General Knowledge Quiz

[DaleCooper]

Cod Wars?

 

[TheEdge]

No, you were much closer in the southern hemisphere. Infact you were practically on top of it. Clue, people sell things to other people

 

[DaleCooper]

I'm running out of ideas but how about the attack on the Santa Fe at South Georgia.

Clue, people sell things to other people

Scrap metal merchants

attack an American

The Santa Fe was an ex-American submarine, alternatively Argentina is a South American country.

I don't who the missing Brit was nor the connection with Cornwall.

 

[TheEdge]

Not sure where you got Cornwall from.

It's a Falklands incident, correct, and your ex-American submarine, while wrong is on the right lines

 

[DaleCooper]

Was it the American owned but British chatered SS Torrey Canyon which was bombed by the FAA and RAF?

Torrey Canyon went aground off the coast of Cornwall

Not but you are in the right county.

 

[TheEdge]

Oh, sorry, I meant with ships and sinking you were in the right place. Sorry

 

[DaleCooper]

Is this it?

ARA General Belgrano - aka USS Phoenix,

ARA Veinticinco de Mayo - aka HMS Venerable

 

[TheEdge]

Was the answer I was looking for. HMS Conqueror obviously being the Brit doing the attacking. Before and after the sinking of the Belgrano the main aim of the subs was always to find the Veinticinco de Mayo as Admiral Woodward believed it to be the greatest threat to his task force after Exocet.

Also USS Phoenix as it was was also one of the few ships to escape the attack on Pearl Harbour and survive. With a few other lucky cruisers it set off on an impromptu hunt for the Japanese carriers

The floor is yours

 

[DaleCooper]

Next question.

What name is shared by:

A software product
A variety of grape
An electrical circuit theorem

 

[t_star2001uk]

Next question.

What name is shared by:

A software product
A variety of grape
An electrical circuit theorem

Norton...

open floor if correct.

 

[DaleCooper]

Norton...

open floor if correct.

That is correct so in accordance with t_star2001uk's wish it is open floor...

 

[Strat-tastic]

The capital of this country translates into English as wind corner.

Name the country and its capital.

 

[theageofthetra]

Namibia- Windhoek

 

[Strat-tastic]

Namibia- Windhoek

Correct!

 

[theageofthetra]

Keeping the capitals theme. Which country has a capital that is only their 8th largest city by population?

 

[TheEdge]

I've got three in my head. Canberra, Brasilia or Naypyidaw.

Lets pick Australia with Canberra.

 

[krus_aragon]

I'll plump for Ottawa, Canada.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Wild guess - Washington in the USA?

 

[theageofthetra]

Canberra is correct- your floor.

 

[TheEdge]

Very good.

Almost all of the great mountains of the world have a name, with one exception, K2. So, why does K2 not have a proper name?

 

[theageofthetra]

I think it was because it was too far from any inhabited place to have a local name so they stuck with the survey notation.

 

[TheEdge]

I think it was because it was too far from any inhabited place to have a local name so they stuck with the survey notation.

Correct. It was first "discovered" during the Great Trigonomic Survery where using local names was preferred. However K2 is incredibly isolated. It is invisible from the nearest settlement and is only visible by going beyond the base of a nearby glacier, something locals would rarely if ever do.

Your floor.

 

[theageofthetra]

Which country has the highest lowest point in the world and conversely which country has the lowest highest point.

 

[TheEdge]

Lowest high point; Maldives
Highest low point; Nepal

 

[theageofthetra]

Maldives is correct, Nepal isn't

 

[TheEdge]

Bhutan?

 

[theageofthetra]

Nope.

 

[DaleCooper]

Tibet? (Although it isn't a country)

 

[Springs Branch]

I vaguely recall the highest low is in one of the small, land-locked countries in Africa, but don’t remember which one.

I’ll try for Rwanda.

 

[theageofthetra]

Getting warmer.