General Knowledge Quiz

[DaleCooper]

Aircraft?

Lights and stealth don't go together surely?

To look like an ordinary passenger plane and not a bomber or fighter?

Aircraft? Yes

Lights and stealth don't go together surely? In this application they do (and don't call me Shirley).

To look like an ordinary passenger plane and not a bomber or fighter? No

 

[GRALISTAIR]

So then - automatic lights that make the aircraft approximately the same as the background light/daylight etc? But at night would presumably be off to match the darkness and thus semi-stealth?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Lights and stealth don't go together surely? In this application they do (and don't call me Shirley).

Roger, Rodger.

 

[DaleCooper]

So then - automatic lights that make the aircraft approximately the same as the background light/daylight etc? But at night would presumably be off to match the darkness and thus semi-stealth?

Yes, Yehudi lights are lamps on the front and leading edges of an aircraft to match the brightness of the sky preventing it from appearing as a dark object against the sky. Your turn...

 

[GRALISTAIR]

What do the following people have in common? Joseph Bates, James White, Ellen White, Charles Russell, William Miller?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Are we talking founders of 7th day adventist?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Are we talking founders of 7th day adventist?

You are extremely close but not close enough - they are connected.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

I only thought of 7th day adventist as a couple of years ago I was looking up information about Ellen White the footballer and another Ellen White associated with 7th day adventists popped up.

So obviously I am unlikely to have anything further to add.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Ellen White was one of the founders of the 7th Day Adventists though.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

If there is no answer forthcoming tomorrow (Sunday evening UK time) I will give the answer and declare open floor.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

What do the following people have in common? Joseph Bates, James White, Ellen White, Charles Russell, William Miller?

Ellen White was one of the founders of the 7th Day Adventists though.

Joseph Bates, James White, Ellen White were founders of the Seventh Day Adventists basically putting a date on the second coming of Christ. Their theology was heavily based on the teachings of William Miller who taught the second coming of Christ would come in 1844 leading to the Great Disappointment. Charles Russell sometimes better known as Charles Taze Russell founded the Bible students who later became Jehovah's Witnesses in 1931. It was later admitted in writing (1990s) that their teaching of the second coming of Christ in 1914 was also heavily based on Adventist teachings.

OPEN FLOOR

 

[SuspectUsual]

Some American states have official state sports. Maryland has two - an individual sport and a team sport. What are they?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

I know the answer but will let others have a turn.

 

[DerekC]

I won't answer the question because I cheated by Googling - but I can say that Maryland's official state form of exercise is walking. Can't quite get my head around that idea!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lacrosse ?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Lacrosse ?

Yes, lacrosse is the official state team sport in Maryland

Now what might their official individual sport be?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

I do remember seeing that one state in the US had jousting as a state sport, would this be Maryland?

 

[SuspectUsual]

I do remember seeing that one state in the US had jousting as a state sport, would this be Maryland?

That's the correct answer

So @Xenophon PCDGS and @OhNoAPacer have one right each so I guess we need some sort of a tiebreaker.

To give whoever answers second half a chance, we'll have a question with a numerical answer. Madonna has the most UK number one singles by a female artiste - how many? Nearest - or first to get it spot on - wins

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Since I am bound to be unlucky, I will go for an "unlucky" number and say 13.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

I am happy to let Xenephon set the next question.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Which were the ethnic Polynesian people who were the first inhabitants of the Chatham Islands?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Since I am bound to be unlucky, I will go for an "unlucky" number and say 13.

I am happy to let Xenephon set the next question.

Just as well, as the answer was 13!!

 

[Mooky]

Which were the ethnic Polynesian people who were the first inhabitants of the Chatham Islands?

The Moriori?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The Moriori?

You are most correct.

Please set the next question.

 

[Mooky]

You are most correct.

Please set the next question.

With pleasure.

Which parliamentary constituency in Great Britain has the longest current streak of returning an opposition MP?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

I will guess at Westmorland and Lonsdale, Tim Farron's seat.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Had forgotten the coalition, so pretty sure my answer is wrong.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Brighton Pavilion?

 

[MotCO]

Glasgow Central (SNP)?

 

[Gloster]

Orkney & Shetland?