General Knowledge Quiz

[Purple Train]

Tom Stoppard

Quite correct.

 

[DaleCooper]

Quite correct.

Thank you.

Next question:

What is a nuvistor?

 

[D1511]

It's a type of transistor used in very high end audio equipment. Like a vacuum valve but smaller and made of metal.

 

[DaleCooper]

It's a type of transistor used in very high end audio equipment. Like a vacuum valve but smaller and made of metal.

Near enough, it's actually a miniature valve (vacuum tube) designed in the 1950s to compete with the newfangled transistors. Your turn...

 

[D1511]

Near enough, it's actually a miniature valve (vacuum tube) designed in the 1950s to compete with the newfangled transistors. Your turn...

Cheers. I am familiar with this bargain amplifier that has Nuvistors inside.....
Musical Fidelity NuVista Amplifier

Which composer famous for film scores co-wrote the theme music to the 1980s/90s youth quiz show 'Going for Gold'?

 

[MotCO]

Hams Zimmer?

 

[D1511]

Hams Zimmer?

..........is the correct answer!

Your turn to give us a question from your early days......!

 

[MotCO]

Continuing on a musical theme...

Who was appointed the first ever official organist at the Royal Albert Hall?

 

[Purple Train]

Hubert Parry?

 

[EYFanatic]

That would be Anna Lapwood

 

[MotCO]

That would be Anna Lapwood

It is indeed. Your turn to takd thd baton.

 

[EYFanatic]

It is indeed. Your turn to takd thd baton.

Thank you

In July of 1919, Captain Karl Mayr made the world's greatest mistake - what was it?

(edited to correct spelling mistake)

 

[xotGD]

Saved Hitler's life?

 

[EYFanatic]

Saved Hitler's life?

No... But it does involve the famous house painter

 

[Trackman]

Did he promote Hitler who then formed the Nazi party?

 

[EYFanatic]

Did he promote Hitler who then formed the Nazi party?

Close... But not close enough

 

[Gloster]

Told Hitler that he would never make it as a painter and should do something else instead.

 

[EYFanatic]

Told Hitler that he would never make it as a painter and should do something else instead.

No - for a clue, think about @Trackman's reply

 

[MotCO]

Rejected him for art school?

 

[EYFanatic]

Rejected him for art school?

Nope... Something he did after the war

 

[Ashley Hill]

Pretend to be Hitler?

 

[D1511]

Wasn't he the toothbrush moustached one's mentor that encouraged him to enter politics? So was that the big mistake?

 

[EYFanatic]

Wasn't he the toothbrush moustached one's mentor that encouraged him to enter politics? So was that the big mistake?

Close enough for the win - he was the man who assigned Hitler to enter politics and therefore spy on the German Workers Party which surely must be the biggest mistake in the entire human history

Your floor

 

[D1511]

Close enough for the win - he was the man who assigned Hitler to enter politics and therefore spy on the German Workers Party which surely must be the biggest mistake in the entire human history

Your floor

Thanks! Mayr probably should have told him he was an excellent artist, on reflection......

What is most notable about the small Dutch town of Naarden?

 

[Acathater]

Thanks! Mayr probably should have told him he was an excellent artist, on reflection......

What is most notable about the small Dutch town of Naarden?

Is it one that was destroyed during WWII and reconstructed to match the original?

==edit==
just checked, no it's not that

 

[D1511]

Is it one that was destroyed during WWII and reconstructed to match the original?

No. not as far as I'm aware......it seems genuinely old to me......!
It was sacked and destroyed in 1572 with only 60 survivors though ....but the notable thing about Naarden is of much older vintage than WWII.......

 

[MotCO]

The first one built below sea level?

 

[xotGD]

It's name sounds like a Northern expression for asking people how they are.

 

[D1511]

The first one built below sea level?

No, I don't believe so. It might well be below sea level, but that's not the most notable thing about it.

 

[D6130]

Did it have the first windmill?