General Knowledge Quiz

[GRALISTAIR]

£5 and all the port you can drink

Now that sounds fantastic.

 

[DaleCooper]

One hundred of your Earth pounds.

 

[Donny Dave]

One hundred of your Earth pounds.

Sold! Over to you for the next question.

 

[DaleCooper]

Sold! Over to you for the next question.

Thank you.

Next question:

What do the following have in common?

Sandy Island, Dougherty Island, The Nimrod Islands, Pepys Island, Ganges Island

 

[D6130]

Are they all fictitious islands in Jules Verne's sci-fi novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea?

 

[Acathater]

Thank you.

Next question:

What do the following have in common?

Sandy Island, Dougherty Island, The Nimrod Islands, Pepys Island, Ganges Island

Phantom islands which were reported by explorers but never actually existed

 

[DaleCooper]

Phantom islands which were reported by explorers but never actually existed

That's right, your turn...

 

[Acathater]

sorry been out most of the day, not had time to think of anything interesting

open house

 

[xotGD]

Phil Drabble is most associated with which TV programme?

 

[SuspectUsual]

One Man And His Dog

 

[xotGD]

One Man And His Dog

Correct. Over to you...

 

[SuspectUsual]

The Tour de France lasts just over three weeks and normally has rest days on the two middle Mondays (ie after stages 9 and 15).

However, occasionally one of them is shifted a day - why?

 

[Gloster]

14th July?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

The Tour de France lasts just over three weeks and normally has rest days on the two middle Mondays (ie after stages 9 and 15).

However, occasionally one of them is shifted a day - why?

When it's 'Bastille Day'? (= 14th July). They'll still race that day.

P.S. Reckon @Gloster has just beaten me to it!

 

[SuspectUsual]

14th July?

Yes…..

When it's 'Bastille Day'? (= 14th July).

….yes…..

Reckon @Gloster has beaten me to it!

….and yes!

And ideally, lots of crazy attacks by random French riders on Bastille Day

@Gloster you have the polka dot king of the quizzers jersey

 

[Gloster]

Sabine Bergmann-Pohl was the last person (and only woman) to (de facto) hold what post?

 

[Peterthegreat]

She was the last leader of East Germany (DDR).

 

[Gloster]

She was the last leader of East Germany (DDR).

Indeed she was.

To you to produce the next democratic question for the populace.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.
William (IV) was King of both the United Kingdom and Hannover.
However when he died the two thrones separated.
Why?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Thank you.
William (IV) was King of both the United Kingdom and Hannover.
However when he died the two thrones separated.
Why?

Anything to do with Victoria becoming Queen in the United Kingdom, but in Hanover, it had to be someone who was male?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Is this something to do with Saxe Coburg and Gotha?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Anything to do with Victoria becoming Queen in the United Kingdom, but in Hanover, it had to be someone who was male?

That's basically it.
Your turn to set the next question.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Continuing with Queen Victoria, how many children did she and her husband Prince Albert have?

 

[MotCO]

9

 

[Mcr Warrior]

9

Is the right answer.

For a bonus point, can you name all nine? And in the correct order.

Alternatively, you may instead now ask the next question...

 

[MotCO]

Beatrix, Edward, Arthur, Eugenie, Albert, .... I give up; I'll take the second option.

A topical question. This week is Glorious Goodwood, but who owns the Goodwood Estate?

 

[D6130]

The Duke and Duchess of Richmond.

 

[MotCO]

The Duke and Duchess of Richmond.

Indeed. Otherwise known as Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 11th Duke of Richmond, 11th Duke of Lennox, 11th Duke of Aubigny, 6th Duke of Gordon, CBE, DL.

Your turn to take the reins.

 

[Loppylugs]

Oh dear, @D6130 forgets again.

So try this one: What are spiracles ?

 

[DaleCooper]

Oh dear, @D6130 forgets again.

So try this one: What are spiracles ?

Are they breathing orifices on some small organisms?