General Knowledge Quiz

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.
What did Hotlegs become in 1972?

 

[MotCO]

Pans People

 

[Peterthegreat]

Pans People

Nice quess but not correct.

 

[Acathater]

Ruby Flipper?

 

[MotCO]

Legs &Co

 

[Peterthegreat]

Ruby Flipper?

Nope.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Legs &Co

Nor Legs and Co.
As a clue they were not dancers.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Kentucky Fried Chicken?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Kentucky Fried Chicken?

Er no.....

 

[Gloster]

10cc?

 

[Peterthegreat]

10cc?

10 cc is correct.
Your turn.

 

[Gloster]

What did Cecil Chubb buy ‘on a whim’ at an auction in 1915?

 

[D6130]

A padlock?

 

[xotGD]

A safe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I recall that he bought the ancient monument called Stonehenge.

 

[Gloster]

I recall that he bought the ancient monument called Stonehenge.

Indeed he did. He attended an auction held by Knight, Frank & Rutley in the Palace Theatre, Salisbury on 21 September 1915, having supposedly gone to purchase some dining-room chairs for his wife. He paid £6,600 (around £900,000 nowadays) as he felt Stonehenge should be owned by a local man; he had been born in Shrewton on the Plain and lived in Salisbury. Three years later he donated it to the nation and was knighted a year later. What his wife said as it was really her money and whether she did get the chairs is lost to history.

To you to make an offer with the next question.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

What is unusual about Mount Ruapehu?

 

[MotCO]

It is under water?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

It is under water?

Not so.

 

[xotGD]

It is below sea level

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

It is below sea level

Not so.