General Knowledge Quiz

[Strat-tastic]

Gleneagles.

 

[Gloster]

Gleneagles.

Correct. His name was Donald Sinclair, the same as another ‘original’ of a TV character: Siegfried Farnon.

Your turn to reserve us a new question.

 

[Strat-tastic]

It was even referred to in an episode (The Builders?).
Okay, literature.
Tiffany Aching is particularly good at making what?

 

[DaleCooper]

It was even referred to in an episode (The Builders?).
Okay, literature.
Tiffany Aching is particularly good at making what?

Cakes (Baking)

 

[Strat-tastic]

Cakes (Baking)

Not that.

 

[Strat-tastic]

Time for a clue: the genre is comedy.

 

[D6130]

Time for a clue: the genre is comedy.

Err....making people laugh?

 

[randyrippley]

It was even referred to in an episode (The Builders?).
Okay, literature.
Tiffany Aching is particularly good at making what?

Back poultices? (I'm thinking nominative determinism........)

 

[xotGD]

Double entendre

 

[Strat-tastic]

Not yet.
Further clues: genre comedy/fantasy and Tiffany is a witch.

 

[randyrippley]

Not yet.
Further clues: genre comedy/fantasy and Tiffany is a witch.

Casting spells?
Was she the blonde witch in that 1960's USA TV series who cast spells by twitching her nose? Can't remember the name of the program

 

[DaleCooper]

Casting spells?
Was she the blonde witch in that 1960's USA TV series who cast spells by twitching her nose? Can't remember the name of the program

I think she was Samantha.

 

[Strat-tastic]

No and no.
I probably won't be able to reply until after work tomorrow, so final clue before then:
She is propelled through space by Great A'Tuin.

 

[randyrippley]

I think she was Samantha.

Yes, you're right. Better memory than me!

 

[D6130]

I think she was Samantha.

She was indeed....played by Elizabeth Montgomery. The programme was called 'Bewitched'.

 

[Strat-tastic]

Dale was close in that the answer is a foodstuff.
Moooo!

 

[DaleCooper]

Dale was close in that the answer is a foodstuff.
Moooo!

Yoghurt

 

[Strat-tastic]

No.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Is it cheese?

 

[DaleCooper]

Oxtail soup

 

[Gloster]

Mooosaka

 

[midlandred]

Cream

 

[DaleCooper]

Mooosaka

...or moosli.

 

[Strat-tastic]

Is it cheese?

Cheese it is! From Discworld novels.
Please take the floor.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

If you saw the SI Unit J/T - Joules per Tesla, what would you be measuring?

 

[yoyothehobo]

The ability of a magnetic force to move something?

Joules = Newton per metre

Tesla is magnetic flux density?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Well sort of - but I am looking for what it is as in Ampere is the unit of current and coulomb is the unit of charge.

 

[MotCO]

The strength of a magnet (pulling force)?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

The ability of a magnetic force to move something?

Joules = Newton per metre

Tesla is magnetic flux density?

The strength of a magnet (pulling force)?

Clue - OK so it is Magnetic ------- ?

 

[DaleCooper]

Clue - OK so it is Magnetic ------- ?

Magnetic personality