General Knowledge Quiz

[Mcr Warrior]

St Helens?

No. They weren't involved as the away team either.

 

[Calthrop]

Bother Dale, prithee settest thou the next question as the Lord leadeth thee thereto.

@DaleCooper -- of course I meant "Brother". Apologies !

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Was this not when Paris St Germain were one if the teams? So, I will have a wild guess that it wasn't one of the traditional RL locations but will hazard an answer of Paris.

 

[xotGD]

Huddersfield?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Huddersfield?

No, not them. Don't think the Giants were in the inaugural Super League competition.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Was this not when Paris St Germain were one if the teams? So, I will have a wild guess that it wasn't one of the traditional RL locations but will hazard an answer of Paris.

Paris is the correct answer. First game in Super League was a 30-24 win for the Parisians at home to Sheffield Eagles in March 1996.

@OhNoAPacer, over to you!

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Okay staying with sport.

In which sport might you use a clicker and a brace?

 

[DaleCooper]

Okay staying with sport.

In which sport might you use a clicker and a brace?

Sheepdog trials?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Sheepdog trials?

Not sheepdog trials

 

[Strat-tastic]

Sailing

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Sailing

No, not sailing I am afraid.

 

[DaleCooper]

Okay staying with sport.

In which sport might you use a clicker and a brace?

Falconry?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Falconry?

Afraid not

 

[martinsh]

Snooker ?

 

[DaleCooper]

Is it Blind Football?

 

[MotCO]

Archery? I think a brace is an forearm protector; not sure about a clicker.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Golf?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Snooker ?

Not snooker

Is it Blind Football?

Not blind football

Archery? I think a brace is an forearm protector; not sure about a clicker.

It is indeed archery, a brace is as you say a clicker is a device attached to the bow to indicate when the arrow is at full draw.

Golf?

Certainly not golf


So MotCO can target a question

 

[MotCO]

Thank you.

And now for something completely different... (where have I heard that before?)

Where does 30 become 3, 4 become 48, and 16 become 25?

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank you.

And now for something completely different... (where have I heard that before?)

Where does 30 become 3, 4 become 48, and 16 become 25?

Snakes and Ladders?

 

[Caboose Class]

When a rhombicosidodecahedron (such as a dice with 60 sides) tumbles once too often?

 

[MotCO]

Snakes and Ladders?

When a rhombicosidodecahedron (such as a dice with 60 sides) tumbles once too often?

Good guesses, but no.

For 'where', it is three separate geographical locations.

 

[Gloster]

Is this A-roads becoming Motorways? In which case 3 becoming 30 is near Basingstoke, I think.

 

[MotCO]

Is this A-roads becoming Motorways? In which case 3 becoming 30 is near Basingstoke, I think.

Indeed - it is to do with motorways.

As you say, the M3 actualy follows the A30, not the A3. The old Severn Bridge was the M4, which became the M48 when the new bridge opened. The M16 was the third of four orbital motorways to be built around London, and work was actually started on it - it is now the M25 from the Dartford Bridge and up through Essex to South Mimms, and joined up with the original M25 at Watford, hence the funny north-west 'bulge' in the M25. (The west and east carriageways split at M25 at South Mimms in anticipation of a through western route on the M16 in the gap between carriageways. The M16 was renamed M25 before opening, and the other two rings never left the planning table.)

Please pick up your cartographer's pen and set the next question.

 

[Gloster]

How is the village of Thierville in the Department of the Eure unique in France?

 

[MotCO]

Was it flooded when a dam was built?

 

[Calthrop]

How is the village of Thierville in the Department of the Eure unique in France?

I gather that France suffered dreadful losses in World War I; in that respect, we got off lightly in comparison. I seem to remember reading that there is just one village in the whole of France, all of whose menfolk came back alive from that war. Would that village be Thierville?

 

[Gloster]

Was it flooded when a dam was built?

No, sorry.

I gather that France suffered dreadful losses in World War I; in that respect, we got off lightly in comparison. I seem to remember reading that there is just one village in the whole of France, all of whose menfolk came back alive from that war. Would that village be Thierville?

Correct. It is the only village in France to which all its sons returned at the end of the Great War. It is the equivalent of the British ‘Thankful villages’. Furthermore, Thierville has not lost a son in any of France’s other four major wars: Franco-Prussian, Second World, Indo-China and Algeria.

For you to set the next.

 

[Calthrop]

No, sorry.

Correct. It is the only village in France to which all its sons returned at the end of the Great War. It is the equivalent of the British ‘Thankful villages’. Furthermore, Thierville has not lost a son in any of France’s other four major wars: Franco-Prussian, Second World, Indo-China and Algeria.

For you to set the next.

Thanks. Good gracious -- what can Thierville's secret be?

Another one in the area of "France and history". What act of clemency did King Louis XIV perform in 1697, to do with an English subject and the project on which that person was engaged?

 

[DaleCooper]

Thanks. Good gracious -- what can Thierville's secret be?

Another one in the area of "France and history". What act of clemency did King Louis XIV perform in 1697, to do with an English subject and the project on which that person was engaged?

Was this the bloke who got on a stagecoach at Calais without a ticket and was given a PFN which the king subsequently cancelled on appeal?