General Knowledge Quiz

[Calthrop]

Thanks -- I'll pose one ...

Something which appears childishly rude; but is in fact, in that context, fully "clean" and unexceptionable --

What was a Teasing Willy?

 

[DaleCooper]

Thanks -- I'll pose one ...

Something which appears childishly rude; but is in fact, in that context, fully "clean" and unexceptionable --

What was a Teasing Willy?

A tool used in the wool trade.

 

[Calthrop]

I declare, this Cooper bloke knows everything about everything ... such a tool, indeed: it "carded" or pulled apart the wool to facilitate easier spinning.

Your turn, Honourable Weaving-Master, to come up with something else which will upset the Luddites ...

 

[DaleCooper]

I declare, this Cooper bloke knows everything about everything ... such a tool, indeed: it "carded" or pulled apart the wool to facilitate easier spinning.

Your turn, Honourable Weaving-Master, to come up with something else which will upset the Luddites ...

Thank you but It was just a guess based on "Teasing".

Next question:

Who painted The Garden of Earthly Delights, The Haywain Triptych and The Conjurer?

 

[Calthrop]

Hieronymus Bosch?? -- from the first-named: hadn't seen him as being into haywains or conjuring -- but maybe he occasionally took relaxing-time-off, from portraying the horrors of Hell?

 

[DaleCooper]

Hieronymus Bosch?? -- from the first-named: hadn't seen him as being into haywains or conjuring -- but maybe he occasionally took relaxing-time-off, from portraying the horrors of Hell?

Correct, I chose the last two as they might be perceived as atypical of his works, a bit of misdirection..

Back to you...

 

[Calthrop]

"Thank you, so" -- I'm no art-from-long-ago -- or any other kind thereof -- buff: rather a lucky chance shot.

I like stuff about national flags: this one (borrowed from the general-knowledge quiz on another board which I frequent) is rather similarly themed to one which I set hereon, some years ago -- different in detail, however.

The very great majority of the flags of the world's nations, include at least one of the following colours: red / white / blue. There is reckoned to be at the present time, just one among world's community of nations, whose flag features none of those colours. What is the nation, to which this applies? (It's somewhere relatively well-known -- not a highly-obscure backwater.)

 

[Loppylugs]

Jamaica - Yellow, Black & Green.

 

[Calthrop]

Jamaica it is, indeed -- congrats !

Let's see what d'ya make 'a setting next question ...

 

[SuspectUsual]

I thought Mauritania - green and red horizontal stripes with a yellow / gold crescent and star

 

[Loppylugs]

I thought Mauritania - green and red horizontal stripes with a yellow / gold crescent and star

So it's got red then ?

Jamaica it is, indeed -- congrats !

Let's see what d'ya make 'a setting next question ...

Thank-you. A bit lucky as I had just finished watching the athletics meeting in Stockholm with all the flags displayed!!

Which city has the cathedral with the highest spire in England ?

 

[Calthrop]

Salisbury? -- open floor, if right: I've been hogging things lately.

 

[Loppylugs]

Salisbury? -- open floor, if right: I've been hogging things lately.

Blimey, let the ink dry @Calthrop ! Open floor it is.

 

[AndyPJG]

Salisbury? -- open floor, if right: I've been hogging things lately.

404 feet high,,,,and my birthtown

 

[MotCO]

404 feet high,,,,and my birthtown

Weren't the Russians particuarly interested in it?

 

[AndyPJG]

to take up the open 'floor', the 2nd tallest spire is Norwich Cathedral, but in which town/city is the third highest spire, and the tallest parish church spire?

 

[D6130]

Preston....St Walburge's Roman Catholic Church - situated in the fork of the Blackpool and West Coast Main lines about 3/4 mile North of the station.

 

[Spamcan81]

Chesterfield?

 

[AndyPJG]

Preston....St Walburge's Roman Catholic Church - situated in the fork of the Blackpool and West Coast Main lines about 3/4 mile North of the station.

Correct. You can aspire to be the next poser setter.

Chesterfield?

That's the famous crooked one.

 

[SuspectUsual]

So it's got red then ?

Sorry, half my reply somehow disappeared. What I thought I’d posted was that the Mauritania flag would have been correct until they added the red stripes about 10 or 15 years ago

 

[krus_aragon]

I declare, this Cooper bloke knows everything about everything ... such a tool, indeed: it "carded" or pulled apart the wool to facilitate easier spinning.

Your turn, Honourable Weaving-Master, to come up with something else which will upset the Luddites ...

My mother used to demonstrate wool carding and spinning, but only every used hand cards (and a spinning wheel). I presume from your luddite comment that the teasing willy was a more mechanical contraption?

 

[Calthrop]

My mother used to demonstrate wool carding and spinning, but only every used hand cards (and a spinning wheel). I presume from your luddite comment that the teasing willy was a more mechanical contraption?

Info concerning the device with the saucy-sounding name: got by me from book by one of my favourite authors, John Lewis-Stemple -- writer, naturalist, and also farmer along organic / old-fashioned lines, in the lovely Herefordshire back of beyond, near the Welsh border. From his book The Sheep's Tale -- he keeps sheep, among other farming "lines" -- the book celebrates sheep-kind in general (including their wool and history of use thereof); and comes out in their defence, against the more rabid eco-warriors who tend toward extreme loathing, and extermination-desiring, of this particular farm animal, on the grounds of perceived over-grazing. He writes of 18th-century invention in Scotland, of devices which made "things wool-weaving" more efficient and more abundantly productive: the flying shuttle, the water-driven power-loom, and the wondrous Teasing Willy.

 

[krus_aragon]

Things appear to have stalled, so here's a quick question to get the ball rolling again.

Identify the group listed below:
AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT

 

[Turtle]

Hello All, we have a new quiz from Heinz57 for you all :

This is a General Knowledge quiz about anything and everything. The rules are simple: the person with the correct answer to the preceding question will post the next, and so on.... And remember, no Googling - that would be cheating!

The Quizmasters would also like people to make sure that questions are sensible and have a simple answer - so an answer like Italy or carrots or Mt Everest might be good, but a question like "What is the GDP of Egypt?" can only lead to headaches.

If a question is answered correctly and accepted by the question setter, but then no new question is set within one day (twenty-four hours) by the successful contestant, on expiry of this period, the floor will open for any member to set a new question.

So, here's the first question from Heinz57...

In 1803, what did the USA purchase from France for $11,250,000?

Over to you.

Louisiana 1

 

[Peterthegreat]

Things appear to have stalled, so here's a quick question to get the ball rolling again.

Identify the group listed below:
AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT

Canadian Provinces?

 

[krus_aragon]

Canadian Provinces?

Correct, specifically the abbreviations used by the Canadian postal service.

The ball is yours...

 

[Peterthegreat]

Correct, specifically the abbreviations used by the Canadian postal service.

The ball is yours...

Thank you.
Jimmy Wales is a co founder of what?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Jimmy Wales is a co founder of what?

Plaid Cymru?

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank you.
Jimmy Wales is a co founder of what?

Walmart

 

[Peterthegreat]

Walmart

Sorry. Walmart was founded by the Walton brothers.