General Knowledge Quiz tonight - 8.30

[Mike Reynolds]

Hi Gang

Sorry about the last couple of weeks, but back in full force again tonight, hope to see a few of you here.

If not, have a great Easter and speak to you all soon.

Mike

[soul17]

Hi Mike,
Got the normal Thurs night, pick up son (taxi) football night mate.

[Mike Reynolds]

If anyone is about here is

Q1. How much was the settlement received by Heather Mills in her divorce from Sir Paul McCartney?

[Red Baron]

As OH is busy reading his new car manual :? I'm free - until daughter comes to hassle me, of course :rolleyes:

[Red Baron]

£24.65 million

[Red Baron]

Or 24.3 million- OH says

[Mike Reynolds]

I read it was 24.3 million OH is right, I think, Red

2. Which actor, who won an Oscar for his 1967 portrayal of Sir Thomas More, passed away today?

[Red Baron]

Paul Schofield

[Red Baron]

I spot others lurking - are they going to join in??

[Helen May]

I'll try to keep up

Paul Schofield

H

[Mike Reynolds]

You could be doing this on your own, Red, shall we wait and see for a bit?

Paul Scofield is right.

[Mike Reynolds]

HI Aitch

[turnipsock]

Schofiled

[Red Baron]

Hello H!

[Mike Reynolds]

Hi Turnipsock

3. Which competition is held every Good Friday at Tinsley Green, Sussex?

[turnipsock]

Bog Snorkling

[Helen May]

No idea

H

[Red Baron]

Something to do with Easter eggs??

[turnipsock]

Marbles

[Pondgirl]

sorry I was outside having a fag and admiring the beautiful full moon :oops:

[Red Baron]

What's the matter TS - have you lost them??:D


Marbles

[Red Baron]

It is beautiful tonight, PG - I wasn't having a fag when I saw it

sorry I was outside having a fag and admiring the beautiful full moon :oops:

[turnipsock]

you'll see

[Mike Reynolds]

Marbles it is, wondered where mine had gone, must get to Sussex and retrieve them.

4. Which British coin ceased to be legal tender in July 1980?

[turnipsock]

1/2 p

[Red Baron]

ha'penny

[turnipsock]

half crown

[Helen May]

half penny

H

[Pondgirl]

1/2p

[Red Baron]

sixpence - the half pence was later

[Mike Reynolds]

No not the halfpenny

[Red Baron]

That's 2 and a Half pence for any youngsters

[turnipsock]

the peseta with franco on them

[Mike Reynolds]

sixpence - the half pence was later

Correct, Red. Although don't ever remember spending a sixpence piece.

5. Which singer/rapper of the late 80s/early 90s had the real name Alison Clarkeson?

[turnipsock]

Will Smith

[Red Baron]

Betty boo

[Red Baron]

We've got a jar full of them

sixpence - the half pence was later

Correct, Red. Although don't ever remember spending a sixpence piece.

[Pondgirl]

What Red said!

[Mike Reynolds]

Betty Boo it was, and I quite fancied her if she kept her mouth shut.

6. Which animal's name literally means 'Earth Pig'?

[Red Baron]

Aardvark

[turnipsock]

Ground hog

[Pondgirl]

Aardvark

[Mike Reynolds]

Aardvark it is.

7. In which year was the Great Train Robbery, the Profumo Scandal and the assassination of J.F.K.?

[Red Baron]

1963

[turnipsock]

62

[turnipsock]

good year for film subjects

[Pondgirl]

1963

[Red Baron]

November 22nd - day after my big sisters 8th birthday

[Helen May]

63

H

[turnipsock]

bloody cold winter

[Mike Reynolds]

1963 it was. Also, apparently one of the coldest winter's on record in this country.

8. What is the name of the TV show looking for actors to play Oliver and Nancy in a new production of Oliver Twist?

[Helen May]

62/63 was!

