whispering John]

A smile

John

[Pondgirl]

Realism?

[Red Baron]

spots

[Mike Reynolds]

:lol: Realism!

[Agent Sizzle]

eyebrows

(persuaded Mr Agent to do the dinner :) )

[Mike Reynolds]

spots

:lol: 8)

[juniorswailing]

nipples?

[Pondgirl]

She was painted without eyebrows Sizz!

Background?

[Mike Reynolds]

eyebrows

Correct Sizz

8. Who played Old Man Steptoe in 'Steptoe and Son'?

[Agent Sizzle]

She was painted without eyebrows Sizz!

Background?

How do you know? Were you there??? :boxing:

[Red Baron]

Wilfred Bramble

[Agent Sizzle]

wilfred bramble

[Whispering John]

Bob Hoskins ??

Sorry...

Liked the spots one..

John

[Red Baron]

Wasn't it the fashion at that time to remove both eyebrows - and lashes (ouch) to give a pale look??




She was painted without eyebrows Sizz!

Background?

How do you know? Were you there??? :boxing:

[Mike Reynolds]

Wilfred Bramble is correct

9. From which film was Billy Ocean's 'When the Going Gets Tough' taken?

[Whispering John]

Wilfred Bramble...who took a bath in the front room

Dirty Old Man..


John

[Pondgirl]

Wasn't it the fashion at that time to remove both eyebrows - and lashes (ouch) to give a pale look??




She was painted without eyebrows Sizz!

Background?

How do you know? Were you there??? :boxing:

The Mona Lisa was painted without eyebrows or any facial hair including eyelashes.

[Red Baron]

Jewel of the nile??

[Pondgirl]

Jewel of the NIle

[Agent Sizzle]

romancing the stone?

[Red Baron]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/17/monalisa.mystery/index.html

I found this PG - not that they really know what they are talking about

[Agent Sizzle]

Wasn't it the fashion at that time to remove both eyebrows - and lashes (ouch) to give a pale look??




She was painted without eyebrows Sizz!

Background?

How do you know? Were you there??? :boxing:

The Mona Lisa was painted without eyebrows or any facial hair including eyelashes.

Yeah, well, Mike says I'm right so that's all that matters. :bootyshake:

:P

[Mike Reynolds]

Jewel of the Nile, the follow up to 'Romancing the Stone' is correct

10. What do Americans call what we know as an aubergine?

[Agent Sizzle]

eggplant

[Whispering John]

AArrrggghh.....visitors..

Back later.. Doh!!


John

[Red Baron]

No - he was 'a very clean old man' - according to the Beatles :)


Wilfred Bramble...who took a bath in the front room

Dirty Old Man..


John

[Red Baron]

egg plant

[Pondgirl]

Eggplant

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Mona_Lisa_detail_eyes.jpg

See, no hair around the eyes at all.Nothing to do with restoration! :shock:

[Red Baron]

Definitely needed to use moisturiser after cleaning her spots...

[Mike Reynolds]

Eggplant it is, never tasted it myself.

11. On which radio soap did Petula Clark get her big break?

[Pondgirl]

Mrs Dale's Diary?

[Red Baron]

before my time :D

[Mike Reynolds]

No not Mrs Dale, this is quite difficult I think, while yo ponder I must disappear and get a drink, back in a few minutes.

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

I'm here a total guess "The Archers?"?????

[Red Baron]

My mother used to listen to that :?

Mrs Dale's Diary?

[Pondgirl]

Just how old do you think we are Mike??

I don't think La Gioconda had heard of Nivea :D

[Agent Sizzle]

PG

They look like they was wiped off, to me...

[Pondgirl]

My mother used to listen to that :?

Mrs Dale's Diary?

So did mine. It's the oldest one I could think of!

[Red Baron]

SO old my brain had forgotten it :lol:

Hi BDG!

[Pondgirl]

PG

They look like they was wiped off, to me...

There doesn't seem to be a definitive answer on this one. They've been missing for so long there is no record of her actually having them!

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Hi I've googled and I'm non the wiser appears she originally entertained the troops in 1946 on Radio!!! Sorry Mike not cheating just curious :lol:

[Red Baron]

I wikied it - something with the Huggets - wouldn't have known it - even OH hadn't heard of it!

OH says how long can you witter about plucking eyebrows - at least I think that's what he said......

[Pondgirl]

Okay. She was in a film called Meet the Huggetts which was based on a radio soap although she wasn't actually in the radio version. Apologies, I cheated whilst waiting :roll:

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

:lol: at RB

[Pondgirl]

I wikied it - something with the Huggets - wouldn't have known it - even OH hadn't heard of it!

OH says how long can you witter about plucking eyebrows - at least I think that's what he said......

