General Knowledge Quiz

[Spamcan81]

Spamcan seems to have gone AWOL, but I think you've got the correct answer there. He lost both legs but seems to have by far eclipsed whatever Bader did. He also had facial reconstruction surgery.
See https://rafa.org.uk/blog/2021/08/11/colin-hodgkinson/
Brave man.

Birthday celebrations involving the intake of alcohol so had other things on my mind.

 

[Gloster]

A question vaguely connected with the last, but one I already had in mind. When did Airfix release its first kit of a Spitfire?

 

[D6130]

1958?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

1965?

 

[Neo9320]

1949?

 

[Gloster]

None of the above.

 

[MasterSpenny]

1951

 

[Neo9320]

63?

 

[MotCO]

63?

Is that AD or BC ?

I'll go left field and say sometime during the war to help the patriotic fervour. Say 1941?

 

[DaleCooper]

1956

 

[Gloster]

None of the answers are correct so far, but the answer lies halfway between two of them.

 

[DaleCooper]

1957

 

[MotCO]

1945?

 

[MasterSpenny]

1960

 

[Peterthegreat]

Has anyone guessed1955?

 

[Gloster]

Nobody has got it yet, so I will give a further clue that pretty well gives it away. The correct date lies halfway between the outlying dates.

 

[DaleCooper]

Nobody has got it yet, so I will give a further clue that pretty well gives it away. The correct date lies halfway between the outlying dates.

1955 (That's already been suggested)

 

[MotCO]

1953

 

[Gloster]

1953

Correct. The (in)famous ‘BTK’ model appeared in that year.

Your turn to glue together a question.

 

[MotCO]

And now for something completely different.

What comes next in this sequence:

Melbourne
Salisbury
Asquith
Baldwin
Baldwin
Churchill ?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Truss?

 

[xotGD]

Wilson

 

[DaleCooper]

Attlee

 

[MotCO]

Truss?

Is correct. (But isn't she the answer to everthing )

The list is Prime Ministers at the changover of Monarchs.

Please assume the seat of power.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Which is the only film in which three different actors were nominated for best actor at the Oscars?

 

[D6130]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?

 

[Peterthegreat]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?

Nice try but not correct.

 

[D6130]

Love Story?

 

[DaleCooper]

The Shawshank Redemption

 

[Peterthegreat]

Love Story?

Nope.