General Knowledge Quiz

[xotGD]

Still no guesses? Another clue: The character was a politician.

 

[Struner]

In similar vein to Yes Minister then?

 

[xotGD]

In similar vein to Yes Minister then?

Similar, but different!

 

[Struner]

& later then, I suppose. Won’t know myself then as I stopped watching tv many moons ago.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Similar, but different!

Can't be that many political comedies around. I'll guess that thing with Alan B'stard in it - can't remember what it was called though!

 

[xotGD]

Can't be that many political comedies around. I'll guess that thing with Alan B'stard in it - can't remember what it was called though!

No not The New Statesman.

Big clue: The central character was called Malcolm Tucker.

 

[krus_aragon]

No not The New Statesman.

Big clue: The central character was called Malcolm Tucker.

That would be "The Thick of It" , I think, but I've not watched it so can't go any further with the question myself.

 

[xotGD]

That would be "The Thick of It" , I think, but I've not watched it so can't go any further with the question myself.

Correct! Nicola Murray was played by Rebecca Front.

Over to you...

 

[krus_aragon]

Next question:

Give the modern equivalents of the following Latin placenames:

• Aquae Sulis
• Eboracum
• Deva (or Deva Victrix)
• Vectis
• Isca (or Isca Silurium)

 

[Marton]

Bath
York
Chester
Isle of Wight
Carlaeon

 

[krus_aragon]

Bath
York
Chester
Isle of Wight
Carlaeon

Five out of five!

Over to you, victor ludorum...

 

[Marton]

Thank you

On the same theme.

Whst links Isca Dumnumiorum and Lindum Colonia and why dies it have it’s English name?

 

[Calthrop]

The Roman road route known as the Fosse Way; between Isca D. (don't know its modern name, but it's somewhere around the Cotswolds) and Lincoln. Name Fosse Way -- at a guess, archaic English word "fosse", from Latin "fossa" (ditch or trench): Romans dug cuttings to accommodate the road for a lot of the distance covered?

 

[Marton]

That’s a good start.

Lincoln is correct as is Fosse Way as it relates to a ditch but not the reason for the name as it isn’t a ditch for the road.

The southern end is much further south. I think I should give people chance for

the southern place.

why this road is associated with a ditch.

 

[Spamcan81]

Isca Dumnumiorum is Exeter. Ditches were used as boundary markers so was Fosse Way once a boundary between two kingdoms?
I must confess that I didn't know Fosse Way went all the way to Exeter. Like a previous poster I thought it started in the Cotswolds, namely at Cirencester/Corinium. Every day's a school day as they say.

 

[krus_aragon]

why this road is associated with a ditch.

Shurely it's not because of a certain Prime Minister?

 

[Marton]

Isca Dumnumiorum is Exeter. Ditches were used as boundary markers so was Fosse Way once a boundary between two kingdoms?
I must confess that I didn't know Fosse Way went all the way to Exeter. Like a previous poster I thought it started in the Cotswolds, namely at Cirencester/Corinium. Every day's a school day as they say.

Spot on. The ditch was the boundary of the Roman territory for a while. Then filled in and made into a road.

In the end it’s @Spamcan81 who takes to the Quiz Road.

 

[Spamcan81]

What is the connection between Craven Cottage football stadium and Sentinel steam lorries?

 

[Marton]

Fulham?

 

[krus_aragon]

What is the connection between Craven Cottage football stadium and Sentinel steam lorries?

Did they connect physically (i.e. a steam lorry drove into the stadium's buildings)?

 

[Spamcan81]

Did they connect physically (i.e. a steam lorry drove into the stadium's buildings)?

Good lateral thinking there but even if one did, it's not the connection I'm looking for.

 

[DaleCooper]

Both Craven A cigarettes and Sentinel steam lorries produce a lot of foul smelling smoke.

 

[Spamcan81]

Fulham?

Not Fulham.

 

[Spamcan81]

Both Craven A cigarettes and Sentinel steam lorries produce a lot of foul smelling smoke.

An uncle of mine used to smoke Craven A and the exhaust from that was much more noxious that that from a steam lorry so no, that is not the connection.

 

[DaleCooper]

Craven Arms is in Shropshire as was Sentinel.

 

[Spamcan81]

Craven Arms is in Shropshire as was Sentinel.

Maybe so but we're on about Craven Cottage in Fulham so Shropshire is not the connection.

 

[xotGD]

Was the ground commandeered as a depot for steam lorries during WW1?

 

[Spamcan81]

Was the ground commandeered as a depot for steam lorries during WW1?

Not that I know of so not the connection I'm looking for.

 

[Spamcan81]

As a clue, start looking into where the Sentinel design originated.

 

[Spamcan81]

As a clue, start looking into where the Sentinel design originated.

In the absence of any more guesses, another clue. There's an architectural connection.