General Knowledge Quiz

[Peterthegreat]

"I'm a nonentity get me out of here"?

Getting warmer......

 

[DaleCooper]

Celebrity Big Brother

 

[Peterthegreat]

Celebrity Big Brother

Is correct. Please be a celebrity and set a question!

 

[DaleCooper]

Is correct. Please be a celebrity and set a question!

Thank you.

Next question:

"Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed". Who were they?

 

[Neo9320]

The Nazgûl?

 

[Loppylugs]

Thank you.

Next question:

"Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed". Who were they?

Ant and duck.

 

[DaleCooper]

The Nazgûl?

Ant and duck.

I had to Google both of those, both are wrong.

Hint: A short story by a well known and celebrated author with whom I share a birthday.

 

[randyrippley]

Midwich Cuckoos?

 

[DaleCooper]

Midwich Cuckoos?

Right genre, wrong author also that's not a short story.

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank you.

Next question:

"Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed". Who were they?

It should help to know the author was Ray Bradbury.

 

[yoyothehobo]

Goldeneyes?

 

[DaleCooper]

Goldeneyes?

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What the duck? That's the second mention of waterfowl.

Hint: Although not ducks they might have used canals.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Martians.

 

[Loppylugs]

What the duck? That's the second mention of waterfowl.

Hint: Although not ducks they might have used canals.

Venetians.

 

[DaleCooper]

Venetians.

Are they from Venus?

Martians.

Strictly speaking they are human colonists on Mars who transformed into Martians, your turn...

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.
Who frolicked in the Autumn mist?

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank you.
Who frolicked in the Autumn mist?

Puff the Magic Dragon

 

[Peterthegreat]

Puff

Indeed it was. Please magic the next question!

 

[DaleCooper]

Indeed it was. Please magic the next question!

Thank you.

Next question (an easy one):

Which side of the Moon is always dark?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Thank you.

Next question (an easy one):

Which side of the Moon is always dark?

This is a trick question. No side of it. Every part of the moon, barring a deep cratered area at the south pole which is in permanent darkness, gets illuminated equally.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.

Next question (an easy one):

Which side of the Moon is always dark?

The one by Pink Floyd.

 

[yoyothehobo]

The land of Moon Mordor where the Shadows lie

 

[DaleCooper]

This is a trick question. No side of it. Every part of the moon, barring a deep cratered area at the south pole which is in permanent darkness, gets illuminated equally.

It is a trick question but that's not the answer.

The one by Pink Floyd.

Only on vinyl.

The land of Moon Mordor where the Shadows lie

I know not of this tenebrous place.

 

[MotCO]

The dark side?

 

[DaleCooper]

The dark side?

Yes but which side is the dark side?

Some lateral thinking is required.

 

[Gloster]

The other side.

 

[DaleCooper]

The other side.

Getting close but not quite there.

 

[xotGD]

The inside.

 

[randyrippley]

The far side...

Except it isn't.....

 

[DaleCooper]

The far side...

Except it isn't.....

You're right, it isn't.

The inside.

That's the right side, your turn...