General Knowledge Quiz

[Welshman]

I have got:-
Dissolve for the first part
Flush House for the second part
David Mark Rylance Waters for the third part.

I'm often surprised to find there is more than one acceptable answer, even to questions like this.

I had in mind:-
A nettle
Nettleton Hill near Golcar, and
John Nettle (s).

But your answer is just as good.

Back to you

 

[fowler9]

Ha ha, all very good.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Which famous painting includes a king and a queen reflected in a mirror? Who was the artist?

 

[Darren R]

The Maids of Honour by Velazquez?

Open Floor if correct.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I require the actual Spanish name given to the painting. You are correct with the name of the artist.

 

[Darren R]

I can't remember what it's called in Spanish! It's Las Maninas or something similar - I don't think I've ever seen it written and Spanish isn't any of the one languages that I speak fluently!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Las Meninas is the name....which you obviously knew in fact.

Over to you to set the next one

 

[Welshman]

As Darren R declared open floor in post 3574, I'll pose another one, which could be in either the "Railway General Knowledge" or the "General Knowledge" section.

Which famous musical composer is reputed to have had a love of train-spotting and studying railway timetables, and would often ask his pupils to describe any recent railway journeys they had made?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Antonin Dvorak.....apologies for the lack of accented letters.

 

[Welshman]

Antonin Dvorak.....apologies for the lack of accented letters.

Correct.
Were you listening to Classic FM yesterday afternoon, too?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ceawlin was the only king of which Anglo-Saxon kingdom to be listed by the Venerable Bede as a Bretwalda?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Not that many saxon kingdoms to name, so the first one I can think of is Wessex.


*( cue everyone listing one each on the scattershot principle now! )*

 

[fowler9]

Not that many saxon kingdoms to name, so the first one I can think of is Wessex.


*( cue everyone listing one each on the scattershot principle now! )*

I would agree with you, ha ha.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Not that many saxon kingdoms to name, so the first one I can think of is Wessex

Which is the correct answer....Over to you

 

[Peter Mugridge]

That was a lucky guess!

Right....

Name the classic short horror film ( which went so over the top that it had the opposite effect to the intended one - as many people laugh as scream when they see it ) in which one scene involves a water pipe breaking free from a mounting, swinging the broken end towards the middle of a room and spraying everyone with blood.

I am looking for the title and the studio that made it.

 

[Buttsy]

That was a lucky guess!

Right....

Name the classic short horror film ( which went so over the top that it had the opposite effect to the intended one - as many people laugh as scream when they see it ) in which one scene involves a water pipe breaking free from a mounting, swinging the broken end towards the middle of a room and spraying everyone with blood.

I am looking for the title and the studio that made it.

Was it House Of Blood by The Hammer House Of Horror?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

You have the studio and I think you are thinking of the right film, but the title is wrong...

 

[Buttsy]

The House That Bled To Death?

I used to see these as a kid and had an interest in the locations as some were filmed around relatives who live in Great Kingshill. The ones that I remember best are The Silent Scream (the Pavlovian response of the dog) and The Two Faces Of Evil (the road from Butler's Cross to Missenden still gives me a shiver).

 

[Peter Mugridge]

That is the correct title so you have answered both parts of the question. Your turn.




I must put my Hammer DVD on during next week... haven't watched those shorts for ages...

 

[Buttsy]

"I'll give up Patsy I'll give up Joan, I'll give up Tilda if you'll just come home" is a line from what song by which artist?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

If the three female names refer to Patsy Stone, Joan Crawford and Tilda Swinton, then I will venture to say:-

Gothic Road

Jackie Leven.

 

[Buttsy]

If the three female names refer to Patsy Stone, Joan Crawford and Tilda Swinton, then I will venture to say:-

Gothic Road

Jackie Leven.

So close Paul, the song is on that album, but it's not the title.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

So close Paul, the song is on that album, but it's not the title.

I named the album and the singer and had also intended to name the song...

Absolutely Joan Crawford (with a Bit of Tilda Swinton on The Side)

 

[Buttsy]

I named the album and the singer and had also intended to name the song...

Absolutely Joan Crawford (with a Bit of Tilda Swinton on The Side)

Correct

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

There were three grades of Vestal Virgins who served as Priestesses of the goddess Vesta. What were the three grades and how many were in each grade?

 

[Marton]

Students, servants, and teachers were the grades. They served 10 years in each.

There were 18 in total 6 in each category

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Totally correct....over to you to set the next conundrum.

 

[Marton]

Thank you.

Where is the longest religious cloister in Europe?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I will proffer the Romanesque-style Cistercian abbey of Notre-Dame de Senanque, in Gordes, in France.

 

[Marton]

Afraid not.