General Knowledge Quiz

[Donny Dave]

A clue ... think of a colour for this person's surname.

Don Black?

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Barry White

Close, but no cigar!

Don Black?

That's the one!

So, that's all of them got ... I declare Donny Dave the winner, so it's up to you to pick up the composer's pen - well done!

 

[Donny Dave]

Cheers, even if it was a fluke. I watched The Man With the Golden Gun yesterday, and saw the name, so thought it would be worth a guess. Anyway, sticking with a musical theme (just)....

The violinist Vanessa Mae has represented Thailand at the Olympics in which sport/discipline?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

If I remember correctly, about ten years ago, she was involved in a matter that concerned ski-ing.

 

[xotGD]

Biathlon

 

[DaleCooper]

Synchronised fiddling

 

[Donny Dave]

No correct answers yet, but a couple of good guesses so far.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Was it slalom skiing?

 

[MotCO]

Floor gymnastics (the one waving ribbons)

 

[Donny Dave]

Was it slalom skiing?

Close enough to declare you a winner. The actual discipline was giant slalom.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

What is surprising about the easternmost part of the USA?

 

[Calthrop]

Easternmost part of USA, being the state of Maine in the country's far north-east: it's the part of the US which is closest to the continent of Africa.

 

[D6130]

Is it further East than the Easternmost part of mainland Canada?

 

[DaleCooper]

What is surprising about the easternmost part of the USA?

I'd guess it's somewhere in the Pacific a bit west of the international date line.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hawaii

 

[GRALISTAIR]

What is surprising about the easternmost part of the USA?

Closest point to Europe but I don’t think that is surprising so it can't be the answer.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Easternmost part of USA, being the state of Maine in the country's far north-east: it's the part of the US which is closest to the continent of Africa.

Not the answer I am after.

Is it further East than the Easternmost part of mainland Canada?

It is, it us actually further east than a large part of the planet.

Closest point to Europe but I don’t think that is surprising so it can't be the answer.

It actually isn't.

Hawaii

Not Hawaii, which is actually the location of the Southernmost part of the usa.

I'd guess it's somewhere in the Pacific a bit west of the international date line.

Is good enough.

It us one of the Aleutian islands.

Alaska thus boasts the Northernmost, the Westernmost and the Easternmost part of the USA.


Your floor.

 

[DaleCooper]

Is good enough.

It us one of the Aleutian islands.

Alaska thus boasts the Northernmost, the Westernmost and the Easternmost part of the USA.


Your floor.

Thanks although I should have said west of 180° longitude rather than the international date line.

Next question:

In WW2 HMS Sussex was hit by a Japanese aircraft in a kamikaze attack, what was the most noteworthy result of that attack?

 

[yoyothehobo]

Thanks although I should have said west of 180° longitude rather than the international date line.

Next question:

In WW2 HMS Sussex was hit by a Japanese aircraft in a kamikaze attack, what was the most noteworthy result of that attack?

I had no idea with this, so had to look up the answer and DQ myself. But it is certainly interesting!

 

[MotCO]

The Japanese plane landed on the ship?

 

[DaleCooper]

The Japanese plane landed on the ship?

That would be an extreme euphemism.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Is this the one where the plane actually left a "print" on the side of a ship like a ghost or something similar and it was so perfect that you could identify exactly the type of Japanese plane?

 

[DaleCooper]

Is this the one where the plane actually left a "print" on the side of a ship like a ghost or something similar and it was so perfect that you could identify exactly the type of Japanese plane?

It is indeed that one as seen below, your turn:

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Really sorry. Something just cropped up at work. I must declare Open Floor.

 

[CarltonA]

What sign would a person exhibit if they had heterochromia?

 

[DaleCooper]

What sign would a person exhibit if they had heterochromia?

Different coloured eyes.

 

[CarltonA]

Different coloured eyes.

I'll accept, it can also refer to hair or skin. Having different colour eyes (like David Bowie) or partially varied colours in the iris was what I was looking for. You to carry out the next examination please.

 

[DaleCooper]

I'll accept, it can also refer to hair or skin. Having different colour eyes (like David Bowie) or partially varied colours in the iris was what I was looking for. You to carry out the next examination please.

Thank you.

Next question:

What are Jinn particles?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Most probably barking up the wrong tree, in in the 1960s at Manchester University, I attended a series of lectures that covered Arabian Mythology and there were invisible beings called djinn.

 

[Gloster]

Wasn’t Jim Particles a character in the Goons?