How long has he got? My OH didn't know what my eyelash curlers were! :roll:

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Come on give us the answer I'm intrigued now :lol:

[Red Baron]

Has Mike gone to the pub for a drink?? :toast1:

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

It's an interval :lol: probably it is only just over the road :lol:

[Red Baron]

He looks in amazement at the assortment of torture instruments in daughters make up bag :)



I wikied it - something with the Huggets - wouldn't have known it - even OH hadn't heard of it!

OH says how long can you witter about plucking eyebrows - at least I think that's what he said......

How long has he got? My OH didn't know what my eyelash curlers were! :roll:

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

What did he think they were for? :lol:

[Mike Reynolds]

Sorry guys, few probs, back now

Yes, the answer I have is Meet the Huggets

Q12 Maddy Magellan was the assistant to which unorthodox TV detective?

[Agent Sizzle]

It's an interval :lol: probably it is only just over the road :lol:

I reckon he's sneaking a crafty smoke.

[Pondgirl]

Johnathan Creek

[Agent Sizzle]

Taggert?

[Red Baron]

Jonathan Creek

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Jonathan Creek?

[Pondgirl]

Jonathan Creek

I'm glad the teacher spelled it correctly!

[Agent Sizzle]

I meant Jonathan Creek of course (never heard of him, actually).


Mike do I get an extra point for the advertising I did for you earlier? :peck: :peck:

[Mike Reynolds]

Jonathan Creek it was, sorry guys, kettle blew a fuse so had to sort that out.

13. Which motorway runs from Birmingham to Exeter?

[Pondgirl]

Shameless, totally shameless :roll:

[Red Baron]

M4

[Pondgirl]

M5

[Red Baron]

or 5

[Mike Reynolds]

I meant Jonathan Creek of course (never heard of him, actually).


Mike do I get an extra point for the advertising I did for you earlier? :peck: :peck:

Definately Sizz, and another for the Bootyshakes!

See how easily I am bought!

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Oi I've just laid down the gauntlet for them as well so I want one (an extra point that is!!!!) bet those stupid WN&CA posters couldn't answer any of the questions anyhow :lol: .....I'm feeling rebellious tonight Sizz ;-)

[Agent Sizzle]

Jonathan Creek it was, sorry guys, kettle blew a fuse so had to sort that out.

13. Which motorway runs from Birmingham to Exeter?

That's a bit anglocentric isn't it?

I bet the bloody motorway doesn't even run via London!

:roll:

[Agent Sizzle]

Becky

Stupid WN&CA posters??? :angryfire:

[Pondgirl]

M4

It's another southerncentric tricky question :lol:

[Mike Reynolds]

M5 is correct.

14. Who was the tallest of Robin Hood's merry men (allegedly)!

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Blooody Hell I'm appealing I was so busy answering Sizz I missed the question and I knew it was the


M5

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Little John!!!!!!!

[Red Baron]

Littlejohn

[Pondgirl]

Little John

[Agent Sizzle]

Little John

[Mike Reynolds]

Jonathan Creek it was, sorry guys, kettle blew a fuse so had to sort that out.

13. Which motorway runs from Birmingham to Exeter?

That's a bit anglocentric isn't it?

I bet the bloody motorway doesn't even run via London!

:roll:

It certainly doesn't, Sizz! (BDG can back me up there)

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Yessssssssssssssssss at last I was first in a quz wey heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy :lol:

[Pondgirl]

Blooody Hell I'm appealing

We know that dear 8)

[Red Baron]

yes - but I'm talking to my bro - and sis on msn as well

[Mike Reynolds]

Littlejohn

Richard???

Little John is correct.

15. Which legendary record label was founded by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss?

[Agent Sizzle]

Stax

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Stop trying to use diversion tactics Pg ;-) OF course it's true :lol:

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Stax

[Red Baron]

stax

[Pondgirl]

A & M

[Pondgirl]

Alpert & Moss

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Changed my mind after copying Sizz it's gotta be A &M :-)

[Red Baron]

ALM then :D

[Agent Sizzle]

You're all sheep!

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Sizz maybe clever btw Mike but clearly Geography isn't her strong point ;-)

[Mike Reynolds]

A&M it was PG

(Alpert and Moss)

16. What was the name of Swap Shop's purple dinosaur mascot?

[Pondgirl]

Baaaa!

[Red Baron]

Posh paws

[Pondgirl]

Posh Paws

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Actually she has said that and yes baa baa baa ;-) Sizz XXXX

[Pondgirl]

Not often dinosaurs go Baaaa is it?

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Posh Paws!!!! arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrh

[Mike Reynolds]

Posh Paws indeed (an anagram of Swap Shop of course)

17. Who is widely credited with the invention of the parachute?

[Red Baron]

Leonardo Da Vinci

[Agent Sizzle]

Actually she has said that and yes baa baa baa ;-) Sizz XXXX

So I gave a crap answer, but at least it was my crap answer!!! :cussing:

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Louis-Sébastien Lenormand

[Agent Sizzle]

newton (to test gravity?)

