General Knowledge Quiz

[Gloster]

It is oxymoronic?

 

[Peterthegreat]

It is oxymoronic?

Sorry it isn't.

 

[Gloster]

Only word with x, y and z in it?

 

[DaleCooper]

Only word with x, y and z in it?

...just like xylometazoline.

 

[Peterthegreat]

...just like xylometazoline.

And 21 others apparently!

 

[DaleCooper]

What is special about the word "Oxyphenbutazone"?

It's an anagram of Xenophaze Bounty (the Greek title of the film Mutiny on the Bounty).

 

[Peterthegreat]

It's an anagram of Xenophaze Bounty (the Greek title of the film Mutiny on the Bounty).

Not that one!

 

[xotGD]

Contains more different letters than any other word?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Contains more different letters than any other word?

Sorry not that.

 

[xotGD]

Highest ever score in a game of Scrabble?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Highest ever score in a game of Scrabble?

Don't know if it has ever been used in a game but it is theoretically the highest one word score possible - allegedly worth 1,778 points if in the right position!

For you to set the next words.

 

[xotGD]

What do the following people have in common:

Ivana Zelníčková

Marla Maples

Melania Knauss

 

[Gloster]

Mrs Trump, I, II and III.

 

[xotGD]

Correct! Your turn to catch the bouquet...

 

[Gloster]

The witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth put, amongst other things, ‘eye of newt’ in their bubbling cauldron. What is ‘eye of newt’? (And, no, it isn’t the optical organ of a type of salamander.)

 

[DaleCooper]

The witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth put, amongst other things, ‘eye of newt’ in their bubbling cauldron. What is ‘eye of newt’? (And, no, it isn’t the optical organ of a type of salamander.)

Newt spawn

 

[Gloster]

Newt spawn

No.

 

[Greenheart]

Mistletoe?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Mustard seed.

 

[Gloster]

Mistletoe?

No.

Mustard seed.

Correct. To you to cook up the next question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Which city was named after the 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire?

 

[Neo9320]

Derby?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Derby?

Nope.

 

[RDP]

Milton Keynes?

 

[Gloster]

Melbourne?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Milton Keynes?

Not MK.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Melbourne?

Not Melbourne. But geographically quite close

 

[DaleCooper]

Which city was named after the 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire?

Alice Springs

 

[Peterthegreat]

Alice Springs

Nope.

 

[RDP]

Sydney?