General Knowledge Quiz

[SuspectUsual]

Are they numbered or lettered, rather than named?

Absolutely they (almost all) are.

Attached a screenshot from Google Maps to demonstrate it

Your turn

 

[Gloster]

I stayed in Mannheim a few times quite a few years ago and the memory of the oddity finally surfaced.

What is a rumspringa?

 

[Peterthegreat]

It might have been, and I suspect you're toying with us now. Care to elucidate?

I'll leave it for a while. See if anyone picks up on it.
No need to now.

 

[DaleCooper]

I stayed in Mannheim a few times quite a few years ago and the memory of the oddity finally surfaced.

What is a rumspringa?

An antelope

 

[D6130]

An inebriated kangaroo?

 

[Gloster]

An antelope

No. Are you thinking of a klipspringer?

An inebriated kangaroo?

No.

 

[D6130]

A Jamaican bottle opener?

 

[DaleCooper]

An aquatic microscopic animal

 

[Acathater]

a Caribbean cocktail?

 

[Greenheart]

A troublemaker?

 

[Gloster]

None of the above. I will give a clue later today.

 

[D1511]

I think it is of Dutch/German origin and is some sort of ritual for the Amish people. I think it's for young people but I'm not sure what. I remember it from the film "Witness"

 

[Gloster]

I think it is of Dutch/German origin and is some sort of ritual for the Amish people. I think it's for young people but I'm not sure what. I remember it from the film "Witness"

Correct enough. In some Amish and Mennonite groups young aged 16 or 17 can leave for a period and go out into the wide world for a couple of years to a greater or lesser extent, after which they can return and fully adopt the sect’s behaviour if they wish.

To you to enlighten us with a new question.

 

[D1511]

Correct enough. In some Amish and Mennonite groups young aged 16 or 17 can leave for a period and go out into the wide world for a couple of years to a greater or lesser extent, after which they can return and fully adopt the sect’s behaviour if they wish.

To you to enlighten us with a new question.

Thank you. That makes sense in the context of the film, which is a very good one, by the way. The little boy in it, the "witness", is brilliant.

What is the UNESCO "world natural laboratory" located in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago called?

 

[Gloster]

Surtsey?

 

[D1511]

Surtsey?

Blimey, that was quick! Yes, correct. It is preserved as a laboratory to allow scientists to study undisturbed ecological succession and the colonisation of new land by plants, animals and fungi. I am almost exactly the same age as Surtsey.

Time for you to erupt out the next question!

 

[Gloster]

What is the historical significance of L’Anse aux Meadows?

 

[Gloster]

Well, not much interest here, so a clue. L’Anse aux Meadows is right up at the northern tip of Newfoundland.

 

[D1511]

Well, not much interest here, so a clue. L’Anse aux Meadows is right up at the northern tip of Newfoundland.

No lack of interest here.....just completely stumped, even with the new clue!

 

[xotGD]

Most northerly point of the French empire?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Well, not much interest here, so a clue. L’Anse aux Meadows is right up at the northern tip of Newfoundland.

Newfoundland?

It's not the location where Alcock and Brown took off from is it?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Perhaps the first place the Europeans landed in North America.

 

[Gloster]

Most northerly point of the French empire?

Most northerly point of the French empire?

Sorry, no.

Perhaps the first place the Europeans landed in North America.

But this is close enough. It is the oldest known European settlement in North America. It dates from around a thousand years ago and was settled by the Vikings.

To you to discover a new question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.
Who is the only person to have been the subject of "This is your life" three times? (UK version).

 

[Gloster]

Eamonn Andrews?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Eamonn Andrews?

Not Eamonn. He managed it twice.

 

[Greenheart]

Harry Secombe?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Harry Secombe?

Not Harry Secombe.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Bob Hope?

 

[D6130]

Michael Parkinson?