General Knowledge Quiz

[D6130]

Bradford Park Avenue?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Altrincham

Not Altrincham.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Bradford Park Avenue?

Not Bradford Park Avenue.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Kettering Town

 

[Peterthegreat]

Kettering Town

Correct. Your turn.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

P, Pd, Pr, ---?-- Pt, Pb, Po, Pa, Pu

What goes where the ? is ?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Atomic symbols, presumably? If so, how many other elements, beginning with the letter 'P' are we looking for?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Just the one

 

[Peterthegreat]

Pm.

 

[randyrippley]

Pm - Promethium

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Pm.

Pm - Promethium

You both got it correct but Peterthegreat was there first by 3 minutes.

Your turn to be in your elementPeterthegreat .

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.
Who comes next?
Sir Alan Green
Dame Barbara Mills
Sir David Calvert-Smith
Ken Macdonald

 

[SuspectUsual]

Keir Starmer

 

[Peterthegreat]

Keir Starmer

Is indeed correct. Please be the director of the next question.

 

[SuspectUsual]

What famous advice was given by Ivan Karp, and to whom?

 

[yoyothehobo]

What famous advice was given by Ivan Karp, and to whom?

he told Andy Warhol to paint a can of soup?

 

[SuspectUsual]

he told Andy Warhol to paint a can of soup?

Right man, wrong subject matter

 

[randyrippley]

did he tell Warhol that he'd be "famous for five minutes......"???

 

[SuspectUsual]

did he tell Warhol that he'd be "famous for five minutes......"???

Not to my knowledge

 

[SuspectUsual]

I’m not going to be around for a couple of days, so given that @randyrippley has got half the answer, they can set the next question

Karp in fact suggested to Warhol that he “should paint some cows”

 

[randyrippley]

I feel that yoyothehobo should really be doing this but as Steve passed it to me here goes.......

How's your medieval mythology and history?

On his way from Stamford Bridge to Hastings, Harold Godwinson stopped off to pray at Waltham Abbey. What object did he actually pray in front of, and how did it foretell his defeat?
For an extra point, where was it found?

 

[xotGD]

A saintly relic of an eye socket?

 

[randyrippley]

A saintly relic of an eye socket?

no

 

[DaleCooper]

A candle, he got smoke in his eye.

For the extra point - in a Yankee Candle shop.

 

[randyrippley]

A candle, he got smoke in his eye.

For the extra point - in a Yankee Candle shop.

nope
nothing to do with eyes

 

[xotGD]

An arrow made from a piece of the true cross.

 

[Neo9320]

The remains of a saint…the rest is unknown

 

[randyrippley]

The remains of a saint…the rest is unknown

nope

 

[randyrippley]

An arrow made from a piece of the true cross.

no, not an arrow

 

[DaleCooper]

An advert for the upcoming Bayeux Tapestry.