H

[Red Baron]

I'll do anything

[Helen May]

I'll Do Anything

H

[Red Baron]

QS was born and I remember wading through snow drifts to peep through Newcastle General window at her. I was just about buried!


62/63 was!

H

[turnipsock]

I have some 8mm footage

[Pondgirl]

1963 it was. Also, apparently one of the coldest winter's on record in this country.

8. What is the name of the TV show looking for actors to play Oliver and Nancy in a new production of Oliver Twist?

I object..This question is only answerable by people who watch tv in the uk!!! :D

[Mike Reynolds]

I'll Do Anything it was.

9. Which dance is usually performed to the music of Offenbach's 'Orpheus in the Underworld'?

[Red Baron]

Not if you read this board..

[turnipsock]

1963 it was. Also, apparently one of the coldest winter's on record in this country.

8. What is the name of the TV show looking for actors to play Oliver and Nancy in a new production of Oliver Twist?

I object..This question is only answerable by people who watch tv in the uk!!! :D

and only people people who watch ITV

[Pondgirl]

can can

[turnipsock]

can can

[Red Baron]

Cancan

[Mike Reynolds]

1963 it was. Also, apparently one of the coldest winter's on record in this country.

8. What is the name of the TV show looking for actors to play Oliver and Nancy in a new production of Oliver Twist?

I object..This question is only answerable by people who watch tv in the uk!!! :D

You're sounding more like Sizz every day, PG, not saying that's a bad thing......

[Pondgirl]

Not if you read this board..

Fairy Nuff 8)

[Mike Reynolds]

The Can Can it is.

10. Which legendary film producer was once quoted as saying 'A verbal contract is not worth the paper it's written on'?

[Pondgirl]

1963 it was. Also, apparently one of the coldest winter's on record in this country.

8. What is the name of the TV show looking for actors to play Oliver and Nancy in a new production of Oliver Twist?

I object..This question is only answerable by people who watch tv in the uk!!! :D

You're sounding more like Sizz every day, PG, not saying that's a bad thing......

Prolly not something I'd watch anyway to be fair. x

[Red Baron]

Goldwyn

[Pondgirl]

Samuel Goldwyn

[Mike Reynolds]

1963 it was. Also, apparently one of the coldest winter's on record in this country.

8. What is the name of the TV show looking for actors to play Oliver and Nancy in a new production of Oliver Twist?

I object..This question is only answerable by people who watch tv in the uk!!! :D

and only people people who watch ITV

Or listen to the radio, as the bloody trailer for the show has been on every BBC radio show for the last two or three weeks, I've never seen the show and am already sick of it.

[Red Baron]

I'm one of the saddos that likes that type of thing...

[Mike Reynolds]

Goldwyn it was

11. What is the meaning of the word 'pulchritude'?

[turnipsock]

I seem to have got out of the habit of early evening TV, to many soaps

[Pondgirl]

Beauty

[Red Baron]

It sounds unpleasant - but I bet it's the opposite

[turnipsock]

Goldwyn it was

11. What is the meaning of the word 'pulchritude'?

how are you pronouncing it?

[Red Baron]

Same here - I watch about 1 thing a night - if that!


I seem to have got out of the habit of early evening TV, to many soaps

[Pondgirl]

It sounds unpleasant - but I bet it's the opposite

It's from the Latin pulcher REd 8)

[Pondgirl]

Goldwyn it was

11. What is the meaning of the word 'pulchritude'?

how are you pronouncing it?

pullkritude

[Red Baron]

Got 28% in my Latin exam :oops: - wasn't allowed to continue with it

[Mike Reynolds]

Pondy has it with 'Beauty - it's pronounced 'pulk-ree-tude'

12. What sport would you practice if you were a 'toxophilite'

[Red Baron]

Archery

[Red Baron]

Used to work with one..

