General Knowledge Quiz

[Heinz57]

Damn it you beat me to it!

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Evans it is.

 

[Old-School]

Which town in Surrey is associated with the following famous people:

Angus Deayton
Nicky Forster
Bill Nighy
Katie Price
Michael Robbins

 

[D6975]

Caterham??

A bit of a wild guess - Deayton went to Caterham School, don't know about the others.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Caterham??

A bit of a wild guess - Deayton went to Caterham School, don't know about the others.

I too will go for Caterham and offer three of the remaining four clue answers:-

Bill Nighy was born in Caterham
Nicky Forster was born in Caterham
Michael Robbins died in Caterham

That now only leaves Katie Price who I can only hazard a guess that her "false chest" looks to be as big as Caterham...

 

[Old-School]

Caterham is correct

Katie Price apparently did or does live in caterham according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterham

 

[D6975]

What links the following towns/cities.
Pontefract
Nantes
Chinon
Greenwich

 

[clagmonster]

They contain a factory containing a food with protected origin status (I am thinking Pontefract cakes and for Greenwich possibly London gin).

 

[D6975]

They contain a factory containing a food with protected origin status (I am thinking Pontefract cakes and for Greenwich possibly London gin).

Nothing to do with food.

and let's add
Richmond
to the list

 

[clagmonster]

I'm not sure it will help much, but are we dealing with Richmond, North London or Richmond, Middlesex?

 

[Mvann]

Is it something to do with metropolitan areas, assuming you don't mean Richmond north yorks.

 

[D6975]

Richmond Middlesex.

And add Burgh-by-Sands - near the Scottish border.

The next time this event occurs, it will probably be London (or a certain somewhere very close).
If it happens in the Summer it may well be a certain place in Scotland, but to name it would be a dead giveaway.

 

[deltic1989]

They are all places which have been quoted as being the best place to witness an astronomical event? Possibly an eclipse?

 

[D6975]

The last time it happened was in 1952 near Dersingham in north Norfolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Anything to do with a sighting of a bird that is very unusual to see in Britain?

 

[D6975]

The longest gap between two of these events ended in 1901 on the Isle of Wight, the previous one having been in 1837.
The next one looks set to break this record.

Far more important than birds...

 

[OxtedL]

Places monarch's go to die?

 

[D6975]

At last, they were all places where British Monarchs died.

 

[OxtedL]

I only recognised the dates...

A classic kind of question then, who's flag is this?

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Moldova?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I note that an aurochs is featured in the crest under the eagle and being a philatelist in my younger days, I would associate this as being a symbol used in what is now Moldova.

 

[OxtedL]

Indeed it is, borrowed from Wikipedia, wherever they got their copy of the Moldovan flag from.

 

[D841 Roebuck]

What was the name of the eldest Von Trapp brat in "The Sound of Music?

 

[clagmonster]

Let's try Germanic ish names. Rudolph?

 

[Welshman]

Liesl?

 

[D841 Roebuck]

The young (16 going on 17) lady is indeed Liesl.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I thought we had to name the eldest sibling, which I thought was Rupert.

 

[Welshman]

Will there now be a Judicial Review, and if so, will my authority to set the next question be put back a few weeks? {Sorry - wrong context}

P.S. The young lady could still be the eldest sibling. It's all relative.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

From his first marriage of Georg Johannes von Trapp, the real names of his children were:-

Year....Name

1911....Rupert
1913....Agathe
1914....Maria
1915....Werner
1917....Hedwig
1919....Johanna
1921....Martina

However, I accept that the names of the children in the musical "The Sound of Music" must have been changed to reflect a more marketable grouping for the American market, so Welshman should set the next conundrum

 

[Welshman]

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