General Knowledge Quiz

[Meridian richard]

My guess is playing card suits based on

Sam Spade = Maltese Falcon Detective
Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness = Apocalypse now
I am aware of something called The Sierra Club in San Francisco
No idea on the author but must be somebody diamond

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

No idea on the author but must be somebody diamond

Jared M. Diamond

 

[Seacook]

My guess is playing card suits based on

Sam Spade = Maltese Falcon Detective
Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness = Apocalypse now
I am aware of something called The Sierra Club in San Francisco
No idea on the author but must be somebody diamond

Correct. It's with you.

 

[Meridian richard]

Who specifically was Gregory's Girl

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Who specifically was Gregory's Girl

Mrs Peck?

(Sorry)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dee Hepburn....now aged 50.

 

[Meridian richard]

No

She was in the film and the target of his affections but she was not Gregorys Girl

 

[gordonthemoron]

Claire Grogan

 

[Meridian richard]

No

Again in the film and the one he ends up with but similarly not the answer he gives when asked "who is Gregorys girl"

 

[gordonthemoron]

his sister

 

[Meridian richard]

That's correct his 10 year old sister Madeleine

Madeleine. So who is Gregorys Girl
Gregory. You are

Brilliant film

 

[gordonthemoron]

what is the heaviest building in the world?

 

[Meridian richard]

Sounds like something from a communist regime

I will try the Kremlin

 

[deltic1989]

Oh this was on Top Gear I think, something to do with the Government building in Romania isn't it?

 

[Meridian richard]

I think you're right. It had some tunnels underneath it
No idea what its called though

 

[gordonthemoron]

deltic has it, it's the Palace of the People in Bucharest, aka the Romanian Parliament building

 

[deltic1989]

Sorry I have been so long. Open floor.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The Altai Mountains area of Siberia has been explored and it was found that three specific evolutionary species once inhabited the cave systems there. What were these ?

 

[D6975]

Is it us???

Or 3 pre human species to be more precise.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Correct....Homo sapiens / Neanderthals / Denisovans are the three genetic remains found there.

As you said that you are busy at present, I will set another one to pass the time.....

What ancient civilisation had a goddess who wore a headress of a sun orb flanked by a pair of cow horns, what was her name and what was she the goddess of ?

 

[OxtedL]

Hathor was the Egyptian goddess of love and motherhood and things in that vein.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Totally correct.

Please set the next one.

 

[OxtedL]

Eeek sorry.

What is the 6 planet out from the Sun?

 

[Old-School]

Saturn

 

[OxtedL]

Sorry, yes indeed.

 

[Old-School]

Only 2 actors have ever been nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade between the 1960s and 2000s, Jack Nicholson was one, who was the other?

 

[D6975]

Marlon Brando's got to be favourite,
with Jack Lemmon hard on his heels.

Open floor if correct - busy at the start of a new year at work.

 

[Old-School]

Marlon Brando's got to be favourite,
with Jack Lemmon hard on his heels.

Open floor if correct - busy at the start of a new year at work.

Neither of those I'm afraid

 

[Oswyntail]

Michael Caine (again, open floor if correct)?

 

[Old-School]

Michael Caine (again, open floor if correct)?

Michael Caine is correct,
would of also accepted his real name (Maurice Joseph Micklewhite) as well