General Knowledge Quiz

[SuspectUsual]

I remember this from school. It’s the number of elements of a standard seven segment display (or number of matchsticks) required to show each of the digits 0 to 9

 

[DaleCooper]

I remember this from school. It’s the number of elements of a standard seven segment display (or number of matchsticks) required to show each of the digits 0 to 9

That's it, well done. Your turn...

 

[SuspectUsual]

Which significant English town appears on far fewer road signs than any other of comparable size?

 

[DaleCooper]

Which significant English town appears on far fewer road signs than any other of comparable size?

Cowes IOW

 

[SuspectUsual]

Cowes IOW

A good answer but not what I had in mind.

As a guide, the place concerned is about ten times bigger than Cowes

 

[Gloster]

Barrow-in-Furness?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Southend?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Neither of those

 

[Gloster]

Sunderland?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Middlesbrough?

 

[Calthrop]

Kingston-upon-Hull? (Maybe likelier before the Humber Bridge came into being.)

 

[SuspectUsual]

Sunderland?

Middlesbrough?

Kingston-upon-Hull? (Maybe likelier before the Humber Bridge came into being.)

Middlesbrough is the right answer.

The reason isn’t really anything to do with geography, but because the majority of the signs on the main roads give distances to Teesside, not Middlesbrough

@Peterthegreat your turn

 

[Peterthegreat]

Well that was a very lucky guess.
Who is the oldest man to have visited the (magnetic) North Pole?

 

[DaleCooper]

Well that was a very lucky guess.
Who is the oldest man to have visited the (magnetic) North Pole?

Father Christmas

 

[Peterthegreat]

Father Christmas

Nice answer but not the one I was looking for. (Although he would make a good Santa).

 

[Gloster]

Hyman G. Rickover?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Hyman G. Rickover?

I'm not aware the Admiral went to the North Pole.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

I remember Brian Blessed doing something arctic related so will try him.

 

[Peterthegreat]

I remember Brian Blessed doing something arctic related so will try him.

Brian Blessed is correct.
Your turn.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

What would you do with a Sary Sinap?

 

[Ashley Hill]

Make an apple pie with it.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Make an apple pie with it.

Is a correct option. It us a variety of apple, thought to be extinct but was found in the USA.

You may bake the next question.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Is a correct option. It us a variety of apple, thought to be extinct but was found in the USA.

You may bake the next question.

Where and when would you find yourself “Dancing to the Rhythm of Guns of Navarone?

 

[martinsh]

Saturday Night Beneath the Plastic Palm Trees

 

[Ashley Hill]

Saturday Night Beneath the Plastic Palm Trees

Correct,that well known single by the Layton Buzzards. Your turn to spin the next question…

 

[martinsh]

Not going to be around much for the next day or two - so Open Floor

 

[DaleCooper]

Next question:

Who are Ron Nasty, Dirk McQuickly, Stig O'Hara and Barry Wom?

 

[Gloster]

The Rutles?

 

[DaleCooper]

The Rutles?

Yes, they are The Prefab Four. Your turn...

 

[Gloster]

Who said of whom, “After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself within twelve months”?