[Pondgirl]

yes - but I'm talking to my bro - and sis on msn as well

I'm trying to watch Catalan documentary about Bob Dylan and his musical influence in the 1960's :shock:

[Red Baron]

OK - you win!!

On that anyway :)


yes - but I'm talking to my bro - and sis on msn as well

I'm trying to watch Catalan documentary about Bob Dylan and his musical influence in the 1960's :shock:

[Mike Reynolds]

Leonardo Da Vinci it was, strangely.

18. What is the state capital of Kentucky? (this is, I think, the hardest question in the quiz tonight).

[Pondgirl]

Not the faintest

[Agent Sizzle]

frankfort

[Red Baron]

fried chicken??

colonel saunders???

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Frankfort!!!

[Ian Mac]

Lexington

[Pondgirl]

I was going to say Lexington as it's the only place I can think of!

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

:lol: I'm challenging the answer to the parachute it's wrong!!!!!!!!!!

I was right

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute

I want a point I've never won :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Mike Reynolds]

Frankfort is correct, I am impressed.

19. Who played 'Baby' in 'Dirty Dancing'?

[Red Baron]

Newton once experimented to see how light changed when the eye ball was distorted - by poking his own eyeball out of shape with a bodkin needle :shock:

newton (to test gravity?)

[Agent Sizzle]

I was going to say Lexington as it's the only place I can think of!

Well of course, I mean it's not like you'd be copying Ian... :roll:

[Agent Sizzle]

patrick swayzee?

[Red Baron]

Jennifer Grey?

[Pondgirl]

i didn'lt even know he was on board.

Fab doc on the tv btw.

Buffalo Springfield then CSNY, now Mama's and Papa's

[Red Baron]

But his invention was based on Leonardo's idea - he also invented the idea of a helicopter


:lol: I'm challenging the answer to the parachute it's wrong!!!!!!!!!!

I was right

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute

I want a point I've never won :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

It was Patrick!!!

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Excuse me Leonardo did not invent the parachute!!!!!!!

[Pondgirl]

No, it was Jennifer!

[Mike Reynolds]

Yes, BDG you can have a point, sorry for the cock up, strange that we have two answers to some questions, I guess I'm not infallible (In fact, I know I'm not)

Jennifer Gray is certainly correct.

20. What French term is used at the stat of a fencing match?

[Ian Mac]

Excuse me Leonardo did not invent the parachute!!!!!!!

But he was credited with coming up with the idea, leading to the physical invention.

[Ian Mac]

En Garde

[Red Baron]

"Faust Vrančić - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia... a Croatian humanist, philosopher, historian, lexicographer, and inventor. ... Vrančić had examined Leonardo da Vinci's rough sketches of a parachute, ..."

[Agent Sizzle]

Allez!

[Pondgirl]

Can I borrow your hammer?

[Red Baron]

EN garde

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

‘Ballestra

[Red Baron]

:sidesplit:

Can I borrow your hammer?

[Mike Reynolds]

En Garde is correct Ian, welcome by the way.

21. Which is the last event on day 2 of a decathlon?

[Pondgirl]

Allez oop!

[Red Baron]

1500 metres

[Ian Mac]

1500 metres

Evening Mike. :D

[Pondgirl]

1500m

[Red Baron]

Merde!


Allez oop!

[Pondgirl]

Or is it drug testing?

[Mike Reynolds]

RB is correct with 1500m

22. Who killed Lee Harvey Oswald?

[Agent Sizzle]

Jack Ruby

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

He might have had the idea but he didn't invent it!! Who is infallible Mike? Just having a laugh not being serious according to Wikipedia everyone seems to have invented it :lol:;-)

[Mike Reynolds]

Or is it drug testing?

:lol: :lol: Probably, PG

[Red Baron]

Jack Ruby

[Red Baron]

Isaac Newton knew how to get rockets into space - he just had no-one to build him one

[Pondgirl]

jack Ruby

[Pondgirl]

Isaac Newton knew how to get rockets into space - he just had no-one to build him one

Perhaps they were all frightened of his bodkin?

[Red Baron]

wouldn't you be :shock:

[Mike Reynolds]

Jack Ruby it was, RB

23. In which year did Capital Radio start broadcasting, along with LBC, beginning the sound of Commercial radio to the UK?

[Red Baron]

Can you tell what I teach????

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Goldfish Lad's Physic's teacher is seriously called Mr Rocket :lol: :lol: gets a few laughs as you can imagine!

[Agent Sizzle]

1974?

[Pondgirl]

1973, it seems like only yesterday

[Red Baron]

1973

[Pondgirl]

Can you tell what I teach????

