General Knowledge Quiz

[Peterthegreat]

Plaid Cymru?

Nope.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Wikipedia

 

[Peterthegreat]

Wikipedia

Is correct.
Your turn please.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Who wrote of themselves “I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?”

 

[MotCO]

Charles Dickens? - his stories are so miserable!

 

[DaleCooper]

Who wrote of themselves “I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?”

Leonard Cohen

 

[SuspectUsual]

Neither of those

 

[SuspectUsual]

Who wrote of themselves “I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?”

A couple of clues as this appears to have stalled

The person concerned was English and lived in the 20th century

 

[DaleCooper]

A couple of clues as this appears to have stalled

The person concerned was English and lived in the 20th century

John Betjeman

 

[Calthrop]

George Orwell? -- though not very likely, I feel; doesn't sound like him, although he certainly "did" unhappiness.

 

[randyrippley]

Alan Bennett?

 

[SuspectUsual]

None of those

Another clue - he was a poet, and one of his most famous works mentions a train

 

[Calthrop]

Got to be Philip flaming Larkin, hasn't it? Open floor, if correct.

 

[Ashley Hill]

None of those

Another clue - he was a poet, and one of his most famous works mentions a train

W H Auden?

 

[SuspectUsual]

W H Auden?

No, but....

Got to be Philip flaming Larkin, hasn't it? Open floor, if correct.

....yes

The train reference is in The Whitsun Weddings, the first verse of which I think is just incredible:

That Whitsun, I was late getting away:
Not till about
One-twenty on the sunlit Saturday
Did my three-quarters-empty train pull out,
All windows down, all cushions hot, all sense
Of being in a hurry gone. We ran
Behind the backs of houses, crossed a street
Of blinding windscreens, smelt the fish-dock; thence
The river’s level drifting breadth began,
Where sky and Lincolnshire and water meet

I love how the all windows down sentence has the same rhythm as a train over jointed track and the last line is just beautiful

Anyhow, open floor...

 

[DaleCooper]

Anyhow, open floor...

Next question:

Where did Jud Fry die?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Where did Jud Fry die?

Is this a real person or a fictional character?

 

[yoyothehobo]

Next question:

Where did Jud Fry die?

in OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOklahoma!!!!

 

[MotCO]

in OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOklahoma!!!!

If you're right, then @DaleCooper "Cain't say No"!

 

[DaleCooper]

Is this a real person or a fictional character?

Fictional - see below

in OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOklahoma!!!!

Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain. Correct, your turn...

If you're right, then @DaleCooper "Cain't say No"!

N.., n.., n... You're right, I can't say that word.

 

[yoyothehobo]

What is next in this list?

Narendra Modi
Rungrado 1st of May
Michigan
Beaver
Ohio
Kyle
Tiger
Neyland
Darrell K
Bryant Denny
------?

 

[SuspectUsual]

This is to do with the biggest sports stadiums in the world I assume?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Wembley?

 

[yoyothehobo]

This is to do with the biggest sports stadiums in the world I assume?

On the right lines

wembley is incorrect

 

[MotCO]

Neu Camp?

 

[yoyothehobo]

Neu Camp?

Nope, more people than the nou camp

 

[Peterthegreat]

MCG?

 

[yoyothehobo]

MCG?

Is the correct answer. Your floor.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.
"Stinks in here, dunnit? " were the spoken words in what?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

A key scene in the film "Shawshank Redemption"?