General Knowledge Quiz

[Peterthegreat]

Let's stay with lighthouses.
Which ship was wrecked off the Longstone Lighthouse in 1838?
And where was it sailing between?

 

[Gloster]

Let's stay with lighthouses.
Which ship was wrecked off the Longstone Lighthouse in 1838?
And where was it sailing between?

I don’t think it was the Forfarshire, but if it was I will say London and Leith. Although I have a feeling that the Longstone is in another part of the country.

 

[Peterthegreat]

I don’t think it was the Forfarshire, but if it was I will say London and Leith. Although I have a feeling that the Longstone is in another part of the country.

I am not sure how to reply to your answer.
However it was the Forfarshire.
And as a clue it was sailing between the two cities in the name of the company.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

The SS Forfarshire was the ship sadly wrecked off the Northumberland coast and where a local (Grace Darling - the daughter of the keeper of the Longstone lighthouse - located on one of the Farne Islands) famously rowed out in an open boat at first light the following morning to rescue a number of the stricken crew.

Not sure where the ship was headed before coming to grief. If not Leith (Edinburgh) then maybe Dundee or Aberdeen.

 

[DaleCooper]

Time for a new question I reckon. Has anyone got one?

 

[Steddenm]

OK. What links the following...

The Bull
Birmingham
Nottingham
Bristol Street Travel

 

[444045]

The Archers ?

 

[Steddenm]

The Archers ?

Not the Archers

 

[Peterthegreat]

Time for a new question I reckon. Has anyone got one?

Sorry the last question was not answered. Do you decide unilaterally when to start a new round?

 

[DaleCooper]

Sorry the last question was not answered. Do you decide unilaterally when to start a new round?

There had been no response to the last answer for three days, how long should we wait?

 

[Peterthegreat]

There had been no response to the last answer for three days, how long should we wait?

You could have asked for clues or mentioned it first rather than diving in.

 

[DaleCooper]

OK. What links the following...

The Bull
Birmingham
Nottingham
Bristol Street Travel

Well the Bullring and Bristol Street are in Birmingham and Nottingham isn't. Am I getting warm?

 

[Steddenm]

Well the Bullring and Bristol Street are in Birmingham and Nottingham isn't. Am I getting warm?

Both of them are correct but that's not the answer I'm looking for.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

What was/were the outstanding answer(s) to the question(s) posed upthread by @Peterthegreat regarding the SS Forfarshire being shipwrecked?

 

[Peterthegreat]

What was/were the outstanding answer(s) to the question(s) posed upthread by @Peterthegreat regarding the SS Forfarshire being shipwrecked?

The Forfarshire was owned by the Dundee and Hull Steam Packet Company and was en route from Hull yo Dundee when it ran into difficulties off the Farne Islands in 1838.

 

[Peterthegreat]

The Forfarshire was owned by the Dundee and Hull Steam Packet Company and was en route from Hull to Dundee when it ran into difficulties off the Farne Islands in 1838.

 

[DaleCooper]

OK. What links the following...

The Bull
Birmingham
Nottingham
Bristol Street Travel

Bristol Street Travel offer weekend breaks at Bull Hotels in Birmingham and Nottingham?

 

[MotCO]

Bristol Street Travel offer weekend breaks at Bull Hotels in Birmingham and Nottingham?

I've heard of Bristol Street Motors but not Travel - is there a connection there?
If so, is the connection anything to do with cars or road vehicles?

 

[yoyothehobo]

Is it the Fosse Way?

 

[Steddenm]

It's none of the above.

I'll give you a clue: think of the 80s and 90s.

 

[yoyothehobo]

Bullseye? Its has a Bull and is very 80s-90s

 

[Steddenm]

Bullseye?

Well done. It is Bullseye.

The Nottingham and Birmingham references are to the studios Central and ATV used to film the show in.

The Bull is the pub on the opening titles.

Bristol Street Travel is the supplier of the holiday star prize (as seen in the credits)

 

[yoyothehobo]

If i had got on a train at VIcarstown, changed at Knapford to go to Ffarquhar. Where would i be?

 

[Peterthegreat]

If i had got on a train at VIcarstown, changed at Knapford to go to Ffarquhar. Where would i be?

Sodor

 

[yoyothehobo]

Sodor

Got it straight away

 

[Peterthegreat]

Open floor please.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

O.k. Going back to the "SS Forfarshire" shipwreck question, for how many years after her famous rescue, did the celebrated lighthouse keeper's daughter Grace Darling live for?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Not long, she died quite young. 6 years?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Not long, she died quite young. 6 years?

Good guess, but not 6 years.

 

[MotCO]

5 years