General Knowledge Quiz

[TheEdge]

A zipwire

 

[DaleCooper]

A passenger carrying ekranoplan service?

 

[MotCO]

A magnetic train link

 

[Caboose Class]

A gas pipeline? But that is hardly a world first.

But that is hardly a world first.

 

[Caboose Class]

A long tunnel for rail and road?

But that is hardly a world first.

 

[Caboose Class]

A passenger carrying ekranoplan service?

Sorry, no

 

[Caboose Class]

A magnetic train link

Sorry, no

 

[Caboose Class]

A zipwire

Getting warmer - but still not quite there!

 

[xotGD]

Cablecar?

 

[Caboose Class]

Cablecar?

Is the correct answer! It will be the world's first-ever international cable car which will transport people over the Amur River between the cities of Blagoveschensk in Russia and Heihe in China. It is due to open in 2023. https://ria.ru/20210406/doroga-1727059625.html Your turn

 

[Calthrop]

Is the correct answer! It will be the world's first-ever international cable car which will transport people over the Amur River between the cities of Blagoveschensk in Russia and Heihe in China. It is due to open in 2023. https://ria.ru/20210406/doroga-1727059625.html Your turn

Not on-quiz-and-questions-type-topic; but I've always loved the name Blagoveschensk; since reading long ago, a thing by some venturesome Englishwoman who travelled in those parts pre-World War I and Revolution; and whimsically called that city, "the place with the swear name".

 

[Caboose Class]

Not on-quiz-and-questions-type-topic but I've always loved the name Blagoveschensk; since reading long ago, a thing by some venturesome Englishwoman who travelled in those parts pre-World War I and Revolution; and whimsically called that city, "the place with the swear name".

Not on-quiz-and-questions-type-topic: Back in 2005 when we were in Yalta, my wife and I had a driver guide called Michael (Михаил) who was born in Blago. He didn't have many nice things to say about the place!

 

[xotGD]

Open floor please...

 

[Calthrop]

There was an Anglican clergyman who "to-and-fro" divided residence, in the course of his long life, between two different countries of the British Isles. He is chiefly renowned for his -- non-religious -- writings: among the most noted of same, being narratives of the strange adventures of a mariner; and a treatise recommending cannibalism (this latter reckoned to be rhetorical, for the purpose of making his point: not genuinely promoting the practice of people eating people).

Please identify this gentleman.

 

[Gloster]

Johnathan Swift? (Could he have been American?)

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Herman Melville?

 

[Calthrop]

Johnathan Swift? (Could he have been American?)

Swift it is, indeed -- literary works mentioned, Gulliver's Travels; and, A Modest Proposal. No American connection: he was Anglo-Irish; and throughout his life "swapped and switched" between residing in Ireland, and England. 'tis for thee, sir, to set thine preferred mordantly satirical question to those assembled.

Herman Melville?

See above -- not the man with the thing about cetaceans, I'm afraid; and I don't think Melville was ever in holy orders, though I could be wrong.

 

[Gloster]

Sorry, I misread Anglican as American.

Going back to the naval theme. What was unusual, very probably unique, about the submarine HMS Venturer’s sinking of 9 February 1945?

 

[MotCO]

There was no-one on board when it sank?

 

[Gloster]

There was no-one on board when it sank?

No. To make it clear: Venturer was the submarine making the attack.

 

[MotCO]

It shot down an aircraft?

 

[DaleCooper]

Going back to the naval theme. What was unusual, very probably unique, about the submarine HMS Venturer’s sinking of 9 February 1945?

Did it ram its victim?

 

[backontrack]

Sorry, I misread Anglican as American.

Going back to the naval theme. What was unusual, very probably unique, about the submarine HMS Venturer’s sinking of 9 February 1945?

Ah! I know this one.

It sunk defeating a U-boat when both were in the water and had their periscopes up.

 

[Gloster]

Ah! I know this one.

It sunk defeating a U-boat when both were in the water and had their periscopes up.

Correct. It is the only known case of a deliberate sinking of one submarine by another when both were submerged; the victim was U-864. It is possible that there have been other occasions, but the report of any such incidents has not leaked out (unlike the mercury that U-864 was carrying).

It is for you to fire the next question.

 

[backontrack]

Correct. It is the only known case of a deliberate sinking of one submarine by another when both were submerged; the victim was U-864. It is possible that there have been other occasions, but the report of any such incidents has not leaked out (unlike the mercury that U-864 was carrying).

It is for you to fire the next question.

Lovely stuff! Thank you.

My question is:
Which 'D' was white, creamy, and used to come from Birmingham? Its name was 40% vowels.

 

[DaleCooper]

Lovely stuff! Thank you.

My question is:
Which 'D' was white, creamy, and used to come from Birmingham? Its name was 40% vowels.

Dulux?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Cadbury's chocolate?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Lovely stuff! Thank you.

My question is:
Which 'D' was white, creamy, and used to come from Birmingham? Its name was 40% vowels.

Magikote

Dulux was and is made in Slough.

 

[backontrack]

Dulux?

This is astute but sadly not right.

Cadbury's chocolate?

The right track...

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Cadburys Creme [sic] Egg?