General Knowledge Quiz

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I will go for Liverpool in 1884?

This is the correct answer.

Your turn to set the next one.

 

[Whistler40145]

Where is the Golden Triangle?

Before you ask, it isn't a Chinese Takeaway!

 

[D841 Roebuck]

The percussion section of King Midas' Symphony Orchestra...

Or, more seriously, part of IndoChina (Thailand perhaps) where drugs are grown??

 

[Whistler40145]

Not quite there, but Thailand is partly correct.

 

[deltic1989]

I'm still going to bang on down the drug production route, Heroin to be precise.
I know of the Golden Crescent in the Middle East, and the Golden Triangle of South East Asia. Thailand is at one corner, Burma at another And Vietnam at a third. There is another country that is classed as being in this area but i can't remember exactly which, but using my knowledge of the geography of the area, I'm going to guess Laos.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Not quite there, but Thailand is partly correct.

Would Burma and Afghanistan be the other two countries?

 

[Whistler40145]

Burma (Myanmar) is correct. but not Afghanistan.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Has the third country still to be correctly named yet and not yet been named in any postings so far ?

 

[Whistler40145]

Yes, the third country hasn't yet been named.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Well, "thinking outside the box", the money from the illegal trade needs a financial centre of note to process all the finance that so ensues, so I will venture that Singapore could be the third country.

 

[Whistler40145]

Sorry, not Singapore.

 

[Heinz57]

Well its in South East Asia, so I'm going to guess Cambodia?

 

[Whistler40145]

Not Cambodia.

 

[Lampshade]

Mongolia?

 

[Seacook]

Laos?

 

[Whistler40145]

Yep, the Golden Triangle is where Burma (Myanmar), Thailand & Laos meet.

Set the next question please.

 

[Seacook]

Blind guesses are sometimes correct. All I know about Laos can be summed up as "it's somewhere in South East Asia".


The next question is:

What do John Graham, Derek McNutt, Alec Robins and A F Ritchie have in common?

 

[D6975]

deleted -

 

[deltic1989]

My best guess is that they were all in some way involved in the troubles in Northern Ireland, as John Graham rings a bell as a prominent Loyalist figure.

 

[Seacook]

My best guess is that they were all in some way involved in the troubles in Northern Ireland, as John Graham rings a bell as a prominent Loyalist figure.

It's a fairly common name, but it's not that John Graham.

 

[D6975]

I don't recognise any of those names.
Are they all better known by a pen name or nickname?

 

[Seacook]

I don't recognise any of those names.
Are they all better known by a pen name or nickname?

Yes. Some by more than one. (That's not the connection, though.)

 

[D6975]

Tipsters on the Gee Gees?

 

[Oswyntail]

I know there was a McNutt in an Inspector Morse book, and Colin Dexter tended to name people after crossword setters - so, are they crossword setters?

 

[D6975]

Crossword setters was going to be my next guess too.

Followed by columnists.

 

[Seacook]

I know there was a McNutt in an Inspector Morse book, and Colin Dexter tended to name people after crossword setters - so, are they crossword setters?

Correct.

I apologise for getting one of the names wrong: it should have been Derrick McNutt, not Derek.

The best known of their various pseudonyms are Araucaria (Graham), Custos (Robins), Ximenes (McNutt) and Afrit (Ritchie).

 

[Oswyntail]

OK, I shall take up the baton with:-
What are Inextinguishable, Polish or Titan?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Car waxes ?

 

[Oswyntail]

Car waxes ?

Nice try...but way off!

 

[D841 Roebuck]

OK, I shall take up the baton with:-
What are Inextinguishable, Polish or Titan?

70018, 66585 and whatever 47080 now is, respectively..

Or possibly Derby winning horses so early and obscure that even the LNER wouldn't name anything after them.