[Pondgirl]

Archery

[turnipsock]

bows and arrows

[Mike Reynolds]

Archery it is/

13. Which brewery makes 'Abbot Ale'?

[turnipsock]

Green King

[Red Baron]

Greene King OH says

[Pondgirl]

Greene King

[turnipsock]

here I sit listening to Toby Keith - I Love This Bar and drinking beer...

[Mike Reynolds]

Greene King it is. Not bad, not as good as St Austell Breweries 'Tribute' though...yum yum.

14. How many episodes of 'Fawlty Towers' were made?

[turnipsock]

12

[Red Baron]

13

[Pondgirl]

12

[Mike Reynolds]

12 it was, two series of six, no specials at all.

15. What is the name given to a word that reads the same backwards as forwards?

[Red Baron]

pallindrome

[Pondgirl]

palindrome

[turnipsock]

palindrome

[Mike Reynolds]

pallendrome it is

16. With which swimming stroke would you associate Adrian Moorhouse?

[turnipsock]

breast

[Red Baron]

Butterfly

[Pondgirl]

breastatroke

[Mike Reynolds]

breaststroke it was

17. In geography, what is a 'cataract'?

[Red Baron]

Waterfall

[Pondgirl]

waterfall

[turnipsock]

a fisure

[turnipsock]

a wind

[choccy-cake]

Evening all sorry to be late

[turnipsock]

a wind

that might be cabatic, has anybody noticed I guess a lot?

[Pondgirl]

Hola cc. Better late than getting the questions right before me :)

[Mike Reynolds]

Waterfall it is

Hi Choccy

18. Which actor played Harrison Ford's father in 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'?

[Red Baron]

Surely not...

[turnipsock]

Sean connery

[Pondgirl]

Sean Connery

[choccy-cake]

archipelago (sp)

[Red Baron]

Sean connery

[choccy-cake]

Sean Connery

[Pondgirl]

Sean connery

Was that a guess???

[Red Baron]

it wouldn't let me post!! Said it was too close to my last one!!!!!

[Mike Reynolds]

Sean Connery it is

19. Who wrote the novel 'Lord of the Flies'?

[choccy-cake]

no Turnipsock

[turnipsock]

Sean connery

Was that a guess???

and a good one

[Red Baron]

William Golding

[choccy-cake]

William golding

[turnipsock]

Golding

[Pondgirl]

Yeah, and my connection's slow. We all know the excuses :lol:

[Pondgirl]

William Golding. Or I'm just slow maybe

[Red Baron]

:rb:

[Mike Reynolds]

William Golding it was

Final question

20. What does a fletcher make?

[Pondgirl]

tee hee

[Red Baron]

Just realised - I passed 3000 posts

[turnipsock]

arrows

[Pondgirl]

arrows

[Red Baron]

arrows

[choccy-cake]

arrows


Well done Red Baron

[turnipsock]

my mate has a jig for making arrows

[Pondgirl]

Just realised - I passed 3000 posts

Ooh and I just passed 4500. The shame :oops:

[Mike Reynolds]

Arrows it is. Thanks everyone for taking part, and well done RB on your 3000th post.

Speak to you all soon.

Mike

[turnipsock]

I have a jig for sharpening speed skates

[Red Baron]

Thanks, Mike :gh:

[Mike Reynolds]

Just realised - I passed 3000 posts

Ooh and I just passed 4500. The shame :oops:

Well done to you, too, PG. I'm heading towards 7000!

[Pondgirl]

my mate has a jig for making arrows

Not a phrase I've heard before.

[Pondgirl]

Thanks once again Mike, you're a star.

So, I think RB prolly won again tonight but that's only because my answers have to travel further 8)

[Red Baron]

It's a long way to Exeter from Whitley Bay ;)

[turnipsock]

Thank you Mike.

Will there be a country music quiz this Monday? It's easter after all.

[Mike Reynolds]

If someone has the knowledge to compile a country music quiz, then yes, but it won't be me, I'm afraid.

Why Easter and country music, anyway, does it make you cross?!