General Knowledge Quiz

[GRALISTAIR]

Time for some schoolboy titter question/answer. What is the SI unit for conductance? Bonus question. What was it for years and why. (clue- reversible)

 

[DaleCooper]

Time for some schoolboy titter question/answer. What is the SI unit for conductance? Bonus question. What was it for years and why. (clue- reversible)

Seimens (not allowed in Staines) formerly Mho

 

[krus_aragon]

Seimens (not allowed in Staines) formerly Mho

Mho is an excellent unit name for conductance, being the opposite of resistance (Ohm). Let's roll back the clock on that one...

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Thought Mho was one of the 'Three Stooges' (!)

Had a distinctive 'bowl-cut' haircut.

 

[DaleCooper]

Mho is an excellent unit name for conductance, being the opposite of resistance (Ohm). Let's roll back the clock on that one...

Except 1S would become 1MHO and be confusing in the internet age in my humble opinion.

 

[yoyothehobo]

Except 1S would become 1MHO and be confusing in the internet age in my humble opinion.

I am calling the mods because you deserved to be banned for that........IMHO

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Seimens (not allowed in Staines) formerly Mho

Absolutely correct

Mho is an excellent unit name for conductance, being the opposite of resistance (Ohm). Let's roll back the clock on that one...

Correct

The Hertz Frequency belongs to you @DaleCooper

 

[DaleCooper]

Correct

The Hertz Frequency belongs to you @DaleCooper

Thank you.

Next question:

What sort of machine is antiseptically clean and flies sideways through time?

 

[Calthrop]

Not, I suppose, Billy Bean's funny machine -- from the TV puppet feature of very long ago?

 

[Steddenm]

TARDIS?

 

[DaleCooper]

Not, I suppose, Billy Bean's funny machine -- from the TV puppet feature of very long ago?

As you rightly suppose it's not that.

TARDIS?

I don't think that was particularly clean. Did you see the kitchen?

 

[krus_aragon]

What sort of machine is antiseptically clean and flies sideways through time?

A bottle filler at the Listerine plant?

 

[Gloster]

Mary Poppins?

 

[43172]

The great glass elevator from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

 

[DaleCooper]

A bottle filler at the Listerine plant?

As far as I know bottle filling is not one of its abilities.

Mary Poppins?

She isn't a machine... or is she?

The great glass elevator from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

Elevators go up and down, not sideways.

Hint:

It allows you to "see yourself going by the other side of the sky".

 

[Neo9320]

An orbital satellite/space telescope?

 

[MotCO]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

 

[DaleCooper]

An orbital satellite/space telescope?

"antiseptically clean"... possibly
"flies sideways through time"... I doubt it

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

"antiseptically clean"... unlikely with all those kids on it
"flies sideways through time"... not one of its modes of travel

 

[SuspectUsual]

It’s a Hawkwind song isn’t it? Can’t remember the title though

 

[DaleCooper]

It’s a Hawkwind song isn’t it? Can’t remember the title though

The title is the important bit.

 

[Ashley Hill]

A Silver Machine perhaps?

 

[DaleCooper]

A Silver Machine perhaps?

That's the only kind of machine with the aforementioned attributes, your turn...

 

[Ashley Hill]

In which market would you have found Derek Owen,Keith Naylor,Lynne Harrison and Lisa O’Shea?

 

[krus_aragon]

Elevators go up and down, not sideways

It may not be the answer, but Wonka's Great Glass Elevator can actually take you "up and down, sideways, slant ways, and any other way you can think of."

 

[Neo9320]

In which market would you have found Derek Owen,Keith Naylor,Lynne Harrison and Lisa O’Shea?

Is it the market in Eastenders?

 

[Ashley Hill]

Is it the market in Eastenders?

No guv.

 

[Calthrop]

It's from a little-known verse of the Tyneside song Stanley Market -- all about the various crazy stuff on sale in that emporium.

 

[Ashley Hill]

It's from a little-known verse of the Tyneside song Stanley Market -- all about the various crazy stuff on sale in that emporium.

No,a bit more pedestrian than that.

 

[Gloster]

Penny Lane?

 

[Loppylugs]

Newmarket - they're all jockeys.