First Aid?

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

1973

[Red Baron]

:lol:


Goldfish Lad's Physic's teacher is seriously called Mr Rocket :lol: :lol: gets a few laughs as you can imagine!

[Mike Reynolds]

Very close, Sizz.

Mr Rocket? Bet his lessons are a blast!

[Red Baron]

Opthamology


Can you tell what I teach????

First Aid?

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

whooooooooooooosh absolutely Mike :lol:

[Ian Mac]

Opthamology


Can you tell what I teach????

First Aid?

Gravity?.

[Mike Reynolds]

1973 it was indeed.

24. What was the name of the Gamekeeper in 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'?

[Agent Sizzle]

mellors 8)

[Red Baron]

Always!



Gravity?.

[Pondgirl]

Melloooooors

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Oliver Mellors

[Red Baron]

Mellors

[soul17]

Seth Armstrong

[Pondgirl]

Opthamology


Can you tell what I teach????

First Aid?

Can't see it myself.

[Red Baron]

or Sean Bean

[Ian Mac]

Gervais Ponsonby Farqharson

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Hey I want the point for getting the full name !!! :lol: ;-)

[Agent Sizzle]

Just having flashbacks to watching Sean Bean as Mellors.

:angel12:

[Mike Reynolds]

Mellors it was

What happened to T.C. by the way? Has he skulked back to NACA?

Anyway..

25. Who coined the sixties acid-head phrase 'Turn on, Tune in, Drop Out'?

[Pondgirl]

Seth Armstrong

:lol: Evenin' Soulman.

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Gervais Ponsonby Farqharson

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[Agent Sizzle]

Timothy Leary

[Pondgirl]

Ken Kesey?

[Red Baron]

:tongue:

Just having flashbacks to watching Sean Bean as Mellors.

:angel12:

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Timothy Francis Leary

[Pondgirl]

I meant Timothy Leary of course

[Mike Reynolds]

Hey I want the point for getting the full name !!! :lol: ;-)

OK BDG, the point is yours.

[Red Baron]

Timothy leary

[soul17]

Seth Armstrong

:lol: Evenin' Soulman.


Sorry i'm late, had to pick my son up again from football (every Thurs) read all the banter/ answers, i'd have romped it tonight.

[Mike Reynolds]

Timothy Francis Leary

You're being very pedantic this evening, Becks. I rather like it, makes me feel quite dominated which is very exciting 8)

[Agent Sizzle]

Timothy Francis Leary

You're being very pedantic this evening, Becks. I rather like it, makes me feel quite dominated which is very exciting 8)

:sizz2:

[Ian Mac]

Seth Armstrong

:lol: Evenin' Soulman.


Sorry i'm late, had to pick my son up again from football (every Thurs) read all the banter/ answers, i'd have romped it tonight.

Aye Right!!!!!! 8)

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

:lol: at Mike I'm using a :sizz:

[Mike Reynolds]

26. 'Globelink news' featured in which TV sitcom?

[Agent Sizzle]

drop the dead donkey

[Ian Mac]

Drop The Dead Donkey

[Red Baron]

Drop the dead donkey

[Pondgirl]

Drop the Dead Donkey

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Drop the Dead Donkey!

[soul17]

Drop Dead Donkey

[Agent Sizzle]

I was first... again... :roll:

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

We are all dead donkey's eh? :lol:

[Pondgirl]

Produced by a friend of mine!

[Ian Mac]

I was first... again... :roll:

I capitalised, so i was first in spirit and fairness.

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

I was first... again... :roll:

yeah yeah :sizz: grrrrrrrrrr :lol:

[Agent Sizzle]

Produced by a friend of mine!

Name dropping doesn't get extra points.

[Mike Reynolds]

Drop the Dead Donkey is right, of course

27. Who wrote the 'Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy'?

[Pondgirl]

Unlike underwear, obviously :roll:

[soul17]

I was first... again... :roll:


Smart Arse :wink:

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Produced by a friend of mine!

Name dropping doesn't get extra points.

oooooooooooooooooow :lol:

[Red Baron]

Douglas Adams

[Pondgirl]

Douglas Adams

[Agent Sizzle]

dougal adams

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Douglas Adams

[Red Baron]

No - Dougal was a dog....

dougal adams

[Ian Mac]

dougal adams

:sidesplit:

[Belly Dancing Goldfish]

Being pedandic Douglas Noel Adams sizz Made a mistake :lol: dougal was in the Magic Roundabout!

[Pondgirl]

The radio version was produced by the very same friend. Spooky or what???

[soul17]

Tony Adams.

Nope, sorry, he was a donkey

[Agent Sizzle]

Oh just bugger off, the lot of you... :protest:


:lol:

[Ian Mac]

I think Sizz was thinking of Father Ted. :lol: