General Knowledge Quiz

[Spamcan81]

Which European capital city's name translates into English as Blackpool.

 

[Buttsy]

Dublin

 

[Spamcan81]

Correct

 

[Buttsy]

"Flowers rotting dead
Seen it in her eyes
Ending in a day
Silence was a way"

are lyrics from which song by which artist?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I see that we both remember the days of Punk et al...

Death Disco

John Joseph Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten)

 

[ATW Alex 101]

Which left-back was included in the England football squad for the 2010 world cup but never played?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Which left-back was included in the England football squad for the 2010 world cup but never played?

Sorry to but in, but a decision is still awaited on the previous conundrum.

 

[Buttsy]

I see that we both remember the days of Punk et al...

Death Disco

John Joseph Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten)

Half right Paul, you've got the song, but the artist wasn't Lydon, though he was the singer in this group.

 

[Mvann]

That leaves the sex pistols or public enemy.
I say public enemy and open floor

 

[Buttsy]

That leaves the sex pistols or public enemy.
I say public enemy and open floor

Not The Sex Pistols and not Public Enemy.

 

[Whistler40145]

Is the band Public Image?

 

[fowler9]

Is the band Public Image?

Public Image Limited I think you meant.

 

[Whistler40145]

Oops, yes I meant Public Image Limited.

 

[Buttsy]

Public Image Limited I think you meant.

It is indeed PIL
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Despite Paul not getting the group, getting the song and lead singer would say to me that he is the winner of my conundrum.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gowk is another name for a bird that visits Britain. What is its more widely used name?

 

[Marton]

Cuckoo?


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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Correct....over to you.

 

[Marton]

Which queen was buried in a Benedictine abbey which is now a cathedral.


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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Which queen was buried in a Benedictine abbey which is now a cathedral.


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Peterborough Cathedral was once a Benedictine Abbey.

Queen Katherine (of Aragon) was buried there.

Mary, Queen of Scots was also originally buried there, before being reinterred in 1612 in Westminster Abbey.

 

[Marton]

Correct.

The key was the tense.

Katharine is buried there.


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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Which British Order is limited to 65 members?

 

[t_star2001uk]

Order of the Companions of Honour.

Open Floor if correct.......

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

You were correct.....I note that you have declared Open Floor

 

[deltic1989]

I shall seize the floor.

Please give the next line of the song, and the title and artist:
"and maybe I'm the one who flew over the cuckoo's nest, well guess who's next?"

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

"Generation X, generation strange, sun don't shine through our window pane"

My Generation

Limp Bizkit

 

[deltic1989]

"Generation X, generation strange, sun don't shine through our window pane"

My Generation

Limp Bizkit

For a man of your years you are certainly "down with the kids".
This is indeed the answer I was looking for. Over to you Paul.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The Welsh monk Asser is best known for his biography of which monarch?

 

[Whistler40145]

Alfred the Great

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Correct ... over to you

 

[Whistler40145]

Where does the cravat originally come from?